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'Geeking Out to Hanging Out'  with William Shakespeare Star Wars EDER 679 Reflection 1 Riley Ohler A grade nine director watches carefully, as the grade eight actor changes and adapts their choices as an actor playing Hans Solo. As the actor playing Hans finishes the scene, the grade nine director stands up, in deep reflection, pauses and says "I think that was your best run so far, I liked the choices you made in how you stood as Hans Solo, and that when Guido entered your reactions were quite authentic. Maybe try it with your hand on your hip ready to shoot at any moment. Do you think Hans was prepared to fire long before he actually did?" A pause in the conversation, it eventually digresses for a minute as they debate the quintessential Star Wars question: 'who shot first?' “I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess. - Han Solo (Doesher, 2013)" These types of conversations happen on a re...