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At the end of the day, they’re just movies.
That’s what I tried telling him.
At the end of the day, they’re just movies.
That’s what I tried telling him.
Can you tell me the doctor that prescribes your recreational drugs? 😄
Everyone needs to ignore this thread, there’s no use in posting in it.
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Ah dammit.
Hi frink, how you doing man?
Only bit of “EU” that didn’t rely on the WEG game that I can think of is probably splinter of the mind’s eye.
You’re forgetting The Han Solo Adventures by Brian Daley, The Lando Calrissian Adventures by L. Neil Smith, and the Star Wars/Droids/Ewoks comics published by Marvel. 😛
Yeah forgot about those old marvel comics when I shouldn’t have, I need to start reading those again.
I once met Carrie Fisher, she even had the slave girl dress on and looked exactly as she did in ROTJ…then i woke up…four feet above my bed.
Only bit of “EU” that didn’t rely on the WEG game that I can think of is probably splinter of the mind’s eye.
They’re literally the backbone of the EU. They’re the skeletal frame that the rest was built on top of.
Here’s what I’d like to see, a very hungry wookiee, on a bad acid trip and maybe half drunk also.
Sounds like you’ve never seen the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Last time I seen that, I thought that I was the one on an acid trip. 😄
Here’s what I’d like to see, a very hungry wookiee, on a bad acid trip and maybe half drunk also.
Luke most likely didn’t have unlimited resources either, I don’t see what he did as any different than what yoda or ben did.
Yoda was supposed to be stronger than all of them, yet he also ran off to dagobah, AND didn’t have anyone to protect.
Like Ben Kenobi ran off to a desert planet when everything went to hell?
Just tried to join the rancor pit forums for the WEG games, but the admin’s creating you an account seems to be going pretty slowly, though I’m guessing due to the holidays or whatever. There are PbP games of it there.
I still need to finish the first omnibus. I finished the ANH adaption but haven’t gotten much past that.
(a bunch of stuff and then…)
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You should end all of your posts this way.
I’m amazed he didn’t just link to his blog to get more hits. lol
Yeah I wouldn’t have seen ROTJ as the complete and utter end of the Empire, there was bound to be SOMEONE to want to take over what remains and try to keep on going if only for power/wealth/etc.
I still have the revised and expanded 2nd edition of the WEG version, and the trilogy sourcebook. Would like to get more of the old sourcebooks for it.
I actually like both lines, I could take either of them. Not one of the changes that really bothered me in the SE’s.
Preferably the west end games versions? It would be kind of interesting to get a game going on here sometime, been years since I’ve played.
He did, for one day after seeing TFA. Then it was back to frevious-as-usual.
The reason I act this way is that Lucas has treated us (the fans) with contempt for thirty years. Our dollars were used to build his mansion, and he gives us bread stuffed with nails (a la Salo) as a token of gratitude. We have gone nearly twenty years without an official release of the real cuts of the OT, and if it wasn’t for the despecialized editions we would never see them again. All because the man has spent most of his life detached from any logical reality, and so he gives an endless parade of bizarre events that just leave me in a state of contant frustration.
Why not watch what you like, ignore what you don’t, and move on?
The bad stuff is still canon. Yes you could ignore it, but it’s still part of the franchise, and in the collective pop culture imagination. You see commercials, people on the street, pop culture references on Star Wars, and no one realizes that most of it is subpar, and has been since the early 1980s.
But with the new movies coming out from Disney, this could be a course correction towards being good again, as long as no one messes it up.Doesn’t mean you’re forced into taking it into your own personal “canon”, or even having to watch the stuff for that matter. I absolutely hate the prequals, but I don’t own them, watch them, or spend my days thinking about them.
I don’t dwell on the Prequels, it’s Jedi I’m focusing on. I can never reject that film, because it would be an incomplete story without it. Most of the problems people have with that film actually never bothered me that much. I wouldn’t know how bad it really was until I encountered these forums and other online review sites. The message is the same as in the PT: absolutely everything is done wrong, and it makes me hypocritical to ignore the prequels and pass Jedi at the same time.
The prequals wasn’t really the point, the point is why dwell on something that you obviously don’t like and it’s driving you nuts? I wouldn’t punish myself into continuing to experience something I have an obvious distaste for. And you can ignore any movie, book, game, or whatever you want. They’re just movies, they aren’t entire philosophies to live your life by.
He did, for one day after seeing TFA. Then it was back to frevious-as-usual.
The reason I act this way is that Lucas has treated us (the fans) with contempt for thirty years. Our dollars were used to build his mansion, and he gives us bread stuffed with nails (a la Salo) as a token of gratitude. We have gone nearly twenty years without an official release of the real cuts of the OT, and if it wasn’t for the despecialized editions we would never see them again. All because the man has spent most of his life detached from any logical reality, and so he gives an endless parade of bizarre events that just leave me in a state of contant frustration.
Why not watch what you like, ignore what you don’t, and move on?
The bad stuff is still canon. Yes you could ignore it, but it’s still part of the franchise, and in the collective pop culture imagination. You see commercials, people on the street, pop culture references on Star Wars, and no one realizes that most of it is subpar, and has been since the early 1980s.
But with the new movies coming out from Disney, this could be a course correction towards being good again, as long as no one messes it up.
Doesn’t mean you’re forced into taking it into your own personal “canon”, or even having to watch the stuff for that matter. I absolutely hate the prequals, but I don’t own them, watch them, or spend my days thinking about them.
He did, for one day after seeing TFA. Then it was back to frevious-as-usual.
The reason I act this way is that Lucas has treated us (the fans) with contempt for thirty years. Our dollars were used to build his mansion, and he gives us bread stuffed with nails (a la Salo) as a token of gratitude. We have gone nearly twenty years without an official release of the real cuts of the OT, and if it wasn’t for the despecialized editions we would never see them again. All because the man has spent most of his life detached from any logical reality, and so he gives an endless parade of bizarre events that just leave me in a state of contant frustration.
Why not watch what you like, ignore what you don’t, and move on?
Before, I wasn’t sure that bosk didn’t like this movie, now I’m positive.
I really need to start splinter of the minds eye, bought a digital version a while back but haven’t gotten around to starting it yet.
generalfrevious said:
The director of the film thought Episode I was better than ESB back in the 90s though.
You think the OOT are lost films though.
Though most people say I act like randal himself.