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Tag: star wars

  • Darth Vader: The Fallen Jedi [Video]

    “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”

    -Jim Morrison

    In this video, I take a closer look at one of my favorite characters in the Star Wars universe: Darth Vader. But what could his character mean? What can we learn from how his character changes through his story? Is there something relatable in who this Sith lord is?

  • I Am the Villain

    The terrible day that I learned that I was, indeed, the dreadful villain,

    When Pink wasn’t well and they sent me, the surrogate band, as the fill-in.

    I was Sauron and poured all my malice, cruelty, and will to dominate all life,

    I was Anakin, and it was all unfair so I blamed it on my friend and wife.

    It was me, Scar, who told Simba to run far, far away and never come back,

    I don’t even remember when everything changed during the Fire Nation attack.

    It was many things that added up to fill Prince Zuko with pride and shame,

    And I remember the strange day I learned I was the antagonist to blame.

    It was the same day I learned that I was also the hero to save the day,

    When Aang, Frodo, and Simba finally came back to the world to play!

    It was time to tear down the Empire that I created to control my life,

    To finally heal the pain that was caused by a psychological knife.