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#203658
Topic
The Empire Strikes Back Script Game
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203658/action/topic#203658
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Hey. Stop feeling bad. I'm just glad to finally be on my favorite Star Wars movie! Things really started to slow down on the last one once we got to the battle and were unable to figure out which line came next!

A small group of freedom fighters, led by Luke Skywalker, have established a new base on the remote ice world of Hoth.

Obsessed with finding young Skywalker, the evil lord Darth Vader has dispatched thousands of remote probes into the far reaches of space...
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#203654
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Hypothetical: "Let's do it right this time!"
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This could be a fun topic, however, I personally don't want to see them remade. What's done is done, and we just have to cut our losses and move on. Otherwise, I feel too much like George, going back and fixing things I don't like. I agree with most of your points that would make (or would have made) the prequels better. There are a few that I disagree with and will love to counter in friendly debate. I assume the Leia being born first thing is an attempt to make the "remembrance" in Return of the Jedi make more sense? I really don't see how that will help as a baby's a baby, and five more seconds with the mother isn't going to make any difference. Plus, we're all assuming that she's only with them the few seconds we see them together. There's that whole big scene afterwards where Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Bail decide their fates, where I'm sure the kids are with their mother. I much prefer the idea we've tossed around before about Padme having to sacrifice one of her children while keeping the other on Alderaan until a premature death, at which point the parenal reins would be passed on to the Organas. I also don't like the idea of Luke having to make an infant stop on Dagobah for his later line to mean anything. It's always made sense to me that he's just recognizing Yoda's familiar presence, since they had been close to each other before, whereas Yoda had never occurred to Luke before that.
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#203548
Topic
STAR WARS - Enhanced HD & O-OT HD Packs... some suggestions...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203548/action/topic#203548
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Of course he's not fooling anybody. My best rationalization for the subdued fighting is much better than Lucas's crappy, "One's an old man and the other is part-machine," because we've seen old men fight in the prequels, and we see Vader kick as in the other two movies. They've in a very confined space, so there's no room for jumping around like an ADD child on crack. And they are already familiar with each other's tricks, but they haven't seen each other in quite a long time. And they didn't part on the best of terms. So it's more basic rather than flashy showmanship and tricks. I mean, they're talking calmly during all this. They're still taunting each other. It's obvious they're just playing with each other for the most part.