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Original Trilogy Novelizations
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I enjoyed them a lot. ANH had a bit more info than was in the movies, which was nice. ESB was closest to the movie, I'd say. ROTJ had quite a bit more in it that we didn't see in the movie. I really liked the extra dialogue between Vader, Luke and the Emperor, especially pertaining to Yoda.
I also enjoyed "Splinter of the Mind's Eye." Not great, but definitely good. Some nice foreshadowing in it with the limbs being lopped off, and it was interesting to see the relationship between Luke and Leia, considering certain things hadn't been answered yet.
P.S. I love that Zangief baby attack!
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"I don't think they'd like another killing in here," Solo pointed out.
Something which might have been a laugh came from the creature's translator. "They'd hardly notice. Get up, Solo. I've been looking forward to this for a long time. You've embarrassed me in front of Jabba with your pious excuses for the last time."
"I think you're right."
Light and noise filled the little corner of the cantina, and when it had faded, all that remained of the unctuous alien was a smoking, slimy spot on the stone floor.
Solo brought his hand and the smoking weapon it held out from beneath the table, drawing bemused stares from several of the cantina's patrons and clucking sounds from its more knowledgeable ones. They had known the creature had committed its fatal mistake in allowing Solo the chance to get his hands under cover.
"It'll take a lot more than the likes of you to finish me off. Jabba the Hut always did skimp when it came to hiring his hands."
Leaving the booth, Solo flipped the bartender a handful of coins as he and Chewbacca moved off. "Sorry for the mess. I always was a rotten host."
So there you go. Han, and only Han, fired. That's what I'd like to think, anyway.
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"I haven't got it here with me. Tell Jabba --"
"It's too late, I think. Jabba would rather have your ship."
"Over My Dead Body," Solo said unamiably.
The alien was not impressed. "If you insist. Will you come outside with me, or must I finish it here?"
"I don't think they'd like another killing in here." Solo pointed out.
Soemthing which might have been a laugh came from the creature's translator. "They'd hardly notice. Get up, Solo. I've been looking forward to this for a long time. You've embarrassed me in front of Jabba with your pious excuses for the last time."
"I think you're right."
Light and noise fille dhte little corner of the cantina, and when it had faded, all that remained of the unctuous alien was a smoking, slimy spot on the stone floor.
Solo brought his hand and the smoking weapon it held out from beneath the table, drawing bemused stares from several of the cantina's patrons and clucking sounds from its more knowledgeable ones. They had known the creature had committed its fatal mistake in allowing Solo the chance to get his hands under cover.
"It'll take a lot more than the likes of you to finish me off. Jabba the Hut [sic] always did skimp when it came to hiring his hands."
Leaving the booth, Solo flipped the bartender a handful of coins as he and Chewbacca moved off. "Sorry for the mess. I always was a rotten host."
Draw your own conclusions.
Edit: Jabba the "Hut"'s scene is in this book, as is the Biggs material.
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Did Greedo shoot first in the novel? This may clear things up, after all, George wrote it.
I also seem to remember that according to the ROTJ novelization, Owen is Obi-Wan's brother, and the Ewoks are a bit less gay.
War does not make one great.
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Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived.
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Did Greedo shoot first in the novel? This may clear things up, after all, George wrote it.
I also seem to remember that according to the ROTJ novelization, Owen is Obi-Wan's brother, and the Ewoks are a bit less gay.
Who is Alan Dean Foster? All the copies I have seen say, "Star Wars From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, A Novel by George Lucas"
Never mind. He was the ghost writter. Just found that.
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There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
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The duck is in the Star Wars databank ( http://www.starwars.com/databank/creature/duck/ ). The same databank entry also says that it was mentioned by Captain Panaka in TPM. The duck is canon.
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Originally posted by: ScruffyThere's a 50s diner, so why not a duck?
Funny! And true.
P.S. What is the "retcon" you refer to?
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If I'm wrong here, feel free to correct me.
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There's also homo sapiens and Sequoiadendron giganteum, along with various other grasses, flowering plants, trees, etc. There's no particular reason to believe that anatidae (or a similar family with enough morphological similarity that "duck" adequately translates whatever name they bear in Galactic Basic) don't exist anywhere in the known Star Wars galaxy. I'd certainly expect them to have evolved on at least one of the thousand-thousand worlds that make up the Empire, along with one of everything else that we know here on Earth. (Except the platypus. That bizarre thing doesn't even belong in sci-fi.)
It could be worse. Lucas/Foster could've gone the Hubbard route and called them "water-swimming birds" or "oil-feather birds."
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One retcon thing I did like, however, was on the show Deep Space Nine, where the crew went back in time to the first Enterprise. It was during the time of "The Trouble With Tribbles." There's a scene where Worf, Miles and Julian are in a bar and they see those old human-looking Klingons. Miles and Julian give Worf a look like "those are Klingons? What happened?!" Worf's explanation was a simple line about not talking about that with outsiders. Simple, mysterious, and perfect! Kinda like how there was little known about Boba Fett. Then they managed to mess him up, too, just as they did with explaining the whole Klingon thing a few years later on Enterprise.
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[quote]Believe what you want though - if you think there are ducks in the star wars galaxy, cool. There's a 50s diner, so why not a duck?[/quote]
There's also homo sapiens and Sequoiadendron giganteum, along with various other grasses, flowering plants, trees, etc. There's no particular reason to believe that anatidae (or a similar family with enough morphological similarity that "duck" adequately translates whatever name they bear in Galactic Basic) don't exist anywhere in the known Star Wars galaxy. I'd certainly expect them to have evolved on at least one of the thousand-thousand worlds that make up the Empire, along with one of everything else that we know here on Earth.
^For F**k Sake!
Originally posted by: Ripplin
YIYF (can I call you that?).
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One retcon thing I did like, however, was on the show Deep Space Nine, where the crew went back in time to the first Enterprise. It was during the time of "The Trouble With Tribbles." There's a scene where Worf, Miles and Julian are in a bar and they see those old human-looking Klingons. Miles and Julian give Worf a look like "those are Klingons? What happened?!" Worf's explanation was a simple line about not talking about that with outsiders.
EDIT: sorry 'bout the double post - I meant to just add to my last one but messed up.
War does not make one great.