NeverarGreat

The ability to do a thing does not require such a thing be done.

My favorite part is that Amidala looks so disappointed. I think it’s even the same image that’s used on the original novelization, but the slight rotation is the difference between regal and ‘why is she judging me for my life choices?’.

But why?

Jennifer Connolly expresses my feeling about this movie.

Watch The Dark Crystal instead.

TV’s Frink said:

Filed under “But Her Corruption!”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dollar300m-puerto-rico-recovery-contract-awarded-to-tiny-utility-company-linked-to-major-trump-donor

Puerto Rico has agreed to pay a reported $300 million for the restoration of its power grid to a tiny utility company that is primarily financed by a private-equity firm founded and run by a man who contributed large sums of money to President >Trump, an investigation conducted by The Daily Beast has found.

Whitefish Energy Holdings, which had a reported staff of only two full-time employees when Hurricane Maria touched down, appears ill-equipped to handle the daunting task of restoring electricity to Puerto Rico’s more than 3 million residents.

Much larger utilities are more commonly used following natural disasters on the scale of Hurricane Maria, which devastated the island last month.

Obviously the company is small for tax reasons, and they would subcontract out the work. It seems to be a case of a Republican-friendly business owner who had done a similar type of repair work seeing an opportunity and pouncing on it. It’s still highly irregular.

The ‘superior atheistic nihilist’ cliche seems to have become much more prominent in the early 2000’s with the growth of the internet and Youtube in particular. It’s certainly in character for him to conform to the cliche, given that. Doesn’t make it any more palatable however.

Yeah, it’s been said before.

I read the first chapter. I could have kept going, but it was a natural stopping point. Perhaps if the entire book was one big chapter, I would have finished it.

So you admit it was good in theory.

TV’s Frink said:

In 1999 I was 25…

I was 13 in '99, so of course I had Terry Brooks novel (Anakin variation) and thought it was quite good.

ben_danger said:

Perhaps retcon Tatooine’s sky as green?

Finally, a serious suggestion.

Mocata said:

DominicCobb said:

Mocata said:

Okay so this may be a fake memory type of thing, but has Moff Jerjerrod ever said ‘we shall redouble our efforts’ ? I sometimes still think about this in that opening scene.

Wrong thread http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/General-Star-Wars-Questions/id/57205

Looks like this thread, only with a lack of vision.

So, double or redouble?

Your hate has made you doubly powerful.

Tyrphanax said:

TV’s Frink said:

Tyrphanax said:

Clever girl.

Not everything has to be a god damn Big Bang Theory-level nerd pun, TV’s Fuck.

Do you email your mother with that keyboard?

Z6PO said:

You never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs

But… Who was piloting it? 😉

From Snokes.com:

Anakin Skywalker, alongside General Obi-wan Kenobi, piloted a Corellian light freighter through the Kessel system in 11 parsecs during the year 25 BBY as part of an undercover operation for the Old Republic. However, the ship was damaged beyond repair in the attempt, and was destroyed soon after. Stories were told of the legendary run, and soon many used-ship dealers in the Kessel system claimed to have salvaged the vessel. Han Solo was suckered into buying one of these dubious vessels early in his career, and has stuck with the dealer’s story ever since.

It goes without saying that Obi-wan is one of only two people in the galaxy with the firsthand knowledge to contradict Han Solo’s tall tale.

TV’s Frink said:

Yeah, it only took one post to get to the exact kind of question that goes in the Random Thoughts thread.

JEDIT: But don’t blame yourself, this is all Neverar’s fault.

Except that:

TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

We need a stickied thread in the General Star Wars Discussion for general Star Wars questions (and sticky the Star Wars Random Thoughts thread).

Everything you said is correct.

Possessed said:

Only the odd numbered ones? So you don’t recommend the original? Or if you’re discounting the prequels you don’t recommend ESB but you do recommend Jedi? Or were you making a Star Trek joke? I need answers plz.

Some questions don’t have answers just as some peels don’t have bananas and are merely there to trip you up.

Watching the SE Ewok celebration again, I’m struck by how creepy Anakin looks.
But on another note, now I’m imagining that Anakin returned as a ghost with only one arm, since he lost that one before he got his ROTS hairstyle.

It’s the Phantom Menace junior novelization, but I’m putting it here anyway since it’s the first image that comes up on a search for the Terry Brooks novel, and it’s movie related:

For comparison, here are the Terry Brooks covers:

Never seen those before, really cool!

Curses!

https://www.theonion.com/happy-monday-everyone-looking-forward-to-another-week-1819769158

I realized that while there’s a thread for Star Wars Random Thoughts, there’s actually no thread for the answering of questions.

So here it is. Do you want to know what order to view the Star Wars movies (I recommend only watching the odd-numbered ones)? How about the number of versions of the original film which have been released (327 so far), or the true identity of Snoke (REDACTED)?

Ask away!

It’s true. All of it.

We need a stickied thread in the General Star Wars Discussion for general Star Wars questions (and sticky the Star Wars Random Thoughts thread).
It might cut down on the number of random threads being created for questions which have been asked and answered innumerable times already.

Also, it would be nice to have a similar stickied thread in the Preservations section for questions, and a stickied thread in the Fanedit section for Random Fanedit Questions and Ideas.

JEDIT: Started the questions thread. Deal with it.

I think a lot of people see the greatness achieved by Empire and forget that it stood on the shoulders of Star Wars. Sometimes even I forget, until thinking back on it or perhaps reading The Making of Star Wars. Every single decision that Lucas made, from the precise blend of hundreds of pop culture inspirations to the (at the time) unique used-universe aesthetic to the dramatic documentary style of cinematography to the dynamic archetypal characters to the unsurpassed level of design in the production to the classic score - hundreds of decisions like these had to go into making this movie, and none of them were guaranteed to work.

What I’m trying to say here is that the ability to even craft a working Yoda is insignificant next to the original conception of the Force.

Very well, I’ve removed the TIE shot. With that removed, I’ve had to return the Kylo/Hux bickering scene to later on.

Actually, it’s yet another case where a simpler edit may be more effective here, since the only real problem is the incompetence of the First Order. This could be solved by removing Hux’s line ‘Send a squad to the wreckage’. Now his final line in the scene is ‘They were going back for the droid’, and this allows for the implication that they will track Poe and/or Finn to BB-8. After all, in this new scene ordering Rey hasn’t arrived at Niima Outpost yet, so the First Order should still be in the dark about the droid’s whereabouts. Here’s the new order:

-Poe arrives on the Finalizer, Finn is accosted by Phasma
-Poe is interrogated
-Rey’s day and finding of BB-8
-The Rescue
-Hux learns the location of the crash
-Finn awakens/sees Niima outpost (I still like the dawn idea, but either way works now)
-Hux and Kylo bicker
-Rey arrives at Niima with BB-8/Plutt bargains for the droid
-Finn arrives at Niima.

I like this sequence since there’s a logic to the First Order’s moves. First they track Finn, then once he arrives at Niima Hux wants to destroy everything while Kylo wants the droid’s capture. Plutt’s capture attempt fails, so they resort to destruction.

The separation masters (if they exist) would be the final word in determining the color grading, since each channel is captured in black and white. It’s also a single generation removed from the Negative, making a combination of separation masters for color and original negative for detail the absolute highest quality possible for a restoration.