Death Star Inspection #3
Blue Milk Special in other languages…
As with the last strip, this is part of a mini-series titled Death Star Inspection which stars Grand Moff Tarkin and General Motti. It was inspired, in part, by the comedic fan fiction The Diary of Grand Moff Tarkin by Richard Whettestone.
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Is there such a thing as fear of doors?
Can’t find one. The staff on the Death Star should check out this excellent and reliable website:
http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/door-phobia.html
“There is a Way Out”
Wow… energy psychology? Hypnotherapy? I don’t want to sound unsympathetic but there’s a ‘phobia’ for everything and the solution seems to be paying self-styled specialists for a new age healing. They could just live in a tent.
Well, those who treat just the symptoms and not the phobia itself can tend to be self-styled and tend to rely on New Age-y techniques. A more effective way to learn how to deal with – and conquer – a phobia is to face it (with guidance, of course) and learn where the phobia came from – sometimes a traumatic event in the past can drive it – and learn to desensitize from the trigger – aka heights, driving on the Interstate, etc.
But I do agree, there seems to be a hippie-granola “cure” for everything from hangnails to fear of pink espadrilles….not to crack on hippies and New Age therapies – shoot, I’m a self-admitted neo-hippie myself who recognizes the legitimacy of *some* New Age therapies and treatments.
Likewise, there seems to be a pill to cure everything these days, too, but like those out-in-left-field therapies, if you’re just “curing” the symptom, you’re not really “cured” – you’re not dealing with the cause.
::::kicking aside soapbox::::
Looks as though I need to climb into a barrell of worms, eels and snakes then,
Yes, there IS a way out…Through the door.
The definition of phobia includes an unreasonable fear of something…Aboard the Death Star, the door IS out to get you, so the fear is not unreasonable.
New Age ‘Quantum’ Healing is much better though.
Don’t suppose you saw:
http://starwarsage9.com/pt6_07.html
Wish I’d come up with a better Heading though. A less lavatorial one.
I know! When I saw your latest page a few days back I couldn’t believe the coincidence with the blast door gag I was going to upping this week. I think I’ll tweet it!
You know, it occurred to me that your take on Star Wars is way more violent and bloody than the original! X D I mean, it’s violence in the name of comedy, of course, but still!
Two stormtroopers snuffed it one right after another, and not by blaster fire! Good thing there are so gosh-darn many of ’em!
Bloody? I can relate to that!
BMS will get worse. We have some extremely bloody Boba Fett and Lando Calrissian strips lined up in the future. But don’t take it as a sign that BMS will be doing the shock violence thing very often. Definitely works better when they come more as a surprise.
Ah, but was it acoincidence though? Eh? Was it – was -eh eh eh? Was it reaaaaaaally, eh?
Oh, yes it was…
I have to Admit though – unless I’d seen the Moff Tarkin Diary I mightn’t have thought of it myself. I love the way they animated those doors. When Ben goes to – as you so amusingly put it – “find the loo” (link please?) in the film, you can see the jump cuts as the door shoots up and down. I actually think the effect was brilliant.
Perhaps George even said to the door, as he did to the actors: “Next time I want it faster and more intense.” Hmm. I should add that to my page. Tell you waht though – it contributes to the scariness of being on the Death Star.
That has to become Young George’s new catch phrase in BMS. “I want it faster and more intense!”
Ha ha! Saw Carrie Fisher and Anthony Daniels relating it in that brilliant ‘Empire of Dreams’ documentary (youtube).
Jesus! George used to say THAT to Carrie Fisher?
I’d love to have been in a position to say that to Carrie.
Leanne? LEANNE?!?! Did you hear that?
Leanne knows about my Carrie Fisher appreciation. Also my Nicola Bryant appreciation. Leanne still beats both of them though. 😀
LOL these Stormtroopers are like Star Treks’ red shirts.
Opentheblastdoorsaphobia
that raises another question: If it takes the blast doors so long (well, long enough for several people to jump through the doorway, anyway) to place a shield against an explosion (ie: a very quick event, explosions are), then why do the NORMAL doors close so rapidly that people can get caught when they just walk through (ie: a relatively slow action, compared to an explosion)?
How prescient. This makes me think of what happened to Harrison Ford on the set of Star Wars VII a few months back.