Thanks, Michael, for the review! I didn't quite get here yesterday, as I'd planned.... The reviewer from the Washington Post actually said he was bored with this movie. Bored?? Bored??? How the guy could be bored by a movie with numerous chase scenes and battle scenes -- including one involving Mast...

Plus, AIDS wasn't around when SRD started writing the Chrons in the '70s. I can't think of another disease prevalent then that would've sparked the same reaction in the reader that leprosy does. Cancer, maybe.

I can see him doing that, too, amy!

I read an interview of SRD somewhere online where he says that the world will be destroyed in the 3d Chrons. Something to that effect, anyhow. Maybe destroyed and made new, like in "The Neverending Story"? We can hope...

Yes, and all fiction -- and especially fantasy -- has to hang together by its own internal logic, or the story doesn't work. How many times have you watched a movie or TV show that you were only marginally interested in, and then some impossible plot twist occurred and you started shouting at the sc...

And this time, you brought it up yourself!

The elder Fett in Episode II is Jango Fett (I think I got his first name right), father of Boba Fett, who is the little clone-son. The events in this movie go a long way toward explaining why Boba Fett seems to have a mad on for every Jedi he runs into in Episodes IV, V and VI....

That would be pretty cool!

Bannor, one of the funniest things I ever read in the Chronicles was the dedication in TWL, and I'm quoting from memory:

To Lester Del Ray: Lester made me do it.

No matter how bad life is, choosing to die is like commiting suicide. That's a hard decision to make. But then in the 2d Chrons, Covenant makes exactly that decision. And at that point, he has everything to live for, because he's found Linden. Why did he decide differently the second time? I think ...

Yeah, Pitchwife, I was pretty much a mess, too, when TC realized that he was going to die in our world.... I think what you're saying is that when TC took Joan's place on the altar, he had some hope of coming out of it alive. And I agree with you. He's not so selfless, or still so in love with Joan,...

This occurred to me while I was posting a reply in another thread. What would you call the part of the human being that goes to the Land? One's physical body stays here, of course, and some part of one's consciousness departs -- but what is it? Is it the soul? It's important enough to existence in o...

So Arwen, you're saying it's a sort of astral projection that goes to the Land? That's an interesting idea. Coercri, TC *did* trade up for a better model (one without leprosy) -- in the first Chrons, anyway.... Pitchwife, I don't exactly remember the scene off the top of my head, but I think Linden ...

FYI: While my kids and I were seeing "Spiderman" yesterday, I also shelled out for tickets for the midnight showing of "Episode II". So, soon I will be able to explain to y'all what the heck "Attack of the Clones" means, and how, with a straight face, George Lucas has b...