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#102487
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/102487/action/topic#102487
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Technically speaking, it is illegal to have anything hanging from your rearview mirror as you drive. Everything, including parking permits, are considered line of sight impairments. You are supposed to actually remove parking tags from your mirror when you go to drive. Cops won't pull you over for it as it's a pretty minor offense. But, if they pull you over for something else and want to be arses about it, they can tack that on top of the rest of your ticket.
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#102480
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Any Star Wars TV stuff coming up?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/102480/action/topic#102480
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Here we go. From E! Online news...

It's really the second to last paragraph that bugs me most...

"Star Wars" Downsizes

Got the Boba Fett blues now that George Lucas has wrapped his final Star Wars movie installment?

Fret not, Force faithful, there is a new hope.

Jedi master George turned up over the weekend at Celebration III, a mega-gathering of 30,000 Star Wars geeks in Indianapolis, where he announced plans to move his space opera to the small screen.

For his first appearance at a Star Wars convention in 17 years, Lucas made a big splash. During a Q&A session, he announced that he is going to produce a 3-D animated action series expanding on the Cartoon Network's Emmy-winning Clone Wars. Then he dropped a bigger bomb, confirming a live-action Star Wars spinoff series is in the works.

Does that mean we'll get to see Darth Vader duking it out with the Donald on the next Apprentice?

Not quite.

According to Lucas, both shows will take place during the period between the end of Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith and the original Star Wars (aka Episode IV--A New Hope), when the Emperor became all-powerful and started hunting the Jedi down.

Lucas said the live-action series is the more ambitious undertaking, attempting to translate the magic of the Star Wars universe to the small screen via supporting characters that fans have only briefly come to know from the movies. The filmmaker added that the show will also be similar in tone to the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, the TV adventures inspired by his other mega-franchise.

"We're probably not going to start that for about a year," Lucas said. "Like on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, we want to write all the stories for the entire first season all at once. I'm going to get it started and hire the showrunners and all of that, then I'll probably step away."

It is not known whether the two TV projects were the basis of a highly publicized Internet rumor a few months back speculating on future Star Wars adventures.

Lucasfilm has yet to make an official announcement on the new shows. The company doesn't even have a deal in place with a network to air either series because it's been marshalling all its minions for the hugely anticipated May 19 release of Revenge of the Sith, the final prequel.

This isn't the first occasion Lucas has packaged Star Wars for the boob tube. First, there was the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special in 1978, which Lucas has disowned. Then, after 1983's Return of the Jedi, he hatched two made-for-TV spinoffs, 1984's The Ewok Adventure and 1985's Ewoks: Battle for Endor, both of which were largely derided by Star Wars fans for focusing on the relatively tame deeds of the furry critters at the expense of action-packed escapades of cooler characters.

Lucas' infatuation with Ewoks continued with the Ewoks cartoon series, which was paired with another kiddie-themed 'toon, Droids, focusing on the mishaps of R2-D2 and C-3PO. Those shows ran from 1985 to '87.

It's expected that the new standalone animated series will showcase the same kind of epic battles as seen in the more action-oriented Clone Wars series of shorts--with the added benefit of adding potential new Star Wars enthusiasts and giving merchandisers the chance to sell even more action figures.

In some related Star Wars news, premiere fan site TheForce.net quotes Lucas telling people backstage at last weekend's confab that he's prepping yet another box set--this one will include all six films, plus a possible seventh disc featuring deleted scenes from the original trilogy. He says he doesn't expect to make any more tweaks to the films as he did with the last box set.

And lest you think you've seen the last of Darth and the gang on the big screen, think again. Lucas appeared at last month's ShoWest exhibitors convention in Las Vegas and announced that, starting in 2007, he'll rerelease all six episodes, beginning with the original Star Wars, in IMAX digital 3-D.

Meanwhile, the typically media-shy filmmaker is gearing up to make his own splash on the small screen. He's scheduled to guest star as himself on the May 12 episode of Fox's The O.C.. The plot: Lucas becomes interested in a graphic novel written by Seth (Adam Brody) and invites him to dinner to offer some sage advice. Seth is forced to choose between taking Summer to the prom or hanging with George.

Let's hope the Force will be with him.
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#102478
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/102478/action/topic#102478
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
I hate: Being unable to find the #@$% remote!!!


That pisses me off, too. But what ticks me off even more is when people say, "get off your butt and change the channel by hand." Well, dipshit, I am trying to do something a little more complex, the controls for which are not available on the face of the TV, VCR, etc. I can't program a VCR by using the buttons on the face of it, now can I?
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#102477
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I have to write a Letter to George Lucas...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/102477/action/topic#102477
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Originally posted by: JamesEightBitStar
Guys, I'm twenty-one years old (born in 1983) and I first got internet access when I was like sixteen (not long after I first saw a Star Wars movie, in fact). I didn't "grow up with the internet." It doesn't help your arguement or raise your credibility at all to go around believing that anyone who didn't have the same childhood as you must be some little kid. In fact it makes you look conceited and arrogant.


I wasn't talking about you. To be honest, I hadn't even been paying attention to your posts. To me, you were a non factor in this discussion. I only now looked back and saw that Luke referred to "you two." I thought this was all centering on Chaltab.

It makes you look conceited and arrogant to think this whole thing is about you.
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#102464
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Under-Rated Sci-Fi Films
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/102464/action/topic#102464
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Originally posted by: greencapt
Its weird- I always think of that film as 'Saturn 5' too instead of 'Saturn 3'. Maybe it just has a better ring to it. Must be a flashback to the Apollo missions or something (and for the younger readers out there I don't mean Apollo from Battlestar Galactica!)


Most of them are too young to even remember Apollo from Battlestar Galactica. Sad.
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#102457
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Help!: My most prized Star Wars figure is ruined!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/102457/action/topic#102457
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The stuff isn't all that bad. We use it for mounting newspaper articles for display at work. Just give it some practice shots on other stuff. Buy a figure at the store and practice what it's like to do quick burst spraying on just the edges that touch the cards. See how everything else looks as a result. Practice on a few different figures just to see what method works best. It's really not that bad.
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#102456
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I have to write a Letter to George Lucas...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/102456/action/topic#102456
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Not necessarily "easy access" as we all have easy access. It just means that you grew up in the Internet era and have no idea what life was like before it obtaining information 100% from alternate sources. It is a far different time now than it was a mere 12 years ago. Every bit of news I had came from the television news and the newspaper. I never imagined getting information like I do now from a computer. Couldn't even fathom it.
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#102455
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So, are all the Stormtroopers from IV-VI clones?..
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/102455/action/topic#102455
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
There's even a disclaimer at the start of the old books that says if George Lucas ever decides to make any more movies (which he has since they were written) then forget everything you're reading.


Are you serious? That's gotta make the author feel like shit... "hey, your book no longer fits my story line; it's crap; I'm disavowing any knowledge of its existence."

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Originally posted by: greencapt
Most likely Threepio was running on a typical unstable Microsoft operating system and his memory was wiped just about every time he so much as bumped into a wall. R2, on the other hand, was probably Linux which assured that most regular users wouldn't even know how to completely wipe his memory.


Heh heh. Yeah, that would definitely explain it. I'd stand by that theory.
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#102433
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So, are all the Stormtroopers from IV-VI clones?..
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/102433/action/topic#102433
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We've had this discussion before and the consensus decision was that Owen and Beru do remember 3PO and R2. But to further protect Luke, as was their charge, they disavowed any knowledge of their existence.

On the part of the droids, it was likely a memory wipe. Remember 3PO constantly rambling on in ANH about how R2 claims to have been the property of "a Captain Antilles"? Well, 3PO doesn't remember it. I say it's a memory wipe and it didn't completely take with R2.
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#102432
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Do you think this was wise? Actors signing a sealed poster...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/102432/action/topic#102432
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With merchandise, it's one thing. The plastic is much sturdier and in it "for the long haul," per se. Cellophane on a poster can tear off far too easily and then the signatures are gone. Like Hardcore Legend said, all you have is signed cellophane. It has no value as a signed poster and you won't be able to sell it as such. I don't mean to imply that selling it is your ultimate goal; but should it come down to you selling it down the line, you could never say that it's a signed poster as it's not.

You could go and frame it which is a viable option. Then both the poster and signature are protected.

Me, personally, I would have taken the plastic off, had them sign the physical poster, and then framed that bad boy. But that's just me. To each their own.
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#102288
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/102288/action/topic#102288
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Originally posted by: Warbler
I hate the fact that the Phillies totally suck right now!!!


Meh. My Cubbies are in the same boat. We have a great hitter in Derrek Lee and we still can't do jack. Yeah, we are at .500 and in second place. And that's not that far off from where the Phillies are at 8-11. But we're in second and you're in last. Go fig, eh? Says a lot more for the competitiveness of your division as opposed to ours, eh?
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#102331
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The Pope
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/102331/action/topic#102331
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Even if he did fire a shot, does it really matter? The guy was under orders and the Reich would have no problem executing those who defy the Fuhrer's commands. It's easy to shoot and miss. Just blame it on being a bad shot. But to not shoot and be summarily executed? I'll shoot and miss thank you very much. That would be my form of passive protest.