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My curiosity got the better of me.

SilverWook said:

I normally don't give a crap about Blu Ray steelbooks, but this is pretty cool.

Want.

m_s0 said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Just watched the first part. I'll avoid any kind of spoilers...

First things first, the animation is indeed terrible, amateurish, floaty, overdone, underdone, uninspired etc. However, everything else is soooo right that that first major flaw is quite easy to overlook.

It only took 31 years but finally somebody has made a film/video that actually felt like honest to goodness Star Wars. You care about the characters, the story, the stakes and the drama. It's got blaster shootouts, dogfights, last-minute-escapes and danger. After watching, it seemed easy and obvious: Just take all the good things about the OT and then make a show featuring them. Maybe it just took GL not being in the way to do this seemingly simple thing.

When one of the characters pulls out a certain thing towards the end it felt like something special and epic. I was so pumped by the end that when a certain other character from the OT uttered a certain 3 word refrence back to the OT, I suddenly surprised myself and shoved my fist in the air and shouted "Yes!".

I cannot wait to see more of this show and if the ST is even just a little better than this then I'll be happy.

(Oh and no crawl, there's always fanedits)

You might be missing the point here. Rebels is the crawl.

Whaaa? I made no point about the crawl for which I could have hit or missed.

m_s0 said:

Aside from that... the show on the whole feels very much inspired, it's just that the character animation is lacking... we're in agreement.

I never said the show as a whole felt uninspired (Quite the opposit!), I said the character animation was lacking (e.g. "the animation is.... uninspired"). We are in total agreement about all aspects, unless I'm not understanding your point.

RicOlie_2 said:

OK, OK, my original post was an abuse of the English language, art, and the past. Just cut me some slack already! ;)

Massive LOL my friend :-)

RicOlie_2 said:

The rainbow does indeed go from warm colours to cold colours, so I'm not sure I understand why you think I failed to understand.

Nope. For a start, Blue is the coldest colour, it is in the middle of a rainbow (Plus it's an exercise about people's variable perceptions, so unless every time that you've done this exercise it was with the exact same group of people, you did a different exercise each time.)

HotRod said:

No one has seen a lightsaber really since Ep3

All those who saw the fight on the Death Star 1 - Dead

No one saw a lighsaber in ESB apart from Luke & Vader

All those who saw a Lighsaber in Jedi - Dead

Apart from our 'Heroes', no one in the galaxy has really seen a lighsaber in battle since the Jedi were in power....A long time ago!

 Presumably the cleaning lady who found Luke's Lightsaber (Still attached to his severed hand) at the bottom of Bespin has seen a Lightsaber.

Plus Boba Fett probably told loads of people about Luke's sweet new Green Saber after he climbed out of the Sarlacc pit ;-)

"Hate" is a very strong word, something like "It's funny how the rainbow has... because in art class today" would seem more appropriate but clearly you feel very strongly about how the Gay community have used this symbol to represent freedom.

By the way, if you think that that art exercise "belonged in kindergarten" you weren't paying attention. It's one of many such exercises designed to get you to think differently*. By putting them in rainbow order you failed to understand the question, so it might have been better to pretend it was a deliberate mistake to make a political point and so look like you were an avant-garde genius LOL.

* Also try; painting a kitchen utensil using only a kitchen utensil, drawing a still life with one single unbroken line, or painting with household bleach on black paper.

Ryan McAvoy said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Despite everything that looks wrong with this, I'm looking forward to the movie-length first part like nothing else. Because from a certain point of view, it's the first proper* Star Wars movie to be released in 30 years!

(* I choose to define "proper" as it featuring Stormtroopers, the Empire, Rebels, beat-up technology, new young charismatic characters, fun, excitement and everything that the 3 prequels and the Clone Wars movie lacked)

Correction. When they said "movie-length", they actually meant "not movie-length". I'm going back to my default pessimism about this show.

Then after having watched the awesome 45minute (Distinctly not feature-length) first episode...

Tobar said:

Well that was quick! I guess the preview turn out was good:

DISNEY XD ORDERS SECOND SEASON OF STAR WARS REBELS AHEAD OF TELEVISION PREMIERE

Star Wars Rebels will be introduced via a television movie, Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion, premiering Friday, October 3 (9:00 p.m., ET/PT) on Disney Channel in the U.S. and Monday, October 6 (8:00 p.m., ET/PT) on Disney XD in the U.S.  It ushers in the series beginning Monday, October 13 (9:00 p.m., ET/PT) on Disney XD in the U.S.  The series will air in 34 languages across 163 countries in over 400 million households.

...so the 45 minute episode I've seen was just a preview of part 1 and tomorrow will be the full-length 90 minute (Spark Part 1 & 2)????

Is it just me or are Disney making this much more confusing than it needed to be. Anybody got anything official on this situation?

TV's Frink said:

Here's a rough first attempt at combining the lightsaber and exterior apartment ideas.  I can improve on the audio but I may have to find some help to make the video more convincing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlfGVIag8ZU

 Nice job!

Something similar may have been suggested before but how about when Vader shouts "What!" (at the end of the rench run) you then cut to Terry Gilliam shouting "What!" from The Holy Grail. From this bit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qry9IeJnbNU

There may be other funny useses of the word "What" that people could suggest. Maybe Mace Windu's Force-Ghost could chime in with the Pulp Fiction "What" refrence (A callback to ROTR).

Here you go Disney, a new "improved" version...

...nobody will notice due to my sweet photoshoping skills!

Anybody seen this backdrop from Disney's official site?

Notice anything strange about it? If you gave 3 year old a copy of Photoshop they could have done better.

Another thing I liked was it didn't do that cartoony thing of a bad guy getting hit, shot, blown up etc and they just shake their heads and get up. "Phew, they weren't really hurt".

Nope, when one of the Rebels blasted a Stormtrooper in this, then that was it, they were going to join the force ;-)

Also the Force was the OT Force, not the PT Force yay!

Also forgot to mention the design and look. It looks like it takes place in the Star Wars universe, the ships, "props", costumes, locations, "sets" all look the part. Again kinda surprising that it's taken 3 decades to make something that does that.

(Although a few short videogame FMVs in the 90s did a bang up job on this front too)

On the subject of desert stuff filmed in the same place. Isn't there a Mr Show sketch spoofing Jesus Christ Superstar in the desert?

Ah yes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxfxfh9w44g

Just watched the first part. I'll avoid any kind of spoilers...

First things first, the animation is indeed terrible, amateurish, floaty, overdone, underdone, uninspired etc. However, everything else is soooo right that that first major flaw is quite easy to overlook.

It only took 31 years but finally somebody has made a film/video that actually felt like honest to goodness Star Wars. You care about the characters, the story, the stakes and the drama. It's got blaster shootouts, dogfights, last-minute-escapes and danger. After watching, it seemed easy and obvious: Just take all the good things about the OT and then make a show featuring them. Maybe it just took GL not being in the way to do this seemingly simple thing.

When one of the characters pulls out a certain thing towards the end it felt like something special and epic. I was so pumped by the end that when a certain other character from the OT uttered a certain 3 word refrence back to the OT, I suddenly surprised myself and shoved my fist in the air and shouted "Yes!".

I cannot wait to see more of this show and if the ST is even just a little better than this then I'll be happy.

(Oh and no crawl, there's always fanedits)

^ YESSSS!!! The worst Witch was the f**king sh*t yo! Harry Potter stole all her moves.

Somebody should PM DominicCobb, I think he is the only OT.com member with the credentials to look into this coin mystery.

Possessed said:

TV's Frink said:

Because?

 I want it to fall and it never does.

It falls when I watch it. Are you sure you aren't still in the dream?

lovelikewinter said:

The Disney Store has a great Chewbacca plush for about $20.  Its 18 inches. There is also a TaunTaun and Wampa.  

 Thanks. Oddly I didn't think of the Disney store. It's very hard to navigate. Still they've got Darth Vader PJs for 2 year olds. Come to think of it, he enjoyed waving round a lightsaber that another kid had at a wedding a few months ago, so that might be the obvious choice :-)

If it's available where you live... part one of Neil Brand's 3-part doc on the history of film music is available on BBC iPlayer...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03b45h4/sound-of-cinema-the-music-that-made-the-movies-1-the-big-score

This part covered big orchestral scores, so naturally it touches on the influence of Star Wars and in turn Korngold's influence on it. Well worth a watch. I didn't remember seeing the footage of JW conducting along to the B&W workprint of ESB but I probably have seen it somewhere before in the dim past.

Capaldi on Graham Norton tonight, 10.35 BBC1 (Plus somebody called Denzel Washington)

To slightly take my own thread off-topic...

I've got a 2-year-old-ish nephew with Christmas/Birthday approaching and I was thinking "What better time to indoctrinate him early into Star Wars!" with the new films coming next year :-)

So I was looking around for what kind of '2-3 year old' merch was available. This 9" 'talking' Chewbacca plush seemed the best bet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtDh9MuGATY

It seems have been recently repackaged with non-PT artwork which is nice.

Any other suggestions? Something that will be in the ST (So not Yoda for example)