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#51900
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The New Jedi Order - book series
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/51900/action/topic#51900
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Originally posted by: Galahad_Skywalker
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Originally posted by: Shimraa
it is about a book series. called the new jedi order. you should read them they are very good.


I've been piqued with interest concerning the NJO, but am kind of put off because of the fact that I've heard that R.A. Salvatore kills off Chewbacca in the very first. I have a feeling that many are put off by that, though. Tell me, I've got plenty of reading time this summer, how many of you would recommend the series?


it is really Great what the series really is is the shift to another generation in SW that is why chew dies in the first book to tell you that it is no holdss bar. you will be shocked at some of the stuff that happens to the SW universe by the end.

this is just s tit bit. they are major things that happen but you can seee them like two books off once you start reading. some of the books in the series are very bad but others are spectaurlar. one of the traitor is probably on my top 5 best books.

curoscent is Destroyed completely and utterly. and another Jedi purge occurs
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#51899
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Stupidest Prequal complaints
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/51899/action/topic#51899
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OK here are my 50Cents on the matter. Jimbo AOTC is not a naster peice, i think in my life i have only seen a couple that i would consider masterpeices and ill tell you now nun of them are STAR WARS MOVIES star wars iss great because it really caught on in the seventy and early eightys. to tell you all the truth it was star wars fans that made the saga what is it today. the movies are good but if you were to get rid of you childhood love for the movies ( which i know you cant because it is buildt into you). and look at the movies objectivaly hey are borderline great, not master peices. it is the fans that turned them into phenomenons.

as for why so many of the OT dislike the PT. The PT is different, that is why. they are nothing like the originals except for a few story links. but the fact remains that when looking at the saga as a whole objectively all of the movie besides ESB and the TPM are about even. ESB is better the the rest and TPM is a little worse. the PT is so different from the originals in the way that they are bight and the OT was dark. in the way that the PT uses CGI and the OT uses puppets, in the way that the PT is not a new idea whereas the OT was. people genrally like what they grew up it, they prefer what they have always known about rather then new stuff that is the problem. OT fans go to see the PT expecting every thing that they saw in the OT but they will not get this because the movie are being made 20 years later. there are better technologies better and cheaper ways of doing effect now then there were 20 years ago. and the fact is that this change is too much for OT fans. they do not like the PT because it is so different from there OT. The OT they grew up with and which they adored. they feel that anyhitng that is going to be part of the series must be made in the same way and have the same effect on them as it did when they were little. the fact is that there is nothing that GL could have done that would have made them happy besides make the movies with the same techonology as he did before. and that is just not smart, its not innovative, and it is just stupid. the OT fans have grown up and the same stuff will not have the same effects on them, they are matured now and that is why they look at the things inthe PT as say " oh that looks cartoonie, or that is not right" i am sure things like the ewoks and little desert guys witht eh red eyes seems too cartoonie for the people in the seventies that were used to stuff from the 60s. the fact is that times have changed and people have changed and so SWs can never have the same effect. the effect of the OT was uneque to the poeple who saw them when they were little.( i remind everyone that i am a major SW books fan, and that is knida gone now too, and a casual fan of the movies)
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#51893
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Harry Potter 3
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book six is going to be a key book ill tel you right now after what happened at the end of 5. man oh man.
some ove the books are getting more movie friendly book 4 would work very well even thou it is long alot of the scenes that make that book long could be droped book three was the same way..
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#51760
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The Day After Tomorrow
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/51760/action/topic#51760
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art bell is someone would would kinda know about these things his show is all about science and he has talked to and intervveiwed a large number of scentists on the matter. and it is a fact that the atlantic current is weaking. in the movie they had to say it just stopped so that they could have a movie over the span of days or weeks rather then decades. same thing in his novel.
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#51756
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Motti and dayv are missing
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/51756/action/topic#51756
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Originally posted by: Bossk
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Originally posted by: jimbo
Who cares


If you don't care, then WTF are you doing in this thread you jackass?

I miss the guys and am wondering where the hell they are, as well. Dayv is only here for like two posts per week and motti is completely MIA. Ever since he broke the Jedi Spirit level, he's just been gone. I'm posting a lot less as a result, too.


same there is no one to talk to any more.
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#51752
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Stupidest Prequal complaints
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/51752/action/topic#51752
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Originally posted by: Joker_Smilez
The Naboo starfighters are just as shiny as the queen's transport...maybe the pilots are really rich and like fancy looking starfighters...I don't know...


the naboo fighters are escort ships for the queens tranport. they are liek the royal honour gaurd so they will be shiny

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Originally posted by: Joker_Smilez
The Naboo starfighters are just as shiny as the queen's transport...maybe the pilots are really rich and like fancy looking starfighters...I don't know...

And yes, the ships in the ORIGINAL original trilogy looks way better than anything in the PTs. The PTs are obviously fake and digital. The REAL models look like REAL ships because they are just that...REAL.

In my opinion, almost nothing in the PTs look real. Probably because almost nothing in the PTs is real...they set records for most use of CGI. I can't stand watching them because to me, everything looks so cheesy and fake and obviously computer generated.

Maybe to you and guys like jimbo, everything about the PTs is "so cool" and "awesome", but I can't stand any of it. The battle scenes were cheesy and lame, the ships looked cartoonish, and the feel was COMPLETELY differant than the originals, which makes it seem like the PTs were made by someone other than GL. Everything about the PTs rubs me the wrong way. They try and mix in way too much humor with unfunny actors so it sounds cheesy and forced, they're always seemingly shooting for kiddy appeal and lowest common denominator stuff. I mean, it seems like GL made Star Wars for preteens and no one older. To me, the PTs are kids movies. I'm in my 20s which may not be very old, but for myself, all my friends, and all of our parents, we can't stand the PTs. We grew up with the OTs and we know them well. So, when the PTs came along and were SO differant, and really cheesy and kiddy in comparison, it turned us right off. I can see why a kid who's like, 14 might love the PTs, but I hate them.

This forum was created so jimbo can rant and rave about how awesome ATOC was and how he thinks it's better than any of the OTs, and I can't resist arguing, because I feel so strongly against the PTs. I've seen each only twice and can't stand watching them any more than that. Everything about them makes me cringe. If you feel differantly, good for you. Personally, I hate the stupid things.

rather then to say this is stupid it sucks try giving us example if you are so grown up.
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#51659
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Stupidest Prequal complaints
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/51659/action/topic#51659
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Originally posted by: Joker_Smilez
You guys honestly think that an X-wing from any of the OT movies looks crappy next to a Naboo fighter? Seriously?

Or a Lamba shuttle next to the Naboo queen's shuttle?

And speaking of going back in time for effects, has anyone here seen "Flight Of The Navigator"? From 1986!! Because they have the EXACT same shiny effect for a ship...

jimbo, I'd argue with you, but I honestly think you are on your own little planet deep in the galaxy somewhere...


they dont look better in terms of artistic design but they look realier. the design is cool but they are different ships. also i am talking about the ships in the originals the ones that were done in the OT not the digitally remastered CG Ships in the SE.

and yes i can argue that the naboo ships look better then some of the OT ships. they really do look better then some of the ships in ROTJ. the mini-SDs in AOTC look better then the SDs in the OT. the insecct people in AOTCs looked better then the ewokes. you may also say that the ship looks stupid cus its shiny and it looks fake, you have to understand the naboo ships you see are Royal transport ships so obviously they are going to look fancy. you think they look cartoony cus there hulls are very shiny. but think of it this way, in the SW universe ships are like Cars, in really life really rich people have very shiny cars. so why wouldnt the poeple in SW have very shiny ships is it so hard to believe, also we are talking a time when the galaxy is in the golden age in the PT where as in the OT there is an imperial power in place there is fear across the galaxy. and you arnt seeing the coolest looking ships in th galaxy your seeing the best ships in terms of ability. cus on one side you have an under-buget rebellion that can t go on looks they need what is good and cheap and on the other side a millitary power, that wouldn't will not use shiny ships.
the clone drop ships and the ships with the 2 big wheels that fire hundreds of missles look alot better then the ATATs and those troopers on bikes.
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#51656
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Stupidest Prequal complaints
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/51656/action/topic#51656
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Originally posted by: Delicieuxz
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luke there is no way with a strait face you can tell met hat the ship in the OT looked better then the ships in the PT cus it is simplally not true. that would mean that we have gone backward in the 1970s and if that iw waht you are saying then... i am speechless and have lost some respect for you today.


Shimraa, I definitely think the OT ships look better than the new ones. It doesn't mean we've gone back to the 70's, were real life models in some way inferior to real life models today? Do we have some super space-age paint and decals to decorate them with now or something? The new trilogy ones I'm thinking of truley look worse to me than ships from the OT because the new ones are CGI and look fake. not to mention have less detail, and also their design is far less appealing in my eyes. You shouldn't condescend people by saying you have lost respect for them for what they think. I could say the same about you right now, and with better reason than just because you like a different appeal, but I won't coz we all make mistakes


i did not say that i had lost repect for him i said if he thought that we had gone backwards since the 70s then i had there is a difference.and you can think what every you like about i really dont care.
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#51655
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Troy
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/51655/action/topic#51655
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i accept your points jarjar but the movie is named Troy not The Illaide. the story was based on homers books but it is not a cinimatic retelling of it. if not for that point wi would be behind you 100%. dipite this your right it was not done as well as it could have been done.