Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda

FanFiltration said:

I'm a fan from back in the days of Tom Baker and Peter Davidson. I've also seen the FOX T.V. movie back in the mid 90's, but not much of the new show. I did see a few of the newer episodes with the guy from "Life on Mars" as a guest star, but not much else. Would you guys have a list of the essential episodes to watch between 2005 and 2013?  I would like episodes that have continuity links, and the best story lines.  I just would very much like to avoid the dull and worst episodes.  Thanks for any help in advance.

I'm a fan of the older series, especially Tom Baker.  But "Blink" blew me away.  I highly recommend it.

I'd like to see Denis Lawson return as Wedge, as an elder Jedi along with Luke.  He didn't get enough credit in SW and ESB.

Airwave said:

 

Puggo Grande -> Puggo GRANDE

This is the way they themselves spell it, so I figured we should respect that.

 

hehe, I didn't even realize I had spelled it that way on my website until you just pointed it out.  It doesn't really matter to me, but I slightly prefer Puggo Grande, and will likely change it to that on my website one of these days soon.  Thanks for your attention to detail.

It was a TV series.  104 episodes - nothing to sneeze at.  Look up "Adventures of Superman" and "TV series".  I watched reruns of it all the time when I was a kid.  Batman too.

Ronster said:

I love the originals with Christopher reeves but ...

Reeves' version the "original"??  Man that makes me feel old.  I still consider it the recent remake.

TheBoost said:

Due to cultural stereotypes that limit both women's AND men's expectations, there is nowhere to change her diaper in the men's room. 

Since cultural stereotypes result in the men's facilities being inferior, and thus you as a man are made to suffer, shouldn't you become a masculist?

So he was blasted so he couldn't reveal that he saw a stormtrooper?

One detail in ESB has always perplexed me - maybe the more learned SW scholars here can help...

When Han et al land on cloud city, C3PO has a run-in with someone in a room, and gets blasted to pieces.  What is the significance of that scene?  Who blasted him and why?  What is it supposed to portend?  About all I get out of it is that the city is more dangerous than it looks... I always assumed that he must have gotten blasted by a storm trooper or something - but why would the storm trooper blast 3PO and just leave his bits lying around?  Wouldn't that raise suspicions?

Murry Sparkles said:

Troyig88 said:

For me- Mono  all the way.

Same here, Mono all the way. Reminds me of when i first seen Star Wars on t.v. in the early 1980's.

It is also how many of us saw it first in theater in 1977.

Ziz said:

Gotcha's both beat - 1966.  My first SW viewing was at a drive-in theater!

Anyone able to beat that?

1960.  I walked through a cemetary to see SW.  (really!)

HOLY FRIGGIN' CRAP!!!  That was awesome!!!  And to think you didn't want to do a "making of" documentary???

Would YouTube reject this thing?  'Cause the world should see it.

I'd go with Harmy's 2.1.   Best visuals, best sound, without the crap.
Best opportunity for the original movie to blow her away.

darth_ender said:

I'm really not excited about this.  I hate CGI.  I hate the prequels.  I hate George Lucas.  I hate Disney.  I hate Return of the Jedi.  I hate J. J. Abrams.  I hate Star Trek.  I hate modern science-fiction.  I hate action.  I hate Kathleen Kennedy.  I hate humor.  I hate new.  I will find some reason to moan and complain about anything new about Star Wars, because it's not the original Star Wars (not A New Hope) or The Empire Strikes Back, even if I haven't seen the new project.  I just know it will suck!

fanboy

It's a Hitchcock-esque thriller in the making.  George lurking in the background of the posted pics, and then one of us mysteriously disappearing...

I will be hand-delivering the raw ROTP captures to Harmy in Prague in the second weekend of June.  International OT.com summit meeting!  Pics to follow.

This week's rehearsal tape of my band.

Mike, you should pass on the SE reel... the mono reel is far more valuable.

This is now officially my favorite thread.

Yikes, what a senior moment.  You're right, the mono mix came from the Swedish print.  I still don't think this is the same print as PG, though, because this one seems to have more and sloppier-looking reel-change markers.

Yes it has the complete end credits.  Don't know the answer to your other question.

By 35mm mix, yes I mean the Dolby mix (not mono).

While I believe that the Shea tape is a 16mm bootleg, I am almost certain it is a different print than the PG.  The soundtrack is different.

As always, I do not distribute my restorations.  If, for example, a copy were to accidentally fall into the hands of someone who does distribute it, I could not take responsibility.

And another:

Another:

A couple of screen captures:

This thread is for discussion of the Shea’79 VHS Bootleg.

The Shea’79 Bootleg is a VHS bootleg of Star Wars from 1979, on a Magnavox tape, introduced to us here at OT.com by PhotoDroid, with ownership attributed to a friend of his named “Shea”.

PhotoDroid sent me the tape for digitization in March 2013.  I completed the project in a few days, using a Panasonic AG-1980 VHS deck, an AVTools TBC, and a Canopus ADVC-100.  It is letterboxed widescreen, and seems (to me) have the 35mm mix.  I suspect that it was originally telecined from a 16mm print, judging by the additional reel change dots in the same places as the Puggo Grande.

The quality, as expected, is fairly poor, exhibiting the typical bevy of old VHS symptoms - smearing, floating colors, wavering, etc.  But the color balance seems very good and so it may be of some interest as an early color source.

I have added a webpage devoted to the Shea Bootleg on my Puggo website:
http://www.hardbat.com/puggo (then click on Shea bootleg)

Screen caps to follow!

Hey I am as mad at George for not releasing the originals in decent form as anyone here.  But he deserves credit for the vision and energy that made the original SW happen.  It's a miracle that movie was made and also a miracle that it was so good.  Credit where credit is due.

As far as Ep.7... I can't see George really doing much.  This is going to be other folks' creation this time -- George will be perfectly happy to step in now and then to take credit, but surely he is tired of actually working on these movies.  At least I hope he is.  We just have to hope that someone with some clout actually has some artistic standards, otherwise it's going to be another f-fest.  Because if you think about it, the movies have royally been f-ed up for about 15 years now... young movie-makers have every reason to believe that the current state of affairs is how things are supposed to be in SW-land.  In another 3 or 4 years, it will have been f-ed up for as long as it was great. (this forum excepted)

Readers of the off-topic thread know that I am very anti-religious.  But I am tempted to pray that Ep.7 turn out decent.  It just seems like the appropriate thing to do.