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rchdggr said:

[...] That is very OT to me. A regular guy. In the PT the heroes were anything but regular guys.

 I don't think I've ever really thought about that before, but it's true. I think that's one of the reasons people relate to the OT heroes so much more easily than those of the PT. Of course none of them were ordinary in the end, but they all had fairly mundane origins, Leia being the notable exception. Even she, however, was easy to relate to because she seemed normal, as if she had had a normal upbringing and had just happened to be a princess.

Now, if we contrast Leia with Padmé, there's a marked difference. Likewise, Anakin has an extraordinary life, going from a slave with incredible talents to a famous and powerful Jedi to a Sith Lord. Most of the main characters have superpowers, or are politicians, or are both. The ordinary people are either aliens who are next to impossible to relate to (take Jar Jar, for example) or have only minor or background roles.

The PT also focused too much on the wrong side of life. Star Wars was never about the politics, even though we could see they existed in the background, but the PT brought that into the forefront. We saw too much of the Jedi and learned too much of what they believed and taught for them to be cool or interesting anymore. It would have been better to see them more from the outside, or to focus on a small number of them, with the others being more in the background.

Ah, well, yet another area of the PT that went wrong, which makes the possibility of making something good out of it seem still less likely.

No, I haven't.

I dunno, I think it looks good. I've never liked the funny colours look that a lot of comics from that era have.

As I only had one exam this week, which I wrote this morning, and there are no regular courses, my holidays have already begun. I've got three whole weeks of free time to look forward to (aside from a chapter in my science textbook that I have to do). :)

Didn't you know? They used scissors, glue, and the original negative for that.

Yeah, I kind of missed the Ewoks getting slaughtered left, right, and centre last time I watched the movie....

You'll have to make a special edition of your edits some day (we all know you've got nothing else to do with your life anyway). ;)

I suppose it's probably too late (if this gag were to be used it would have been best to start in AotR), but Shmi's ghost should ask Anakin what his heart tells him every time he asks a question.

I am rarely emotionally invested in characters (this is not true for books, for some reason), so when a film lacks that I almost never notice it. Bad CGI I can deal with, since I find it no more distracting (in fact, probably less so) than bad practical effects. Thus, I'll probably enjoy the third one as much as I enjoyed the other two.

Why don't we play a game of Chess with Different Armies with the same armies as each other? :D That will allow us to (re)adjust to the unfamiliar pieces so that the following game, which we can play with different armies, will be a fair competition rather than a determination of a person's ability to familiarize themselves with the pieces. That is assuming that one of us plays a familiar army the second game.

You pick the army, or if you'd rather, the armies. I don't believe we've played the Meticulous Mashers yet, though I can't remember for sure.

I just finished watching the 2003 Clone Wars series. Everything except the story sucked, and the story wasn't particularly noteworthy, so it gets a big "meh" overall. Maybe it's just the visual medium I dislike. But then again, there are plenty of animated shows that are consistent from shot to shot (the Clone Wars goes from showing a huge army to showing nothing in the same spot from shot to shot), that have good voice acting, etc. Also, it always bugs me when Jedi can fly (since when can Jedi fly!?) and destroy hundreds of droids with ease in one shot, and in the next they're fighting for their life with a single droid, which they effortlessly destroy when they decide to use force powers instead of their lightsabre. Now, I think the story is better than that of the prequels, but I'm not sure why people prefer this one to the more recent series.

It's been very enjoyable. I was never really into chess, but I find shogi far more interesting and enjoyable, so I'm glad you introduced me to it.

Do you want to play a chess variant in the other thread? A three-player game can be a little slow sometimes...(wink, wink, nudge, nudge to a certain relative of mine). I'll remind my dad to move in case he's forgotten.

...It's been a year now since we started our first game.

Also, it's your turn, dad.

Jabba's size never seemed right to me in that scene. Is he actually the same size there as he is in RotJ, or did they make him too small?

Why are you bumping these old threads?!

I have no words for how annoying it is to have to read them all.

Wow, Warbler agreed with Bingowings on page two of this thread. Twice!!

TV's Frink said:

2) I think Fred Phelps and his elk* 

*elk=ilk much like carp=crap

 Ah, so that's where the elk thing comes from. I thought it was a typo last time I saw you use it...

Yes there is:

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Pets/topic/16222/

I like the Hobbit films a lot. I haven't seen the latest one though--didn't even know it was out--and probably won't for some time.

Pd3-d4

I wouldn't regret saying it because it's true. The only way to eliminate the problem might be through some of DrCrow's extreme methods, but they obviously aren't desirable means of achieving that end.

I hope you don't take too much offense at me saying that those ideas are retarded. They just aren't practicable options. Any solution to bullying must be one that doesn't leave a multitude of other problems in its stead, or it isn't much of a solution.

Or how French fries didn't originate in France.

Or how most blackboards are green.

DrCrowTStarwars said:

I don't know an action figure you have to build

 Well, if you want to get to know one, you can order the one shown above, and build it.