DuracellEnergizer

Vladius said:

I appreciate what they did but I think that they and others miss the point of the scene, it’s not supposed to be an elaborate acrobatic fight sequence. They’re doing Kendo, which is what actual samurai fights would have looked like; two hands on the sword, more footwork than leaping, running, or wild swinging. The scene looks completely ridiculous in context, like dropping a cracked out MTV clip into a rerun of a show from the 70s.
I think it would be nice to include some of the shots but not others, especially the over the top force pushes, the punching, the throwing of crates and barrels, and so on. At the very least all of the original dialogue and music should be preserved.

It’s true. All of it.

That’s our Abrams.

Why yes, I do quite enjoy the “lab accidents” of Panos Cosmatos, Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Lynch, Guy Maddin, Georges Méliès, & Jan Švankmajer.

DrDre said:

A film with little plot can be fun, but a good film needs a good plot.

Every experimental filmmaker disagrees with you.

If you don’t include the official porn parody and rank it highest of all, you’re off-base and Mala will tell you how off-base you are.

I’m still waiting for an alternate PT. Aren’t there any aspiring filmmakers out there willing to take a crack at that?

Not really related to the conversation at hand, but in October I went to the movies to see The Lighthouse. Not a big deal, right? Well, it was for me; this was the first — and at present, only — time I’ve actually been to the theatres. And I enjoyed the experience very, very much. I got a great seat, the handful of people in the theatre with me kept quiet, and the film itself was excellent.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I’m putting this script on indefinite hiatus.

Fickle bastard that I am, I’m going back on this.

Major revisions:

• I’ve decided to kill Zul again. This time a robot shoots her.
• The dialogue between Obi-Wan & the Jedi Order has been extensively rewritten/restructured.
• The enigmatic “Skywalker” Obi-Wan & the Jedi Council allude to is now “Shmi Warka”. Yes, Shmi is an ex-Jedi in this story.

The notion that a cult — consisting of two individuals at a time, whose influence is limited to a single galaxy — has the power to unbalance a pantheistic/panentheistic spiritual energy field which encompasses an entire immeasurably vast universe.

liamnotneeson said:

Plus, doesn’t The Clone Wars straight say Anakin is the Chosen One?

That was in the Mortis arc, IIRC.

And what about Jacob Marley? He never wore chains and cash boxes in life. Plot hole. Dickens was a hack.

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Over-arching theme of the entire PT. It isn’t present in the OT even as subtext.

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CatBus said:

Mike O said:

I don’t mean to be crude, but it sounds like good, bad, or indifferent, we won’t get them while Lucas is still alive.

So the date Star Wars fans are waiting for is the copyright expiration date – when someone other than Disney can release the films as they ought to be. If I thought there was any chance at all this would happen in my lifetime, I’d never have become involved in Star Wars preservation.

I’d bet money humanity will be extinct before Disney lets a single copyright they own expire. They have the money and the power to lobby congress for extensions indefinitely.
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Smell that? That’s the system hard at work my brother.

All the more reason for revolution.

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Anti-SJWs have conflated radical feminism with feminism in general. Which wouldn’t be so bad if they could be convinced otherwise, but then they wouldn’t be Anti-SJWs if that was possible.

Give me OUT or get thee out.

liamnotneeson said:

DominicCobb said:

The fact that people use the term “OP” when referring to a character is just proof of how people are looking at these movies in all the wrong ways.

I’m sorry, would you rather me say she’s a Mary Sue instead?

DEWIT.

New idea: Forget the trilogy of trilogies idea; make the Reconstructed Saga a multi-episode series instead. Like TCW, only more focused.

A Super-Sweet, Super-Cartoony Little Boy

mykyta-R4 said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

This entire year has been a miserable, depressing experience for me.

Then I hope you have a much better and happier year in 2020. For everyone too.

Thanks. 😃

ZkinandBonez said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

It’s been almost a year since I last considered my personal canon. In that time, I tried being a SW '77 purist, but that didn’t work out for me. I then tried smothering my vestigial love for all things Star Wars and any personal canon with it, but that didn’t work out, either. Since then, my love and hatred for Star Wars has reached equilibrium, and now I believe I’ve settled upon a definitive personal canon.

This isn’t a canon of compatible works all forming a single, cohesive universe. This is a canon of dissimilar, often incompatible stories which I happen to enjoy, pure and simple.

• Tales of the Jedi
• TCW: “Overlords”
• TCW: “Altar of Mortis”
• TCW: “Ghosts of Mortis”
• Star Wars (theatrical version)
• The Star Wars radio drama
• The Empire Strikes Back (theatrical version)
• The original Marvel SW comic (#1-80)
• The Archie Goodwin/Al Williamson SW comic strip
• The Alan Moore SW comics
• Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire
• Dark Forces: Rebel Agent
• Dark Forces: Jedi Knight
• Mara Jade: By the Emperor’s Hand
• Heir to the Force
• Dark Force Rising
• The Last Command
• Dark Empire
• I, Jedi
• Ambush at Corellia
• Assault at Selonia
• Showdown at Centerpoint
• Specter of the Past
• Vision of the Future

“Heir to the Force”?

A slip of the keyboard. I must’ve subconsciously remembered this novel. I meant to type “Heir to the Empire”, of course.