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Originally posted by: HotRod
They should have a whole series devoted to Jawas...in Jawa speak!!!


Or, maybe even better: remember the Ewok movies? How about seen it 23 minutes a week, every week?
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They should have a whole series devoted to Jawas...in Jawa speak!!!

"Ooo-chee-dee: The Series"

Or, better yet...



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where the fuck did you find that pic, bossk? or did you photoshop it?
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PS can anyone here think of a decent TV series based on a movie? Please don't say stargate...


The Real Ghostbusters.
Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

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Originally posted by: HotRod
I take some of what i said Back...

Yes I enjoyed St:TNG when it was on...watch it now and it's pretty lame...
Yes I enjoyed Quantem Leap when it was on...It's Ok now!


Quantum Leap (which I first caught in reruns on the Sci-Fi channel) is, to me, the epitome of character-driven storytelling. And to me good storytelling never fades.

Star Trek: the Next Generation on the other hand... after having watched several episodes of the original Star Trek, TNG, which I used to love, now seems second-rate (but it's still better than crap like Voyager). The original Star Trek was surprisingly well-written--even the seemingly goofy plot developments had a purpose and reason that became clear later in the episode. It's good storytelling that shines through despite the fake special effects. The Next Generation, on the other hand, while fun, is juvenile, seeming like it was aimed at teenagers and, furthermore, instead of being well-written, the writers just seemed to come up with random plotlines (after all, whenever the Enterprise doesn't run into a REAL threat, the Holodeck can create one). It had a few good episodes, but it was nowhere near the quality of the original series insofar as storytelling, and it ESPECIALLY doesn't match up to the first or sixth Star Trek movies.

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Originally posted by: Jedi Master DJR
This is just getting silly. To see this whole idea shot down without a chance, anger inducing for this Jedi. Still, I will say this. Who cares if it messes up? It just might, but it's not like Star Wars will not suddenly suck. Get over yourselves people. There are still fans out there who want Star Wars to continue and a move to TV to use a Trek word is very logical. Otherwise, SW will die out without even an attempt to keep it alive. And I would prefer it at least tried to continue. And since many of you think GL has fu@@ed up Star Wars with the prequals already, what the hell do you we have to lose?


Screw "keeping it alive." You know what happens when you try to extend a franchise to "keep it alive?"

You get the Star Wars Prequels
You get Star Trek: Deep Space Nine/Voyager/Enterprise
You get Dragon Ball Z
You get Yu-Gi-Oh
You get Extreme Ghostbusters
You get Transformers Armada
You get serieses like The Wheel of Time books.
You get Dune Messiah and the subsequent books in that series.

On the other hand, quality works usually choose to end at one point or another. There's a reason Tolkien decided to end Lord of the Rings in only three books, instead of trying to keep it running basically forever.

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i actually DBZ... a lot!
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DBZ was not an extention of franchise. Dragon Ball GT was.
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never got into DB GT... never said much to me.
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where the fuck did you find that pic, bossk? or did you photoshop it?

What do you think, Motti? You are talking to the Chia man.
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true...
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I was considering using little pairs of Jabba eyes as the divider dots, but I wanted it to more resemble the actual Friends logo and I thought that might be lost by adding too much to it. Did it get the point across?
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
DBZ was not an extention of franchise. Dragon Ball GT was.


Umm, yes it was. Akira Toriyama was originally going to end the story after Goku and ChiChi got married, but because it was so popular he decided to extend the series. And THEN it was going to end with the Freeza Saga, but again, it was popular so he decided to cash in. I'd call that an extension.

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So it was DragonBall, then DragonBall Z, and then DragonBall GT?
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Yes DragonBall was a manga/anime, altough not a very good one, a huge success during the late 80s early 90s.

Akira Toryama actually had decided to end Dragon Ball at the end of the Freeza saga, killing Goku. His publisher did not like it at all, as DB was a huge success, and demanded him to continue the series - which got very silly after that, with robots, time travel, and magic powers and body fusions. After the ending of DBZ, they tried to continue the anime series (not the manga) with Dragon Ball GT (stands from "Grand Tour"), with 56 episodes. It's horrible, and almost didn't envolve Toryama at all, who was "busy" with other projects.

Dragon Ball was not a good manga/anime, altough Toryama can be funny and creatived when he wants to. I'd recomend it to 10-15 year old kids.
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If there was going to be a TV series, I would like to see it set in the period of ANH and ESB. As someone already suggested, it could focus on a family or group of families living in on near the outer rim (so they have no/minimal involvement with any of the characters or events from the movies) inside Imperial space, commanded by an ambitious Imperial officer. At the beginning it could follow how this group begins to recognise the true nature of the Empire, makes contact with the rebels, some decide to join the rebellion, some stay neutral etc. I think this idea could have alot of potential, but would be very surprised if it turned out well. I just can't envision it. But I would be over the moon if it did.
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DB GT was created by Akira Toriyama's students.

DBZ RULES!
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Samatar, the thing is, I fear that if it's set during episodes 1 to 6, it could become a parody.
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Yes DragonBall was a manga/anime, altough not a very good one, a huge success during the late 80s early 90s.

Akira Toryama actually had decided to end Dragon Ball at the end of the Freeza saga, killing Goku. His publisher did not like it at all, as DB was a huge success, and demanded him to continue the series - which got very silly after that, with robots, time travel, and magic powers and body fusions. After the ending of DBZ, they tried to continue the anime series (not the manga) with Dragon Ball GT (stands from "Grand Tour"), with 56 episodes.


64 episodes, actually, plus one special.

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It's horrible, and almost didn't envolve Toryama at all, who was "busy" with other projects.

Dragon Ball was not a good manga/anime, altough Toryama can be funny and creatived when he wants to. I'd recomend it to 10-15 year old kids.


Personally, I liked GT much more than I liked Z... at least at first, and then only the Japanese subtitled versions (FUNimation, who does the English version, for some reason really likes to screw the show up when they play it in English... in GTs case, they even skipped the first fifteen episodes).

The original Dragon Ball was also a fun, lighthearted adventure. It's DBZ where the problems are... it has a ton of characters who basically sit around and stare in shock while two people go head to head, the fights last way too long... and the last two villains (Cell and Buu) were practically the same, concept-wise (That is, they were both villains who become stronger by absorbing their enemies).

I do agree, however, that there are better manga out there that unfortunately are mostly overlooked by the American public because they associate it with crap like DBZ.
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Ricarleitte, if you have ever played the PC game "Xwing Alliance", the back story to that is the sort of thing I mean. I get what you're saying about it becoming a parody, but of it wasn't set during the movies it wouldn't really be Star Wars, at least to me... it would have to have Imperials in it I think. So even the prequels are out; but again, this is just what I personally would wan to see.
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I, too, am afraid of it becoming a bit of a joke if it's set using references to characters we already know and love, be they OT or PT. To hear reference to characters we know and never see them on screen would be too big a disappointment (that would be the only way to use them and not have to worry about the perfect casting). I really think a series about the initial rise and fall of the Sith (pre PT) is about the only thing that could work.
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and that would be the era that i mentinoed, 4,000 years before ANH... awesome era.
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It could be interesting. I'm not holding out too much hope as I would likely then be disappointed. I'll watch it, no doubt.
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