General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread — Page 194

Has anyone else noticed the file layout of the ANH blu-ray.

It's kind of interesting (as much as a file layout can be, at least), that the film is encoded entirely in one m2ts, except for the intro. Everything up through the crawl, until the final frame of the flyover, is in a separate file. 

Is there an obvious reason they might have done that? Or is it possible that they were considering an alternatively branched crawl? Not quite sure what the point would have been for the latter, sticking the 1977 crawl on a screwy version of the film.

Just thought it was kind of interesting that an important branching/splicing point for both fan editing and the film's history was utilized for some reason here.

SilverWook said:

The DVD's have crawls in different languages.

 Doh! Very obvious answer indeed!

Someone responded without reading subsequent posts...

That would have been immensely awesome and would have made Jar Jar my most favourite SW character EVER.

SilverWook said:

What might have been?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/michael-jackson-wanted-to-play-jar-jar-binks-in-%27star-wars%27/ar-AAdppkY?ocid=ansVariety11

 Would have been perfect!  Watching the podrace, seeing Anakin getting knocked around by Sebulba:

"Ani, are yousa okeeday, are yousa okeeday, are yousa okeeday Ani? Yousa been hitten by a wude criminal!"

I don't think MJ would have gone with the pseudo-Jamaican accent, though. =P

SilverWook said:

This is definitely not going to fit in my living room.

http://www.sideshowtoy.com/hot-toys-is-ready-to-make-the-kessel-run-with-an-18-foot-millennium-falcon/

It's a matter of priorities. (The less important stuff must go ... spouse, offspring, pets, that kind of stuff.)   YOU CAN MAKE IT FIT! 'Cause everyone knows to "let the wookie win".  ;)

If you imagine the eyes as his nostrils and the ears as his eyes, this roasted guinea pig

***This image may be upsetting if you like small furry animals that people normally don't eat in the west. Click at your own risk!***

http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2013/11/26/1226768/563220-054c9932-562a-11e3-ba26-b7fc4856beca.jpg

turns into a roasted Jar Jar.

SilverWook said:

^ That may be a delicacy somewhere else, but not here. Delete it or make it a link with a warning.

JEDIT: Not waiting. And this isn't the first time you've posted an inappropriate or upsetting image where it doesn't belong. Knock it off.

Oops. Sorry about that. I keep forgetting many people aren't as desensitized towards stuff like this as I am. 

In the hope of ending this edible animal strand but at the risk of extending it, killing and eating animals is the same thing be they things considered pets in the West or not. This is the internet, it's an open forum. As someone who doesn't eat animals at all I am as distressed by a roast chicken as I am at a roasted cat.

I discovered today that my sainted great grandmother used to drown kittens. This fresh revelation has really weirded me out but cats served a function in rodent control in the past. Excess numbers of cats would be unsustainable and paying for a vet to call an end to the reproductive life of a cat would have been expensive. But I can't shake the idea of my lovely nan holding new born kittens underwater.

"What has this got to do with Star Wars?", I perceive you asking.

The original post  in this strand was on topic being a roasted Jar-Jar.

Silverwook was right to consider the feelings of people who don't like to see gore or animal flesh prepared for consumption but to take particular offence based on a Western, 21st century view of the human relationship with animals is running the risk of alienating people who visit the pages from the future or the past... or other planets.

Or as an dear old friend sadly seldom seen these days would say "double standards".

The footage here may distress some readers as it shows the consumption of live animals : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiD-n7ewvGo

Anywho...

My summer job this year has been at a camp. I am pleased to say that not only are a lot of the kids Star Wars fans, but they seem to be only OT fans. I was talking to a 6 year old boy today who referred to Empire as "the second one." Made me so happy.