And so it was said that in the time of Monday, a blog post would be written. And that blog post would go on to be the blog post that reshaped the universe! That is not this blog post.
A tip of the hat to the late Charlotte Rae who passed away yesterday at the age of 92. Diff’rent Strokes and the Facts of Life were two TV staples of my childhood. Rest in peace.
The humidity has been brutal these past few days. Every time it rains (and it’s rained quite a bit) I hope that it’ll be the time that breaks the humidity. Not yet.
We had our Star Wars Destiny Store Championship on Saturday and I got destroyed. I played three tournament games and four “casual” games and lost all but one. Most of them were not even close. Quite a difference from the last tournament I went to. I thought I had a stronger deck too. This is just further proof that Boba Fett is an intergalactic fraud. I played better with Jar Jar than I did with him. On the plus side, as the organizer for the event, I scored a nice playmat and Ahsoka card.
Speaking of Ahsoka, a couple of weeks ago, I saw one of those internet memes that was talking about good, strong female characters in Star Wars, citing Ahsoka as perfection over Rey and Admiral Holdo (Laura Dern’s character in The Last Jedi) and while I won’t argue that Ahsoka is a (much) better character, she also got several seasons of character development over two animated series as opposed to a movie and a half for Rey and maybe about fifteen minutes for Holdo. Ahsoka was also a very divisive character when she was first introduced and I daresay most people disliked her. I’m not saying Rey will be able to develop into as strong (or beloved) a character, but she has time and room to grow. We’ll see how that pans out.
So that’s that for this week. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.