SilverWook

doubleofive said:

skyjedi2005 said:

But no more stories will be told in the old EU prime universe.  Its gone and replaced with whatever Disney is replacing it with much like replacing the real star trek with the JJ version.

http://www.thetrekcollective.com/p/2014-star-trek-publication-schedule.html

Tell that to a majority of the Star Trek EU.

 Have any Abramsverse Trek novels actually come out? I recall a couple that were in the wings were postponed indefinitely some time after the first film came out. The comic was unaffected.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/16mm-film-TV-SPOTS-LOT-OF-37-SPOTS-THX-1138-SEVEN-UPS-SUPERFLY-TNT-/181296059980?pt=US_Film&hash=item2a3616564c

Is it possible that's what they were?

http://youtu.be/rxmXrOPYirI

If Splinter of the Mind's Eye had actually been filmed, with the Kaiburr crystal concept front and center, Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal might have been a very different film.

Anybody find any discolored discs in their collection recently? Seems to be a thing with some discs about a decade old now. Doesn't seem to affect playability yet, but it's still a point of concern with something that may be out of print and expensive to replace.

Bad enough I have to worry about labels falling off of Laserdiscs inside the player now.

People have done that in real life with horses just to stay alive. I think it's been plot point in an old western tale or two, which is probably where Lucas or Kasdan got the idea.

Unless my memory fails me, there was criticism of the Blu Ray for making the WIP a tiny picture in picture feature only.

Oh my, did they test whether someone could survive freezing by being stuffed into one?

Padme, for reasons of Naboo custom (or politics) not being able to love Anakin openly would have made slightly better sense.

Jedi not being able to marry and crank out more Force babies is pretty ridiculous when you think about it. Factor in some parents might not even want their kid to run off and join up, and you have one heck of a recruitment shortage.

I don't think the historical value of old online forums has even occurred to most people. If those in charge aren't going to do it, stuff is going to be lost for good.

I wonder what becomes of MMO's like The Matrix Online and Toontown when the servers shut down. Do they just wipe everything?

Nice that they archived it. I hope nobody at Lucasfilm or Disney gets their underoos in a bunch over it.

So, if the BD had been authored differently, the WIP could have been viewed full screen?

So, that's some other Hobbit movie that's been king of the box office against a crap load of other holiday movies the past month?

G.E. thinks there's still enough recognition factor for The Matrix, they hired Agent Smith as a pitchman. ;)

http://youtu.be/y0Ixn_Y2bIo

skyjedi2005 said:

The one thing the Sequel trilogy is going to do and will have fans up in arms.  Is that everything which started with Heir to the Empire is now gone.  The EU has been effectively rebooted or erased.

Not exactly the thing EU fans thought they were getting.  They maybe imagined wrongly that the Zahn trilogy would be loosely followed by the new scripts.

Lucas has always maintained that the EU never happened or was a separate universe.  Was something that came out of licensing and was just really a source of revenue. Remember Lucas was financing his own films he was not a multi- billion dollar studio like Disney. 

He never intended to make them after 2005 the sequel films i mean.  He intended the story to always be the tragedy of darth vader. Wonder what Retcon is coming to undue that the Empire is dead and its only six films.  Where is this new story going to come from.  Probably whole cloth and whether or not its accepted is anyone's guess.

They may as well have Tarkin come on screen and say " the last vestiges of the Old EU have been swept away."

It will be like JJ Trek where Enterprise happened but not the original series the movies or the next gen.  Only the 2011 star wars prequel and special edition will be the continuity the sequels follow.  The oot or pre sequel EU never happened.

 Not everyone religiously follows the EU. Disney is going to be courting people who have only seen the films as well. About the only time the EU even got national media attention was when Chewbacca was killed off in Vector Prime.
 
If people are going to have a hissy fit because the novels are being ignored, they're better off staying home. The EU isn't the backbone of the SW universe, the films are.

Abram's Trek takes place in a alternate timeline. Everything that happened still happened.

DuracellEnergizer said:

ray_afraid said:

^There's no accounting for taste. I realized when he first started posing movie ratings that his barometer was screwy and that he's probably quite young. Nothin' wrong with any of that.

I'm sure twenty-six is quite young from a certain point of view. But perhaps I should bring up the fact that I am a fan of older movies, prefer them to newer movies by a very long shot, and that my opinion has nothing to do with "Duh, old movies suck"?

As for why I rated Aliens the way I did ...

I didn't like any of the Marines. They were all asinine douchebags, and I was happy to see them die.

I find it pathetic that a group of Marines -- knowing they're going up a whole goddamn hive of nasty man-killing bugs with acidic blood -- armour themselves in bulletproof vests and helmets only, leaving the rest of their bodies open to damage. I could understand it if this movie were set in the present, but it's set in the far future; am I really supposed to believe that a future civilization capable of building FTL-capable starships can't come up with battlesuits or smart armour?

I don't like how all the mystique and ambiguity of the creature from the original film is taken away by making its species nothing more than giant, stupid ants driven by instinct and nothing more.  

 Pvt. Vasquez would like a word with you. ;)

And I don't see how Hicks could be considered an douchebag.

I read somewhere that not long after the movie came out, Marine recruiters were hanging Vasquez posters in their office windows, until upper brass ordered them to stop.

Was watching some Doctor Who outtakes and B roll on youtube, and spotted some familiar looking consoles in Arc of Infinity.

http://stuartreviewsstuff.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/aoi2.jpg

Can you guess where they are from? ;)

darklordoftech said:

SilverWook said:

darklordoftech said:

Am I the only who finds it hilarious that Dark Horse is being celebrated with a comic that brought Palpatine (and Boba for those who don't think he could have made it out of the sarlacc) back from the dead?

1. Marvel brought Boba back first. And put him right back, but arguably the survival odds were better being trapped inside the sandcrawler that fell in, which probably gave the Sarlacc one hell of a tummy ache.

2. Lucasfilm could have said no to bringing both of them back, and didn't. George has had veto power over what the comics do from the beginning.

3. More improbable things have happened in the prequels. ;)

2. If Person A could have stopped person B from murdering somebody and didn't, person B isn't guilty of murder?

3. If person A murders one person and person B murders two people, Person A isn't guilty of murder?

 You're comparing unfavorable plot points to murder? I give up.

Then you won't mind if we lock the other thread? This is getting confusing.

And BTW, I merely found that image on deviantart. Makes it easier for me to not mix you up with a couple other fellows. I take no credit for it. Credit the artist if you wish.

http://sw--obi-wan-kenobi.deviantart.com/art/Darth-Kenobi-177162005

Cannibalism in a Marvel comic? Implied or shown?

darklordoftech said:

Am I the only who finds it hilarious that Dark Horse is being celebrated with a comic that brought Palpatine (and Boba for those who don't think he could have made it out of the sarlacc) back from the dead?

1. Marvel brought Boba back first. And put him right back, but arguably the survival odds were better being trapped inside the sandcrawler that fell in, which probably gave the Sarlacc one hell of a tummy ache.

2. Lucasfilm could have said no to bringing both of them back, and didn't. George has had veto power over what the comics do from the beginning.

3. More improbable things have happened in the prequels. ;)

Yikes. The fish dies by the mouth.

At least DH ended their run with SW on a high note with the The Star Wars adaptation. (The personal low point for me was the 1997 SE comics that were touted as being replacements for the Marvel adaptations, yeah right!)  I don't have high expectations for Marvel to do anything as interesting. Unless they publish Ric Olie and the Attractive Army. ;)

Thanks for clearing that up! :)

Yes, but the people of Naboo elect their Queens. There doesn't even seem to be any Kings, let alone a royal bloodline. And they have term limits, so Padme gave up the title.

If Leia hadn't been adopted by Bail Organa, she wouldn't even be a princess!

That scene has bugged me since 1979. (Not to mention being totally freaky.) There has to be a easier way to dispatch Ripley than shove a magazine down her throat. And it sure isn't going to look like an accident, or the Alien. Was this supposed to emphasize Ash's major malfunction?