Tyrphanax

Yeah, I skip the lame "May the Fourth be with you" thing. It's just Star Wars day to me.

Tobar said:

Tyrphanax said:

Frantically trying to finish my senior project by the end of the 5th so I can graduate university.

I should put on some Star Wars jams.

 I got you covered bud!

 This is amazing.

Tobar said:

Bob Iger just tweeted this photo from the VII set:

It's honest to goodness REAL CHEWIE! (Accept no ROTS substitutes!)

There is no way to express how excited I am now!!!!

SO AWESOME! AHHHH!

Frantically trying to finish my senior project by the end of the 5th so I can graduate university.

I should put on some Star Wars jams.

Tobar said:

So this premiered today. Great set and creatures...but pretty bland overall. Until that last audition anyway. =P

 Hah!

DominicCobb said:

The idea of Leia as a villain is just too silly for me to take seriously. So I'll say no to that one.

I'm hoping the villain isn't a Sith. I posted my thoughts on this a long time ago, though I don't think it was in this thread. Assuming there's a Jedi Academy, I'd like the villain to be a rogue Jedi of sorts who teams up with some other bad dude and they do only vaguely bad things. Let's have some shades of gray (not fifty though).

I feel like Luke's era of Jedi is (or should be, from everything seen in ESB and ROTJ) a lot more "gray". I think that his triumph was showing stuffy old Ben and Yoda that they were wrong about what being a Jedi was all about and how the Force worked, and I'd be really surprised (and very grumpy) to see Luke being a stuffy monk like the PT Jedi.

Of course, Luke's teaching style might be a little too liberal, which perhaps leads one of his pupils to step just a little too far across the line...

timdiggerm said:

Tobar said:

There are rumors that Ardnt is actually secretly working on the script for VIII now.

 That would make a lot of sense.

Script not thrown out, but decided to be more suited to the second episode of the ST, perhaps?

I honestly always thought of Boba as the kind of "Last of the Mandalorians". It never really registered to me that he wasn't one at all.

imperialscum said:

.Mac. said:

Anyway, imagine if Kershner returned to do ROTJ following after his successful ESB...

I highly doubt ROTJ would be much different film in its core. After all it was still Lucas who was creative director behind ESB and ROTJ.

But now that Lucas isn't actively involved any more, the films could be quite different with different director. So in this respect I agree with you that it might be better to keep one director throughout the ST, if EP7 doesn't suck of course.

I partially agree with this, because with Lucas wanting to take back the reigns after the over budget ESB and Kersh wanting to do what he wanted to do, clashes would have happened and Lucas would either have retreated to sulk (good film) or, more likely, would have sacked Kersh and done his own thing (similar film or worse than now).

TV's Frink said:

Before I'm accused of hypocrisy, I should point out that I find most of the Star Wars discussion here quite boring as well.

But you guys who think HotRod was the rude one, I'm at a loss for words.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure HotRod was just venting frustration about an annoying coworker who didn't seem to own headphones, and I totally understand his frustration because I totally know how it is to have to listen to someone droning on and on about stuff you're just not interested in.

My only issue with the whole debacle was what Tobar brought up: the weird cliquishness (even though I'm sure most of the OT.com people were just bored and trolling as usual because lol making people madbro) and the lack of tolerance of fellow nerds with different interests.

I'm sure just about 80% of the people I know in real life would rather put a bullet in their own heads than have me put on an episode of the hypothetical Adywan's Revisited Podcast where he talks about the minute differences only people who have watched Star Wars frame-by-frame would ever notice* and how he fixed them, and just about 90% of the people I know are Star Wars fans. Just like I'd rather put a bullet in my head than listen to some weeaboo blather on and on about whatever anime is popular right now.

I don't mean that we should all hold hands and sing kumbaya and love each other as brothers, I don't even think you need to respect what they like, but I feel like we should all be able to identify with the fact that they're obsessed with their stuff like we're obsessed with preserving a forty-year-old film; I mean, if nothing else we're in a glass house swinging on a wrecking ball like Miley Cyrus.

*As a note, my original example was "a hypothetical OT.com podcast where darklordoftech talks about why the Sith suck for hours on end" but I'm pretty sure that would cause suicidal tendencies in anyone.

I just type everything into the address bar.

Perhaps Frink already has some colonic blockage? =P

RicOlie_2 said:

Tyrphanax said:

RicOlie_2 said:

Isaac Asimov is far from obscure. :)

 That's the joke.

 Your post was hard to interpret over the internet. It didn't seem very joking...

Apologies: the internet is a really shit platform for the subtleties of the language...

I just felt he deserved some mocking for acting like he was the only person in the world who knew what true Sci-Fi is.

RicOlie_2 said:

Isaac Asimov is far from obscure. :)

 That's the joke.

Yeah, I got the feeling it was written more so if the movie is bad he can point back to it and say "SEE GUYS I TOLD YOU SO."

SilverWook said:

Every party needs a pooper.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/02/opinion/beale-star-wars/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

What a maroon!

"Hey everyone, look how cool I am for having an unpopular opinion about something popular! Man, I wish people knew what REAL Sci-Fi was so I could have some people on my own (very high) intellectual level to talk about Asimov and other awesome obscure authors with instead of these moronic plebs with their Star Wars. God. It's so hard to be the coolest and smartest person ever."

What a hacky pile of written masturbation. I had to quit reading before I cut myself on all that edge. I can still hear him tipping his fedora from here.

Discuss.

darklordoftech said:

Battle of Coruscant instead of Battle of Endor. That way we would see the Empire's death.

 This suggestion would have the best impact on the OT. Really.

Tobar said:

There's no evidence that he "mobilized" anyone. Did people from his site come here? Yes. Is the only explanation for that, that he made a call to action to come over here and show us what for? No. It's just as likely that he vented about it on twitter or wherever and they found their own way over here.

There were only maybe two antagonistic people from his camp. The rest came in here explaining why they're into WoW or asking why we can't get along. Meanwhile, C3PX kept trying to stir the pot and insulting everyone.

What it boils down to is this. Originaltrilogy.com is a community. Fanedit.org is a community. WoW is a community. People meet, bond, even marry thanks to that game. So of course there are going to be things like fansites and *gasp* even podcasts about this thing that millions of people have gotten a lot of satisfaction out of.

I've never spent a second of my life playing WoW but I can respect those that do.

Well said.

Now get your ass to Mars... for a colonoscopy.

I know OT.com aren't his biggest fans (and I wouldn't have found this had someone not linked it to me), but this is an important thing to bring up for everyone.

Luckily they caught it early and it hopefully shouldn't be a serious thing, but it very easily could have been.

Go get yourselves checked, folks. It's not something to play with.

We must all remember that The Clone Wars was awesome and it had lame crap like laser bows as well.

Threads like these are why no women come around here.

For those of you who cannot see the Colbert Report clip, I suggest the Hola browser extension. Best thing ever.

As for the minority/women thing. Who cares who or what they are. If they can act the part then they're fine by me.

DuracellEnergizer said:

The more I think about it, the more I want to see Jedi in the ST who use weapons other than lightsabers in battle.

 Rebels has that.

I like Zahn's point of view on this. Very level-headed.