From: sally@remarque.berkeley.edu (S. A. Wilson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: More questions for StarWars fans
Date: 24 Nov 1992 02:03:46 GMT
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Ciao,




In article <PRAUDA.92Nov23234421@dol-guldur.hut.fi> prauda@dol-guldur.hut.fi (Kristiina Prauda) writes:
>
>
>>From: sally@remarque.berkeley.edu (S. A. Wilson)
>
>Huh? What? Where? I missed the beginning of this thread...
>
[my inital article deleted]
>
>*If* you were Leia - but you aren't. Your preferences have nothing to
>do with it (not that mine have, either, but I still will not let this
>pass as the only opinion...). And what do you mean Han was a "major
>catch"??? Because he was the stereotypical untameable man with a past?
>Because he was Harrison Ford? And what IS so great about Mr. Ford
>anyway?
>
>I myself found the character of Han obnoxious, irritating, stereotypical
>(okay, so they all were stereotypes, but Han was a stupid one) and not
>at all appealing. And I found the appearance of Harrison Ford as Han
>about as unattractive as the personality of the character. I have never
>been able to see why he is considered one of the sexiest men in the
>world...
>
>>I'd do everything possible to keep him around.
>
>*You* would. I still do not see why, unless for his usefulness as a
>pilot. The guy was as old a cliche as can possibly be - the mysterious
>man to show the little sheltered princess the wonders of the big
>world out there... 
>
>Excuse me, I need to go and throw up. 
>
>>;-).....Otherwise she would have been stuck with Luke, and as we
>>found out, things would have been rather sticky when the truth
>>came out ;-).........
>
>It seems *very* clear to me that the idea of Luke and Leia being 
>brother and sister was Lucas's wimpy solution for the triangle drama
>- the princess was given to the bad boy, and the nice boy was given
>a nice part as her brother. Without Han, the whole mess (which was
>just too incredible anyway) would not have been needed. 
>
>And so it seems also that even Lucas succumbed to the general idea that 
>Nice Guys (tm by alt.romance, I think :-)) are boring, and that women
>always go for the handsome jerks. Which is not true in the least, by
>the way. 
>
>Besides, I found Luke both interesting as a character and handsome. 
>(Well, okay, I read the novelizations of the first movies before 
>seeing them, and I admit someone else than Hamill *might* have fit
>the physical image better... but he was all right. He fit the feel of 
>the part perfectly.)
>
>If *I* had been Leia, I would not have thought twice to kick Han to
>he** out of my life and have the best life in the Universe with Luke.
>
>And, anyway, what's a pirate pilot against the last and first of
>the Jedi?
>
>
>Sorry, but you touched an old sore point there, and it's been festering
>all these months that I have been reading this group...
>
>
>Kristiina
>
>



Golly, Gosh, shucks, I was only joking...not to be taken seriously....
Sigh. And as for the stuff about Luke and Leia, I was trying to
put forth wicked humor. Alas, I failed. I guess I should go out and
kill myself for wasting precious space and millions, of trillions
of dollars.

But I still say I prefer Han's sardonic wit, his selfish nature.
I tend to like imprefect things--more human--than out to save the
world types who tend to be somewhat holier than though. Just an
opinion. But this belief was not the intention of my post.


Again I failed one at that--at satire. I even included various smileys and
I consider smileyes as being wimpy. Though I must admit I would
love to have seen Leia get closer with Luke, and then only to
find out he was her brother--uh...and then maybe David Lynch could
have directed RofJ. I apologize again, for my anal attempts at
humor, there I just tried it again. I will never do it again. I swear.
I was in the wrong. I guess I spend to much time reading alt-tv-twin-peaks,
for watching the show and reading the group has preverted my tastes. I
will--before I kill myself--unsubscribe to at-tp, and subscribe to
alt.romance.


Seriously though, I apologize for my initial post, thus bring all this
out. I did not think that when I posted it that it would
cause an outroar. Again. After this post I intend to end. Please
I hope everyone does likewise. Please, no net flame wars. 


Sally--Forgive me for the blasmphy...I will just go off and kill 
myself--A. Wilson


























-- 
Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa,	   |||	 Sally A. Wilson
  si come il saggio in suo dittare pone	   |||	 Spudnix Peel
  e cosi esser l'una sanza l'altro osa     |||	 sally@mica.berkeley.edu
  com'alma razional sanza ragione.  [_Vita_Nova_ XX, Dante]
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