Kilby writes: This is another one of Bill Bickel’s “vintage” draft posts from 2018. Back then, Bill once wrote that his interest in Star Wars completely terminated after the original trilogy, so perhaps he was not aware of the significance of the inverted word order, but he also commented that “Okay, even I know who Yoda is! … Yoda’s cat on the other hand…“
P.S. I originally scheduled this for the seventh anniversary of “Rogue One“, but it got bumped to make space for the Saturday OYs. In any case, seeing as Yoda didn’t appear in that film at all, it’s clearly more appropriate to schedule it for the fourth anniversary of “The Rise of Skywalker“. Star Wars fanatics are free to discuss which of those two films they liked better; Bill’s answer would of course have been “neither“.
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All this numerology habit leaves me cold and, frankly, a little put off.
Sorry to hear that, Danny. But your cryptic-commentology also may raise some eyebrows.
I’m with Bill, although the masses will definitely pick Rogue One over Rise of Skywalker. Even defenders of The Last Jedi did not like Rise of Skywalker
If the note is supposed to be Yoda’s, it doesn’t seem sufficiently Yoda-like. “Ate your lunch I did. Guess who you will not” seems more like it.
@ narmitaj (4) – I think I agree, and perhaps it was the lack of “authentic” feel that led Bill to sideline the post.
P.S. @ Danny Boy (1) – It certainly wasn’t my intention to irritate; I was simply looking for a day in the calendar to squeeze this draft in. As it happens, this week it would have been more difficult to miss a release anniversary than hit one. While the first two trilogies were all released in May, the three sequel trilogy films (and Rogue One) were all released in the third week of December (either to catch the Christmas rush, or in the vain hope of qualifying for another Oscar).
I agree with narmitaj. As written, it makes no sense to me.
OR: With narmitaj, I agree. As written, no sense to me it makes.
Numerology?
@ L.F. (8) – As in placing undue significance upon certain dates and episode numbers:
Episode VII – The Force Awakens – 18-Dec-2015
Episode VIII – The Last Jedi – 15-Dec-2017
Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker – 20-Dec-2019
Rogue One – A Star Wars Story – 16-Dec-2016
Have not seen the more recent movies (any since Covid started) in theaters as we only watch movies which we get through our cable package or some other movie channels husband has found on the Internet.
While we are major movie fans – our love of movies – old and new is what drew us together at first and normally we would go every Saturday night to the movies – even when we were in Quebec Canada on a trip – we did not see “Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother” which was called something like “Le Frere mas futer du Sherlock Holmes” – as it was in French and neither of us speak same. We did see a movie in English. This was the week that Groucho Marx died as it was on the TV there (in French). Some weekends we might see 3 movies at theaters in our early days.
Our one trip to the movies since the start of Covid was to see the last James Bond movie as husband is a major James Bond fan – the books about same were what got him hooked on reading. (He does NOT like the newer movies, but sees them anyway with great hope.) So even fear of Covid could not keep him away from seeing the movie. He studied up – found a theater that was running it. Checked when the theater had the fewest people in it. (Before he would only go to the movies at night and we went weekly on Saturday nights – some weeks also on another night.) So on a Thursday afternoon we went to the first showing of the day. I had called first to find out about their Covid precautions. We were given a piece of yellow caution tape to put on the seat in front of us so no one would sit there. The only other people were two women who came and sat 2 rows behind us. When we left we moved the tape to our seats as we had been told to do so they would know which ones to sanitize. After all this – he hated the movie.
“Rogue One – A Star Wars Story – 16-Dec-2016” – Arthur C Clarke’s 99th birthday; and three days after my father’s 99th birthday. Both were born in Somerset in the West Country and both were in the RAF during the war, in different capacities, though their careers diverged after that. And both had long since gone on, as they say in Somerset, by the time of their 99ths.
@ Narmitaj (11) – If I had decided to schedule this post for today, I could have said that it was in honor of my grandfather’s 110th birthday. Then again, next year would have been his eleventy-first: perhaps an opportunity for some hobbit comics.
Yoda: Why was 9 of 6 afraid?
Luke: I don’t know. Why?
Yoda: Because 6 7 8.
Luke: … ???
@ MiB (13) – That joke really made me laugh, it was better than the comic at the top; and my son (who had a stack of Star Wars Lego stuff on his Christmas list) liked it too.
Carpe Diem does the Yoda OSV syntax: