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ray_afraid

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#670323
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Random Thoughts
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I know of people where I work that fit into every one of Bings examples. I'm one of 'em. The only holiday I request (demand) off is Halloween. I'd rather work a shift on Thanksgiving becasue 1- the store is usually empty, so there is very little to do and 2- I get paid double to do less than usual. If I work a morning shift, I can visit the family that afternoon/evening and if I work the evening, I can  visit in the morning/afternoon. No big deal.

I take it you're being forced to work on Thanksgiving Warb?

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#670157
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Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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TK-949 said:

 

ray_afraid said:



AntcuFaalb said:


ray_afraid said:

Well, your apology isn't accepted and I'll hate you forever and then five more years!


Yeah, you and Jedi Temple34. :-(


hey, he hates me too! We belong to a few of the same clubs it seems!


A few? I think he has everyone on ignore.

EDIT: Okay, ALMOST everyone...

 

I didn't say anything about who JediTemple34 is or isn't ignoring, just that Antcu and I are in a few of the same groups. (we're ignored by JediTemple & we think Superman is overpowered)

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#669974
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The Unofficial Complete REVISITED SAGA Ideas and Random Discussion Thread
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mrbenja0618 said:

I actually never liked that cut scene to be honest. I know we get excited because it's new to us and all that jazz, but I understood why it wasn't used. The scene kills all mystery of the green blade. Before the prequels the reveal of that green blade was an awesome moment for me. At the time it symbolized the new age of the Jedi. Using the scene would kill that moment and build up. I don't need it spelled out to me that Luke built the lightsaber. 

It wouldn't kill the mystery at all. It would just place the reveal at a different point in the film. There is no build up to that moment as the audience has no idea it's even coming. It would still have the same effect.

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#669973
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The Unofficial Complete REVISITED SAGA Ideas and Random Discussion Thread
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DominicCobb said:

if these films are meant to be watched in chronological order, wouldn't it be weird to see Padme alive at the end of III and then never see or hear about her again until VI when we learn she died offscreen?

What if the last we see of Pademe, she's on Aalderan with Leia. Not acting as her mother, but a 'friend of the family' who can still keep an eye on her little girl. Then in IV when Alderaan is destroyed, the audience knows that Pademe was killed in the blast and that Vader just unknowingly killed his wife.

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#669959
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Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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AntcuFaalb said:

ray_afraid said:

It's just my opinion. My Star Wars world is much smaller than most folks. Jedi isn't a terrible film, I just don't like it nearly as much as the first one. Or even the second.

OK, cool. I'm sorry for jumping on you like that. I just see a lot of ROTJ hate around these parts.

FWIW, my (most favorite->least) order is given here: 6-4-5-...-1-3-2.

Well, your apology isn't accepted and I'll hate you forever and then five more years!

Just jokes!

Bingowings said:

General... count me in. :-D

Well, look at you me! A General, huh?

(Quoting dialog from ROTJ while we talk about how it's not as good. I guess that's not quite irony... but it's somethin'.)

 

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#669948
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Random Thoughts
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DuracellEnergizer said:

Is it just me, or do most people who call Superman a bland/overpowered/dick/etc. superhero happen to be people who


1. have read few to any of the comics?

2. have read only the Silver & Bronze Age comics?

3. have read only The Dark Knight Returns?

4. only know the character from the Chris Reeve movies and/or silly Saturday morning cartoons from the 60's & 70's?

The "silly" cartoons and Christopher Reeves movie are my favorite Superman products. The whole idea of Superman is goofy and silly and even more so when the material is handled with an overly serious tone. I grew up reading comic books and hanging out in the comic shop and still do with some regularity, so I'm no stranger to Superman (silver, bronze & golden). I'm in the "Superman is overpowered and silly" camp. Most of the time when he's in some kind of trouble or trying to get someone else out of trouble, it's impossible to not say something like "Why don't you just use your _____ power?!?!". When the tone isn't so serious, it's easier to dismiss such things and just have fun with it.

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#669933
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Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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TK-949 said:

 

Victor Campos over @ SW.com's google+ page said:


We, the fans, need to let Disney know we will not tolerate a winter release.
Star Wars has always been release in May, and will always be so, even if it has to be May 2016.
Who's with me?


I don't care. So I'm not a fan, am I?

 

So, this guy really plans on skipping the film unless it's released on a certain date? And he thinks others will feel the same and will join him? And so many that Lucasfilm/Disney will shelve the film for five months? Crazy.

Is this  Victor fella havin' any luck stirin' up an angry mob of petition signers over at the wild world of Google+?

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#668201
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Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
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About Han... everyone realizes that people change, right? That people grow up and mature and "settle down" and leave their wild pasts behind them? To keep Han the same character we met in Star Wars seems to discredit the characters arc. I don't wanna see a Han who is still wild, free and reckless 30 years latter. I'm probably alone on that though.

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#667858
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Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
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It's not that the DSII chooses a smaller target that bugs me, it's just the visuals. The same blast that crushed a planet is now seen  splatting a comparatively tiny ship. If the blast didn't stop and instead blasts through the ship and cuts through the rest of the assembled fleet taking out another command ship, several fighters and separating the fleet into two groups on either side of the blast, it would be visually more in line and much more threatening.

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#667785
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Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
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Ronster said:

So I was thinking about Death Star II and how ... it fires Lasers powerful enough to destroy a planet at tiny Rebel Ships.

I doubt this would be possible but what if the Death Star II fired on one of Endor's Moons and the chunks of Rock from this destruction destroyed the Rebel Ships.

I've always had issue with the powerful, planet crushing DSII laser being used to destroy a battleship. But I'd have even more issue with it taking out a moon of Endor. Seems that the debris from the explosion would not only take out Rebel ships, but also Imperial ones and maybe even the moon our heroes are on (they're on a moon as well, right? Not the planet itself? I can't remember exactly, but I remember Akbar saying "The forest-moon of Endor.").