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SilverWook

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#1092270
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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I wouldn’t put it past Snoke to conjure up a fake Anakin/Vader ghost that says exactly what he wants Ben to hear. (Maybe a specially programmed holocron?) He had to come up with something tangible to sway Ben. I doubt this shrine to the burnt Vader mask thing came exclusively from Ben.

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#1092245
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All Things Star Trek
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Maybe the whole slingshot thing is classified a century later? Obviously Kirk and company know how to do it. If it was common knowledge, everybody would be forever altering the timeline. There are other Voyager episodes where ye olde slingshot would have solved a problem or two. There’s also the whole “don’t alter history” thing, which is why Sisko gets a visit from Temporal Investigations after his little side trip into the past.

I can’t recall how the Enterprise E even got back home in First Contact, if they addressed the issue at all.
JEDIT:Geordi says he can recreate the Temporal Vortex thingy, which seems a better way to get around than ye olde slingshot, but it’s probably never mentioned in Trek again.

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#1092226
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * <strong><em>SPOILER THREAD</em></strong> *
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I get it. I just wonder if Anakin had lived, would the new Republic would have wanted to put him on trial for his crimes? Is returning to the light enough to get you off the hook? Not guilty by reason of the Dark Side?

Can someone return to the side of good and live with the fact they have a lot of blood on their hands?

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#1092218
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Are The Prequels That Bad?
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Jimmy Smits probably knew he could be replaced, technically he was Bail Organa #2 as the first fellow ended up on the TPM cutting room floor. McGregor and company knew they couldn’t be canned, so they could be more openly grumpy.
It’s too bad Lucas ultimately didn’t get along with the people who helped him make a film better like Gary Kurtz. If there had been a close circle of trusted people around him like Kubrick cultivated, not a bunch of yes men who were afraid to make suggestions, things might have been different.

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#1092206
Topic
All Things Star Trek
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oojason said:

SilverWook said:

How does one “tune in” a streaming show? 😉

I wouldn’t mate - I get my little brother to hold the coat hanger in the back of the tv at the just the right angle to get an ok-ish picture for all 3 tv channels 😃

LOL! I used to hold onto the rabbit ears of the kitchen tv to pull in a New York station that had all the cool cartoons in the morning when I was kid. Sticking my free arm up in the air also helped. Not sure analog tv signals passing through my body was healthy.

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#1092162
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If you need to B*tch about something <strong>other than originaltrilogy.com</strong>... This is the place
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I can understand old batteries leaking in something that hasn’t been used in a long time, but in a remote I use several times a week and the batteries had not even become weak yet? Damned lucky I caught it in time before any real damage was done.
I stay the heck away from cheap no name batteries, (got a mild burn from leaking batteries in a remote back in the '80’s) but even Duracell seems like it can’t be trusted now.
Been slowly replacing batteries in the umpteen remote controls I have around with rechargeables as the original batteries go dead, but I need to accelerate that timetable.

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#1092101
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Info: 35mm prints coming up for sale...
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Avatar_Emil_Borg said:

alexp120 said:

This Russian print of The Phantom Menace just came up on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ULTRA-RARE-35mm-color-Star-Wars-1999-Sound-Feature-Film-Dolby-Digital-/332299195671?hash=item4d5e935517:g:CbMAAOSwRMtZY2x6


HOLY GHOST OF OBI-WAN, BATMAN!!!
OK, I’m done freaking out (in text form at least).

It has been explained elsewhere that the seller put a sheet of paper behind the film, which is why it looks so bad.

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#1092063
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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TV’s Frink said:

SilverWook said:

TV’s Frink said:

I’ll bet Lindsay Lohan has some intelligent thoughts on the Trumps.

http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/donald-trump-lindsay-lohan-twitter-1202487482/

@LeahR77 @CNN THIS IS our president. Stop #bullying him & start trusting him. Thank you personally for supporting #THEUSA

@hrtablaze @realDonaldTrump @IvankaTrump @FLOTUS @DonaldJTrumpJr are kind people. As An American, why speak poorly of anyone? #FAITH #July4th

Lindsay Lohan? Even Robot Chicken has forgotten she’s still around.

Robot Chicken? Even Lindsay Lohan has forgotten that’s still around.

If it is.

The belated answer is yes.
https://youtu.be/kC8gkGGbMOk