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XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv, alt.fan.starwars, alt.fan.tom-servo
From: 3cjmd@comcast.net
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:53:52 -0700, Tim Bruening
wrote:
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>"Jaime M. de Castellvi" wrote:
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>> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 07:15:42 -0700, Tim Bruening
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>> >"Jaime M. de Castellvi" wrote:
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>> >> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:58:19 -0700, Tim Bruening
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>> >> >"Jaime M. de Castellvi" wrote:
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>> >> >> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:37:14 +0000 (UTC), Brodieman
>> >> >> wrote:
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>> >> >> >On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:06:27 -0700, Tim Bruening wrote:
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>> >> >> >> "Jaime M. de Castellvi" wrote:
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>> >> >> >>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:29:07 -0700, Tim Bruening
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>> >> >> >>>>After Anakin dies and turns into a Jedi ghost, I expect the
following
>> >> >> >>>>conversation:
>> >> >> >>>>
>> >> >> >>>>Anakin: Obi-Wan, I was told by the Emperor that I had killed
Padme with
>> >> >> >>>>the force choke. How in the galaxy did she give birth to Luke and
>> >> >> >>>>Leia??????? She hadn't yet given birth when I choked her!!!!!
>> >> >> >>>>
>> >> >> >>>>Obi-Wan: Your choke hold did not kill her. We don't know what
did.
>> >> >> >>>>Oddly enough, the medical droid said that there was nothing
medically
>> >> >> >>>>wrong with her. She had simply lost her will to live!
Thankfully, we
>> >> >> >>>>were able to get your kids out before she died.
>> >> >> >>>>
>> >> >> >>>>From there, they should wonder if Palpatine drain her life force,
and
>> >> >> >>>>whatever happened to her spirit (did it get trapped by the
Emperor?).
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> All of this, of course, is based on the superficial perception
that
>> >> >> >>> what we are seeing are "ghosts", with the further assumption that
they
>> >> >> >>> as limited in their perceptions as when they were flesh and blood,
>> >> >> >>> which is certainly quite humorous in itself.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> What ever their perceptions, I figure that the spirit Yoda,
Obi-Wan, and
>> >> >> >> Anakin would have some interesting things to say to each other
just after
>> >> >> >> Anakin "Ascended".
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> I wonder if Luke could get spirit Anakin to help him convince the
remnants
>> >> >> >> of the Empire to lay down their arms. I figure that the sight of
the ghost
>> >> >> >> of Darth Vader denouncing the Empire and endorsing the New
Republic ought to
>> >> >> >> demoralize Imperial forces!
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >They'd be demoralised enough, with the Emperor dead and the Death
Star
>> >> >> >gone.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> And, leaving aside the fact that presumably not just everyone can see
>> >> >> these projections from the Force, just how many people would know that
>> >> >> Darth Vader was the legendary Anakin Skywalker (if they even remember
>> >> >> the latter).
>> >> >
>> >> >I was thinking in terms of Anakin projecting his Darth Vader getup.
>> >>
>> >> My guess is that would go over really well with the rebels.
>> >
>> >Anakin would only project the Darth Vader getup for the Imperials.
>>
>> Tim, just strictly out of curiosity, you wouldn't happen to be related
>> in any way to a young gentleman by the name of Dan Tropea, would you?
>
>No. Who is he?
Well, okay then. I guess enough time has gone by that it should be
reasonably safe now. Perhaps it is time for me to engage in a little
deepthroating too, at long last, to deliver myself of this wonderful
secret that I have cherished in my bossom for so long. I'll point
y'all in the general direction of things, and then anyone inclined to
engage in what by his or her own wits may pass for "investigative
journalism" can dig up the myriad of little details and juicy
supporting facts to be had for the sheer fun of it.
Dan Tropea is not an actual person, at least not in the virtual sense.
Rather, s/he/it is what very probably constitutes the most inspired,
creative, playful and, quite frankly, brilliant extended troll to have
been perpetrated around these Usenet parts since I've been around. As
a very happy few (like Cronan and Gharlane) had known from the
beginning, and as a larger contingency of regulars of various of these
groups have probably come to suspect of late, the amazing minds behind
this endeavor are those of the ageless Ancient Ones (Jedi or Sith? I
guess that very much depends on your point of view...) known as
Captain Infinity and Blackhawk (oh, and a handful of others who
helped, tacitly or otherwise).
It is finally time to project the light of truth down that fun
corridor of our diversely shared past, to lay the troubled soul of Dan
Tropea to rest in the ageless halls of usenet Valhalla, and to allow
the deft hands who molded the clay into life to have the just dues and
credit that they have so richly deserved for so long. I think that
many if not most of the folks who lived it in its entirety will agree
that the Dan Tropea troll is the most amazing work of usenet
performance art that has been our privilege to live, over the last
decade. Like the great Terran works of all the ages, this one too is
an enduring monument to what the human species has to offer at its
creative best.
Cheers,
Jaime
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