Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) Laments: Yeah, My Story Arc Stunk, But What Can Ya Do?

Yep, they’re all freakin’ coke heads. I have a strong suspicion that may also explain their obsession with South American dictators like Hugo Chavez and Sean Penn, they trade praise in exchange for the “good stuff”. And just why exactly was Sean Penn meeting with El Chapo when Chapo escaped from prison? Suddenly he is Mr. investigative journalist? No, the guy was trying to score pure coke. My brother said the coke around today, if you bought it off the street it’s cut 100 different ways, they put baby powder in it, laxative, caffeine powder, anything white to make as much profit as possible. People like Sean Penn though go right to the source before it is cut. I suspect the same thing was going on with all those Hollywood celebrities meeting with Castro, like Oliver Stone, Jack Nicholson, Speilberg, Kate Moss These clowns down give a damn about communism, they’re just trying to get pure cocaine. Think about it: Why the hell else would you go there and meet with a dictator who quite possibly could kidnap or even kill you? These people are millionaires, why are they messing with this guy? Because they’re hardcore drug addicts and these are the kinds of bums that are given national attention by the media when it comes to politics, freakin COKE HEADS

Livin on reds, vitamin C & cocaine; all a friend can say is, ain’t it a shame....

I saw the Last Jedi last night and this morning after waiting for it to come on streaming.

I thought Episodes 1-3 were bad; this was the worst of all. Epic fail. Hard to believe Solo could be worse, but not surprised if that’s true.

I don’t support Mark Hamill precisely because of that bit you alluded to regarding his grandchild. That and how he’s anti-Trump and anti-Republican.

That said, he does come a bit closer to being conservative compared to the other members of the main cast other than maybe James Earl Jones or possibly Ian McDiarmid (the former’s a registered Republican, and is openly a second amendment supporter, and the latter doesn’t exactly indicate what his own personal politics are, with the closest he ever got to divulging any politics at all was his interview with the Guardian around the time ROTS was released where he mentioned something about fascists taking away freedoms, and even that was under the context of stating what Lucas’ intentions were from what he personally experienced, which doesn’t indicate much on his own personal political philosophy. Well, that, and he did compare Bush to the Sith, though considering he’s actually made comments that indicates he actually LIKES the Sith, that’s in the gray area of whether he’s pro- or anti-Bush.), since he does at least support the second amendment, regarding muskets anyway (going by what he said on Twitter, he supported the right to muskets. Sure, it’s not much, and he might have been sarcastic, but it’s certainly a lot more than his co-star Harrison Ford or especially George Lucas, the former of whom didn’t want any form of firearms at all, and the latter actually made that infamous edit in Episode IV to push gun control in part). Not to mention, as seen in this interview, he at least admits his “peace and love” generation may have made things for the worse, which is more than can be said of Lucas (who still brags proudly about supporting the Vietcong and being against American imperialism as if that was even remotely a good thing instead of him just supporting Communist or even Islamic imperialism.), or other members of his generation on the left for that matter where they’re still prideful of it and/or don’t see that they made the world worse (I’ve had a Chaucer professor who still acts nostalgic about the free sex movement and laments the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, always finding a way to shove it in to his lectures despite having literally nothing to do with the subject matter at hand, as Jeffrey Chaucer would not have even KNOWN about such subject. Heck, most of the people in charge of education and entertainment make it sound as though the sixties were not only solely about protests, free drugs and sex, or all of that stuff, but that such is actually the way to go and that it DID make for a better world. Just turn on your TV, or even play Peace Walker and listen to Cecile’s May 1968 tape, and you’ll see what I mean.). So while I don’t support him due to his pro-Planned Parenthood stance among others, I can at least respect him for actually recognizing faults of his generation and possibly supporting the second amendment. Now, had he put his realization to action and actually speak out against the left, even go against planned parenthood, I’d probably have even MORE respect for him than I do now.

If it’s of any consolation, guys, while I disagree heavily with Hamill’s politics (save for maybe the bit about the Second Amendment, which compared to Lucas and Harrison Ford demanding a full weapons ban/gun control, Hamill supporting the right to a musket’s pretty much pro-second amendment by comparison. Better than nothing at least.), and also have contempt for his trying to get his potential grandchild aborted, at least he acknowledges that the 1960s generation was a failure and may have made the world worse off than before. That’s actually pretty commendable behavior from someone of that generation to admit it, especially an otherwise radical leftist like Hamill, considering I’ve seen and even personally experienced several people of that generation who were nostalgic to that time period, taught it was the greatest time, and even indicated they DID change the world for the better even when it’s pretty clear they did not change it for the better. Case in point, I had a Chaucer literature professor at Oglethorpe University who wouldn’t shut up about his nostalgia for free sex or his lamenting that the Equal Rights Amendment (despite those things having absolutely nothing to do with Jeffrey Chaucer and his literary works), and the guy was old enough to have experienced it first-hand. I believe the professor’s name was Dr. Richard Barton Palmer. You can also look at George Lucas, who STILL brags about his rooting for and even basing his heroes from Star Wars on the Vietcong and basically protesting the Vietnam War, going as far as to make America the enemy in his films. Or Hideo Kojima, who seems to think the 1960s and the 1970s were all about May 1968, student protests, free sex and drugs, and all of that based on his commentary for Snake Eater or the briefing files in Peace Walker (especially Cecile’s May 1968 tape).

““It is tragic. I’m not a method actor, but one of the techniques a method actor will use is to try and use real-life experiences to relate to whatever fictional scenario he’s involved in. The only thing I could think of, given the screenplay that I read, was that I was of the Beatles generation – ‘All You Need Is Love’, ‘peace and love’.

“I thought at that time, when I was a teenager: ‘By the time we get in power, there will be no more war, there will be no racial discrimination, and pot will be legal.’ So I’m one for three. When you think about it, [my generation is] a failure. The world is unquestionably worse now than it was then.””

That’s a tacit admission to a failure if you ask me, a failure of a generation. I don’t expect most people of that generation to directly acknowledge they failed to make the world better, let alone people of that generation who are explicitly of the left. If anything, people like that are more likely to narcissistically insist everyone was doing it at the time and even imply such WAS successful without even acknowledging any bad elements. If there’s anything Hamill actually deserves respect for, it’s his admission right there about the sixties generation. I certainly know Lucas would never admit to that (heck, James Cameron’s latest AMC series even had Lucas bragging that he based the Rebels on the Vietcong and pretty much acknowledging that, yes, he DID base them on terrorists in a rather proud manner).

And just an FYI, this is the Richard Barton Palmer I’m referring to (and I consider him among my worst professors, largely because he used his position of professor as a bully pulpit for all sorts of left-wing stuff, including sexism [even having the gall to imply that Christians “invented” misogyny, apparently ignoring that the Ancient Greeks were even worse on that front than the Christians ever were, and that said group did it while predating Christians.].):

https://www.facebook.com/rbarton.palmer.7

While I’m certainly no fan of Hamill’s politics, if memory serves, we only saw one side in that article-that of Nathan’s ex girlfriend’s. She supposedly wanted to give the kid up for adoption, yet she wound up keeping her. Also, why would the Hamill’s insist on her getting a abortion, when putting the baby up for adoption would have gotten the kid out of their hair just as good?

See my post above.

If more people followed your thinking, there’d be a lot more adoptions and fewer abortions. Unfortunately, many folks would rather see the kid dead than out there alive and, in this case, showing up some day to wheeze, “Luke, you are my grandfather.”