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Since this is the Holiday Season

Yup. Kanye epically missed the point of the Prequels.

Embracing Trump is the ultimate example of missing the point of the Prequels. So yeah, he doesn't get it.

The Jedi embraced Palpatine for long enough. Padme helped Palpatine get elected to office.

The other night I was at a pub trivia quiz and one question was "Name the movie from the bad description."

The description was, "Talking frog convinces son to kill his father. (1980)" And it took me about ten minutes to realize it was ESB. And boy, it really is a bad description. Talking frog, ok. But he does not convince Luke to kill his father, not even in RotJ, really

But I'm just glad I got it, at the last second. I never would've been able to forgive myself if I'd missed it. My friend on my team even has a tattoo of Yoda on his arm, and he didn't think of it. If it hadn't been for the year though, I never would have. Although the year did throw me off a little, because first I went with The Shining. Then changed it to The Muppet Movie. And finally the light went on and figured it was ESB.

Not only did Hayden Christensen star in the 2000 tv series Higher Ground (yes, you read that right), but after he reveals to his father the reason for all of his emotional and psychological problems, he says, "For the first time in so long, I feel like I can breathe."

Still not working...

I recently assembled a team and went to a Star Wars pub quiz here in Prague. It was a lot fun of course. A great presentation with video clips from the movies/shows with every question up on a big projector screen. And also, we won, which is a nice bonus. We actually only missed one question: who played Zorii Bliss? I think maybe I super-vaguely remember hearing about that back in 2019, but did not retain it at All, and I think most teams missed that one.

Overall the questions were all rather quite easy, which I actually didn't like . I was pretty surprised by it too, actually. This quiz was put on by the same people who put on the General Trivia quiz I go to every week, which is the biggest, most popular quiz in Prague. And those quizzes are all pretty difficult, challenging stuff, but in a fun way. I was hoping this would be like that and I even studied up hard all week leading up to it. But the questions were stuff like, "What planet is Chewbacca from?"

Also it was about 60% Disney stuff. And out of 40 total questions only 4 were about the PT :/

And actually, what happened was we tied for first but won with the tie-breaker question, which was: How much total screen-time does C-3PO have in the OT? And though I said the rest of the quiz was easy, we got this question with a fairly lucky guess. I wanted to say 42 minutes, just because it's always the answer to everything, but my teammates wanted to go higher and so we compromised with 43. The other first place team said 61.

The answer the host had was 47, which is what IMDB says. But it turns out, other sites say 61. Because, I guess, there are two definitions of screen-time. Which the other team explained to us. So I learned something interesting.

I think the only tricky question in the main part of the quiz was, "Who was the first to infiltrate Jabba's Palace in the mission to rescue Han?" Because some teams forgot about Lando, who did it before the movie starts. The only other slightly medium-difficulty one was, "Which character's name is mentioned in the opening crawl of Episode IV?"

(I've condensed the questions down to their basic essence, from their original, more elaborate form).