{"id":60,"date":"2005-05-23T16:36:35","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T23:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/the-best-line-from-a-star-wars-review\/"},"modified":"2005-05-23T16:38:24","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T23:38:24","slug":"the-best-line-from-a-star-wars-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/the-best-line-from-a-star-wars-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Line From a Star Wars Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the winner of the best line from a <i>Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith<\/i> review goes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/?querytext=david+edelstein&#038;id=3944&#038;action=fulltext\">David Edelstein<\/a> over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\">Slate<\/a>, where, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2118604\/\">&#8220;The Passion of the Sith: I dream of Jedi&#8221;<\/a> he wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMcDiarmid isn&#8217;t the subtlest of satanic tempters. With his lisp and his clammy little leer, he looks like an old queen keen on trading an aging butt-boy (Count Dooku) for fresh meat\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich leaves Anakin looking more and more like a 15-watt bulb.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe <strong>this<\/strong> is why the movie disappointed me. The whole Emperor\/Anakin thing sorta did gross me out because it seemed as if the Emperor was totally hot for him&#8230; giving gays everywhere a bad name. (And also resurrecting one of the oldest gay stereotypes: the old gay man\/lesbian tempting the young, innocent into the ways of queerness.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the winner of the best line from a Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith review goes to David Edelstein over at Slate, where, in &#8220;The Passion of the Sith: I dream of Jedi&#8221; he wrote: McDiarmid isn&#8217;t the subtlest of satanic tempters. With his lisp and his clammy little leer, he looks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/the-best-line-from-a-star-wars-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Best Line From a Star Wars Review<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[28,14],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}