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http://youtu.be/W8ZlL19Y_Lk?t=14m10s
The one at 14:10 was pretty interesting!
And here is part 2, complete with the Hulk (?) leaping around to Indiana Jones music (?).:
The action sequence from 3:20 - 3:40 is particularly deserving of an Oscar. Sheer brilliance.
http://youtu.be/js6NqlAc29I?t=4m50s
What. . . the. . .
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. . .huh?
I composed some theme music for Porkins, one of the unsung heroes of Episode IV:
http://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/88aa30c7f1b37ef3812643cfdf1cd22f7c83721b
I don't know how to compose epic orchestra Star Wars music, so I made a little piano thing.
Are they made by extraterrestrials? Time travellers? Government researchers testing out secret technology?
Whatever they are, I find it hard to believe what the skeptics believe: that all crop formations are made by bunch of greasy, chubby college-dropoutsusing rope and wooden planks.
I have yet to see any skeptic offer proof for their claims. Until a video surfaces on Youtube showing a group of people making a 350-foot wide formation in PITCH BLACKNESS in the middle of a farm, WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT, in LESS than 12 hours, then I will remain convinced that such a thing is simply not possible.
The 15-year old girl was pregnant, too.
But two suspects were just arrested. They are both teenagers from Philadelphia. (It's not really surprising, though. Over the past few years a lot of drug dealers and gang memberss have been coming into our area from Philadelphia. The number of homicides has skyrocketed around where I live - and of course, anybody who says anything is automatically labelled "racist." The newspapers are even too politically correct to mention that witnesses saw two BLACK MALES fleeing the scene.)
It's sad because they were all so young.
I found an article online about it.
PLYMOUTH, Pa. (AP) — Authorities have released the names of the victims of a shooting at a northeastern Pennsylvania apartment building that left three people dead and another person critically injured.
Police in Luzerne County say the gunfire was reported at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday at a unit in the building in Plymouth, about 24 miles southwest of Scranton.
State police at the Wyoming barracks said 21-year-old Bradley Swartwood of Plymouth, 17-year-old Nicolas Maldonado of Plymouth and 15-year-old Lisa Abaunza of Duryea were pronounced dead at the scene. A 19-year-old Plymouth man was taken to Geisinger Hospital in Plains Township in critical condition.
Police said two men were seen leaving the apartment after the gunfire. State police are investigating along with Plymouth police and county prosecutors.
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How does Luke/Leia/Han/any other important character die? Do R2-D2 or C3PO live forever? How far into the future does the EU go?
I discovered the galactic timeline on Wookepedia. It goes back far enough in history (geez), but it doesn't go too far into the future.
Anchorhead said:
Oddly enough, Lucas has one of the weakest understandings of what made it connect with people's imaginations in 1977 - if he even understands it at all. In my opinion, by the way, he does not.
I was watching the extra features on a Star Wars DVD, and I remember George Lucas kept saying "laser sword" instead of "lightsaber."
I haven't gone through and read the posts that preceed mine, but it seems that many debates over the existence of God/ influence of God over reality presuppose an "either/or" mentality.
There is an atheist by the name of Richard Dawkins who discussed in a book his concept of a "god of the gaps." His idea is that people use God as an attempt as an explanation for the workings of any misunderstood natural phenomenon, only to abandon this once a naturalistic explanation has been found. (I am not an atheist anymore, but I do like to hear all sides of any argument that interests me.)
Assuming that God does exist, is theistic (rather than deistic), and is truly omnipotent and omniscient, then the only analogy that I can think of to compare this to is virtual reality.
Let's say I were to step into a computer world (like the Matrix or a video game or whatever). I am walking down the street, and to my side I see a red ball. I kick it and it rolls a few feet ahead of me, slowly coming to a stop.
Now, everything in that situation can be explained though physics. But does it mean that the massive supercomputer running the virtual reality world had no part to play, or that it is a contradiction to say that both the laws of physics and the supercomputer make it move? On an immediate, superficial level, you could argue that it must be that the supercomputer had no part to play. But would it really be a contradiction to say that, on a sublime level, it was all by the invisible hand of that supercomputer?
I took a nap this afternoon. I woke up, went out my front door, and saw that the state police had blocked off the street on both ends with yellow tape.
Three people were brutally shoot in the house across the street. One of the guys apparently kept shooting the one victom so much that the bullets went through his body, through the floor and into a water pipe, flooding the entire downstairs.
These things happen so unexpectedly, sometimes!
Considering that Episodes 1-3 focus on the first Skywalker becoming the Emperor's apprentice, 4-6 on the second Skywalker bringing the Emperor down from power (although, it really was Anakin that did it), reason would seem to imply that the third trilogy would focus on the third generation Skywalker bringing balance to the Force or whatever.
Who is to say that the Emperor actually died at the end of Episode VI? And why would the Empire, with all of the massive ships and vast legions of troops, suddenly decide to call it quits? Out of the entire galactic population, were Vader and the Emperor really the only two on the dark side of the Force?)
I am not a Star Wars expert, so feel free to correct me on any errors.
Have Mark Hamill or Harrison Ford or anybody else ever commented on them?
I'm only 23, and I've only been a Star Wars fan since around '97 or so, but even when I saw Ep. 1 I was disappointed.
The ending of Episode 3 was epic, though. For the first time, there was a sense of internal cosmetic consistency between the a prequel and the originals. (The computers were "old-fashioned" looking, with all the bells and whistles! Why Mr. Lucas. . . why couldn't that have been the look for the entirety of the prequel trilogy???)
CP3S said:
xhonzi said:
Also- not in that thread, but I do recall thinking that Tatooine->Alderaan was about 5 minutes, but someone suggested that they could be on the Falcon for days. It all seems to make more sense to me that way. Also- I think Zahn writes hyperspace as still taking significant time to travel. Not compared to realspace, but still not instantaneous.
I've always felt that the trip to Alderaan was the only place in any Star Wars film where they made it feel like space travel took a long time. Han walks out and gives them an arrival time, and the characters waste time playing chess and playing with laser swords. I've always gotten the impression that the trip took them several hours.
However, starting with The Empire Strikes Back, you start to feel getting from one end of the galaxy to the other takes about as much time and effort as getting from one end of a big city to the other. Though once you get to the PT, space travel suddenly feels instantaneous as they zip around from planet to planet. If Star Wars makes space travel feel like an intercontinental flight, and ESB and ROTJ make it feel like traveling around a big city, then the PT makes it feel like an extremely hyper kid on his bicycle bouncing around his neighborhood from one friend's house to the nest.
Maybe the Millenium Falcom isn't as powerful a ship as the ones in the new movies. When Luke first saw it, he called it a piece of junk. Maybe Han's ship took a little longer to travel than some of the "higher end" models that were around.
This is mine (right now, anyways)
Stars do exist in intergalactic space. They're just far and few.
Those other stars in the distance probably are just galaxies, though.
Darth Maul should have been female.
Darth Maulina?
I don't know. If it were possible to travel at the speed of light across our own Milkey Way galaxy, it would take over 150,000 years just to go from one end to the other. Travelling at the speed of a NASA space shuttle would take over 300 million years to make the same trip.
A galaxy is an enormous place!
Say a galaxy contains 100 billion stars. Of those 100 billion, only 1 billion have planets orbiting them. And of those 1 billion stars with planets, lets say about 1 million have planets with atmospheres. And now let's assume 999,000 of those planets have toxic atmospheres unable to support any sort of life.
So that leaves us with 1,000 planets (and the occasional moon) that have life/ been terraformed to support life. And let's say that each planet has, on average, 10 billion inhabitants.
You're looking at a galactic population of around 10,000,000,000,000. That's ten TRILLION!
How many Jedi are there? Even if there were MILLIONS of Jedi running around the galaxy, the chances of actually SEEING one in your lifetime would be practically zero.
Now, my numbers are all pretty conservative. It's safe to assume that many of the larger planets could easily have 40 or 50 billion living on them.
In my opinion, the prequels give the impression that everybody knows about the Jedi and the Force simply because the movies focus almost entirely on characters directly and indirectly involved with the Jedi. I would imagine someone like Han Solo would have spend his entire life as a cargo smuggler in the "backwater" parts of the galaxy FAR from the more "active" places. To him, the Clone Wars would have been little more than a brief mention on the evening news, so to speak. So even though both Obi-wan and Han Solo would have spend a lot of time travelling the galaxy, they would have had radically different experiences doing so.
(There are people who are clueless about the sorts of conflicts happening in places like Africa and the Middle East. And they live on the SAME planet!)
ray_afraid said:
So, Han Solo at age 30 (guessing age here) no longer believes in things that were obviously factual when he was 15.
When I was a kid, I used to have a Star Wars Ep. IV video game for Nintendo. It listed Han Solo's age as 35. When I read this I was reminded of that for some reason.
I had a family friend who lived in Texas for a few years, and not once did he ever see a Texas Ranger.
I am not sure how many Jedi there are/were in the Star Wars galaxy, but when I think about how large a galaxy is, how many planets and moons must be inhabited, how many beings there must be spread throughout, and Han Solo's comments in Ep. IV (where he criticizes belief in the existence of the Force), it seems that the average citizen probably had no awareness of the Force.
The chances of even seeing a Jedi in one's lifetime must have been close to zero, and considering that they were the only ones who really used the Force, would the average galactic citizen even know about the Force (other than through rumor)?
(For the record, I'm only a "casual" Star Wars fan. I couldn't tell you where Chewbacca went to college or anything like that. I might need the "Star Wars 101" answer.)
Ray bradbury died today, and I just wanted to mention that he is one on my favorite scifi authors. The first thing of his I ever read was "The Illustrated Man" and I have loved his writing ever since.
George Lucas' original vision :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKEg6fJ-7P4
My favorite quote:
"You are an f***ing choir boy compared to be, a choir boy!"
They're not inconsistencies; they're disturbances in the Force.