LexX

Kevin J. Anderson.

I started to read my old SW books that I've only read once as a teenager and forgetting pretty much everything. So it was a good time to start over beginning with SW, Splinter, TESB, ROTJ, Thrawn... and now I'm reading KJA's pieces of work.

After Thrawn trilogy this guy's work feels like they were written by a 14-year-old. Everything happens so fast (for a book, anyways) and the things people do in the story feel completely ridicilous. Daala being like a second Thrawn and making battle plans like a random person from the streets, ugh. I'm now in his second book and in the first 100 pages Ackbar destroys thousands of aliens and retires from being an admiral, Han loses Falcon and Ackbar's best technician friend is an Imperial spy with a cyborg brain. I laughed out loud at the last one when reading.

I didn't remember these were that bad. I remember Crystal Star being the worst book ever and it was also the last one published here. Not sure if I'll give it another read... Almost considering dropping KJA's books but it's good to have something to read. I guess?

Anchorhead said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Star Trek Into Darkness
Thor: The Dark World

So sure something generic like...

Star Wars Episode VII: Dark Force Rising

...or the like is very possible. Also having "Rising" in the title worked for TDKR! LOL

 I would love it if that were one of the new films.  ;-)

Zahn was a bit ahead of the trend with his title 22 years ago.

I agree, by the way, on the saturation of Dark, Darkness, Rising, Rises, End, Age Of, etc. 

 Wow, I didn't know that the Katana Fleet was called Dark Force in English. It was translated here as Twilight Fleet or perhaps Fleet of Twilight would be better. Dark Force is a little too generic, though.

TK-949 said:

LexX said:

If not seeing one picture makes "most of the forum" crazy, then congratulations to them.

I think it's less the part of not seeing your picture that drives them crazy, it's more the part where you behave as if Frink was trying to jump in your face and tatoo your chromosomes.

 You mean the part "take your fail and get out of my thread"? You may want to re-read who jumped on who.

TV's Frink said:

LexX said:

TV's Frink said:

LexX said:

TV's Frink said:

LexX said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

TV's Frink said:

LexX said:

:P

 I assume you're sticking your tongue out at yourself for your image fail.

 ALLOL

 Assume makes an ass out of you and... well, period.

 The funny thing about this is that you're the only one who thinks you did it right.  No one else can see your image because you did it wrong.

What's funny about you using a bad browser/wrong settings? Well, actually, it kinda is, so fail indeed.

 Clear your cache, look at your post again, and then take your fail and get out of my thread.  If you ever learn how to check your hotlink before posting it, maybe you can come back.

 How about STFU and learn to disable hotlink errors. Cleared my cache, can see it anyways. I can also see images that you've complained about not seeing them when others, not myself, have posted. If you do not know how to do this, it's not my problem, I couldn't care less.

This guy is still spamming here?

Yep, still here.  I love that you apparently read my posts even though you have me on your ignore list.

I have never found a way to disable hotlink errors.  When a site does not allow hotlinking, the image won't show up on another site regardless of browser settings.  I don't care for you to respond, but I'd love to hear someone else chime in with how to do this.  I think you're just making up bullshit.

And from the other responses in this thread, it's clear that I'm not the only one who doesn't see the image.  If you're going to post something that most of the forum can't see, even if somehow a few people can, well congratulations.  I'm not going to shut the fuck up about it.

I know that you're responsing to me so I can read what BS you're writing. I love the fact you respond to me even though you know I have you on my ignore list, so in the future, if you have something to say about me, don't. I can't see it. If you do, that's just attention seeking. Well, that's pretty much what you do around here anyways, so I guess go ahead if bitching and badmouthing others floats your boat, I really couldn't care less what you have to say.

It is apparent that you do not know what you are talking about. The image's URL is right, it does not change, so you can go around fixing it. I did it manually like in 2005, and I'm no computer wiz. Good luck on getting help from me by whining and bitching and then calling BS on me, LOL. If not seeing one picture makes "most of the forum" crazy, then congratulations to them. I won't be reading your posts so no need to respond but I'm sure you won't shut the fuck about it, luckily I can skip your posts if you still have something to say about one post I made. It's just one picture, get over yourself. Hopefully people have something else to talk about. I hope those OOT rumours are true, even though they sound too good to be true. :)

TV's Frink said:

LexX said:

TV's Frink said:

LexX said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

TV's Frink said:

LexX said:

:P

 I assume you're sticking your tongue out at yourself for your image fail.

 ALLOL

 Assume makes an ass out of you and... well, period.

 The funny thing about this is that you're the only one who thinks you did it right.  No one else can see your image because you did it wrong.

What's funny about you using a bad browser/wrong settings? Well, actually, it kinda is, so fail indeed.

 Clear your cache, look at your post again, and then take your fail and get out of my thread.  If you ever learn how to check your hotlink before posting it, maybe you can come back.

 How about STFU and learn to disable hotlink errors. Cleared my cache, can see it anyways. I can also see images that you've complained about not seeing them when others, not myself, have posted. If you do not know how to do this, it's not my problem, I couldn't care less.

This guy is still spamming here?

TV's Frink said:

LexX said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

TV's Frink said:

LexX said:

:P

 I assume you're sticking your tongue out at yourself for your image fail.

 ALLOL

 Assume makes an ass out of you and... well, period.

 The funny thing about this is that you're the only one who thinks you did it right.  No one else can see your image because you did it wrong.

What's funny about you using a bad browser/wrong settings? Well, actually, it kinda is, so fail indeed.

DuracellEnergizer said:

TV's Frink said:

LexX said:

:P

 I assume you're sticking your tongue out at yourself for your image fail.

 ALLOL

 Assume makes an ass out of you and... well, period.

SilverWook said:

With the latest attempt at an American Godzilla movie being unleashed this weekend, let's take a little trip down memory lane...

:P

Geez, what a troll this one guy. Hopefully he finds himself out of here soon and disappears permanently this time.

Tobar said:

Was reading another interview Dave did for Nerdist and then this awesomeness came up:

As an original fan, if you just see a TIE fighter scream across the screen – you haven’t seen that since probably ’96 on a screen of any kind unless you’re watching it at home and it’s never been new. I think we have that to offer. Joel Aron, my VFX lead, has done an amazing job at matching the original effects. Something I’ll talk about – I don’t know if I've told anyone this, so this might be somewhat exclusive: We had the lightsaber rendered – the effect you’ll see in this show, Joel Aron and I very consciously decided to make it like what you saw in the ’70s. And they changed it in updated editions. The blade is a lot steadier in the re-releases and in the prequels. In fact, the blades in the prequels actually are wide and then they taper to a very specific sword point. The lightsabers that we’re putting in Star Wars Rebels are very much the long thin slender blade that is just more like a fencing rapier. Much more like that.

And they oscillate. They actually quiver. Joel found the original guy that did the original effect, rotoed it and everything, because it was on a rod that spun. If you look at really old, original footage of Luke’s lightsaber when he turns it on, it kind of almost goes like that [waves hand] and flickers. That really motivates the humming sound of the lightsaber and how it fluctuates when it moves. Joel’s recreated that really well.

Something else, we put in the old kind of yellow-green flash contacts when the sabers hit in the old movies that weren't as present in the new ones. We've gone very retro with our effects package for Rebels. I think old fans will like that, new fans won’t even know the difference. But yes, it’s always a big consideration. For a lot of kids, Rebels will be their introduction [to Star Wars]. It’s exciting, and it’s a huge responsibility, because we want to set things up well for everything that’s going to come.

Full interview here.

 While that sounds extremely awesome, we're talking about a series called Rebels. I kind of wished they would avoid the lightsaber stuff and would go on a more grittier (for a kids show anyways) blaster route. But I guess it's full of lightsaber fights, too, that seems to be an easy way out always.

They take this way too seriously at LFL. I can't believe that people care about canonism that they need to spell it out for every release. Are all the games released now as legends, too? That's ridicilous.

What's to celebrate on May 4th?

Didn't do much yesterday, really.

RicOlie_2 said:

The more I've learned about this series, the less excited I've become. The more I've learned about the ST, the more excited I've become. At least it isn't the other way around.

 Exactly how I feel.

Also, it seems that the R5 or whatever has a rocket in his butt. But yeah, a twi'lek girl, laser slingshot and pink female-Fett... that pretty much killed this for me.

Tobar said:

LexX said:

 Having seen a few Marvel movie duds I've grown a strong disliking for any movie that has to do with Marvel. Couldn't care less.

 Were they X-men, Spider-man, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Blade, Punisher or Ghost Rider related? If so, Marvel Studios had no hand in them.

 They were X-men, Spider-Man 1 & 3, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Ironman and Hulk. Didn't say anything about Marvel studios, just anything that has to do with Marvel. I'm just getting sick of superhero films in general. The first two Nolan's Batman films were great but they've lost some of their edge with each rewatching. I'm hoping that this superhero trend passes on in maybe 10-15 years.

DuracellEnergizer said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Truth be told, I don't enjoy the MCU. There's far too much style, not nearly enough substance.

I'd much rather watch superhero movies that are smaller in scale, with more emphasis placed on character development, than ones with big explosions, CG monsters, and megalomaniacal villains trying to take over the world. 

  I think they got the focus just right,these are supposed to be adventure stories for kids after all so the focus should be on the adventure.

A story can have adventure without sacrificing/deemphasizing characterization and without the entire city/nation/world/etc. having to be at risk.

Each movie has had enough moments to make me care about the characters and the setting so I don't really have a problem.

The thing is is that if a superhero movie just doesn't click for me, I'm not going to give any of its sequels a chance. I need satisfactory characterization right off the bat, otherwise that's all she'll write.

I mean people have complained that the Spiderman and XMen series had too many shots of heroes crying so you have to find a balance and I think they did.

From the MCU movies I've seen, I've seen no balance whatsoever. If anything, they just sit on the opposite end of the spectrum from the movies you mentioned.

 Agreed.

Having seen a few Marvel movie duds I've grown a strong disliking for any movie that has to do with Marvel. Couldn't care less.

SilverWook said:

If this 4K thing catches on, the Blu Ray masters aren't going to cut the mustard.

 Then again, they thought LD masters on DVD was an acceptable release in 2006...

Cameos don't belong to SW IMHO. Actually, unless people are playing themselves, I don't like them in any films, they take you right out of the picture when you know it.

OBI-WAN37 said:

There are more miniatures and models in each Star Wars prequels than entire OT.

 OT didn't need miniatures, they had live sets.

DeAgostini is a damn ripoff firm. They just did the SW chess set where you had to collect 32 numbers to get the whole game which made the game a 500€ set. Ridicilous. There've been others too, like the solar system set etc. Then by missing even one number you got screwed. Ugh.

In other words, I dislike the change.

Jaitea said:

^ The Ben's SE home scene just looks too busy.....

 Exactly. What's Ben cooking there or is he heating his home on a desert planet? Is he a moisture farmer too with the vaporator? What's with the rocky foreground and then smooth dunes right behind the edge?

Tobar said:

No, those images have hotlink protection. You'll have to rehost them elsewhere. I'd suggest imgur.

Like I said, works fine. :)

NeverarGreat said:

imperialscum said:

msycamore said:

imperialscum said:

While I appreciate the original versions and I support the struggle to get them released in HD, I just prefer 1997. I am very sensitive to visual aspects and quite frankly most of the original Tatooine scenes in ANH are unsatisfactory and below my standards.

That's some pretty high standards you got there.

Well a shot like this just doesn't inspire any of the magical feeling I got from 1997 SE counterpart.

 Totally agree. "dvdactive" just doesn't convey the same emotions at all.

;)

Your settings are wrong or you're using IE, works fine here.

"Most" of the Tatooine scenes actually are untouched, that's just one shot and it was analyzed to bits quite recently in some thread.

I have all 100 of them but I started collecting in the 00s.

I actually made an essay over 10 pages about leadership in Star Wars (one of the available assignments was leadership portrayed in a movie/book) for my one of the leadership courses I took at the university. It was pretty interesting to think about the movies from that angle and comparing it to different source materials about leadership. I also took everything what happened in the trilogy (not PT at all) like it was real and not making it easier by looking it as a mirror from the real world (Empire - Nazis etc.). Funnily enough, all sources came to the conclusion that the way Empire was lead was never going to last in the long run.

A little OT than the original question but still fitting to the title.