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Tobar said:

The most important thing people forget is that Vader wanted them to escape. So the Stormtroopers were under orders to make a show of trying to capture them but allowing them ultimately to get away so that they can be tracked back to the Rebel Base.

Stormtroopers are no joke, we're told what crack shots they are and are given evidence of such. They were able to disable an enormous Sandcrawler with a few precisely aimed shots. And lets not forget what happened to Uncle Own and Aunt Beru.

In ESB they completely decimate the Hoth base. A base considerably better protected than the older Yavin one.

I suppose one could say that the only film which really depicts the stormtroopers in an incompetant light is ROTJ (which really isn't all the surprising).

^I guess the writers figured an invasion force from the Unknown Regions wouldn't make for a credible threat considering how small the Unknown Regions are compared to the rest of the galaxy, so they went with extragalactic aliens instead.

Of course, the Unknown Regions should have been larger in the first place. The various writers of the modern EU fumbled the ball when they made the Republic/Empire encompass most of the galaxy instead of just a small portion of it.  

thejediknighthusezni said:

      I look to designed nature and inspired scripture for guidance. 40 is a number associated with trial and developement towards a higher state. 40 days to a being with clearly definable features of a person, 40 weeks of gestation, 40 years of fertility. It is said that "ensoulment" comes at 40 days.

     I have great doubts as to whether God is just. But if the creator has even the barest concept of human justice, we are in UNIMAGINABLE trouble.

You doubt God is just, yet you continue to worship Him?

^Give in to the power of the bratwurst.

RetroAlien said:

"Mango"? Am I missing something here? Who the hell is Mango? A fruity bounty hunter?

Tango Fett was the clone template of Boba Fett and the clone troopers as played by New Zealander actor Temuera Morrison in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. I thought this was common knowledge. *shrug*

Also what are they then just a bunch of bitch stewies now?

Enlistees, conscripts, etc. made up of common, everyday human and near-human beings.

The Vong were originally intended to be Sith, but Lucas vetoed that idea.

Shame he never vetoed all the other "reborn Sith" gimmicks that were to come later.

The CAPS are DESIGNED to GRAB people's ATTENTION and make any GIVEN WRITER look like HE or SHE KNOWS what HE or SHE is TALKING about.

RetroAlien said:

If storm troopers are clones from a bad-ass bounty hunter, "Jango" "Fett" why are they all killed so easily, especially in episode IV?

 The stormtroopers in the OT aren't clones of Mango.

RetroAlien said:

Also shouldn't it be "Django"?

That's like asking if "Rhys" shouldn't be spelt "Reese", "Jon" spelt "John", "Alan" spelt "Allan", and so on.

^I like to think that Bespin was relatively close to Hoth -- say a light-year away -- and it took them that long to travel there. Time dilation from travelling at near-light velocities would have kept them from experiencing too much time loss (perhaps only a week or two passed between leaving Hoth and arriving at Bespin from their point of view?), and enough time would have elapsed for Yoda to have taught Luke enough about the Force for him to get as good with it as he was shown to be when he confronted Vader.

Wannabe Scholar said:

As for the author of those crossovers, I think you mean Dark Jedi Princess (who wrote the "Powerlust" series) or was it DarthMarrs (who wrote "Of Gods Light and Dark" and its sequel The Heavens Fall: A Jedi On Earth). Do either of them sound familiar?

It wasn't either of those two. I read the stories on the writer's own website, and that was way back in 2003/2004, so I doubt I'd be able to find them again.

INT. TRAINING CENTRE 14/ROOM 112 - DAY

Within Room 112 of Training Centre 14, several students sit seated at desks, their attentions rapt upon the instructor standing at the head of the class. The instructor, for his part, desperately tries to get a malfunctioning projector to work to no avail.

INSTRUCTOR #2: (sighs) Well, this piece of garbage's busted. (to Anakin and Orowi) I want you two to go to the supply room and bring back another projector.

OROWI: Why both us?

INSTRUCTOR #2: (rolls his eyes) Do you know how heavy one of these things is? I send only one of you, and it'll take you half an hour dragging it here.

OROWI: I don't know if I can lift something that heavy.

INSTRUCTOR #2: You can fly, can't you? You'll be air support. Now go!

With the instructor's command, Anakin and his Toydarian friend both rise to leave the classroom. As they make their way down the empty corridor to the supply room, Orowi flies up beside Anakin, who stares blindly ahead with his mind a million kilometres away.

OROWI: I never studied the uprising in school, but from what I did hear about it, it didn't happen the way Poule says it did. What do you think?

ANAKIN: (absentminded) Uh-huh, yeah.

OROWI: (bemused) Anakin!

ANAKIN: (snaps out of his trance) Hu-wha!?

OROWI: You weren't listening to me.

ANAKIN: Sorry. I've got a trillion things on my mind.

OROWI: I noticed. You've been like that all day. What's the matter?

ANAKIN: I don't know if I should talk about it.

OROWI: Why not?

ANAKIN: Well, it's kind of embarrassing.

OROWI: Oh, c'mon -- gimme the prize.

ANAKIN: (under his breath) It's about Nashira.

OROWI: It's not that time of month, is it?

ANAKIN: (cont'd) She kissed me last night.

The Toydarian freezes, hovering in mid-air.

OROWI: Kissed you?

ANAKIN: (alarmed) Not so loud!

OROWI: (covers him mouth) Sorry! (beat) What did you do? Did you ... you know ... return it?

ANAKIN: (frowns) Of course not. (beat) I pushed her.

OROWI: (cocks an eyebrow) Pushed her?

ANAKIN: I didn't mean to, but she kissed me right when I was waking up from a nightmare.

OROWI: Must have been some nightmare.

Anakin's face goes stoney for a moment.

OROWI: Hit a nerve?

ANAKIN: Yes.

OROWI: I guess we shouldn't talk about it anymore.

The two then end their conversation, continuing on their way to the supply room.

ANAKIN: The nightmare was about Nashira.

OROWI: I thought we weren't going to talk about it anymore.

ANAKIN: (cont'd) She appeared in my dream, but she wasn't really Nashira. She was this beautiful women who wore her face, but it wasn't her.

OROWI: This doesn't really sound like a nightmare to me.

ANAKIN: She led me into a pyramid, to a stone coffin. When I opened it up, I found my own body inside. Then she licked my face.

OROWI: Odd, but still kinky.

ANAKIN: (frowns) Would you quit it with the bad jokes? It isn't funny.

OROWI: Sorry ...

ANAKIN: (cont'd) Her tongue was long and a dark blue or green, covered in tiny, sharp teeth. When she licked my face, she tore it right open. (beat) I can still feel those teeth cutting into me.

OROWI: Odd that you should have that dream right when she was kissing you. Coincidences will happen, I suppose.

ANAKIN: But was it a coincidence?

OROWI: I'm not following.

ANAKIN: Maybe it's a sign, a warning. Maybe the Force is trying to tell me something about 'Shira.

OROWI: Like what?

ANAKIN: I don't know.

OROWI: Did you tell her about the dream?

ANAKIN: I just told her I had a nightmare. I didn't tell her she was in it or that she was a face-eating monster.

OROWI: Maybe you should tell her about it.

ANAKIN: What good would that do?

Orowi simply shrugs.

ANAKIN: (cont'd) Telling her would only freak her out. She's sensitive enough as it is.

They finally come to the door leading into the supply room. Reaching out, Orowi pushes a button set into the door's control panel and it slides open. Stepping inside, they find the room pitch black within.

ANAKIN: It's like a black hole in here. Turn the light on, would ya?

Orowi presses the button for the lights and a dim, gray illumination barely fills the room.

ANAKIN: (sarcastic) Oh, that's so much better.

OROWI: Don't complain to me about it. It's not my fault they haven't changed the tubes.

Taking care not to trip or fly into any obstacles, they make their way deeper into the heavily cluttered supply room.

OROWI: You see one of those projectors lying anywhere?

ANAKIN: Not yet, I --

Anakin freezes as a shape moves in the corner of his vision. Turning to his left, he finds a hulking humanoid shape standing in the deep shadow, its arms wrapped around a cylinder-shaped piece of machinery.

Before either Anakin or Orowi can say or do anything, the shape lunges out of the shadows and takes off into a sprint towards them. Emerging from the deep shadow, the shape reveals itself to be Gurkan the Abyssin. Without so much as a growl, he plows right through Anakin and Orowi, knocking them both sprawling to the floor as he dashes out the door.

OROWI: (rubbing his head) What just hit us?

ANAKIN: I think that was Gurkan. He was holding onto something.

OROWI: What?

ANAKIN: Some piece of machinery, I guess. I didn't get a good look at it.

Together, the two friends right themselves.

OROWI: The way he took off when he saw us tells me that he wasn't supposed to be in here. Maybe we should tell someone.

ANAKIN: Tell someone? Why should we do that?

OROWI: He could be planning to do something with whatever it was he took.

ANAKIN: Oh, really? Like what?

OROWI: You tell me. Maybe he's going to build a bomb with it.

ANAKIN: If he's building a bomb, then let him build a bomb. Maybe he'll blow this place straight to hell and give us the chance to escape. It'll give the Mandies a great big headache they deserve, that's for damned sure. (beat) C'mon, let's find that stupid projector.

Orowi goes quiet. Silently, they continue their search for the elusive projector.

I'm always fighting the urge to shave my eyebrows off and go around looking like this guy:

Tobar said:

Episode VII is going to be HUGE.

Here's hoping it ends at "huge" and doesn't continue into "disappointment" or "disaster".  

The truth is that there are times when I feel that criminals and children in third world countries should be put out of their misery. As someone who sees this life as a prison and death as a potential release into a greater existence, it's hard for me not to. On the other hand, I wouldn't want to force anyone to pull the proverbial trigger and my conscience wouldn't allow me to pull it myself.

I suppose darth_ender was right after all; it is easier -- or in his words, more convienent -- to take the life of an unformed being that has never developed a mind than it is to take the life of someone with a defined personality/human face.

What I wouldn't give to travel back thirty-seven years to watch Star Wars on the big screen.

I've already posted a link to a certain author's fanfiction of which I like in the General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread, so I'll just post a link to that post.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/General-Star-Wars-Random-Thoughts-Thread/post/707331/#TopicPost707331

Beyond that, I haven't read much Star Wars fanfiction. I read some Star Wars/Stargate SG-1 crossovers years ago by an author whose name I can't recall, and they were okay for what they were, but the two universes just don't mesh well together (in hindsight, that is).

On that note, I also wrote a Star Wars/Stargate SG-1 crossover back when I was in Grade 9. Looking back on it (mentally, that is; I no longer have the physical copy of the story), there were some interesting ideas in it, but overall it was stupid and the sequels -- which I planned but never wrote -- would have been even stupider.

And, of course, there are the PT rewrites I've written/am in the process of writing; two of those can be found in the rewrite subforum.

*sigh* Do I really need to start posting pictures of Heath Ledger saying "Why so serious?" now?

darth_ender said:

This world is overpopulated anyway
This world sucks and I don't want a child to be subject to the evils therein
...

Wow, those all sound like they boil down to convenience.

How do those "boil down to convenience"?

Fall of this year.

Was two-strip Technicolor film still being used in 1937 or had it already been discontinued by that time?

Tobar said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

and now the Jedi are depicted as wielding archaic lightsabers as long ago as 7000 BBY, with the first Sith Lords even depicted as wielding modern lightsabers.

 Their outfits are prequel inspired, but they definitely still have the power pak and cable:

There are other pictures which depict some of them with modern lightsabers, like this one of Adjunta Pall:

darklordoftech said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Well, in the later TOTJ comics, it was established that around 5000 BBY, the Jedi wielded archaic lightsabers with external power packs while the Sith didn't wield any lightsabers at all. That all got retconned later, though (I'm not sure where), and now the Jedi are depicted as wielding archaic lightsabers as long ago as 7000 BBY, with the first Sith Lords even depicted as wielding modern lightsabers.

I don't see how archaic sabers in 5000 BBY = no sabers at all in 7000 BBY

Hmm ... yes, I suppose you could be right, but the fact that none of the Sith during the Great Hyperspace War were shown wielding lightsabers does imply that they had no knowledge of the technology.

Still, it's not outside the realm of possibility that lightsaber technology was only a relatively recent invention during the time of the Hundred-Year Darkness and only a few Jedi used them. In that case, I suppose archaic lightsabers existing in that time period could make sense even if the Sith didn't have the technology for themselves.

I guess everyone will just have to wait 'til Rainbo-Ray discs are invented before they'll be able to get seamless branching of that calibre all on one disc. ;-P

Wannabe Scholar said:

In the Dawn of the Jedi comic series by Dark Horse.

I think it was a fair bit earlier than that. The Vector storyline had flashbacks which showed ancient Jedi and Sith wielding lightsabers, and that story was written years before Dawn of the Jedi came out. 

It's funny that so many fans accuse the EU of basically being fanfiction, 'cause I've found some fanfiction that is actually better than a lot of the EU.

http://www.theforce.net/fanfiction/brendan/index.html