Somehow instead of Kissel I got Rinel! (which I thought was a perfectly good planet name, but whatever…)
I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve decided to steal borrow the name “Rinel” for my own use.
Or the secret mind reading powers of the Bavarian Illuminiati. You pick. 😉
I’m just trying to picture Harrison Fnord in all this.
Somehow instead of Kissel I got Rinel! (which I thought was a perfectly good planet name, but whatever…)
I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve decided to
stealborrow the name “Rinel” for my own use.
I can see that. Good luck with it. 😉
Oh, Tack, IIRC Lucas didn’t type up his own scripts for SW 1977; his secretary, Debbie Fine, did.
I recall reading a quote from her complaining about Lucas spelling the same alien names “five or six different ways” one each page. A bit hyperbolic, but somewhat true – evidently GL was trying out different ways of spelling certain phonetic names as he wrote. Fine’s job included proofing the spellings for consistency, but she didn’t always catch everything (see “Youreallians” vs. “Ureallians” for Han Solo’s species in the 1974 rough draft).
“That Darth Vader, man. Sure does love eating Jedi.”
Somehow instead of Kissel I got Rinel! (which I thought was a perfectly good planet name, but whatever…)
I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve decided to
stealborrow the name “Rinel” for my own use.
Only if you don’t mind me using the name myself. 😉
Yeah, I’m working on a Prequel rewrite. Partially some of the reason I’m so into this early stuff. I think a lot of the early concepts (rough and second draft, to be precise) have the makings of some awesome Star Wars predecessors. For instance, this concept that the Jedi were being slowly and systematically banned from the galaxy. No secret 66th order.
I’m just here because I’m driving tonight.
Oh, Tack, IIRC Lucas didn’t type up his own scripts for SW 1977; his secretary, Debbie Fine, did.
I recall reading a quote from her complaining about Lucas spelling the same alien names “five or six different ways” one each page. A bit hyperbolic, but somewhat true – evidently GL was trying out different ways of spelling certain phonetic names as he wrote. Fine’s job included proofing the spellings for consistency, but she didn’t always catch everything (see “Youreallians” vs. “Ureallians” for Han Solo’s species in the 1974 rough draft).
Wow. What an unsung hero. I applaud you, Ms. Fine (wherever you are).
I’m just here because I’m driving tonight.