Star Wars!

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:12 pm

Justinpie: JINX!

Pinch poke you owe me a coke!

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:13 pm

Justin, do you have the exclusive Emperor figure you could only get by mailing in a bunch of UPCs from other Star Wars figures? Because I do.

It's back in my parent's basement with all the other Star Wars figures, but so?

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:14 pm

I make an E-comic!

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:21 pm

Actually, DKL, I have a standing invitation from a friend out in Seattle to crash at her place if I'm out there, and I was considering heading out that way at some point over the summer as part of a big "Meet Internet Peoples" tour, but I don't know when, since I was kinda thinking of heading into Wiconsin etc and maybe Canada along the way, to bug Justin and Tim and a few other peoples. I should make an itinerary.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:25 pm

Take Justin with you and have a lightsaber duel at the reception!

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:29 pm

I actually hope Katie comes in here to give her thoughts on the "Star Wars: original trilogy" revamping. She seems to like Star Wars maybe.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:36 pm

This is a different Katie than as in Tom's Sister, right?

Edit: TaBB is eerie, the random quote was "I have no sister!" - TFB

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:05 pm

Justin, when Spock gets died in Star Wars: The One Like Moby Dick, I almost cried but then I remembered not to.

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justinpie wrote:

katie I have a darth vader thermos and a lightsaber

justinpie wrote:

I make an E-comic!

Hey, ladies, I make an E-Comic and DON'T have a darth vader thermos and a lightsaber.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:10 pm

TIM WE AGREED ROCK PAPER SCISSORS

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:12 pm

Professor Stevie Freezie wrote:

Justin, when Spock gets died in Star Wars: The One Like Moby Dick, I almost cried but then I remembered not to.

Spock is an elf and sang a song about Bilbo Baggins.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:15 pm

See?

YOU CAN'T UNLIVE IT, NIMOY.

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justinpie wrote:

TIM WE AGREED ROCK PAPER SCISSORS

I live on the Dark Side.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:18 pm

justinpie wrote:

I actually hope Katie comes in here to give her thoughts on the "Star Wars: original trilogy" revamping. She seems to like Star Wars maybe.

Meh, it's okay. I guess. Mr. Green

Hi, everybody! I am actually that Katie.
Woah, somebody actually wants my thoughts? Are you absolutely sure? Because I do have rather a lot of those.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:19 pm

It's hard out here for a Jedi.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:21 pm

Everyone just says what they think around here, so go ahead!

Hey Katie, I actually own this forum.

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justinpie wrote:

Hey Katie, I actually own this forum.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:24 pm

Thanks for fixing my typo up there, dude!

No one must know.

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okay since nobody's taking the bait:

Katie, please expound at great length.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:53 pm

Also, Katie: How'd you find this place in like ten minutes?

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:55 pm

Neat! In that case...

First off: I am not one of those who thinks the Original Star Wars movies are without flaw. The list of issues is rather lengthy, and I wouldn't be shocked to find out I've heard it all. It's just that, for some reason, the originals have earned a degree of forgiveness that most movies fail to achieve.

I miss the George Lucas who felt like he needed to do some massive homework before he wrote anything. Partially because he can't write, but mostly because when you do that much research, it's really difficult to not come out of it with a serious thematic direction. To me, that absolute sense of purpose about every tiny detail is what made the originals so great in the first place.

I wonder what the prequils would have been, if he sat down and read the heck out of the human race's best tragedies the same way he did with literature involving hero figures way back when.

It is very possible that budget, and sheer technological impossibility are completely responsible for making the guy really sit down and figure out what was important before. Probable, even, considering what he did with his total lack of constraints.

And what did he do with the Special Editions? Add a bunch of stuff that doesn't really matter. Improvement by diluting? Whatever, man. I'll keep my original LDs, thanks.

The absolute most disturbing thing for me about newLucas is that he seems to be the only one on the planet who thinks he's better now than he used to be.

See? I totally warned you: Far too much.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:00 pm

justinpie wrote:

Also, Katie: How'd you find this place in like ten minutes?

Lie:
I have cybernetic implants that tell me in realtime when a new referring link shows up in my logs more than five times.

Hey now... come to think of it, that's not a bad idea. I could almost make that happen.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:01 pm

Did Greedo shoot first?

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:02 pm

Hey guys remember in Star Wars Episode 2 (But Really 5): Who Da Clone? when R2-bot pushed his gay friend into a empty lava vat of lava and then flew away on his brand new rocket boots? Almost purely because he's a dick?

That is my favorite part of the whole sixogy.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:03 pm

Katie, I agree with you. I hated how annoying Mark Hammil was in A New Hope. But the old movies had a sort of character...kind of like the Goonies or something? Anyway, the new movies suck ass and I laughed through all of them. My favorite part to hate in the last one was when Padme (tm) told Anni (tm) that she was preggers--I was literally falling off my seat it was so bad.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:05 pm

Sand is hard. Not like you. You are soft. Kisses.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:06 pm

K4-713 wrote:

First off: I am not one of those who thinks the Original Star Wars movies are without flaw. The list of issues is rather lengthy, and I wouldn't be shocked to find out I've heard it all.

Are you talking about the shoe? It's the shoe, isn't it?

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It is very possible that budget, and sheer technological impossibility are completely responsible for making the guy really sit down and figure out what was important before. Probable, even, considering what he did with his total lack of constraints.

This was, to me, what really what made the original films great. It's not too terribly difficult to make a giant CGI monster these days, but making a weapon out of an old flashbulb handle and making a Wookiee's growl out of sea lion noises -- that's the sort of inventiveness that made me keep loving the trilogy in my teen years. I think the prequels were a mixture of "I have so many resources and want to use them all" and "How can we make some decent bank off this?". And while that's how the first one worked, soo, Lucas seemed to geek out a bit much -- Lord of the Rings showed us that models and rubber suits still had a place in big Hollywood films, as well as the newfangled CGI.

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And what did he do with the Special Editions? Add a bunch of stuff that doesn't really matter. Improvement by diluting? Whatever, man. I'll keep my original LDs, thanks.

I haven't actually seen the newest special editions! I fear the end scene with Hayden Christiansen -- did they make Obi Wan and Yoda look in their 20s as well?

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:13 pm

Professor Stevie Freezie wrote:

Hey guys remember in Star Wars Episode 2 (But Really 5): Who Da Clone? when R2-bot pushed his gay friend into a empty lava vat of lava and then flew away on his brand new rocket boots? Almost purely because he's a dick?

That is my favorite part of the whole sixogy.

I guess those boots weren't under warranty!

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:13 pm

No, they didn't! It's was like: Hey, look at Hayden! LOOK!!!

If they're going to do that...
First off, Obi-wan should look pissed that he doesn't get to be 20 as well.
And...
Luke: "Who the heck is THAT guy?" *confused akward moment*

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:14 pm

They should have made him Sam L. Jackson at the end. That would have been a pretty great plot twist.