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   “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly
                                    imagine”
                                        
Of all the lightsaber duels in the Star Wars movies, the one in “Star Wars:
Episode IV—A New Hope [1] is probably the most sedate [2]. But that's okay,
because in 1977 this is the first time we're seeing freaking **lightsabers!**
So cool! And it blew my 8-year old mind at the time.

But this reimagining of that fight? (link via Kirk Israel [3])

[Do you know just how painful it is to fall into a lava pit? Do you?] [4] [5]


Had I seen that as an 8-year old, my head would have **exploded!**

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq51w34Hg9I
[3] https://kirk.is/2019/05/10/
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2019/05/13/Darth-ObiWan.jpg
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to2SMng4u1k

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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