So anything new they come up with for the new films that wasn’t in the OT sucks, but the new films also suck for being too derivative of the OT? Am I getting it?
I saw a tasty looking recipe for “blue milk” floating around the Internet that was essentially a White Russian with curaçao instead of kalhua. Supposed to taste like an orange creamsicle.
EDIT: NOOOOOOO I FINALLY DID THE MARKDOWN SAMPLE TEXT THING
If we ignore consistency with everything we’ve seen thus far about Force ghosts, I think it might be kind of cool to have them sort of oscillate between their young and old selves, not ever fully manifesting as either. I.E., for Obi-Wan, shoot McGregor, make a CGI Guinness, record audio of both McGregor and Stanton-as-Guinness, and then fade back and forth between them, never going more than 85% or so in one direction or the other, and probably favoring the older version just a bit. Sort of like how the TFA Force vision had both Guinness and McGregor, but also visually.
EDIT: I guess I had an old window that I hadn’t refreshed in a while open; I thought we were still talking about Force ghosts. Oh well, imagine this was a page ago.
The K2 droid is a nice touch.
I watched TFA for the first time in a while this afternoon, and I think I may have come around on the whole Starkiller thing. It occurred to me that what sets it apart from the other two Death Stars is the fact that the First Order isn’t the dominant power in the galaxy, but rather a lunatic fringe group. It’s like if Bin Laden had a nuke, which is something very different from what we saw with the Empire’s superweapons. I think they certainly could have explored that angle a lot more than they did, and I hope they will in subsequent stories, but for now I’ve decided that that’s enough of a twist for me to get past any lingering misgivings about Starkiller Base.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Corellian_ale/Legends
“Corellian ale had a sweet flavor and medium weight body.”
“It also came in a spiced variety.”
“In the first-edition WEG Star Wars Sourcebook, Corellian ale was described as being purple in color.”
That should get you started.
Yeah, they’ll almost certainly have an event dedicated to TLJ.
The main panel on the next day is for TLJ.
Eh, if I’m being honest I’m sure I won’t stay gone, but I do think I need a break. It seems that the board is becoming more about hating most of Star Wars than liking any of it.
Why do I even visit this site
Pretty much. This place is toxic. If we actually get the OUT after Celebration and keeping tabs on preservations ceases to be so important, I’m gone.
Maybe the character was always supposed to die in VIII anyway. That would really be ideal.
A few months ago I was talking about this at a bar with some friends, and we decided we’d like to see a Heart of Darkness riff about the droid who DID impersonate a deity, because there must have been one somewhere along the line if C-3PO’s programming specifically forbids it.
Everyone knows Star Wars is at its best when it features no characters, settings, or other signifiers from Star Wars.
Well if Alderaan doesn’t approve, maybe I am on to something after all.
At the risk of losing all credibility here, I could see myself accepting the Hayden version if they do something with ghost Hayden that doesn’t suck in the new movies. On a recent episode of Collider Jedi Council, they addressed the rumor that Yoda will appear as a ghost in The Last Jedi, and someone made a point that if Yoda does end up talking to Luke from beyond the grave onscreen, there’s nothing stopping Obi-Wan, Anakin, and (less likely) Qui-Gon. It’s a lot of "if"s, but IF they do bring in Anakin for TLJ, and IF they use Hayden, and IF his performance isn’t bad, and IF it feels earned in the context of the entire film, I would be open to including a post-2004 version of ROTJ in my complete saga watch-throughs.
Team Blu upscaled the broadcast rip of ANH to 720p. Last year they said the other two were coming soon, but there hasn’t been an update in quite a while.
I just saw a video stating that Krennic was originally supposed to die by Vader’s hands and I’m so glad they didn’t go down that route as Krennic being turned into star dust is the only death a man like that deserves.
Going in I was sure that’s how it would play out. Having him get clipped on the catwalk by the Death Star’s superlaser before it hits the planet does have a nice irony that death-by-Vader would have lacked.
I’d definitely say she’s in the top tier for EU original characters. She was probably the second most significant addition in the Thrawn trilogy after Thrawn himself, and she remained part of the core ensemble from Hand of Thrawn right up to her death. She also was introduced at a time when Leia was really the only game in town as far as female characters were concerned, and that meant a lot to a lot of people.
Incidentally, I think that TPM was the best CGI Jabba ever looked. I don’t understand how the 2004 version is so much worse than the 1999 one.
Why on earth can’t I preorder the Blu-ray on Amazon yet? They’ll let you preorder the streaming version, but it says the disc is unavailable. I think I remember preordering TFA in January. What gives?
K. W. Jeter’s The Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy was pretty neat. They’re not nearly as beloved as the Brian Daley books, but A.C. Crispin’s Han novels are pretty fun. I’m thinking I might revisit Outbound Flight after the new Thrawn book drops just to compare and contrast. I read about a third of it a few years ago and was enjoying it, but I put it down to read something else at some point and just never picked it back up.
Hidalgo tweeted earlier something to the effect of “just because a character believes something, that doesn’t make it true”. His take seems to be that at this point, Obi-Wan, unable to foresee Vader’s redemption in ROTJ, thinks that Luke must be the Chosen One.
I thought the duel was very reminiscent of a Sergio Leone-style gunfight, a huge buildup of tension and then the actual fight is over in a flash. I liked it a lot, it’s really cool to see that kind of sensibility applied to lightsaber dueling.
Also, after scanning comments sections on a few different reviews, I’ve come to the conclusion that there is nothing more tedious in all of Star Wars fandom than discussion of the numbered lightsaber forms.
Wait, Bosk and IP55 are different people?
At this point I think the main reason I’m hoping this 4K OOT happens is so that I can stop coming here for bootlegs and getting sucked into the whirlpool of combativeness and negativity the General Star Wars Discussion board has become.