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#282541
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Question about Tarkin
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282541/action/topic#282541
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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
In the Annotated Screenplays, Lucas said he didn't want Vader to be this over-the-top ultra-powerful bad guy, because it would be too easy to do with the powers that he had. Thus, Tarkin was put in authority over him.

Similarly, in the ANH novelization, Vader is one of many Sith, who are as much a servant of the Empire as the Jedi were for the Republic. Palps isn't even a Sith - just a politician who actually became overwhelmed and controlled by the very Empire that he was put in charge of, and became little more than a puppet.

Of course, all this changed much later, but the effects of these remnants remain, thus the questions of relative power between Tarkin and Vader.


Exactly. His role fit a very standard mold, wherein there is the brain and the brawn: an intelligent evil entity with his muscle to do all the dirty work for him. And that was pretty much the role of Tarkin and Vader in the first movie. The higher-ups don't get as involved with the main characters as the henchman does, so that would be Vader's job. His presence and his actions solidify him more with the audience, like the more involved thugs usually do.
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#280852
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Rankings
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280852/action/topic#280852
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Well, yes, that's who I was referring to. By my calculations, he's accumulated the 11th highest number of posts, whereas I have the 12th highest number. I just wasn't sure whether or not we were still playing the hush-hush game with his name, so I felt it better to err on the side of caution.
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#280768
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Rankings
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280768/action/topic#280768
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4,800 posts!

Originally posted by: TheSessler
Meh, I haven't been on here a while, thanks to UNC...I feel my rank slipping away.


Yes, it is, it is. To me! Although school (and my crappy computer) has been keeping me from posting as much as I'd like as well. Still... only one other poster separates you from me, and he hasn't been allowed to post here in over a year, so I think you'd better worry, buddy!
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#280765
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Vote GREENCAPT for Pirate for a day at Disney!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280765/action/topic#280765
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Well, I forsee two possibilities:

1. He hasn't been back here in the past few days because he lost and is too depressed/embarrassed to tell us for a few days.

OR

2. He hasn't been back here in the past few days because he won and is too excited and too busy getting his trip together that he hasn't had time to tell us yet!

I certainly hope it's the latter.
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#280764
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Anyone else totally disregard Leia being Luke's sister?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280764/action/topic#280764
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Originally posted by: ferris209
Although I do watch and enjoy parts of the PT, I am mostly a OT fan and also a SW only fan. I can accept either and all on their own merit, regardless of how bad I think Ep I is. But my wife, whom I practically turned into a Star Wars fan, is a child of the PT revisionist years and never knew a time when Yoda didn't do cart wheels and the Emporer was known by no sith title. So, she completely freaks and hollers,"EWWWWW" every time we see the incestuous kiss scene in ESB which hinders my desire to ignore it. Which brings me to the fact that I now only acknowledge only the existence of ADM's ESB and no other.


Ugh, I hate when people do that. Okay, we all know how they end up being written as relatives. We know that that leads the kiss to being extremely incestuous. But is it really necessary to go crazy apeshit over that every single time the movie plays? It's just really irritating.
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#280762
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'Serenity' dethrones 'Star Wars' as UK's favourite sci-fi film
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280762/action/topic#280762
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Like I've said in many other threads, viewing Serenity really benefits from having seen Firefly, in my opinion. Because it hooked me from the word go, and I was genuinely interested in the characters, the story, and the world, but that might have been because I was already attached to them. Then again, though, most of my friends saw Serenity first, loved it, and it inspired them to go back and watch Firefly. I guess it all depends on the individual.
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#280644
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Anyone else totally disregard Leia being Luke's sister?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280644/action/topic#280644
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Maybe Anchorhead is in the majority of people, but I doubt he's in the majority in terms of "the fandom." Not that I care. I like Anchorhead just the way he is. His view is always refreshing, and he's certainly the last one to ever get roped into believing anything that Lucas makes up.

But to the topic, after having read most of zombie's book, I actually sympathize with Lucas a bit for this weak bit of storytelling. He was tired of making these movies, ESB had been a real pain in the ass, his marriage was crumbling, and he had to resolve that dangling plot thread somehow. It was his own fault for throwing in a line like, "No, there is another," when he had no idea where it was going to go, but I can understand him wanting to have a life that wasn't Star Wars.
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#280641
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'Serenity' dethrones 'Star Wars' as UK's favourite sci-fi film
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280641/action/topic#280641
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I'm actually kind of glad Serenity won that poll. Gets it some much-needed exposure. Let's face it. Star Wars has all the popularity and brought in all the revenue it really needs to, while Serenity, a great movie in its own right, struggled to break even at the box-office. I think Star Wars can afford to take the back seat for a few seconds.
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#280639
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PT: Directors, Actors, Writers?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280639/action/topic#280639
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Going on with the whole Sam Jackson thing, I thought about Jurassic Park, which was the first role I ever saw him in, and I just realized that there's no way you'd ever see him in a role like that again. Like someone else said, he's become too famous, especially of the variety where his "real-life" (which in this case, is more of the movies he's famous for) image consumes people's perceptions of him, and if you didn't give him a role where he was a badass or screamed a lot, people would say, "What the hell? You're just wasting Samuel L. Jackson!"
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#280175
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TMNT
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280175/action/topic#280175
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I saw it twice last weekend. I enjoyed it so much the first time that I went back the very next day to see it again, and movies don't usually give me that feeling. I guess my old Turtle fanatacism from being a kid came back to me. But I thought it was really great, and Raphael is more of a badass than he's ever been. The story took kind of a backseat to the characters, and I'm all for that. Plus, it had some genuinely funny moments.

A few criticisms, though: April O'Neil getting the classic CG female makeover of a twelve-inch waist with very pronounced (but still only 13-inch) hips.

What was the deal against Nightwatcher? I thought it was pretty funny when Leo lectured him about "this vigilante nonsense", because how is that any different than what the Turtles always did? A great deal of the human population were wary of them for that very behavior. So I just didn't get that.

But speaking of Leo, for all you video game fans here, did anybody else notice that he was voiced by James Arnold Taylor (Tidus in Final Fantasy X). I remember I realized it during the Leo/Raph rain scene. Leo's voice cracked at one point, and I went, "Hey, that's Tidus!"
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#280028
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The Secret History of Star Wars
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/280028/action/topic#280028
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I'm closing in on the halfway mark of the 420-page tome, but it's going by so fast that I'm sad that I'm already that far into it. It's been a wild and fun romp so far and very, very informative. I've probably learned more about the production of Star Wars in the past week than I have in years. It makes Empire of Dreams just look like more marketing fluff. You really ream George when he deserves it, but I too find a sympathetic hook to him reading this. It's not especially biased. It points out when he's obviously lying but in an objective way and has just as much praise for him as well. My only complaint is the repetition of a lot of things, but with a book this huge and having had no editor, it seems inevitable, and it's certainly not enough to make me put it down.
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#278750
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Seeing the Saga in order - a review by a first-time viewer....
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278750/action/topic#278750
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Originally posted by: bigbaddaddyvader
Now let's not be pedantic.This thread is about the saga,six movies,and the preferrable order.In THAT context Star Wars is ANH.As a matter of fact if we are talking about watching the original trilogy,IV-VI,in any order it is still ANH as it was changed o this pre-ESB thus making Star Wars ANH in every sense other than as a stand-alone.


It's not being pedantic. It's being logical. If I watch the Back to the Future trilogy (or saga if I wish to call it that), I'm going to watch Back to the Future before I watch Back to the Future Part II. If I watch the prequels, I'm going to watch The Phantom Menace before Attack of the Clones. If I watch Star Trek series, I'll watch Star Trek before I watch Enterprise. Title or no, the first movie comes first. The end. I have plenty of other reasons (which I have stated numerous times over the past two years) over why Star Wars (or A New Hope if you insist) should come first, so I didn't feel like restating it. Instead, I wanted to go a new route and take the cleanest bit of logic I could as a reason for watching the films in released order instead of "saga" order. Sorry if my rationale doesn't please you, but, at the end of the day, I really don't care.

And in terms of history, Star Wars, even after A New Hope was added to the title, was still referred to as Star Wars in every home video release until the 2000 VHS boxset (including the 1997 Special Edition boxset), so, no, your own logic doesn't hold water in terms of Star Wars being A New Hope in every context except as a standalone movie.

EDIT: One other innaccurate point. It was released with "A New Hope" added to it in 1981, after Empire Strikes Back, not before it. Of course, now I'm just picking hairs, but then again, that's pretty much what you were doing to my post to begin with, right?
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#278712
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/278712/action/topic#278712
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That concept rather scares me. I don't mind the Virtual Console because they are simply old/classic games that have already had a traditional release, so I consider this something of a bonus service. But I really don't like the idea of video games (or movies, for that matter) only being distributed as digital files. I like to have a hard copy, and like someone was saying (was it you, JediSage or was it TheCassidy), there's a worry about owner in perpetuity if that really takes off.