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Post: #270781
Topic: Seeing the Saga in order - a review by a first-time viewer....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270781/action/topic#270781
Time: 9-Feb-2007 3:52 AM

Here's a little discussion of various episode orders. It comes out in favor of 4-5-1-2-3-6.

One other thing about the 4-5-1-2-3-6 order that the article doesn't touch on is the Death Star dynamic.

In any ordering containing the sequence 4-5-6, you see the Death Star get destroyed, and then they have another one just two episodes later. By the time you see the second one, it seems almost routine. Especially if you see 3-4-5-6, Death Stars seem to come and go rather quickly.

On the other hand, it's more dramatic with the Death Stars bookending the series. First we see the Death Star destroy a planet. Then we see it destroyed. Then we see a little of the Empire post-Death Star, winning more battles now, but with the aura of invincibility stripped because it no longer has the power to destroy a whole planet. Then you go to the flashbacks, with a mention of the design of the Death Star at the end of Episode II and the beginning of construction at the end of Episode III to remind you of how important and how terrifying this thing was. Then you get hit with the crawl from Episode VI: Oh my god, they’re building another one.

Post: #270377
Topic: Did Anakin's fall start with Qui-Gon?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270377/action/topic#270377
Time: 7-Feb-2007 5:53 PM

Originally posted by: Fang Zei
I think what we got instead was Anakin killing Mace with Palpatine's help.
Hmm. We're talking about Qui-Gon's habit of violating the "code" when he felt a greater good was at stake. Killing Palpatine instead of arresting him would have been perfectly in character for him. It would have been interesting for that to have been Qui-Gon instead of Mace.

Originall posted by: Wookie Wedgie
Obi-Wan's wants to take vengeance

That would be very un-Jedi-like. Remember him saying, "Don't give into hate, that leads to the dark side"?

Post: #270350
Topic: Pants Game: The Star Wars Edition
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270350/action/topic#270350
Time: 7-Feb-2007 4:20 PM

Not a single entry from the PT so far? Here are a few:

Guy in bar: You wanna buy some pants?
Obi-Wan: You don't want to sell me pants.
Guy: I don't want to sell you pants.

Obi-Wan, to the cloners: Your pants are very impressive. You must be very proud.

Jango, to Obi-Wan: Always a pleasure to pants a Jedi.

Owen: Where are you going?
Anakin: To find my pants.

Episode III - Pants of the Sith

Anakin: Artoo will be along in a few moments and then... See? No pants!

Dooku, to Anakin: You have pants. But you don't use them.

Palpatine to Anakin, who has Dooku in a defenseless position: Pants him now.
Anakin: I shouldn't.
Palpatine: Do it.

And some more from the OT:

C-3PO: I don't think he likes pants at all. No, I don't like pants either.

Yoda: I cannot teach him. The boy has no pants.

Yoda: Your pants. You will not need them.

Lando: Having trouble with your pants?
Han: No, no problem. Why?

C-3PO, going Irish: I never knew I had it in me pants.

Post: #270332
Topic: Pants Game: The Star Wars Edition
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270332/action/topic#270332
Time: 7-Feb-2007 3:24 PM

Fett: What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me.
Vader: The Empire will pants you if he dies.

Post: #270310
Topic: Seeing the Saga in order - a review by a first-time viewer....
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270310/action/topic#270310
Time: 7-Feb-2007 2:13 PM

I have seen 4-5-1-2-3-6 as a suggested order elsewhere. What do people here think about it?

Post: #270203
Topic: Did Anakin's fall start with Qui-Gon?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270203/action/topic#270203
Time: 6-Feb-2007 9:54 PM

Originally posted by: aled
Qui-gon wasn't using the Force to cheat at gambling so that he could buy a crateload of beer and some power converters, he was using it for a greater good.

The greater good of getting Anakin off that desert rock so he could become Darth Vader? Gee, thanks. I think it would have worked out better for everyone if he had rescued Shmi instead.

Post: #270149
Topic: Did Anakin's fall start with Qui-Gon?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/270149/action/topic#270149
Time: 6-Feb-2007 5:39 PM

"Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny." - Yoda

Gui-Gon used The Force to cheat at gambling (the chance cube) and in business negotiations ("credits will do fine"), and even to commit theft (mind-tricking Boss Nass into giving him a bongo).

It's not exactly slaughtering the younglings, but if a man who used The Force so dishonorably taught the ways of The Force to a nine-year-old, could he not unwittingly have led the child his first few tentative steps down the dark path?

Post: #269933
Topic: .: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269933/action/topic#269933
Time: 5-Feb-2007 9:12 PM

Why doesn't it take more space to store more pixels? Does it have better compression?

Post: #269896
Topic: .: Citizen's NTSC DVD / PAL DVD / XviD project :. (Released)
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269896/action/topic#269896
Time: 5-Feb-2007 5:39 PM

Originally posted by: boris
1) PAL -> sped up from original film by 4% (24fps -> 25fps), higher resolution. PC software (PowerDVD, WinDVD, etc) can play back at 24fps.
2) NTSC -> slightly slowed down from original film (24fps -> 23.976fps), played back with a 2:3 jitter pulldown on DVD players, PC Software can play back at 24fps without the pulldown. Lower resolution.

I don't get it. A DVD is a DVD no matter which side of the Atlantic you're on. That's 4.4 GB on a single-layer disc, or 7.9 on a dual-layer. Given that the data capacity is the same on both sides of the Atlantic, how can one disc have more video information than the other?

Post: #269665
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269665/action/topic#269665
Time: 4-Feb-2007 12:19 PM

Originally posted by: boon23
this is also up on MININOVA

Only the NTSC is up on Mininova. I already have that one. I want to download the PAL.

Post: #269622
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269622/action/topic#269622
Time: 4-Feb-2007 2:06 AM

I need some help. I'd like to download the PAL DVD. However, Demonoid says that unregistered users can download only three torrent files per week, I already have, and registration is only open on Fridays. Is there somewhere else I can get that torrent? I'm assuming the tracker will be friendly to this unregistered user and it's just a matter of getting the torrent file, but I have been known to make mistakes... from time to time.

Post: #269610
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269610/action/topic#269610
Time: 3-Feb-2007 11:12 PM

Originally posted by: Badger
Also just as an ask because i'm not sure if it's been linked here but could anyone tell me if there's a cover and label and if so where are they?

Thanks.

Covers:
http://www.erikstormtrooper.com/darth_editous_anh_red_cover.jpg
http://www.erikstormtrooper.com/darth_editous_anh_blue_cover.jpg

Labels:
http://www.erikstormtrooper.com/darth_editous_anh_red_disc_label.jpg
http://www.erikstormtrooper.com/darth_editous_anh_blue_disc_label.jpg

Post: #269557
Topic: ***The "Darth Editous" Episode IV DVD Info and Feedback Thread*** - a partially "de-specialed" DVD
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/269557/action/topic#269557
Time: 3-Feb-2007 3:57 PM

I don't know whether this is something you can fix, but it has always irritated me.

When Vader says, "You are part of the rebel alliance and a traitor," the synchronization of David Prowse's finger wagging with James Earl Jones' speech looks ridiculous.

Is that fixable?