Wednesday, October 04, 2000

Riding the 48 to the Bart station this morning, I overheard 2 middle school aged girls discussing women in Star Wars. One girl was trying the tell the other that there were no women characters in the series besides Princess Leia and Queen Amidala. The other less-geeky girl wondered if Han Solo was a Jedi. The "expert" quickly pointed out that he was merely a pilot, untrained in the Jedi arts. They also speculated on the "true nature" of Obiwan's relation to Qui Gonn Jin. I resisted to the urge to walk up to them and provide some tru Star Wars geek insight but decided at my age (or more to the point, at our age difference) I'd seem like some sort of pedophile. Besides, these padwan were probably not ready for the next level of sci-fi trivia.

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