Weregeek and Goth and Star Wars

Although generally less unsavory than the sorts of webcomics I tend to like best, Weregeek is a genially humorous comic by the very talented Alina Pete. It is the sort of thing you will appreciate best if you think Cylon when someone says Scilons.

The comic gets its name from its normal guy Mark. Mark is working on coming to terms with his taste for geeky fun. Hence Weregeek.

In today’s comic strip, Mark, who is in the process of coming over to the geek darkside, is chatting with more classic geek and DM Dustin. A gothic girl has been aggressively hitting on Dustin in their coffeehouse hangout, but he is clueless. Mark gives him some clue, but is a wee bit concerned when Dustin says the goth girl wanted to run a character who is a Gungan Sith Lord.

Footnote: Jar Jar Binks was a surprisingly poorly-animated cg and possibly racially-offensive character in one of the Star Wars movies which don’t count. Everyone knows Star Wars is for action figures, and Jar Jar Binks was a lame bid for a non-ironic plush toy. Jar Jar Binks was a member of the amphibious “Gungan” species from the Naboo planet. Sith Lords, of course, are the sexy Jedi types like Darth Vader. It is no surprise when a goth chick likes a powerful bad boy who has gone over to the dark side. There has been an extensive, largely tongue-in-cheek movement in online fandom to demand a Gungan Sith Lord from George Lucas. I think the feeling is that, if he feels compelled to eff up one of the greatest science fiction movie franchises of all time, he might as well really go for the gusto. Running a Gungan Sith Lord character in an RPG game would be pretty annoying, especially if the gothic girl talked in the horrible Jar Jar Binks Gunganese dialect e.g. “Meesa so hornyem. Meesa loven yousa longisha timen.”

Personally, I believe the original Star Wars was primarily directed by his ex-wife Marcia Lucas and George Lucas just got credit for it, the same way everyone now knows that best-selling fan favorite author Alan Dean Foster wrote the original Star Wars although George Lucas accepted awards for both directing and writing. I believe the more recent Star Wars movies appear to present a different vision because they are genuinely put together by entirely different people.

If you can tell me how to improve my Gungan dialect, or you just got heated up over what I wrote about credit for Star Wars, or if you actually have any sort of developed opinion on any of these Star Wars issues, you’ll probably enjoy Weregeek.

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Posted by Amelia G on January 7, 2009. Filed under Blue Blood. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry