Rick Astley is a great artist and you should all be ashamed for making fun of him and derailing a thread dedicated to his seminal hit.
I am serious.
TV's Frink said:
...more of a Burton fan, I guess.
Lame.
Silence - Delerium
Why did I open this thread?! Mine eyes!
I went away to move to Phoenix. Now I'm here.
Thanks all! And happy birthday, Davnes.
There are becoming a large amount of threads I cannot click on because of all this inane arguing. Let's keep that kind of stuff in the politics thread, so I only have one thread I can't click on.
doubleofive said:
Or very very quickly if your character has no name.RedFive said:
You die very, very, very slowly.
Unless it's "Jenkins" or something Polish.
TV’s Frink said:
Ugh. Stop it, Boost!
There could be a “Handsome Women” thread for Boosty and his muscle fetish.
Fuck it. I'm going to watch Space Jam.
Yeah! Fellow Jurassic Park fans! The Lost World is so much better as a book than the film. *familiar "what could have been" sigh...*
Also, J.R.R. Tolkien is an awful writer.
doubleofive said:
Zombie is alive, I can give you that much. At least, he's still being tagged in photos on Facebook. I messaged him on there as well.
I tag dead people all the time.
...wait.
I think my rabid anti-Travissism may have colared my perception of the passage.
It could also just be that Traviss is an idiot and it just seems disingenuous coming from her. My anger isn't towards putting gay people in Star Wars or the Mandalorians, I guess, so much as I don't like her so it rubs me the wrong way that she did it. =P
She did handle it well, though, it wasn't like a "HEY LOOK I PUT THE GAYS IN STAR WARS EVERYONE!" moment. She just put in two guys who were married and that was it, everyone in the book accepted it as fine. It was only when she was asked about it that she outright said they were gay. So I was glad she didn't make a huge deal about it at least.
Yub Nub is a terrible song. It really completely devalues the somber but hopeful ending of ROTJ for me. It's way too campy. Maybe it would work in another situation, but the SE music is far superior for conveying a bittersweet victory with a lot of work ahead for the Rebels.
Generally, the best changes in the SE are ones you don't really notice as much. Cleanup work and the like. I also liked the dewbacks and such, though they were too noisy (LOOK OVER HERE I'M NEW). The droids and rontos were too much. The lead-in to the cantina wasn't bad. I liked most of the stuff in ESB. Cloud City really lends itself to the more open style, though it was sometimes subconsciously distracting (which is my general complaint for most of the SE changes).
I honestly can't remember many of the ROTJ ones off the top of my head.
Petition to rename thread "Save 'Save Star Wars Dot Com'."
Keep an eye out for Ric Olie's new book "How Everything in Star Wars Works, Part I" available in all bookstores this fall.
theprequelsrule said:
Gay Mandalorians are definitely the highlight of the EU. I can't wait for the movies.
As much as I'm cool with the gays, this bothers me. Why even put that in there? Maybe it's just my straight white male viewpoint that's wrong, but it always seems like pandering when people do that.
And to the Mandalorians, no less. "Hey, let's take a group that's known for extreme violence bordering on genocidal bloodlust and go out of our way to make them seem as touchy-feely and inclusive and accepting as possible."
I'm cool with there being more Mandalorians than just Boba and Jango, for the record, because there's a lot of Mandalorian EU (going back to the Marvel comics in the 80s) that's really great and I think they add a lot to the Star Wars galaxy, but they really put it in the hands of the worst writer ever when they let Travissty do her "magic." I'm just glad that her chapter is over that that the damage she did can be undone. I just hope Lucas doesn't screw me over with his Neo-Mandalorian Pacifist stuff.
I'm okay with it for now, like I've said before, because it's not a huge stretch to imagine that Satine swooped in after the massacre at Galidraan and was able to garner pacifist support (not too hard considering that almost all the warriors of the group had died). What would be a huge stretch for me would be if they, due to Lucas, remained pacifist and were able to beat down the Death Watch and have everything end happily ever after. I'm hoping that with these newer, darker seasons of The Clone Wars, we'll get to see Satine assassinated and the Mandalorians return to their warlike ways to show how hopeless things are leading up to the rise of the Empire.
I have faith in Dave Filoni to do the right thing, but in the end, he'll always do what Lucas says.
Well look at it this way: All the pre-Traviss Mandalorian stuff is like the OT, right? It's awesome, intriguing, interesting, exciting, and all that. Then along she comes and she makes a "Special Edition" of the pre-established continuity, changing a lot of it to the very core. Then she goes on to take this new retcon and design another series around those changes.
Then, a new generation of fans comes up, having been raised on this retconned universe, and that's all you see. It's like talking to SE or PT gushers; they just take the word of this author as true because it's been made accessible to them and ignore all the stuff that made the Mandalorians great in the first place.
Bingo, I love you.
Also, Darth_Ender, Wookiee has two E's.
Obi-Wan's lightsaber shorts out when he gets it wet in the swamp after escaping his landing craft. Lightsabers require special modifications, or else they don't work underwater, this is an established EU fact.
This is the reason he is running from the STAPs and why Qui-Gon has to rescue him. I feel like I've seen a deleted scene with this in it, but it may just be that the scene has been described in other sources.
Why they did shop Chewie out of that picture and put in PT version?
U2 is bad and you should all feel bad.
Lady looks like a dude.
Are there flying cars yet?