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Oy.
A vest is a vest – furthermore, it’s a vest in an inconsequential, mediocre novel – so who cares what it looks like?
I want to know why Luke has a golden lightsaber on the Shadows of the Empire novel cover.
Probably the same reason everything else is yellow. I mean even Vader looks kind of yellow. The yellow colour scheme in general seems to have to do with the sun behind the SW logo, it kinda looks like a moon, but this novel does revolve around the Black Sun organization so it might have something to do with that.
Also Struzan has switched up the colours before for the sake of symbolism, such as the reversed saber colours of Luke and Vader on the Revenge of the Jedi poster, which he even claims was done subconsciously.
So it’s probably just an artistic choice.
Star Wars is Surrealism, not Science Fiction (essay)
Original Trilogy Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Beyond the OT Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Amazon link to my novel; Dawn of the Karabu.
I don’t know what’s more weird, that Luke looks like he’s going fly fishing in that vest, or Xizor’s freakishly long nails. He could maim himself just scratching an itch!
Where were you in '77?
Prince Exciser, er, Xizor, grows them that long just so he can force his underlings to do all his typing for him.
“That Darth Vader, man. Sure does love eating Jedi.”
I don’t know what’s more weird, that Luke looks like he’s going fly fishing in that vest, or Xizor’s freakishly long nails. He could maim himself just scratching an itch!
The vest kind of resembles the outer layer of the Hoth uniform, no?
I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.
The Hoth uniform didn’t have pockets like that, and that’s what makes him look like a fisherman. It also doesn’t appear to have the collar. Why couldn’t he just be wearing the Hoth vest? That would look better IMO.
Army of Darkness: The Medieval Deadit | The Terminator - Color Regrade | The Wrong Trousers - Audio Preservation
SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.
Oy.
A vest is a vest – furthermore, it’s a vest in an inconsequential, mediocre novel – so who cares what it looks like?
Ironic that your username is double batteries while so many of your posts are buzzkill.
I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.
I will not dignify that remark with a response.
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Crap.
Play nice, kids!
Where were you in '77?
I meant no offense. I quite enjoy DE’s disdain for the EU. It’s just ironic, that’s all.
I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.
I only disdain certain parts of the EU, actually.
In all honestly, I don’t even really mind Shadow of the Empire; it’s just harmless meh to me.
Since this is the “random” thread, something I have scoured the internet for, but cant seem to fina definitive answer. Im always reading what sources were used for different format releases of both the SWT and other movies. How do yall know where the different formats are sourced from? The 93’ LD seems to be a pretty common source material for different releases, but what was it sourced from?? Just curious.
Good old fashioned nightmare fuel. Also reminds me of a Boglin.
Where were you in '77?
I realized something. Near the beginning of The Force Awakens, We see Poe use a turret like gun on the underside of his X-wing.
We don’t see turret like weapons used by any of the other T-70 X-wings, do we? Just the one time.
It’s probably only useful when sitting on the ground, like the small hidden blaster turret on the Falcon that takes out some Snowtroopers in Empire.
Where were you in '77?
That would make some sense. I still kind of want to see it used more often. That might be the X-wing miniatures player in me talking though; I like seeing things from the movies make to the game, even if giving an X-wing access to turret weapons is probably overpowered.
I noticed that TFA put glass in the Falcon laser turrets and had the turboguns outside controlled by separate consoles on the other side. Which is a nice improvement on the OT-era tech where if your forcefields failed you presumably got sucked out into space.
“That Darth Vader, man. Sure does love eating Jedi.”
I noticed that TFA put glass in the Falcon laser turrets and had the turboguns outside controlled by separate consoles on the other side. Which is a nice improvement on the OT-era tech where if your forcefields failed you presumably got sucked out into space.
What? The design of the falcon turrets didn’t change. While the actual filming set might not’ve had glass in the windows, it certainly wasn’t intended that they were just open holes. NONE of the full scale or miniature ships in the original film had glass in the windows because it was too big of a risk for reflecting the camera crews, lights, etc. which was a huge problem for optical compositing back then.
They did make the guns move differently than they were originally designed to, though. It’s something that’s been done in the eu and toys and things before, but this was the first time it was seen in a film. One is that the larger “disc” assemblies on top and bottom of the falcon that contain the gunner turrets could rotate independently of the ship and each other. Problem is that if that were to actually happen, it would shear the ladder tube that you climb up or down to get to the turrets… The tube is clearly lined up with the turret windows, but the windows are NOT centered on the discs…
Second is the way the gun itself actually moves. This is something that a LOT of material seems to not understand. The gun is cradled in a “U” shaped bracket where it can pivot up and down along the longitudinal axis (nose to tail) of the ship. This “U” bracket is then attached to the ship via a horizontal (relative to the ship) post that can rotate left and right. When you consider the orientation of the gunners (the top gunner is lying on his back relative to the ship and looking straight up, the bottom gunner is lying on his stomach looking straight down) you see that from their perspective, it’s like operating a gun mounted on a tripod that can swivel left, right, up, and down. The default position of the guns when powered up is, therefore, pointing straight up and straight down relative to the ship.
When Finn jumps into the gunner position you can clearly see the swiveling post ALSO can swing around in pretty much any direction. I don’t really have an issue with that as it just means the gunner has more options, but it’s clearly not the way it was originally intended to move if you study the model.
Interestingly, as I was searching for pictures to illustrate this, I found the one below that shows the swiveling U bracket on the 5ft (the very first falcon) model had been damaged and replaced with just a rod by the time of ROTJ…
JEDIT: found a couple more images that do a good job illustrating my point
A little special edition mocking from David Prowse:
https://twitter.com/isDARTHVADER/status/715783232386691072
I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.
A little special edition mocking from David Prowse:
https://twitter.com/isDARTHVADER/status/715783232386691072
LOL
Prequel Fan-Edit thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Yet-another-series-of-prequel-edits/id/17329
Sad news…
“Jake Lloyd – Star Wars’ young Anakin Skywalker – has been diagnosed with schizophrenia”
By Adam Starkey for Metro.co.ukMonday 11 Apr 2016 9:04 am
"Jake Lloyd, famous for playing young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, has been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
The Star Wars actor has been moved from jail to a psychiatric facility, after his mum revealed he suffers from the mental illness.
Jake was arrested in June last year after leading the police on a high-speed chase in South Carolina, exceeding speeds of 100mph."
‘Other children were really mean to me,’ he said. ‘They would make the sound of the lightsaber every time they saw me. It was totally mad.
‘My entire school life was really a living hell – and I had to do up to 60 interviews a day.’
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
Does George ever comment on this? Jake seems to be in the news often thee days, sadly.
Seeking only the most natural looking colors for Star Wars '77
I’m sorry for him, I hope he’ll soon get better. I didn’t have a very happy childhood either, so I think I can understand how he feels about it, but I didn’t know it could develop into schizophrenia.
The Original Trilogy’s Timeline Reconstruction: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Implied-starting-date-of-the-Empire-from-OT-dialogue/post/786201/#TopicPost786201
I’m sorry for him, I hope he’ll soon get better. I didn’t have a very happy childhood either, so I think I can understand how he feels about it, but I didn’t know it could develop into schizophrenia.
Bullying and organized harassment has been known to do this.
See: “Psychological Manipulation and Induced Psychological Illness”
http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/psychological-manipulation.htm
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison