I went back in my archives and looked out of curiosity. It was through metafandom - I was distracting myself from homework by writing about Horace and fandom. I'm so glad I did :D
Han/Leia is the first pairing I remember caring about (though I might have had some Ninja Turtles pairing preferences when I was six). However, a while back I stumbled on morgan_d's Han/Luke fic and went, "Whoa, this works for me too!" So I am flexible. I'm really mainly a gen person, so I usually accept the canon pairings and find things I like about them unless they're just horrible to me. I don't blame you for not venturing into Courtship territory - Singing Threepio is a truly frightening thing!
Hmm, favorite films. I'd say A New Hope and Empire about equally, for different reasons. ANH has that great optimistic, lighthearted feeling, and a lot of what I've heard called the "sensawunda." All the locations, from the cantina to Yavin IV, have that feeling of "this is just so cool." I love the beautiful scenery, from the binary sunset to the jungles, and I love the "used universe" feeling that's everywhere (from the Lars garage to the Falcon). I'm also intrigued by how the optimistic mood works with the really, really dark things that happen in the movie (torture, planet blown up, Owen and Beru's smoking corpses...).
I love the dual plotlines of ESB, where Han and Leia face the external threats while Luke faces the internal threats. I love picking up with the characters three years later and getting to fill in the gaps of how they changed like that on my own - it's like jumping from the last Firefly episode to Serenity. I love the sense of the past influencing everything the characters are doing - why Luke wants to train, why Yoda and Ben react to him the way they do, Jabba still being out for Han's head, Han's "old friend" Lando... I also think ESB has the snappiest (and least painful) dialog, which counts for a lot in SW.
I like the other movies plenty (and have come to appreciate TPM much more over the years), but not quite as much. But they're all enough to get me rambling on like this :D
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Date: 2007-04-02 07:53 pm (UTC)Han/Leia is the first pairing I remember caring about (though I might have had some Ninja Turtles pairing preferences when I was six). However, a while back I stumbled on
Hmm, favorite films. I'd say A New Hope and Empire about equally, for different reasons. ANH has that great optimistic, lighthearted feeling, and a lot of what I've heard called the "sensawunda." All the locations, from the cantina to Yavin IV, have that feeling of "this is just so cool." I love the beautiful scenery, from the binary sunset to the jungles, and I love the "used universe" feeling that's everywhere (from the Lars garage to the Falcon). I'm also intrigued by how the optimistic mood works with the really, really dark things that happen in the movie (torture, planet blown up, Owen and Beru's smoking corpses...).
I love the dual plotlines of ESB, where Han and Leia face the external threats while Luke faces the internal threats. I love picking up with the characters three years later and getting to fill in the gaps of how they changed like that on my own - it's like jumping from the last Firefly episode to Serenity. I love the sense of the past influencing everything the characters are doing - why Luke wants to train, why Yoda and Ben react to him the way they do, Jabba still being out for Han's head, Han's "old friend" Lando... I also think ESB has the snappiest (and least painful) dialog, which counts for a lot in SW.
I like the other movies plenty (and have come to appreciate TPM much more over the years), but not quite as much. But they're all enough to get me rambling on like this :D