SilverWook

Star Trek has frequently gotten away with it.

Scary to think the TNG cast is almost as old now as their characters are supposed to be in the series finale!

On the flip side, if Peter, Anthony, Kenny, and Jeremy come back, nobody is going to give a crap about their appearance, so long as they still fit in the costumes. Double standards. ;)

I doubt the party atmosphere at the Van Nuys location endeared Dykstra to Lucas either. There's the old story about Lucas driving up to the warehouse with Fox bigwigs, and the whole water slide thing was going on.

Of course, there are no ice planets in any other science fiction tale. It's a wonder the Frank Herbert estate didn't sue over Tatooine and all the references to "spice". Of course, nobody knew thirty years ago Anakin was going to become Kwisatz Haderach. ;)

Not funny.

If it's a small, yet meaningful part like Nimoy had in Trek '09, I don't see a problem here.

And as I've said many times before, Mark played Amadeus on freaking Broadway.

It's not like you have no concept of tact, either. Carrie's problems are well known if you'd bother to read up on it. Saying she doesn't look human is rude and insulting.

I fail to see what your problem with Harrison is.

Heaven forbid the actors who played our heroes get old or suffer medical problems like the rest of us mere mortals.

None of them really need the cash at this point, so who's desperate?

Now you're getting nasty.

And the universes collide again.

http://trekmovie.com/2013/03/26/watch-promo-of-george-takei-mark-hamill-in-the-neighbors-finale-sirtis-cast-in-ncis/

I'm relieved you guys know what I'm talking about. :)

My Dad used to complain that the British shows he liked only cranked out a handful of episodes per year.

For some reason, I imagine the bulk of the Beeb's programming today still looks a lot like the stuff Monty Python was making fun of.

How long before someone uses that hideous retouched shot of Mark from the Slipstream DVD cover in a fake poster? ;)

There must be a higher quality version of this out there somewhere?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB3d21-_KPo

Lighting/rehearsal Yoda in happier times...

A totally different stand in Yoda is seen in the making of Empire documentary.

That's a neat story, especially since they can literally record dialog now anywhere there's a good internet/satellite connection? Frank Oz apparently wasn't even in the same time zone as George when he was delivering his lines for AOTC.

How the heck did a BBC series based on Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently books fly under my radar?

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/59900/dirk-gently/

Hooray!

Is this not an ascot? ;)

Leonardo said:

SilverWook said:

 

On a related subject, anybody ever tune in the atomic clock broadcast on shortwave in the days before your PC was around to set the time?

No, but I'm curious now. How did it work? Did you tune in a frequency on the radio and wait for a beep? What if I wanted to do that now, is it still possible?

You tuned in and waited for the beep to set your clock manually.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-GPck4x8Xw

Still sounds the same after all these years. Surprised Ben Burtt never used it, as there are some sound effects recorded off a shortwave radio in Star Wars.

There used to be a number my Dad would dial up the atomic clock using a modem to set the PC clock in the pre internet days.

Many modern timepieces set themselves automatically to the signal these days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB

From what I've read over the years it pretty much boils down to Fox getting really greedy and slightly loony. Claiming intellectual copyright on spaceships flying around and shooting at each other, for example. Something Flash Gordon was doing in the '30's.

It's also telling that they apparently never went after any of the Japanese or European knockoffs...

Remind you of anyone? ;)

Fox also wanted to sue over Hardware Wars, but Lucas thankfully talked them out of it, or so the story goes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_time

It gets increasingly weird after seconds. Interesting to learn it's been almost a gigasecond since Return of The Jedi was released. ;)

On a related subject, anybody ever tune in the atomic clock broadcast on shortwave in the days before your PC was around to set the time?

Boy, everybody forgets the Ion Cannon fire control lady in ESB. ;)

Mon Mothma looks pretty good in Episode III.

This came from thethirdgathers, or did someone rip the youtube audio and sync it to an HD source?

Are you implying something about this site? It's not like we've never had anyone obsessive compulsive about evading bans around here.

In any case, hacking can be as simple as somebody messing with your computer while you're logged in.

Harmy said:

I already got this like half a year ago, I think from myspleen.

Really? A whole DVD or just the soundtrack?

TheBoost said:

I liked TCW, but frankly I'm really glad "Detours" wont see the light of day. Those clips were atrociously unfunny.

It will probably air as a one off special someday. (With little promotion.) And if the Holiday Special gets a preservation...    ;)

I hope this thing isn't dead?

Mel didn't actually direct TBONTB, so does it count as part of the pantheon?

I thought the music video was hilarious in a sick and wrong sort of way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu2NqfISm9k

I could kick myself for not thinking about this footage for AOTR...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAZhtT-dUyo