Silly Star Wars thought

[kate_nepveu]

Before Chad posted about the problems with the new Star Wars movies, we talked about it over dinner and came up with a very silly idea (which I then forgot about until today, when the movie came out), to wit:

Chad: "—and the time scale is all wrong too, unless Luke is secretly a Dragaeran with a two-hundred-year adolesence."

Kate: " . . . I'm sorry, I think the idea of that crossover broke my brain."

From there, we determined in short order that if Luke (and Leia, and Anakin, etc.) are Dragaerans, then the Sith are Jenoine, Yoda is a Serioli, and the Ewoks—smaller and hairier than the Jedi—are Easterners. What's more, the movies are set as the Cycle turns to Teckla, since the Teckla have a Republic instead of an Empire!

I think we stopped before I tried to draw parallels between the conceptions of Anakin and Aliera, which is all for the best since they aren't actually that close and the idea really, really makes my head hurt.

Comments

[sraun]

You are EVIL!

ROFLOL!

[kate_nepveu]

Glad it amused!

[jennlk]

Ow! I think you broke my brain.... (can't tell for sure, as it's borked.) (and I blame sraun for linking to it.)

[kate_nepveu]

Yes, put _all_ the blame on him. =>

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

But which HOUSES are the Dragaerans?

(No, I haven't an answer. I've only read the omnibus of the first 3, the library doesn't seem to have the next few, darn it, only the ones later in the series.)

[kate_nepveu]

Nice icon.

Han is a Jhereg. The Skywalkers are Phoenix.

Ummm, I really don't know the rest of the characters that well.

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

I would have called the Ewoks Teckla, but I guess that's just preference. The Tuskans need to be somebody...

I think Yoda is a Lyorn.

[kate_nepveu]

No, no, the Ewoks are a different *species*! So's Yoda--and come on, small, talks weird, magically powerful--he is _so_ a Seroli.

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

I've only read tPG, 5YA and PotD. I don't recall the Seroli.

[kate_nepveu]

Ah. Yes, I don't think they appear in the Paarfi books.

Do you want me to tell you about them, or would you rather read it in the Vlad books? I wouldn't really call the information spoilers, but I like to be sure.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

We don't meet them in Paarfi's romances, but in 500 Years After, in reporting to the Emperor about the turbulence in the streets, Khaavren says something like "it was warmer than a summer day in the Suntra, though not as hot as the forges of the Serioli."

-- Mark A. Mandel
http://cracksandshards.com
a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]

[pnh.livejournal.com]

Obviously Yoda is a Seroli.

[kate_nepveu]

Thank you!

[jennlk]

He's not very opaque though (for a Seroli). ISTR that the Seroli Vlad met was much more opaque.

And the Sith seem to be slightly more attuned to "humans" than the Jenoine are.

[aor.livejournal.com]

You know, I've read every one of those books more than once, and I just realized that I've been reading "Seroli" as "Serioli" for many years and many books. Odd.

[kate_nepveu]

Eeep.

That was a very polite way of correcting me, if that's what you intended.

[aor.livejournal.com]

No, I actually thought I was wrong, since everyone else followed your spelling. I don't read letter-by-letter, so it's not inconceivable. (See also: the first time I tried to say "magnanimous" out loud.)

I did just go check, and "Serioli" is correct, but I was sincere when I wrote my first comment.

[kate_nepveu]

It's the kind of typo that's invisible to me, even if I _say_ it with that many vowels.

Thank you for pointing that out, all the same.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

You think that's weird? I'm a linguist -- a language scientist -- and I'm working with biomedical texts. So I read an abstract* that mentioned Sertoli cells**, with a "t", and I thought it said Serioli cells!

* It might have been this one: http://tinyurl.com/8b23c (goes to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=7679985&query_hl=1 )

** http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/518.html

-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,
Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody
a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]

PS: Look at the picture and say hi to my friend, familiar, and assistant conscience Loiosh.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I also sign as...

-- Mark A. Mandel
http://cracksandshards.com
a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]

[rabidotter.livejournal.com]

AMAZING CROSS-OVER!!!!

If you write it, I will read it.

[kate_nepveu]

That's the extent of my ability to write cross-overs, or really anything, I think.

But we're glad you liked it!

[trampbear.livejournal.com]

Jabba the Hutt and Boralinoi?

[(Anonymous)]

Hm.

I would say that Han Solo is an Orca rather than a Jhereg - he combines acquiring wealth with travel rather than with running an area (or working for someone who runs an area).

Chewbacca might be a Tsalmoth, perhaps. Or perhaps a Greenaeran.

While Yoda is cryptic, I think his long life-span, extreme skill with the Force, and his interest in restoring/maintaining the pre-Sidious political system mean that he is in fact Sethra Lavode.

The Sith aren't really cryptic enough to be Jenoine. I think the Sith are all Phoenixes - when they go decadent, they really go decadent...

George Lucas must be the Jenoine. There he is, meddling with stuff, from a vantage point outside of the universe... And all of his meddling only muddles everything in the Star Wars universe more...

OK, now my brain is broken. Enough.