From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Derek Janssen  writes:   
      
   >Joseph Nebus wrote:   
      
   >> 	History Channel has somehow gone horribly wrong, even when you   
   >> factor out stuff like the Department of Nostradamus Blathering.   
      
   >...Uh, who do you think they named "Nute Gunray" after, in "Phantom   
   >Menace"?   
      
   >Derek Janssen (I will make it legal)   
   >ejanss1@verizon.net   
      
   	To be honest, I didn't know they had anyone named Nute Gunray   
   either.  I don't think I got any of The Phantom Menace names straight   
   except Jar-Jar and Darth Not Appearing In This Film.   
      
   	It turned out that the whole thing was supposed to shore up   
   the idea that Star Wars was a really grand and ornate Modern Myth that   
   harkened back to classic archetypical myths and folklore and whatnot,   
   but mostly it seemed to want to insist that the prequels were *just*   
   as good as the real Star Wars films.  Maybe they were schedulining it   
   in the mistaken belief that anyone was going to care about Clone Wars.   
   The comic strip Nancy made the same mistake on Sunday.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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