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Originally posted by: sean wookie

Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
In FFX there was more time in between random battles

Originally posted by: Fang Zei
He saw ROTS about a week or so after I did and his first comments to me were "Oh my God, Oh my God, it actually felt like Star Wars!" Several months later he'd refer to that comment as a false alarm and say he'd had more fun watching "The Aviator."

I know exactly what your friend went through. The first time I saw RotS, I thought that it was great and thought that it might have saved the PT. I desperately wanted to have the PT to be good and to have a decent Star Wars “saga.” But, upon reflection, when the newness wore off, its flaws began standing out to me. Then, when I heard that those damn 2004 DVDs were all that we were going to ever have of the original films (which are the true films), I decided to reject the whole damn thing. To me Star Wars is bigger than George Lucas’ revisionism.




Heh, a good friend of mine compared the SEs and the PT to George over mixing chocolate/vanilla swirl ice cream until the swirl is gone. Though I don’t believe that George Lucas simply diminished the saga, the worst part was how he added crap that totally conflicted with what had come before. Stuff that nobody was asking for or could have ever wanted.


Originally posted by: vote_for_palpatine
But because Lucas chose to go down this road, there's no easy way to have a discussion about the material. You have to identify which camp you're in and by the time you've spent energy and time defending your stance, you don't really feel like discussing the content very much.

Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
I just can't stand random battles every five steps. That's not fun; it is tedious.

Originally posted by: sean wookie
No I really think there is too much of a age difference. She is a freshman and I'm a senior. I don't think she likes me that way either.

Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Final Fantasy X is a good game. It redesigns a LOT about the Final Fantasy system--no over-world, and the battle system now takes place based on turn progression instead of whoever gets their little meter charged up first. There's a lot of strategery to it, and the game isn't as ridiculously unbalanced as the older games.

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Hehe, I just found this video:

Mosquito

Originally posted by: C3PX
Is it because she is so annoying and always gets stuck making it really hard to get through a level, or because of some scene in the game?

Originally posted by: C3PX
Hmm, I looked into the whole Bilbo and dragon thing a little more. Actually that whole sequence is very similar to parts of Beowulf. Tolkien borrowed plenty of things from plenty of different myths and legends. I think he would actually be proud that new writers and borrowing from the legend he wrote.

Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
In all fainess i think J.K. Rowling is a hack i mean I read some of the first book and the writing was fairly juvenile and derivative and ripped off of tolkien very badly in some obvious places. I think it's funny because I saw an interview with her on t.v. where she does even try to disguise that she ripped off tolkien heck she said she read those when she was a kid. the fact that she intirely plagiarised one of my favorite moments in the hobbit the one between bilbo and smaug the dragon in the first potter book told me this book belonged thrown in the trash.

What?

I'm a huge fan of the Hobbit and of the Harry Potter series and I have no idea what you're talking about.

As for Rowling's skills as a writer, she's a very good communicator, her world is logically coherent, and best of all she has a good sense of humor. Just what were you wanting exactly?


Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
I do like how It incorreges listeracy in the young people of the world though especially children even though I find it to be lacking in most points as a piece of fiction. It incorreges young peope to dream and teaches them values myths etc yada, yada yada.