The Force Awakens

[brekin]

Well, whats the R.I. early results?

[Luther Blissett]

I'm sitting in the theater now, where I'll be waiting for the next hour.

Preliminary report: only a few cosplayers, crowd seems reverent.

[Joao]

Well, whats the R.I. early results?

CIA for protocol droidz

[brekin]

I'm sitting in the theater now, where I'll be waiting for the next hour.
Preliminary report: only a few cosplayers, crowd seems reverent.

I love this, our man in the field, Luther Blissett reporting live.

[guruilla]

Mirror neurons are firing.

[82_28]

No spoilers!!!! I tried to buy tix the moment they were offered online for Cinerama and they were sold out within seconds. So I'm just going to have to wait. I promised Elvis a Star Wars date and tried to come through. Maybe you and I Elvis can still go see it at Majestic Bay in Ballard.

[Luther Blissett]

No spoilers here! But I will say it was amazing. Really fired on all cylinders.

I did have a brief moment of weak paranoia about a terrorist attack…I saw it in the suburbs at a huge multiplex and it was packed, showing on multiple screens. Luckily I shook that, because there's nothing that makes me feel dumber than that.

[Grizzly]

I did have a brief moment of weak paranoia about a terrorist attack…

Truth be told, I bet we are all showing signs of 'collective anxiety'. When out in public, knowing what we know. Further, my fear is they'll make me part of the show. Resonate w/anyone else?

[Luther Blissett]

I did have a brief moment of weak paranoia about a terrorist attack…

Truth be told, I bet we are all showing signs of 'collective anxiety'. When out in public, knowing what we know. Further, my fear is they'll make me part of the show. Resonate w/anyone else?

It didn't help that two guys in the theater checked the emergency exit to see if the door was fully closed and implied the mass shooting in Aurora.

[elfismiles]

I really enjoyed the film despite it basically being a rehash homage to the first film.

Beat the fuckin prequels to hell. And I wanna see it again, already.

As for fear of terror ... Yeah twas on my mind as well / emergency exits noted for ... Well exiting and aurora potential. Thought to myself about what I'd do .

Quickly forgot about all that bullshit once the movie started.

[brekin]

I did have a brief moment of weak paranoia about a terrorist attack…

Truth be told, I bet we are all showing signs of 'collective anxiety'. When out in public, knowing what we know. Further, my fear is they'll make me part of the show. Resonate w/anyone else?

Hell yes. For example, I spent way too much time couching my response to Luther actually being in the theatre. I originally was going to post a picture of a "field reporter" or "reporting live" image of an on the ground reporter. Doing a google search though all of them looked way too para-militaristic with the reporter in black bullet proof vests, helmet, etc or actually referenced the incident when the reporter was shot live on the air or other quasi-similiar events (bank robberies in progress while doing a news spot, etc). I had the feeling if I posted one of those images it would be a bad omen. I also was going to post something along the lines, "Be careful out there Luther." But that too seemed too ominous and possibly leading. So I went with some innocuous anthropologist in the field and nothing that could hint of possible danger.

And to a lesser degree, my conspiracy spidey sense makes me ultra paranoid of posting something that could be misconstrued if something bad actually does happen later. I tend to have a worst-case scenario, "what is the bad guy in the action movie plotting now" so view a lot of events and potential events as a Call of Duty operation in the making. It is fairly common now for many people to view a impressive new building or huge event as a potential target for something and the news makes this a almost daily reminder. But expressing this out loud though makes people uneasy so I feel like we are entering a new era of Victorian level repression where we can't basically state what everyone is fearing many times. Almost as if to speak it, is seen as summoning it.

[JackRiddler]

It was an unexpectedly mature and enjoyable turn for the series to see Leia preside over a reign of terror that didn't stop at liquidating ancien regime elements but also did whatever it took to keep the Revolution on track. Not for a minute did our iron-fisted Galactic Napoleona hesitate to let the guillotine-sabre fall on her brother's neck. Enemies of the Alliance shall all be equal, in death. All hail First Consul Leia! I don't think it's going to go to go so well in the next part with her plan to invade the Winter Galaxy, however. But a hell of a ride it was.

[Luther Blissett]

Haha. I actually was afraid of / excited about seeing Leia become a power-mad, force-enabled autocrat.

[JackRiddler]

Haha. I actually was afraid of / excited about seeing Leia become a power-mad, force-enabled autocrat.

Luther, that would have been an interesting movie. Were you expecting an interesting movie?

[Joao]

It was an unexpectedly mature and enjoyable turn for the series to see Leia preside over a reign of terror that didn't stop at liquidating ancien regime elements but also did whatever it took to keep the Revolution on track. Not for a minute did our iron-fisted Galactic Napoleona hesitate to let the guillotine-sabre fall on her brother's neck. Enemies of the Alliance shall all be equal, in death. All hail First Consul Leia! I don't think it's going to go to go so well in the next part with her plan to invade the Winter Galaxy, however. But a hell of a ride it was.

Lol! "These blast points... too accurate for sans-culottes."

Cast of characters:

• Maximil-Wan Kenobspierre
• R2-Danton
• Louis Antoine de Saint-3PO
• Monteskywalker
• Napoleando Calrissian
• Jean-Jacques Yodeau
• Darth Voltaire
• Princess Leiantoinette ("Let them eat bantha fodder.")
• Louis the Hutt

And... of course it's already been done--