Alexrd

skyjedi2005 said:

Wow this thread has de-evolved into a TFN apologist piece.

What's a TFN apologist?

Anyway:

Here. (For those interested...)

Complaints start in 3... 2... 1...

TV's Frink said:

Carbon freezing is used once.

It doesn't make it a unique event. The dialogue of the scene indicates that. Neither does this episode make it common.

What's left to explain?

Vader's dialogue regarding the carbon freezing:

This facility is crude, but it should be adequate to freeze Skywalker for his journey to the Emperor.

He doesn't seem unfamiliar with the process.

I don't know why some of you don't complain about they using blasters. After all, it's lack of creativity too, isn't it?

If carbonite exists in the Star Wars universe, in what sense does it show lack of imagination? It's not like a villain is frezzing someone in carbonite to see if the facility is okay for his plan to succeed.

xhonzi said:

It's stupid.  That's the problem.

Oh, right. Thanks for such explicit clarification.

Darth Lars said:

The last thing I read about the Tarkin story arc is that the Jedi are going to infiltrate a separatist stronghold by being frozen in carbonite ...

...

My head hurts ...

The problem being?

TV's Frink said:

Alexrd said:

I agree that the idea to retcon an easter egg is stupid, however, I don't see it as universe shrinking (one could say that Vader being Luke's father is universe shrinking too).

Paging Anchorhead...

Oh no. What have you done?!

Tyrphanax said:

I might be angry at the 'Falcon in ROTS if it had rescued Obi-Wan and he hid in the smuggling bays from a patrol of clone troopers sweeping the ship and then the one says "There's no one here!" and they leave and Obi-Wan pops out of the hold and tells the Young Han Solo pilot "Boy, it's lucky you had these compartments!" and then patted the ship as he walked off and said "I foresee you will do great things."

But he didn't. And the fact is that it changes absolutely nothing in the movie's plot. The ship is on the screen for a half-second, and it's not a huge stretch to say that these two ships just happened to be in a very popular (especially at that moment) spot at the same time. So it's just a neat thing to pause the movie for that half second, say to your friends "That light blur right there? That's the Millennium Falcon." and have them be in awe of your nerdiness and then go on about your life. It has no bearing on anything at all.

This.

I agree that the idea to retcon an easter egg is stupid, however, I don't see it as universe shrinking (one could say that Vader being Luke's father is universe shrinking too). I bet someday we'll get a novel about that X-Wing and TIE Fighter in Ep. II...

Well, yes. It was already canon ever since the DVD commentary.

skyjedi2005 said:

The worst things in Clone Wars have come from Lucas himself.

And the best things too.

Akwat Kbrana said:

 

No, it's stupid that they felt it necessary to identify this particular YT-1300 with the Millennium Falcon. The X-Wing cameo in AOTC wasn't stupid, but itwould've been if Lucas had specified that it was the same X-Wing that Luke would fly some day. It's stupid because it's unnecessary universe-shrinking.

 

They said it was the MF on the DVD commentary probably because that's the name most people identify with. How many fans know that the MF is an YT-1300?

Where is the stupidity? It's more like an Easter egg than anything. The same way the TIE Fighter and X-Wing are on the AotC. Or is it because it's on a prequel film?

corellian77 said:

See also:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/67/222137042_c3b64b4959_o.jpg

Where is that from? (website, that is)

Diego said:

So far in this season we've had Greedo, Tarkin and Sy Snootles from the OT, Qui-Gon and Darth Maul from the PT, have they run out of ideas??

I fail to see how does one thing leads to the other...

BloodnoseThePirate said:

Greedo

Lame? Unnecessary, maybe. But not lame.

TheBoost said:

Alexrd said:

I'm interested. This a character they could greatly explore in the series.

 But every character from the OT that's been 'explored' has become lamer because of it.

Such as...?

I'm interested. This a character they could greatly explore in the series.

What am I supposed to say here?

ThiefCobbler4ever said:

I only hope that these versions on the Blu are the DVD versions.

I hope not.

TheBoost said:

OR Mark Hamil had forgotten the half-hour it took him to shoot this close up twenty years ago, and now recalls it when shown it.

"That's a bingo."

I laughed at the father in the end. :)

Asteroid-Man said:

In all seriousness - so Qui-Gon in that episode... was he a force ghost or was he also one of the son's personifications?

It isn't made clear in the episode. Although I'm sure it's not one of the son's personifications, since he tell the truth to Obi-Wan about that place.

Since this arc is made of three episodes (and Qui-Gon will be back on the third one), there is more that needs to be explained.

Quackula said:

skyjedi2005 said:

They totally missed the boat on that one.  No prequel images, no jar jar, no hayden, no nuked fridge and shia in indiana jones, or aliens.  What were they thinking.

I didn't know that the Star Wars prequels and Indy 4 were part of your childhood...

As someone would say: Busted.

doubleofive said:

the 2004 versions were scanned and mastered at 1080p. 

Really? Why would they do that?

luke.the.darkside.is.fun said:

what we need is a nice final set of the star wars movies. but we know thats not going to happen.

Since there is no final home video format, there will be no final set.

G-Canon are only the movies. Not the TV series. And I agree with Bingowings, each person decides what's their canon.

And may I ask how is George destroying his own continuity?