Star Wars Top 10

So, to some extent every day of the last 32 years some part of my mind was has been bent on this one question, what happened after the fall of the Empire?  Did look get him a nice women and did he ever admit to her he made out with his sister?  Did Han and Leia get married?  Did Lando end up having a heroin problem, look I heard gas minors loved there sweet lady H, is it the rock star life, who else rolls around in a cape?  Did Chewie find him a dime piece or did he get freaky and get him a Ewok, remember in Jedi when they were in the AT-ST and the one was rubbing his fur down.  Tonight, I will get answers?

Was it not in my own backyard that I merged GI Joe, Star Wars, and my own daily fantasies together to create what I thought was the next generation of Star Wars.  Was it not in my back yard where I created Space Station Delta a hybrid Death Star and Super Star Destroyer?  Did I not create Eros the great leader of the High Council as a Lightsaber wielding bad ass who was wise as master Yoda, but looked more like a young Luke?  Have I not built an entire mythology of the basis of the vast reaches of Space thanks to Star Wars?  Now this has also been influenced now by X-files, Game of Thrones, The Dark Tower, and Lord of the Rings.  However, the basis has always been from a Galaxy Far Far Away.  

One way or another I will have answers in 13.5 hours…

Anyway to celebrate today, I have decided put together my Top 10 Favorite moments from a Galaxy Far Far Away….

By the way this is harder than I thought.... 

honorable mention:  Let the Wookie Win!; Leia tells Han that Luke is her brother; every lightsaber battle but those are battles so I won't put those here; Where is Boba Fett, and it's all Clear Kid.

Here we go...

10.  Same as always...

It is the moment Luke has just foiled Jabba's plans.  Solo and the Wookie are being brought out of the dungeons and then it goes like this...

Han Solo: Together again, huh?

Luke: Wouldn't miss it.

Han Solo: How we doin'?

Luke: Same as always.

Han Solo: That bad, huh?

To me this classic Star Wars, it shows the friendship and the trials these two have been on together.  See comments at Number 9.

9.  Anakin and Obi-Wan at the beginning of Sith

The interplay between Anakin and Obi-Wan at the beginning of Sith is what I believe all of Episode II should have been. It was the only time I really felt these two guys were friends and they enjoyed each other.  I think the Clone Wars cartoons always captures this.  This made me think of Han and Luke and a friendship that had one trial after another making them brothers in arms.  That is how I felt about Ani and Obi on Grievous's ship.  Clones would have been a great movie had this been captured there.   We didn't need a shitty love story, we didn't need a complex plot, we needed to see Anakin and Obi-wan have the relationship foreshadowed in the original trilogy.  That would have made Sith all the harder to swallow.  That would have made you want to cry at Anakin's betrayal not happy b/c maybe now he wouldn't wine like a bitcht!

8.  Luke using the force to escape the Wampa Cave

It really was the first time we saw the force being used to move objects.  It was like what the fuck, did he just do, use his mind to move something.  It was a trip.  I can't tell you how many days as a child I was outside hanging upside pretending that a light-saber was coming to me.


7.  Space ghost!!!

Seriously, he can move shit w/ his mind and see ghosts, what!!! that is crazy shit!!!!  Crazy I say!!!! It was great to see Obi-wan again and see him help look to become the bad ass he was who brought balance to the force.  But I was like a ghost, really?

6.  Yoda throws his light-saber

It was a subtle scene in Sith when Yoda and Obi-wan are fighting there way into the Jedi Temple and Yoda fucking throws his light-saber thru a clone trooper.  It was like damn that shit was cool.   It was one of the tings that made the force, light-sabers, and Star Wars so fucking cool!  Nice pitch Master Yoda!

5.  Vader in Empire after the Falcon jumps into hyper-space 

It is one of the moments like #6 that if you aren't watching, I mean really watching, you don't really notice.  However, he is looking out the window getting ready to watch the Falcon being pulled into his command ship, when the force says, Vader, you, you are not good, the whiffffff, and R2 fixes the hyper-drive and the ship takes off... To me it is the Vader double take that makes it such a classic scene.  He looks, back, then back out, and you know he is thinking OMFG, the Emperor is not gonna be happy about this, and also the reaction of the crew, they were probably all assuming force chokes for everyone.  However, I think Vader had been softened by look this time, no not really, I think he knew that the force has a will of its own and sometimes shit just happens.  WE have a word for that around here it is called KA.

4.  Needa

Darth Vader: Apology accepted, Captain Needa.

To me is it the crowning moment of Vader's bad-ass-dome... He is a ruthless villain and we should hate him.   IT is a scene I reply a lot in my head.  It is just so perfectly bad-ass and it is just well, it is just so Vader!

3.  Luke gives the Emperor the Mutumbo!

This picture was classic, had to use it!  Even thought it is wrong, but come on! 

I have said this before, I was in theater I was 7, I was scared Luke was going to go Dark Side.  Vader was picking on him, just like the Emperor, and needling him to go bad.  I was thinking maybe he will.  I fought tears back.  I don't recall if I cried or not, I probably did, i just remember being so upset.  then he goes nutz and I am like we are going to loose him.  I am not sure I can tell you how much I loved Luke then.  I wanted my name changed to Luke remember.  And then he did it, he beat Vader, and he turned and told the Emperor, thanks dick, but not thank!  Now the force lighting that followed and the huge change of fates by Anakin also helped a lot for my hero to survive.  However, the Jedi one that day and truly did return!

2. The De-limbing

Obi-Wan: You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them. You were to bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness.

Anakin Skywalker: [shouts] I hate you.

Obi-Wan: You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you.

This is a scene that I had waited for 26 years!  I remember someone telling me that Obi-wan beat Vader's ass and kicked him into a volcano.   This is also the only time I cheered out loud in a Star Wars Movie.  The battle between Obi-wan and Anakin almost, almost made the pain of the original 3 movies worth it.  I mean you start with seeing the only force choke in the prequels and that is Anakin choking out his wife, then you end it with when I cheered out loud, when Obi-wan De-limbed Anakin!I cheered I was so happy.   I was sure with Lucas's love for Anakin that he would have Obi-wan's victory over the sith be a fluke, but it was not, it was a beat down and awesome and I loved it!!!  Then when he caught fire, I almost pee'd myself... It was vintage bad ass and Star Wars at its almost best!!!! I loved it!  

1.  The biggest mind fuck for a kid in a movie ever!!!!

No. *I* am your father

To this day, some part of my rational mind still rejects this notion.  that the evilest dude ever, could be Luke's dad.  What a total mind fuck!  I was stunned and in disbelief until Yoda confirmed it in Jedi.  James Earl Jones didn't even believe it, there is a quote somewhere of him saying it is a lie.  I can't find it but still.

I think in my world this is the greatest plot twist in history.  One I never saw coming, again I was like 5 or 6 but still... couldn't and wouldn't believe it.  

However, it is the one thing the makes Empire the greatest of the movies to date.  It was just totally awesome and i get chills each time I watch.  

So there it is my Star Wars Top 10...  who knows in 12 hours and 15 minutes I might even have some new ones =)

May the Force be with you!!! always!!!!