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

[lyore.livejournal.com]

I can't believe you suggested writing by hand! How primitive!

That's my plan. I'm hoping to get some serious writing time on the plane - gotta put that 30something hour flight to good use somehow!

WRT to Han and the SW novels, I have a rather deep and abiding hatred for the EU (with a few exceptions), so it really isn't going to take any of that into account. I'll stick with my movie canon, thanks :)

Unless you feel like giving me a detailed summary/timeline, and then I'll see what I can do :)

[amethyste5.livejournal.com]

Me? Work? :~} Nah. Let me guess though, you like Mara Jade? For some reason she is almost universally loved, even by movie only purists.

(I loved the expanded universe at first, the Heir to the Empire trilogy or some of the pre movie bits for Han and Lando, but as it grew it got weirder and weirder. Now I just re-read my X-Wing novels sigh...)

[lyore.livejournal.com]

Mara is... Meh. She's better than the rest of Luke's EU girlfriends, I give her that. What I dislike most about Mara is her affect on Luke - so many of the authors can only write a 'strong female' by making the guys around her useless.

Actually, the affect of the EU characters on the OT characters is pretty much the reason I don't like the EU. Well, that and insane the plots.

I've only read the first few X-wing books, and hardly remember them. I take it you recommend them?

[amethyste5.livejournal.com]

Once you hit the "Wraith Squadron" books, around number 4 I believe, they get really good!

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

Mara Jade? For some reason she is almost universally loved, even by movie only purists.

She is? The areas of fandom I run in tend to think she's a giant Mary Sue.

[lyore.livejournal.com]

I need to hang out in your areas of fandom!

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

Hee!

I thought Mara Jade was awesome. When I was 14. Now it annoys the crap out of me that they stuck her (as "Arica" the dancing girl) in the radio play of ROTJ when they finally made it. Grrr. Destroying the purity of my movie-based radio plays!

[lyore.livejournal.com]

Yes. You want to have her in the EU, go right ahead, just stop retconning her into my movies!