Here are my observations, please add yours. But keep it friendly.
Someone starts a new thread asking others to dig deep into their memories and remember: "What did you think the Clone Wars were going to be about?"
Then someone else comes in and says, "Man did those prequels suck! George Luca$$ has totally lost it!"
And then someone else will say how good Ewan McGregor was (which he was) and which of the prequels they thought had most potential.
The next post will be about how terrible Hayden Christenson was. But this person will make a spelling error while saying it.
The next 10 posts will be about the spelling error.
Someone will bring it back, not to the OP's original topic, but back to the prequels sucking. Someone will say that Hayden stunk worse than limburger cheese, and then the conversation will turn to what cheese people like, and how you're wrong if you don't agree with them.
It goes on like this for three or four pages. You make an awesome post about cheese, and come back the next day excited to see if anyone responded. You see the most recently updated topic: "What did you think the Clone Wars would be?" and think that might be an interesting topic, but dangit where is the conversation about the cheese!?!? You read the topic anyways, and find to your surprise this is the one about the cheese! But your excitement is soon over when you see that someone replied to a post above yours and several more people have replied to that person, forever abandoning your witicism about cheese to obscurity.
Well, that's about my experience anyways...
So... what did you think the Clone Wars were going to be about?
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
xhonzi said:
Here are my observations, please add yours. But keep it friendly.
Oh man, right in my wheelhouse! I would like everyone to know that Swiss Cheese has a lot of holes. If you go to the store, you can see all the holes.
xhonzi said:
So... what did you think the Clone Wars were going to be about?
Me.
Oh wait, I thought you asked what they *should* have been about.
Wow, that was a pretty extremely accurate parody of our discussion here. Nice post Xhonzi!
You are right, it is those cheesy tangents I even come into this section of the forum for. But it is very disappointing when a thread goes way way way off topic into some discussion that finally interests you, only to discover some dope brought the thing back on topic! I feel your pain man, I feel your pain!
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
Haha, I love it. That's why I post here. I don't even know if I could post at any other forum after being so used to this one. I'd be banned in an instant for daring to let the conversation drift even the slightest!
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.
xhonzi said:
So... what did you think the Clone Wars were going to be about?
Man did those prequels suck! George Luca$$ has totally lost it!
(how on earth was i the first to respond with this??)
Pink Floyd -- First in Space
I like cheese. :)
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
Ric Olie said:
I would like everyone to know that Swiss Cheese has a lot of holes. If you go to the store, you can see all the holes.
You really should go to the store.
"Man did those prequels suck! George Luca$h has totally lost it!" I fixed it,lol.
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.
I would like everyone to know that Swiss Cheese has a lot of holes.
Well i guess there is a connection between the PT and cheese.
Talking about cheese that Hadyn Christiansen and Jayke Loydd were as stinky as Gorgonzola.
Sir, how dare you sully the name of a great cheese with that comparison!
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
I demand satisfaction! *slap*
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
It was better when I thought (as Zahn did) that the clones were a threat the Old Republic military fought against, and weren't directly connected to the Emperor's rise to power. I still adhere to this view because it's just plain better.
Can't beat that blue cheese for pure stank, yo. ;)
Bingowings said:
Talking about cheese that Hadyn Christiansen and Jayke Loydd were as stinky as Gorgonzola.
How are we supposed to take your opinion of cheese seriously? You can't even spell "Jake Lloyd"?
hairy_hen said:
It was better when I thought (as Zahn did) that the clones were a threat the Old Republic military fought against, and weren't directly connected to the Emperor's rise to power. I still adhere to this view because it's just plain better.
Go on, I'm listening. I thought the Spaartii cylinders were in the Emperor's Storehouse because they belonged to the Empire or the Republic just prior to becoming the Empire.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
Have you, in fact, got any cheese here at all?
Every 27th customer will get a ball-peen hammer, free!
I think the cheese discussion moved to the Naboo Devil thread. The Naboo Devil discussion is now in the Politics thread.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
xhonzi said:
I think the cheese discussion moved to the Naboo Devil thread. The Naboo Devil discussion is now in the Politics thread.
You forgot the word "handsome." The Naboo Devil, as we all know, is Panaka. What a jerk.
And yet the Most Handsome Devil from Naboo is still in this thread.
Seriously, look at that avatar. I am without a doubt one handsome devil. I almost feel sorry for all of your decidedly less handsome avatars.
Heir to the Empire, chapter 4, paperback page 55:
Pellaeon licked his lips. "But then . . ."
"Who is it we've brought aboard the Chimaera?" Thrawn finished the question for him. "I should have thought that obvious. Joruus C'baoth--note the telltale mispronunciation of the name Jorus--is a clone."
Pellaeon stared at him. "A clone?"
"Certainly," Thrawn said. "Created from a tissue sample, probably sometime just before the real C'baoth's death."
"Early in the war, in other words," Pellaeon said, swallowing hard. The early clones--or at least those the fleet had faced--had been highly unstable, both mentally and emotionally. "And you deliberately brought this thing aboard my ship?" he demanded.
The Last Command, chapter 11, paperback page 179:
Mara took a deep breath. The very existence of the place had been a sacred trust, known only to a handful of people--the Emperor had made that clear time and time again. But for Thrawn to have a renewable army of clones to throw against the galaxy . . . "I think I know where Thrawn's Spaarti cylinders are."
Even with her rudimentary sensing abilities she could feel the wave of shock that rippled outward from Organa Solo. "Where?" she asked, her voice tightly controlled.
"The Emperor had a private storehouse," Mara said, the words coming out with difficulty. His wizened face seemed to hover before her, those yellow eyes gazing at her in silent and bitter accusation. "It was beneath a mountain on a world he called Wayland--I don't know if it even had an official name. It was where he kept all his private momentos and souvenirs and odd bits of technology he thought might be useful someday. One of the artificial caverns held a complete cloning facility he'd apparently appropriated from one of the clonemasters."
Emphasis added by me to highlight the important parts. Pellaeon was once an officer of the Old Republic fleet, and the clones were an enemy created by unknown "clonemasters" who unleashed them on the galaxy. Add that to the way the clones are feared for their instability and that everyone is shocked and disturbed that Thrawn would resort to using human duplicates in his war effort, implying that the existing stormtroopers are certainly not clones, and the picture you get is completely inconsistent with the prequels.
But I don't mind that; in fact I'm glad of it, because the prequels are lame, and Zahn's idea was much better. And like skyjedi2005 said in another thread, Lucas rebooted the franchise without telling anyone. So the Thrawn trilogy only fits with the original films, which are the only ones that matter anyway.
hairy_hen said:
So the Thrawn trilogy only fits with the original films, which are the only ones that matter anyway.
Man, I'm standing *right here*
You're just trying to make me cry. It won't work.
Aw, sorry Ric. I think you're a great guy, really, but I guess I'm just not that into you. Maybe we need to see other movies . . .
:D
Ric, he's just trying to be nice. It's not him. It's you.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.