Thaidakar the Ghostblood

In all of my years of living, reading, writing and roleplaying, there is one crucial experience I had missed out on until tonight.

Until tonight, I had missed it every year and been sad, despite trying to do it.

Yet I failed.

that was, until tonight.

You see, my friends, I missed out on one of the most formative experiences of every childhood. I missed something so big, so intense that I almost didn't have a proper childhood.

Until today.

You see, my friends, until tonight, I, the guy who wrote a bunch of dark stuff with antics that I haven't begun to explain to my family, had not been allowed to watch Home Alone.

Now, I could've watched it by myself at any given point, but I guess I kinda didn't realize it nor did I want to. I wanted to watch it with my family, ya know? Make it so they all benefited from being allowed to watch it too. It's kinda like as an adult you can buy birthday cake whenever you want, but why would you? And, so, finally, tonight, I watched it.

And...

It was fantastic.

I'm sure y'all already know all of this, but if you don't, Home Alone is such a good movie. Some of the stuff is a little painful to watch, but, ya know, it's bearable. It's not too much, so it's nice and balanced. 'Sides, a good plot and character development fixes all in the end.

My rating, right up there with some of the greats, for Home Alone is...

8.5/10 Amazing movie, will watch again. It aint Shakespeare, but then, it aint Shakespeare.

"I... I wish he were still alive.

"I could use his help right now."

"I am afraid...

"I am afraid it is too late now."

Count Dooku is one of the greatest characters in Star Wars merely because of one fact: He was right. Darth Tyrannus was right about the Jedi, right about the republic and so much more.

There is one thing that he said which describes his arc and the entire prequel trilogy, all of it except in regards to one person. "Twice the pride, double the fall." The only person it fails to describe until Return of the Jedi is Darth Sidious. 

The prequel trilogy and the stories set in that era are about how pride and ego are things that are not to be trusted. The moment that you stop to question, the moment those who have power stop to question the nature of the power, the moment people are prideful and forget to ask questions, that moment, the prequel trilogy tells us, is the moment of downfall.

Dooku died because he stopped questioning Sidious. Obi-wan fell because he stopped questioning the Jedi's morals. Yoda fell, presumably, because he stopped questioning his own moral correctness. Mace fell... well, Mace fell because he got kicked out a window; morally, however, he didn't really have more to fall. he trusted the Jedi's inherent rights to rule as, well, just that. Inherent obligations. 

Anakin fell because he was greedy, had an ego the size of a supreme star destroyer, and more.

"Twice the pride, double the fall."

Count Dooku is one of my favorite characters because he is so human. He blinded himself by accident, losing sight of what truly mattered when he saw true flaws in the system. I pray none of us fall to that, but you never know. Dooku fell in party by what I mentioned above, but also because he didn't ask the question "Are my methods going to far?"

What we learn from Dooku and the prequel trilogy is to never stop asking questions.

If we do, then we lose any foresight for catastrophe that we can have. The moment someone tells you to stop asking questions is the moment when it should be evident that they either do not have answers, actively don't want you to have the information or are saving it to give you when you are mature (in any meaning of the word) to receive it.

In other words, never tell me "because I said so."

Happy birthday, Mat!!!

hmmmm

Imagine a story where it starts out as the chosen one trope, but then the chosen one dies at the end of the first act and then there's a time skip to when the evil guy is ruling the world and people have to stop him all over again.

Happy birthday!

Episode eighteen, season four, the Clone Wars, is a masterpiece.

You can practically see the powerpoint of Palatine's plan in the second half of the episode. Just... WOW.

hap birth, cool person!

Sometime, I've got to write a book or make a roleplay about this plot idea I've had for a few months that's been living in my head, reminding me that cool stuff could happen...

The fact that, for come follow me, we're reading the book of Revelation is certainly helping me remember...

In other words, it's a four horsemen of the apocalypse idea.

Imagine Death riding on his horse, about to kill someone with all his might and giving a grim speech when suddenly Hell comes riding behind him and pulls out his notebook, "Actually, sir, we reached our fourth of every person we meet kill quota an hour ago." If you don't get it, flip to revelation chapter six verse 8.

I just read that and thought "What if Hell was Death's assistant..."