Yoda Is Your Father

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Post: #224050
Topic: Great MArk Hamill Interview
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/224050/action/topic#224050
Time: 3-Jul-2006 2:46 PM

Mark Hamill is without a doubt my favourite Star Wars actor, and this just strengthens my opinion of him.

Post: #224048
Topic: World Cup 2006
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/224048/action/topic#224048
Time: 3-Jul-2006 2:43 PM

I was just talking to a friend about who's fault it is England are out of the cup. The names of Rooney and Lampard were thrown out there, but in the end we agreed on Sven Goran Erikson and his barmy tactics and formations. Luckily, this world cup was Sven's swansong as England manager, and we began speculating on who would replace him, which raised a question that has bugged me ever since Sven was hired: Should a national team be allowed a foreign manager/coach? Personally I think the answer is NO. The coach should have the same nationality restrictions as the players. What do you guys think?

Post: #224045
Topic: Going away for a while (more than likely)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/224045/action/topic#224045
Time: 3-Jul-2006 2:37 PM

Originally posted by: Nanner Split
I probably won't be on much this month because I'm flying out to L.A. tomorrow for a Summer Session at USC, and I'll be there till July 30th.

Just thought I'd share that.

Unfortunately I won't be in L.A till after July 30th, so no Nanner/YIYF team-up.

Post: #223893
Topic: Return of the Jedi Script Game
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223893/action/topic#223893
Time: 2-Jul-2006 12:31 PM

The Emperor: If you will not be turned, you will be destroyed........ Young fool... only now, at the end, do you understand.

Post: #223892
Topic: World Cup 2006
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223892/action/topic#223892
Time: 2-Jul-2006 12:30 PM

This morning I'm basically 'meh' about the whole world cup. Just don't care anymore. In a way I'd like the home side to win, but I really have no opinion.

If I was in England right now I would probably be really depressed because I'd be feeding off the emotions of the whole country, but as a lone Englishman in the ass crack of America, I'm just 'whatever'.

Post: #223891
Topic: Music guilty pleasures.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223891/action/topic#223891
Time: 2-Jul-2006 12:27 PM

Yeah, I'd have to agree with Ric there. I think Freddy Mercury was great, and an awesome, awesome frontman. But greater than Lennon?

Post: #223886
Topic: The New Doctor Who
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223886/action/topic#223886
Time: 2-Jul-2006 12:22 PM

Ric, you understand the British more than any non-brit here I think, so I'm sure with a few more viewings you will 'get' Doctor Who. I even still groan and say to myself 'I can't believe I'm watching this'. from time to time.

Post: #223789
Topic: The New Doctor Who
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223789/action/topic#223789
Time: 1-Jul-2006 7:30 PM

Originally posted by: Rikter
I've always looked at it like this...

It's time & dimensional travel so the future and the past are always changing and in flux. Then I shall look at it that way too

After I posted my question I remembered an episode of Quantum leap where Sam leaps into one of JFK's bodyguards. He fails to prevent Kennedy's death, but Al tells him that in the original timeline Jackie Kennedy also died. Of course, in our World, she did not die, so we live in the world that Sam's actions created. But!! Did we always live in that world? Or did we live in the 'Jackie is dead' world and then Sam leaped back and stopped that so our world history, and therefore our memories, were instantly altered around us? Similarly, in Back to the future 3, when Marty arrives in the old west and Doc tells him he gave him explicit instructions not to come to rescue him, shouldn't Doc already have been expecting Marty and know why he came back to save him because it was young Doc who helped Marty get to the old west from 1955? Shouldn't Doc have that memory of sending Marty back to the old west?

This is why I love/hate time travel discussions.

Originally posted by: ricarleite
I've watched part of an episode for Dr. Who for the first time yesterday. It featured the tenth doctor, and on that part of the episode the doctor and Rose were locked with this lady on a room, and telling two other people how to get rid of an alien who was invading their apartment - a man in a rubber suit. They managed to explode the alien by throwing a mix of some oil and eggs on him, as the doctor quickly discovered what was the secret weapon... *sigh*

That's sort of the point of Dr Who, Ric. It's cheesy, tongue in cheek, rubber suit crap, but that's why people love it. It's a British thing.

The idea of Doctor Who, however, is not cheesy, it's a great concept, and it has the potential to be one hell of a serious sci-fi show, but then it would be just another American sci-fi series, and not Doctor Who.

Post: #223783
Topic: World Cup 2006
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223783/action/topic#223783
Time: 1-Jul-2006 7:22 PM

Penaltys! Can't F'ing believe it. Well actually, I can.

The stress of the shootout caused me to have a pint of Guinness which, being my first drink in 18 months, caused me to go home and basically pass out, which caused me to miss the Brazil/France game. I just checked the result and I am not happy. What a shitty day.

Post: #223485
Topic: SUPERMAN RETURNS REVIEW
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223485/action/topic#223485
Time: 30-Jun-2006 3:13 PM

The positive comments in this thread are getting me even more excited about this movie.

Post: #223484
Topic: World Cup 2006
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223484/action/topic#223484
Time: 30-Jun-2006 3:11 PM

As an Englishman, I think it's safe to say I have no love for the Germans either, but, at least in the football world, they are the lesser of 2 evils. Besides, I'm rooting for an England/Germany final in which England wins the cup on German soil.

Post: #223482
Topic: The legendary "Starkiller Ranch" Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223482/action/topic#223482
Time: 30-Jun-2006 3:09 PM

Again, I think you're being too 'Lucas' in youir approach - we don't need to see everything. Tarkin explains that the Emperor has just desolved the senate. It works fine as it is, IMO.

Post: #223481
Topic: A SPARK OF HOPE FOR LASERMAN
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223481/action/topic#223481
Time: 30-Jun-2006 3:06 PM

PM Dayv and Rikter. They are the guys sending out the CDs.

Post: #223478
Topic: World Cup 2006
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223478/action/topic#223478
Time: 30-Jun-2006 2:48 PM

Argentina are out!!

I'm so pleased. I can't stand those wankers.

Post: #223468
Topic: How do I get people to like me?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223468/action/topic#223468
Time: 30-Jun-2006 2:03 PM

Look again: That's not Gaffer. Duplicate avatar strikes again.

Post: #223467
Topic: Return of the Jedi Script Game
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223467/action/topic#223467
Time: 30-Jun-2006 2:00 PM

Imperial: Open the back door.

2nd Imperial: Yes, sir.

Post: #223397
Topic: The New Doctor Who
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223397/action/topic#223397
Time: 30-Jun-2006 3:27 AM

I just watched the second episode of the second series where the Doctor goes back to 1879 and sorts out a problem (won't spoil it for those who are yet to see it). But the episode reminded me of a question that's been floating around for a while - If the Doctor is fighting aliens or whatever who are trying to take over/destroy the world IN THE PAST, why do we (and his sidekick Rose) live in a world where the invasion/destruction never occured? We can assume that until the Doctor went back and intervened, the aliens/monsters/daleks/whatever were successful in their plans and it was only a visit by the doctor that, to quote another great sci-fi/time travel show, 'put right what once went wrong'. Are we living in a world where the doctor has already fixed/thwarted these things and therefore they never happened as far as we are concerned? Or is he visisting alternate timelines? Or is it merely something the writers didn't think of and we should just ignore?

Post: #223377
Topic: Ages of Luke & Leia
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223377/action/topic#223377
Time: 30-Jun-2006 1:56 AM

EDIT: I just went off on a rant about why the hell does everything have to be rationalised/explained and why can't people just accept that Luke had a touch of Deja-Vu probably due to the fact that he was in the process of fulfilling his destiny. Suffice to say the rant was strongly worded and all in capital letters.

Star Wars is a magical, mystical tale. A character saying there's something familiar about a place doesn't need any explaining. We don't need to see baby Luke visiting Dagobah. We don';t need to see him having a dream at age 10, or Yoda implanting images in his mind from afar.

Geez I hate all this prequel rationalisation bullshit. The true essence of Star Wars is truly getting lost.

Post: #223372
Topic: Music guilty pleasures.
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223372/action/topic#223372
Time: 30-Jun-2006 1:50 AM

Originally posted by: sean wookie
I also like Elton John.

So do I.

Post: #223234
Topic: The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223234/action/topic#223234
Time: 29-Jun-2006 6:58 PM

I 'dislike' my Mother-In-Law.

Post: #223206
Topic: World Cup 2006
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223206/action/topic#223206
Time: 29-Jun-2006 5:58 PM

It would be sweet if France somehow fluked a lucky, undeserved win over Brazil then went on to face England. I can't see England beating Brazil, but beating the French is definitely possible.

Post: #223203
Topic: Rankings
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223203/action/topic#223203
Time: 29-Jun-2006 5:55 PM

Yup, those are the wounds. I'll pass on the band-aid though because I'm a double hard bastard and I'll just wait till the bleeding stops by itself.

Post: #223201
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223201/action/topic#223201
Time: 29-Jun-2006 5:51 PM

Originally posted by: DorK313
ricardo said parties would be held for all "00" posts.

That is correct. I would even go so far as to say that we can only have Sexxy Partys whem somebody reaches a post number ending in '000' or '500', or a change in rank (which means Dork would get a party at 250 because he would no longer be a Padawan). What do you think Ric?

Post: #223179
Topic: Rankings
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223179/action/topic#223179
Time: 29-Jun-2006 4:49 PM

My wounds may be healing, but they still hurt.

Post: #223157
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/223157/action/topic#223157
Time: 29-Jun-2006 3:30 PM

No, she's most definitely a virgin. All FrobozzCo cigar rollers are thoroughly checked for virginity before being hired.