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Attack of the Jones

Have you seen the hubbub in the press over the new Star Wars film?

You know, Facsimile II: Attempt of the Clone. I think it starts off with the ethically challenged and psychologically unstable (i.e. evil) Darth Rael appearing on the FOX Intergalactic News Channel with Brigitte Boisselier-Fett to discuss the creation of Boba Eve (who for some unexplained reason we never get to see). Next, Rael is backed up by his deluded shock troops when he arrives on the whacked out planet Clonaid. Unfortunately, the story gets a bit muddled after that; kind of like what happened to Facsimile I: The Bleating Ovis.

(Clonaid. Isn’t that one of those charity music events Bono or Geldof or Willie Nelson put on every year? Do clones really need financial aid of this sort?)

Jay over at A Voyage to Arcturus (an appropriately named place to initiate a discussion on this) is proclaiming this the Junk Science Story of the Year, and notes the whole thing is as ridiculous as the cold fusion hullabaloo from some years back. I have to part ways with Jay on the last point. Cold Fusion was bad science. This is bad science fiction.

As Master Yoda would say, “Begun, this Clone War has.”