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#553367
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General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
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CatBus said:

doubleofive said:
Strangest day of class ever.
Context is everything.  I had that exact lecture but it came off really well in my heathen class, there was cheering and goat blood smoothies and everything.  Maybe the professor recycles material from previous teaching positions?
LOL.

But I don't see anyone realistically being thrilled about being compared to the Empire you just watched getting its butt kicked for being overconfident.

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#553319
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General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/553319/action/topic#553319
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Tyrphanax said:


Apparently my horrible math instructor will be giving us all a problem involving the Millennium Falcon on Friday. I wish he wasn't such a god-awful instructor, because otherwise it'd be pretty great.

 

I had to explain what the Millennium Falcon was to the two girls sitting next to me. Heartbreaking.
I had a similar experience, but worse. Let's see if I can remember what happened:

I was in one of my college classes, either on the Book of Luke or Acts. The professor loads up a video clip of Luke's assault on the Death Star trench. The whole "Use the Force, Luke" part, if I remember correctly, up to the DS exploding. He then stops the clip and asks what this had to do with whatever chapter we were studying. Everyone turns to look at me, because I've always been the Star Wars Guy. I have no idea what this has to do with anything. I'm pretty sure I made up a pretty good thing about Luke using spiritual guidance to save the day, with Obi-wan being his Holy Spirit or something, the only reason I could figure anyone would show a clip of Star Wars at bible college. He said that that wasn't it. A couple others guessed, all of them wrong.

Here's why my story falls apart, as the shock of what he said kind of drowned out the point he was trying to make. I forget what he said because it ended up that he was comparing the church or whatever to the EMPIRE, and how the Rebels were outside influences trying to destroy us or somesuch. Keep in mind this is an Protestant/Independent Christian Church school, so it wasn't a "small Protestant Rebels fighting off the Roman Catholic Empire" thing. He compared us to the VILLAINS. Even the people who didn't know anything about Star Wars were shocked, especially since he showed THE DEATH STAR EXPLODING.

Strangest day of class ever.

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#553227
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I was on a Jury yesterday
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/553227/action/topic#553227
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georgec said:


I think it would be great if we had more full time paid jurors. One time I was called into the box for selection but they didn't keep me. It's an intriguing job and I would personally enjoy doing it full time. Imagine all the different cases and discussions one would have.
My wife is the court reporter of our smallish county. There is maybe one jury trial a year, the rest of the time the courts are filled with paternity cases, child abuse, divorces, etc. which apparently gets pretty boring after a while. There's not the wide variety I think you'd think there'd be, at least in our county.

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#553223
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Vader: A Saga Edit
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/553223/action/topic#553223
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DominicCobb said:


One interesting aspect of this edit will be that there will be no "I am your father twist." The real twist will come when the Emperor tells Vader that Luke is actually Vader's son. By focusing on Vader alone, the audience assumes that Padme dies before she gives birth. 
Now that's an interesting prospect. Now to make Anakin a character we care about for that twist to have emotional impact! ;-)

I just realized how much more of an emotional impact "I am your father" is to a character we knew for two movies than that revelation would be to a character we've known for 5 movies by Lucas' reckoning.

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#553070
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Doctor Who
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/553070/action/topic#553070
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Bingowings said:


Opps!


Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin.
Bow ties are cool.

Mr Cole was taken to a secure mental health facility in Geneva but later disappeared from his cell. Police are baffled, but not that bothered.
Is this some kind of British Onion-like article? Cause that's stranger than the rest of the story, and it included "communist chocolate hellhole[s]".

EDIT: Shame on you for linking old articles from April 1, 2010! I HATE YOU!

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#552888
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Random Thoughts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/552888/action/topic#552888
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Moth3r said:


In Finding Nemo, the great white shark's name is Bruce. This was also the nickname given to the mechanical shark model used in the filming of Jaws (Spielberg named it after his lawyer).

I've only just discovered this piece of trivia and felt like telling someone.
Perhaps the best Pixar reference ever. Glad you discovered this. :-)

I believe I was the only person in my theater who LOLed at his name.