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Mrebo said:

I don't see Lando as "kill the black guy" as much as "kill a lead character", to the point originally made - to establish some level of sacrifice for the good guys, for the sake of creating an element of danger for the characters, and risk for the audience that someone we have grown to care about, regardless of skin pigmentation, might die on screen.

Nonetheless, the only prominent black person in the OT would have been quickly killed, as has happened in so many other sci fi works. And ultimately it simply isn't any kind of flaw to not kill the main characters. I think conveying the sense of risk is always done before a character does or does not die.

 I think it was in an interview with author Matthew Stover that he said, (and I paraphrase) if you can't make dramatic tension without killing the main characters, you're a crummy writer.

Perhaps I'm not clear.

We WANT them to re-do the SFX form TNG and Bab5?

I thought this website is against that type of thing?

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Betty

pittrek said:

Well TNG is my personal favourite of all Trek shows, so it's great news for me :-) I bought recently the TOS boxset and I love it

 My favorite Trek as well. I just meant I assumed that we'd get it sooner or later.

Yay I guess.

TV's Frink said:

TheBoost said:

I'm firewalled and cant read the blog in the OP. Anybody feel like cutting/pasting it?

Thanks Frink. You're OK, I don't care what everyone says about you. :)

Some of this is opinion, and if I disagree with it I don't necessarily think it's silly. Much is very good points. But since this is a nit picky message board, let me pick some nits.

VADER: Okay, even in the context of all 6 movies, When, where, and how did Luke sense some good in Vader? What actions were taken that demonstrate this innate sense of good?

That's the whole point. ONLY Luke senses it. Not Yoda, not Ben, not me or you. Only Luke has what it takes to redeem Vader. And he's right.

Han Solo in this movie is unmotivated, poorly acted, and completely inconsistent with anything ever this guy has done in the 2 previous movies.

I disagree with inconsistent. I say he's changed. They came back for him. I don't think Han Solo ever said "I owe you one" to anyone in his life before ROTJ. Han is now a team player, someone willing to volunteer to help the Rebellion and I think for the first time, he's someone deeply in love.

toho-scope said:

fish

the wizard of oz or gone with the wind?

 Gone With the Wind. Rhett Butler rules!

Chemical Castration or Being fed to a Sarlac?

So I started goofing around with where and how exactly deleted scenes and shots could be reinserted in the space battle over Endor.

My first attempt is the Falcon gunners. But it seems that both gunners, young gunner, particuarly, are speaking. To get the most out of them they should be dubbed. Any ideas what lines they should be saying?

adywan said:

If the slow motion was a technical error then the lightsabres would have been animated differently in every frame to give the slow motion effect, but they aren't , so the way the slow motion happens with frames repeated is intentional and therefore i will not be doing anything to change this effect.

 As always, it's your baby, but I for one am glad about this decision.

Moth3r said:

This has been posted a dozen times before, but here are 10 Reasons Return of the Jedi Doesn't Completely Suck. 

 Pity that almost every point the dude makes has a little snarky backhanded diss of the film.

I'm firewalled and cant read the blog in the OP. Anybody feel like cutting/pasting it?

Bingowings said:

Can it be reversed?

Does it have damaging side effects?

I ask because should a miscarriage of justice occur (and they frequently do) and this be done on an innocent person how would you compensate them if they are screwed up by this procedure?

Also the link between sex drive and child abuse has not be proved.

It could create an impression of safety which may not exist.

 +1

play up the DIGGER in your name.

bkev said:

Lex Luthor! Sure the camp isn't what his character is supposed to be but I can enjoy it nonetheless as a different take.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or James and the Giant Peach?

 James and the Giant Peach!

Novelizations of films or film adaptations of novels?

X-Men United 93

Dr. Doolittle Shop of Horrors

TV's Frink said:

New comments on the article...

anders :
2011-09-25 22:22:14

All you azzholes at ot.com should stop trying to negate his work, because it's not going to have much weight outside your classless website.

— maddog

Just the other day their administrator refreshed AM's thread, which had been closed for over 2 years! Everyone knows that posting to such an ancient thread is normally discouraged by moderators, which I think shows very nicely how desperate and irritated they are over there. The OT website is obsessed with AM and at the same time frustrated that he ignores them and won't mingle.

We're obsessed because one of several hundred active threads is about this dude... and yet 2/3 of their entire forum, which only amounts to about a dozen threads, is about OT.com, FE.org and how much those (five) guys at antimatter's site hate them.

Dont recall anything specific, but Neeson said a lot of Jedi-ish things when he did Qui Gon in the "Clone Wars" cartoon.

xhonzi said:

TheBoost said:

xhonzi said:

doubleKO said:

Harry Potter and Romancing the Philosopher's Stone

(or Harry Potter and Romancing the Sorceror's Stone for the US ;)

Because no one in the US knew what a philosopher's stone was but we all knew what a sorcerer's stone.  *eyeroll*

 I think it had more to do with that, if you aren't familiar with the Philosopher's Stone from mythology, the word "philosopher" in a children's adventure film book title might have been off putting to American children but not international (esp British) children.

Fixed?

 Maybe if this was the BOOK Before and After thread, Mr. Smarty-pants.

Casper the Friendly Ghost and the Darkness

Baby's Day Out of Africa

xhonzi said:

doubleKO said:

Harry Potter and Romancing the Philosopher's Stone

(or Harry Potter and Romancing the Sorceror's Stone for the US ;)

Because no one in the US knew what a philosopher's stone was but we all knew what a sorcerer's stone.  *eyeroll*

 I think it had more to do with that, if you aren't familiar with the Philosopher's Stone from mythology, the word "philosopher" in a children's adventure film title might have been off putting.

Too confusing. Reboot.

Coffee mug filled with tea or tea cup filled with coffee?

My two cents.

Sounds like a lot of fun.

Anything that has Boba Fett in it feels to me like EU Fanwank. He had cool armor. He did very little. He died. The end.

How many? If the sequels are going to happen 30-40 years after ROTJ, considering that Luke is been trained in about 5 years (not true, I know, just some weeks in 4 years period, but it's just to make it simple) and assuming he has started training someone just after ROTJ, we will have 2 Jedi 5 years after ROTJ. And if both of them are going to immediately train someone else, we will have 4 Jedi in 10 years. Continuing, 16 in 15 years, 32 in 20, 64 in 25, 128 in 30, 256 in 35, 512 in 40 and go on.

I'm not sure that every Jedi will immediatly be ready and able to go out and train (and also FIND someone capable) another Jedi every five years.

I think logically (given how important Luke was as a potential Jedi) the numbers would be much lower. Also, dramatically an order of maybe a couple dozen full Jedi (some die, some didn't find apprentices or didn't have the inclination) and a few apprentices of varying ages would be more interesting than a huge order like the PT had.

Jewel of the Nile Be Home For Christmas

Daredevil's Own

Captain EO Brother Where Art Thou

TV's Frink said:

Commentary! The Musical

Human or Centipede?

 

 Centipede. My favorite character in James and the Giant Peach.

Soup of the Day, or House Dressing?