DuracellEnergizer

I wonder why no Vader helmet T-shirts seem to exist.

bkev said:

DuracellEnergizer said:


I'm starting on TNG now. I'm two episodes in already, and so far I haven't seen anything all that interesting. It's too early to give up the ship yet, though, so I'll give it at least half a season before I decide whether or not to bother continuing with it.

Season 1 minus the pilot with Q is absolute garbage... and even that has its crap moments.  Season 2 improves a little but the stories are still so silly and most of the actors haven't really hit their stride yet.

Seriously.  You could practically skip everything EXCEPT "The Measure of a Man" and "Q Who" and still feel comfortable with everything after.

I pronounce Sirius as "sir-eye-us". I know pretty much everyone else pronounces it as "sir-ee-us", but the former sounds cooler.

Not an acronym, I know, but whatever *shrug*.

Ryan McAvoy said:

The only dated thing is the "Hippy" (For want of a better term) haircuts in ANH. They always date that movie and date photos of me with similar ;-). By the time ESB and ROTJ had rolled around the haircuts had become more measured with the arrival of the 80s. Luke's haircut is badass and timeless in ESB.

TV's Frink said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

The only one who should do an "official" fanedit of the prequels is David Lynch. He's the only one who can make the PT's discordance work for it rather than against it.

Ugh, I'd rather watch AOTC on infinite loop forever than watch five minutes of a Lynch Star Wars.

Ryan McAvoy said:

Has anybody noticed how a bunch of iconic scfi-fi ships are just modified Roswell-Style flying saucers...

<img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7403/8855926825_714e273917.jpg" width="500" height="445" />

Probably exploiting some kind of ingrained DNA based memory of when we built pyramids for our Alien overlords, or some b*llocks like that.

I just realized that, since this thread is about hate, the following sardonic tirade deserved to be reposted here.

DuracellEnergizer said:

While I'm here, I may as well bitch about this picture.



Beldorion the Hutt is supposed to be muscular! Do you hear me, lameass digital artist? MUSCULAR!! He's NOT supposed to look like the FUCKING BASTARD SON OF JABBA AND GOLLUM after a BAD FUCKING NIGHT OF BINGE DRINKING!!!!!! He's SUPPOSED to be the ARNOLD FUCKING SCHWARZENEGGAR of the Hutt world!!!!

THIS is how Beldorion is supposed to look.



You SEE that? ROCK HARD, SINEWY MUSCLES! How HARD is that to GET!?

Oh well, at least the lightsaber's the right colour. Most DUMBASS Star Wars artists just stick the bad guy with a red lightsaber, REGARDLESS of whether or NOT s/he actually USES a red lightsaber in the story(s) s/he appears in - like with this picture of Kueller.



Kueller's lightsaber was described as BLUE in The New Rebellion - BLUE, LIKE YOUR BALLS WILL BE AFTER I'M THROUGH KICKING THEM!!!!!!!!!! And another thing- Kueller had a WHITE, RUBBER SKULL-LIKE MASK, not a GODDAMN METAL DARTH BATMAN HELMET!!!!!! STOP DEPICTING HIM WITH THE DARTH BATMAN HELMET!!!!! IT ISN'T CANON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, it's me. said:

Jackson is a 'great' actor. Much the same as Pacino, De Niro and Nicholson are 'great' actors. The only other 'great' actors to have ever been in Star Wars are Mcguiness and Mcdairmid.

The only one who should do an "official" fanedit of the prequels is David Lynch. He's the only one who can make the PT's discordance work for it rather than against it.

I could have told you all that and more without ever even seeing a trailer for any of the movies =P

TV's Frink said:

Just rewatched ST 09 in preparation for getting a STiD next weekend.  Despite some flaws, it's still a fun worthwhile Trek movie.

I just finished watching the three seasons of ST: TOS, and here are my thoughts/comments on the show.


I love Spock. Nimoy is definately the man! =D

The interaction between Kirk-Spock-McCoy is the best/strongest aspect of the series. I don't think the show would have been half as good without them all playing off of one another.

The first season is the strongest season. Maybe the scope seemed bigger, or the character interplay was at its strongest, but the subsequent seasons - especially the third - seemed to be missing a certain spark.

I like how the writers, even with a limited budget/effects, managed to create some really alien aliens on the show. Sure, they were overshadowed by the human/rubber forehead aliens, but I'm glad to see the creators make some effort toward bringing the truly incredible to life.

I wish Grace Lee Whitney had been on the show longer.

Without this show, my favourite scene from The Cable Guy would have never existed.

I think too many episodes were focused on Kirk and his love interest of the week to the detriment of other characters who deserved more exposure/development, like Uhura.

Pretty much all the episodes that focused on Earth-parallel cultures - with the exception of "Miri" - were all bland and only served to draw attention to the show's weakest aspect (the all-too-human aliens).

I think full-blooded Vulcans/Romulans should have been made to look more alien so as to distinguish them from Spock more.

I thought the Starfleet uniforms looked cheap and more effort should have been put into designing them.

I know it wasn't commonplace back in the 60's, but I would have liked to have seen some story/character arcs done on the show. It would have helped in the characterization department and made the show less formulaic.


I'm starting on TNG now. I'm two episodes in already, and so far I haven't seen anything all that interesting. It's too early to give up the ship yet, though, so I'll give it at least half a season before I decide whether or not to bother continuing with it.

I know where it is. These guys took it.



I hear they incorporated it into an avant-garde sculpture of some sort.

SilverWook said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Ooh! For those in the UK, "Shattered Glass" is on iPlayer.

Wanted to see this for ages, as it's the only other major role Hayden Christensen ever got. Must have been hard for a new young actor to star in two of the last decades' biggest films, then the phone never rings again (Feel bad for him).

Heard he was outstanding in it... let's find out.

*cough* Awake (2008) *cough*

NeverarGreat said:

Also, the two trilogies we have now are far too connected as it is. The PT is the only thing bringing down the OT.

While I'm here, I may as well bitch about this picture.



Beldorion the Hutt is supposed to be muscular! Do you hear me, lameass digital artist? MUSCULAR!! He's NOT supposed to look like the FUCKING BASTARD SON OF JABBA AND GOLLUM after a BAD FUCKING NIGHT OF BINGE DRINKING!!!!!! He's SUPPOSED to be the ARNOLD FUCKING SCHWARZENEGGAR of the Hutt world!!!!

THIS is how Beldorion is supposed to look.



You SEE that? ROCK HARD, SINEWY MUSCLES! How HARD is that to GET!?

Oh well, at least the lightsaber's the right colour. Most DUMBASS Star Wars artists just stick the bad guy with a red lightsaber, REGARDLESS of whether or NOT s/he actually USES a red lightsaber in the story(s) s/he appears in - like with this picture of Kueller.



Kueller's lightsaber was described as BLUE in The New Rebellion - BLUE, LIKE YOUR BALLS WILL BE AFTER I'M THROUGH KICKING THEM!!!!!!!!!! And another thing- Kueller had a WHITE, RUBBER SKULL-LIKE MASK, not a GODDAMN METAL DARTH BATMAN HELMET!!!!!! STOP DEPICTING HIM WITH THE DARTH BATMAN HELMET!!!!! IT ISN'T CANON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate that everyone hates self-flagellation. Don't knock it if you haven't tried it, bastards!

Killjoys.

With all the discussion going on about the Force at adywan's lastest thread, I thought it would be interesting to create a thread where everyone could talk about their own opinions on what the Force is, its nature, how it operates, how living beings relate to it, etc.


Here's my own view on the Force ...


Midi-chlorians do not create or channel the Force; they are parasites which feed off the Force energy of multi-cellular lifeforms, secreting a mutagenic substance which alters the DNA of their hosts to make them dependent on their presence for survival. The stronger one is in the Force, the more midi-chlorians flock to their cells for nourishment.

The various components of one's DNA determine how one is tuned into the Force, and how Force-sensitive one is; Force-sensitivity isn't determined by specific genes.

The Force is more than light and dark - it is an entire spectrum.

All sentients retain their personalities when they die and become one with the Force. Only trained Force users, however, can learn how to manifest themselves and communicate with mortals in the material realm.

Most gods, angels, demons, etc. are sentient manifestations of the Force or former mortals who have managed to attain god-like status after becoming one with the Force.

The Force itself is only a subset of something larger - a pantheistic/panentheistic All which creates and permeates every universe in existence.

I hate the last fourteen years - oh, except for the possible exceptions of January-August of '01 & summer of '03.

I masticate too much.

I'd just like to say that the Force was pretty much established as a pantheistic phenomenon at least as far back as TESB (life creates it, makes it grow, blah, blah, blah), so this entire argument just comes off as dumb to me - the Force is clearly both mystical and physical (or the mystical is just another side of the physical; whatever floats your semantic boat).

ngc 1300

^Good or bad?

CP3S said:

Whoa! You watch like 9 movies a week, and you've never bothered to check out all the Star Trek movies?