In Shadows

Darth Vader, I mean. The flick was a bit long but trying to cram so much into it had a lot to do with it, I’m sure. It was so cool to hear Luke’s and Leah’s theme songs again, too. All my questions from the 70’s and 80’s were answered - what would create Vader, what woman would have his childred, and how the hel did he turn into a little old grandfather at the end of chapter 6? Makes me want to run out and buy the DVDs.

The wife, however, is not a fan geek. Ah, well. Fortunately for me, my best friend is watching the movie as I type. I’ll hit her up in chat to blither and squee about it.

I’ve been doing not much of anything. I’m on the fourth DVD of Smallville season three that I borrowed from a friend at work. Wow! There’s so much I missed while working nights! I rented the first season from Netflix but haven’t gotten to the second one, yet. I’ll have to bring those DVDs higher up in my queue.

I’ve been toying with editing the first Sanguire book, but I don’t think I’m getting anywhere. The political scene is still a bit of a mish mash to me (I’m pretty apolitical as a rule.) While I do have a basic understanding of the European Sanguire political system, I have to take into consideration the other countries/peoples. If the Sanguire evolved as did Humans, then they’ve been around as long and have just as convoluted a history. The South and Latin Americas would have their own governing system, as would the Asians, the Africans, and the indigenous people of all continents.

The problem lies not in what type of system this different areas would employ but how they have interacted over the hundreds of thousands of years to the present. American Indians, for instance, would already have had Sanguire in their midst when the European Human came over and began to conquer. Would the European Sanguire involved have taken a Eurcentric view of the ’savages’ or would they have some sort of affinity for their ‘brothers’? I’ve blithely written the tale of Jenna moving the Euro Sanguire to Portland, Oregon . . . what the hel to the native Sanguire feel about that? Does that leave a power vacuum in Europe?

And why would she bring them over here once she realizes there’s a whole different set of cultural issues in the States? Yeah, the prophecy puts her as, if you’ll excuse the paraphrasing, one ruler to rule them all and one ruler to bind them. But that’s a European prophecy. I don’t know, but I’d think the Indians and the ‘Colonials’ might have other ideas.

Which puts a whole ‘nother spin on the book.

I guess I need to spend more time on the Sanguire closer to home.

Final on my list of things to post, chapters three and four of the Iditarod story. Enjoy!