Star wars and other musings
Jun. 7th, 2003 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperJust watched Ep 4, A New Hope, aka the original. Not the best, but damn fun. My only problem is occasionally I want to throw things at how big of a Boys Own story it is, but you can't really do anything about it. Mind you, I do start burying my head in my hands and groaning when the medals cremony comes on. Medals? Seriously, why? Maybe it's a girl thing, in that the medals don't really make any sense. Prizes, or maybe money, something of worth, but medals... yeesh. Not to mention I tend to grin when Luke looks hopefully at Leia, because, well, you're getting nowhere with her, boy. Wait a few months and she's head over heels for the bad boy. And of course there's Wedge. Aww, my ickle baby Wedge of the cuteness and puppy dog-ness, who I tend to whoop 'Wedge the legless!' when he comes onscreen. I can't help it, it's too much fun. And then a couple of films later when you get the big reunion scene of him and his boyfriend on Endor. Boyfriend? I hear you say, puzzled. I saw no boyfriend. Shame on you, didn't you watch the thing with slash-coloured glasses? The boyfriend is rather obviously Luke.
This is partially down to me reading a Luke/Wedge story a few years back. I know the big pairing of the original Star Wars films is Luke/Han, but something about this pairing, though never thought of before, just instantly clicked. Maybe it's because I've always been invested in Han/Leia, as it was my childhood thang, but partially it's because of the cheery grin and the way Wedge and Luke are just so damned pleased to see each other, no hero worship on Wedge's side like there is with the other Rebels when it comes to Luke. There's been other cases of instantaneous click when reading fic, when maybe the pairing wasn't necessarily obvious, like, say, Jack/Daniel is in SG-1, but you read it and your whole brain goes 'ah-hah!'
Anyone else got any pairings like that?
Just watched a bit of Backdraft and dear god, watch the testosterone fly. This is a man's movie. Downright manly. Working-class manly. No space for things like therapists, where men are firefighters and politicians are weak and nancy boys because they don't work for a living like men. Partially reinforced by the presence of Kurt Russell being all manly, as he is wont to do. If I watched the whole thing I could probably see the slash bloody easily, because slash flourishes like nothing else in manly films, but the problem was I watched the part with the garment warehouse fire and him yelling at his brother. I was all about the 'oh dear god, please let them get out safe' rather than watching for shipping. Possibly because I've had a very healthy fear of unchecked fire since I was little, only reinforced by going on the Backdraft ride a couple of times at Universal Studios.
This is partially down to me reading a Luke/Wedge story a few years back. I know the big pairing of the original Star Wars films is Luke/Han, but something about this pairing, though never thought of before, just instantly clicked. Maybe it's because I've always been invested in Han/Leia, as it was my childhood thang, but partially it's because of the cheery grin and the way Wedge and Luke are just so damned pleased to see each other, no hero worship on Wedge's side like there is with the other Rebels when it comes to Luke. There's been other cases of instantaneous click when reading fic, when maybe the pairing wasn't necessarily obvious, like, say, Jack/Daniel is in SG-1, but you read it and your whole brain goes 'ah-hah!'
Anyone else got any pairings like that?
Just watched a bit of Backdraft and dear god, watch the testosterone fly. This is a man's movie. Downright manly. Working-class manly. No space for things like therapists, where men are firefighters and politicians are weak and nancy boys because they don't work for a living like men. Partially reinforced by the presence of Kurt Russell being all manly, as he is wont to do. If I watched the whole thing I could probably see the slash bloody easily, because slash flourishes like nothing else in manly films, but the problem was I watched the part with the garment warehouse fire and him yelling at his brother. I was all about the 'oh dear god, please let them get out safe' rather than watching for shipping. Possibly because I've had a very healthy fear of unchecked fire since I was little, only reinforced by going on the Backdraft ride a couple of times at Universal Studios.
