Earlier today I made a reference to “Backstroke of the West”, and when I looked it up I saw that the original post was made in 2005, which means that a good chunk of people on here might be too young to remember it. So consider this post a public service.
i saw revenge of the sith last weekend at a local theater with my friend joe who was in town on business. it was much better than the first two movies and a fitting end (err.. middle) to the star wars saga.
the next day i was walking past my friendly dvd salesperson and decided to check out revenge of the sith. i was assured the quality was good and for 7rmb why not give it a shot.
aside from the counters on the top of the screen and a distorted perspective it was ok- not high quality but watchable. the captions were a hilarious surprise- a direct english translation of the chinese interpretation of what the script was saying. it varied from being somewhat close to the script to being ‘far far away’….
amazingly enough, the beginning scroll is mistranslated even though the words are right there on the screen.
star war (just one)
‘the backstroke of the west’ is the english translation of the chinese title.
anakin: “this is where the fun begins”
obi wan: “let them pass between us”
anonymous doomed fighter pilot: “they’re all over me”
so apparently while Padmé’s handmaidens were training in “handmaiden bootcamp”, Padmé went and joined in on the training pretending to be a handmaiden too to get to know the girls better, and then later revealed herself to actually be Queen Amidala so basically
Luke: Rey while I understand the desire to experiment and outdo Kylo Ren could you perhaps stick to a lightsaber staff? A lightsbaer trident is just …..wrong
Luke:Rey when I told you about my training with Master Yoda I did not mean that you should do the same things. Could you please let me down before I break a hip. I am not a young man anymore
Luke: While I am both proud and very disturbed that you managed to discover Force Lightning on your own could you please not use it to cook sausages? We have a perfectly good fire
Luke: While I understand your anger at the Senator after the way he insulted Leia you cannot use the Force to make him punch himself and then gleefully ask ” Why are you punching yourself” This is not how a Jedi is supposed to act
Luke: I agree that it’s effective but in an honorable duel a Jedi is supposed to use The Force and their lightsaber to defeat their opponent not land mines
Luke: I DON’T CARE IF YOU THINK THEY ARE ADORABLE! SPIDERS ARE NOT SUITABLE PETS REY! OH GOD THEY ARE IN MY ROBES. GET THEM AWAY FROM ME
Luke: Rey we are facing a Sith Lord! Now is not the time to make fun of Supreme Leader Snoke’s name. Rey stop laughing
“Because even if Rey is Luke’s kid, her kids will take their father’s name.”
It sure would be convenient if Rey hooked up with a guy that didn’t have a last name of his own. Wait, isn’t there actually a dude like that in the movie?
I N T E R E S T I N G
”But Finn and Rey are just BFFs! She’s obviously going to end up with [purely fanon male love interest] instead. THEN WHAT, HMMM?”
Just BFFs?
But for the sake of argument, let’s see if there’s any Star Wars precedent for what might happen when a prominent family has only female heirs…
100% certain han and lando once got married for a scam and forgot to have it annulled so they were technically married for several years and one day lando comes in and goes “real quick: are we solo-calrissian or calrissian-solo? also, i want a divorce” and han is like baby no where did i go wrong we can still fix this
100% certain han and lando once got married for a scam and forgot to have it annulled so they were technically married for several years and one day lando comes in and goes “real quick: are we solo-calrissian or calrissian-solo? also, i want a divorce” and han is like baby no where did i go wrong we can still fix this
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