Sep. 30th, 2006

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I've noticed people making declarations of how they stand against what everyone else in one fandom or another seems to believe in, and thought I might try my own hand at it. I suppose I could say something on the lines of that I seem to feel sympathetic for every major character in the Star Wars movies who gets insulted by viewers, and go on from there to declare that the stridency and unpleasantness of negative takes on the movies may have turned me not against the films, but against the opinions themselves. That could then tie into my not being interested in the minor bounty hunters and background Jedi who appear (to me) to be popular because they're blank slates to be projected upon by comics and fanfics alike and be made "cooler" than just about anyone whose character is actually established... but even all of that might not be that daring any more.

Instead, I'll say this. When I first started reading in the early novels of the Expanded Universe about Wedge being the leader of "Rogue Squadron," my consistent thought was "Why is the X-wing squadron 'Rogue' Squadron?" To me, the "Rogues" are the snowspeeder squadron of The Empire Strikes Back. In Return of the Jedi, Wedge was "Red Leader." (However, some might yet try to make a point of different fighter types apparently being mixed together under the "Red" callsign in that movie.) I know it's a minor point; after all, "Rogue" sounds cooler than "Red." Nor do I think it really affected my drifting away from the Expanded Universe. Nevertheless, I wanted to say it at last.

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