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Tales of the Jedi I learned of the Dark Horse comic series The Tales of the Jedi in high school. I have enjoyed the Star Wars movies ever since I was young; even saw the original release of Return of the Jedi  in the theater. Star Wars was a large part of how we played growing up, many of us had figurines and vehicles, we’d pretend to fly speeder-bikes while riding our bicycles, and who hasn’t picked the cardboard core of used wrapping paper and used it as a lightsaber?  I liked the lightsaber wielding characters but the free spirited untethered to explore the galaxy Han Solo was my favorite. Why did I like Star Wars? All the things kids grew up with are kind of captured in Star Wars, I think of things like medieval knights.  When Tales of the Jedi came out it was over a decade since Return of the Jedi was released. There was talk that George Lucas planned prequels and sequels, and fans were waiting. Splinter of the Minds Eye, Heir to the Empire, and the Jedi Academy book...

How We Perceive Film, TV, Comics, Video Games, Etc. Everyone has developed different expectations when it comes to comic book based movies. Some are interested in a 'True-to-the-comic' depiction of the characters or in some cases the plot (if it is derived from a particular arc). Others like to alter the characters or plot to make it fit into a general familiarity of the human condition more or less stripping them of the nuances found in the comics over the years, but sometimes necessary to condense the character down in order for it to fit into a film lasting only a couple of hours. Some care more about the film and how it is presented and how it fits into the classic understanding of film. Finally, there is another group more interested in taking the content and turning it into a film that challenges the boundaries and the average understanding of films, sometimes this doesn't sit well with general audiences until it develops a regular audience, examples; Tim Burton,...

Gay Spider-man in Movies I was reading about how they may make Spider-man gay in the new movies. Commenters wrote how it was wrong on the bases that he was not gay in the comics, which I understand. However this is the second incarnation of Spider-Man in the movies and they didn't make him gay in the first installation. So what does it matter if he is gay the second time around? Recently we have heard about some people arguing against Johnny Depp's interpretation of Tonto in the recent Lone Ranger movie. Producers, Directors and Actors are artists and they experiment with style, content and substance to bring us a unique experience, not a carbon copy of a previous work but sometimes their own impression of the source material however abstract. We relate to these characters in our own way and sometimes because of that we may be a bit deeply involved and so it strikes at ourselves when someone changes them. Hollywood has always been into marketing the...