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August 28th, 2010 | 
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If there is one thing that has been made clear in the Star Wars Universe it is this; if you are an over thinker, you will become the epitome of evil. If you like to think four and five moves ahead, you need to stop right now, or you will end up on the wrong end of a light saber or a blaster. Just look at the evidence.
Case One – Grand Admiral Thrawn – This man looked at the art of a culture…the art…we are talking paintings and statues and stuff, and by examining the art, he knew how that cultures generals were going act in battle. If that is not over thinking I don’t know what is. Thrawn is the classic chess master villain who over thinks every situation and how did Thrawn end up? He threw invisible asteroids at Coruscant which hurt civilians as much as it did the military and by over analyzing threats that were ten steps down the road that he totally missed the Nohgri right in front of him as a threat. Over thinking was Thrawn’s downfall.
Case Two – Ysanne Isard – Here is a woman that was such a thinker and planner that she worked her way to the top of the intelligence community in the chauvinistic Empire. This should be seen as a great triumph for women. Hear me roar and all of that, but what does this over thinker do in her planning and scheming? She takes down her own father, unleashes a plague on civilians, gives away a planet, and goes insane, and again, it was her over planning that lost her everything.
Case Three – Pors Tonith – A banker who is a major planner and thinker. What does he do? Attacks a communication station, has purple teeth and gums which he stained with tea, and had a run in with an Anakin Skywalker that I am sure he would like to forget. Again, the over thinker turned out to be absolutely evil.
Case Four – Palpatine/Darth Sidious – This is there is the frosting on the cake Emperor Palpatine. He was a great thinker. There is no denying that, and his thinking does gain him control over most of the galaxy which is pretty impressive, but what does it cost him? Does Palpatine have any real friends or loved ones? You could say Darth Vader, but their entire relationship was built on the lies and manipulations from Palpatine’s over thinking, and comes back to bite Palpatine in the end. Palpatine was a friendless monster, who instituted slavery, hated non-human species, degraded women, caused and controlled a war that killed billions, and this list could continue, but I think you get the idea. Is there any question that he is the most evil being in the history of Star Wars, and possibly the entire fiction universe? And I think his evilness like all the other cases come directly from their over thinking.
Let’s look at those folks that do not over think things.
When I think of characters in the Star Wars universe that fly by the seat of his or her pants, who is the first character that comes to your mind?
99% of you reading thought of Han Solo…I know the picture helped, but you would have thought Han anyway. The 1% of you that didn’t choose Han, chose someone other than Han because you knew everyone else was thinking Han, and you just have to be different…stop that…it is annoying. You do not have to be different all the time, but back to the matter at hand. Han Solo…he is so good hearted that he cannot do wrong even when he wants to. He wanted to take the reward and pay off Jaba in A New Hope, but he can’t. He has to do what is right because his heart is so pure, and that all comes from flying by the seat of his pants.
Luke Skywalker leaves his home with a man he just met. How many of us have heard “Stranger Danger?” He was not thinking. Chewbacca promises to protect a man for the rest of his life, and it cost him so much time with his family, his wife and child…He was not thinking. Corran Horn leaves a career in CorSec to join a squadron of fighters with a terrible, terrible survival rate. That is not thinking. Mara Jade, the emperor’s hand, falls in love with the biggest enemy of her master. Anyone who thinks does not do this. Obi-Wan tells Yoda and the council that their decision matters not, he will train the boy. Standing against Yoda and Mace was about the most unthinking idea ever. Den Dhur risked his live for a musical instrument, which takes very few brain cells. This list also could go on and on, but what do all these thoughtless risk takers have in common…they are good hearted beings that want to do what is right, and they all are heroes.
Do you want to be evil and murder, manipulate, be lonely, and die at the hands of your enemy…then by all means, keep thinking.
Do you want to be a good hearted hero, then start flying by the seat of your pants and taking wild risk. If Star Wars has taught us anything, it is that wild risk pay off big time. You will hit that womp rat, you will pull out of Beggar’s Canyon, cure that disease, marry a princess, take out the evil leaders of planets, stand against Death Stars, rancors, war lords, black holes, and win. Your heart will be true, and a 0.012% chance of success will become a sure thing.
So stop thinking and let’s all fly by the seat of our pants…that is the secret to success according to Star Wars.
With my tongue firmly in my cheek, this has been your Star Wars Book Report. Although it is an interesting trend how the thinker is always the evil enemy and the risk taker is the hero.
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Exploring the galaxy one page at a time, Jesse
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