The talented ChainsawAsh knocked up some quality covers which may be of interest mate…
Are there any alt covers for the Hal9000 edits of the prequel trilogy? Looking to get cases to stick my dvd copies in. Sorry if this is not the place to ask.
I’ve got some BR sized covers for them somewhere. Gimme a bit and I’ll try to find a link.
by chromesteel, a member on here, for his 3-in-1 Prequel Edit
Waves of trash off the coast of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic…
^ from https://imgur.com/gallery/ZCjSlvE
Something like this - though each lightsabre battle for each OT slipcover?
or maybe something like this?
A Buffy reboot?
A spin-off maybe, but a reboot? Hmmnnn…
If so more Anya, please.
Oh God this joke is great.
Spaced is well worth a watch (or a re-watch) 😃
A video review from HelloGreedo on the new(-ish) and continuing ‘Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith’ comics…
#1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyIFNQjHEk8
#2 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GEukJ1YKnw
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Darth_Vader:_Dark_Lord_of_the_Sith
I liked Luke’s vibe in TLJ in theory, but the execution bugged me somewhat. Luke in exile was great. Luke reconsidering past events and pondering (as I have as a fan) the idea of Jedi hubris was great. Luke suggesting that the old Jedi orthodoxy had to die was great. All the stuff about the Force and ‘balance’ and how no-one has a particular claim to it was absolutely great.
What I didn’t like so much was the idea of Luke being on the back foot with all this. Having Yoda come back to give Luke a lecture on ‘failure’ annoyed me. Luke transcended his masters in RoTJ. Yoda and Obi Wan wanted Luke to simply kill the bad guys. Luke chose a more personal, Zen route. I’d prefer he’d been doing the grumpy hobo routine in TLJ as an act - similar to Yoda’s initial test in TESB. This could have been his way of forcing Rey to take her destiny into her own hands, a new and different path away from the usual formalised Jedi training routine. Once Rey had flown off to confront Kylo, Luke could have revealed his cunning duplicity to Yoda and they could’ve burned down the Jedi tree together. Then, after Luke’s great skype-battle with Kylo, Rey could’ve realised what he’d done and be like “you sly devil”.
This way he could’ve played the hobo but still been the Luke we all love and respect without being diminished.
If you didn’t notice, the scene with Yoda doesn’t alter the more Zen route he took in ROTJ. Yoda isn’t advising him on the force, he is advising him how to teach. Advising him as a fellow master. I think because Luke was so pivotal, Rian didn’t just have him fill the master/mentor role immediately. He brought back some of that negativity that characterized Luke in ANH and TESB. It created a nice character journey for Luke to take him where he needed to be to help Rey.
Yes, spot on. Luke had previously taught Rey to look at things from that ‘different point of view’ - to challenge pre-conceptions and ideals - subvert expectations, to take a wider view on matters (the bigger picture) - to not follow the previous Jedi rhetoric and beaten path. That, later followed by Luke helping Rey realise the galaxy needed her more - not him… and after the scene with Yoda… then ‘going out’ with a final act of self-sacrifice to help his friends.
Am looking forward to seeing how Luke may help Rey further in IX…
I don’t remember anyone saying that girls couldn’t relate to Luke.
I do know my daughters identify much more strongly with Rey.
“I think there was an assumption being made for quite a while that girls didn’t care about Star Wars or that girls weren’t identifying with characters like Luke Skywalker or Han Solo; they were only identifying with Princess Leia or characters in other movies along those lines. And you know I think that it is not just Star Wars that is making this change, I think culturally, I want to believe that there is real movement and momentum beginning to happen where those kinds of lines are being blurred and people are recognizing in the creative community that um little girls, and little boys, for that matter are crossing over into identifying with lots of different characters and lots of different stories; And we as filmmakers should not be the ones providing those boundaries we should just tell the stories and they should be open a wide variety of not only gender but ethnicity. and that is another thing we are really working to do is to make the casting reflect society in a much more equal basis.”
- Kathleen Kennedy, President of Lucasfilm, Star Wars Celebration 2016
As I interpret Kennedy’s words, she’s literally saying, that in the past filmmakers were providing boundaries by not casting women or people of different ethnicity in certain roles making it harder for women and people of different ethnicity to identify with these characters. She seems to thus imply that these past filmmakers (among them Lucas) were delibirately catering to boys, and white people, because they didn’t believe these stories would appeal to anybody else, and that only recently these lines are beginning to be blurred. Filmmakers should thus facilitate this movement by casting on an equal basis.
While it is true that men and women were not given equal opportunity in the film industry, I think it is faulty and inherently sexist to assume that a character’s gender is in any way important in the way men and women relate to these characters. As such, the fact that Rey and Jyn are female protagonists is important, because it reflects equality in casting, not because their gender makes these characters more relatable to women. If the inherent assumption is, that by casting women in gender neutral roles in Star Wars the franchise will become more appealing to women, then I would consider such a notion higly superficial and sexist.
For interest, info and a bit of balance…
Kathleen Kennedy’s quoted words appear in this article here:-
^ Quite an enjoyable article, that. Although the tile refers to the EU, it also lends itself to SW as a whole as well.
Though this is a ‘Has SW finally jumped the shark?’ thread, so further discussions on diversity and the political situation of Star Wars is likely better suited to the ‘Culture, politics, and diversity in Star Wars’ thread, or other more suited threads.
Huh, a bit of deja vu for a moment there.
Thank you.
Really nice ‘The Last Jedi 360 scene illustration’ - remember to look up and down too 😉
(your browser will need to be able to run WebGL)
Star Wars : Spaced Moments - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2nxe74
Austerity is affecting everyone these days…
Adrian Cronauer, ‘Good Morning, Vietnam’ D.J., Dies at 79…
The youngest Spitfire pilot to fly in the Battle of Britain during World War Two has died, it has been announced.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-44895703
Sqn Ldr Geoffrey Wellum, who was just 18 when he joined the RAF in August 1939, died at his home in Cornwall on Wednesday evening aged 96.
Hackers ‘targeting US mid-term elections’…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44898505
^ not one for the footballing purist that Super Cup game 😉
Why is that?
Atletico aren’t known for their attractive football - they grind out results, and it’s not easy on the eye to watch at times. However, it is very effective, they are masters at it - and they were underdogs for many years, so fair play to them for playing that way (big respect a good organised defence). For Real, - of late they seem have become somewhat of a flat-track bully - easily good enough to beat most teams - yet when they play a similar quality team that resort to somewhat negative tactics, and rely heavily on a piece of brilliance to get them the win. The quality of flowing football isn’t there as it once was. Again, nowt wrong with that - each to their own etc - yet not pleasant to watch at times.
Masreille and Liverpool - generally try and play open attractive football - almost to a fault. Both overplay at times when they should see a game out (take the sting out of game) or defend as a unit for a period of the game and then go again. It makes for an appealing spectacle - even when it all goes wrong and they’ll lose - you’ll see some quality footy, goals and a bit of excitement. This is often reflected by both teams’ fans - loud, passionate and can intimidate an opposition side at times.
So, from a ‘footballing purist’ point of view - and that Mala and me support both those clubs - if our teams had won we’d have met each other in the Super Cup - and it would be a pretty enjoyable game or spectacle to watch. Real vs Atletico - not so much. Just my opinion, of course… 😃
Smart ground Philadelphia has,
What does “smart ground” mean?
A ‘neat’ ground, a cool ground - with a superb view of the bridge! Seems modern and purpose-built - so better suited for a soccer fan. You can see it may likely have a soul when the fans are in it; cheering their team on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsLAnCgYPQ0
‘White House urged to give full account of Trump’s private talks with Putin’…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/19/donald-trump-putin-talks-helsinki-russia-white-house
In other news…
‘Trump invites Putin to visit US’:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44895384
^ Yes mate - unfortunately, sometimes that area of the .Gov website goes down - and seemingly quite often these days.
I’ve added a couple more links in the signature for additional info.
For anyone interested in learning more about what actually happened, these programs may be of interest (be warned - they are at times a difficult watch)…
Hillsborough Never Forgotten (BBC 2013) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMHlS_mIiT4
Hillsborough Disaster : How They Buried the Truth (BBC Panorama 2013) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knOzvMi_pO4
Hillsborough (Dan Gordon - BBC & ESPN 30 for 30, 2016) - http://www.terrisus.com/misc/Hillsborough.mp4
Hillsborough: anatomy of a disaster (The Guardian 2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMVwG2pqxeA
Hillsborough inquest: the real truth after 27 years (Channel 4 2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1auPzjDVuM
Special Report | Hillsborough: Truth, Lies & Justice (Sky News 2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bafilt2BG2g
Hillsborough : ITV Drama-Reconstruction (Jimmy McGovern 1996) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEbZwn5VSiQ
We’re a very friendly people, Warbler. Someone would likely explain as to why it’s not the done thing to read that rag in Liverpool (or likely anywhere) - and you’d likely be offered the opportunity to bin it, or someone may offer to do that for you.
Information and education are key.
‘Total Eclipse Of The S*n’…
Liverpool’s 30-year boycott is still going strong
https://theovertake.com/~protest/liverpool-vs-the-sun/
On a similar note…
https://stopfundinghate.org.uk/ : https://twitter.com/StopFundingHate
Why did you censor the name? I mean, I have only cursory knowledge of how terrible UK tabloids like itself are, but why censor the name like that?
Why not obfuscate the name of that vile rag?
