Yoda Is Your Father

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Post: #212986
Topic: Make your voices heard! (again) - re the 2006 GOUT DVD being in letterbox format
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212986/action/topic#212986
Time: 24-May-2006 11:24 AM

People: Forget about it. F**k Lucasfilm. I'm not writing any more letters or doing anything. My response from now on is to proudly watch and distribute Laserdisc rips.

Post: #212984
Topic: Grievous Questions... and more!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212984/action/topic#212984
Time: 24-May-2006 11:16 AM

Grievous = shitty extraneous character

Post: #212983
Topic: what is the world coming to?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212983/action/topic#212983
Time: 24-May-2006 11:15 AM

Welcome to OT.com. You can take my place in the group of people who give a shit, because I'm leaving.

Post: #212978
Topic: The Official Lucasfilm Response
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212978/action/topic#212978
Time: 24-May-2006 10:58 AM

I'm giving up on this whole thing. I just can't be bothered with it or the franchise that is Star Wars anymore. I have my Laserdisc rips, and I quite fancy myself as an underground resistance kinda guy, so I will not be buying the official releases. I'm broke anyway.

I received the same standard form e-mail (mine was from 'John Singh') and here's how I replied (which I must admit I borrowed from a classic quote made by Jay sometime last week):

Thanks for nothing. Excuse me while I go watch Return of the King.

Post: #212606
Topic: Rankings
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212606/action/topic#212606
Time: 23-May-2006 2:16 PM

Post # 2800

Post: #212605
Topic: The Non-Biased PS3 Thread
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212605/action/topic#212605
Time: 23-May-2006 2:14 PM

Originally posted by: starkiller
I remember seeing the SNES Aladdin for $59.99 back when it was first released, but that's why the game industry transitioned away from cartridges.

I remember back in the days of NES, Star Wars was 49.99 GBP (no pound sign on this US keyboard). 49.99 in the late 80s!! I never did get that game because I could never afford it. Hell, I couldn't even afford it today for 49.99. Computer games are a rip off. Best to wait a few months for when they release the titles on their platinum series or whatever it's called.

Post: #212594
Topic: Superman Movie
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212594/action/topic#212594
Time: 23-May-2006 1:32 PM

I don't know, I think it's an interesting idea if done properly (just like Star Wars prequels were an interesting idea).

Post: #212592
Topic: The Holiday Special: Was it Anikian or Palpatine who....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212592/action/topic#212592
Time: 23-May-2006 1:26 PM

Are you actually taking this thing seriously and trying to explain it's crapness in a canonical way? (The Life Day equivalent of Jingle Bells, the strormtrooper getting excited about the hologram must mean they don't get much R&R - WTF?!!)

It's a shitty 1970s televisual mistake. That's all it is. You can't make excuses for it's crapness in order to make it fit into Star Wars continuity - it's just crap.

Post: #212589
Topic: Cut scenes
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212589/action/topic#212589
Time: 23-May-2006 1:18 PM

We can dream.

I'm sure something like that will happen, but it will be in many, many, years, when Star Wars is a very old film (I'm talking like, 75 years old - a relic of a moviemaking age long-gone, just like Gone with the Wind).

Post: #212587
Topic: Photography submit your pics!!!!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212587/action/topic#212587
Time: 23-May-2006 1:12 PM

I don't have many pictures with me, but these all came off my mobile phone camera:

The middle of nowhere, North Dakota, USA:

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/2510/matt0010li.jpg

This photo is not staged - I was just walking past someone's house (again, in North Dakota) and this was outside:

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/9835/matt0028hx.jpg

My wife's grandpa has a whole load of old cars on his land, so I took some pictures:

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/1081/matt0039wp.jpg

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/9351/matt0067ne.jpg

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6522/matt0046qj.jpg

The last one was my Father In Law's car. Pretty cool, huh?

He also had this old abandoned wagon on a his land, which had me fantasising about cowboys and Indians for a good ten minutes:

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/9562/matt0057hq.jpg

This picture of Big Ben was taken from the roof of the Houses of Parliament in London. As some of you know, I worked for the government in London, and I had a friend who managed to get me inside the Houses of Parliament. Very cool day:

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/439/matt0073cu.jpg

the view from the roof of the houses of parliament:

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/2362/matt0116nm.jpg

Houses of Parliament:

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/3397/matt0177wh.jpg

Stonehenge:

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/8062/matt0141fu.jpg

An old London bus:

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8554/matt0167lp.jpg

I took this in the studio when I was recording, and I think it's a pretty cool shot (shame about the graniness):

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5935/matt0157oh.jpg

The Falcon (which I sadly no longer own because I moved to the States). I still think about her often:

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/2680/matt0133uk.jpg

Post: #212582
Topic: Return of the Jedi Script Game
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212582/action/topic#212582
Time: 23-May-2006 12:41 PM

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Why did I have a feeling this movie was going to a problem for most of the people here. It's weird because, all my life, I was the outcast for liking ESB the most. Everyone else liked Star Wars or Return of the Jedi most with Jedi having the majority. When I come here, everyone talks about how weak Jedi was in comparison to the others and how much ESB is the greatest!

Same here. But the general movie going public are stupid, and seeing as my friends and I were little kids when ROTJ came out (babies actually), it's no surprise most of them view it fondly - it's Star Wars first big step into kid's film territory (we all know how that ended up...)

Anyway...

3PO: Of course I'm worried. And you should be, too. Lando Calrissian and poor Chewbacca never returned from this awful place.

Artoo: Beeeep

3PO: Don't be so sure. If I told you half the things I've heard about this Jabba the Hutt, You'd probably short-circuit.

Post: #212502
Topic: $36 pre-order (AR) for all 3 titles...anyone found it cheaper??
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212502/action/topic#212502
Time: 23-May-2006 1:24 AM

Cool! I'm definitely buying now. In fact. I'll buy 2, and also write him a thank you letter (he is doing me a favour, after all) - that way, when Lucas sees the sales figures and reads my letter, he's sure to release the OOT in anamorphic for the 30th anniversary. What a great plan! I love giving my money to Lucas.

Post: #212499
Topic: The Da Vinci Code Movie
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212499/action/topic#212499
Time: 23-May-2006 1:21 AM

I agree, and I hate that for the same reason that I hate reverse racism.

Post: #212498
Topic: Return of the Jedi Script Game
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212498/action/topic#212498
Time: 23-May-2006 1:20 AM

The next bit is an imperial shuttle pilot asking for permission to land on the Death Star, but again, I don't know it word for word (maybe I should just keep quiet until a bit that I do know...)

Post: #212493
Topic: Return of the Jedi Script Game
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212493/action/topic#212493
Time: 23-May-2006 1:13 AM

You know, I don't actually remember the next line word for word but I don't want this to fall to the second page - something about the Empire starting work on a new Death Star (I guess ROTJ isn't my fave - it's just a bunch of Muppets

. Yoda's death scene is possibly one of the most awesome scenes in Movie history ever though. Mark Hamill and a puppet = pure gold. Can't wait for that bit).

Anyway, where were we?

Post: #212488
Topic: A SPARK OF HOPE FOR LASERMAN
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212488/action/topic#212488
Time: 23-May-2006 1:08 AM

Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
MY BATCH WILL SHIP NEXT WEEK. SORRY FOR THE DELAY.

No problem man - something to look forward to while I rot in Jamestown North Dakota.

Post: #212486
Topic: Just Saw The Unaltered Trilogy For The First Time...
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212486/action/topic#212486
Time: 23-May-2006 1:00 AM

Welcome Darth_Evil!!!!

By the way, may I ask your age? Lucas seems to think it's only the over 25s who can appreciate the OOT (Actually, he made that stupid statement a couple of years ago now, so I guess it's only the over 27s, which means apparently I am incapable of preferring the OOT to the crappy SEs. I was definitely under 25 when he made that claim, and remember thinking 'you crazeee').

Post: #212485
Topic: Bond, James Bond
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212485/action/topic#212485
Time: 23-May-2006 12:55 AM

I think you're right.

I really wish Hollywood would just visit this site, read our comments, and hire us all as script doctors. Lucasfilm too.

Post: #212484
Topic: Modern Myths?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212484/action/topic#212484
Time: 23-May-2006 12:51 AM

Originally posted by: theredbaron

One need only read a comic book to know that the modern myth lives on.

Very good point.

BTW Ric, I have been to Nottingham and Sherwood Forest and all the museums and exhibitions and stuff, and Robin Hood did exist, but not in the way he is popularly portrayed. What I mean is there was a guy (probably not even called Robin) who the legend is very, very loosely based on, just like there was a King Arthur, but he didn't neccesarily kick it with a wizard called Merlin, and he probably didn't become King by pulling a sword from a Stone (but the Magna Carta, for example, is real. It's a really old document that sets out some laws (kinda like England's version of the constitution, but only dealing with certain issues rather than the entire law of the land - I've seen it).

Post: #212483
Topic: Myspace
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212483/action/topic#212483
Time: 23-May-2006 12:47 AM

YIYF's myspace

Post: #212480
Topic: The Da Vinci Code Movie
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212480/action/topic#212480
Time: 23-May-2006 12:40 AM

To those who are irritated/angered/whatever about the claims made regarding Jesus in the movie/book, I have a question: Whether you believe the particular claims made in the Da Vinci Code or not, do you at least concede that the church as an organisation has twisted truth and deceived the masses in order to gain/hold onto power throughout history? I was raised Catholic and while I am not sold on the mary Magdelene was Jesus' wife thing (I don't reject it either though), I 100% beleive that the church, and in fact most (all?) organised religion is bullshit. Man created religion, not God. These silly clubs that we humans create and fight over are just silly, and they are NOT what Jesus would have wanted.

Post: #212478
Topic: Superman Movie
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212478/action/topic#212478
Time: 23-May-2006 12:34 AM

Originally posted by: Hot.like.fire
since this superman movie is suppose to pick up where smallville left off, does that mean that smallville is over. because they never said it was the series finale, just the season. i can't wait for this movie to come out though, i think it will be good. even if it is a little bit sappy.

I don't think this picks up where Smallville left off HLF, it picks up where the second Christopher Reeves movie left off.

Post: #212477
Topic: Photography submit your pics!!!!!
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212477/action/topic#212477
Time: 23-May-2006 12:31 AM

Originally posted by: Warbler
Sean, if that squirel wasn't dead before you started to play hockey with it, you should be locked up for a long, long time.

If that's the case Warbler, I think it's safe to say he will be locked up one day.

Cool pic Chaltab

Post: #212473
Topic: Original Trilogy Novelizations
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212473/action/topic#212473
Time: 23-May-2006 12:28 AM

Originally posted by: Ripplin
One retcon thing I did like, however, was on the show Deep Space Nine, where the crew went back in time to the first Enterprise. It was during the time of "The Trouble With Tribbles." There's a scene where Worf, Miles and Julian are in a bar and they see those old human-looking Klingons. Miles and Julian give Worf a look like "those are Klingons? What happened?!" Worf's explanation was a simple line about not talking about that with outsiders.

I never saw that, but that is kinda cool. That kind of retcon I think is ok - acknowledging a continuity flaw in a jokey way but still not really explaining it. But like you said, they went and tried to properly expalin it in Enterprise and it all went pear-shaped.

EDIT: sorry 'bout the double post - I meant to just add to my last one but messed up.

Post: #212472
Topic: Original Trilogy Novelizations
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212472/action/topic#212472
Time: 23-May-2006 12:24 AM

Originally posted by: Scruffy
[quote]Believe what you want though - if you think there are ducks in the star wars galaxy, cool. There's a 50s diner, so why not a duck?[/quote]

There's also homo sapiens and Sequoiadendron giganteum, along with various other grasses, flowering plants, trees, etc. There's no particular reason to believe that anatidae (or a similar family with enough morphological similarity that "duck" adequately translates whatever name they bear in Galactic Basic) don't exist anywhere in the known Star Wars galaxy. I'd certainly expect them to have evolved on at least one of the thousand-thousand worlds that make up the Empire, along with one of everything else that we know here on Earth.

^For F**k Sake!

Originally posted by: Ripplin
YIYF (can I call you that?).

Sure can.