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fandom intruding on real life
Sep. 27th, 2007 07:41 pmA Jedi Order Establishes a New Temple - In Lower Manhattan.
Now.... I do a lot of geeky stuff. I mean, really unabashedly, inexcusably nerdy. I've written fanfic. Slash. In the Lexx universe.
But I have to laugh at these guys just a TEENY bit, because they really do take it so seriously. Custom built lightsabers with a noise chip built in, just for that added bit of "reality".
If I really wanted to fence like a Jedi (assuming there was space in my head for another weapons system) I'd make more of an effort to learn kendo or other Japanese martial arts, which is apparently what screen lightsaber combat is based on. What they're doing sounds like a good workout, but kinda made up.
Yet, even after typing all of that, some part of me would still LOVE to fight a lightsaber duel, just once - I totally admit that the movies are what made swordplay appealing to me in the first place.
'Cos it's just so damn COOL, and it's unfair that lightsabers aren't real, and Jedi don't really exist (c'mon, if there were, don't you think they'd be down here all over Darth Cheney's ass by now?)
Now.... I do a lot of geeky stuff. I mean, really unabashedly, inexcusably nerdy. I've written fanfic. Slash. In the Lexx universe.
But I have to laugh at these guys just a TEENY bit, because they really do take it so seriously. Custom built lightsabers with a noise chip built in, just for that added bit of "reality".
If I really wanted to fence like a Jedi (assuming there was space in my head for another weapons system) I'd make more of an effort to learn kendo or other Japanese martial arts, which is apparently what screen lightsaber combat is based on. What they're doing sounds like a good workout, but kinda made up.
Yet, even after typing all of that, some part of me would still LOVE to fight a lightsaber duel, just once - I totally admit that the movies are what made swordplay appealing to me in the first place.
'Cos it's just so damn COOL, and it's unfair that lightsabers aren't real, and Jedi don't really exist (c'mon, if there were, don't you think they'd be down here all over Darth Cheney's ass by now?)
