I am glad to hear your Mum is on the mend, Ady.
Vaderios, that picture of the destroyed shield generator is great! I love that all the snow is blown away!
:P
Shhh... don't give LFL any ideas!
Darth Lars said:
Several good reasons for removing the scene have already been mentioned above. Here are a few more:
- This scene has become the first time that we see the Millenium Falcon. It ruins the "What a piece of junk" scene where the Falcon is revealed for the first time to Luke.
I never thought of it that way. Great point! Granted, perhaps the intro to the Falcon was created more through the music than through the dialogue of Luke and Han. Maybe if the music was different, then the Falcon wouldn't have been set up as important as we see it now. But that is all speculation. I love the scene as it ended up in the final cut. At least before the Special Edition.
I love the idea of Imported Hoth Water. Moisture Farmers. Weird. Maybe the taxation of water along the trade routes was just too expensive.
Ok, I concede with the Ice Cream Man vs. Owen Lars. It would be a tough match. I see it like Bruce Lee vs. Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Maybe Owen would win the best of 5.
I'd love to see Owen versus Bossk. That would be a fight. Imagine Kirk vs. the Gorn.
Anyone want to write up Round 3?
I'd put me money on Phil. Ralph puts too much time on being a handsome devil to seem like a real threat.
Thanks Stampede!
Ric Olie said:
Vaderisnothayden said:
skyjedi2005 said:
In my opinion the prequels are the worst of the expanded universe by far.
George Lucas can call them canon until he is blue in the face and it does not make them canon just because he says so.
They don't match up with the oot the one and only true star wars canon.
Hear hear. The ARE only 3 true Star Wars movies. The prequels and Clone Wars movie are counterfeit Star Wars, cheap knockoff imitations.
Ric Olie is sad :-(
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Ric, why aren't you in the classic trilogy anyway? You survived the prequels as far as I can tell.
My old buddy Bruce called me last week after he had just seen the cut and paste job for the first time.
This is our conversation:
Me: "This is Mark"
Bruce: "Mark, what in the H-E-Double Hell has George done to my movie"
...
I talked him off the ledge and pointed him to some good sites like Zombie's one and Confused Matthew on the Youtube. He's taken his first step into a larger world.
See, there you go again! If you keep mentioning his name, he will for sure.
So where does one sign up to give the beat downs? I've got my sock full of nickels right here. And I put some horse-shoes in my boxing gloves. I'm good to go.
Ric Olie said:
You see, I observe.
You have said my current task.
Enjoy this brief show.
Um.. Ric, you're really weird.
Gaffer, that was my favorite part of the story.
Round Two: Fight!
Porkins
The portly X-wing pilot would be no match to the man who can hold off an entire colony of sandpeople with one blaster. I can already smell the bacon.
"He died about the same time as your father."
The Bespin Ice Cream Man
This may look like the match of the decade, but the man who's only friend is vanilla will be too busy thinking about sprinkles to put up a good fight. Owen will throw sand in his eyes with his left hand and break his nose with his right.
"All right, shut up".
Bib Fortuna
Sure the red eyes are scary, but Mr. Fortuna is pasty-white, has manicured fingernails and is named after something you put on a baby to keep it clean when it spits up on itself. And could Bib grow an awesome beard like Owen has? Not in a million years. Owen will rip off his shirt and flex his guns while Bib runs off with his head-tails between his legs.
"You can waste time with your friends when your chores are done".
I've always had a tough time following a canon in the SW universe because George keeps changing the movies. If he isn't going to take the contents of his movies seriously, why should I? If I get used to Jabba as a guy in a fur coat only to have him turn into a giant slug, or if Uncle Owen is Ben's brother one minute and not the next, then why should I bother figure out what creature, ship or story is canon when it could change the next time George wants to reinvent the franchise.
Ric Olie said:
Ric Olie just updated his facebook status :-)
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SevB32, stop trying to extort footage from Adywan. If your real intent is to send him some money, then just send him some money.
Nice one, Nanner.
Something, something, something, Dark Side said:
Savmagoett, what dimensions did you calculate for the Tydirium? Did you use the ILM version...
...Or the stumpy set version?
Woah, that's weird.
Vaderisnothayden said:
Your Shadows of Empire and Thrawn trilogy are inferior to the Marvel comics, which were far truer to the spirit of Star wars (despite some odd stuff) than the later stuff ever was.
I whole-heartedly agree with this.
I also agree with the idea that the Empire or the Sith are still a threat is what sucks about the EU. Everytime the galaxy is being threatened and Luke has to go mopping up the place only cheapens the original victory of the rebels in the movies. All the EU does is dilute the punch of the pint that is the Original Trilogy.
The sand encrusted haymaker. Sweet Moses, that is funny!
What are your thoughts on a match between Owen and maybe...
The Bespin Ice Cream Man
Dexter Jettster
or maybe Chief Chirpa?
Ric, how do you actually get out of the house in the morning? I would imagine all your time is spent in front of the mirror. "Look, there's that handsome devil, Ric Olie. Those are his biceps. Those control the ladies."
Augie, the still looks pretty good. There is potential for a cool sequence, depending what you are doing with it.
Now it all makes sense.
~or~
I stopped trying to reconcile the PT with the OT or EU-pre-PT a long time ago.
*snark!*
Now there's somethingpeculiar in Shadows of the Empire. Xizor comments on the Emporer's freaky appearence, and notes "he isn't even that old." In SOTE, the Emporer would be 85 or 86. Yet other characters pass away from "natural causes" at much younger ages.
Are you using the prequels version of Palpatine to determine his age? Say what you want about SOTE, but it is 100% prequel free.
Well, good to see this out there still. Still about my favorite fan project.
I like this new version better. Glad I could help, Nanner! hahaha!
Moth3r said:
It's not gone yet: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/OriginalTrilogy.com
What?! Somebody stole from my post from earlier in this thread and didn't give me credit. Weird.
