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Repeat After Me: “It’s Just A Movie…It’s Just A Movie…”
Proving once again that there is no subject a True Fan can’t grind into a fine powder of obsession, the author of this webpage provides us with a detailed consideration of the physical condition of Darth Vader, based on some still frames from “Return Of The Jedi”, various draft versions of the movie scripts, and the “expert testimony” of a physical therapist.
But lest you think this guy is off the deep end about all this, he offers you this disclaimer:
NOTE: This web page does not and will not consider supernatural, mystical or teleological “explanations” of Lord Vader’s living condition and ultimate demise. It is pointless to speculate about whether his death was somehow deemed “necessary” by the Force or some other entity. Claims about a supernatural connection between the continuance of Vader’s life, the Emperor’s power and Luke’s knighthood etc will always be both unprovable and unfalsifiable. Those intangibles are a matter of poetic interpretation; they depend on private, individual, subjective perspectives. On the other hand physical effects of lightning (whatever its origin), Vader’s disabilities, deformities and the process of death are tangible. These objective realities are amenable to fruitful and conclusive discussion. That is the purpose of this commentary.
Okay, as long as we’re not talking about myth, supernatural powers, or “teleological” explanations and are sticking to incontrovertible “reality”, that’s good enough for ME.
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Size Matters
A few years ago, we were all very impressed with the guy who created this incredible chart comparing the sizes of various well-known spaceships from science fiction.
But even though that chart has a few contemporary buildings on it to offer some sense of scale, they’re so dwarfed by some of the spacecraft that you don’t really get to appreciate the effect. So this guy has boldly gone where no nerd has gone before by superimposing scaled images of the Enterprise-D over Google Map images of well-known American landmarks like the Pentagon, the White House, the St. Louis Arch, and others.
I particularly like the picture of the Big E looming over the Seattle skyline (the Manhattan one is good too).