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moviefreakedmind said:

He was pretty evil in TOS when you think about it and take him literally. He was a human trafficker after all.

The guy who has one robot peacefully take over a ship then maroon the crew on a planet where every need of theirs will be met (and is defeated by pantomime) is the same guy who

goes out of his way to murder members of the crew of a starship as many times as possible, then destroying the ship on the off chance he’ll be able to commit the perfect crime

is just jarring to me.

While I really enjoyed the episode last night, that’s exactly how I was afraid they were going to use Mudd. It makes his presentation as a lovable scamp in TOS completely inaccurate because he’s an evil person.

Personally, I think Tydirium should be the Sential-class from the SE. It wouldn’t take too much to make the exterior set look like the cockpit & the interior set would match well.

I think we pointed it out as soon as we discovered it.

Editroid said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Ah, yes, “reasons”.

1. Jedi use Ilum crystals, which only come in blue and green. Sith use synthetic crystals, which only come in red.
2. Jedi sentinels use blue crystals while Jedi consulars use green.
3. Kyber crystal colours reflect the affiliation/temperament of their users.

Blah blah blah bullshit.

Aesthetics and symbolism are the only valid reasons for any lightsaber colour.

How is it “bullshit”?

Because like most Legends canon, it’s trying to attribute a logical reason to things Lucas randomly decided because he liked the way it looked. 1 makes some sense, which I think is what nuCanon says, but the other two are trying to establish rules that the movies themselves don’t follow. See also: Lightsaber Fighting Styles.

But none of this is relevant for this edit.

LordZerome1080 said:

doubleofive said:

LordZerome1080 said:

SparkySywer said:

Hymen Gotantouag

There are so many questions I have about this name.

Such as?

I imagine if you googled the first name there, you’d be enlightened.

The name is actually European in origin but has gained a sexual definition.

Then it’s probably a bad idea to have a character named that.

LordZerome1080 said:

SparkySywer said:

Hymen Gotantouag

There are so many questions I have about this name.

Such as?

I imagine if you googled the first name there, you’d be enlightened.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I consider King one of my favourite authors, though I haven’t read most of his novels; I pretty much became a fan through his short story collections.

Same here. I’ve read his older short story collections multiple times (I think I’ve read them all but The Bazaar of Bad Dreams), but haven’t read many of the “required” novels. There’s something about the way he can build a whole world you can understand in just a few pages, but sometimes I find his novel output to be too much of a good thing.

I guess I’ve read

• The Stand (extended)
• The Dark Tower (1-4)
• Cycle of the Werewolf
• The Talisman
• The Eyes of the Dragon
• The Tommyknockers
• The Dark Half
• Needful Things
• Dolores Claiborne
• Insomnia
• The Green Mile
• Desperation
• The Regulators
• Bag of Bones
• The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
• Lisey’s Story (didn’t finish)
• Duma Key
• Under the Dome (didn’t finish)

Looking at the bibliography, I guess I ended up reading almost all of his 90’s output. That’s probably because my mom would read the books then let me read them. As a homeschooled Christian high schooler, I was always shocked by that.

Anakin Starkiller said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Anakin Starkiller said:

It’s time for me to come clean with you guys…I’ve never seen the unaltered OT.

And yet you still argue that Hayden in ROTJ makes more sense than Shaw.

LOL

It’s not like I’ve never seen the footage. I don’t think I need to see it within the context of the whole movie to take a stance on it. To me, Shaw as Anakin is a plot hole.

Old good guys die, ghosts are old men. Old bad guy dies, ghost is young man. It makes more sense that he looks like someone you (and Luke!) saw 5 minutes before than someone you haven’t seen in 6 hours (during a marathon) and Luke has never seen in his life.

moviefreakedmind said:

Well, I don’t see that the narrator deserves comeuppance for having such a harsh worldview, but if that has no bearing on the story I can see how it’s obnoxious. I don’t know why Wil Wheaton happening to be the audiobook reader has any effect on it being a problem. If it is relevant to the story it could provide a window into a jaded and hopeless mind. I’ve never read it, I don’t know, so I can’t say that it kills the mood since I have no idea how out of place it is.

I meant that he doesn’t get comeuppance for being an insufferable asshole through the entire book.

And I imagine Wheaton was reading it in the sly voice he does that makes even the most innocent things insufferable.

God, it was longer than I remembered.

moviefreakedmind said:

Is the character supposed to be an asshole?

He’s the point of view hero, who never has a comeuppance in any way.

I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said: “Here’s the deal, Wade. You’re something called a ‘human being.’ That’s a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this planet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evolution, and you’ll learn more about it But trust me, that’s really how we all got here. There’s proof of it everywhere, buried in the rocks. That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. “Oh, and by the way … there’s no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid Deal with it."

Cheery shit, in the middle of a book about a kid memorizing Holy Grail to win a contest.

moviefreakedmind said:

I’m curious what the context of that sentence is. There’s a tragic irony to being unable to believe in a philosophy that assigns meaning to life when you hate life.

The context is that his neighbor, who is the only person in real life who treats him kindly, believes in God. The speech is him telling the reader that he doesn’t have the heart to tell her that God is a myth perpetuated for generations and that he’s so much better off. And it’s at least a couple paragraphs long, just ranting to the reader about how enlightened he is and how dumb his kind neighbor is.

ChainsawAsh said:

SilverWook said:

ChainsawAsh said:

The Dark Tower, while far from perfect, is one of my favorite book series of all time. I’m so gutted at how they ruined the film adaptation. I’ve read the 2014 draft of the script and, while it wasn’t amazing, I wouldn’t have hated it and it would’ve been an okay foundation for a film series that followed books 2+ more closely.

But no, they cut that script to the bone and butchered both Roland’s motivation and the ending.

Here’s hoping the TV series that’s supposedly still going ahead is, in fact, a complete reboot as has been suggested instead of taking place within the universe of the film…

Has King complained about Dark Tower the way he does about Kubrick’s version of The Shining? 😉

No, he’s cooled off on complaining about adaptations and has become warmer about Kubrick’s film in recent years, too.

Besides, he was hyping up the DT movie during the run-up to its release, so if he does have a problem with it it’ll probably be a while before he’ll open up about it.

I hope he feels the same way about it that I do. A straight adaptation would have been a disaster. Take the base elements of the universe and make a movie out of it, not an adaptation of the books.

suspiciouscoffee said:

chyron8472 said:

doubleofive said:

Finished Ready Player One for the podcast “book club” 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back (from a couple of the RiffTrax guys). Holy shit, that book is the absolute worst. Badly written, poorly plotted, the main character has no redeeming qualities and spends 371 pages bragging about how much stuff he has memorized.

As a gamer, I was intrigued by this book so I bought the audiobook from Audible. I couldn’t even get past the first few chapters. Somewhere early on, the main character thinks about how smart he is for realizing there is no God, then almost immediately afterward he goes back to watching episodes of Family Ties and thinks about how pointless life is.

So… Rick and Morty?

Rick and Morty if the creators meant for Rick to be someone to emulate.

I also forgot the extended section on how much smarter he is than anyone else because atheism is the best, and the section on how everyone masturbates. Cool, definitely worthy of being heralded as the best book of the year and worth millions of dollars in movie rights.

Finished Ready Player One for the podcast “book club” 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back (from a couple of the RiffTrax guys). Holy shit, that book is the absolute worst. Badly written, poorly plotted, the main character has no redeeming qualities and spends 371 pages bragging about how much stuff he has memorized. The “exciting” parts of the book are people playing arcade games inside a VR game or actually just quoting the entirety of Monty Python And The Holy Grail.

It can’t even be interpreted as a deconstruction of nostalgia culture, or a morality tale about how pop culture shouldn’t be your obsession. There’s literally half a paragraph where someone says “I realized on my death bed that there’s more to life than video games”, then the book just stops. The kid is rewarded for memorizing more movies and being better at old arcade games than anyone else. Even when he teams up with other people for the final battle, the only help they give is exposing a glitch to allow him to win. Nothing about friendship being magic, the quest was never supposed to teach them a lesson. It’s just non-stop references and people bragging about getting the references.

Judging by the trailer, Spielberg seems to have scrapped the entire plot, so maybe the movie will have some redeeming qualities? But as a book, it’s just the worst.

I’ve also been reading Devil In The White City, which is extraordinary. Any one of the stories it tells could be a book, but the fact that they’re all together makes it all the better.

walks in, looks around, turns around and exits

Snaketibe said:

ZeeverFett said:

I would love to see Luke with his intended blue lightsaber in this Revisited version. They only made it green because of the blue sky on tatooine.

Granted George Lucas has contradicted himself many times over the years with regards to Star Wars, so who knows what the real story is, but the one I heard was that George made the saber green in Jedi to make it clear it’s a different one to the one Luke lost on Bespin.

Then it would have been scripted like that, and there wouldn’t be trailers with a blue saber.

Since Adywan isn’t editing the ST, it’s really not relevant. If he wanted to blow up the Falcon and kill Lando, he could, because Revisited is a Trilogy.

HerekittykittyX said:

I didn’t know that there was a prequel Revisited forum

There isn’t. Either a thread or Prequels Revisited.

Yeah, I’d only make a thread dedicated to a wild change if I’d actually figured out how to pull it off convincingly.

I’m so tired, you guys.

Almost every time travel episode uses a different method and follows a different theory about how time travel works.