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

Meme me up, Scotty

May the meme be with you

Going back to the future

Neeed the force rn

In a world far far away

Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?

Need me a talking robot sidekick

Using Jedi mind tricks to get you to look at these memes

Take me far away