NeverarGreat

Great news!

Other than two spelling errors and the strange J e d i at the end, it’s really good. I really like how it is more reminiscent of old serials than the movies.

DominicCobb said:

Not every story has to be a massive galactic conflict Star War.

FTFY 😉

darth_ender said:

NeverarGreat said:

darth_ender said:

NeverarGreat said:

darth_ender said:

-Blacks gaining the right to eat in any restaurant they want

Oh, you mean those laws that were limited to the Southern states and were first introduced by the Democrat Party, and even when Republicans later began to support those laws, it was still isolated to the South.

It irks me when people conflate the Democratic party of the late 20th - 21st century and the pre-realignment Democratic party that originally represented rural America and the South. In short, the Democratic party was socially conservative until Roosevelt, and even then it took until the civil rights movement for conservative southern Democrats to abandon the party for the Republican ticket.

It irks me when people conflate the opinions of some Republicans with the opinions of all Republicans, or some conservatives with all conservatives, or holding some views with holding all views. It really irks me that, just because there are racist Republicans or uneducated conservatives or a moron Republican for a president, that so many liberals feel that they are so obviously right on every issue that there is no debate about anything.

By the way, did you actually read the rest of that sentence you quoted?

We seem to be saying the same thing. It’s just that your use of ‘Democrat party’ could be interpreted to imply that the modern Democratic party has more than a nominal relationship to the party as it existed a century ago, and I wanted to give more historical context in this regard. The fact that many constituencies which were solidly Democratic many years ago in the south are now solidly Republican is not exactly in dispute.

I apologize, both for my snarkiness, as well as for my confused message. I was trying to say, as it seemed to me that Frink was painting Republicans or conservatives as hindrances to these progressions, that conservatives and Republicans have actually advocated for disadvantaged demographics and brought progress to the nation. Sure, the nature of both parties has changed drastically, but many of the core principles remain, and conservatism has done a lot of good for the country.

Apology accepted 😃 And I apologize if I painted with too broad a brush.

It’s important to have a strong conservative party in the US, guided by the founding principles of our nation and advocating for the valuable traditions of the past. I just wish that the Republican party today reflected those principles and traditions instead of bowing down before the lies, immorality, and undemocratic impulses of our current president.

Thumbs up for Female Purple Saber Kylo

darth_ender said:

NeverarGreat said:

darth_ender said:

-Blacks gaining the right to eat in any restaurant they want

Oh, you mean those laws that were limited to the Southern states and were first introduced by the Democrat Party, and even when Republicans later began to support those laws, it was still isolated to the South.

It irks me when people conflate the Democratic party of the late 20th - 21st century and the pre-realignment Democratic party that originally represented rural America and the South. In short, the Democratic party was socially conservative until Roosevelt, and even then it took until the civil rights movement for conservative southern Democrats to abandon the party for the Republican ticket.

It irks me when people conflate the opinions of some Republicans with the opinions of all Republicans, or some conservatives with all conservatives, or holding some views with holding all views. It really irks me that, just because there are racist Republicans or uneducated conservatives or a moron Republican for a president, that so many liberals feel that they are so obviously right on every issue that there is no debate about anything.

By the way, did you actually read the rest of that sentence you quoted?

We seem to be saying the same thing. It’s just that your use of ‘Democrat party’ could be interpreted to imply that the modern Democratic party has more than a nominal relationship to the party as it existed a century ago, and I wanted to give more historical context in this regard. The fact that many constituencies which were solidly Democratic many years ago in the south are now solidly Republican is not exactly in dispute.

darth_ender said:

-Blacks gaining the right to eat in any restaurant they want

Oh, you mean those laws that were limited to the Southern states and were first introduced by the Democrat Party, and even when Republicans later began to support those laws, it was still isolated to the South.

It irks me when people conflate the Democratic party of the late 20th - 21st century and the pre-realignment Democratic party that originally represented rural America and the South. In short, the Democratic party was socially conservative until Roosevelt, and even then it took until the civil rights movement for conservative southern Democrats to abandon the party for the Republican ticket.

Antivirus is telling me that there’s an infected link on this page.

Collipso said:

I’d buy a computer that can open Chrome while Spotify is playing without crashing one of the two (if not both).

You’re clearly drunk with power.

Mocata said:

Yeah it’s not made with that kind of logic in mind. Like they way the heroes actively waste time and risk their lives shooting at TIE Fighters instead of just jumping to hyperspace.

Also - wasn’t it the Noad System or is that a fresh idea for the mis-heard stuff thread?

Anoat’s not a system, he’s a man.

Wait.

Michael Ward said:

Creox said:

With regards to the DS being able to use a hyperdrive. I am stunned that people think it wouldn’t. Space is really, really big…I mean, really big. For the DS to not be able to fly at lightspeed would render it completely useless for striking fear into the galaxy.

Of course it realisticly needs a hyperdrive, but I’m not sure if that was the original intent. In the older Superman comics stuff was always just drifting from Krypton to earth with no propulsion at all more less a hyperdrive. Writers didn’t always think that stuff through, and Lucas probably didn’t either.

The Death Star is treated the same way a villain in an action movie is treated - realistically they need to be running at full speed to catch up with our fleeing protagonist, but somehow they manage to catch up while walking at a slow, menacing pace.

snooker said:

Has anybody mentioned removing the opera singer? Because that’s seriously my only issue with the movie.

That’s probably the only gag that I would cut.
Well that and the BB-ST.

Sir Ridley said:

The fatness and fading into the distance are closely based on the TFA crawl. https://i.imgur.com/3KBqQuu.png

Perhaps it would look a bit different if I based it directly on the OT (which I assume TFA did in the first place). I haven’t studied the OT crawls much so I can’t say for sure.

I guess it’s not a thickness issue so much as it is a luminance issue.
http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/01CNNN8U
In the original, you can see a large variance in luminance levels across the letters, making them pop a bit (notice how much contrast there is at the S in ‘Awakens’):

In your version, it’s like the brightness of the title is clipped.

That’s probably because it’s fading out at that point, but I wonder if there’s another blending mode that will allow it to fade out while retaining more of the contrast.

SilverWook said:

we’ve never seen exactly how Imperial Walkers are dispatched.

Really big parachutes.

That looks really nice. The only thing that looks a bit strange is when the title gets very small in the distance and it starts to look a bit fat and crushed in terms of luminance. The original Trilogy titles (at least the SE versions) pretty much retain their luminance throughout the crawl.

moviefreakedmind said:

A stupid pun that a five year-old came up with is unbecoming of the evil villain in the dour war movie that Rogue One is trying to be. I don’t understand why anyone likes that joke. It seems like a lot of people have the idea that in order to enjoy a movie they have to like, defend, and justify every single aspect of it.

I liked his pun. I didn’t care for the dour tone though, except for in the final act.

I am the author of your pain.

Obscure, but not unmemorable.

Spoiler alert.

DuracellEnergizer said:

• Brad Pine

The ugliness of a pine tree with the weakness of a Bradford Pear.

Collipso said:

Cloak of Dception

Dception.

Episode 1: The Longest Time Ago
Episode 2: Ten Years After That
Episode 3: Not So Long Afterwards

Collipso said:

https://medium.com/@hitRECordJoe/a-new-old-skywalker-253efda3809c

An essay written by JGL on Luke Skywalker - worth reading. Even though we ultimately disagree, he clarifies some great points already presented in this thread several times, and he does acknowledge that those who didn’t like the movie aren’t entirely wrong on Luke’s characterization or the movie itself.

If already posted, forgive me.

Another way to take this is that Luke is no longer our main character. In a movie, audience avatars such as Luke or Neo or Ethan Hunt cannot abandon their missions, cannot have self doubt so severe that they give up on the story, since that sends the clear message that the audience should give up on the story. I think this is where many fans are stuck right now. They still see Luke as the main character, someone who needs to have faith in this story. But the main character is Rey, and it is through her eyes that we are seeing this version of Luke. She is disappointed with this guy, the legend who was supposed to show Rey her place in all this. And that’s exactly why Luke cannot be the legend anymore. He must be a disappointment because otherwise people would continue to see him as the main character, and Rey would never even have the opportunity to carry the weight of the story on her shoulders.

People forget also that this is a mythological convention as old as the hills, and even Star Wars has used it in the past. The father figure becomes the ogre that our hero must slay, for the good of the people. Their time has passed, their rule is corrupted, the young blood must overthrow them. The Last Jedi accomplishes this in spades.

Maybe so. I don’t keep up with the new canon in any case.

Stupid Watergate.