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WedgeCyan said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Oh I just heard from my best friend and he said that completely by chance his dad got these exact same cables this week and just like in my case they set his hard drive on fire,so avoid these things people!

What i want to know is what are the odds that we would both get the same cables the same week and have the same problem?  This is getting X files level strange now people.

 As I much as I enjoy the X files, that's a huge problem I have with it... Mulder treats every mundane coincidence as if there were a conspiracy involved. Granted, in universe, there is, but it seems to have made some people in real life feel justified jumping to the same conclusions.

You'll be singing a different tune once the Colonists put you on the kids' menu and the Cigarette Smoking Man starts using the top of your skull as an ashtray. 

Video game nerds can be funny (in the head) sometimes.

^It is is they're not natural.

Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)

There's a little too much gore in places, almost all the male characters have identical faces, and Superman's role in the story is smaller than I'd prefer. Taking that all into consideration, however, I still find this an excellent movie -- I find it to be the best superhero film made in the last several years, and that's including the live-action ones.

8/10

Radio Free Albemuth (2010)

I'm both a Philip K. Dick fan and an Alanis Morissette fan, so you'd think combining the two would serve as a winning formula for me. Not so -- not with this adaptation.

I'll use the floating heads of the movie poster as a visual aid to describe how I feel about the film itself.

The actors all look half asleep, bored, confused, and/or constipated; that's the whole movie in a nutshell.

On the plus side, Alanis is an adequate actress; if she had better material to work with, perhaps she could have been good.

6/10

I keep trying to look at that picture to gauge whether or not he could plausibly play the son of Han & Leia, but the "SON, MEN DON'T GET RAPED" thing at the corner keeps distracting me.

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Oh I just heard from my best friend and he said that completely by chance his dad got these exact same cables this week and just like in my case they set his hard drive on fire,so avoid these things people!

What i want to know is what are the odds that we would both get the same cables the same week and have the same problem?  This is getting X files level strange now people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZ55EZTExg 

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timdiggerm said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Is that a yellow lightsaber I see? *swoon*

 I knew you would say that!

Lair! You didn't see that *swoon* coming at all! 

I haven't a clue. Perhaps Scotland didn't produce many native-born effete snobs during the 14th century. ;-)

As I'm already boycotting Abramstrek, this development means nothing to me; I just don't give a shat.

Is that a yellow lightsaber I see? *swoon*

"I'm not Scottish, I'm Spagyptian".

gizzy2000 said:

OK, so I live in the single-room dormitory, so no one here has a roommate. One of the people in my hall is around 30 years old (no idea why he lives in the dorms, an apartment would be cheaper) and I can always hear him laughing hysterically and talking loudly to himself throughout the night, sometimes saying the same thing over and over again. I'm not sure if he's drunk or high or just plain insane. Also, I know for a fact that he's muttering and laughing to himself because I saw him walking down the hallway doing this. I would report him to the RA, who is like a 19 year old girl, but I'm not sure if that would be safe to do, especially not when he's clearly in some sort of strange mental state in the evenings. Any advice or similar stories?

Damn, and I thought no one was noticing me ... 

Ryan McAvoy said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

I've been thinking... with the shots of the distinctly 'adhoc' looking X-Wing landing field and the pictures of Stormtrooper armour. It could suggest that JJ has gone with the "Rebels never actually defeated the Empire" interpretation of the OUT ending to ROTJ. Hell it would make a lot more sense than supposing that just by killing The Emperor, The Rebels magically made the Imperials all go away.

If this is the case. Two things could be concluded. One, that it explains the absolute need for the de-canonisation of all previous EU. Two, that it makes reaquainting the general public with a restored version of the OUT, without SE changes of vital importance.

Fingers crossed eh!

Most of the EU all but ignored the altered ending of ROTJ and went along with the idea that the Empire remained strong following the Battle of Endor, so I don't really see where you're going with this.

Granted I've not read an extensive amount of EU stuff. But I was under the impression that the remnants of the Empire were just lurking in the background and the new Republic was in charge? Maybe I'm wrong. Is all the old post ROTJ EU stuff about the Rebels still on the run and fighting for their existence from an undeminished Empire then?

Wait, looked it up on Wookiepedia legends...

"The death of Emperor Palpatine, in 4 ABY, at the Battle of Endor, signaled the end of the Empire... One month later, the official Declaration of a New Republic was issued"

Do see where I'm going with this now? ;-)

Wookieepedia is written by completeist fanboys who are overeagre to reinterpret everything into fitting together regardless of whether it does or not. I prefer to go to the EU itself, which paints a far different picture.

Here's what happened after people on Coruscant rose up against the Empire following Palpatine's death according to the EU.

The uprising was quashed and the perpetrators rounded up and gunned down.

Wookieepedia itself also acknowledges that the New Republic only captured Coruscant from the Imperials in 7 ABY, a few years after the Battle of Endor, and the Galactic Civil War itself came to a final end in 19 ABY.

lovelikewinter said:

I have this on my wall, and it still has a coolness factor.

Lightcorkscrews should be canon, flotsammit! 

Ryan McAvoy said:

I've been thinking... with the shots of the distinctly 'adhoc' looking X-Wing landing field and the pictures of Stormtrooper armour. It could suggest that JJ has gone with the "Rebels never actually defeated the Empire" interpretation of the OUT ending to ROTJ. Hell it would make a lot more sense than supposing that just by killing The Emperor, The Rebels magically made the Imperials all go away.

If this is the case. Two things could be concluded. One, that it explains the absolute need for the de-canonisation of all previous EU. Two, that it makes reaquainting the general public with a restored version of the OUT, without SE changes of vital importance.

Fingers crossed eh!

Most of the EU all but ignored the altered ending of ROTJ and went along with the idea that the Empire remained strong following the Battle of Endor, so I don't really see where you're going with this.

I wonder if the chrometroopers will wield lightsabers like the stormtroopers in the old Ralph McQuarrie concept art. Concerns with overuse of lightsabers aside, it'd make for a cool visual (As long as the lightsabers aren't red, of course.).

Article says they won't be wearing cloaks in the film. How disappointing -- I like the look.

Tobar said:

My experience with Bad Robot television productions is that they're excellent at creating emotional moments but SUCK at plotting.

They often start off with one direction in mind but by the beginning of the next season they seemingly get bored and start heading somewhere else. Plot holes be damned. Most of their productions feel aimless with no ultimate goal in mind. Just making up whatever they can on the fly to keep the ball rolling as long as possible.

Ah, so Bad Robot is responsible for Ghost Whisperer. ;-)

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As bad as the whole "Leia is Luke's sister" retcon is, I feel that re-retconning (Or should that be de-retconning?) her back into a character who isn't related to Luke would be worse. Besides, what would be the point? To reignite the Luke/Leia/Han love triangle? Han won Leia at the end of ROTJ -- why upset that relationship, especially at the ages they are at now?

The damage has been done; just let the wound heal and move on.

I'm with Frink on this one -- this conversation is silly.