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Yeah, I’d be interested to learn how we know that person got fired.

Agreed. I had been thinking about buying it but without any of the alternate scenes it’s a deal-killer.

But was Archduke Franz Ferdinand killed when the Bosnian System was destroyed?

TV’s Frink said:

generalfrevious said:

I used to think it was the special editions, but in light of TFA and Rogue One I might say it was maybe selling the franchise to Disney.

You were much closer with the first answer there, but to be more specific his worst decision was not making the special editions, but rather using it to bury the original editions. Nothing else he’s done has even come close, not even the PT.

There are not words to express the depths to which I agree with this statement. Well put, sir.

Gar Saxon is an awesome name. Very Beowulf.

If Guinness came up with “lightsaber”, he’d have had to tell George about it months before he was cast – it shows up in dialogue in the August 1975 third-draft script.

However, the same script consistently uses “laser sword” in descriptions of fight scenes. So “laser sword” was the BTS term, but Lucas clearly wanted a more dignified name for the things in-universe.

The term “laser sword” is used in the early SW drafts. Lucas also calls it a “laser sword” frequently in BTS documentaries. Maybe Anakin was just channeling. 😉

Tyrphanax said:

I’ve only been to one Celebration and it was definitely worthwhile.

Well, I finally bought tickets & a hotel reservation, so I guess I’m going. It’s only a few hours away from me, after all. 😃

Agreed.

DominicCobb said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

I had a thought, and probably totally off base but I think it would be pretty cool. We’ve seen the toy packaging and the poster. And the teaser crawl photo was B&W. Why? RED OPENING CRAWL. Totally not going to hapoen, and I’m sure a lot of people would find the break from tradition off putting. But I’d dig it.

https://mobile.twitter.com/rianjohnson/status/823770053971578881

Well, I guess we don’t have to worry about any propaganda of the DEED then. 😉

Sure, don’t let me stop you. 😃

I’ve been to the two previous Orlando conventions. I’m honestly debating whether to go back. The first time I went for the Ralph McQuarrie art exhibit, which was great fun, but the second time I wasn’t as impressed with what was on offer there.

Lord Haseo said:

Mocata said:

Also when did Han become an expert on fixing The Falcon?

This kind of thing always makes me laugh, since Han’s whole act was just bravado. The other characters in ANH clearly know this and in ESB he never even fixes the broken hyperdrive.

Speaking of ESB who can forget when Han showed his prowess by hitting the Falcon with his fist to get some shit to work? If that doesn’t make you an expert then what does?

On a side note I always loved that R2 fixed the hyperdrive given Han’s disposition towards droids

As I recall, Han fixing the Falcon with “percussive maintenance” was actually Harrison Ford doing that in real life when the cockpit set lights failed to turn on properly. 😄

All hail His Electronic Holiness, the Droid Pope Q9-X2.

Probably a stupid question whose answer is already known, but humor me:

In Harmy’s Despecialized Edition of SW 1977, it’s clear that Luke and Obi-Wan’s lightsabers are the same shade of blue. However, for some reason in the GOUT transfer Luke’s blade appears white in the scene on the Millennium Falcon.

Is it possible that some elements from the original in-camera white lightsaber effects (also seen in the 1976 trailer) snuck into the Falcon training scene on the 1990s laserdisc release?

SilverWook said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

imperialscum said:

SilverWook said:

imperialscum said:

TV’s Frink said:

stealthboy said:

I’m praying for no prequel references. That’s all. I honestly don’t care about anything else.

I think I’m going to judge the film on how good it is, rather than if there’s a random comment about Geonosis.

This. TFA had no PT references and it sucked. On the other hand, R1 had PT references and it was good.

After Finn’s defection, one of the New Order guys was touting how clone troops would be better.

There are a few minor references which are negligible compared to references in R1.

I count two in each film, and at least half of those barely count as references.

TFA:
• “…balance in the force”
• “…clone army”

R1
• Castle Vader happens to probably be on Mustafar
• Bail Organa exists

Both movies’ PT references are very minor.

Bail existed in the OT, he was just never named on screen. (I knew his name as a kid thanks to the novelization and the Marvel comic.) The important fact is Jimmy Smits reprised the role.

As opposed to that guy from TPM (edit: Adrian Dunbar) whose scenes were cut and whose character got retconned to “Bail Antilles”?

The digital tech used for the PT was in its infancy at the time. There were always going to be growing pains. Not surprising that Lucas took the opportunity to use it on films he intended to be deliberately bad.

I’m amazed they got away with putting “Star Wars” on the cover, tbh.

And it’s a discredited genre now, but in the 70s the line between porn parody SF and actual SF was very thin indeed. There’s a reason several future Star Trek VFX artists worked on the 1974 Flesh Gordon.

I like that Owen and Beru aren’t the evil step-parents of traditional fairy tales. Lucas wanted to do something like this in earlier drafts, having Owen smack Luke around, etc., but it works much better as it is in the film.

Owen’s just an ordinary Tatooine farmer, well-meaning but parochial, who gets killed because he accidentally stumbled on something the Empire wanted. It reinforces the evil of the Empire in a way dialogue never could.

Dark Empire is an OK take on a premise that’s inherently hard to write well. The Emperor returning in a clone body is something that sounds like a bad fanfic.

Especially since cloning tech was so little seen during the OT. If there had been more emphasis on it during the movies up to that point, it might have been more acceptable. As it is, it feels like a not-really-justified way to get the Emperor back into SW.

Nah, I’m pretty sure KYlo was born in the GFFA equivalent of holy matrimony.

Jeebus said:

Seriously though, parody movies have been dead for a while now. Gone are the days of Austin Powers, Young Frankenstein and Spaceballs, and we can thank Seltzer and Friedberg for killing the genre.

FTFY

dahmage said:

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” ~Pablo Picasso

But the question is: destruction of what?

It’s for the same reason as the SEs exist in the first place: Lucas deliberately fouling up his earlier ideas from the 1980s.

The difference, of course, is that the PT is an act of creation, however misguided, and the SEs are an attempt at wilful destruction of previous films.

Nah, that’s a Lynch-ism.