My life, my dominion

I shall now proceed to make a lot of Star Wars fans mad.
Essentially the two great trilogies of our time Star Wars and LOTR (i can't be bothered to type out the full name but i am bothered to type out in full that i can't be bothered :) ) have failed to impress me whether be they in print or screen from.

Yes i've read the books, watched the movie (actually no, i only watched 4,5 and 6 of star wars and 2 & 3 of LOTR)

And i must say, the feeling of absolute boredom affected my distaste for the LOTR movies and well Star Wars, what can you say. The initial movies were great for their time and i think we should leave it as that.

Of course my main purpose today is to talk about the Light and the Dark sides of the force in Star Wars. Of how there is NO difference between the two and that really it's just politics.

Let's start with the dark, teh dark side hopes to consume all within the empire largely under the sole proprietorship of the emperor. But seriously, looking at episodes 4,5 and 6, is the Empire REALLY that bad?

I mean look at it this way, you don't see starving masses do you? You don't see civil war nor do you see internal strife. There is basically peace save for the piffling resistance which if you think about it, are the only clowns who are causing the trouble around here. Everyone listens to the emperor and everyone just goes about their daily lives. enter luke skywalker and his merry band of rebels and what do you have? Starships clashing, cute ewoks under threat of being destroyed by the death star, people sacrificing their lives so that a pretty butch and rather clueless princess can return to the throne of wherever she belongs to. basically the resistance is doing what the dark side tries to do in 1, 2 and 3; TAKE OVER THE WORLD! Which comes as really no surprise. I mean what's the end product of the resistance? Peace and prosperity? NO! all you have is many years of painful reconstruction, oppurtunistic bandits setting up warlord states. In the end you're not better off.

Coming forward to 1,2 and 3. Really all the nonsense and drivel about hate leading to the dark side is really nauseating. Yes yes, young anakin hates the evils of the world and probably hates Qui Gon-jinn for taking him away from his parents. (Why couldn't the daft old bag just leave him be eh? Must he have to force the fulfilment of the prophecy? In my opinion, he just wanted to pride of discovering the 'Chosen One' like how Morpheus is obsessed with NEO.) Well the same can be said for the Jedi. I mean really, they HATE the dark side don't they? otherwise why have a council and why talk all hot air about not slipping and stuff. All they are afriad that the Sith Lords will just usurp the council of it's influential position in the political realm and thus they would become the outcasts and enemy of the state. Basic survival of the fittest i tell you.

So essentially the light side started off pretty well to do. Didn't want to lose their privileges and decided to condemn the dark side. They were just as ruthless as the sith. I mean don't tell me the jedi weild light sabers (JUST LIKE THE SITH) just so that they can disarm the sith lords. Good heavens no, i bet given a chance, mace vindoo will just lop the head off palpatine or dookoo (don't know the names spelling so do forgive). So there you have it.

Two sides, that preach different philosophies with one that APPEALS to the sense of justice of the oppressed (who aren't actually, the council and subsequently the rebels just convince them that they are poor and oppressed). When in actual fact both sides fear each other, both sides hate each other and both sides want to spill the blood of the other. The end.

All that talk of good and evil is just pure crap. Even the matrix has a better storyline, man vs machine, we all know that one when we bang our CPUs in frustration don't we? Don't you wish Neo would come along and do that electro-shock thing he did to the squiddies?

So as i sit here in my little cubicle next to the door, i bid you good day and as you can see, i'm super bored. The job's nice and all but yeah, it's a job in the end. i don't see any of you willing to work for free eh? If you do it ain't a job, it's a damn hobby, and we all know hobbies don't make money :)