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#203934
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Hypothetical: "Let's do it right this time!"
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What I would have LOVED to have seen was around the last 20 minutes of ROTS, actually.

During this movie, it would have been fantastic to have a sub plot where Padme and Obi-wan became close (as good friends, Obi-Wan would never put a move on her), but Anakin is insanely jealous (you know, the whole "passion" thing that has been haunting him since episode 1). He grows more and more suspicious of Obi-wan, but can't confront him because A) he knows it would sound silly, and B) he might give away his secret that he's married (i.e. "Stay away from my wife!...oops.")

When Obi-Wan comes to tell Padme that he must do away with Anakin, she erupts in horror (not the, "you're going to kill him aren't you? Dude, that sucks." line she delivered) and passionatly begs him to spare Anakin's life, if not for him but for his unborn child. Tears are flowing down her cheeks as she clutches Obi-Wan's robes (reminecent of an earlier scene in my mind where Anakin walk in on Obi-Wan hugging and comforting her) and begs him not to kill her husband. Obi-Wan understands, but he must still find him and confront him. She turns and runs from the balcony (as much as her pregnant body will allow) and Obi-Wan slowly turns and heads too his ship.

Now this is where my ending comes in:

Anakin is on Mustafar and Padme lands and rushes up to him. They kiss and she tells him that Obi-wan is looking for him to kill him. They have to run away, ("All I want is your love" lines and such), and that is when Anakin see's Obi-Wan coming from the ship. Similar dialogue, "You brough him her to kill me!" Anakin force-chokes Padme and lifts her off the ground using the force. Her performance is much more realistic and she can't even make a breath sound he is holding her so tight. Obi-Wan yells at him to let her go, and Anakin - sill in pure anger - uses the force and slams her against the far wall, she tumbles and falls still.

...battle sequence....blah blah blah (could be better, but whatever)

Enter asteroid medical facility. A medical droid (looking similar to what was used in ESB) tells the gang what has happend.
Droid: "We've done everything that we can, but we're loosing her."
Obi-Wan: "She's dying."
Droid: "Yes. The damage is severe. She's bleeding internally, and were doing everything that we can, but she's giving up. We'll have to something quickly to save the babies before we loose their mother."
Obi-Wan: "Babies?"
Droid: "She's caring twins."

Due to her trauma, Padme has gone into premature labor and Obi-Wan enters the med lab. Waking, Padme's eyes fluter and see's Obi-Wan. He takes her hand and she painfully wisper's his name. "Obi-wan..."
"Shhhh. It's okay Padme. You're gonna be fine. You're doing great." She closes her eyes and lets out a pained yell as she has a contraction.
Droid: "Please push senator. You are almost there. I need you to push." She lets out another yell and the droid presents a girl.
Obi-Wan: "It's a girl!" He takes the bloody, rapped baby to Padme's side and she extends her hand. Gently she brushes the baby's cheek with the back of her hand and says "Leia..." She yells out again and the second baby is born.
Droid: "A boy, your highness." She looks down at her feet and sees the droid holding her baby. "Luke..." she says weakly and falls back on her pillow, exausted. Obi-Wan, still cradeling baby Leia leans in close to her. She extends her arm and touches his forarm above Leia. "Obi-Wan....there...there is still good in him." Her eyes start to close and her hand starts to slip down. "Don't give up, Padme!" Obi-Wan encourages "Don't give up!" But it is too late. Her hand slips past her open eyed daughter and falls limp by the side of the bed.


Something like that. Wow, that was very theraputic to write. I like that version.
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#203651
Topic
Star Wars Trilogy tops IGN's "Most Wanted DVDs"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203651/action/topic#203651
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Mostly what Lucas changed in the trilogy were technological stuff. New battle shot, new Death Star explosion, stupid crap in the background that no body gave a shit about anyway. That kind of thing. Even then he was basing a lot of his movies on niffty ILM shots (not that I'm ragging on the OT for that). But ESB was about heart, romance, and the internal journey. That sort of thing. You can't fix an inner monologue like you can a Tie Fighter blowing up. That is why it was pretty much left alone, except for the stuff that didn't need to be fixed (i.e. "Bring my shuttle......because I need it......since I'm going to my Star destroyer.....and I'm really pissed off.")

Oh and the DVDs from Nickelodeon were "Invader Zim." Nick really treated that show like crap. But at least they sucked up their pride and gave us the DVDs after they saw how mad us fans had become.
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#203648
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Hypothetical: "Let's do it right this time!"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203648/action/topic#203648
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I've been thinking:

We all dislike the PT. Not because he hate backstories, but because all three movies were poorly written, directed, and over all produced. We can't stand them and many of us have lain awake at night dreaming about "what could have been."

But, what if they were able to remake them? Not just remade, but totally redone - new plot line (not to be confused with "storyline"), new dialogue, new editing, new everything. And this time, done right.

Granted Ewan looked fantastic as Obi-Wan these past years, but there are other actors out there.

Let's say it's 10 years down the road. Lucas has been dead for years leaving the rights to his movies to the company, we've gotten the OOT on DVD recently, and the world is basically shaking off the reminants of what once was "a dark time for Star Wars fans." But one thing remains. The PT.
We don't watch them anymore. We don't talk about them anymore. It's too painful. But then someone gets the idea that they should be remade. Remade in a way that tells a good story for once.

It will fix all the plot holes that Lucas created all those years ago. It will make the OT story all that more powerful. And finally, Star Wars will be loved by just about everyone.

Taking the original Story by Lucas, only now new directors will take the reigns, a better and more exciting story develops. The script is re-written and the character development is amazing.

We all have our own thoughts as to how this trilogy could be made better, so if this were to be done some people would be annoyed while others would be delighted. And others would say that what was done was bad enough; no more, (or what was done was great; leave it alone.)

My question is, would you like to see the PT remade? And if so, how should it be done? What flaws would we fix? How can we make the character development better and make the audiance love the story and the characters?

Here is my 2 cents:

-Keep the prequals in trilogy form. Makes the whole thing flow better.
-make sure that the three main characters (Anakin, Obi-Wan, Padme) are played by the same actor for all 3 films
-Don't make Anakin say he'll "free all the slaves" unless you are going to allude to it in a deeper metaphor later in the other 2 films (and beyond)
-Actually make Anakin a pilot, not a "NASCAR driver"
-More anquish over Anakin's struggle with his passion for attatchment (i.e mother and Padme)
-Make him older when taken the the temple
-less politics
-less throw-away characters (i.e. Mace Windu, Grevious) so that when they die we don't shrug our shoulders and go "ehhh, whatever"
-No lightning-in-the-face that makes the emperor look nothing like he did in ROTJ
-Make Leia be born first, dammit

This is obviously nit picking from the existing Trilogy, but what I would really like to see is Yoda, Obi-wan, and baby Luke go to dagobah for just a short while before Obi-Wan and Luke head off to Tatooine so that "There is something familar about this place" actually means something.
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#203224
Topic
Star Wars Trilogy tops IGN's "Most Wanted DVDs"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/203224/action/topic#203224
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It will happen. I know it will. Lucas can't hide behind "It's my movies. My way of thinking. My edits. My versions. That's it." Because we don't want them. And in the long run it just boils down to public stance and money. When Lucas starts to look like the Dictator control freak that he really is, he is going to have to back down at some point.

Once I have those OOT DVDs, all will pretty much be forgiven. It worked that way for me and Nickelodeon (I wanted to bomb that damn place), but now me and NICK are on fine terms. Why? Because they gave me the DVD's that I wanted.
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#202937
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Star Wars Trilogy tops IGN's "Most Wanted DVDs"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202937/action/topic#202937
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Originally posted by: JarHead413
Hell yeah....

It's exciting....like revolution......only kinda less important.

I'm not part of that generation being given the middle finger but I can understand how lame GL actions must be to you guys.


I am part of that Generation that Lucas gave the finger too and believe me, seeing this makes me feel all special inside. It is just like a revolution. We are seeing the backlash and Lucas can't keep it up for long.

And talking about "mainstream," I even heard in the Colbert Report (during Stephen's opening statements, I forgot exactly what he said) "And a Senator on Capital hill wishes ruin classic Hollywood films. But he can't ruin Star Wars. Lucas already did that."

Hells yeah.

And I agree with their number 3 movie "Song of the South." I've seen it in bootleg, and they are right. That movie desperatly needs to be released. So much historiscal signifigance is a part of that movie. Because of it, the first black man in Disney won some award, and everybody has heard the songs "Mr. Blue Bird on my Shoulder" and "Zippidy-doo dah, Zippidy-Day." What are they from? Yup, this movie. But the NAACP won't tolerate Disney to put it on DVD because "It's Racist, yo."

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#202451
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Jedi Master
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/202451/action/topic#202451
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What always gets my panties in a bunch when reguarding the horrible inconsistancies with the PT and the OT is this

Yoda: You are reckless!
Obi-wan: So was I, if you remember.

http://tinypic.com/8whxf6.jpg
Because, even in TPM he was a mature, clear headed dude. Maybe when he was younger, but then again Yoda never taught him anyway (unless maybe when he was like 4 years old) because it goes, Yoda - Dooku - Qui-Gon - Obi-Wan. But then I'm just making excuses for the crappy PT anyway.
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#200797
Topic
Star Wars out next year???????
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/200797/action/topic#200797
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Well I've got the US version and there is a second commentary of Q and A. I haven't listened to it yet (weekend goal) but I think it would be the same as what the UK-ers have.

And on a fun note, I just got my BTTF soundtrack in the mail yesterday. Still sealed and packaged from 1985. I forgot what CD's from the 80's looked like. The casing isn't see-though like today's CDs, and the insert is boring with little to no information about the songs on the CD. Even the CD itself says MCA on it with the list of songs on the disk. Talk about boring.
Also the music compression rate was lower in the 80's so I have to crank my player up to 21-22 to get a good loud sound (as opposed to the typical 18-19 for a normal CD). But it was still fun to blast "Power of Love" in my car on the way to school today. And darn it if I didn't want to push my engine to 88 mph. But of course, that would be breaking the speed limit of 55.
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#199965
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Handsome Men
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199965/action/topic#199965
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Okay, just to add a wee bit of balance I've started the alterego for the Beautiful Women thread.

This is for all you ladies out there. We've been a little left out in our oogling. Now we get too drool over this mighty fine young men.

I'll start with my all time puppy crushes:

The cutest guy you'll ever see, Michael J. Fox
http://www.lacoctelera.com/quefuede/imagen/Michael%20J.%20Fox.jpg

David Duchovny
http://www.k-web.ch/funline/aktex/mu7.jpg

and no fan-girl's dream is complete with out a young Mark Hamill
http://www.maarasuniverse.com/lukeanh/lukefalcongun5.jpg
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#199956
Topic
Star Wars out next year???????
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199956/action/topic#199956
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So, okay. There is a trilogy set with a fourth disk?

I bought mine second hand so I only have the 3 DVD set. Each disk is PACKED extra stuff (I've just about gotten though everything) so I can't imagine what would be on the 4th disk that I haven't already seen in the extra footage archive on each DVD.

Can anyone shed some light on this? Who has the 4 disk set?
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#199927
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Star Wars out next year???????
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199927/action/topic#199927
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
A 6hr non-stop BTTF movie would be f**king ace though! The next chance I get, I'm gonna watch all 3 in a row.



I just did that a week ago. It was fantastic. Then I decided I wasn't going to work on my paper for my COM class and watched all three commentaries and just about every other special feature. I still have to get through the Michael J. Fox antictodes and the Q and A with Robert Z.
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#199619
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BEAUTIFUL WOMEN NEW RULES IN FIRST POST (NSFW) UPDATED RULES
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199619/action/topic#199619
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
I think Jenny is soon going to regret posting her picture on this site...


Not really. We're all Star Wars geeks here. It's like one big happy family!! Only minus the incest.


I've actually been told (several times, by 4 different people all on opposite sides of the world) that I look like Jeri Ryan (a.k.a. 7 of 9 from Star Trek: Voyager). We've got the same build, smile, and nose structure. They even said that I reminded her slightly due to my personality. I was a hard core Biology major after all. It was all science, science, science for me since I was 12. Now I'm gonna make movies about science fiction!

Also, Voyager happens to be my favorite TV show.

http://www.beldar.org/beldarblog/2004/10/jeri_ryan.jpg http://www.lightspeedfineart.com/images/JeriRyanA.jpg
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#199616
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Lightsaber commercial
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199616/action/topic#199616
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Originally posted by: sybeman
Besides, maybe Jenny didn't start college right away after high school.



No, I started right after high school. I spent 2 years as an undergrad at Auburn university studing Biology. I then transfered up to Michigan and changed my major to Communications/Film and Video in my Junior year (couldn't cut the chemistry and math needed for Biology). I have 5 classes left and graduate in December.

Then...I donno. I wanna go to film school, but I'll have to move to LA to get proper training. And that is out-of-state tuition I'd be paying. Hmm...