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At least there's some humor there. I'd rather watch two hours of that than Nemesis ever again.

You're telling me you think something like THIS is better than that?

The most important thing people forget is that Vader wanted them to escape. So the Stormtroopers were under orders to make a show of trying to capture them but allowing them ultimately to get away so that they can be tracked back to the Rebel Base.

Stormtroopers are no joke, we're told what crack shots they are and are given evidence of such. They were able to disable an enormous Sandcrawler with a few precisely aimed shots. And lets not forget what happened to Uncle Own and Aunt Beru.

In ESB they completely decimate the Hoth base. A base considerably better protected than the older Yavin one.

Ugh, how I loathe the Vong and the whole NJO. Instead of making them some stupid extragalactic threat, they should have come from the Unknown Regions. A vast interplanetary kingdom hitherto unknown to the greater galaxy until the invasion.

I haven't seen any of his episodes, I'm only up to the Third Doctor. He just has a face I want to punch.

I don't understand their complaint. Whenever I saw the last guy I had an uncontrollable urge to punch him in the face.

Speaking as someone who lives in Phoenix, that's not going to stop my local movie goers. Heck, winter is when we're the most active in general.

SilverWook said:

And with people buying advance tickets on the interwebs these days, will we ever stand in huge lines like that ever again?

 Large lines are pretty much a weekly occurrence nowadays. Every Thursday college kids and geeks crowd theaters to catch the midnight release of whatever the blockbuster of the week is.

Every once in a while there'll be a really big one like a Hunger Games and the line will spiral around the building. Episode VII is going to be HUGE.

Does anyone know where this footage originated from?

Doesn't look like the Behind the Magic CD-ROM as I don't recall it having behind the scenes footage like that. Guy says the whole thing is 12 minutes long.

Is that Marsha Lucas in that one shot?

Uh huh...

The one place on the internet where people treat curating the EU like it's a career: Wookieepedia.

The existence of the "True Sith" has caused some confusion with their placement in the canonical timeline of galactic chronology. When Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords was first released, the establishment of the Old Sith Empire was believed to have taken place circa 25,000 BBY. Additionally, the beginning of the "True Sith"'s existence was fixed as being approximately "tens of thousands of years" in the past. In 2005, however, the establishment of the Old Sith Empire was retconned to have happened around 6900 BBY, which presented a new divide in the historical placement of the two groups, and indeed in the very nature of the Sith themselves.

Later, it was discovered that, after the Sith King Adas died while driving the Rakata from Korriban in 27,700 BBY, the Sith species possessed the technology to relocate themselves to nearby planets, creating the region known as Sith Space and the earliest Sith Empire.

DuracellEnergizer said:

and now the Jedi are depicted as wielding archaic lightsabers as long ago as 7000 BBY, with the first Sith Lords even depicted as wielding modern lightsabers.

 Their outfits are prequel inspired, but they definitely still have the power pak and cable:

Your name is more than appropriate. =P

There's no way they could get away with that. The tape masters for B5 look terrible! The series needs what TOS and TNG are getting. But I dunno if the original film elements even still exist.

They do use swords. Their enemies are the ones with Forcesabers. They just fill the covers with Forcesabers because they look flashier.

You should actually give the series a go before passing judgement on it.

Vozlov said:

The largest problem with Anakin building C3PO is the fact that in the OT we see multiple droids that are the same make as C3PO.

Which means that either Anakin Skywalker designed an entire type of droid that would be the pinnacle of protocol droids for decades, or that he was exaggerating when he said he built it, and in fact only put it together from spare parts of other protocol droids. That were conveniently lying around Tatooine and that were the pinnacle of protocol droids for decades.

 wat.

He never said nor is it hinted that he designed 3PO. He rebuilt a protocol droid out of scrap he'd been smuggling out of Watto's junkyard.

That the 3PO model is old enough to be found in a junkyard is where I had issues with it.

Wannabe Scholar said:

• The weird stuff happening in the Dawn of the Jedi comics (lightsabers during the founding of the Jedi?)

 Those are actually Forcesabers. Lightsabers do not appear in the Dawn of the Jedi series.

He's heaped more criticism toward it than praise if anything.

Sure he cribbed the name Coruscant from Zahn for the Galactic capital and incorporated a comic book character into the prequels.

But he's gone on record before about how they got everything after ROTJ all wrong.

Nowhere does it say he was fired. He left because he didn't want to play ball with the MCU.

Harmy said:

Well, again, you take one bit of a good post and ignore the rest - he compared Ady's work to modernising a classic work of art like Mona Lisa to today's standards of beauty, which I think is a perfect analogy - it could be a fun little experiment but it sure as hell shouldn't be considered the new definitive version of Mona Lisa.

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

Wow. Fox finally got their crap together. This movie was exactly what this franchise needed. I'm actually looking forward to the next one.

A glimpse at what could have been...

m_s0 said:

timdiggerm said:

m_s0 said:

On the other hand, Whitta's track record is downright horrifying to me.

Two whole films is not quite enough of a track record, particularly when one of them is known as decent and the other was probably terrible because it was a Jaden Smith vehicle.

It's not just those two. Prey is easily the best out of the three, but it still isn't very good. I have no interest in The Walking Dead, though, so I've got no clue as to how those games turned out. Maybe that's where he shines. I hope.

 His work on The Walking Dead was excellent.

BREAKING NEWS:

GARETH EDWARDS AND GARY WHITTA ONBOARD FOR STAR WARS STAND-ALONE FILM

In addition to the episodes of a new Star Wars trilogy, Lucasfilm and Disney have begun development on multiple stand-alone movies that will offer new stories beyond the core Saga. Gareth Edwards will direct the first stand-alone film, with a screenplay by Gary Whitta. The film is due out December 16, 2016.

Gareth Edwards blazed into the filmmaking forefront with his acclaimed work on Monsters, a film he wrote, directed and served on as cinematographer and visual effects artist. The skill and vision readily apparent in Monsters earned him the high-profile spot directing this year's smash hit Godzilla.

"Ever since I saw Star Wars I knew exactly what I wanted to do for the rest of my life -- join the Rebel Alliance! I could not be more excited and honored to go on this mission with Lucasfilm," said Edwards.

Gary Whittas screenwriting credits include 2010's The Book of Eli starring Denzel Washington. He is also well known as a journalist and editor in the video game industry, as well as part of the BAFTA award-winning team on Telltale Games adaptation of The Walking Dead.

Whitta states, "From the moment I first saw the original movie as a wide-eyed kid, Star Wars has been the single most profound inspiration to my imagination and to my career as a writer. It is deeply special to me,so to be given the opportunity to contribute to its ongoing legacy, especially in collaboration with a film-maker as talented as Gareth, is literally a dream come true. I'm still pinching myself."