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#282793
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What kind of Star Wars fan are you?
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I've been impressed lately at the quality and depth that most of the discussions here on the boards. One of the ideas I've been kicking around is making a net based Star Wars personality quiz.

What I'd like to develop are basic categories of fans and questions to root-out which kind of fan folks are. Sort of like those personality colors tests. The questions would have to be to determine the fans preferences. Questions like:

Nilo Rodis-Jamero or Corran Horn?
Blue Harvest or Caravan of Courage?
John Williams or Ewan MacGreggor?
Joseph Campbell or Timothy Zahn?
Emperor's Royal Guard or Industrial Light and Magic?
Despayre or Star's End?

I'd have lots of other questions as well, of course. So basically I could use a bit of input from my fellow Senators to figure out the basic catagories that best describe the fans. Do you like all six, or three or the EU or the whole thing? Is collecting figures more important to you than listening to the soundtracks? If you watch the DVDs, do you go to the Making of... documentaries or play the X-box demo?

I tried this on another site and got a few responses, but they were more interested in the moral dillemmas of Mace Windu. I think we got enough thinkers here to get some types nailed down.

So... which films do you like, why do you like them, what do you like most about them?
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#282714
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The legendary "Starkiller Ranch" Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282714/action/topic#282714
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Originally posted by: C3PX
It isn't even an issue about believeability, but rather a question of good idea or bad idea.


Instead of these, the issue should be presentation. I don't care if the rebel medical friggin' frigate had a supply of prosthetic hands or whether it can make them from scratch in a few minutes. Or it shouldn't matter if they had a Sith suit lying around for Anakin (I suppose one could argue that they made Anakin to fit the suit, rather than claiming they had a suit in his size). The slow optical wipe from the escape at Bespin to the rebel fleet gives the audience a clue that enough time has passed for everyone to heal and catch their breath. In ROTS, Lucas needed to set the stage for the next 20 years between the Episodes III and IV, but who knows what the heck he was doing, so we get a very rushed end of the movie. All the things that the fans had been waiting to see were crammed into the last 10 minutes. No wonder the believability is shot to hell.
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#281603
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Lucasfilm's Adventures Golden Era
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/281603/action/topic#281603
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This seems to be a cool project. I think forum member daveytod is the resident expert on video game movies. Of course others have done game DVD's as well, so there is plenty of expertice here.

As far as the style goes, I'm not as familiar with the early LucasArts stuff, so I'd like to see it with minimal distraction. I'm not sure a Deleted Magic approach would be best. Maybe that's just me.