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ChainsawAsh

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31-Jul-2004
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#1157344
Topic
The Last Jedi : a Fan Edit <strong>Ideas</strong> thread
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Luke in exile because he failed at training Han and Leia’s child was straight from Lucas’ outline he sold to Disney in 2012. The biggest difference was, in his outline, that would have been part of the story told in VII, rather than something that happened between VI and VII. Luke would exile himself in VII after a character based on Darth Talon literally seduced Han and Leia’s kid to the dark side with Luke failing at preventing this, then Luke would have to be found by “Kira” (later Rey) in VIII.

Lucas hired Arndt to write VII, but he had a problem with Luke in VII taking too much focus away from the new leads. It was Abrams’ and Kasdan’s idea to make finding Luke the MacGuffin of VII, pushing his appearance to the ending to avoid overshadowing the new leads, which also meant that the fall of Ben Solo had to happen off-screen before VII.

There’s more of Lucas’ ST in the final product than many are claiming, but his VII pretty much got split between the final version of VII and VIII.

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#1156361
Topic
How big was Star Wars in the 70s 80s and 90s
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Mielr said:

Starwarsrules said:

I’m a 20 years old and of course I know Star Wars is big now but how huge was it in the 20th century

Have you never seen any documentaries about Star Wars? 😕

https://youtu.be/YXfkdXCs1N4

ChainsawAsh said:

Yeah, that was part of a whole “Endor ghosts set” or something. I’ve got it in my parents’ basement somewhere. Think I also had a separate ghost Obi-Wan that came individually, but I can’t remember for sure.

I have the “force ghost obi-wan” figure that I got from sending in bar codes from frito-lay in '97(?). Kellogg’s also had a Han figure in Stormtrooper costume that I sent away for (during the “one last time” campaign around 1995).

Oh right, I remember now! Yeah, I have both of those, too.

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#1156250
Topic
The Place to Go for Emotional Support
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Possessed said:

I’ve been in your shoes man. Get whatever closure you need, and cherish the memories, but get out of there. Trust me. The sooner you move on the sooner your can be happy with somebody that wants that with you and then the painful sad memories can turn into fond distant memories. Trust me.

I’ve been in this situation too, more times than I can count, and it never ends with the friendship intact as it was before.

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#1156122
Topic
Random Thoughts
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Collipso said:

So I was thinking about rewatching Donnie Darko, and when I looked it up I saw there is a “Director’s Cut”. Do you guys think I should watch the theatrical or the director’s cut?

And by the way, is there any way I can watch the theatrical THX 1138?

Definitely theatrical for Donnie Darko, though I’ll admit to being one of the few who prefers the music changes in the DC. But that doesn’t make the rest of the DC worthwhile.