STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW — Page 488

This may have been mentioned before, but continuity-wise it's baffling that there were THREE types of battle droids (of which presumably thousands were built) around at the time of the Naboo blockade and Clone Wars, but none have ever been seen since. Did they all self-destruct at the end of the war?

I'd have preferred that an existing design, like IG-88 or this guy had been reverse-engineered for the prequels - in the case of the CZ droid I'm not even sure we see a working model in the OT, so it might have been cool to see them in their heyday as part of a formidable army (they sure look scary enough!)

Hello everyone!  Been lurking for at least a year but finally decided to join up.  ANH:R was amazing and I'm really looking forward to this one as well.

Jonno said:

This may have been mentioned before, but continuity-wise it's baffling that there were THREE types of battle droids (of which presumably thousands were built) around at the time of the Naboo blockade and Clone Wars, but none have ever been seen since. Did they all self-destruct at the end of the war?

Sidious had a line near the end of ROTS where he told Anakin to send a message to shut down all droid units.  They were infinitely inferior to clones.  Presumably they were all sent to the junkyard.

Jonno said:

This may have been mentioned before, but continuity-wise it's baffling that there were THREE types of battle droids (of which presumably thousands were built) around at the time of the Naboo blockade and Clone Wars, but none have ever been seen since. Did they all self-destruct at the end of the war?

I'd have preferred that an existing design, like IG-88 or this guy had been reverse-engineered for the prequels - in the case of the CZ droid I'm not even sure we see a working model in the OT, so it might have been cool to see them in their heyday as part of a formidable army (they sure look scary enough!)

Ady put one in the the Jawa Sandcrawler jump heap in ANH.

I'd imagine that as a visual sign of reperations after the Clone Wars the Seperatist droids would have been re-programmed to work on reconstruction. I could also imagine that civilians of former Seperatist world would be used a slave labour along those lines too.

The Death Star being (as of the PT) a former Seperatist weapons project may have used Geonosian and Neimodian tech and machinery in it's construction (a bit like Project Paperclip).

Assuming that the same machines used to build the first Death Star built the second there could be a long legacy of PT tech in the OT era.

I can't see a place where it would fit into ESB:R though.

That's more EU bullshit to "explain" why there's a droid that looks like IG-88 in the room where Chewie finds Threepio in pieces.  It's something that didn't need explaining, since it wasn't even the same color (come on, do you really think there's only one droid that looks like IG-88), but that's the EU for ya.

Don't forget the IG-88 that was moments away from taking over the second Death Star?????

On second thoughts....

It's really just a nerd problem and as a self confessed nerd it's not that much of a problem for me.

IG-88 looks like a single purpose piece of military (or paramilitary) kit so it seems a bit odd that there is one of his kind (whatever the colour) in a scrap yard on an industrial colony.

But then what is a slave boy doing building a protocol droid for his mother on a desert planet when she'd be better of with an ice-cream maker?

oh_riginal said:

ChainsawAsh said:

That's more EU bullshit to "explain" why there's a droid that looks like IG-88 in the room where Chewie finds Threepio in pieces.  It's something that didn't need explaining, since it wasn't even the same color (come on, do you really think there's only one droid that looks like IG-88), but that's the EU for ya.

 

I'm not implying that the droid should be recolored to look identical to IG-88... just more metallic. To me, the way it looks now, it looks like it will snap in half if it's knocked over by the wind!

I wasn't responding to your post - in fact, I didn't even know you had one dealing with that subject!  In fact, I agree, it could use a bit of a touch-up ...

I think you'll probably have a much easier time of it working on the PT in a few years, Adywan, not the actual workload, but the fan reactions. It must be pretty conscricting to work on the OT, since any single little change you make  will have a huge backlash from fans. Like that hullabuloo over the killing Lando thing, a lot of fans (including me, unfortunately) simply can't fathom the idea of actually changing the OT's story. I mean, I know it would proably be a lot better as a trilogy with a few story changes, but I'm way too engrained in it, I wouldn't be able to accept it the same as I would for any other fanedit. I mean, I know ROTJ has the weakest story of the three, and I know it's the weakest film of the three, and it is quite flawed in general, but I still love it regardless, it was my favourite as a kid (which was probably the point, Ewoks and dumb jokes and all that), so even trying to improve it plotwise, I can't really fathom.

So it must be really hard to deal with all the naysayers (like I said I didn't want to see the story changed, but I never actually said anything about it, that would be rude and ungrateful, it's still your edits, and you're doing these out of your own pocket after all).

The PT on the other hand, I, and most likely the majority of fans, couldn't give a toss about the original story/characters, so you can do whatever you like to them without all that backlash. In fact, I think it's clear you'll only be encouraged to slice it up and make something worthwhile out of it. Of course, it'll probably take a lot of work to tone down the flashiness of the trilogy, and reworking scripts, characters, music and plots won't be easy, but at least you'll have total creative freedom with them, which will surely be a relief. Sort of like you're given a blueprint, that you can modify however you see fit before building the house, and people will be pleased no matter what, so hated the original blueprint was. Thogh this is sort of off topic, and years away as it is.

P.S. Sorry to hear about the back problems, my dad has serious back problems so I know how crippling they can be for someone.

Ady, do you suffer from MS? Hang in there brother, we're all pulling for you! Peace!

Don't you believe it!

There is a large amount of people who were 9 or 10 when TPM came out and see the original version as their PT in the same way that some people cringe at the idea of any dramatic changes to ROTJ.

Personally I find ROTJ just as troublesome as the PT (in some ways more so because it's the only blot on the OT where as the whole PT has so much that sets my teeth on end).

When Ady started ESB:R he thought it would be relatively straight forward compared with ANH:R but it looks like this time round there has been even more work put into it.