UNPOPULAR OPINION
Every single added Darth Anybody, Sith Inquisitor, Sith Witch, Sith whatever – the Emperor excluded – made Darth Vader less and less unique during the decades.
Don’t wholly disagree. That said, I’ll always defend the Imperial Inquisitor concept. Makes little sense that Vader would be the only Jedi to turn to the dark side and join the Empire.
Eleonora Dobrinina
The only entry in the Planet of the Apes franchise worth anyone’s time is Stop the Planet of the Apes. I Want to Get Off!
That is basically Filoni’s whole MO isn’t it, patching over things until people like it.
It’s part of the reason I don’t get the adoration many have expressed for him.
It’s the hat. Chicks dig the hat.
But don’t ask me to rate EU material. There’s too much – too much I love, too much I loathe, too much in between.
I don’t know why so many women pluck their eyebrows. I think it’s stupid, and natural brows look better anyhow.
Nobody grows hair or washes in these movies. How much food is on the ship? Where do they dump waste material? It’s just a movie.
*cue MST3K mantra*
Lisa Gerrard certainly has a set of pipes on her. I’m in love. ❤️
“What, you think you’re some kinda Jedi, waving your hand around like that? I’m a Toydarian. Mind tricks don’t work on me; only money.”
Annette O’Toole
I got diagnosed with severe sleep apnea back in February, and I had been freaking out over it due to my fear of going to doctor’s offices mixed with my fears of dealing with health insurance. I went through a titration study a couple weeks ago where I got to sleep with a CPAP machine for the first time. The result was a sleep so good, that I was disappointed when I had to wake up. The study went very well, and I saw a lot of improvements with my sleeping patterns afterwards. I will be getting my own personal CPAP machine within the next 10 days, and if I use the machine for more than 90 days (which seems likely due to my diagnosis being labelled as severe), insurance will pay, and I won’t have to spend a single penny on the machine.
I can’t imagine Vader saying “Liar!! You’re with him! You brought him here to kill me!”
No, he just said: “You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor! Take her away!”
Prequel Anakin would have said something like “Traitor!! You’re with the Rebels! You’ve turned against us!! I will not let you get away with this!” or whatever.
Someone should do a fanedit of the OT with Vaders dialogue rewritten in a Prequel Anakin-esque fashion with James Earl Jones voice recreated by AI. Here are some suggestions:
When Vader interrogates Captain Antilles he could say:
“I’m haunted by the plans that you are hiding from me.” […] “Where are they? Tell us. TELL US NOW!”
The “Bring-my-shuttle” scene in Empire:
“This is outrageous! How can he lose a hand and not join me!? It’s unfair!”
Superweapon VII said:
Well, if you’re willing to inject some hard sci-fi into your space fantasyCertainly not.
The right answer.
Episode 5 seems to want to convey that Luke was on Dagobah for a while, and mastery of the Force is a slow, incremental process requiring training, even though it’s hard to understand how Luke could have been on Dagobah for long given the overall plot logistics.
Well, if you’re willing to inject some hard sci-fi into your space fantasy, without a hyperdrive, the Falcon would’ve had to travel from Hoth to Bespin in real space at near-light velocity, which would’ve subjected the crew to relativistic time dilation. So everyone aboard the Falcon may’ve only experienced an hours’-long trip while six months elapsed for the rest of the galaxy.
I can’t imagine Vader saying “Liar!! You’re with him! You brought him here to kill me!”
No, he just said: “You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor! Take her away!”
Prequel Anakin would have said something like “Traitor!! You’re with the Rebels! You’ve turned against us!! I will not let you get away with this!” or whatever.
He’d also pace back and forth while saying it. Then an Imperial officer would inform him that an escape pod with no lifeforms crashed on the surface of Tatooine. After realizing what planet they were orbiting, Anakin would tell his crew to initiate an orbital bombardment to kill all Sandpeople and also destroy all sand, after suspecting Leia was here as part of some nefarious sand-related plot to overthrow the Empire. He would then yell out to nobody in particular, saying “I now see through their lies! I will make them pay for their coarse, rough and irritating plotting against my Empire!!!1! It’s all Obi Wan’s fault!!”
*chef’s kiss*
The Exorcist III is the best entry in the series. Yes, better than The Exorcist. William Blatty was a masterful filmmaker, and Brad Dourif is simply the GOAT.
But hey, if you don’t trust me…
(Spoilers ahead, so don’t watch if you’d rather watch the movie in full first.)
we are buggerable
My ideal NOTLD would be the original film, but with Judith O’Dea completely removed and Patricia Tallman’s assertive Barbara from the 1990 remake inserted in her place. If I had the money to afford the hardware/software, this is a fanedit I’d jump at tackling, feasibility notwithstanding.
fmalover said:
How would Owen know anything about Anakin’s convictions if he barely said “hello” to him.He could have overheard Anakin shouting about the women and children he killed I guess.
It’s an open secret that Owen’s a voyeur and there’re secret bugs, cameras, and two-way mirrors all over the ranch.
As far as film critics’ vs. audience scores go, I don’t trust either.
I don’t know, I was just watching Empire Strikes Back the other day, and actually it’s pretty surprising how calm and reserved Vader is most of the time. In A New Hope Vader loses his temper once, in the very first scene, when he’s like “Tear the ship apart and bring me the plans!” or whatever. But in Empire he’s very subdued. He never loses his temper - he just calmly kills you when he feels you’re under-performing. The closest he comes to sounding angry is when he says to Ozzel “You have failed me for the last time, Admiral”, but in fact he barely even raises his voice when saying this. He just wants Ozzel to shut up so he can tell Piett the plan going forward. He comes off as ruthlessly efficient, which goes along with his “half-machine” persona.
Sometimes Vader sounds a bit impatient - it’s kind of funny when some Officer has to bother him when he’s inside that meditation chamber, and Vader is like “What is it, General?” You can hear slight impatience in his voice. But he never rages or loses his temper. He’s the complete opposite of Kylo Ren. And definitely way more subdued than Anakin, who was constantly flipping out in both Episode 2 and 3. We can make excuses for this personality difference by saying that over the years Vader became more mature as a Sith and learned to channel his anger in more constructive ways or whatever, but honestly the reality is that Anakin’s portrayal just kind of sucks.
Also of interest to continuity is that Vader is slightly different in A New Hope because he essentially was a different character at that time. He was written as more of a generic villain who killed Luke’s dad. It was only with Empire that Vader became a more complex character, and his personality changed slightly to reflect that. But the difference between Episode 4 Vader and Episode 5 Vader is barely even noticeable compared to Prequel Anakin versus OT Vader.
You can see this contrast more clearly when you compare Leigh Brackett’s TESB draft with the final film.
