(Geek) Life, The Universe & Everything Inbetween

-Immediately starts putting her on every treatment known to man

-Walks over to Wilson’s office, which is the only part of the entire ship that just looks the same as it does in the show

-Homoerotically complains about how stupid Jedi are, then makes a bet with Wilson on whether Obi Wan is gay or the father of Padme’s twins (Wilson wants House to believe people can be faithful)

-Padme almost dies again. Turns out the treatment’s not working

-“if the dark side nearly killed her, maybe it can save her”

-House uses force lightning to restart Padme’s heart

-Gets brought into Cuddy’s office and told off for using an experimental treatment, and the power of the dark side, in her hospital

-House is taken off the case and foreman is put in charge of the case

-Padme is unexpectedly doing better, but Cuddy refuses to tell House or else he’ll be using the dark side to save all his patients

-House watches on as Wilson tries seducing a relieved Obi Wan while he paces in the lobby. Doesn’t seem to work

-House interrogates Obi Wan about his relationship with Padme, insinuates it’s Obi Wans Fault. Gets in a struggle and once theyre seperated it’s revealed he ripped out some beard hair

-Padme is getting released from the hospital but crashes again with obvious signs of infection. Everyone blames the dark side of the force

-is put in intensive care again, everyone thinks she’s going to die, House is brooding.

-House meets Bail Organa and talks to him, Bail mentions how he was so worried about her the last time she was in a hospital, and this seems much more hopeless

-“what time she was in the hospital?”

-House marches in as they’re about to pull the plug, rolling Padme’s unconcious body over to point at dark spot on the back of her neck

-Foreman looks disapointed, “it’s a bruise house, her husband nearly snapped her neck.”

-“Our princess’ boyfriend here failed to mentioned she was scratched by a Nexu on Genosis years ago. Nexu claws are known as a vicious poison.”

-“it would have killed her years ago”

-“unless a small chunk of claw stuck in her back, working into the muscles near the nape of her neck for years. The little prince of Darkness chokes her, pressure and muscles spasming lets it work into a blood vessel. It’s why the force lightning only was a bandaid, it vaporized what was in her bloodstream but broke up the rest of the claw and let it enter in her bloodstream. Start her on dialysis, she’ll be fine by tomorrow afternoon.”

-Next day Padme’s wheeled out of the hospital with her two children, bittersweetness. House watches from balcony before going back to his office

-Wilson enters with his shirt unbuttoned and a few bruises on his neck, declaring, “the Jedi is gay. I win.”

I specifically chose one that claimed to be “non-greasy” and “non-sticky”. I also smelled it to check it wasn’t an overpowering smell.

well. it lied. on every damn count.

I don't know if this is asked in earnest or just a thought but since I'm waiting for my therapy session, here it goes

The method I worked out for myself is to pretend that there's this personal assistant (Barbara) to my brain. The thoughts and emotions are clients who either come to pitch an idea or to demand attention from the boss.

Most are important and relevant thoughts; but sometimes they come at the wrong time (if I wake up at night worrying about a task I just imagine Barbara in her pyjamas groggily telling the thoughts to come during office hours).

And some clients (mean thoughts, false beliefs, anxiety jabs) I just imagine as panicked or rude customers that need to be treated as such. You are not getting audience with the boss until you can state your purpose calmly and clearly. If you insist on being rude, I'll throw you out.

One of the things I love about the series is that Kel’s life gets better over the course of it. Oh, the enemies she’s facing get tougher - in the first book of the quartet she’s an 11-year-old fighting bullies at school, by the fourth one she’s an adult fighting in a war - but the number of people she’s got on her side and at her back expands immensely.

In the first book, she’s virtually on her own at the start and she has almost no control over her fate - whether she will be able to pursue her dream of being a knight depends solely on the arbitrary judgement of a raging sexist. By the second one, she still has enemies, but also a sizeable group of friends, and is a mentor to younger students. By the third, she has some of the most powerful people in the kingdom on her side, and is virtually never without either emotional support or people willing to go to bat for her. In the fourth, she has dozens of people – including the aforementioned raging sexist, who has some of the best character development in any Tamora Pierce novel – supporting her when she does something that is technically illegal.

Leia Skywalker is gonna be sneaking out to visit Old Ben Kenobi as soon as she’s as old as Anakin was in Episode 1.

Like, Luke bowed to Uncle Owen’s wishes. Leia, full of the anger she inherited from her father, Leia who in the canon trilogy gave up all possibility of a cushy political lifestyle to be a general in the rebellion, would not, I think.

Obi-Wan’s gonna be like “shit, she takes after her father” and starts Leia’s Jedi training early.

“Your father’s lightsaber. He wanted you to have it when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn’t allow it.” “My uncle doesn’t allow lots of things.” “You’re still not old enough.”

Prince Luke Organa is going to be as compassionate a politician as Padme, and twice as fashionable.

He joins the Rebellion simply because it’s the right thing to do.

He gets away with it for as long as he does, despite being more reckless than Leia would have been, because he also inherited his mother’s silver tongue, and has a talent for smooth-talking his way out of anything. He can stand on a ship in orbit around Tattooine, surrounded by the bodies of his rebel crew, and you would believe him when he says that he’s on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan.

He’s a lot more sneaky about dropping R2-D2 the Death Star plans. He gives R2 the plans, and then sneaks off to his quarters, where it will seem more believable that he doesn’t know what’s going on.

Vader captures Luke on the spot less because it’s unbeleivable, and more because he and the Emperor have just gotten sick of this Steamed Hams bullshit.

Basically, I’m saying he will be this radiant ball of charisma, no matter what’s happening.

“Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.” “Well, he’s certainly handsome.”

He will smile at the Imperial interrogation-bot. “Did you know that torture has a very obvious failure state? The victim will say anything to end the pain. It doesn’t have to be the truth; it just has to be what they think you want to hear.”

“His resistance to the mind probe is considerable. Everything he said sounded perfect, and everything he said was a lie.”

(I mean that’s pretty much exactly what “they’re on Dantooine” was.)

Even after Alderaan is destroyed and Dantooine is confirmed abandoned, he’s able to keep stringing Vader and Tarkin along for a little while longer.

Okay let’s not mince words: Leia is in a lot more danger of turning to the Dark Side, throughout the entire story. Vader and the Emperor are never particularly concerned about the possibility that she won’t turn to the Dark Side, but are instead worried about how much damage she’ll cause in the process, and whether they’ll be remotely able to get her to join them.

Leia takes the speeder back from the still-smoking Lars farmstead back to the destroyed sandcrawler already seething. She’s, like, ready to pull a Tusken Massacre on the next stormtroopers she sees.

Obi-Wan elects to wait until the next day before going to Mos Eisley to give her time to cool off. His plans change the minute he senses a disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices cried out and were suddenly silenced.

This delay has a domino effect on everyone else’s plots. When Greedo and then Jabba come to strong-arm Han, he doesn’t have the excuse of “just give me a little longer until I get paid”, and Prince Luke is a lot closer to getting executed by the time they reach the Death Star.

The fulcrum of the love triangle is not Leia, but Han.

After getting rescued, Prince Luke flirts with everyone on the Falcon except the droids (which Chewie thinks is hilarious but he politely tells him to stop), but his Force-sensitivity eventually causes him to trail off in mid-flirt with Leia before he goes “hm, I get the feeling I shouldn’t flirt with you for some reason” and she realizes that she’s getting the same feeling.

and then decades later Uncle Boba sings it to Grogu on babysitting duty.

key lyrics include:

But you better not complain, boy You get in trouble with the man

and

You better not gamble And you better not fight Or the sheriff will grab ya And the boys will bring you down The next thing you know, boy Oh, you're prison bound