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I had lunch with Luke Thompson today, and I’m happy to say he is in good health. His doctors say he has to take it easy for a few weeks; that’s all he has to do to complete his recovery. And congrats to Luke on his LA Press Club nomination for Best Weblog.
We talked about films, of course, and since he’s seen Star Wars Episode III, we got around to that one. He liked it a lot. He mentioned that there’s a couple of lines in it that he sees as a slam at GWB. These lines don’t give away any plot twists or surprises, but just in case…
...SPOILER SPACE: TWO LINES OF STAR WARS DIALOG COMING UP…
Luke mentioned that a bad guy in the film says, “You’re either with us or against us.” And the response is, “Only the Sith deal in absolutes!”
It bugged me that Lucas put a dumb slam against GWB in the middle of this film. But it bugged me even more that he would put a dumb slam against absolute statements in it. Kids are impressionable and some of them will try to take this stuff seriously, which would be to their detriment. For example, the speed of light is an absolute, and if the Jedi don’t know about that, they’re putting themselves at a disadvantage.
But the classic response to such an argument is: “Only the Sith deal in absolutes? That’s about as absolute a statement as you can get.”
