If I ever hear Yakety Sax one more time, I’m going to kill somebody.
Stop watching The Benny Hill Show? 😉
Honestly I never really liked the idea that someone as evil as Vader could be saved. If Luke had succeeded right away and he and Vader took out the Emperor…what then? Vader doesn’t pay for any of his crimes? Because if he is going to pay for his crimes, he’s either going to be executed or spend all the galactic years of his life in prison. And if he’s not, well then what?
Same thing with Ben at this point. It’s too late.
In the Infinities comics, Vader gets a new suit and apparently joins the Rebellion.
I find this interesting, as I had the crazy idea of a Trek Mirror Mirror type Universe when I was a kid, where the Empire was the good guys, and Vader wore white.
Politics is dumb.
A Virginia elections official reached into an artsy stoneware bowl, pulled out a name and declared Republican David Yancey the winner of a House of Delegates race that could determine which political party controls the chamber.
Virginia staged a dramatic, rare election lottery, livestreamed across the country, to settle a tie between Yancey, an incumbent from Newport News, and Democrat Shelly Simonds.
The spectacle drew national attention as an odd way to decide a highly consequential contest. But it might not be the last word in a saga that’s taken more turns than the clay that went into that wheel-thrown bowl, borrowed for the occasion from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts .
An Arborian tree stump would have been more exciting. 😉
For those of you who have never seen Flash Gordon, you do not want to stick your hand in there!
Thought this was a neat list.
https://www.metv.com/lists/10-forgotten-summer-popcorn-movies-of-1977-that-were-not-star-wars
I can only say for sure I saw The Deep and The Rescuers that summer.
Not sure the George Lucas who directed THX 1138 exists anymore.
Chewie will discover the ones that stowed away on the Falcon reproduce at an alarming rate
Well he did return in the OT, sort of. 😛
I don’t get it.
Those braided things hanging off Boba Fett’s shoulder? They’re Wookiee scalps! I thought everybody knew that.
Yeah, I remember reading that someplace ages ago, but I didn’t notice them in the pic.
There was text pointing them out. 😛
Chewie will discover the ones that stowed away on the Falcon reproduce at an alarming rate
That’s 'cause he fed them after midnight.
Well he did return in the OT, sort of. 😛
I don’t get it.
Those braided things hanging off Boba Fett’s shoulder? They’re Wookiee scalps! I thought everybody knew that.
Rip offs of what? If we get into Star Wars clones, we could be here all night. 😉
Yeah, and probably badly scanned at that. The early Betamax copy I have pans over to the left side of the frame at the end totally chopping off the credits. I think the telecine operator was off having a smoke.
What about that Russian version? 😉
I think there was a Japanese version of the original LFL/Star Wars fan club that might have had some exclusive member items of it’s very own?
JEDIT:Sometimes I even impress myself.
http://thestarwarscollector.online.fr/The_Star_Wars_Collector/JSWFC.html
Good news: Trump ends the voter fraud panel.
Bad news: He’s reassigned the “issue” of voter fraud to DHS, which is equally capable of pursuing a voter suppression agenda.
Isn’t that like having the CIA go after people who rip the tags off mattresses though?
I’m of two minds on the Maul thing. I think bringing him back was a dumb idea and I’d never have done it if I was a showrunner, but once they’d done it they did go on to do some genuinely interesting things with him.
Wasn’t it Geroge’s idea?
In ROTJ, I liked the Ewoks. Even remember playing with that Ewok village toy. But after the prequels came out, I learned that there were a sizable group of OT fans who hated the Ewoks. i.e. just there to sell toys, or were too cuddly or something. I can understand people not liking the Ewoks. I do hate the CGI with blinking eyes in the Blu-Rays though. Also wish the Ewoks battle scenes didn’t have that green screen look to them.
But at least the Ewoks weren’t nothing near like Jar Jar.
But I was wondering. Are there any here who hated the Ewoks, but love the Porgs?
I’m indifferent to Ewoks, neither love or hate them. They’re just there.
Well, except for Wicket. Wicket’s great.I love the Porgs. (Up until recently I didn’t know what to call them. When I left the cinema I just called them those penguin/guinea-pig thingys). I thought they were cute and charming. That part where they’re burrowing inside the falcon’s wiring made me laugh a lot. I had a big smile whenever they were on screen.
On a different note, did that big Death Star battering ram thingy remind anybody about The Doomsday Machine from Star Trek??? Cos I got big Doomsday Machine vibes off of that thing.
In Frink’s version Commodore Decker tries to ram a shuttle craft right down that thing’s throat, only to be foiled by Rose. 😛
Disney also did a lot of sanitizing in adapting them. And now they are often better known than the source material. They did sometimes take some flak for changes to stories like Pinocchio. I saw a live action PBS production that was closer to the source material in the early 80’s(?) and was shocked at the differences. Jiminy cricket was not a nice helpful character at all. I think they stopped short of having him get squashed though. 😉
Aieee!
Yes, this whole “they’re ruining the OT” argument makes absolutely no sense. Rian Johnson isn’t scribbling a marker all over the negatives of Star Wars, folks.
George arguably beat him to it anyway. 😉
Kashyyk
I’m disappointed that no one has called this out yet. For shame, SilverWook. For shame.
Big deal. How many times is Wookiee misspelled around here? 😛
Haven’t kept up with Rebels. If these guys aren’t dead and they’re not hanging around with the FO, they must be up to something somewhere.
The original fairy tales are also a lot darker than the sanitized versions most people are familiar with today.
That’s why sentient droids have a prophecy of the Shiny Posterior One, who will lead them in revolt to kill all the humans one day.
So, are they just going to completely gloss over the other students at Luke’s academy? Apparently like most of them died and a handful became Knights of Ren, which seems like something too big to simply ignore. I mean these are apparently the only other trained Force users anywhere. Where the hell are they???
Maybe Snoke sent them on an important errand. If there’s a lost Jedi temple, there must be a lost Sith temple somewhere?
Never lick movie directors to determine their salt content. At least not without permission.
Yeah I was told that once before.
Surviving getting cut in half is one thing. Getting a saber through the chest is quite another. It’s not like he’s going to come back as a head in a jar on a robot body. Unless they think they can sell more action figures. 😉
Shame we never saw tarfful return.
Hard disagree.
Especially because Yoda made him a third wheel and no one wants to see that again.
That does raise an interesting possibility for the next film, as Kashyyk could probably lend aid or at least a place for the Resistance to hide out. We didn’t get to see those miles deep forests with ever increasing levels of danger in Episode III either. Seriously George?