Wolfman said:
Carrie Fisher interview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X21Fp2aw9js
Maybe it's because I've been on board since the beginning and that's how she was introduced to me as a character as well as an actress, but I cannot reconcile who she was back then with who she is now. It's a transformation I simply cannot wrap my head around.
They've been showing that a lot this week (obviously). I thought it was very well done.
Bought a new laptop a few months ago with Windows 8. I've been very happy with it. No problem at all with the Metro interface. I use the Desktop for work and the Metro for personal. I've had no problems what so ever with any of it.
I would agree with that. I had no problem with the film, but that wasn't a story (to me) that needed to be revisited. Plenty to do outside of that. Plus I don't find Khan to be terribly interesting - original film or character.
Ignore is a strong word. I do like that probe droid from Empire.
;-)
Jaitea said:
speaking as a Star Wars nerd what i was trying to say was it would be great if the new Star Wars film was appealing to everyone...
I got that. Sorry if my response sounded like a call-out. That was most certainly not my intent.
DominicCobb said:
Would that really be so bad, though? The OT mentioned the Clone Wars,
That's entirely different though. That was just two words in a sentence, never meant to go beyond that utterance.
I'd love it it Abrams did little more than name-check the prequels. Time to move away from Lucas.
Jaitea said:
JJ successfully moved the Star Trek movies away from the nerds into the main cinema audience
Speaking as a Star Trek nerd; To me, he did both. I had said goodbye to Trek because I was tired of seeing Data sing show tunes, while the crew discussed the Prime Directive and wedding decorations.
Abrams gave me back Star Trek. He gave me tension, Kirk being an arrogant ass, and Spock irritating McCoy. The fact that the non-nerds liked it is just icing on the cake.
ray_afraid said:
About Han... everyone realizes that people change, right? That people grow up and mature and "settle down" and leave their wild pasts behind them? To keep Han the same character we met in Star Wars seems to discredit the characters arc. I don't wanna see a Han who is still an wild, free and reckless 30 years latter. I'm probably alone on that though.
I agree with that too. Very much so, in fact. I enjoyed that aspect of Indy IV and I enjoyed that aspect of Luke & Mara through the Zahn novels. Because I've also aged 35 years along with our heroes, I expect to see them much changed.
I'm not the 15-year-old I was when I sat in the theater in 1977, so I don't want our heroes to be the same either. However, I have no interest in seeing a story where Han is a fatherly figure while we follow his hot shot kids around. There are other ways to address the passage of time.
He can mature and age the way we were told Lando had changed when we were first introduced to him. I guess my reluctance to see him at all is because he became completely uninteresting after he was so emasculated by Lucas. He went from cold-blooded killer in a bar - to an aw-shucks good guy much too quickly. It was very poor writing on Lucas' part.
DominicCobb said:
Mostly agreeing with TMBTM. I almost wish that Leia and Han weren't even going to be in these new films, I'm not really interested in their 'family.' What would be more interesting, however, is if they didn't make a family. To me Han doesn't seem like the kind of guy that would get married (he seems even less likely than Indy to commit to a relationship, honestly), and he most certainly does not seem like the type of guy who would have kids.
I agree. It would be nice to see him again, but only briefly and not as a family guy. Because Zahn's EU is my personal canon, I've accepted that they're married, kids, etc. However, Han works away from her for the bulk of the stories anyway. That may have been Zahn's way of addressing those same desires.
He doesn't have a terribly large role in the Zahn universe anyway, so it's not really an issue. The bulk of the Zahn EU is Luke and Mara, which is just fine with me. Their tempestuous-to-amicable relationship in the first several novels is much more interesting to me than anything Han\Leia.
Laserschwert said:
To me it sounds too good to be true...
My thoughts exactly. A nerd blog claims to have a scoop where Harrison Ford has agreed to make three Star Wars films and an Indiana Jones film? Come on.
It's laughable, and also sad, how many times he claimed through the years that he was letting Star Wars go, yet it really is his sole identity. He can't seem to function away from it.
skyjedi2005 said:
Kasdan also wrote Return of the Jedi .
Ok, so 2 out of 3 then. ;-)
Still better than Toy Story.
Personally, I'm much happier with the writer of Raiders Of The Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back handling this over the writer of Toy Story III.
Star Wars has been a children's cartoon for decades. Let the adults have a few hours for a change.
TV's Frink said:
I skip all the years of teeth-gnashing.
But you miss SO much.
;-)
TV's Frink said:
Long live the ball rating system.
Uh..whaaat?
;-)
Having recently moved away from the city, I'm even less tolerant of societal selfishness than I was before.
I spend my spare time tending to my girls (bees), riding the Texas hill country (motorcycle and bicycle), which is literally outside my door now, and drinking wine on the back porch while listening to good music.
Sounds uneventful, but it's quite enjoyable. Particularly carving up the hill country.
I tolerate the scorpions and snakes. (Like I have a choice).
;-)
I've lived out here about six months now and I've killed 17 scorpions (5 in the house) and one Coral snake. One of the deadliest snakes in North America. It was on my front porch.
Maybe they aren't even live-action, or short stories, or any other type of fiction. It's possible the shows could just be documentaries on the evolution of the character or the cultural impact.
KilroyMcFadden said:
Yoda indicated that the force is between "me, you, the tree, the rock, everywhere"......Midichlorians are not in these places......Lucas was making shit up when he scienced up some bullshit explanation about how the force works.
That's it in a nutshell. Lucas insisted on answering a question no one was asking. The sooner Abrams ignores Lucas' inability to tell a story, the sooner we'll have a film and characters worth watching.
DominicCobb said:
It'll be fantastic to have some truly NEW Star Wars movies. That's what I'm most excited for.
Bingo.
As someone who fully lives in the Personal Canon universe; An interesting, adult, cerebral film is all I'm interested in. The last five films are of no interest to me, so one more isn't something I'm going to lose sleep over. If it's as good as Star Trek09, great. If it isn't, it's just one more of six.
Zahn is my Star Wars universe. Not Lucas, not Continuity, not the kids who will buy the vulgar amount of merchandising tie-ins, and sure as hell not the PT and it's twirling cartoon light sabers or high school level script reading.
If this weren't an Abrams-helmed, non-Lucas film, I wouldn't be giving it a moment of thought.
DuracellEnergizer said:
The "Jedi vs. Sith" thing is played out and tired.
This, 100%
Time to move away from the tiny corner of the universe that George can't think outside of.
Cobra Kai said:
The funniest posts I've seen in a while were from TFN'ers that were furious over the news that Abrams is going to shoot EPVII on 35mm film - As if this is a huge step backwards and Abrams is basically spitting in George's face by not shooting digital.
Classic
That's the thread I was referencing. I can't be bothered to read anything else over there.
Girls, might be time to consider letting it go.
ImperialFighter said:
It seems that George put a year or so into planning what comes next...
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/29034/lucas-put-a-year-into-the-next-star-wars
From the article:
Lucas ...having set out 'guidelines' for the new film.
When Disney gives someone $4 billion for their product, they take over deciding how that product is handled. All this blather about Lucas being very involved, consulting, talking to the director and writer, etc, etc is just damage control for the TFNers, who have already decided their world has come to an end.
SilverWook
I'm amazed we're getting such an unvarnished look at what must have been a more tumultuous production than even ESB was.
I wonder if some of it is because Lucas doesn't run the Star Wars universe anymore. These people may feel less intimidated, or even a little vengeful at what a dick he was.