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DuracellEnergizer

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#1394274
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<s>Why I Love Prequel Yoda</s> (<em>Outdated</em>)
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SparkySywer said:

G&G-Fan said:

Or it’s because of what I explained above? Because Dooku knew he had no chance against Yoda in terms of the Force so he changed the fight but was too arrogant to admit it, a very Sith trait and a general trait of Dooku’s character (always portraying himself as super confident)?

Why does Yoda go along with it?

Yeah. If I was Yoda, I just would’ve used my Force powers to dismantle Dooku’s saber.

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#1394270
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<s>Why I Love Prequel Yoda</s> (<em>Outdated</em>)
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NeverarGreat said:

act on instinct said:

Mocata said:

Yeah but it’s less like the reaction to mass murder and more like a case of indigestion.

Could say the same or worse about Leia to her home planet. It’s not Rabbit Hole.

To be fair, we never saw her reaction to its actual destruction, only getting back to her hours later.

Nevertheless, this is a failure of SW '77.

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#1394257
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What's your favourite movie(s) and why?
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The Seventh Seal

I originally watched this film around 2009/2010, a couple years after experiencing a crisis of faith which had left me deep in the throes of agnosticism. Suffice to say, as an agnostic who still retained a yearning for the Christian faith but needed certainty to believe, I saw myself reflected in Antonius Block.

I’m no longer in the place I was then; I’ve since become an agnostic Whiteheadian Discordian Christian omnist (yes, I still identity as “agnostic”, but as an adjective rather than a noun). Yet I still love this film, and all of Bergman’s films pertaining to the “silence of God”.

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#1394094
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The Ultimate Star Wars Saga
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I’ve spent the last couple months pondering this “Ultimate Star Wars Saga” of mine, trying to figure out how I’d go about it. Do I want it to be a trilogy of trilogies, a series with an indeterminate number of seasons, or a single film? How faithful do I want to remain to Lucas’ PT, or Legends, or my own previous rewrites? How many elements do I want to take from earlier SW film drafts? Do I want it to be a conservative rewrite, an extensive rewrite, or a little of both? Do I even really want to rewrite the entire saga? Maybe I really just want to pare it down to the PT, or the OT.

After considerable thought, I’ve reached some final conclusions. The Ultimate Star Wars Saga would consist of twelve episodes, forming four trilogies spanning four generations of the Skywalker family. The first trilogy, the “Pre-Clone Wars Trilogy”, would be a rewrite of my previous PT rewrite, tailored to make Obi-Wan & Anakin peers, Anakin & Vader completely separate characters, etc. The second trilogy would be a PT rewrite proper, aligning more closely with Lucas’ films. The third trilogy would be an OT rewrite. The fourth trilogy would be the ST rewrite, incorporating elements from Disney’s films, the Dark Empire trilogy, Dark Forces II, and possibly also the Thrawn trilogy.

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#1393840
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<s>Why I Love Prequel Yoda</s> (<em>Outdated</em>)
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SparkySywer said:

NeverarGreat said:

So when Yoda and Dooku pulled out their swords to go at it, this implied that swords still held some importance as to the winner of the fight.

Dooku outright says “It is obvious that this contest can not be decided by our knowledge of the Force, but by our skills with a lightsaber.” At the risk of being really hyperbolic… can you get any more antithetical to the core concepts of Star Wars itself?

This right here, more than anything else, is why I question Lucas’ “genius”.

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#1393706
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<s>Why I Love Prequel Yoda</s> (<em>Outdated</em>)
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I wouldn’t have minded Palpatine with a lightsaber if Lucas had went in the same direction Dark Empire had. Palpatine wields a lightsaber, but it’s a lightsaber taken from a vanquished Jedi, not one of his own creation. And he doesn’t wield it because he relies on it, but to profane it. That would’ve been in keeping with Palpatine’s character.

I mean, how much more effective would it have been if Palpatine had whipped out Windu’s lightsaber when confronting Yoda, only to contemptuously toss it aside later in the fight.

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#1393589
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General Discussion Thread
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RicOlie_2 said:

How are you doing these days, Duracell?

These past three years have been something of an emotional spin cycle. Father passed away last January, my mother’s been chronically ill due to complications with COPD and kidney disease, my sister’s an utter mess, and the political landscape … yeah. In spite of all that, I’m in a much better place, emotionally and spiritually, than I was many years ago, though somedays I have to make a concentrated effort to see the good things in life. Thanks for asking.

I hope you’ve been doing well for yourself.

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#1393073
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The <strong>Original Trilogy</strong> - a general <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> thread
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canofhumdingers said:

act on instinct said:
I think it’s fine Lucas kept working independently and I share solidarity with his anti-corporation feelings.

Those feelings make his role as founder of Lucasfilm, and especially the eventual sale to Disney incredibly ironic.

It’s almost as if he became the very thing he swore to destroy.

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#1392807
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What were your &quot;I called it&quot; moments?
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StarkillerAG said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

StarkillerAG said:

Even then, they already introduced some ideas people weren’t expecting, most importantly the clones being the good guys and the Republic falling from within.

I completely expected the latter.

The EU writers didn’t, though. All of the descriptions of the Clone Wars in the spinoff material described it as a war between the Jedi of the Old Republic and the evil clones of Palpatine’s Empire. That’s mainly what I was referring to when I talked about people’s expectations.

I’m familiar with that material. I interpreted their recollection of the Clone Wars a different way.