Gaffer Tape

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Post: #218511
Topic: Remember when everyone hated Return of the Jedi?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218511/action/topic#218511
Time: 14-Jun-2006 1:12 PM

I always watch the trilogy, being as relatively young as I am (i.e., not existing at a time when there were less than three), I've never watched one without watching the other two. But my excitement builds for ESB and then drops some for ROTJ. That's the way it's always been, even when I was nine, ROTJ just didn't capture my imagination as well as the other two. But I still enjoy it. Neil brings up some good points that I never thought about it. And to Jenny, since you brought it up, I think it would have been cool if Han had "back-peddled" in his character development. At least it would have given him something to do. It certainly would have thrown a monkey wrench into the works if Han suddenly stopped caring about being a Rebel and abandoned all their asses. "I'll just take my general's medallion and pawn it! My hyperdrive will always work!" Maybe he would have come back eventually, or something like that.

Post: #218508
Topic: Prequel demographic breakdown
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218508/action/topic#218508
Time: 14-Jun-2006 12:47 PM

I remember there were a lot of young kids and parents when I went to see Revenge of the Sith. And a mother glared at me when my girlfriend and I started laughing at Obi-Wan lamenting the deaths of the "younglings." I'm sorry, but that word just makes me laugh. I never could take that scene seriously, which is why I hated it. Younglings. Such a dumb word.

Post: #218293
Topic: Manga and Anime Fans
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218293/action/topic#218293
Time: 13-Jun-2006 6:05 PM

It's actually fun to scrutinize the DB manga to the DB/DBZ series, which is what I'm doing right now in my spare time. Yes, I am actually watching my DVDs while looking along in my manga. I'm a geek. That's why I'm here. In a lot of ways, they did a very close job of adapting the manga, even retaining most of the exact panels, and it's quite easy to follow along. But if they decide to change one thing, it can sometimes really throw everything off and make it completely different. I'm doing the Piccolo Daimou arc right now, and due to a few changes and filler the sequence of events is rearranged like crazy, and it's really hard to keep up.

The thing about filler is that, once you get to a certain point, you can tell that Toriyama is actually leaving things vague and unexplained on purpose so that Toei will have something to do. And that's usually where the best filler comes in, but it's also generally where the manga falls short. It's where Toei pulls their own stuff like extended flashbacks of scenes that occurred a month ago and trying to force extensions where they don't fit that the manga really shines, and the anime starts to lag.

Post: #218291
Topic: Nintendo Wii
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218291/action/topic#218291
Time: 13-Jun-2006 5:58 PM

To be honest, I don't really have all that many games for my GC, although the ones that I have I really like. Super Mario Sunshine came with it. And I also own Wind Waker, Mega Man (or Rockman, to be more accurate) Anniversary Collection, and Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. I've always wanted SSBM and Double Dash, but, for some reason, I've never actually done it. Now that I have a job, maybe I can put them on my wish list!

Post: #218290
Topic: Superman 2 The Donner Cut
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218290/action/topic#218290
Time: 13-Jun-2006 5:56 PM

I'm all for it as long as the Lester cut remains available as well.

Post: #218289
Topic: Return of the Jedi Script Game
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218289/action/topic#218289
Time: 13-Jun-2006 5:53 PM

Luke: It is the name of your true self. You have only forgotten!

Post: #218270
Topic: The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218270/action/topic#218270
Time: 13-Jun-2006 4:13 PM

Well, I'm sure there's something to be said for all the hormones pumped into food in industrialized nations while third-world countries only eat organic.

Post: #218269
Topic: Rankings
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218269/action/topic#218269
Time: 13-Jun-2006 4:11 PM

Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
This is my 3140th post, which is a rather insignificant number except for one key point: I am now 100 posts ahead of Gaffer. His reign over me was short lived, and only occurred because I allowed him to catch up (it was his birthday).

Everything is back to normal in the YIYF/Gaffer world.

You know perfectly well that had I continued to post at the same rate I'd been posting since I got out of school, I'd now probably be 150 posts ahead of you. I've just been limiting my computer time for experiences in the real world, and, of course I have a job now. But let me just get back into the swing of things, and we'll see a new world: the Gaffer/YIYF world. Yeah, see notice how your name is second?! ^_~

Post: #218268
Topic: I would prefer a special special edition :O)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218268/action/topic#218268
Time: 13-Jun-2006 4:09 PM

Let's not start a flaming war here. I still have no idea where chrisdo is coming from, though. At first I thought he was just a guy like many other who think that CG looks better than stop-motion models, puppets, etc. That I could at least see some logic with, even though I didn't agree with where he was going. But he totally lost me when he said that a CG White House would look better and more realistic than the real White House. I'd try to refute that argument, but I just can't. There's absolutely no logic for me to grasp onto. And for a second I had to say that I pictured a guy afraid to leave his computer because the outside world was full of real things that didn't match up to the "spotless perfection" of CG. And that's just kind of scary, and I hope it's not true.

Post: #218263
Topic: What scene in the (O-)OT do you hate/dislike the most?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218263/action/topic#218263
Time: 13-Jun-2006 3:56 PM

Hehe, awesome, Scruffy. Too bad the closest I have to military training is being in the Cub Scouts through 5th grade and Boys State the summer after 11th grade. So I'll just watch in awe at your discussions.

Post: #218262
Topic: Why all the negative coments about george lucas?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218262/action/topic#218262
Time: 13-Jun-2006 3:53 PM

Yeah, in a lot of ways, the prequels, if you look hard enough, don't really represent the Jedi in a very good light at all, to the point where you feel it's good that they were wiped out. But having lowered myself to watching them in George's order (I feel I can't complain if I haven't tried it), it actually makes me a little bit sick that the Jedi return in the "last" movie if they return as the same egotistical assholes they were in the prequels.

Post: #218258
Topic: The Chronology of How My love for Lucas has fallen
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218258/action/topic#218258
Time: 13-Jun-2006 3:36 PM

Originally posted by: Invader Jenny

Originally posted by: MANDALORIAN
Yoda, for example. We all knew who Yoda was. We knew the character. Kershner knew the character. Lucas didn't. In Lucas' head, Yoda is a CG frog with a lightsabre, always up for a fight and who talks in ridiculous sentences. He is dumb, violent and has relations with wookies.

You notice how when Lucas writes for Yoda EVERYTHING he says is backwards? I hate it. In the OT he only talks that way perodically.

Backwards: "Looking? Found someone you have I would say?"

Normal: "I cannot teach him. They boy has no patients."
"Much anger in him. Like his father."
"No, no he is too old. Too old to begin the training."
"Will he finish what he begins?"
"You must feel the force around you."

Backwards: "Yes, yes. To Obi-Wan you listen."
"Told you did I. Reckless is he. Now, maters are worse."

About 2/3rds of his dialogue is normal. In the PT, I dare you to find a line he says normally. God I hate the way he was in those shitty movies.

You have to admit, though, that George snuck it in pretty sneakily. I guess it's because Yoda had a relatively minor role in TPM. But by the time they got to the Clone War at the end of AOTC, that's when it really started to go down the toilets. It sounded like one of those pullstring dolls that had been left out in the rain. "To the forward command center, take me!"?! "Around the survivors a perimeter create!"?! What the hell was that shit? And it got worse in Sith with, "A prophecy that misread could have been." It took me several seconds to figure out what the hell he was saying!

I'll take your dare to find a normal line of dialogue in the PT. I give up. You win.

Post: #217568
Topic: Manga and Anime Fans
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217568/action/topic#217568
Time: 9-Jun-2006 10:11 PM

Yeah, our Borders has plenty too.

Post: #217552
Topic: Manga and Anime Fans
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217552/action/topic#217552
Time: 9-Jun-2006 8:07 PM

Why do you guys find it hard to find manga? Every book store in town has it where I am, not just comic book/specialty stores! Hell, Barnes and Noble has the biggest selection where I come from.

Post: #217551
Topic: Return of the Jedi Script Game
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217551/action/topic#217551
Time: 9-Jun-2006 8:04 PM

Aww, I almost wanted to do parts of the story...

C3PO: The scout says he'll show us the quickest way to the shield generator.
Han: Good. How far away is it? Ask him!

Post: #217549
Topic: What is meant by 'Special Edition'?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217549/action/topic#217549
Time: 9-Jun-2006 7:54 PM

To answer you question, it has been stated that the versions released in '04, '05, and soon to be '06 will all be the 2004 versions. You can bet that the '97 releases will never see the light of day again past '00.

Post: #217547
Topic: I would prefer a special special edition :O)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217547/action/topic#217547
Time: 9-Jun-2006 7:52 PM

What's an imperator?

Post: #217539
Topic: Upcoming release German covers!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217539/action/topic#217539
Time: 9-Jun-2006 7:41 PM

Yeah, that would have been better.

Post: #217489
Topic: The Official Lucasfilm Response
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217489/action/topic#217489
Time: 9-Jun-2006 3:39 PM

That card is retarded and just reeks of revisionist history. 1977-1997, Han shot first. 1997-2004, Greedo shot first. 2004-2006, Greedo still shot first, but Han was a little bit faster on the draw. 2006, hell, we're not quite sure anymore, it all depends on your point of view and how intoxicated we were when we filmed this.

So instead of it being a revision, it's now an "artistic decision." I can just hear George saying in a few months, "What I was really trying to do was to show this scene through the point of view of the eyewitnesses and make a statement about how truth is relative. But I couldn't really show that in one movie, so I made several different versions, each one corresponding to how a certain wacky alien creature saw it." Just like the ducks, it's just an attempt to canonize everything under a safe blanket, no matter if they conflict. I wonder if it's been changed on Greedo's bio at the official site yet?

Post: #217483
Topic: Luke's rope-throwing talents in EP4
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217483/action/topic#217483
Time: 9-Jun-2006 3:20 PM

Yes, I believe I've heard that too.

But I liked the second movie...! I supposedly own all three, but I haven't been able to find the first one in years. It might be time to replace them with DVD...

Post: #217482
Topic: Upcoming release German covers!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217482/action/topic#217482
Time: 9-Jun-2006 3:14 PM

Exotic... and slightly erotic! ^_~

But seriously, am I the only person who thinks that Mark Hamill doesn't really look like Mark Hamill at all on the new ESB cover?

Post: #217001
Topic: Try to take it easy with the Lucas bashing.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/217001/action/topic#217001
Time: 7-Jun-2006 7:26 PM

So I guess that means that Lucas wakes up his kids at 3 in the morning in January and asks for a piece of camel poop?

Post: #216954
Topic: Rankings
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216954/action/topic#216954
Time: 7-Jun-2006 4:30 PM

Whyzat? Why give up your status as the best poster out of nearly 3,000 other people?

Post: #216952
Topic: Return of the Jedi Script Game
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216952/action/topic#216952
Time: 7-Jun-2006 4:25 PM

Han: My mistake! He's an old friend of mine!
Ewok: Jabba, jabba, jabba!

Oh, yeah, YIYF, did you ever find that tibi Jedi line I mentioned before?

Post: #216262
Topic: YIYF's Long Bridge Club
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/216262/action/topic#216262
Time: 5-Jun-2006 5:08 AM

So this is the place I go to talk about anything, right? Hmm. Well, I feel like discussing my (relatively) new job.

See, the only other (paying) job I've ever had was at Abner's Famous Chicken Tenders as a cook. I was there for nearly two years, from my junior year in high school until I went to college and then returning again during my first Christmas break.

Now I'm at Underground, a store in the mall. It's primarily a clothing store with a pseudo-punk atmosphere (as a friend of mine pointed out, the height of alternative delinquency... when we were in middle school). But it's also a novelty store and rather adult in its nature in regards to that. Besides hiding a few brands of detox behind the counter and carrying tiny scales primarily used to weigh weed (but, you know, obviously not promoted as such), we also have many kind of "love" gifts like flavored condoms, edible underwear, blow-up dolls, bachelor/bachelorette party games, "love cuffs," "Emotion Lotion," and two different sizes of whips. Plus, I've learned more about different types of piercings than I ever wanted to know. It's a whole new world for me...