A girl I barely knew once referred to The Princess Bride as the worst movie ever made. Obviously, she hadn’t seen more than five movies.

Just because Warb is already so burdened and could use a break:

*sigh*

Warbler said:

The thing is, it just doesn’t make sense that another universe was created. How would going back in time and changing history create a whole other universe? Sorry not buying it.

Read up on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics. Once you do, it’s not too hard to imagine how time travel may create a parallel universe.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Those are from other movies. Different rules apply.

Whom says?

Both Yoda and Obi-Wan appear identical in ghost as they did upon their deaths

Perhaps because [dramatic pause] they had no desire to appear otherwise?

by this logic we should get a scarred quadruple amputee Anakin ghost like in the HISHE.

If he wanted to appear that way, sure.

Looks like nothing sort of an explicit crossover between the two universes is going to ever convince Warbler the Prime Universe still canonically exists.

*double sigh with extra sexiness*

Warbler said:

*sigh*

Are you ex*sigh*table?

*sigh*

Are you ex*sigh*table?

*SIGH*

Are you ex*sigh*table?

*SIGH*

Are you ex*sigh*table?

*SIGH*

I would’ve said ignorance, but a stinkweed by any other name …

*sigh*

Paper Mario’s fun, but simpler than Super Mario RPG.

Anakin Starkiller said:

Hayden as Anakin’s ghost. It doesn’t make sense for him to appear as an unscarred Shaw because he never looked like that.

Doesn’t make sense for Jacob Marley to appear in chains because he never looked like that.

Doesn’t make sense for Johnny Bartlett to appear as Death because he never looked like that.

Doesn’t make sense for whoever-the-hell-she-was to appear as whatever-the-hell-this-is because she never looked like that.

Doesn’t make sense for the Maitlands to appear as stretch-faced monsters because they never looked like that.

They’re ghosts. Ghosts can appear however the hell they want to appear.

I wonder how the popularity of LaserDisc would’ve fared if recordable discs had actually been marketed.

I was being silly.

Warb acts as if Trek has always used consistent time travel mechanics prior to ST '09, which isn’t true at all. Just compare “The City on the Edge of Forever” and “Time’s Arrow”. The former shows that history is mutable and can be changed, the latter shows that history is fixed and any attempts to alter events in the past will bring those events into being anyway.

NeverarGreat said:

Then the dream shifted and I was watching The Phantom Menace, except that it was made during the 50’s with the old Lucas story sensibility and style. Because of this, the old, grainy film began on a desolate Tatooine that had recently undergone some sort of environmental collapse. The air was full of dust and 12 year old Anakin wandered a wasteland littered with nuclear-age debris. He wandered into an old-west style town with adobe buildings, and the ragged humanity peered out of darkened windows as he passed.

O hai, Personal Canon No. 3.

And yet according to official canon, the Prime Universe and Kelvin Timeline are separate, co-existing timelines.

I thought you submitted to official canon?

^Trump sock confirmed.

The best things worth doing are worth doing wrong.

Fink Newton

TV’s Frink said:

dahmage said:

Can people other than DE post in that thread?

They can but no one should. Including DE.

“I cannot listen to any of your instructions, for you are my sworn enemy and are about to meet your demise.”

I dreamed I watched an early-to-mid '70s romantic comedy starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Roy Scheider.

Fonda played an unmarried-and-unattached woman with a modestly successful modelling career who had a crush on a millionaire with a pornstache. Tomlin played her best friend. Together, they were planning on taking a skiing vacation to Colorado, but they got on the wrong bus and wound up in New York City instead. There, Fonda met and fell for Scheider’s character, who was a cantankerous, misanthropic anarchist who always talked to himself in the mirror and wore his hair slicked back and the top buttons of his black T-shirt unbuttoned.

dahmage said:

Can people other than DE post in that thread?

Only if you take my head and receive my Quickening.

[JEDIT]

That’s a Highlander reference, BTW, not a sexual metaphor.

I’m feeling unusually lenient this day.

darthrush said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Anakin Starkiller said:

the fact that we don’t end with Lando clapping has got to be worth something

Get on your knees and beg for forgiveness.

I don’t wanna know what happens after that.

The excommunication gets lifted.