• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

World News Center

Everything you want to know about anything that's meaningful

  • News
  • Reviews
  • About
  • Contact Us
You are here: Home / Yoda’s Hurling Again

Yoda’s Hurling Again

August 20, 2012 by

Til Death Star do us part.
“Dude you wrote that funny thing about stuff. You know, Star Wars and Star Trek and stuff? Could you find it again please?” Well, yes I did and yes I can. And since it rounds out the previous two blogs nicely I’m tossing it back up. This originally appeared on January 8, 2011.

***************

There has always been a clearly defined line between Start Trek fans and Star Wars fans. Star Trek’s are the more cerebral of the two. Fans not only follow the shows, they learn new languages, discuss how Paul Dirac’s theories on anti-matter, when coupled with Einstein’s theory of relativity, could truly lend credence to the argument for faster than light travel and often will worry about the socio-economic impact that one culture could have upon another. It is not uncommon to find Star Trek fans knocking back a couple of frosty cold adult libations over a game of 3D Chess all while contemplating the vagaries of nonlinear quantum mechanics and noting that Lt. Uhura was seriously hot. This hotness has been noted in the re-imagination of the character as well.

Star Wars fans, on the other hand, really just like toys.

Despite the promise of the 1st and 2nd (now 4th and 5th?) movies in the series, since George Lucas took over the directing and casting, Star Wars has been about a whole lot of nothing. Nothing coupled with amazing special effects, I’ll grant, but still a vacuous endeavor.

Oh, sure, every now and then some fan trots out a bunch of meaningless tripe about “The Force;” a ‘religion’ based on a philosophy that was founded by a hunch. You may as well just read The Secret and then remove yourself from society since you’ll be officially worthless.

So I guess it should come as no surprise that Star Wars fans are all atwitter about a couple who pose everywhere, ala The Residents (although I guarantee they have no idea who The Residents are), in Storm Trooper masks.

Bonnie Niess from AOL News takes a look at the trivial lives of Red and Jonny.

If you don’t believe Red and Jonny when they describe themselves as “Star Wars geeks,” take a look at their Flickr stream, where the couple photographs themselves wearing Stormtrooper helmets in a slew of situations from the banal to outlandish. It’ll probably change your mind.

The photo series began on their honeymoon, when the couple found a Stormtrooper helmet at a toy show. “I got Red to put it on and started taking photos of her in it immediately,” says Jonny. “We just started taking it everywhere, chronicling our marriage taking photos of ourselves wearing it, coming home and laughing our heads off.”

They began posting the images to show friends and family their adventures, but soon found Internet fame, as their Flickr page hit Boing Boing, Digg and Reddit. People even started recognizing the couple on their adventures.

Keep reading to find out more and to see a selection of our favorite images of the couple in costume.

“People sometimes recognize us when we go to Comic-Con or Fanexpo and even toy shows,” says Jonny. “People actually call us out by name. We still get mail every day from someone who says they love us. It’s nice.”

As an unexpected bonus, all that public geekdom soon led to being interviewed by the official Star Wars magazine. “It is my proudest moment as a Star Wars geek,” says Jonny. “I am immortal now.”

The couple continue to post images of their adventures on Flickr and their website redandjonny. While still posing in the Stormtrooper outfits, they’ve recently been seen in giant mascot heads. Jonny says of his wife Red, “I love being married to the most beautiful, cool, amazing woman in the world. We love making each other laugh.”

We’ll look forward to more of your nerdy cosplay photo adventures, Red and Jonny. But sorry, folks — when it comes to leaving helmets on while knockin’ space boots, the couple reminds us they “are married” and “don’t need to wear protection.”

WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA! TMI! I mean that is seriously T! M! Freaking I!

I do not want to go to my grave thinking about his unsheathed light saber plunging into a woman who has the body of a 12 year old boy. That’s just wrong. At every level.

You want a real woman, like Heather Holliday, handling a weapon like that. Sheathed or otherwise.

Trust me on this one.

Nevertheless, since we are all about the children, I would be remiss if I didn’t post something that will help parents deal with the many problems they may face if their children become Star Wars fans. The nice people at Asylum (ED: now defunct) made a wonderful Public Service Announcement that should be must see TV for everyone who encounters this dilemma.

Listen to Bill McCormick on WBIG (FOX! Sports) every Friday around 9:10 AM.

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Primary Sidebar

Archives

  • October 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • December 2021
  • October 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • April 2021
  • November 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • September 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010

Copyright © 2023 · Metro Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in