dahmage

SilverWook said:

dahmage said:

The situation with jar jar and Ahmed best does not give excuse for poor treatment of Rose tico and Kelly Tran. What it does is gives us evidence of why we should not permit such behavior. Sadly for myself I was not mature enough at the time of phantom menace to realize that my actions and words could have such an impact on a person’s life and well-being.

But you weren’t making fun of the actor at the time? Even Mr. Best has made fun of his character, voicing Jar Jar on Robot Chicken and winning an Emmy award for it.

No, I didn’t even know who the actor was at that time. But it wasn’t mature behavior all the same.

The situation with jar jar and Ahmed best does not give excuse for poor treatment of Rose tico and Kelly Tran. What it does is gives us evidence of why we should not permit such behavior. Sadly for myself I was not mature enough at the time of phantom menace to realize that my actions and words could have such an impact on a person’s life and well-being.

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

When I was in my 20’s, my apartment was broken into and I was cleaned out. That is the only significant crime that happened directly to me.

However, my 75 year old aunt was a very recent victim of a more serious crime. She was a victim of one of those telephone kidnapping scams. The perpetrators convinced her that her daughter was kidnapped, and had her running around the state for over 30 hours, extorting her for $8000 over that period. Although she eventually learned that it was a hoax, and that her daughter was fine, the experience was extremely traumatizing. It happened about a month ago, and she is still suffering from PTSD symptoms.

Everyone needs to be made aware of this scam. If you get a phone call saying that a loved one has been kidnapped, it is useful to know the typical specifics of the scam: (1) they impersonate your loved one with screaming sounds in the background, (2) they insist that you stay on the phone and NEVER hang up, (3) they keep you moving non-stop, (4) they may spoof your loved-one’s phone so you think that they have his/her cell phone, (5) they claim that actually they are hitmen and that your loved-one was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, witnessing their hit (this latter is to convince you that they have no problem killing him/her).

Holy fu¢king expletive, that is messed up! I still find it shocking that people can do that to other people, and I am 36, so it’s not like I haven’t seen proof of it before. Sorry to hear that happened to your aunt.

LordZerome1080 said:

LuckyGungan2001 said:

SilverWook said:

How did you manage to see it so early?

Came out on the 24th in Australia.

Lucky.

we should all choose our user names as wisely

nice post ^

Page 3?

Interested as well…

devils advocate: but when sunlight filters through snow, isn’t it gonna be blue?

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

If the OUT happens, I think it will be because of people at LF/the Mouse who care and want to see it preserved and enjoyed, not because of the fans/demand.

my thoughts as well.

SilverWook said:

I don’t recall Episode III ending this way. 😛
https://twitter.com/PTSDGuts/status/1118790349629952000

LoL

KurganX said:

dahmage said:

DominicCobb said:

If this were a video game made in 2002, Kylo would have force pulled the saber out of Finn’s hand, and cut him down in seconds.

My perspective is so fundamentally different from this - it’s honestly kinda fascinating how some people can look at things and interpret them so distinctly.

I agree with your statement, it is what I thought after reading the OP.

Cool. So what’re your explanations as to why that didn’t happen (other than being unsatisfying for the audience)?

Are you agreeing that Kylo Ren actually sucks as a dark side villain?

As presented, he seems like a noob who knows a couple of tricks and that’s it. He’s symptomatic of the entire First Order really. It’s like the trope of the Empire being inept bad guys has grown into this. At least when things started off, they were a credible threat, even allowing for typical expected things like character shields for the main cast. But yet, somehow, TFA and then TLJ portray the bad guys as taking over the entire galaxy, losing it again, then taking it over again virtually overnight. They’re copying this directly from the EU (“Legends”), but it still sucks. The villains are talented at killing unarmed civilians, but anyone who stands up to them with a weapon is going to take them down a notch or at least leave a mark (Anti-Bullying PSA inserted here)

So not only is Rey OP, but her competition is deliberately dumb, to drive down the tension even more. At this point stuff is happening and its just seemingly random “will of the force” (writer fiat) than anything. That’s why I gave up on the Harry Potter movies (should have read the books instead?). The rules are all up in the air now… which would have been fine if there had not already been several movies before these!

I meant the original post in this thread, not that specific quoted line about kylo. am i still cool?

DominicCobb said:

If this were a video game made in 2002, Kylo would have force pulled the saber out of Finn’s hand, and cut him down in seconds.

My perspective is so fundamentally different from this - it’s honestly kinda fascinating how some people can look at things and interpret them so distinctly.

I agree with your statement, it is what I thought after reading the OP.

oojason said:

^ An A-Wing Submarine - the guy built it himself! More info here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng_E0e5w05s
 

now that is dope

DominicCobb said:

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Yes, Palpatine bring back is a little lazy/fan-servicey, but him back won’t inherently make the story of TROS not “original” (an overrated concept to begin with). We don’t even know what him being back means or how he’ll factor in.

Yes. maybe we can save our soapbox speeches for after the actual movie is released.

Yes, so excited for this.

The last several posts were a delight to read.

I just hope we all keep our theorizing in check (or at least acknowledge that we are probably wrong, despite the fun of it), as fan theories are almost always wrong and I would hate for us to ruin our enjoyment of the movie we will eventually get.

That said I’m looking forward to this!

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Except the plural of Skywalker is Skywalkers.

So Sure are you?

Could be Skywalki

The issue with TLJ is the plural of Jedi is Jedi.

“Skywalker” as non plural feels very palpatine. I hear his voice when I read the title.

oojason said:

LOL

OutboundFlight said:

DominicCobb said:

MalàStrana said:

Yep but only after he “mind probed” Rey to know Luke’s wherabouts.

Yeah. Thing is if one considers what Snoke says in that scene, finding Luke is no longer the priority. His plan is to test Kylo’s faith by bringing Rey to him and having him kill her (getting rid of Luke is just the secondary tying up of loose ends). As usual with dark siders, his overconfidence ends up being his weakness.

Surely one of these days one of the Sith is gonna realize they keep going in circles… 😛

Or is that just the power of the spooky dark side?

well, spinning IS a good trick…

DominicCobb said:

MalàStrana said:

Indeed but Rey couldn’t see his surroundings as well, and their last meeting was fully on Rey’s side. Besides, if Snoke created the link, how come he doesn’t know Rey’s location either ?

The force has always allowed connections of sorts between people, even if they don’t necessarily know where from. It’s a mystical energy.

didn’t snoke actually know though? he threatened to go to the island before he got killed, unless i am forgetting my movie facts.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Death Star waffles

brilliant. is this of your own creation, or do you own a specific waffle maker?

i will never picture round waffles the same from now on.

haha!

DominicCobb said:

dahmage said:

Mark Hamill says it’s not official.

Mark Hamill wouldn’t know.

he would know as much as any of you, which is practically next to nothing. so yes, i agree, he isn’t the final word, but i am very skeptical about that poster.