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Category Archives: Random Days

Star Wars and the Hermeneutic of Continuity: A Random Day’s Post

08 Monday Jan 2018

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Random Days

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Jedi, Science Fiction, Star Wars, The Last Jedi

It troubles me as an author, and one who hopes that someday his work will be adapted to the visual medium, that one film could have such contradictory interpretations embraced by large percentages of its audience. Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi, has been read as subversion or deconstruction of the original films, or as blatantly rejecting the essential vision of Star Wars. It seems to me however that this is a superficial, indeed baseless interpretation. A writer who has the opposite opinion of myself used the term Hermeneutic of Continuity to describe the other interpretation of The Last Jedi, and it seems apt. While by no means a perfect film, its key strengths are in its themes of Failure, Wisdom, and a vindication of the Jedi, which form the thematic continuity with the Original Trilogy. Be warned, spoilers will follow (if you have not seen the film please do so).

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For the Readers…

17 Tuesday May 2016

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Random Days

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thoughts

I’ve got a follow-up post to The Death of Civilization about The Glory of Christendom in the works, and some more excerpts from the novel-in-progress Tower of Ivory… but this post, this post is for the readers of this site. I think by now it’s pretty clear what my views are, but do any of you agree with them? Do you agree with all of them or only some of them, or none of them? This post is for you to comment on, tell me what you think, ask me what I think if you have to, or suggest post topics.  If you’re a long-time reader, or if you’re just passing through this post is for you and your comments…

 

Sci-Fi Saturday: The Imperial Space Fleet (A Random Day’s Post)

13 Saturday Jun 2015

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Random Days

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Cardinal Seldon, Catholic Church, christendom, Foundation, Foundation Series, Future Catholic Church, Holy Roman Empire, Imperial Star Fleet, Politics, Science Fiction, Star Fleet

Besides my work as the Head of the English Speaking Branch of the HRM and my work on The War for Christendom book series, I have also written a few works of science fiction (sci-fi), specifically the (as-of-yet) unfinished St. Damian’s Chronicles: Tales of Catholicism Amongst the Stars. The St. Damian’s Chronicles are a sort of Asimov’s Foundation about Catholics on different colony planets struggling to survive and spread the Faith.

(This Paragraph is for those of you who have no idea what Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is.) The basic premise of the Foundation is that a Statistical Wizard named Hari Seldon predicts the fall of a Galactic Empire (unlike Star Wars this is good empire) and sets up a group of scientists who use religion and money to gain control of surrounding barbarians in order to create a second Galactic Empire. They botch the job and Psychologists/Psychiatrists rush in to save the day. (Enough summarizing, back to the main post.)

The St. Damian’s Chronicles‘ analog to Foundation would be incomplete without a corresponding Empire and Starfleet, so without further fanfare, I present:

The K.U.K. Space Fleet

KUK Space Fleet+

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S. Mauritius

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