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Tallguy said:

So, if that's the rebel cave that the Falcon just flew out of, doesn't that mean that Darth Vader is RIGHT THERE?

Nah. There was a cave-in and Han took Leia to the other hanger where the Falcon was, not where the transports were.

Let's hope that in ESB:R adywan decides to return the TIE fighters to their original glorious maroon!

"Interplanet Janet" from School House Rocks.

Ziz said:

Mine is a portion of my last name.  Real first name is John.  In high school, we had about four Johns in the class so everyone - including ourselves - took to calling us by our last names or some variation thereof, mostly out of necessity to avoid confusion over who someone was talking to or about.  It stuck.

 Waitasec! Johnny Zizheimer?? From Mountainside High? Wow, small world! It's me, Jon Hagenboost. How are you?

Do you still talk to John-John Bingowingstein or John Jeditrayson? I wonder what happened to those dudes.

Anchorhead said:

My point;  While the zombie angle isn't my thing, it's nice to see a story outside of the tired Empire\Sith Lords\Dark Side\Jedi Knights\Boba Fett universe. The franchise has gone to that well far too often.

They don't just GO to the well, it IS the well, and they're swimming in it.

Nothing to see here.

doubleofive said:

Mine is from a group my friends made in high school, back when everyone was obsessed with GoldenEye 64. We all picked numbers, I got 005. When I wanted to change my lame first.last@juno.com email address (to give you an idea of how long ago this was), it hit me to spell it out. I've used it for everything ever since.

 And here I was thinking your name was "Double Of Ive" as in you looked a lot like Alan Iverson. Silly me.

I want the Green Lantern suit if it comes with the magic ring or not. It looks sharp. But since I'm a little heavy round the middle these days, I would have to be the Green Lantern who wears the vest, not the spandex.

No doubt "Starship Troopers."

I watched that movie probably 4-5 times a week for most of the four years I was in college.

Ripplin said:

^Isn't something "ridiculously untrue" a lie? ;)

Tallguy said:

I got about ten minutes into the commentary for Star Wars before Lucas said something ridiculously untrue

The Golden Idol said:

R.I.P. Irvin Kershner, thank you so much for The Empire Strikes Back. :'(

 

Tallguy said:

I got about ten minutes into the commentary for Star Wars before Lucas said something ridiculously untrue and I stopped.  It never occurred to me to listen to the other commentary tracks.  Now I'll have to.  For Kersh.

 

Out of curiosity, what was it that Lucas said?

I'm more curious how Lucas made it 10 minutes without lying.

That one song by "New Radicals."

I've always hated that song. And the band. And that singers stupid hat. But mainly it's the childlike obsession with being "real" not "fake" that grates on me.

Just finished this EU novel.

A very odd duck it is. I figured it would be a SW novel with some horror elements. It’s written like a horror novel first, a SW novel second.

The horror didn’t always work for me, but it sure was visceral. Frankly, any SW book that isn’t primarily about Jedi and long didactic discussions of good/evil is a plus in my book. In fact, it had NO Jedi, which makes it a recent favorite.

All and all, I liked it quite a bit. Wish it had been titled “Han Solo and the Ship of The Living Dead”

I always remember how much FUN he sounded like he was having doing commentary for the ESB DVD.

A remix of some song by rap artist 50 Cents to a beat sampled extensively from "Bohemian Rhapsody."

Actually quite interesting.

Akwat Kbrana said:

The "luring the Death Star into a trap" rationale works except for one small quibble: the Death Star plans had NOT been analyzed yet. Leia didn't know whether or not there was a weakness in the DS that they could exploit. Remember this?

... ...

Dramatically and cinematically, it works. But it makes no logical sense whatsoever.

I disagree. Given that the Death Star was about to be the ULTIMATE POWER IN THE UNIVERSE and give the Empire unlimited authority through unimaginable fear, I think the Rebellion was going to have to fight it anyway, convienient weakness or not.

If they didn't, it was over for the Rebellion anyways.

Sluggo said:

TheBoost said:

I mean, all the horrible things that I, sluggo, adywan, and the notorious BingoWings have apparently done (and should be ashamed of)

Hey, I'm trying to stay out of this mess. 

Too late. You're on the "Be Ashamed of Yourself" list. There is no hope.

Bingowings said:

If you cut out the middle men whatever gets paid ends up in your collection tin without having to give over the major chunk to a corporate fat cat.

So while it might take time it's pretty likely that at the least you will make your money back.

Has there ever been any successful examples of depending on fan generosity?

The only example that's even similar that I can think of was "Dr. Horrible's Blog" and that was produced by a group that already had a huge following from real media. It also was only available for free for a short time.

Idealism aside, a business model that depends on a small percentage of rabid fans to be willing to pay more than the entertainment is worth in order to cover for the countless hordes of thieves strikes me as unlikely to work well.

generalfrevious said:

And then Leia threatens the Rebellion by leading the Death Star to the Rebel base, as many like to bitch about.

They had an army ready to mobilize waiting as soon as they got the plans. I don't see any problem at all.

While I wish that no one had bad feelings towards each other, and in a perfect world all projects announced (including mine) would be finished and available to all, but didn't Tray get the boot for continually deleting his posts? 

I mean, all the horrible things that I, sluggo, adywan, and the notorious BingoWings have apparently done (and should be ashamed of) really have no bearing on Tray's banning or lack of reinstatement.

Bingowings said:

They let the Rebels go it's the only explanation for the ease of their escape.

Seriously. The answer is in the movie like 6 minutes later.

Bingowings said:

If now fan film makers and fan editors got together with some up and coming writing and acting talent and produced a few cracking good original mini-series and offered them for download with an honesty box donation collection the middle-man could be cut out entirely.

Yeah, but don't fans just love stealing?

Didn't the "Humble Indie Bundle" of games let fans pick a price, and most fans paid somewhere between jack and shit, and even with a minimum price of one cent, over 25% of fans pirated it anyways?

xhonzi said:

 It seems that the Original Star Trek had pretty darn good production values back in the day. 

While it was no cheap-o show, TOS did cut a lot of corners.

My favorite is the half-black/half-white episode with Frank Gorshim, where they have an invisible starship.

Has there ever been a time when good Sci-Fi was on TV with any regularity?

Now seems to have about the same as most other times. Stargate still has a spinoff, "V" is back on, we have Doctor Who, SyFy has a couple shows that look decent, and theres a lot of hype for Terranova, some new show about time travel.

EDIT
I never saw them, but aren't "Flashforward" and "The Event" major network sci-fi?

This shit is just plain goofy.