Comments on: Great moments in pedantry: Actually, there is a Jedi mind meld

By: gekkobear

gekkobear — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:21:00 +0000

Yes, there is a Jedi Meld… NO IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE IN CONTEXT WITH OBAMA’S STATEMENT.

He was talking about using a Jedi Mind Meld with the OPPOSITION.

Was he hoping they’d grow stronger in their force powers through the meld to oppose him more effectively?

Or was he hoping their uniformity in the Meld would allow them to sway HIM as the Meld works to sway the SINGLE PERSON straying from the group approved path?

Yes, “Jedi Meld” or “Force Meld” is a term… NO it isn’t “Jedi Mind Meld” and NO it doesn’t make sense in context with what Obama was saying.

I’m not sure why anyone, even someone from MIT thinks this is helpful.

By: Sam Pourasghar

Sam Pourasghar — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:45:00 +0000

Quimby: You might say I feel like….Radiation Man!
Jimbo: That’s Radioactive Man, jerk!
Quimby: “Of course; how silly of me… Get that punks name, nobody makes a fool out of Diamond Joe Quimby!”

By: Blueacre

Blueacre — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:54:00 +0000

Obama obviously confused his references. That there happens to be a reference that sort of sounds like it and arguably fits the circumstances doesn’t change the fact that the sequester is happening. I don’t think the existence of “Jedi Meld” legitimizes Obama’s failure to avoid the sequester.

By: AnthonyC

AnthonyC — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:02:00 +0000

What does it say about me that I didn’t realize this was obscure?

Also, a few years ago I assumed everyone knew Boba Fett didn’t die in the Sarlacc pit in RotJ.

By: Chentzilla

Chentzilla — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:06:00 +0000

Xeni already noted that in an update to her original post.

By: Philboyd Studge

Philboyd Studge — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 05:44:00 +0000

Well, that seems like the sort of inane blathering someone named Chris Peterson would engage in; “Get A Life – The Expanded Universe”?

By: Xof

Xof — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:58:00 +0000

Live by the canon, die by the canon.

By: Mark Dow

Mark Dow — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:38:00 +0000

Doesn’t mean you can’t be both.

By: Shane Simmons

Shane Simmons — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:37:00 +0000

The Zahn book they mentioned was a prequel. In 1991, he started what some call the Thrawn trilogy, where an Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn finds an insane clone of Jorus C’Baoth to coordinate troops. In the story line, Thrawn alleges that the Emperor had been coordinating forces in such a way.

Come to think of it, I was a bit more of a loner in high school than I may have realized, and I’m pretty sure Zahn ruined the prequel movies for us.

By: tristan eldritch

tristan eldritch — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:17:00 +0000

Word is the President authorized a break-in at the DC headquarters of Industrial Light and Magic. FOLLOW THE LORE.

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:16:00 +0000

I actually like this too, as Takei pointed out: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/03/01/obama-got-it-right-with-jedi-mind-meld-says-star-treks-sulu/.

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:09:00 +0000

I prefer “lackey to Grand Admiral Thrawn” fwiw

By: Haz 0

Haz 0 — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:47:00 +0000

Like another commentator on the MIT link posted, I like the meta-metaphor of the Meld, an apparent amalgam of two scifi ideas (though now proven to be accurate in its canon.)

Can’t we all just along?

By: mjd

mjd — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:42:00 +0000

I’m not buying it. That’s pretty darn obscure Star Wars lore. I smell a cover-up. WHAT DID THE PRESIDENT KNOW ABOUT THE JEDI, AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?

By: mindysan33

mindysan33 — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:41:00 +0000

Sort of slightly unrelated, but I wonder if at some point we’ll get a Star Trek/Doctor Who/Star Wars crossover? I’m wondering because I just finished reading the Star Trek:TNG/Doctor Who cross over…

By: Ian Wood

Ian Wood — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:23:00 +0000

Well, if I’ve got headcanon, so does the President, right?

Or…does his position of power make Presidential headcanon a bad idea? That could go horribly wrong.

By: franko

franko — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:18:00 +0000

i don’t know why anyone’s surprised. didn’t they even show it in one of the prequels movies? seems like there was a point where some mental meeting was going on.

By: tristan eldritch

tristan eldritch — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:04:00 +0000

I’m really torn as to whether this represents an elevation, or a profound degradation, of national political discourse. Maybe a bit of both.

Anyway, Jesus, there was bound to be a Jedi mind meld at some point or another. Probably a routine enough occurrence when a bunch of Jedi’s rock back to somebody’s place after a nightclub.

By: pimlottc

pimlottc — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:45:00 +0000

Finally we learn the President’s position on a truly important issue. Now does anyone know at Boehner’s stance on the limits of Star Wars canon?

By: Mark Dow

Mark Dow — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:19:00 +0000

Peterson sounds like a Borg apologist on melange.

By: agonist

agonist — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:17:00 +0000

I like the phrase “Jedi mind-meld”. It’s a nice twist on a known phrase like “it’s not rocket surgery.”

By: Dr. Chronobiologist

Dr. Chronobiologist — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:10:00 +0000

According to Wookieepedia

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltlj2fbPpn1r0dnido1_500.jpg