Lady Tarkin’s Unexpected Visit #1
Meet Lady Thalassa Tarkin, known since her first appearance in the 1978 newspaper strips by Russ Manning simply as Lady Tarkin. A member of the influential Motti family, she oversees their Megonite Moss mining facility on the planet Phelarion. Wilhuff Tarkin, perhaps a Captain or an Admiral when he met Thalassa, married into her family not for love but for their wealth and power. General Motti (Admiral Motti in the Expanded Universe) is Thalssa’s younger cousin and perhaps for this reason is Grand Moff Tarkin’s overzealous right hand man and Death Star supporter.
Lady Thalassa is not known to have ever visited her husband, the Grand Moff aboard the Death Star, but given our exploration of the character in the last couple of weeks it was too good an opportunity to miss. Is Lady Tarkin aware of her husband’s infidelity with Admiral Natasi Daala? Keep reading throughout this week and next to see how things develop for the Tarkins.
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Ha ha!
The Tarkins, coming this fall to FOX
A kind of blatant punchline, but this one had me laughing out for quite a while…
Why do I hear Bea Arthur’s voice coming out of her? ….is it the salt-and-pepper hair, or is it the sarcasm? X )
Our friend, Kevin Conn, made the same comment about her making him think of Bea Arthur. Bea Arthur WILL be showing up sooner or later.
Oh, that’s RIGHT!! She *will* be showing up, won’t she?
Still….it’s hard not to think of her with Lady Tarkin. X )
A brilliant line even if it is cheesy and foreseeable….. but isn’t that what BMS is all about?
Oh and 1 other thing….. where’s Tarkin’s bunny slippers?
I felt that having the bunny slippers appear here would undermine their reveal when Tarkin interrogates Leia on the Death Star bridge. http://www.bluemilkspecial.com/?p=166
Oooooh right. I forgot all this was before all that…… COOL.
Wait, what about the “Tarkin’s Mistress” mini-series (for lack of a better phrase). He had his bunny slippers during that time.
I’ve heard a common phrase that describes the rarity of any particular event, like “once in a blue moon.” Vader’s comment can actually be a DOUBLE-punchline.