The original star wars story | Ramblin' & Amblin' | Nov 4, 2026
Ramblin' & Amblin' Field Notes with Mike Hall (Staff Software Engineer)
Recorded on the move: engineering observations, systems architecture, and software craftsmanship reflections.
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"The Star Wars Special Edition I also had grown up with Star Wars from the original, before we even called it Your Hope. And I found that first, it has been kind of awesome, you..."
Recorded: November 4, 2026
The Interviewer
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
Mike Hall
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The Star Wars Special Edition
I also had grown up with Star Wars from the original,
before we even called it Your Hope. And I found that first, it has been kind of awesome, you
know, like, going disintegration. I'm going to show you back and find out what was not really
cool, that's a pretty good thing. So, you know, you know, maybe you just made a verbal, a lot
of controlled with violence.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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I'm going to show you some of the worst. You know, a lot of it. You know, like, you're a high school to work out, you're
going to work out for us. I'm going to show you some of the worst.
Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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Mike Hall
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I'm going to show you some of the worst. I'm going to show you some of the worst. I'm going to show you some of the worst. I'm going to show you some of the worst.
Mike Hall
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I'm going to show you some of the worst. I'm going to show you some of the worst. I'm going to show you some of the worst. I'm going to show you some of the worst.
Mike Hall
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I'm going to show you some of the worst. I have to say that Han did not shoot first. It was you want to make him more of a, in your mind, a good
guy. I released a new version of a book where I've changed the
ending.
Mike Hall
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Does the original still count? Is the original story still valid? I don't know. Because it's a different thing when you're talking about
the author of the artwork.
Mike Hall
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And if they don't want the old version because they're
embarrassed by it or whatever. If they don't agree with whatever they said before. What does that do to the original art? To the original message?
Mike Hall
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It's a, as I like to say, it's a predicament. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. But I think it plays into the whole conversation about the
rewriting of history.
Mike Hall
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And what if it was that originally Han did not shoot first
and he was a good guy. But let's say maybe Lucas himself. Hypothetically, hypothetically. Please don't sue me.
Mike Hall
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I, I, I do love Star Wars. Um, uh, what if, what if he did a heel turn and decided he
wanted to make Han a villain? You know. And why is it that everybody wants to think the empire did
nothing wrong?
Mike Hall
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They were absolutely, they were the bad guys. They were always were the bad guys. Always were. Um.
Mike Hall
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Um. But, uh, does that now, like, make the original? Like, this is where the art and the artists. Like, if you want to say you got to separate the art from
the artist.
Mike Hall
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And then the artist comes back and changes the art. Um. Okay. That's just confusing.
Mike Hall
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That's why I say there is no separate new art from the
artist. You know, it is their right to publish a new version. Uh, because it's their art. They created it.
Mike Hall
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Um. I, I, I, I, I think that's an over simplification of it. But that's the gist of it. But that also means that you are tied into it.
Mike Hall
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You didn't release it. And it always was, like, to me it means it was always held
in as there was a strong identification
by the artist with their artwork. Okay. So.
Mike Hall
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The idea. The thought from the thinker. You know, can you say that I, I came up with a story and it
's not. Like, all stories come from within us.
Mike Hall
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I, I don't understand this, this desire. And I, I think a lot of it is a cop out. I think a lot of it is a cop out to want to be able to
enjoy, um, art by horrible people. Like, I love Lovecraft stories.
Mike Hall
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Fantastic. A big fan of Cthulhu and the whole mythos. But I know that the, this patheticness of, of, of, um, of
Lovecraft was intrinsic to the horror
that's described. His fears are human.
Mike Hall
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And even the most vitriolic, hateful person is still a
human. And they're telling a human story. And you can read it. Like, I read it like that.
Mike Hall
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That he was a, of a product of his era. He was horrible. Horrible racist, I should say. Um, a complicated person.
Mike Hall
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I'm not giving him a pass here. I mean, I know what his cat was named. Uh, so when I read a Lovecraft story, in a way, his, um,
his patheticness, um, is part of it. It's part of it.
Mike Hall
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It's part of it. Uh, Wagner, you know, uh, he was, he was, he was a, uh, a
Nazi, uh, sympathizer. I mean, I, I think he died before, but he was very popular
with the Nazis. But he was also big in that whole, like, I don't know.
Mike Hall
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Like, I, again, this is where I'm, I'm maybe revealing my
own limitations even, even more. Um, but I think about, um, um, oh my gosh, one of the, the
existential, um, we had Sartre, um, uh, Camus, uh, uh,
there's a woman who's a writer. And, unfortunately, I'm, I'm revealing my own, um, um, like
, um, not Heisenberg. Um, anyway, the, the, the Nazi, uh, um, existentialist, you
know, um, see, the thing is, I can't just pull over the
internet when I'm doing these videos.
Mike Hall
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I, I, I'm on the camera, so I have to just face when I can
't remember a name. But he, he, I, I, I, I, I would think about this, about how
, uh, not, not Himmler, not, oh, dang on it. Whatever, Nazi existentialist, French, uh, socialite
existentialist, and a, uh, Algerian, uh, absurdist and a
feminist existentialist, um, are all talking about the same
human condition. But the worst Nazi is also a human being and, uh, the best,
um, humanitarian is, well, also a human.
Mike Hall
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Um, and, you can't separate that. There is no separation. And, uh, you know, when, uh, they create their art, their
humanity is, is in there. And it's, it's, it's been processed through their, their
wetware and their perspective and their time and their
experiences.
Mike Hall
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And even Star Wars is a product of that. And ET is a product of that. And the, the human integration of the art and the artist, I
don't think it's separable. Um, and that's why it makes it really complicated now with,
uh, so many people being masked off lately.
Mike Hall
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When they thought, uh, uh, the fascists were going to win. And that they had locked up, uh, the door behind them. Um, but high control systems always fail. And we're seeing how that is working out right now.
Mike Hall
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We're not out of the woods yet. Ha ha. But, uh, yeah, I don't think there truly is a separation
between the art and the artist. And I don't think it's so simple as, um, who owns the
rights to the art.
Mike Hall
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Um, and that's what we put out into the universe is, uh,
irreversible. And, um, we can try to pretend like what was originally
said was never said. But, uh, maybe the story needed to change because the human
changed underneath it. I don't know.
Mike Hall
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I just don't think it's so simple as to say separate the
art from the artist. And that usually to me is a cop out for people who did
things that, uh, would otherwise be reprehensible. Sometimes the reprehensibleness of what was written, of the
person who wrote it, is part of the story in the context in
which you have to read it. The sound above.
Mike Hall
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So. All right. Thanks. Bye.