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Well, whats the R.I. early results?

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.

brekin » Thu Dec 17, 2015 3:01 pm wrote:Well, whats the R.I. early results?

CIA for protocol droidz

Luther Blissett » Thu Dec 17, 2015 6:06 pm wrote: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.

Mirror neurons are firing.

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.

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.

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?

Grizzly » Thu Dec 17, 2015 11:05 pm wrote:

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.

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.

Grizzly wrote:

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.

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.

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

Luther Blissett » Fri Dec 18, 2015 3:16 pm wrote: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?

JackRiddler » Fri Dec 18, 2015 12:11 pm wrote: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--