How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Star Wars Archive

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    The Force is Weak in This One: Ennui of a Star Wars Fan

    Maybe I’m just too picky. For years I considered myself a pretty strong Star Wars fan — bought a lot of the video games, read the comics, had my season pass to The Clone Wars cartoon, and so on.  But lately it’s hard to avoid...

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    The piemaker, his dead girlfriend, the woman who loved him, and the detective

    If there’s one thing geeks seem to always agree on, it’s that Firefly was awesome and was canceled before its time.  Firefly had its own style and voice that nothing else has ever quite duplicated, and the tragedy of it being cut down before its...

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    Broken Legacy: Why Star Wars shouldn’t go back to the future

    As a Star Wars fan, I feel like I should be more excited about the Legacy comic book series.  It’s trying very hard to be just as epic and sweeping as the Star Wars trilogy, and it’s established a colorful cast of characters and built...

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    Film vs. Game: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

    The “Prince of Persia: Sands of Time” movie needed people like me to enjoy it.  I’ve been a fan of the 2003 video game of the same name since I first picked it up in 2007, and I devoured it and its second sequel, The...

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    Eulogizing Heroes

    “I come to bury Heroes, not to praise it. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”

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    Deus Ex Buffyverse

    “Does he exist? Is there word on that, by the way?” “Nothing solid.” —Holden Webster and Buffy Summers, “Conversations with Dead People” This may be scaring away my audience before I even begin, but I was raised Catholic and attended Catholic school from third grade...

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