why wy?

The Star Wars fans headed to the movies over the weekend, and the cheap fans like me waited for half-price movie tuesday. So it didn't suck, although I was the only one that laughed when they said, set coordinates for planet mustafa, where the dahl is cheap and you can get marsala tea (piping hot too!) at 4am.

(spoiler warning) Continuty aside, I found myself asking these questions:
- Why would anyone want to be a sith apprentice? You never know when you are going to be replaced or backstabbed (not literally). Because there can be only two - a master and apprentice. Then again, why teach if you are a sith lord? What's to stop your sneaky apprentice from making sushi of you in your sleep? Sure, they get to wear black, which goes with more things than weathered brown, but there's not much in terms of career prospects. If you survive long enough to get the top job, you've got to constantly look over your back. And if you were really trying to spread the dark side like kaya on warm toast, wouldn't taking more students do the trick instead of this one-to-one training business? Masters in Sith (correspondence courses available).

- Was being under the empire all that bad? There was no more war, but I think building the death star would have hiked up taxes, and that's always bad. On the radio (yes, I started listening to AM) I heard a german woman being interviewed, she had written a cookbook on wartime dishes, including cooking with weeds.

- Was everyone really polite, pretending not to notice that padme was about to pop? The look of shock on everyone's faces... Ooh, she was pregnant under all those flouncy dresses? And we thought she was putting on weight...

- I'm not convinced the good side of the force is that far from the dark. The dark side stands for anger, the lust for power and poor dental hygiene. The good side stands for a zenlike calm, being free of attachments and good skin (even yoda looks good for a 800 year old). At times it seems like Catholicism, you can convert at last minute and be saved eg Darth Vader's death scene. So why wipe out the Sith (all two of them)? I give you missionary jedi - the new force in religion.

- Why was it always Count Dooku, not darth dooku? Okay, that sounds really dumb, question answered. Then again, maybe it is a reference to count dracula...

- Then again, the jedi are elitist. I'm just saying that because they kicked me out of the school and all I got was a lousy t-shirt.

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