Dek Rollins

HansiG said:

I just think the idea of prayers is stupid, let alone requesting prayers, but since people seem to like this thread, I will now hide in my turtle shell and not respond to this thread anymore :F

You obviously are not of the Christian faith. I respect that. What I don’t understand is how prayers (or requests of such) are stupid. They’re not. A prayer is, simply put, a conversation with God. Also, God is a healer and a helper. You wouldn’t believe how many times someone has been healed of sickness or injury by the hand of God because people cared enough to pray over them, and whatever doctors that may be nursing them are baffled by it. Like I said in the first post, I felt that God was telling me to pray for the people here, and to start this thread.

May God bless you.

TV’s Frink said:

If someone wants to pray for me to learn how to spell “around” that would be fine.

Don’t worry, it’ll happen. 😉

That sounds terrible, Warbler. Like, really bad, I couldn’t imagine how much pain he must be in. I’ll be praying, and I hope he won’t end up needing extensive surgery.

Thanks guys. 😄

^I knew I was going to get these replies, but I prayed they would be few. 😉

Anything would be better than Ahsoka anything. Man, I hate her so much.

That sounds bad. I’ll make sure to keep praying for them, and I hope it all goes well.

EDIT: Also, thanks for posting.

I was thinking about darth ender’s “Place for Emotional Support” thread, and felt that God was laying it on my heart that I need to pray for any members of the board that need it. So, this thread is for anyone who is having any problems with anything, and feels like some prayers would help. I will try to respond to any and all prayer requests made here, and if you feel that you want to ask for prayer, or just want to talk to me about something that you want to be private, feel free to PM me instead of posting in the thread.

I will do my best to pray over the requests posted here regularly, and if you post a request for prayer and something gets better, say something about it if you’re able to.

Remember, God loves everyone of us, and I love this board, every member included (even those whom I disagree with, or am not particularly fond of).

^On the contrary, my brother and I found TPM quite engaging at their ages, so who knows? 😉

a bed roll

If they do it, I want this to replace Jar Jar in it:

** blushes **

John Doom said:

I agree that the OT doesn’t need prequels nor sequels. Like me, you probably see SW from an artistic point of view…

Yes! Thank you for apparently being the only other person on this board who thinks that way.

In any case, a solution for making better sequels was already found years ago: in a way, TESB was not a SW film (or at least not like the original SW), yet most of us love it. Why? Because it was well crafted, it was able to stay true to the original movie, while expanding it with new concepts: a perfect balance.
So it was possible. I just wish they’d kept trying going into that bold direction for the ST.

The thing is, though, Empire still kept the same characters intact, and along with Jedi, it finished a furthered story of our heroes’ fight against the Empire. We still had Luke and Vader, and the same specific conflict to finish, so it didn’t get old in the three films that it took. In the ST we have new characters to fill the same old roles, and a new conflict to emulate the same old conflict, so it feels oddly contrived, and not very original, and it’s getting old. From my point of view the ST is evi… I mean it’ll be impossible to make the ST work because of this problem.

DuracellEnergizer said:

At this point, there’s little variety in the heroes/villains of the SW franchise – especially the villains – and I’m bored with the monotony.

Do ya know what I think of this? It’s about time they stopped making Star Wars films. The OT doesn’t need a trilogy behind it and another in front. It was a complete story, and whatever wasn’t shown to you in the films was laid out in exposition, or implied, or simply left to imagination. I don’t want endless sequels coming after every fairytale that ends in “they all lived happily ever after”, because the story is finished. You can tell that SW is done because it’s boring now, unless you make it not a SW film, and I know I don’t want that.

^Thank you!

darklordoftech said:

Dek Rollins said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Oh, this guy is just oh so warm, friendly, and inviting,

He also doesn’t look very much like something from Star Wars.

Just because of his lightsaber color?

No.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Dek Rollins said:

ray_afraid said:

The “all the bad guys- and only the bad guys- have red lightsabers” is a prequelism I can do without.

It’s not a prequelism.

Yes, it is. Or are there other darksiders in the OT with red lightsabers aside from Vader I’m unaware of?

Just because there weren’t any others doesn’t change the fact that it was used to portray evil and to contrast with the good, portrayed by blue. If there was another evil lightsaber-wielder in the OT, he would have had a red blade to keep the feel. A real prequelism is giving all darkside force users the name “Darth” as a title, rather than it being Vader’s first name.

The reason Darth had a red saber in Star Wars was to create the simple contrast of good and evil, just like everything else in the film.

That’s an out of universe reason. There’s no reason to think it’s an in-universe reason going off the OT alone.

Why does it matter if there’s a specific in-universe explanation for it? It’s a specific aesthetic that was used to portray something in the film(s). I never said there was an in-universe reason, I just don’t think something such as this needs one.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Oh, this guy is just oh so warm, friendly, and inviting,

He also doesn’t look very much like something from Star Wars.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

BillionaireHobo287 said:

IsanRido said:

Originality/subversion alone doesn’t do anything. However, if we’re dealing with a good film that features competent writing, direction and acting, would you think its quality be hurt if you saw the villain wearing white robes and using a blue lightsaber?

Yes however little. It would be a unnecesarily misleading and confusing design choice. Why make the bad guy look so much like the good guys? It’s not even really that original and detracts from the story.

Exactly. In a word, it would be stupid.

Stupid is right. It’s just that SW had a certain aesthetic to it, and removing that aesthetic obscures the idea that your watching a sequel to SW. There were certain “rules” for lack of a better word. It was based upon several old ideas, from '30s-'40s sci-fi/fantasy serials, to Dune, to WWII films. Taking out the aesthetics of SW would make TFA even worse than it already is. Like I said, Darth had a red blade for a reason, and Obi-Wan had a blue blade for a reason. Same with the black vs. white outfits. It creates a distinguishable contrast of good and evil. The Empire and the Rebellion was black and white.

In all honesty I don’t think any of those Tatooine shots need corrections, with the exception of the really yellow 3PO shot. Your corrections do look nice though.

EDIT: Looking back at it, I think that 3PO shot actually looks a little too bright and blown-out in your correction, Darth.

EDIT: Looking back at it again, and on a different computer, It appears that the other computer I was using has some serious color issues going on, so I repeal my previous statements from this post. Though this was a day ago, so it doesn’t really matter.

ray_afraid said:

The “all the bad guys- and only the bad guys- have red lightsabers” is a prequelism I can do without.

It’s not a prequelism. The reason Darth had a red saber in Star Wars was to create the simple contrast of good and evil, just like everything else in the film. He also wore black. Do you want Kylo to wear something else just to emphasize the unnecessary points of originality? Just because something is “cliche” doesn’t mean it won’t fit.

It directly follows the Dooku/Yoda fight, after he escapes. You can see it in that video. It shows the wipe.

Being that this is a completely different film, I would guess that it’s at least partially from a different scan.

IsanRido said:

-Kylo’s saber ought to be a different color, to eliminate the “bad guise use red” cliche.

No. We’re trying to make a good SW film, not some fan-fiction.

-No C3P0 or R2D2. Seriously, why are they so important to this universe? They’re just droids that happened to be in a few major battles.

Again, this is a SW film. The droids were the story tellers, they took you through the whole thing. That’s there purpose, so they need to be there.

Thanks for the info. 😃

EDIT: Oh, and I know about the laserdisc audio being usable (I have the JP laserdisc preservation), but I didn’t know if the laserdiscs would have had altered audio since the theatrical release, being that GL did make his director’s cut for the release (which was technically what it should have been in theaters).