ATMachine

Lord Haseo said:

Even counting TFA, there are not enough ladies wielding lightsabers in the canon SW 'verse.

SilverWook said:

This is like wondering why all Vulcans and Klingons don’t look the same.

A question that has preoccupied the minds of many Star Trek fans, including the writers of Enterprise. And a completely ridiculous thing to worry about.

Also, Captain Tarpals has a Gungastache because he is a military-man archetype and military men traditionally have moustaches.

I would’ve finished the sentence with that first clause, but the second might also be true.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Lord Haseo said:

This is kind of depressing actually.

Ezra’s eyes aren’t the right shade of blue. Automatic fail.

Personally I think it’s depressing because of Kanan’s execrable facial hair. Someday we’ll look back on that and go “ha ha ha, what a stupid 2000s style that was.”

Earl said:

LexX said:

Earl said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Earl said:

#MakeThreadActiveAgain

#UghUnnecessaryLensFlare

The plague that nearly all Star Wars posters, official and non, suffer from.

You should have posted the art itself to the art thread, not some weird fan mock-up. 😉

Oh, I never knew that was something official, I just saw it on DA and assumed it was fanmade.

Well, it’s not the cover as published, which gives Kyle a green lightsaber as in the game.

Boss Nass is just fat to a degree approaching Huttitude.

Density said:

You won’t be seeing a restoration on Star Wars from 1977 being sold on it’s own.

I think it’s very possible that you will. Probably not as the only option, but I will be surprised (and annoyed) if they don’t release the movies as barebones single discs for the people who just want the OUT.

LFL already did that. It’s called the GOUT.

Now whether they can do it from proper film materials rather than simply transferring a laserdisc to DVD is another question.

You mean by making it available alongside the original as a “director’s cut”? That wouldn’t have served to illustrate the lesson that should have been learned in 1988.

I agree with you. Unfortunately George Lucas decided otherwise, to make a (valid) point about intellectual property law.

It wasn’t stealing. Gillian Anderson was perfectly free to take additional film contracts in her off hours.

Tobar said:

He’s afraid to go into the fan edit section because he believes Lucasfilm is monitoring it to steal his ideas.

He’s not wrong.

As far as the digital alterations to SW go, it’s increasingly clear that George Lucas has been deliberately seeking to make his films worse - turning himself into the villain he himself foresaw in his 1988 speech to the US Congress.

Playing both sides of that particular argument, rather like Darth Sidious, though it should be obvious where his sympathies actually lie. (And unless I’ve much misread things, despite all his public statements to the contrary, it’s not with the Special Editions.)

ZkinandBonez said:

If someone took the time to re-dub all the Gungans with proper English, as well as re-animate Jar Jar to be less goofy, then I think the Gungans could be a pretty interesting part of TPM.

When I look at some of the Doug Chiang concept art for Jar Jar and the Gungas I can’t help but feel that they were a real missed opportunity.
Then again, “many good and interesting ideas poorly executed”, is a pretty decent summary of the PT in general.

Not surprising given that this version of Jar Jar is derived from the Green Martian-esque character of Han Solo (don’t let the name fool you, he’s a burly alien sidekick in the vein of Chewbacca) from the 1974 rough draft.

Actually, now I’m rather scared of Gungans. Specifically their weaponry.

The Gungans are a result of GL taking an attempted storyline about the bad and wrong racial prejudice of Naboo humans from his TPM first draft and saying “you know what? screw this, let’s make Jar Jar a Stepin Fetchit in alienface.”

If Jar Jar is God, I’m for Lucifer.

If you want to understand Boba Fett’s character, don’t look at the Man With No Name. Look at Tuco Ramirez.

If Endor were a desert, would Ewoks wear stillsuits?

Astonishing.

Actually, I just read the title.

Yeah, last time I checked this isn’t the 4K Restoration on Star Tours thread.

I wasn’t particularly thrilled with Darth Maul’s return at first, but now I’ll concede it was all but inevitable. The more so since him getting cut in half and surviving eerily parallels the character Maw from LucasArts’ 1997 Jedi Knight game.

Heck, half-machine TCW Maul would’ve made a more sensible minor antagonist for Episode III than General Grievous. I wonder if there’s some sort of Ur-Maul character in this vein mentioned in GL’s 1980s prequel notes, or if he just cribbed the idea from his game company?

(…and if so, is GL to blame for Darth Mycroft Darth Megagoth Darth Maul’s Even More Stupidly Named Older Brother?)

joefavs said:

I’d really like to see the “Luke & Leia” love theme from ROTJ dusted off for their inevitable reunion

Fixed that for you. 😉

Don’t blame me, blame Richard Wagner.

To be fair, even old Ben Kenobi probably couldn’t imitate the complex and multi-faceted call of the Kravat Dragon.

I can understand there’s logic to questioning Disney’s megalithic Total Franchise approach to SW. Especially since franchisation often imposes requirements that are directly counterpoised to good storytelling in movies.

But citing Avatar as a reason to claim that SW is no longer relevant?? People didn’t go to that film for the story, they went to see if the 3D was any good. And then in six months’ time they had largely forgotten it. Hardly an example of a “cultural force”.

One more example of why franchises are so powerful in Hollywood now: executives don’t have any clue what new movies audiences might want to see or why. (Nor do they particularly need to care, given the profit margins involved in exporting mindless blockbusters to totalitarian China.)

Iunno about the AOTC teal tint, but I’ve become convinced that the ESB blue tint on Hoth was deliberately added by GL to try to capture the color scheme of the Ralph McQuarrie concept paintings.

Same idea with zooming in slightly on all the ESB Falcon cockpit footage - retroactively correcting the “mistake” of building the set slightly bigger than in SW 1977 to accommodate the actors better.

Some changes to SW really are attempts to capture what Lucas “really wanted” way back when. Doesn’t make them good.