Tyrphanax

Tobar said:

Tyrphanax said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Ah, but you can't have thousands of Sith with thousands of red lightsabers running around in a PT/OT setting, can you? That pesky Rule of Two gets in the way.

SWG didn't seem to have a problem with it.

Though they should have just forgone Jedi as a class altogether.

 SWG would have been perfect if set post-ROTJ. That way you could have your stupid Jedi class and even be trained by Master Skywalker himself. But nooooooo, we need the Emperor, Vader and Jabba alive!

I agree. So many great storylines they could have used.

Ah well.

Cthulhunicron said:

....which still kind of strikes me as pretty bad writing. 

That's kinda the hallmark of the PT.

I assume that Grievous did not know, because I always saw Grievous as a lesser figure in the Separatist movement than Dooku, and I figure that Palps would want to keep his identity as secret as possible.

It allows for a lot of maneuverability without any extra strain on the pilot, as well. Rolls suddenly become pretty effortless, since most Rebel fighters have artificial gravity.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Ah, but you can't have thousands of Sith with thousands of red lightsabers running around in a PT/OT setting, can you? That pesky Rule of Two gets in the way.

SWG didn't seem to have a problem with it.

Though they should have just forgone Jedi as a class altogether.

Yeah, I remember following TOR's development and being annoyed that they chose to mirror the styles and design motifs of the galaxy some four thousand years later so closely. It wasn't even that similar to the KOTOR stuff from only a few centuries or so before.

If they wanted to make it look like a a PT/OT game, they should have just made a PT/OT game.

doubleofive said:

Yay, my asterisks in poster form!

Oh yeah! I forgot to credit you with those. Sorry!

Wolfman said:

Awesome work.

I was thinking. How about, at the top of the OT.com webpage there was a banner link over to SaveStarWars.com. That way any casual viewer to this website may click the link. As this site has such close ties to SaveStarWars, could this be an idea? Get the word out there as this site is always in the top searches if someone was to google star wars original trilogy.

What do you think. Yes/no/not possible ?

I think this is a pretty good idea.

Yeah, it's actually a bit shocking to look back at those and think about how bleak things looked around this time last year.

And now here we are in the rebirth of the Original Trilogy era. I think the message is still important, but things are so much more hopeful now.

So I remember a thread floating around awhile back, featuring some neat Save Star Wars.com logos done by none and Anchorhead for stickers and buttons and whatnot.

I took this idea and ran with it. Ran pretty far, in fact. Maybe got a bit nuts.

To that end, I took all the logos and retraced them as vectors and using very high-rez poster art for use at crazy resolutions and made posters out of them!

The ones in the link there are pretty low-resolution, considering I made them in the standard 27x40 one-sheet poster size at 300dpi so they would be suitable for printing.

I'm pretty pleased with how they came out. The design is all modular, so it can be used with all kinds of different text, images, et cetera. They're also really late, considering I finished them last year, but hey that's life.

Let me know what you all think!

Man, that's sad. I hope he's okay. At that age, those kinds of things can really screw you over mobility-wise. Our heroes are getting old. =(

C3PX said:

Vaderisnothayden said:

I suspect that if ROTJ was less triumphant and more downery it might get more respect.

 

You might be right about that. I can't even remember how many times I have heard people say the movie would have been better had Han (or Lando) died at the end. Really don't see how that would improve anything though.

When I was a kid I definitely considered ROTJ as my second favorite SW film. It wasn't until I was older that I began to notice some of the silliness. The first thing that hit me as I started to get older, is how dumb it was that the Ewoks with there sticks and stones are able to beat these armed men in heavy armor. I like the idea of a small group defeating overwhelming odds using guerrilla tactics. But when you start to think about these guys in heavy armor getting knocked out (or possibly killed) by a stone being shot out of a sling, or by being beaten on with wooden sticks, it has a sort of Magical World of Disney quality to it. Like the little kid who managed to defend his house from the mofia by using suctioncup arrows and marbles or some crap like that. It is fun stuff for kids, but there is not much of a lasting appeal as you get older. 

I always loved the ROTJ space battle, and the final saber duel is one of my favorite moments from any SW film (though Vader losing his robotic hand was not near as cool as when Luke lost his real hand).

Hasbro released a Bespin Luke figure that has a removable hand. I was a bit old for action figures when it came out, but I still couldn't help but buy it. When you remove his hand, it makes a cool "pop!" sound. Love that thing. I bought a Vader with a removable hand and mask to go along with it. If I had had those things when I was a kid, I am sure I would have had hours of great fun making them mutilate each other. Closest thing to that I had as a kid was a Threepio that had arms and legs that came off, and after I used him a good bit, I couldn't get one of his legs to stay on, thing was always falling off.

I have a Jango Fett whose head pops off. It has a little magnet inside. I think there might also have been a Threepio that you could take the arm off of, too.

I think a fun Star Wars figure collection would be to just buy the figures that you can pops the limbs off of.

Glad to see the choice of directors so far. Lots of hope.

This is pretty dumb.

Nobody dies on the seventh episode of Top Gear.

You can't flim-flom the Zam Som.

Why the long nose?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

DrCrowTStarwars said:

I don't mind SEs as long as the originals are still out there.  it's why I don't mind the HD versions of TOS or the EEs of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films,so I have no problem with this.

Yeah, this was my line of thought about it.

The Anniversary Edition is, for all intents and purposes, the same as the Star Wars Trilogy's SE, only less egregious because you can still access the original edition - at the simple push of a button, no less. Would if we had that same ability with the SE. I certainly would enjoy the SE a lot more if I could just press a button and see the original film.

If they were changing the graphics permanently and not allowing you to play the original version, then I'd be upset.

It's because Vader built Chewbacca when he was a child.

I hate to pick nits, but the name is "Vader", sans "i".

I believe that Bingowings gave a pretty satisfactory answer here. Likely a mixture of truth serum and a mixture of Force and technological probing.

Are you cheating on a test?

DuracellEnergizer said:

I may have mentioned this before, and maybe not, but I loathe how current writers of the EU would bring back old characters and so forth from the earlier EU -- the Marvel comics, the newspaper strip, the Brian Daley novels, etc. -- only to rape them into fitting the modern canon and their own garbage stories.

They did this with Jango Fett's sister. She was presumably murdered by the Death Watch in Open Seasons, and then showed up later as some insane prisoner/assassin. Thanks, Karen Traviss, for dredging up a lame background character that had served her purpose and nobody cared about purely so you could shoehorn her into a story for no real reason but to namedrop Jango.

"I can't remember to forget you." - Shakira.

Tobar said:

Which is why I'm SO looking forward to Alien: Isolation!

Yeah buddy!

Olde Wan is my favourite new poster.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I personally would have liked Aliens better if most the soldiers hadn't been colossal douchebags and the xenomorphs themselves had been depicted as possibly sentient creatures rather than as giant, instinct-driven bugs.

Well, I don't mind the soldiers so much as I always saw them as an analogy for the hubris of man and all that rubbish, how bravado is insufficient in the face of a true threat and blah blah blah.

But the xenomorphs were just kneecapped by the script and they lost a lot of their threat. It was a great movie and I love it, but I think it really hurt the franchise.

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