Oh, good Lord

[andrewducker]

Should you have seen Revenge of the Sith then read this - most definitely the best Darth Vader blog I've read.  It twists between humour and drama and while I disagree with a few of the interpretations, it captures the emotions behind varius of the events extremely well.

Small clip from the entry set just after Empire Strikes Back:

Okay, I admit it. I cut off the kid's hand. Everything went downhill after that.

He popped out of the carbon chamber before I could freeze him, which was a neat trick. The duel ranged. I threw objects at him with my mind, which was obviously beyond his ken as he reacted by trying to dodge them like a low man. Then I blew him through a window.

It went on and on.

He didn't even want to talk about the power of the dark side.

And then it happened: down on the catwalk as we clashed again and he struck me with his sabre, glancing my shoulder. He struck me, and I just lost my cool -- without really thinking it through I lopped off his hand. Little bugger!

He was as raw as he was going to get, though he exerted an impressive will to keep his fear from boiling over. As he crawled away from me across the catwalk I figured I had nothing to lose. It's time to spill the beans. It's now or never. I took a deep breath: "Luke, Obi-wan never told you what happened to your father..."

He screamed and jibbered, clinging over a chasm fathoms deep. His pain moved me. And not in the usual good way. I mean I felt for him. So I did as I said I would: I reached out to him. I told him we could be in it together, come what may.

Oh, in traditional blog style, you have to read the entries from the bottom up.

Comments

[mb2u]

I keep telling people, it's a great blog.

Don't get it

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

I don't get the appeal of this. I mean, I like the movies but they are ... candyfloss. The emotions aren't difficult or complex. They're primary colour emotions writ large. Having them rehashed in text seems kinda pointless anyway, since there was no mystery in the first place. And this is really trite writing. "It's time to spill the beans. It's now or never. I took a deep breath" ... I mean, Good Lord, hand me another cliche and I'll have the full set. And "Okay, I admit it. I cut off the kid's hand. Everything went downhill after that." ... I can see it's supposed to be humour and yet somehow my chuckle muscles are untested.

Re: Don't get it

[kelly-lesbo.livejournal.com]

I don't really get it either. I think stuff like this seperates the geeky from the truly nerdy.