Akwat Kbrana

Pfft. Come on, commit to something, dude! I am so sick of wishy-washy, non-committal pedos...

What? You're not a pedobaptist?

INCONCEIVABLE!!

Personally, I would love to see that line re-dubbed. It always destroys my suspension of disbelief.

Or all those "stars" are also distant galaxies. According to the screenplay, it's supposed to be a galaxy.

Could be a figure of speech.

Maybe. Then again, maybe not. Interstellar travel between Alderaan and "remote" locations like Tatooine and Dantooine seems to go pretty quickly in Star Wars. Also, doesn't the ending of Empire depict the Rebel fleet outside the galaxy? From the ESB screenplay:

Together they stand at the large window of the medical center looking out on the Rebel Star Cruiser and a dense, luminous galaxy swirling in space. Luke puts his arm around Leia. The droids stand next to them, and Threepio moves closer to Artoo putting his arm on him. The group watches as the Millennium Falcon moves into view, makes a turn, and zooms away into space.

Specifically, the Falcon moves toward the galaxy that Luke and Leia are looking at, and since the dialogue indicates that Lando and Chewie were headed toward Tatooine, it's reasonable to infer that that galaxy is the very galaxy in which the storyline of Star Wars unfolds.

Also, Mon Mothma says in Return, "With the Imperial Fleet spread throughout the galaxy in a vain effort to engage us..." which, again, suggests that hyperdrive travel is capable of crossing vast portions of the galaxy (and even leaving the galaxy, according to the ESB ending) in a very short amount of time.

Han Solo can’t use the force. He is not a JEDI.

So maybe he simply denied it because if he can’t use the force why bother believing in it.

No offense, but that's kinda stupid. It would be like saying "I don't know how to play the piano, so I guess I don't believe that pianos exist."

I don't know. If it were possible to travel at the speed of light across our own Milkey Way galaxy, it would take over 150,000 years just to go from one end to the other. Travelling at the speed of a NASA space shuttle would take over 300 million years to make the same trip.

A galaxy is an enormous place!

True, but remember that hyperspace-travel is apparently fast enough to permit travel clear across the galaxy. Remember these lines?

Han: "Kid, I've been from one end of this galaxy to the other."

Imperial Officer (in ESB): "If they went to lightspeed, they could be on the other side of the galaxy by now."

But even within those 3 short years from 1977-81---- was there anything like the vitriolic hate towards Coppola like there is towards  Lucas for the re-edit of their respective movies----I don't think so.

By your own admission, the number of people who owned VHS players in 1981 was miniscule. Thus, this is a red herring.

Again, the two situations aren't even remotely comparable. Why are you torturing logic and reason so in order to force one?

Oh absolutely----but one forgets that Coppola re-edited both Godfather I and II into one movie which was aired over 3 or 4 successive nights  on NBC in 1977-----in the pre-home video world ---- that was as good as redefining how the Godfather would be presented to an audience(the vast majority of which had no access to the new Betamax format or the more conventional  Umatic video systems----the Theatrical edit of the Godfather on VHS would not become available until circa 1980/81)

You do insist on missing the point, don't you?

The Godfather situation isn't remotely parallel to the Star Wars situation. From 1977 to 1980 is only three years. By contrast, it has now been fifteen years since the Special Editions of Star Wars, and no decent transfer of the originals. Moreover, it's been, what, twenty-nine years since the "A New Hope" caption was added to Star Wars? And still no decent transfer of the pre-caption crawl, either. Additionally, Coppola made no concerted effort to suppress the originals of his films, which is what everyone is upset with George for in the first place.

You're comparing apples and oranges.

That's disgusting.

I like the google docs folder option, myself.

Anyway, just let me know how you want it delivered, and you shall have your five minute demo.

bkev said:

Things like that really fucking ruin the forum for me. I enjoy all these pictures, and then I have to go through... that. I'm a little sick of it.

I know what you mean. I suggest using AdBlock to block the offending pictures. Works for me...

Just finished mine. How do you want it delivered? Also, do you have a preferred audio format?

^Agreed.

I've had mixed feelings about Craig's Bond ever since his debut in Casino Royale, but this is really a bridge too far. Why not just make James Bond a blond American FBI agent while they're at it?

I remember thinking there were yellow sabers in AOTC after exiting the theatre as well. Later, when I checked the DVD, I realized that it was probably just an optical illusion caused by the proximity of green sabers to yellowish sand.

Reminds me of this.

Uh...

Hey! R2 is supposed to be back at the sandcrawler helping 3p0 burn the jawa bodies. Continuity!

Lol

You've got about a twenty-four hour wait ahead of you, dude. ;)

W00t!

Chiasmus. Kewl.

CP3S said:

Unfortunately, this made overly anal Trek fans spend years sitting around with wrinkled brows trying to come up with the most reasonable in universe explanation for this discrepancy

Toto - Africa

jonathan7 said:

I'm in the Bingowings camp, I liked the addition of the text and border to the screen; makes it seem more like a computer to me (which is what I would think the whole thing is, rather than just being a view screen). So much like a PC desktop it would have menu's etc...

My feelings precisely. The text isn't distracting (IMO), and it makes the display seem more sophisticated.