lobot

greetings

and so it is, once more (as happens every year, look you see) Star Wars day. this of course stems from the rather peculiar way in which Americans state the date, meaning "May 4th" gets spoken as "may the fourth be with you", which  sounds a bit like a phrase popular in the Darth Vader film series. so far as i am aware that line is uttered at least once in each of the good Star Wars films and in Last Jedi too. probably not, now i think, Solo, as that was predominantly jedi and space religion free. also wasn't much good. 

well, with it being what it is (the day) i figured, mostly with nothing else particularly better to write of right now, i might as well pay homage to the best, greatest and most important character in all of the films and what have you of Star Wars. and that, of course, is Lobot. 

granted, no, Lobot is not the first name what would come to mind if someone asked you to name a character from Star Wars. unless it was someone asking me, and i would probably say him. it is not all that often people engage in conversation with me, though, and when they do it's normally considerably less ("fewer") things like "who was in Star Wars", more "why are you still here". but still, he is the best, greatest and most important character in Star Wars, for i read this to be true on the internet, so it must be true. reading it in the previous paragraph here, i feel, counts. 

it is of course very much so that Star Wars has been hugely influential on culture, society and what have you for the last, what 48 years (at time of writing) or so. yes, there are those (called "fanboys") who by certain standards may take it all a little too seriously, but still, overall, how truly amazing that a fairly simple (yet visually dazzling) swashbuckling tale of good vs evil captured the minds of so many. it is at heart brilliant escapism, and little wonder it means so much to so many. the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, some might say. 

exactly how is Lobot the best, greatest and most important character out of Star Wars? well, on a practical level it is so that quite a few of the main characters - the fake orphan, the bin, the gay robot, the entitled adopted princess, the criminal people smuggler and his dog would all be dead if it were not for his intervention. had he not gone done what he gone done (granted, prompted by Lando, but still) then we never would have got the third film with that massive slug and them cute cannibalistic teddy bear sex cases. 

more than this, though, is the influence of Lobot on the "real word". people went to go and see The Empire Strikes Back and people liked what they saw this Lobot dude was doing. it's probably going to far to say that Lobot made the world of business administration sexy, but he certainly made it sexier. 

the image above is probably my all time favourite one off of Star Wars as it has the four best characters out of all of it in it. yes, sure, Lobot is the best, but still, Lando is quite class, as are Vader and Boba. what would have been class is a film (or two) of the four of them, just hanging around discussing the trials and tribulations of administration, as well as the odd bit of choking people to death and blowing stuff up. disintegrations, even. 

how did Lobot make business administration seem quite sexy affect the world? within a year or so of the film Empire Strikes Back getting released applications to study things like an MBA and Public Administration degrees shot up by over one thousand percent, probably. many people were inspired to set up quite class business ventures that they could be administrators of, like how Lobot was the administrator for Cloud City, or Bespin, or whatever it was actually called. with particular emphasis on his really, really smart flared trousers. 

yes, there are some that would suggest Lando is slightly more important, as his decision to all of a sudden not f*** over his friend Han was kind of essential to all them characters surviving. however, he only had the idea not to f*** over the people smuggler. it took Lobot to make sure what got done got undone, which is basically what an administrator is there for. also that headset thing is class. 

hope you are all enjoying whatever it is you do to celebrate Star Wars day, if you do indeed celebrate it. i would expect a lot of it is just saying "may the fourth be with you" to people. maybe even watch a film or two. well, presumably just the one what has Lobot in it. 

live long and prosper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!