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Since I've come to see Jabba as the SW equivalent of Dune's Baron Harkonnen, I feel that Jabba's sexual preference for humanoid women is only indicative of his own orientation and not that of other Hutts; most other Hutts would probably find the idea of copulating with humanoids disgusting.
I finally finished watch Batman: The Animated Series as well as Superman: The Animated Series.
While B:TAS is certainly the better of the two, S:TAS is certainly not without its charms. The third and final season was rather lame, though -- it felt to me that Supes became a supporting character in his own show, with too many episodes focused on other superheroes. Of course, the episodes which featured Supergirl and Darkseid helped to make up for the rest of the season (partially, anyway).
I'm currently working my way through X-Men: The Animated Series and I've begun to watch Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
I'm currently into the third season of XM:TAS, and despite it being very "'90s X-Men" I'm certainly loving it. Lois and Clark, on the other hand ... well, let's just say when it comes to Dean Cain's performance as Clark/Superman, I feel the polar opposite I feel about Chris Reeve's performance. Whereas I feel Reeve played a great Superman but an awful Clark, I feel Cain played a great Clark but an awful Superman; when I look at him in the Superman costume, I just see Dean Cain wearing a Superman costume; he doesn't change his voice or body language between the two roles, and frankly it destroys my ability to suspend disbelief when the other characters fail to recognize that he is both Supes and Clark.
Scarlett Johansson should star in a movie about a blow-up sex doll brought to life. She'd be perfect for the part because she IS the part.
emanswfan said:
Oh goodness, Hayden and Nic Cage together in a film.
Hopefully Nic'll go batshit insane on him as he pummels his ass.
Plagueis should be removed for the sole reason that his name is atrociously bad.
^Why are you saying this out in the open, you fool?! Don't you know that squirrels are agents of the Illuminati and that they have eyes and ears everywhere!?
TV's Frink said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
More lightsaber colours.
Get out.
Women and Frinkies first.
^In my mind, I have. Erased and (not quite completely) replaced.
For my part, I appreciate all the effort that went into the making of ANH:R, but most of the changes themselves I'm not all that keen on.
Regardless, it is only a fanedit; it isn't like the SE, which is being forced upon everyone whether they want it or not.
As far as I'm concerned, the X-Men comics went downhill fast following the end of the original Brood storyline, shortly after Dave Cockrum ended his second run on Uncanny X-Men. From there on out, all the fun and joy was sucked out to be replaced with angst and grimness. I finally gave up with issue 190, and I have absolutely no desire to read any of the mainstream X-Men stories published afterward (Well, with the sole exception being X-Men: The Hidden Years, and I only read that title because John Byrne worked on it.).
Of course, I'm still happy I ended my read when I did. I don't think I would have been able to stomach the undoing of Jean Grey's death, the transformation of Cyclops into an adulterer, and Wolverine's bone claws and ridiculously overblown regenerative powers as much as I have if I'd read them first hand.
Modern standards suck, anyway. =P
Frankly, I think the Jedi should have numbered in the multiple billions, especially prior to the Clone Wars. It's only after having their numbers whittled down over the years spent in constant warfare where they should have became so weak that Palpatine was able to snuff their religion out.
^It's still stupid that he uses a lightsaber, though.
RicOlie_2 said:
I hate how the EU treats entire planets like countries. Everyone speaks the same language, there is a single leader, etc. They all have too much uniformity which makes the planets feel much smaller than planets.
That's a problem with a lot of sci-fi franchises focusing on interstellar civilizations, though.
A likeable Anakin.
Better villains.
Consistency with the good portions of the EU.
Consistency with the OT.
Good dialogue.
Less "black hat" villains.
Less Jedi who are aloof ubermensch.
Less "white hat" heroes.
Little to no emphasis on the Jedi-Sith dichotomy.
More prominent female characters.
More Jedi who are human ("Human" as in having human thoughts, feelings, and flaws, not biologically human.).
More lightsaber colours.
No Artoo.
No Chosen One prophecy.
No Darths other than Vader.
No Hayden Christensen.
No Jabba.
No Jango.
No Jar Jar.
No midi-chlorians.
No mini-Jango.
No Natalie Portman.
No Order 66.
No Padme.
No Palpatine with a lightsaber.
No Qui-Gon (not as Ben's master, anyway).
No ridiculous universe shrinkage (Anakin building Threepio, Yoda knowing Chewie, etc.).
No stupid made up terms like "padawan" and "youngling".
No Temuera Morrison clone troopers.
No Threepio.
No virgin birth.
No Yoda.
No Yoda with a lightsaber.
I shall disregard the request to disregard this thread disregardless.
RicOlie_2 said:
A few years later, I watched the GOUT, immediately preferring the ST in my ignorance.
You preferred the Sequel Trilogy to the OOT? Does that mean you're from the future? ;-)
TESB on a home-recorded video -- borrowed from a family friend -- that kept going blank at irregular intervals.
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure on VHS.
ROTJ on TV, dubbed in French (I couldn't understand a word, just in case you're wondering.).
SW on VHS (Faces set).
TPM on VHS.
AOTC on VHS.
ROTS on DVD.
Tyrphanax said:
Please reference my signature.
That's all well and good, but I'm talking about parallel and perpendicular universes, not alternate timelines. ;-P
Meh. I'm frankly disappointed that it wasn't more interactive. Simply pressing a "GENERATE" button sucks all the fun and creativity out of it.
If I were in old Ben's shoes, I'd simply say this:
"There you will learn from Yoda, a Jedi master who instructed me".
And I'm sure anyone else with English as a first language would do the same as well*.
*Unless they're senile and/or lying, which I suspect is true for SE Obi.
I find it funny that they actually gave Nihilus a lightsaber. That'd be like the Silver/Bronze Age Superman using a blaster -- ludicrously redundant and hopelessly unnecessary.
I'm surprised I haven't mentioned these before.
Many people write the EU off as glorified fan-fiction. While I have many bones to pick with how the EU was handled, I think handwaving it all away as fan-fiction is disingenous. But these stories -- these three lameass wastes of ink and paper -- they are glorified fan-fiction -- bad fan-fiction, the fan-fiction a diehard PT fanboy would write if he got the chance to rewrite the OT.
Oh, look -- Boba Fett's in Lando's office, sitting in Lando's chair, with his helmet off! Kewl!
Wow -- Vader survived the events of ROTJ! Do the Rebels imprison him pending a trial for war crimes? No! He just dyes his armour white and the Rebels embrace him like they're goddamn Care Bears!
There is so much story potential to be found in "what if" scenarios, and it is a horrible shame this trilogy of tripe is the franchise's only foray into the subject.
I originally planned to make Ben the main character, but with the way my story's evolving, it looks like both characters are going to get equal prominence.