{"id":10963,"date":"2015-12-24T01:35:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T01:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/superheroesincolor-star-wars-a-consideration\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T16:50:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:50:07","slug":"superheroesincolor-star-wars-a-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/superheroesincolor-star-wars-a-consideration\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10963 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/superheroesincolor-star-wars-a-consideration\/attachment\/10964\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nzqwk2k9oL1u496xso1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/superheroesincolor.tumblr.com\/post\/135788801712\">superheroesincolor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Star Wars: A consideration of the great new S.F. film<\/h2>\n<p>by\u00a0<b>Samuel R. Delany<\/b>, (Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1977)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Sometime, somewhere, somebody is going to write a review of Star Wars that begins: \u201cIn Lucas\u2019s future, the black races and the yellow races have apparently died out and a sort of mid-Western American (with a few South Westerners who seem to specialize in being war ship pilots) has taken over the universe. By and large, women have also been bred out of the human race and, save for the odd gutsy princess or the isolated and coward aunt, humanity seems to be breeding quite nicely without them. \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0 \u00a0When those various review surface, somebody will no doubt object (and we\u2019ll recognize the voice; it\u2019s the same one who said, earlier, \u201c\u2026it\u2019s got a good, solid story!\u201d) with a shout: \u201cBut that\u2019s not the point. This is entertainment!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0 \u00a0Well, entertainment is a complex business. And we are talking about an aspect of the film that isn\u2019t particularly entertaining. When you travel across three whole worlds and all the humans you see are so scrupiously (sic) caucasian and male, Lucas\u2019s future begins to seem a little dull. And the variation and invention suddenly tun out to be only the province of the set director and special effects crew.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0 \u00a0How does one put in some variety, some human variety? The same way you put in your barrage of allusions to other films, i.e., you just do it and don\u2019t make a big thing\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full review <a href=\"https:\/\/justpaste.it\/kh1p\"><b>here<\/b><\/a>.<b>\u00a0<\/b>This is a great example of how you can love and enjoy something (as you can see reading the full review) and still be able to be critical of it. See more scans at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/samueldelany.tumblr.com\/post\/135667524841\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/samueldelany.tumblr.com\/post\/135667524841\"><b>samueldelany<\/b><\/a>,\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>You can find his books <b><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1GQ5FvT\">here<\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<hr>\n<p>[ Follow SuperheroesInColor on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/superheroesincolor?ref=bookmarks\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/superheroesincolor?ref=bookmarks\">facebook<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/superheroesincolor\/\">instagram<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeroesInColor00\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeroesInColor00\">twitter<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/superheroesincolor.tumblr.com\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/superheroesincolor.tumblr.com\/\">tumblr<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>superheroesincolor: Star Wars: A consideration of the great new S.F. film by\u00a0Samuel R. Delany, (Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1977) \u201c\u2026Sometime, somewhere, somebody is going to write a review of Star Wars that begins: \u201cIn Lucas\u2019s future, the black races and the yellow races have apparently died out and a sort of mid-Western American (with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2QP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10965,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963\/revisions\/10965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}