Wednesday, September 7, 2011

THESE AREN'T THE ROIDS YOU'RE LOOKING FOR: I think it's cool that the San Francisco Giants had a Star Wars-themed game featuring "a pre-game costume contest, a post-game screening of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back in the stadium, Stormtroopers guarding the field during the 'Star-Spangled Banner,' giveaway statues of Giants closing pitcher Brian Wilson — frozen in carbonite, Han Solo-style — and the opportunity to generally geek out throughout the game." I hope it makes up for the fact that they're not returning to the playoffs this year.
Posted by Adam at 8:39 AM

9 comments:

  1. Benner11:10 AM

    Shouldn't Wilson be chewbacca?

    ReplyDelete
  2. isaac_spaceman11:40 AM

    Really, it's hard to see him as anything other than Han Solo to Lincecum's Luke.  He's not the inarticulate-sidekick type. 

    ReplyDelete
  3. Adam C.1:32 PM

    But certainly hirsute, which is where (I think) Benner was going.

    ReplyDelete
  4. isaac_spaceman2:21 PM

    Well, yeah, but Chewbacca is so much more than fur, and Wilson is so much more than beard, and by drawing that connection alone, you are denying their essential wookiehood/personhood.  Wookies are dependable and loyal but essentially tribal creatures that prefer to subvert their individuality to the greater good.  That is not Wilson, but all you see is the hair, and not really the hair, just the beard.  Which is not even wookie-like at all -- it is bushy and polished black, not a long silken auburn.  But there you go, all "oh, all hirsute creatures look alike, I'm now aware that you are a productive member of human society, I'm sorry I mistook you for a bear and attacked you with a hatchet, but with all the hair you can understand where I'm coming from," etc. 

    ReplyDelete
  5. Benner3:03 PM

    That is where I was coming from, and Wilson's less a person than a persona.  I don't see Chewbacca as inarticulate -- Han certainly understands him.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Adam C.3:08 PM

    That does not make sense.  And I'm not even going to get into what an 8-foot-tall Wookie from the planet Kashyyyk was doing living on Endor with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks. 

    ReplyDelete
  7. isaac_spaceman4:19 PM

    That a being is essentially tribal does not necessarily mean that the tribe will be of like creatures.  Chewbacca chose different tribes at different times in his life, ultimately settling on Han/Luke/C3PO/R2D2/Leia/Lando. 

    Inarticulate and mute are not the same thing. 

    ReplyDelete
  8. Jim Bell6:36 PM

    Lyin in bed, like Brian Wilson did, yeah I am lying in bed just like Brian Wilson did.....

    ReplyDelete
  9. Genevieve10:39 PM

    The kiddo says Lincecum should've put his hair up in Leia rolls.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)