Star Wars chronological

I read Shakespeare chronology, based on the Wikipedia best guesses.

Not by producing but in the time line of Star Wars, this is the list they give on Disney+ with the insertion of Tales of the Jedi before Clone Wars because Asoka is a baby:

Phantom Menace
Attack of the Clones
(Tales of the Jedi)
Clone Wars
Revenge of Sith
Bad Batch
Solo
Obi-wan Kenobi
Star Wars Rebels
Andor
Rogue One
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Mandalorian
Boba Fett
Star Wars Resistance
The Force Awakens
The Last Jedi
The Rise of Skywalker

Shorts: Visions.
Miscellaneous Vintage videos including Holiday Special 1978.

My sons like 1, 2 and 3. I was 10 in 1977 for the first one (IV). I’ve watched many of these many times. Haven’t watched all the animated ones all the way through, in order.

So watching 1 & 2 are not that great after many watchings. I do love Natalie Portman as an actress. I hear Abed trying to get people to not watch these movies, he's a character in Community. My son is a bit like that, except he liked those movies. My younger son was Obi-wan and my eldest was Anakin. He even had a rat tail for a little while. and he was I asked him what he would do if he won the lottery and he said he would make the movies the right way, so someone else didn't ruin them. He likes Spiderman and the Marvel Universe. I think it's cool to feel mythology and aesthetics so strongly. To have strong opinions about art. I'm not sure if Rick, from Rick and Morty, is a mouthpiece for Dan Harmon, who also puts the ideas into Community, but they note that some youths have very strong opinions about franchise choices. I think it's cool.

Animation series feels like they're made for kids, but then there are bits that aren't. The issue of struggling to be heard, and whatnot for kids is present. It seems a lot about war. It is called Clone Wars. A nice friendly children’s war cartoon. The stories always have a didactic element.

Season 1, Episode 13 "Jedi Crash" is one I remember because I thought a lot about fighting for peace, and refusing to fight for peace. Shortly after this episode I just can't go on. Not for me. I skip ahead, I think I've not seen the second Mandalorian season and when I realize I've already seen it, I just watch it anyway. Now back to Revenge of the Sith. It's on in the background when I'm playing chess, I'm not watching it intensely. I'm trying to read Gravity's Rainbow, so I'm moving away from it as a background filler.

Manet and Degas

Brilliant video explaining the exhibit. Go to the Met and see the exhibit! It's really quite special. In the last gallery the painting this sketch is based off of, of the execution of a Mexican president. The painting has been cut into sections, and the surviving Degas has reassembled them. NY Times review

Silo

This is a dark show that I'm reluctant to watch. Slow burn with reveals along the way. Lots of padding and important small details you have to pay attention to, which sometimes I don't because I'm looking at my phone. The TV competes with the phone. Either I'm playing chess, or another game, or surfing for news about my favorite soccer team NYCFC. They're supposed to sign some new players and can register them tomorrow, but the team usually doesn't do things in a timely way, they're messy. The first few episodes of the 10 episode first season are about the sherif and his wife, played by Rashid Jones . Then there's like a buffer action episode where the generator almost goes kaput. Then it becomes Longmire, a woman sheriff who doesn't know the protocols and rules, and doesn't care, she just wants truth and answers. Everyone lives in the Silo, it's huge and mysterious and you can't have relics, things from the past, that might clue you i...

Introduction

Robert B. Palmer's introduction to his translation of Walter F. Otto's Dionysus: Myth and Cult (p. ix-xi) Gods of Hellas, gods of Hellas, Can ye listen in your silence? Can your mystic voices tell us Where ye hide? In floating islands, With a wind that evermore Keeps you out of sight of shore? Pan, Pan is dead. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The Dead Pan W H E N Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote these lines which sound so pessimistic and so limited to any lover of the beauty and truth of Greek mythology, she had in mind a famous passage out of Plutarch's De Oraculorum defectu {Mor. 419 A-E) in which it was reported on good authority that Pan had died. But let Plutarch tell the story (Philip is speaking): As for death among such beings [i.e., deities], I have heard the words of a man who was not a fool nor an impostor. The father of...

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