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#281192
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LOST
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/281192/action/topic#281192
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Usually things like that are explained later, or left never explained. I guess I have gotten use to that with the show. But really, the dialogue was not made out of cardboard as it usually is on one side or the other (of course I could just be getting use to bad acting, seems to be everywhere these days).

I think the whole Juliet and the key thing was to establish an undisputable distrust of her on Kate's part and the part of the viewers. They didn't do the best of explaing that what happened, but I think that is what they were getting at.
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#281090
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French Presidential Elections
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/281090/action/topic#281090
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Originally posted by: JediSage
Originally posted by: Nanner Split
Originally posted by: C3PX
WASP?


That one's just as dumb as "African American" (which assumes that just because someone is black that they have African ancestry), because it assumes that the person is not only white, but also Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, neither of which apply to me.


Multiculturalism is almost as dangerous as environmentalism, in that they'll both be used to justify any abuse of power. I consider myself an American of Irish Descent. Call a black person an American of African descent and watch the leftists in the room vomit out their lower intestines.


I have a friend who quite literally is an African American and he is more white than I am. I was born in the US, my parents are Americans, their parents were Americans and so were their parents. If I am not a Native American, then what am I?

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#281050
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Anyone else totally disregard Leia being Luke's sister?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/281050/action/topic#281050
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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Although a few key scenes in The Hobbit had to be rewritten.


Ah, but that was brilliantly handled. I hate when people compare a master story telling with a one time fluke like Lucas. I still say Lucas only made three movies, THX 1138, Graffiti, and Star Wars. I happen to like all three (though THX is very clearly influenced by certian works of literature and can hardly be considered an "original" idea, and America Graffiti is pretty much about nothing at all), but anything that can be truly credited as solely his after 1977 is pretty bad. ESB, and the Indy movies were all done in partnership with other great masters of the art of film, so while his name is on them, I do not feel it is appropriate to credit them entirely to him, as is often done by Lucas fans.

The Lord of the Rings was written to stand on its own, not to be part of a series with the Hobbit. Yes it was a sequel, but a sequel that does not rely on the one before it. They are also two very different kinds of books. The Hobbit is more of a fairy story, and the Lord of the Rings is more of an epic. It is true the Hobbit was minorly modified to fit it into the story of LOTR, and it is true the originally published version ceased to be published. But the similarities to Lucas end there. Tolkien freely admitted the change he had made, and he made the change an actual part of the story, writing the explanation for the change right into the dialogue of the LOTR, giving the change purpose and meaning. It was a masterfully done edit, that in my opinion even heightens Tolkien's story telling genius rather than discredit it as I believe it does in the case of Lucas.


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#280989
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Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280989/action/topic#280989
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Originally posted by: Trooperman
Originally posted by: boreddusty
Thanks for the update, TM!

I really don't think you need to be apologizing for anything. I know we all will wait as long as necessary to see this new version.


Yes I know, but I don't like breaking promises. That's why I'm annoyed at myself.


I am just happy you stuck with it this long. This edit will truly be something one way or another with all the effort you have put into it. No one can fault you for letting life get in the way. And the computer problems are what really set you back, those were entirely out of your control.
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#280988
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Help Wanted: Shadows Of The Empire - cutscenes of the N64 game
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280988/action/topic#280988
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Seriously, if I had a way to record straight from my N64 I would knock this out for you in less than any hour. I really wish I did. I tried to use a screen recorder one time and I never had the tinest bit of luck with it. I have kind of written screen recorders off as not being worth the effort, but this was years ago and I thought perhaps they have better software out now, but apparently not.
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#280986
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LOST
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280986/action/topic#280986
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What did everyone think of the last episode? It wasn't that it really resolved anything, but I thought the pacing was really good. I liked that they managed to tell all three stories (Kate's flashbacks, the beach and the other neighborhood) all decently well and without such crappy writing. I think this is a prefect example of how episodes should be done if they don't want to keep loosing viewers.
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#280983
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Anyone else totally disregard Leia being Luke's sister?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280983/action/topic#280983
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Originally posted by: CO
LOTR is a perfect example of a movie trilogy that flows fluidly because it was planned that way from the books to the big screen, as they honestly feel like one big movie instead of 3 individual movies like the OT.


In the Lord of the Rings case it is three movies based off of one book. So it makes sense for that to work.

Really the "challenes" of writing a tight trilogy is bunk. Seriously, how many series have you watched or read that contradict themselves as bad as the SW saga does. It isn't that hard to write stories that work together. I'll admit prequels are a little more tricky than sequels, but honestly, there is no excuse for such blatant plot holes.

Anybody see that part on the ROTS DVD where Rick McCullum admits that they had to go back and refilm the scene with Obi-Wan picking up Anakin's lightsabre because "we kind of forgot he gave it to Luke in the next film." How do you kind of forget something like that? It show exactly how much Lucas had invested in these things while writing them. Pretty clear he really didn't care too much. I bet Lucas didn't even bother to go back and watch the OT before writing the PT. He should have been refering to the final scripts of each of the OT constantly as he wrote the PT.
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#280978
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Anyone else totally disregard Leia being Luke's sister?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280978/action/topic#280978
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Originally posted by: Anchorhead
Originally posted by: C3PX
Yeah, what was with the scene with Leia sensing Luke on Bespin? Was it originally going to be that Jedi could use telepathy with non force users?

Originally posted by: CO
remember she does sense Luke at the end of ESB on Cloud City, and tells Lando to go back, yet she doesn't think anything about being a force user then.


I think you guys are giving Lucas way too much credit for writing a thorough story. It doesn't appear as though he thought things through at that level. He just came up with stuff and worried (or not) about continuity later.

Look at how ”no, there is another” was handled. He wrote and filmed that scene before he had any idea at all who the other actually was. He was letting a finished film be released to the theaters with a cliff hanger scene used to set up the next movie - as well as a possible second trilogy - and yet he had no idea about who was being referenced - in his own story. It’s one thing to hash out ideas in a story or script - and I’m sure it’s routine in the business - but he actually filmed a very open-ended plot hole. A plot hole he never resolved properly.

Man, that's sloppy.


Trust me, I am the last guy to give Lucas credit for anything. I just though the telepathy idea was interesting, and that it is obvious that Lucas didn't originally intend Jedi to only communicate with other Jedi in this manner.
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#280977
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Lunch Box art
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280977/action/topic#280977
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Ah, you've taken me back to Kindergarten. Mine lasted me four years, before I replaced it with a Pac Man lunchbox.


Yeah! I have/had the Pac-Man lunch box too. I loved that lunch box, more than either of my SW boxes. Coov, I would scan you my ROTJ box, but the problems there are two fold (beyond it being fairly scratched up). First, it is packed away in storage someplace, and second, I don't own a scanner.
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#280887
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280887/action/topic#280887
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
I hate that I don't know what a Hrung is or why it choosed to break down on Betelgeuse 7.


I know, that has always bothered me too. I doubt we shall ever really know what a hrung is. But not half as much as not knowing the question... sometimes I stay awake at night contemplating that. I even keep my hard bound HhGttG trilogy at the side of my bed, sometimes waking up at night to frantically thumb through the pages, knowing the question must be somewhere within those pages, somewhere...
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#280886
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Vote GREENCAPT for Pirate for a day at Disney!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280886/action/topic#280886
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Originally posted by: greencapt
Well Gaffer and all, I'd *like* to be able to post great news, or even admit *bad* news, but I'm stuck on the edge of the bad-news cliff right now and there hasn't been a phone handy. What am I blathering about?

Disney started emailing the winners yesterday and it appears *most* have been notified. I have not. BUT there is still one winner in the pirate category that either hasn't come forth OR hasn't been decided on yet. Talk about taking things to the last second!! So I'm basically resigned NOT to have won but still have a slim hope that its *possible*. And then again someone might not get the voluminous stack of legal paperwork turned in on time and get disqualified.


Sorry to hear things aren't looking too good towards being a winner. If it makes any difference I think you should have won hands down. Maybe the greatness that was your video is what is hanging them up? Perhaps they are having a challenge in decided between your for the sake of a great video and another Jack Sparrow wannabe for the sake of Disney character placement. I fail to see the originality there, if I am not mistaken that was one of the criteria the judges were suppose to be looking at.
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#280809
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Help Wanted: Shadows Of The Empire - cutscenes of the N64 game
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280809/action/topic#280809
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I've beaten that game through and through, if my computer was fast enough to emulate the N64 I would do it, but unfortunately it isn't. For whoever is trying to do this, just use the wampastompa code, you can skip right through sections of the levels. It is a pain to enter than code, you have to hold down all buttons and tilt the joystick exactly halfway to the left until you hear a dong, then halfway to the right until you hear a dong, then half way to the left until you hear a dong, and so on until the debug screen pops up.

I have no clue how this could be done through an emulator. Perhaps if any N64 emulator has a Gameshark feature that would be the easiest way.
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#280748
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280748/action/topic#280748
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Originally posted by: 20th Century Mark
Originally posted by: C3PX
If the point was to make them look like the GOUT, then might as well just use the GOUT. The goal of the project has been to make the best possible version of the OT, which the GOUT most certainly is not. No, those pictures shouldn't look like the GOUT at all. And they don't. They look better.


Uh, so when are those T-Shirts coming?



What I'm saying is that the GOUT captures look different. Not that they look "like" the GOUT.


Oh, I gotcha.
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#280740
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280740/action/topic#280740
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If the point was to make them look like the GOUT, then might as well just use the GOUT. The goal of the project has been to make the best possible version of the OT, which the GOUT most certainly is not. No, those pictures shouldn't look like the GOUT at all. And they don't. They look better.


Uh, so when are those T-Shirts coming?
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#280638
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280638/action/topic#280638
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Originally posted by: Stinky-Dinkins
Originally posted by: sean wookie
Do we really want to end up like some stupid country that can only speak its own language? How else are we going to speak with our neighbors?



Our neighbors?

Well, shit - I guess with Canadians we'll just use English and with Mexicans we'll use Mexican sign language (meaning we'll just point to the area of grass that we want cut.)

Problem solved.


HAHAHA! That was awesome!
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#280544
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Expanded Universe Unacceptance
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280544/action/topic#280544
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So who was it that insisted that Chewie die? That is interesting. Anyway, Chewie had always been kind of a background character. He has always kind of been the family pet. Killing off Luke, Leia, Han, or even Artoo or Threepio would have been a bigger deal. Chewie is actually the very logical choice. If they did it so we would be afraid they might kill Luke, why not go the extra mile and actually kill Luke and let Chewie live. Killing a secondary character doesn't equate killing off the hero.