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#88465
Topic
Empire of Dreams - what was your imagined Star Wars story...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/88465/action/topic#88465
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I guess i can see that...but i envisioned the ending of ROTS more like the ending to Empire, just a silent scene (well it would have score music, but no dialog, voice over included). Kind of at the point that its now like, Palpatine is now emporer, he now has full control over basically everything...bring on the dark times...but the movie would never actually cover any of the atrocities and hardships during his rule...that would all be left to the imagination of the viewers...but you would know he's evil and that these things will happen...even if you watch the PT before the OT.

also, as far as Obi-Wan having a student...I have a question...how old do you think Obi-Wan is in Episode I and then in Episode IV (if you read the question/answer column in the latest insider that gives his age at these points dont respond with that as i know them and will post it after i get a few responses) what im looking for is how hold you basically thought he was in Episode IV, and how old you think he should be at the start of Episode I

-Darth Simon
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#88408
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/88408/action/topic#88408
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Originally posted by: bad_karma24
Originally posted by: Darth Simon
I totally agree...they always cause us to have to start our Iaido practice later cause they are busy standing around doing nothing..err..i mean practicing....why the hell is highschool 'sports' (i use the term loosly cause cheerleading isnt really a sport) going till 8pm anyway thats like 6 hours after they get out...wtf is that


Personally, I think it is a sport. Don't know what you're cheerleader's do, but ours are constantly doing flips, catching each other, aerobic stuff, etc.

Still annoying as hell .


well i actually take an Iaido and Kendo class through a community college and it meets at one of the county high schools. and the school was nice enough to double book the room. Now i understand that the students get first dibs but a) its 7pm...school gets out at 2ish. thats 5 hours for them to find time to have their practice (which lasts what, 2 hours max?) so i dont understand why they need to be there so late...plus shouldnt the school want them home by then so they could do the homework for class...i mean isnt that the point of school.
b) when we get there, they are mostly just standing around chatting. they do an occasional flip and summersault...or lift someone up...but most of it is just a waste of time...time i could be using to practice so i can get home afterwards, eat some dinner (at 10:30/11pm) then go to bed so i can be at work the next morning.
c) we pay for the room, so if your gonna take our money for something you damn well should be making sure that its available for us to use at the time you say.

so yeah, i hate the cheerleaders and i hate the school for double booking the room.

-Darth Simon
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#88406
Topic
STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/88406/action/topic#88406
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the row47 is just a fixed Empire disc right? I say if you have time to work it in as a torrent that would be great...but i know you stated a making of set with no burnt in subs, and knowing you, you prob have a bunch of other new stuff for us...maybe you can upload torrents and call on people that actually have the discs (like rowman obviously has a row47 set, your sending one to DarthOsor, and im sure there are others) can actually do the seeding...i would be willing to do this for anything that you upload that i already have (which probably isnt much)

what would people think of this...just to get some of the less new stuff (mainly the row47 fixed empire) up as a torrent.

-Darth Simon
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#88324
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/88324/action/topic#88324
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
I'm too hungry to type anything long.

It would be something like a GTA style city, done in GTA style rather than the cheap imitations used in True Crime and Getaway. Your characters main controls would be sort of GTA esque, but you could get strong, jump high, level up, and eventually learn ki flight. The story is just a bunch of weirdness:

It so happens that Clinton, Edwards, Kerry, and Gorbachev are really aliens that crashed on earth 1000 years ago and have lost the key to the spaceship that went down in Syberia. The other crashed underneath what is now Ridgecrest, so the aliens try to take over the world long enough to ban organized religion so they can demolish Ridgecrest and dig there for their ship.

Thier greatest piece of technology is the "plot hole generator", which tears the boundries between fiction and reality. It is finnaly activated in 1985 when the game starts. You customize your character down to the pitch and octave of his or her voice, and can even design your girlfriend or boyfriend, who eventually becomes a ninja. THe gameplay has all kinds of variety, including a fighting game that combines three fighting styles as in MK, good mechanics such as in VF4, and weapon fighting on par with Soul Caliber.

But in the meantime, when you are not trying to stop Gorbachev, (he's the oldest and the mastermind) you do all kinds of weird stuff, including fighting demons, rescuing your girlfirends parents from evil ninja's, ect ect. As the game goes on, the lines between fact and fiction begin to blur, giving you acess to more and more fantastical abilities, such as enrgy attacks.

Plus you get to fight and kill Marylin Manson, which is a good thing. He transforms into a giant demon appropriately called "the Antagonist"


you are a sad, strange little man



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#88405
Topic
Empire of Dreams - what was your imagined Star Wars story...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/88405/action/topic#88405
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MeBe im missing the suprise from OT -> PT

what do you mean 'There's another Jedi' didnt we always know there used to be lots of Jedi? pretty sure I did.

As far as Yoda's death. I kinda cover this in the one of my really long posts so it might have been missed.

Basically, in one scenerio, after everyone is back at Coruscant there is a 'raid' on the Jedi temple and the place is destroyed (remember we never see the Jedi temple in the real OT) in the scenerio I gave, we would know that Bail Organa would be there (he's more running to a hangar) and we know that Obi-Wan gets off with Luke. We actually see Mace die and thats kind of the end of that, we dont know the fate of any other Jedi, except as Obi-Wan tells us in ANH, Vader hunted down and killed them all. The last shot we see of the Jedi Temple is it basically getting destroyed...so we would be lead to believe that all the Jedi in it died.

Now i could argue that we dont even see Obi-Wan get off the planet with Luke, all we see is them trying to escape maybe, and Padme's death...though this can be handled earlier on in the story, but closer to the end makes it easier to hide Leia from the audience's knowledge. If we know Padme is pregnant, we can have the whole introduction to luke (at least when we first find out his name) even be a suprise...so basically at the end of episode III every character except vader and palpatine are presumed dead (Yoda, Obi-Wan, Anakin, Padme and the child she gave birth to (we are unaware of a second child, Leia) of course we who have seen the OT all know that everyone there but Padme survived.

My one qualm with this, which prob isnt a big deal, is that we really have no suprise going from OT to PT. We see these people dying off, but we know they really didnt die...going the other way though, we would assume they are all dead until we meet them in episode IV...Owen Lars' comment about Obi-Wan dying about the same time as Luke's father would appear to be true.

-Darth Simon
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#88135
Topic
Empire of Dreams - what was your imagined Star Wars story...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/88135/action/topic#88135
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I dont think any mention of Leia should really be made, keeping the aspect that luke is Anakin's son is gonna be impossible so knowing that Padme is pregnant is ok, but if the effect you want is to be able to watch PT then OT and not have the suprises in OT ruined you need to leave out the fact that Padme had twins. Smarter audience members will prob be able to figure out that Vader is Luke's father...but it would be hard if done right...if you can get the ending so everyone thinks Anakin is dead and not vader, then its possible. and doing this actually opens up the obi wan ending scene on tatooine to allow the dropping off of luke at the lars homestead, and can actually be used to reinforce the 'Anakin is dead' idea.

basically the 'ending' would be something along these lines.
bleh, ok, gonna do more of the movie cause too much info comes into play that it would be the whole movie.

The clone wars are wrapping up, this uses that the clone wars cartoon handles all clone war info. so basically we would come in with no grevious because he has been killed after killing many jedi (leaving plenty alive for vader to later kill). Anakin still seems like a good guy, he may be working with palpatine but we dont know and dont see any of this, we may still see Palpatine manuevering him as a senator but no linkage of anakin to palpatine as far as a jedi/sith connection. So the war is ending and the Jedi think they are close to victory, the Supreme Chancellor (Palpatine) seemingly has pretty much regained control of the senate again, and the Jedi have are going after what they think is the remainder of the resistance, but have started to do some rebuilding.

Due to his performance in the Clone Wars, Anakin is no longer a padawan and Obi-Wan reluctantly takes on a new student at the behest of the Jedi Council (as do most masters/knights) to help rebuild the Jedi. (possible could give Anakin a student as well) this could allow for some good story and stuff to help build tension between Obi-Wan and Anakin. Obi-Wan is still trying to teach Anakin who doesnt want to learn, he thinks he knows it all, the Jedi Council has made him a Jedi Knight after all. Exact details and all im at a lack for right now, but basically at one point it gets pretty serious, they are on a joint mission to destroy one of the last remaining resistance sells, or independant and they meet up, i think joint works better. Obi wan is leading it, but Anakin doesnt like that, he doesnt want to take orders from Obi-Wan anymore, he is after all a Jedi Knight, and a more powerful one at Obi-Wan at that (at least in his eyes). They end up fighting and during hte fight anakin gets knocked into the pit, Obi-Wan tries to help him and while he is pulling him up Anakin pulls Obi-Wan down and he is now on the edge...Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom struggle like the one he had with the witchdoctor guy on the rope bridge and anakin falls into the lava...Obi-Wan is mortified...he returns, his mission unfufilled, to give the bad news and all that. (Padme is already pregnent at this part).

Somehow the jedi get intellegence and he finds out somehow that Anakin survived and is being held on a starship by the 'seperatists' and Obi-Wan (possibly against the will of the councel) goes to rescue Anakin. Meanwhile the clone army is preparing its final attack against this ship. Kenobi gets aboard this main ship of the seperatists and is searching for anakin, this is where he comes to the Med center and sees the burnt cloths (solemn music) and lightsaber (he now has Anakins saber to give to luke in ANH). As he 'gets teary eyed' over what remains of Anakin, he hears a vader-like voice...a raspy JEJ, partially through the voice modulator but no helmet. the voice says 'Your friend is no more' (maybe dead, seems a little strong though) He turns and we see vader, helmet off, face obscured by Obi-Wan. The camera pans around as the helmet is lowered and when we finally see the face it is covered by the helmet, he is in a similar device to the meditation chamber in Empire, just not as elaborate. he stands up and bam, we see vader. Obviously they fight, it wouldnt make sense otherwise or would make vader look like he has a soft spot for Obi-Wan, hinting at his identity and that he's not all bad. so they fight and (remember the battle going on outside at this point from the clone army) a torpedo hits the ship near them and causes sparks and dusk and equipment to fall. Obi-Wan, knowing that vader is more than he can handle (again, this hints its not Anakin, because they are evenly matched during the lava fight, and obi-wan maybe even seems to have the upper hand at points) takes this distraction as a way to escape.

Now Its possible at this time that Palpatine makes his move to take control and the Jedi Temple gets wiped out, we see people like mace die but dont see anything of yoda, Kenobi comes back to a ruined temple and we then see him go to padme (silent, only music playing) he tells her something (we cant here it cause its silent) she starts to sob...she has to die at this point, maybe another attack on the Imperial City and as they try to make there escape she gets killed and this is when the Luke pass off occurs) Actually, as much as i like that silent scene with sad music with the silent message we assume is Obi-wan telling Padme Anakin is dead, i think that has to go. OK, i think the best way to handle this is he comes back, Padme is at the Jedi Academy Nursery with luke and leia, there are other children so we dont know its leia, she isnt actually shown or somehting, this scene may need ironing out but hte concept is here. where there are children playing..he's talking ot yoda out side of the room and while we cant hear it we know they are talking about anakin being dead and telling Padme (though its really that anakin is vader ). As they go in to tell her there is an attack on the temple...Chaos ensues, Jedi are dropping like flys...Yoda, Mace and Obi-Wan take action. Obi-wan however goes to help padme while the others go into the thick of it (we can see Mace die, but Yoda's fate is left uncertain. Bail Organ meets up with the fleeing Obi-wan, Padme, and Babies (has to be done to show only one). they get to the hanger and just outside padme is seriously injured and she gives Luke to Ben, Bail Organa Takes off in his ship (he has leia) and Obi wan takes off in his. Fade to him landing outside the lars farmstead. Silent scene from the distance, Obi-wan telling them the news and giving them luke. We see the shock on Owen's face, and Beru takes the baby crying...Obi-wan heads back to his ship...scene cuts again to a balcony of the capitol building with Emperor Palpatine looking over troops of Stormtroopers. vader steps up into site...Evil type music is playing switching to Imperia March as vader comes in...usual star wars type transition to credits.

-Darth Simon

*edit: Imagine what i would come up with if i wasnt at work