Gaffer Tape

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Post: #242084
Topic: BACK TO SCHOOL
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242084/action/topic#242084
Time: 7-Sep-2006 8:02 PM

Heh, it was a joke.

But if it's fifth grade, it might be general education. Actually, when I was in fifth grade, there were three fifth grade teachers, each of them teaching two subjects, and we'd rotate through them throughout the day. 3rd-5th grade was like that, as sort of a precursor to getting individual classes, I suppose.

Post: #242074
Topic: BACK TO SCHOOL
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242074/action/topic#242074
Time: 7-Sep-2006 7:08 PM

Fifth-grade students, I would wager.

Post: #242069
Topic: BACK TO SCHOOL
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242069/action/topic#242069
Time: 7-Sep-2006 6:57 PM

Originally posted by: JarHead413
Congrats....tho my classes admin did exactly nothing....ever.

I started the 24th, second semester of Tech(nically) College in Milwaukee.

Heh, reading that quickly, I thought you were starting your 24th semester.

Post: #242068
Topic: What did the Prequel Trilogy need?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242068/action/topic#242068
Time: 7-Sep-2006 6:56 PM

That's why I think you should go with my idea about having them around in their own story but never having them with the main characters but as outside observers to the main events of the movies. Therefore, they serve the same function you want, but it gets rid of the plausibility of them always being connected to the same group of people.

Post: #242064
Topic: General Batman Talk
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242064/action/topic#242064
Time: 7-Sep-2006 6:40 PM

I'm (almost entirely) positive he was created for the movie.

Post: #242058
Topic: General Batman Talk
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242058/action/topic#242058
Time: 7-Sep-2006 6:19 PM

Wow. That was a great article. I love it. Batman Returns always has kicked ass to me.

The only thing I didn't like about it was how Batman's name was never cleared. He was being chased by the police the last time he's in public, yet at the end of the movie, there's the old Bat Signal again.

Post: #242050
Topic: BACK TO SCHOOL
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242050/action/topic#242050
Time: 7-Sep-2006 6:03 PM

Yay! I was class president in 5th grade, but I started getting anonymous threats.

Post: #242048
Topic: What did the Prequel Trilogy need?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/242048/action/topic#242048
Time: 7-Sep-2006 6:00 PM

Aside from the idea that I had, there is no way to put the droids in the PT without giving them some kind of a connection to the characters, which means they had connections to the characters from both sets of movies, which is just a bit of a stretch and almost always forced. And we get things like 3PO being built by Anakin in order to establish that forced connection. And then there's Boba Fett and the Stormtroopers. Yoda and Chewbacca. Anakin and Greedo (thankfully cut). He dropped the ball every time he tried to make connections to the OT, and it's because none of it made any damned sense! He makes the claim that you can't just drop a character into a story for no reason at all, but that's what he seemed intent on doing. Ben, Anakin, Palpatine, Owen, Beru, and Yoda are really the only established characters who had any business being in the prequels the way they ended up being written.

Post: #241962
Topic: What did the Prequel Trilogy need?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241962/action/topic#241962
Time: 7-Sep-2006 9:08 AM

Yeah, leaving the droids in is just too complicated and too "universe-shrinking". It's much better that they first enter the story in the original movie.

Post: #241959
Topic: BACK TO SCHOOL
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241959/action/topic#241959
Time: 7-Sep-2006 8:58 AM

Okay. Now that makes more sense, because I knew you were significantly older than me. Don't blow my mind like that anymore. ^_~

Post: #241918
Topic: BACK TO SCHOOL
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241918/action/topic#241918
Time: 7-Sep-2006 1:21 AM

I hate the concept of year-round schools.

And I always thought you were older than me!

Post: #241792
Topic: YIYF's Long Bridge Club
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241792/action/topic#241792
Time: 6-Sep-2006 5:47 PM

I only saw a little bit of Star Fox Assault, and I thought it looked pretty good. I hated that all the voices had been replaced by guys who sucked, but maybe that's just nostalgia talking. I happen to love the cast of SF64.

"I'm monkey food if I don't leave!" "Thought you could hide from me, eh? Escaping? I don't think so!" "Gee! I've been saved by Fox! How swell!" "Slippy's not such a screwup after all!" "Thanks a lot, Peppy!"

Post: #241770
Topic: What did the Prequel Trilogy need?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241770/action/topic#241770
Time: 6-Sep-2006 4:38 PM

Originally posted by: auraloffalwaffle
But surely you would agree, Mr Tape, that the characterisations of the droids were well wide of the mark. I'd say they were among the very worst of a very, very bad bunch in the PT, wouldn't you?

Yeah, that's what I'm saying, and I'd prefer they weren't there at all.

Post: #241687
Topic: BACK TO SCHOOL
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241687/action/topic#241687
Time: 6-Sep-2006 10:21 AM

Wow. I've been in school for nearly three weeks, and high schools in my hometown have been in session for over a month!

Post: #241686
Topic: What did the Prequel Trilogy need?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241686/action/topic#241686
Time: 6-Sep-2006 10:13 AM

Well, in Attack of the Clones, we wouldn't have any crappy pop-culture slang 3PO dialogue. And in Revenge of the Sith, we'd have a lot less R2 rocket hovering, beating up useless super battle droids, and catching them on fire. And I could certainly live without all that. So... yeah.

Post: #241531
Topic: What did the Prequel Trilogy need?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241531/action/topic#241531
Time: 5-Sep-2006 8:46 PM

I personally hated the idea of the droids in the PT, but I do know of a way they could have fit where I would have been quite happy with the results. It would have been cool if the droids had been in the PT but never met the major characters. They had their own subplot where they would be able to happen to wander into areas right before or right after the main characters. But they'd never understand each other's motives or even see each other. So the droids could walk into a battle site after the Jedi were done and have their own comments and theories as to what happened. It would become a fun running gag that they'd always just miss the action. Then he could have had the droids in there as an interesting comedic device without having to worry about how it was going to integrate into the existing movies.

Post: #241514
Topic: Poll: Do You Think the OUT will be Released Again in '07?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241514/action/topic#241514
Time: 5-Sep-2006 7:58 PM

I voted No. I'm not saying I don't think the OOT will be gone forever after this release (although I'm thinking it pretty strongly at the moment), but I really don't think it will be in the boxset in any way, shape, or form. Not that I really care, since I wouldn't waste my money on it even if there was a solid gold DVD of the OOT in it. I mean, that would just jack the price up. ^_~

Post: #241365
Topic: X-Wing or Y-Wing, which ship would you prefer?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241365/action/topic#241365
Time: 5-Sep-2006 9:09 AM

From having been playing Rogue Squadron the past few days, I'll have to say X-Wing. Y-Wing is just too slow, and the advantage of a stronger hull aren't enough to make it outweigh the advantages of the X-Wing. I just feel more comfortable piloting that baby.

Post: #240263
Topic: Where did the huge influx of retards come from?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240263/action/topic#240263
Time: 1-Sep-2006 12:42 AM

Originally posted by: Hot.like.fire
one even had a gem-stone belly!

Those are known as Treasure Trolls, just so you know.

Post: #240258
Topic: 2006 OT DVD: Poll: So What are You Going to Do?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240258/action/topic#240258
Time: 1-Sep-2006 12:30 AM

Originally posted by: Anchorhead

Originally posted by: Obi Jeewhyen

.... when I watch Star Wars, Princess Leia is not even Luke's sister, and Darth Vader is not his daddy.
.

That's because none of them are related to each other.

Some of us were there. We know the truth. We've read the magazine interviews where Lucas said he thought it up years afterwards. He can change the films and lie about it all he wants, but he can't go back and alter the printed words. Too many people remember. Too many people think for themselves.

Ooh, now those are some interviews I would definitely love to read.

Post: #240138
Topic: 2006 OT DVD: Poll: So What are You Going to Do?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/240138/action/topic#240138
Time: 31-Aug-2006 5:51 PM

It had been hard for me to block those out lately. Maybe I do sound different from you guys. Even though I owned the Faces set, getting these LD rips just took me back. All the special edition crap and the prequel crap just melted away, and I haven't thought about Anakin building 3PO or Chewbacca knowing Yoda at all. It all seems like a distant memory or "something out of a dream. I don't know, maybe I'm just going crazy."

Post: #239884
Topic: Sending the SEs back
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239884/action/topic#239884
Time: 31-Aug-2006 1:04 AM

Spite and revenge, the two most wonderful emotions in the world!

Post: #239880
Topic: The Music Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239880/action/topic#239880
Time: 31-Aug-2006 12:55 AM

Wow!

Currently listening to: Star Wars soundtrack

Post: #239858
Topic: Selectable crawl on new DVD? Or just the old one?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239858/action/topic#239858
Time: 30-Aug-2006 11:32 PM

To be honest, for some reason, that's one of my most frequently-quoted lines.

Post: #239853
Topic: Selectable crawl on new DVD? Or just the old one?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/239853/action/topic#239853
Time: 30-Aug-2006 11:13 PM

"I never doubted you for a second. Wonderful!"

I always thought they were legit, but now I don't think anybody can argue. Awesome pics. And the inserts look great. But what does Disc 2 look like if you can get a grab of those?