the sleeper has awakened
Oct. 4th, 2011 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cmdr_zoomI've just had the most surreal SW dream ever. Star Wars as reimagined, completely reimagined, by George for the 21st century. As my subject line notes, some elements of it were vaguely Dune-ish.
In what will be the last gloriously decadent age of the Galactic Republic - where everything is glossy or shiny or glass and most of it CGI (in 3-D) - Padme and Anakin, scions of two noble families already well-acquainted and friendly with each other, are betrothed. Their impending happiness is threatened by a recent series of accidents that some perceive to be part of a larger plot, somehow connected to the office of the Supreme Chancellor. There are also hints that Anakin's side of the family has its share of wise aunts with mystic gifts of foresight and awareness of the cycle of all things.
The very end of the dream had the young lovers separated by yet another "minor accident" and forced to transfer to individual droid-controlled taxis, both of which promptly "malfunction" and go out of control in traffic, as programmed. (Padme's, I recall, took on the persona of a bubblier and more servile version of her when she boarded, a call back to the whole 'handmaiden double' thing.) I imagine that if it had gone on just a bit longer, Anakin would have broken into and hotwired his, while Padme (after some initial screaming, while her driver remains blithely cheerful and unaware of its self-destructive course) managed to talk hers into a logic loop or a seemingly innocuous action that has the effect of bringing it more-or-less safely to a stop.
The very start is now hazy, but I seem to recall that it involved Count Dooku (still played by Chris Lee) capturing and then decapitating some sort of Republic? emissary and/or noble to get at the emergency? powers somehow contained/embodied by a large red gem around his neck (all you Amber folks just shush). Now that I'm awake, I imagine it must be something like "the football" or the GoldenEye keys - the authentication dongle to rule them all. He then attempted to test what I suspect to be a superlaser spinal-mounted on his flagship (possibly unlocked, enabled or even powered by said macguffin), but it failed for some reason.
And there were also all sorts of little bits that are fading now or unconnected or both, including a young-ish Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill (archived footage, or digitally de-aged) in unfamiliar costumes, pacing around in a room and looking unhappy. The whole thing was just weird... and yet, it was still definitely SW.
In what will be the last gloriously decadent age of the Galactic Republic - where everything is glossy or shiny or glass and most of it CGI (in 3-D) - Padme and Anakin, scions of two noble families already well-acquainted and friendly with each other, are betrothed. Their impending happiness is threatened by a recent series of accidents that some perceive to be part of a larger plot, somehow connected to the office of the Supreme Chancellor. There are also hints that Anakin's side of the family has its share of wise aunts with mystic gifts of foresight and awareness of the cycle of all things.
The very end of the dream had the young lovers separated by yet another "minor accident" and forced to transfer to individual droid-controlled taxis, both of which promptly "malfunction" and go out of control in traffic, as programmed. (Padme's, I recall, took on the persona of a bubblier and more servile version of her when she boarded, a call back to the whole 'handmaiden double' thing.) I imagine that if it had gone on just a bit longer, Anakin would have broken into and hotwired his, while Padme (after some initial screaming, while her driver remains blithely cheerful and unaware of its self-destructive course) managed to talk hers into a logic loop or a seemingly innocuous action that has the effect of bringing it more-or-less safely to a stop.
The very start is now hazy, but I seem to recall that it involved Count Dooku (still played by Chris Lee) capturing and then decapitating some sort of Republic? emissary and/or noble to get at the emergency? powers somehow contained/embodied by a large red gem around his neck (all you Amber folks just shush). Now that I'm awake, I imagine it must be something like "the football" or the GoldenEye keys - the authentication dongle to rule them all. He then attempted to test what I suspect to be a superlaser spinal-mounted on his flagship (possibly unlocked, enabled or even powered by said macguffin), but it failed for some reason.
And there were also all sorts of little bits that are fading now or unconnected or both, including a young-ish Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill (archived footage, or digitally de-aged) in unfamiliar costumes, pacing around in a room and looking unhappy. The whole thing was just weird... and yet, it was still definitely SW.
