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UncleOwen

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#268127
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Stupid Star Wars Questions
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/268127/action/topic#268127
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Scruffy,

Glad to see that you are a Barks fan. Forgive me if I seemed harsh. I just consider Barks' material canon, and I am really not much of a fan of the others who carried on his material. It is nice to see other people who are as passionate for one of comics great artists. As for Goofy, I consider Art Babbitt's animated rendition, and Floyd Gottfredson's daily Mickey Mouse comic strip version to be the best. And I believe that Donald was not in the DuckTales cartoon due to his animated persona. Barks changed his character into the everyman, a greedy, self centred individual who can and will learn from his mistakes. This simply does not jive with the animated version, a comic hot head who no one can understand. So they just went with the nephews, and I feel that the cartoons lost some of Barks spirit. However, I do like the theme song, as well as the original NES game!

As for the nephew's father, he probably just a bum who knocked up Dumbellla (or Della) during the depression, and went tramping throughout the United Duck States.

As for Star Wars, the rebels way of commissioning every scoundrel who joins up with them to generals bugs me. Hell, even Jar Jar becomes a "Bombad General". I am surprised that Threepio never received this honor. However, he was quite apt at remembering everyone's titles. He always used Han's proper title before addressing him in the movies.
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#268000
Topic
Stupid Star Wars Questions
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/268000/action/topic#268000
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To answer your last question, Della was not Huey, Dewey, and Louis' mother. In the 1938 cartoon that introduces Donald's nephews, the mother's name is Dumbella. Donald never handed over his nephews to Uncle Scrooge. The cartoon series, Duck Tales, is a bastardization of the comics created, written, and drawn by Carl Barks, the true creator of Uncle Scrooge. The modern Disney attempt (anything created by Disney after Walt's death) to make and distribute films is complete shit. Carl Barks is a genius who's work was completely taken over and warped by modern Disney ethics. Carl Barks wrote and illustrated adventure stories starring the ducks created by Walt Disney Studios, yet the personalities of his ducks were entirely his own creation.

I don't mean to sound like an asshole, but if you take the time to research and criticize Star Wars, do the same to other works of fiction. Carl Barks is one of the greatest men to ever work in the comic book industry, and should be recognized for his contribution to American pop culture.
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#267980
Topic
The end of Star Wars?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/267980/action/topic#267980
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Hello! I used to post at TFN years ago, after the release of TPM. However, other things in my life came up, and I drifted away from the boards. I recently went to check the boards again, and everyone that I liked were gone. Binary Sunset was my favorite poster, and people with his same mentality have left, to be replaced by twelve year old idiots. I found this website, saw that zombie posted here, and enjoyed the passion from expressed by the members fond memories of the O OT, the only Star Wars
that has any artistic merit. So I have happily joined the forums.

I grew up with the original trilogy. My first actual memory is watching TESB in 1980. I have been hooked on Star Wars ever since.
While I do enjoy the PT, I recognize the flaws of these films, and in no way do the match the genius that is the OT, at least the first two films. I bought the 2006 release to have the originals, and in spite of the poor transfer, I am happy to own the movies that created my love of Star Wars in the first place.

I am not worried over the fate of these movies. Most of my friends are not SW nuts like I am, and they prefer the real versions
over any of the new crap. History will remember the originals. My god, Star Wars 77 is a masterpiece beloved by even the
most literate of film critics. Everyone I know has seen and liked this movie. There is no way the bastard children that are the SE will replace these classic American films.

As for Lucas himself, I do not like him tampering with films of his past. However, as a fellow artist, I understand why he created the PT the way he did. It was over a decade from his last Star Wars film. He changed as an artist.While he is no longer a genius like he was in the 70's ( I truthfully believe he once was) he still made films that meant something to him at this point in his life. He changed his ideas to suit were he is in his life, not because he is a liar, he has just grown in different ways. He no longer is the Hollywood rebel. Instead, he is the ruler of his own created Empire. Instead of Luke, I feel that Lucas know has more in common with Vader. Hence Star Wars has now, in Lucas' own mind, become Vader's story. I just do not agree with him changing the original movies to support his current beliefs.