General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread — Page 155

Ryan McAvoy said:

ray_afraid said:

Why do characters post ROTJ have to have weird space-names?
The characters in the OT had normal names. Luke, Ben, Han, Leia, Lando. But in the PT and EU (what little I know of both) the new characters all seem to have silly sci-fi type names. Seems goofy to me.
I'm pretty sure that trend will continue into the ST.

I know, I can't move for people called Lando in my neck of the woods.

 You may not know anyone by that name, but it is a real name.
And Obi-Wan isn't that weird. Sounds Asian and he's a weird wizard so he gets a pass on having a weird name.

As for Anakin, yeah, that's a weird one, but an occasional odd name doesn't bother me. Maybe the EU isn't as bad about this as I believe, but it seems every character has some weird name, where as in the OT the main cast had normal names.

Tank, Riekann (sp?), Dodonna, Needa, Piett...   ;)

Nomi? Shira? Jori?

I forget, are you an Aussie?

Tobar said:

Wedge, Dak, Biggs....

fishmanlee said:

Tank, Riekann (sp?), Dodonna, Needa, Piett...

Those aren't main cast and most aren't even named on screen.

DuracellEnergizer said:

There are also a number of EU characters who have real world names. Mara Jade, Nomi Sunrider, Alexandra Winger, Shira Brie, Zak Arranda, Gav and Jori Daragon, Keiran Halcyon, Celeste Morne, Callista Ming, etc, etc.

There's what I'm lookin' for. Like I said, I don't know the PT or EU very well. Seems that all the characters I hear about have silly sci-fi space names.
Still, those names sound very exotic compared with the names of the OT cast.

ray_afraid said:

Tobar said:

Wedge, Dak, Biggs....

fishmanlee said:

Tank, Riekann (sp?), Dodonna, Needa, Piett...

Those aren't main cast and most aren't even named on screen.

If by "Most", you mean "A quarter", then yes ;-)

For the record I agree with your general point. Outside of the OT (Which isn't totally immune) there are some truly terrible name choices. Almost to the point that you think the writers are trying to make them laughably bad on purpose. The worst is when they just pick a name for evil at random from the dictionary and call the villain that e.g.

Savage Opress from TCW and Agent Kallus from the new Rebels show.

It shows a woeful lack of imagination that is almost impressive. I'm sure at some point in the future there'll be a Sith Lord called 'Baad Gi', it's just a matter of when.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I'm honestly surprised they haven't come up with a "Darth Satanus" yet.

 Actually, I may start using that one... ; )

If it's available where you live... part one of Neil Brand's 3-part doc on the history of film music is available on BBC iPlayer...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03b45h4/sound-of-cinema-the-music-that-made-the-movies-1-the-big-score

This part covered big orchestral scores, so naturally it touches on the influence of Star Wars and in turn Korngold's influence on it. Well worth a watch. I didn't remember seeing the footage of JW conducting along to the B&W workprint of ESB but I probably have seen it somewhere before in the dim past.

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/10/star-wars-conspiracy-theory-boba-fett-owen-beru-lars

This is somewhat interesting, but I don't like that it relies on the Special Edition of ANH to make it plausible.

Owen and Beru were not disintegrated. There were corpses.

^Also the Stormtroopers didn't "miss wildly". In the opening scene they gun down and capture most of the Rebs we see. And while in the Death Star chasing our heroes, well, as Leia says- "They let us go. It's the only explanation for the ease of our escape."
And Boba Fett wasn't working for the Empire in their search for the droids, he was busy working for Jabba lookin' for Han.
The Stormtroopers are only Boba clones if you accept the prequels and Boba was only on Tattooine at the time if you accept the SE.

TOR.COM said:

Really, it’s just refreshing to see Star Wars speculation that’s not about the new trilogy.

No, it's still stale to hear silly speculations based on the PT and SE.

ray_afraid said:

^Also the Stormtroopers didn't "miss wildly". In the opening scene they gun down and capture most of the Rebs we see. And while in the Death Star chasing our heroes, well, as Leia says- "They let us go. It's the only explanation for the ease of our escape."
And Boba Fett wasn't working for the Empire in their search for the droids, he was busy working for Jabba lookin' for Han.
The Stormtroopers are only Boba clones if you accept the prequels and Boba was only on Tattooine at the time if you accept the SE.

TOR.COM said:

Really, it’s just refreshing to see Star Wars speculation that’s not about the new trilogy.

No, it's still stale to hear silly speculations based on the PT and SE.

 It's just as bad as the one about Chewie being a secret Rebel agent in cahoots with Artoo.

I like it.