DuracellEnergizer

RicOlie_2 said:

I would suggest a template. It's hard to get anywhere without one and easy to get stuck without having an idea of what's coming next.

Oh, I do have the general plot worked out. When I meant template, I meant another body of work to work off of (a script, a book, etc.).

I really enjoyed it, but don't you think the first two thirds or so are a bit too reminiscent of the opening of A New Hope? Of course it won't be as noticeable with the rest of the story afterward, but maybe that's something to think about for a future draft. I think parallels work well, but be careful not to overdo them.

Yes, it's very reminiscent of the opening of Star Wars. But that's what I was going for; I wanted the beginning to mirror that of the first movie, but with the details switched around (the camera panning up instead of down, the ships moving under a water planet instead of over a desert planet, etc.).

You don't really have to worry about too many parallels, though; from here on out the story goes off in a completely different direction.

Ryan McAvoy said:

Please... I was being super bitchy and using "She" in that sense, girlfriend!

(Anybody believe that?)

 My counterpart on Earth-0 does.

Anchorhead said:

Nice work, but WAY too Prequelicious.  Considering I have no knowledge what so ever of 24 of those references. I'll have to pass.

I'd say they're more EUlicious than anything. Dxun, Ylesia, Kuat, Yinchorr, etc. are all EU creations.

darklordoftech said:

You are technically correct. I just loved that characterization of Vader and I figured the rest of this forum likes the idea of a "big" and largely uncharted galaxy (things I also like).

Don't get me wrong -- I like the idea, too. I've even created a (crude) map of the SW Galaxy which reflects it.

Davnes007 said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

RicOlie_2 said:

I hate the sight of rotting dead people. Dead people are OK, but rotting dead people are less okay. I hate the sight of maggots/worms even more. I've can handle them better than I used to, but I was freaked out by even the centipede things in AOTC the first few times I watched it. Wormy things crawling out of rotting dead people is a terrible combination and I have trouble stomaching that kind of thing.

 But worms are full of protein ...

 So, you want him too get hungry when he sees a dead body covered in worms and maggots?

 Doesn't everybody?

^The novelizations aren't really considered part of the EU, though.

RicOlie_2 said:

I hate the sight of rotting dead people. Dead people are OK, but rotting dead people are less okay. I hate the sight of maggots/worms even more. I've can handle them better than I used to, but I was freaked out by even the centipede things in AOTC the first few times I watched it. Wormy things crawling out of rotting dead people is a terrible combination and I have trouble stomaching that kind of thing.

 But worms are full of protein ...

Anything from the 21st century.

TV's Frink said:

 God, this is terrifying!

Damn. I didn't know smoking could still affect a person thirty years after giving it up.

They can't be real. No Imperial worth his salt would ever allow a poster displaying alien trash operating alongside human officers to ever see the light of day ;-)

jediracer said:

 

What the hell is up with Luke's mascara and blush? I thought he only wore makeup in the Holiday Special.

I don't consider the "sound in space" thing to be in-universe phenomenon, though.

I caught a cold twice already, once in September and then again in October. Now I'm coming down with a cold again.

Goddamn the bus. Goddammit it straight to Hell.

I like the first one the most, and that's primarily due to Dafoe's performance (stupid green Jack Nicholson mask aside). I'm not so fond of Kirsten Dunst's Mary Jane, though, anymore; she's just doesn't do the character any justice at all (and that shade of red they dyed her hair is atrocious).

The second one's okay, though I think Doc Ock really should have been more villainous like his comic book counterpart.

The third one is a real mess. There is a good movie somewhere under all the crap, though, so I don't hate it.

The reboot was a complete disappointment. Everything about it -- Peter's characterization, his relationship with his uncle, his relationship with Gwen, the Lizard's design -- was so horribly, horribly bungled. Whatever problems Raimi's films had, they're nowhere near as bad as the ones with this one. I'm not going to even bother with the sequel -- that's how bad the taste this movie left me with was.

Blood Work (2002) - 7.5/10

Shoot to Kill (1988) - 8/10

In the Heat of the Night (1967) - 7/10

Humby said:

If that is the case, it makes me wonder why they would try to align some things and not others.  Why not create everything from scratch if half of the EU gets retconned anyways?

 Perhaps the writers of DC Comics have taken over the EU ;-)

I've never understood the whole stigma around Jaxxon. He's basically just Bugs Bunny in green (and who doesn't love Bugs?).

Bingowings said:

What's happened to Clive's voice and body are beyond anything he has written in terms of bizarreness. He went from a mild Liverpool accent to a weird Loyd Grossman mid-Atlantic voice to Animal off the Muppets and his body has turned into a badly made action figure.

I've read that he had surgery to remove some cancerous growths from his throat or something along those lines. That could have affected his accent.

Sadako said:

There are 'Sunday Assemblies' for atheists (a concept which was started by a couple of British comedians), there's the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, there's the followers of the Invisible Pink Unicorn, etc.

Can the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster really be considered an atheist church, though? It's a parody religion created to mock Intelligent Design, but you don't have to be an atheist or even an agnostic to do that.

I'd say a combination of the JAT class system and the master and apprentice system (only without the stupid one-pupil-per-teacher rule).

LexX said:

Tatooine could be bigger than Jupiter all we know.

A solid, rocky planet larger than Jupiter? Don't think that's possible -- from a real-world perspective, anyway.

doubleofive said:

Was it ever explained why the Jedi were running the Clone Wars? You'd think the Republic would have, you know, military generals instead of letting a bunch of monks and clones making these strategic decisions.

Especially when "canonically", there were only about ten thousand Jedi in existence throughout the entire galaxy at the time.

Sadako said:

What's your response to atheists who are not skeptics (or to phrase it another way, people whose atheism is not informed by their skepticism), and believe in ghosts, Bigfoot, alien abduction stories, Nostradamus, water crystals, etc.?

I find them to be annoying blowhards, who think that religion is just another conspiracy, so they pat themselves on the back for wearing their tin foil hats when they walk past churches, so that super secret Catholic Technology they stole from Nikola Tesla can't brainwash THEM, no siree! They're SMARTER than that, man--it's just another way for The Man to keep us from knowing the truth about Area 51, man. You should read this Geocities page from 1997, it tells you all about how the Mayans knew this was going to happen, so they sank Atlantis and then shot JFK. Then you will have your eyes opened, man. It's like, whoa. Totally.

Personally, I think these atheists practice atheism just like some theists claim all atheists do -- ie. as a religion.