Wow. I haven't posted here in...almost a week and a half. I don't know. I've just been actually living real life. Having a boyfriend is nice. Having a boyfriend who wants to do what I want to do, rather than pouting until we only do things he's interested in, is even nicer. So far in the past week, I've spent three nights over there and a couple more evenings going places with him. And in between, I'm desperately trying (and failing) to keep up with the yard and clean the house. And you know how it is...when you're busy enjoying things, you don't want to take time away from them to blog about them.

I did make it over to the Star Wars exhibit Thursday, with K and Q and J. It was quite fun and if I can find my camera cable, I'll download the pics (yes - they did allow people to take pictures of Luke's speeder and the Millenium Falcon and Lord Vader's original suit from Episode IV). I'm not sure where else the exhibit is going, but if you have a chance to see it and at least mildly enjoy the movies, it's well worth the money. K and I didn't make it to the accompanying OmniMax movie about the movies, but Q said that was good too.

And finally...I have no idea what this film is about, BUT I HAVE TO SEE IT.


 

You know what will totally destroy your productivity? Finding out that SpikeTV is running a marathon of the original Star Wars trilogy. Yep - that pretty much sucked away the last 7 hours of my life.

But because fandom totally warps one's mind, while watching the end of Return of the Jedi, I couldn't help thinking about Vader's storyline. He's someone who discovered he has immense powers and winds up turning to evil, using his power selfishly and causing death and destruction wherever he goes. In the end, however, he turns out to have enough decency left in him that he essentially sacrifices himself to save possibly the only person he cares about, and dies right after redeeming himself.

Sounds an awful lot like the final ending that many people on my flist have said they'd like to see for another powerful yet evil character who we all love discussing...

So the question is: are we totally unoriginal? Subliminally influenced by other stories? Or is the idea of the villain who gives into goodness and redeems himself common enough that it's only to be expected we'd apply it to Sylar?

(Also? George Lucas should be banned by law from being allowed to touch copies of his films. Han shot first, dammit. Revisionist bastard.)