Yes, lightsaber ballet, people. I have a particular dislike for the Star Wars prequels. Honestly, I remember sitting in the cinema, my head full of stories that my dad had told me of what it was like to see the original Star Wars - how much he had loved it, how it had...
So... I'd like to talk about lightsabers. First of all - look, they're basically magical sword-like objects wielded by space-mages. They have only one real purpose in the Star Wars canon, and that's to be a marker of otherworld-ness associated with Force-users. They...
Ah, Star Wars. The writer in me wants to slam it for being a rehash of the same old quest stories, except with lasers and star ships and more aliens than Roswell. If I'm being honest, though, I just can't stay mad at the grandaddy of all space operas - my first big...