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#1128176
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What are you reading?
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chyron8472 said:

With a version like King James, you have to read the passage and then stop now and then to say “in other words, it means [this]”. As opposed to the Bible straight up speaking for itself as to what it means and not having to retranslate archaic words.

One of my Bible College professors was really lazy with his correspondence courses. While the entire program was built on the NIV, this correspondence course I took was apparently something he found that used the KJV. A lot of the questions were asking what this archaic word means in this verse, when my NIV just had the modern word for it.

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#1128095
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STAR WARS: EP VI -RETURN OF THE JEDI &quot;REVISITED EDITION&quot;<strong>ADYWAN</strong> - ** PRODUCTION HAS NOW RESTARTED **
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I didn’t realize this page was for RotJR, I wondered which thread I was subscribed to that was debating love stories.

As for the lightsaber, of course Luke eventually picked it back up. He threw it away to show he wasn’t going to use it to kill his father. It’s still his lightsaber that he should have a spiritual attachment to (see TFA’s Family Saber).

Are people saying that it should be removed from the celebration? Can’t it just be implied he picked it back up while he was slowly dragging Vader’s body down to a shuttle bay?

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#1127209
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Disney to buy 20th (21st) Century Fox? (Disney has now bought them - 14 Dec '17)
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Fang Zei said:

Not that it really matters (as evidenced most recently by Thor: Ragnarok), but I wonder why Universal will always own the release rights to any future standalone Hulk film.

Did Marvel completely sell them off at some point?

Is it different from the situation with F4 where Fox needs to make another movie every several years?

I found this article on Hulk that should help:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2015/06/19/details-of-marvels-hulk-film-rights-fans-can-relax-about-sequel/

Looks like Universal lost the character by not making Ang Lee’s Hulk 2, but they managed to keep the right of first refusal for distribution, which means Disney would share some profits with Universal on MCU Hulk standalone movies.

As opposed to Fox, which keeps making F4 movies to keep the characters.

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#1123795
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Star Wars &quot;Official&quot; Canon Content Thread
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joefavs said:

So I just read the mouse droid story in FaCPoV. Is Tarkin canonically gay now? Was that nameless officer someone else like Motti or Tagge? It had to be someone that high up, and all signs seemed to point to Tarkin. I’m totally down with the recent push for inclusivity in SW media, but making the creepy mass murdering Nazi-inspired villain gay feels like kind of a retrograde trope.

The voice actor in the audiobook definitely does a Tarkin impression. And his room number is “G[rand]M[off]-1”. It is odd, trope-wise, and seems to have gone under the radar completely. There’s an article on the fact that Bea Arthur’s character from the HS is a lesbian, but nothing on Tarkin.

There’s way too many contradictions and just silly stories in the collection for it ALL to be canon.

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#1123722
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Random Thoughts
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moviefreakedmind said:

I’d never heard any of this, but as I mentioned earlier I find Spacey’s reaction really disturbing. I try to be objective in situations of a single accuser going after a Hollywood star for a crime committed decades earlier, but this doesn’t look good for Spacey.

People accusing Spacey of being sexually aggressive is nothing new. It’s just that this time he admitted it could have happened.