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#579368
Topic
Secret History of Star Wars- The Audio Book, An OT.com Production?
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xhonzi said:

Sluggo, Frink, and Bingo-

You three have been active in this thread without quite volunteering, so I've left you off of the chapter list for now.  If I was meant to take your snark as volunteering to read, please let me know and I will sign you up.

Others- I made assigments in the order your volunteered.  Chapters 2 and 3 are quite long, so if need to split those up, let's do that.  If you're cool with reading all of that, then have at it.  If there's a different chapter you'd rather read, let me know and we'll see what we can work out:

From 1st post:

Forward/Intro: Zombie

Chapter 1: xhonzi (~24 pages)
Chapter 2: 005 (~88 pages)
Chapter 3: Gaffer (~52 pages) (nice to have a female voice here, methinks)
Chapter 4: xhonzi(~12 pages) 
Chapter 5: Akwat (~36 pages)
Chapter 6: Ziggy S. (~15 pages)
Chapter 7: <>       (~43 pages)
Chapter 8: <>       (~16 pages)
Chapter 9: <>       (~16 pages)
Chapter 10: <>      (~34 pages)

Conclusion: Zombie

*Chapter list and page length taken from e-book v 1.2.  Though the official text for this version would be either the first printed version or the revision due 2013. 

Well, a big h-e-double hockey sticks-hockey puck to you xhonzi.  

Sure, I'd like to contribute somehow.  I could try a chapter.  8 or 9 maybe.  Sluggo is busy with work, church stuffs and trying to spend time with the lady-friend, but I can make an attempt.

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#577732
Topic
OT Plot Development Analyses
Time

I applaud you for going against George's Original Vision (Luke and Leia as siblings) in your McQuarrie discussion.  I'd imagine you will get banned from Tf.n shortly.

;)

 

It is interesting to match up McQuarrie's an Mollo's drawings up with the various scripts.  If I could draw, I'd love to do comic adaptions of the scripts based on the relative production art.

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#573141
Topic
OT: No Lightsabres for Yoda or The Emperor
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American Hominid said:

"And did you tell her about my kidnapping by the Bpfasshi Dark Jedi? That's where it all really began.

It was a terrible experience, possibly the first time in my life I'd felt truly and genuinely terrified. He was half mad with rage - maybe more than half mad - with all of Darth Vader's power and none of his self-control.

...

I won't try to describe their battle. Even after forty-five years of thinking about it, I'm not sure I can. For nearly a day and a half the swamp blazed with fire and lightning and things I still don't understand. At the end of it the Dark Jedi was dead, disintegrating in a final, massive blaze of blue fire."

- from Zahn's Vision of the Future

 

That's approximately what I would have expected. Sort of like if two motherships from Close Encounters were fighting each other.

I definitely thought the Masters were above using physical weaponry.

The Emperor's pure energy even works well within my personal model of Force use, with users like Yoda directly the flow subtly, using mostly normal physical possibilities to influence things, while dark siders like the Emperor just go straight for brute power.

Also note that the Dark Jedi in the story explodes in blue fire the same way the Emperor does in ROTJ.

...

I miss the pre-prequel inference-based models of SW.

I miss it as well.  The idea of Dark Jedi to me is so much more interesting than the prequel version of Sith.  Especially since each of them didn't need the 'Darth' title.