DuracellEnergizer said:
Death Star's still sporting the shockwave, I see.
I hate that goddamn shockwave.
What, you mean the Praxis wave? (Or the "Kunst wave," as I think they call it in certain parts of Massachusetts.)
I don't like it either. Too anachronistic.
U-238 or U-235?
Well, at least it's not s'pork.
Fine. Because you demanded it:
As a great Elf-king once said: Know who you are!
Nur eine Waffe taugt:
die Wunde schliesst
der Speer nur, der sie schlug.
Sei heil, entsündigt und gesühnt!
Denn ich verwalte nun dein Amt.
Gesegnet sei dein Leiden,
das Mitleid’s höchste Kraft
und reinsten Wissens Macht
dem zagen Thoren gab !
Den heil'gen Speer -
ich bring' ihn euch zurück !
DuracellEnergizer said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
^Your attempt to sneak in spam is hamfisted and unsubtle.
...I think you dropped these, Mr. Lucas.
You're a real diamond in the rough, Duracell.
Why don't you share your transporter with the rest of us? It can't be that hard... a few calls to the right people, surely? That can't take more than a day or two, I'd guess.
AntcuFaalb said:
DrCrowTStarwars said:
I could cosplay as him, the fat version from the books, not the thin one in the TV show:)
Mycroft Holmes in the Granada Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett is hardly thin.
Have a Cold One on me, good sir.
My favorite commander? Spock, of course.
Oh, did you mean my favorite captain? ;)
To: Herr Reichsmarschall Hermann Oberth
From: Marshal Sir Colin Harris, Commander in Chief, Her Majestys Royal Air Force
Subject: Tactical Arms Reduction Talks
Dear Sir,
This war has gone on far too long for the both of us, I believe. Let us talk therefore of peace, sir.
As an opening proposal, I suggest that you render up to international inspection the secret weapons of your Luftwaffe. In exchange, I will call a halt to the bombing campaign currently being undertaken by Her Majesty's Royal Air Force against you and your country. Except of course on such "soft" targets, the bombing of which does not violate the agreed laws of nations and of gentlemen.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Yours sincerely,
Colin "Bomber" Harris
Leonardo said:
Release the hounds.
AntcuFaalb said:
ray_afraid said:
This actually looks much more like what I'd imagined Anikin would look like before the PT!
Nah, it's all about young Sebastian Shaw.
Lovely fanart.
I can't help but nitpick, however--IIRC young Shaw actually had dark hair. Which seems to have been how GL envisioned prequel-era Anakin around the time of ROTJ.
CatBus said:
Tobar said:
Looks like little Annie fell to the Darkside
Goatees lead to handlebars, handlebars lead to neckbeards, neckbeards lead to mutton chops.
Actually, I've heard that neckbeards can also lead to anti-Semitism and an obsession with composing "total works of art".
But what do I know? I'm just another man of flesh.
Ah. I obviously failed to make the Theon/Sansa/Myranda--Vader/Luke/Palpatine connection. Well spotted!
I did notice, however, that Myrcella's death scene--due to poison, while on a boat--apparently referenced Richard Wagner's tragic opera Tristan und Isolde (where in Act 1 the heroine tries to poison herself during a sea voyage).
Myrcella's fiancé was even named Trystane, making the connection more obvious.
Three? Please elaborate.
I'm assuming you're not referring to the mere presence of Jaime Lannister on the show. ;
So by my count the season finale contained at least two Star Wars references.
Also, Myrcella's death on a boat via poison reminds me that I really need to listen to more German opera.
timdiggerm said:
in before joke about "black east"
One does not simply joke about Mordor.
A species that has sworn eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the bodies of men... interesting.
To whom it may concern:
I had intended to round off the narratives of these two alternate versions of the Star Wars saga by filling them out, respectively, to lengths of nine and twelve episodes. However, due to circumstances largely beyond my control, I am no longer able to spend the time necessary to finish writing these stories. Thus, until some fortunate future day comes, I shall cease my tale here, at a point where the two stories are largely satisfactory on their own.
...At least, for the present.
If you wish, feel free to write in your own conclusions.
A lot of people would probably include the film version of Oliver Twist that Guinness was in--on the basis of his makeup alone.
TV's Frink said:
ATMachine said:
The Secret History of Star Wars contains quite a few errors, you know.
That's a bold claim, especially given that the writer is a longtime member here. Please start a new thread and elaborate.
Patience, young one. All shall be revealed in time.
I think you might have 1975 and 1977 mixed up there.
This is like an axe-blow to the roots of my cinematic childhood. So incredibly sad to hear of Mr Lee's death--though 93 is certainly a remarkable age to have attained.
The Secret History of Star Wars contains quite a few errors, you know. (But it's right about the final on-screen name of Coruscant in the prequels coming from the Zahn novels.)
In the 1973 story synopsis, the Imperial capital world of Alderaan seems to have been essentially equivalent to the later city-planet Coruscant of the prequels.
However, the Alderaan seen in the 1974 rough draft was essentially a prototype of Cloud City: a floating metropolis hanging in the midst of a gaseous cloud expanse. The idea derives more or less straight from the Sky City of the Hawkmen in the original Flash Gordon Sunday comics.
In the second and third drafts from 1975, Alderaan remained a floating Cloud City and an Imperial prison, but it was no longer the capital of the Empire, merely a detention center. Still, the second draft does mention that the chief Sith Lord--then a separate character from the Emperor--had his residence on Alderaan.
The Alderaan of 1975 is evidently similar to Salusa Secundus in Dune: a secondary planet of the ruling House Corrino, where the Empire's greatest warriors are trained, though the Padishah Emperor currently has his capital on the planet Kaitain.
In Leigh Brackett's draft of ESB, the Imperial capital city-planet is known as Ton-Muund. This name, partly French in inspiration, suggests the phrase "tomb world" (or even "your world").
Had Abaddon, from the early drafts of ROTJ, has obvious Biblical connections--as does the name of "the Green Moon," Endor (or Jus-Endor, in some of the drafts).
