there's one whose light is shining so beautiful and blinding

[melannen]

Watched the Clone Wars cartoon series at enemy_anime's tonight. I went into it expecting good storytelling, but that I'd find the animation style incredibly annoying. That was my impression from the small bits of it I'd caught on TV and the comics I'd read. They said it grows on you. It sort of did, I guess, and it wasn't as bad as I'd been expecting from what I'd already seen. There was less story than reviewers had implied, though, especially in season one. And while I usually find extended fight and battle scenes to be less than boring, I didn't mind these too much. The creativity and the animation style helped: I could keep myself occupied by wondering whether they were really doing it straight, or if it was meant as completely deadpan self-parody, and whether there's even any difference in a production like that.

But I'm still not reconciled to curly-jawed Anakin of the massive neck. He's just -- bah. Not even stylized. Grotesque.

Obi-Wan in his General Kenobi outfit, though, yum. And Master Windu, with his coordinating purple lightsaber and starfighter, was faaabulous. And a few female and alien Jedi got something resembling personalities before they were smote, yay.

After chapters 15 and 16, I find myself with the uncontrollable urge to 'ship Padme and Yoda. stellar_dust said phooey, and she'll never understand my sick desire to make all relationships romantic. Which, given the / vs & discussions that have been showing up in metafandom again lately, and in which I am firmly on the & side, really got to me. And anyway it's unfair: the only prequel trilogy relationships I 'ship romantically are Qui-gon/Shmi, Plagius/Sidious, and now Padme/Yoda. And I don't have *any* Rebellion-era Star Wars 'ships; for that matter, I'd have been just as happy if Han and Leia had stayed platonic. Their relationship would have been much more interesting that way, at least. (Of course, in post-OT EU I ship everyone from Mon Mothma/Bel Iblis to Karrde/Gaeriel, but that's the fault of the writers, for trying to pair everyone up themselves. Lando/Mara? WTF?)


Anyway. I will write a ficlet, any rarepair, any fandom in my lj interests, for whoever gives me an appropriately shippy slogan to add to my newly made Yoda/Padme icon. q-: (Cap from here.)

Comments

[tarimanveri.livejournal.com]

Well, if that's the icon, I suggest "and I'll wed her when the ice-worms nest again" or "in the shadow of the pole I will clasp her to my soul." While they're not exactly slogans (they come from a song called "When the Ice-Worms Nest Again", some of the lyrics here (http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/almanac/arc2002/alm02mar.htm)) the erm, arctic-ness of the picture suggested them to me.

there are strange things done...

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Eee! Robert Service! A Robert Service poem I don't already have practically memorized! Thank you!

And the Padme/Yoda story takes place on an ice planet, with crystal caves. I think I sort of fell in love with her cape there. No ice worms, though.

p.s. happy belated Canada day

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Although there were ice-worms on the snow planet where Obi-Wan and Anakin ended up. "The ice worm attaches leech-like to an exposed area of flesh to suck the heat from the body, leaving behind a grey-white trail of dead skin." Anakin eats gratuitous bugs, too, in one of the chapters, so I guess he's a bony-feedy sourdough now. q-:

D'ou have a pairing request?

[gaspaheangea.livejournal.com]

A slight modification of an actual Yoda quote:
"Grave danger you are in. patient you are"
Probably not shippy enough, but your bait was good.

the pair I had in mine was Needa and Uhura.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Ulp. Strange minor character crossovers. I'll have to think about that.

So which Needa? The one who gets his larynx crushed by Vader, or the one who was stationed on an orbital mirror (http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/captainlorthneeda/?id=eu) in the X-wing novels? Because I kind of have a weakness for him.

[gaspaheangea.livejournal.com]

I had Lorth in mind, but I suspect Virar is better characterized, though I have not read the X-wing novels.

[zodiaccat.livejournal.com]

/ vs &

Okay, I get that / = slash, but what is &, as it pertains to fic?

Hmm... Words for icon....

"Hmmmmm. Wonderful, these days have been. Your hand, give me."

[zodiaccat.livejournal.com]

Or: "Why, with a zero, be; when with a hero, you could be?" (I'll admit I didn't fully work out the yoda-grammar on that one.)

[melannen.livejournal.com]

/ between names signifies that the story's about characters in a romantic relationship.

& between names signifies that it's about some other kind of relationship: friendship, mentor&student, siblings, best enemies, whatever, just not sexual. People keep trying to increase the popularity of the &.