First-line challenges used to be freakishly common in TPM fandom. In one afternoon, I posted responses to two of them: Minuet's "As Qui-Gon recalled, it was all going according to plan, when Obi-Wan suddenly slipped on a patch of spilled wine and fell into the (author's discretion)" and Mac's wildly popular "'Obi-Wan, no one is going to believe we're lovers!'".

The raw bar in If the Shoe Fits is a direct allusion to the one I had to set up for a wedding at the country club where I waited tables the summer I was 18. The idea, in Things, that Obi-Wan would have learned something in Comparative Cultures is whole-cloth fanon. (Or it may be canon from the Jedi Apprentice novels. I wouldn't know; I've never read one.) Both are a little heavy on epithets, which now drive me crazy -- "the younger man", "the older man", "the other man", and "his lover". (Wasn't that a critically-acclaimed film?)

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