View From the Bushes

It was a weird weekend for me, mostly characterized by weariness. I slept for 10 hours Saturday night and still feel asleep in church. I'm not sure if I was sick, if I'm getting sick or what, but it was weird. 'Course, I did do a lot on Saturday: I mowed my lawn for the first time, which meant that it was about six inches long, so it took several passes. I bought another desk for the office and put it together, then I rearranged everything so that now my wife has a computer and I have a computer. It's pretty geeky, but it's also a pretty nice set-up as well. So it could be that I was tired from doing all that, but that would mean that I'm horribly out of shape...

The ramp-up to the release of Episode III is in full swing. The local FOX station broadcast "A New Hope" and "The Empire Strikes Back" yesterday. Lucas is on the cover of WIRED and there have been lots of other festivities as well. I saw the following quote on a letter posted to Ain't It Cool News:

I was in the second Lucas Q&A (at least, I think it was the second - blue wrist band) and someone had the cojones to ask why the original trilogy was interesting and the prequels weren't. Lucas talked about how the first act of a play and the first chapters of a book are always boring because their exposition - they set up the rest of the story - and compared the prequels to that. Even more interesting, though, Lucas said that when he originally wrote the SW story, the prequels amounted to about 20 pages. 20% of that got used in TPM (with the rest of the movie made up - Lucas called it a "jazz rift" on the main plot), 20% in AOTC (with more "filler"), but fully 60% of the prequel plot is contained in ROTS.

This has had the unfortunate side-effect of once again giving me hope...

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Ross