DuracellEnergizer

NeverarGreat said:

No-one’s ever really gone.

Glad you’re back, Duracell 😃

Happy to see you, too, Neverar. 😃

red5-626 said:

My first grade reading teacher was a witch!

And no I’m not censoring myself, every year I was at that particular School she dressed as a witch for the School Halloween party.
never had the nerve but I always wanted to ask her where her costume was.

You should’ve. I imagine it would’ve been very satisfying.

This past week, I returned to the Superman drawing I did five months ago and decided to flesh it out into a complete poster-style drawing of Supes with members of his supporting cast/rogues gallery. After fixing/inking the original Superman drawing, adding in the other figures, cleaning it up/colouring it digitally, I completed it yesterday.

Here’s a step-by-step chart of the drawing’s evolution:

This is the most detailed, labour-intensive drawing I’ve ever worked on; it took a lot out of me; I don’t know if I have it in me to draw one like it again.

Everything I’ve added to my collection since I posted here last:

Everything I’ve weeded from my collection:

I honestly don’t mind this casting. Being an acrobatic superhero, it makes better sense for Bats to have a lithe figure than a muscle-bound one.

Now, if only they can ditch the ugly rubber/kevlar Batsuits and return to the classic:

I’ve decided to return in a limited capacity. I’ll be keeping my participation to Off Topic & Script Writing/Re-writing, and my posts will be infrequent.

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. . . . 😉

This is a topic I’ve been pondering for several months now, and I’ve some ideas for an OT rewrite firmly developed in my mind.

GENERAL CHANGES

• My OT would be semi-hard science fiction, with a few fantastical elements, rather than outright science fantasy. Things like 3D space travel would be featured, but people walking around inside giant space slugs without spacesuits in Earth-normal gravity would be out of the question.
• My OT would take place in the Milky Way Galaxy, in “the 33rd century A.E.”, hundreds of thousands of years into the future. Humans and near-humans would be the only sapient life inhabiting the galaxy; there’d be no genuine aliens.
• Projectile weapons such as coilguns and smart missiles would be featured, with energy weapons taking lesser precedence.
• The lightsaber would be somewhat different. It’d be a weapon only trained Force-users can activate and wield. It’d possess a monomolecular blade of “energized particles” which can cut through most anything but doesn’t generate any actual heat. Jedi lightsabers would be red while Sith lightsabers blue.
• No manned fighters. All fighters would either be outfitted with AIs (Empire) or remote controlled (Rebel).
• There’d be no light/dark dichotomy to the Force.
• No Force ghosts.

STAR WARS

• Luke would be changed into a female character named “Leia Skywalker”.
• Leia would become Princess Zara Antilles.
• The Death Star would not make a physical appearance. Zara would be imprisoned on Vader’s Star Destroyer and all scenes pertaining to her rescue would take place there.
• Ben would survive his duel with Vader.
• The film would end with our heroes escaping for Hoth.

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

• My version of TESB would open a couple weeks after the events of SW. The damages to the Falcon would’ve been those sustained during our heroes’ escape from Vader’s ship; Leia would be furthering her training under Ben; etc.
• Dodonna would take Rieekan’s place.
• The Leia/Han/Zara love triangle would be a bisexual one.
• The walkers would be replaced with tanks.
• Ben would be slain by Vader while helping our heroes escape Hoth.
• In contrast to Ben, Yoda would be quite the PT-era Jedi. He would teach Leia that Jedi are forbidden from forming attachments, including romantic ones.
• Bespin wouldn’t have a breathable atmosphere.
• Six months would explicitly pass between the Battle of Hoth and the duel on Cloud City.
• I’m on the fence as to whether Vader would be Leia’s father or not.
• Leia would join Vader.

RETURN REVENGE OF THE JEDI

• Three years would’ve passed since TESB. Leia would’ve spent that time receiving Sith training from Vader.
• The one and only Death Star would finally make its debut.
• Motti would take Jerjerrod’s place.
• Emperor Palpatine would be reimagined as Espaa Valorum, the beautiful, androgynous, ageless Dark Lord of the Sith.
• Under his helmet, Vader would be revealed as a handsome, middle-aged man without any injuries or disfigurements.
• No Ewoks, no Endor. The Rebel fleet would attack the Death Star above Had Abbadon, and we’d get a trench run much like the one from A New Hope. No muss, no fuss.
• Valorum would zap Leia with his lightning; Vader would skewer him on his lightsaber; then Leia and Vader would have their climactic duel.
• Leia would slay Vader a la Dooku. Vader would die in his sins, unredeemed.
• The film would end on a bittersweet note, with the Death Star destroyed, Han and Zara together, and Leia assuming command of the Executor and going off on her own, intent on building a First Order free of Jedi/Sith dogma.

I believe I’ll be taking my third and final departure from this forum. I tried toughing it out, hoping things would turn around, but the plain, painful truth is that I don’t like Star Wars anymore, there’re no more interesting discussions to be had in Off-Topic/The Subforums Formerly Known as Off-Topic, so there’s nothing to keep me here anymore.

To echo the closing words of long departed yhwx, I log out and close the browser tab, crossing my heart, hoping to die, sticking a needle in my eye.

ChainsawAsh said:

I pretty much nailed the “official” trap

A Thing

I will accept my punishment with grace and gratitude.

Meh. I prefer to place my hope in things which matter.

LordZerome1080 said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

LordZerome1080 said:

With 12 days to go let’s hope for the best.

That ship already sailed (right off the edge of a flat Earth).

Nice to know you’re pessimistic too.

No, I used to be pessimistic when it came to Star Wars. Now I’m nihilistic when it comes to Star Wars.

LordZerome1080 said:

With 12 days to go let’s hope for the best.

That ship already sailed (right off the edge of a flat Earth).

• The “Faces” boxed set on VHS
• The Special Edition boxed set on VHS
• The “Faces” boxed set on VHS (again)
• The Phantom Menace on VHS
• The GOUT

Thankfully, all this stuff was bought secondhand; Lucasfilm didn’t receive a penny.

BETSY PALMER

^Race swapping I can get behind.

DominicCobb said:

Michael Bay has been kind to me.

Creox said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Biggs Audio Dynamite said:

So you are repeating yourself.

Everyone repeats themselves here. I don’t know why anyone bothers making new posts anymore; they may as well just quote themselves from months ago; it isn’t as if they’ve gained new insights or revised their opinions in the interim.

Some repeat themselves more than others. 😉

[INSERT TIRED OLD ANTI-CAPITALIST AND/OR ROTJ RANT HERE]

Creox said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Biggs Audio Dynamite said:

So you are repeating yourself.

Everyone repeats themselves here. I don’t know why anyone bothers making new posts anymore; they may as well just quote themselves from months ago; it isn’t as if they’ve gained new insights or revised their opinions in the interim.

Some repeat themselves more than others. 😉

[INSERT TIRED OLD ROTJ RANT HERE]

Biggs Audio Dynamite said:

So you are repeating yourself.

Everyone repeats themselves here. I don’t know why anyone bothers making new posts anymore; they may as well just quote themselves from months ago; it isn’t as if they’ve gained new insights or revised their opinions in the interim.

Mocata said:

Probably a bit salty

With a touch of iodine.

Zachary VIII said:

Pickle2503 said:

What do you guys think about them announcing episode 10, 11, and 12 today?

I’m interested in how they’re going to make a crossover between the Canon and Legends universes.

A giant extradimensional sarlacc eats them both, and as they are slowly digested over a thousand years, their respective cosmic juices mix. . . .

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

tar waffles

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