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Halloween and science fiction is a match made in heaven. Halloween is all about transformation-- taking ordinary things and making them seem mystical or supernatural. A pumpkin becomes a Jack O Lantern, a human becomes a skeleton, and a dog becomes a pumpkin. Science fiction is all about making the impossible seem possible. A Delorean becomes a time travel device. A boy becomes a Jedi. A robot becomes the destruction of all civilization. Transformation occurs at all levels on Halloween. So this…

War-heads unite

Take me away

Star Wars has given us a whole new lexicon. It's such an absorbed and engrained part of culture that we forget that it wasn't always around. The line “Luke, I am your father” (even if it's apocryphal, and is actually “No, I am your father) has such a grip on us that anyone could be summoned to recite it at any time. The idea of light sabers has become so second nature to us that we have opinions on which colors of them we would rather own (not to mention that some people proudly display them in…

Scroll on and prosper

Star Wars has the power to bring people together like nothing else does. Think of all the thousands of schoolyard conversations that happened in the 1970s when kids all around the globe were first introduced to the magic of Star Wars . Think of how many of them bonded over it, accompanying each other to the movies and dressing up on Halloween. Think of all the Star Wars aficionado clubs at high schools and colleges around the world, coming together every week to eat donut holes and talk about w…

One of my favorite sci-fi tropes is alternate universes . Okay, it might be more than a trope. It might be real if certain astrophysicists are to be believed. But I love to see it represented in movies and TV because the concept is so endlessly interesting and also hard to wrap your head around. You mean there are infinite universes out there, and some of them might look EXACTLY like this one, except that I was born with blue hair and that was totally normal? Infinity is an almost impossible th…

Jedi Meme Tricks

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