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#268054
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Stupid Star Wars Questions
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Maybe we need a Scrooge McDuck thread over in the Off-topic section. LOL

I loved watching Ducktales as a kid and have the recent DVD releases. I will admit I only read a few of the comics, but might need to see if I can find some of the reprints someday. So I don't think the show was bad by any means, just a bit different. As for Donald's absence in Ducktales, the reason he isn't in the show was that he was the most famous character in the series, and most people weren't as familiar with the others people in the series, and the thought that if he was in it much at all, people would expect him to be the hero or expect a purely slapstick comedy, like his shorts. So they decided to write him out, and replaced the role he played with Lauchpad. But IIRC, some episodes are taken directly out of the comics. But its like that with any comic adapted for a TV show or movie. You can't take it as is in the comics. You have to make some changes for the TV/movie screen.

To answer your question on why Donald got them, I've finally thought of the answer. Donald is the only one who could understand and talk to Hewey, Dewey, and Louie. So he got them. Nobody else talks like they do.
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#268043
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The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/268043/action/topic#268043
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Research on bread indicates that:

1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.
4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
5. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.


Wow! I never realized that bread caused so many problems.
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#268033
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Stupid Star Wars Questions
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/268033/action/topic#268033
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Originally posted by: UncleOwen
To answer your last question, Della was not Huey, Dewey, and Louis' mother. In the 1938 cartoon that introduces Donald's nephews, the mother's name is Dumbella. Donald never handed over his nephews to Uncle Scrooge. The cartoon series, Duck Tales, is a bastardization of the comics created, written, and drawn by Carl Barks, the true creator of Uncle Scrooge. The modern Disney attempt (anything created by Disney after Walt's death) to make and distribute films is complete shit. Carl Barks is a genius who's work was completely taken over and warped by modern Disney ethics. Carl Barks wrote and illustrated adventure stories starring the ducks created by Walt Disney Studios, yet the personalities of his ducks were entirely his own creation.

I don't mean to sound like an asshole, but if you take the time to research and criticize Star Wars, do the same to other works of fiction. Carl Barks is one of the greatest men to ever work in the comic book industry, and should be recognized for his contribution to American pop culture.


I liked Ducktales, which was based off the earlier comics. While different, I wouldn't call it a basardization, just an adaptation. IIRC, in the comics, Donald still has his nephews, and they just live near Uncle Scrooge and visit regularly. In Ducktales, they wrote Donald out of the story for the most part and replaced his character with Launchpad. Of course, this still brings up the question, why does Donald have the nephews in the first place?


Back on topic-

My dumb questions, mostly prequel related since that has the most stupidity in it:
Why couldn't Qui-Gon become a force ghost in Ep. 3?

Why exactly was Jar-Jar exiled from the Gungans? For being the most stupid and annoying creature in the galaxy?

Do they still have podraces on Tattoine during Lukes' time?

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#267845
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267845/action/topic#267845
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Ugh! Don't let Quest 64 color your pereception of the whole genre! That game just utterly sucked, and it kept me from playing any console RPGs for years. I definitely feel your pain there.

Final Fantasy X is a good game. It redesigns a LOT about the Final Fantasy system--no over-world, and the battle system now takes place based on turn progression instead of whoever gets their little meter charged up first. There's a lot of strategery to it, and the game isn't as ridiculously unbalanced as the older games.

Final Fantasy XII does away with random encounters alltogether and has a battle system that's almost real-time.

How can you not get into KOTOR? O_O That's like the best X-Box game there is.


FFX is a great game if you like RPGs. Its just so incredibly long. But most RPGs are.
Personally, I don't like RPGs. I tried KOTOR, and no matter how much I wanted to like it, I just couldn't.
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#267768
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Q: Death Star viewed from Endor
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267768/action/topic#267768
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Change comic to Star Wars, and you get the idea...

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/TheSharpshooter/DraggingPhysicsIntoFantasy.gif


Just Kidding...
Actually, I remember reading the arguments that the Death Star explosion would result in radiation or something like that killing all life on Endor. Fortunately, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away, Death Stars don't have radiation to give off when they explode. And Ewoks are almost indestructable anyway. After all, in a big battle, only one died.
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#267636
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<strong>The &quot;EditDroid&quot; Trilogy DVD Info and Feedback Thread</strong> (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267636/action/topic#267636
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I can also send it out to three other people as well.

Perhaps some sort of distribution list would work here. People sign up, then whoever has the discs sends them to the next one on the list, who then sends it on to the next two or three, and so forth. That way, people have a specific person or people to send it to, instead of a "whoever asks". Just an idea.
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#267625
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The Puggo Edition - webpage and screenshots (Super 8 transfers - Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267625/action/topic#267625
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First off, great job, Puggo! I've finished watching this set and it was very well done.

Interesting that they got the super8 reels from the 70mm set. Hopefully someday the 70mm cut will come available.

Another somewhat interesting thing is that in ESB, they cut the "Luke, I am your Father" line. Does anyone know if these films come out before or at the same time as the theatrical releases? Or did they just not want to spoil it for those who might of not seen the theatrical film yet?
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#267443
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Need help finding rare vintage handhelds.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267443/action/topic#267443
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The only suggestion I have it to keep looking on places like e-bay. Maybe visiting some classic gaming sites like the forums at atariage.com. Maybe someone there has one that they would sell you. Usually, even the rarest of the rare will show up on e-bay eventually. You've just got to have patience, and be willing to pay the prices. Another suggestion is to try not to search too specifically. Lots of times, people who sell this stuff has no idea what they have, and therefore don't call it the right name. One used to be able to find lots of classic gaming stuff at thrift stores for dirt cheap prices. I got quite a bit of my Atari collection at those places. Today, however, its hard to find anything there. Too many collectors/e-bayers now I guess. Good luck!
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#267442
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A Song of Ice and Fire
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267442/action/topic#267442
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Well, I think Lucas wasn't really thinking when he wrote that line about absolutes--he was taking a potshot at the president, and when someone starts using their fiction as a mouthpiece, it's easy to forget things like logic and coherency.


A good way to produce a crappy film, or to turn a potentially good film bad is to make it a political statement. Superman IV and Happy Feet immediately come to mind.
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#267268
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A Song of Ice and Fire
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267268/action/topic#267268
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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
In this series the author said he wanted to portray the chracters realistically and not simply black or white or good vs. evil but more gray.

This is a very new age concept where you as the reader are supposed to be confused as to who the hero or villains in the story are. they tried this with wheel of time series and was somewhat unconvincing.

This is why I dislike anti hero 90's ish type characters and I love the original star wars trilogy because the bad guys and good guys are so well defined. That might not be in vogue with post 911 darkness end of the world shit but so be it.

The prequels sucked and were a downer because we were supposed to root for the dark anti hero.

tolkien's hero's and villains had a very thin line between them because a christian writer would know about the fall of man and sin. although no such words were used in his books sauron and the devil are pretty much the same and the ring as the tempter. Frodo was saved by Grace because like Bilbo he pitied Gollum and forgave him.


I agree. I'm sick of the popular views anymore that we have to have 'realistic' heroes by having them to be not that good, and the villians to be not that evil, or we are supposed to feel sorry for them. I personally like things the way they've been, where the heroes are good, the villians are evil, and not all this 'shades of gray' stuff.
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#267263
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Ep 3 death star !
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267263/action/topic#267263
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Perhaps the second Death Star was started a few years after the first one, and they rushed completion of it for the events in ROTJ. I would think that it would be dangerous to the Emperor to only have one Death Star. After all, IIRC, in the novel for Star Wars, the other officers of the Death Star actually start to try to get Tarkin to use the Death Star to take over the empire and blow away whatever planet the Emperor happens to be on at the time. But two Death Stars would have the effect of keeping both of them loyal.
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#266649
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Ep 3 death star !
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266649/action/topic#266649
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Originally posted by: HotRod
I still can't see what the problem is.
20 years for something that big is realistic. I mean, they take about 2 years over here to build a Multi-Level carpark, so 20 years to build what amounts to a moon, is not so unrealistic.


The problem is that it took 20+ years for them to build the Death Star in ANH, but only 4 to build the Death Star in ROTJ, and that one was supposed to be much bigger. Plus, in a galaxy far, far away, surely they have the technology to build both Death Stars and multi-level carparks quicker than we could. LOL

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#266304
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Ep 3 death star !
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266304/action/topic#266304
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Originally posted by: 20th Century Mark
I always assumed that the 2nd Death Star was started many years before the first one was even completed. For the Empire to have one DS would be awsome, but to have many, that would be ultimate.
Exactly. Has nobody here seen Contact? "The first rule of Government spending is: Why have one, when you can have two at twice the cost?"


This might be closer to it. Having two Death Stars would help minimize a problem that is brought out in the novel, where the other Imperial officers on the Death Star suggest to Tarkin that he should use the Death Star to make himself Emperor.

But in the end, the Death Star scene doesn't fit in the movie. As someone said, its fan material only. I know Death Stars have to take a long time to build, but 20+ years doesn't make sense. The explanation that they waited a while before starting the Ep. IV DS makes more sense in the end.
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#266095
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Ep 3 death star !
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266095/action/topic#266095
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Originally posted by: bad_karma24
Yeah, its not like they had a planet to test it on. In any case, I remember that in one draft (or maybe the novel or something like that), Palpatine ordered Jerjerrod to turn the Death Star on Endor if the shield were to be destroyed. So there.


If I remember correctly, this was in the novel, that once the shields on the Death Star go down, Jerjerrod decides to blow up Endor, but the Death Star is destroyed before the gun can charge up for the blast.
The problem with the Death Star in Episode 3 is that is isn't sure when the scene takes place. There are several explanations I've heard, one being that the Death Star in 3 is actually the Seperatists' version of the Death Star that was started during the clone wars, but scrapped by the empire. And then there was the Death Star prototype that was talked about in the Jedi Academy Trilogy, I think. But there is still the question of why it took 20 years to build the Death Star in ANH, but less than 4 for the Death Star in ROTJ. Design issues maybe? The real answer is yet another problem with the prequels, but oh well.