When Stats and Star Wars combine...

[lyore]

I was watching some random game show last night, and discovered an interesting thing: On that show, 3 out of 98 people didn't know that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father. If we assume that this was a representative sample of the Australian population (a problematic assumption, I know), then approximately 3% of Aussie adults don't know what has got to be the most well known secret in movie history. Even my mother (she who is adamant that the Stormtroopers are the good guys in the OT because they wear white) knew that one. She did not, however, know that Luke and Leia are siblings. I wonder what the stats would be at that?

On another note - Don't you hate it when isane plot bunnies get caught in your brain? At the moment I have two bouncing round my head, careening into one another and hopefully not breeding generally making a mess.

One is a semi-serious little ficlet in which Darth Vader and Han Solo get stuck in an elevator. I've sorted out the logistics of this one, and I think I could get it to work, in a non-crackfic way, and even have them both emerge alive at the end. Set after ANH and prior to ESB... it would be an interesting conversation, don't you think?

The second, courtesy of bob_ette after I mentioned the first one to her, has Dean, Sam and the Impala getting stuck in an cargolift with Han, Chewie and the Millenium Falcon. It started off as pure crack, but somehow it has morphed into something more serious and character-focused. Set early season one in SPN time, and pre-trilogy in SW, I think this one has the potential to become an very interesting fic.

Of course I get these bunnies when I'm about to be internet- and computer-less for a month. *sigh* One week to go...

Comments

[vasher.livejournal.com]

...I, for one, would like to see Darth Vader and Han Solo stuck in an elevator together. Even more would I like to see how both come out alive.

You statistician, you! XD

3 out of every hundred or so, huh? Wow, I would have thought the number to be much lower. Maybe some of them were recent refugees from...somewhere. Like Sub-Saharan Africa.

Your mother sounds awesome. Ah, the wonders of color-coded heroes and villains.

[lyore.livejournal.com]

I think that fic will definitely get written, it's just a matter of me finding the time to get in on paper.

I went to college with a friend from Bangladesh who'd never seen the movies. Needless to say, I immediately made her watch them. The common room got locked at midnight, so we only got through ANH and ESB the first night. At the end of ESB, she turned to me with this dumbstruck look on her face, and begged me to tell her it wasn't true, that Darth Vader really wasn't Luke's father. She was completely blindsided by it.

And that reaction is why I think the movies should ALWAYS be watched first in the order they were released.

[bob-ette.livejournal.com]

MY STORY FIRST!
Then you can write about boring star wars people with no good Supernatural people to alleviate the boredom.