Jonathan Last

Absolute Perfection
May 11th, 2011

Everything about this post on “The Death of Obi-Wan Kenobi” is letter-perfect–the tone, the length, the funny. It’s so dead on that it works as both Start Wars parody and NYT parody. And check out all of the related-story tags–they don’t lead anywhere, but again, they’re just awesome: “News Analysis: Lord Vader’s Vow Fulfilled,” “Their Only Hope: The War on the Rebellion After Obi-Wan Kenobi.”

But the cherry on top is the commenters, who rise to meet the standard that’s been set. Sample greatness:

now that obi-wan is dead we need to get rid of this anti-rebellion legislation, it’s infringing on the rights of every imperial citizen out there, not only that but vader has left the economy in a sorry state with the construction of this so called ‘death star’.

And:

I love how the liberal rag GET keeps referring our Defense Star as the “Death Star”. Take that propaganda back to Courescant, Nerfherder!!!

And:

Alderaan was an inside job!

And:

Let’s be CLEAR this is not a VADER victory but a victory of our boys in white, not to mention the leadership of Lord Tyrannus the Count Dooku who started the manhunt in the first place.

There’s even a spam comment that’s so good I’m not going to spoil it. Go and soak in the whole page. You thank yourself.

Jason O. May 11, 2011 at 7:51 pm

Even though I’m more partial to Trek than Star Wars, I massively enjoyed that.

(Even though I have no idea why, as a conservative, I like Trek….the post TNG Federation is what would happen if Tom Friedman became omnipotent)

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