oojason

'Star Trek and Benson Actor René Auberjonois Passes Away at 79:-

https://www.eonline.com/uk/news/1100669/star-trek-and-benson-actor-rene-auberjonois-passes-away-at-79

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/rene-auberjonois-actor-featured-in-star-trek-and-altman-films-dies-at-79/2019/12/08/3f59c822-1a0d-11ea-b4c1-fd0d91b60d9e_story.html

‘Caroll Spinney: Sesame Street’s Big Bird puppeteer dies’:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50705508

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/caroll-spinney-puppeteer-who-gave-life-to-big-bird-of-sesame-street-dies-at-85/2019/12/08/9a305ff0-402d-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html

‘Star Wars’ Kathleen Kennedy on the Long Road to Ending the Skywalkers’ Story’:-

https://io9.gizmodo.com/star-wars-kathleen-kennedy-on-the-long-road-to-ending-t-1840267035
 

‘Look for more from our chat with Kennedy and Rejwan next week where we discuss the decisions to reveal Palpatine and Dark Rey in the marketing, releasing The Mandalorian at the same time at The Rise of Skywalker, and the difficulty of coming up with that title.’
 

‘New plot spoiler policy - * please read * - Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker & The Mandalorian series’:-

https://originaltrilogy.com/announcement/New-plot-spoiler-policy-please-read-Episode-IX-The-Rise-Of-Skywalker-and-The-Mandalorian-series/id/16764

Please use the Spoiler Code (found in the ‘How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com thread) if discussing episodes or posting content from The Mandalorian - thank you.
 

‘New plot spoiler policy - * please read * - Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker & The Mandalorian series’:-

https://originaltrilogy.com/announcement/New-plot-spoiler-policy-please-read-Episode-IX-The-Rise-Of-Skywalker-and-The-Mandalorian-series/id/16764

Please use the Spoiler Code (found in the ‘How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com thread) if discussing episodes or posting content from The Mandalorian - thank you.
 

‘New plot spoiler policy - * please read * - Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker & The Mandalorian series’:-

https://originaltrilogy.com/announcement/New-plot-spoiler-policy-please-read-Episode-IX-The-Rise-Of-Skywalker-and-The-Mandalorian-series/id/16764

Please use the Spoiler Code (found in the ‘How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com thread) if discussing episodes or posting content from The Mandalorian - thank you.
 

‘New plot spoiler policy - * please read * - Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker & The Mandalorian series’:-

https://originaltrilogy.com/announcement/New-plot-spoiler-policy-please-read-Episode-IX-The-Rise-Of-Skywalker-and-The-Mandalorian-series/id/16764

Please use the Spoiler Code (found in the ‘How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com thread) if discussing episodes or posting content from The Mandalorian - thank you.
 

^ It is time for you to move on ‘imp_ardnfi’ - maybe find something most constructive to do than repeatedly coming back on here and trolling & baiting.

Maybe a community where you’d be welcome, to fit in, or maybe get along with other members - rather than attacking them.

Sorry to learn that you have some issues with what occurred in the past on here - though this thread is about the future of the site - not its history.
 

Thank you, and all the best.
 

^ Indeed mate. Some intriguing concepts and spins woven into the story we are familiar with. Plus, some neat added setups in there as well.

Quality voice-acting too.

I hope they do more…
 

Colin Furze builds a metal landspeeder that drives…

(the guy has previously built AT-ACTs and TIEs etc - and some truly mad non-Star Wars stuff; bunkers, underground beach huts, bikes that shoot fireworks, rocket launchers, jet swings, homemade hoverbikes, jet powered scooters, remote control trash cans, etc) 😃
 

‘Fabricating a Metal Landspeeder that DRIVES’:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2h_yHnTwVw
 

'Together myself and eBay Uk are building our 3rd Star Wars creation, we’ve made a huge AT-ACT Playhouse, a FULL SIZE Tie Silencer and now to celebrate the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder from the first film, A New Hope.

But out of Metal…This is no easy task.’

‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Press Conference’:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHq7VOwFWlY - at the Star Wars Unity youtube channel; 37 mins, from 4th December
 

A good idea mate - and one discussed in here just a few threads below yours:-

Some proposed changes to the categories in the Star Wars section of the OT.com…

😃
 

pleasehello said:

oojason said:

‘The Rise of Skywalker Will Introduce New Force Powers’:-

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/12/rise-of-skywalker-new-force-powers
 

“The Force is not a power you have.” -Luke Skywalker

I guess he’s dead now though, so to hell with that.

No worries mate - though I don’t think the title editors at Vanity Fair have more knowledge of The Force than Luke 😉
 

crissrudd4554 said:

Article on visual changes.

https://thedigitalbits.com/featured/articles/sw-new-hope-disneyplus-4k-2019?showall=1

Absolutely superb and sterling work - well in doubleofive 😃
 

theprequelsrule said:

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oojason said:

‘The Rise of Skywalker Will Introduce New Force Powers’:-

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/12/rise-of-skywalker-new-force-powers
 

We need less Force powers, not more. Disney is clueless.

Showing various type of force powers through the Star Wars films has occurred before Disney got involved.

Yes indeed…and not to the benefit of the franchise. The Force has been far too powerful since ESB.

So really your post was just another excuse to bash on Disney for something that you had issues with… long before Disney actually got involved with making Star Wars films.

An excuse? No. A reason? Yes.

So really your post was just another ‘reason’ to bash on Disney for something that you had issues with… long before Disney actually got involved with making Star Wars films.

Fixed for you.

If Disney chooses not to correct what I perceive as flaws in the conception of the Star Wars Universe, flaws that I consider diminish both a suspension of disbelief and a shrinking of potential storylines, then I am comfortable with my “bashing”. The Force needs to be toned down in power so that our heroes seem vulnerable. Disney will not do this because SW has become all about wish fulfillment fantasies of children and teenagers - or those with the equivalent mindset. No offence intended to you personally.

A shame you didn’t just write the above in your opening post on the issue instead of the irrelevant and somewhat nonsensical dig at Disney you initially posted.

Star Wars has always tried to appeal to wish fulfillment fantasies of the young - and much more besides. I imagine that’s a considerable reason why many have became fans.

No offence taken.

A fair response, but look at the difference between Luke and Rey. In SW77 Luke loses his family, his mentor, and his best friend. So he gains “power”, like all children and teens wish, BUT AT A GREAT COST. Rey loses nothing (except respect for Luke Skywalker). Perhaps there is a thread of something in TLJ - she loses a belief that she is anyone special, right? But wait, she is super awesome with the force, so she actually is something special afterall. Huh? What?

Luke wants to learn about the ways of The Force - in part because his revered father did, he had nothing left on Tatooine after his family is killed - and in part because of the call to adventure.

Rey comes from nothing (apparently) - no family, no mentor, no friends - and no wish to have these powers within her that have awakened (in TFA). She wants to wait on Jakku for her ‘family’ to return to her. In fact she runs away from the call to adventure and the situation it has led her to (upon Luke’s lightsabre calling to her) and responsibilities that will entail - plus weight of them too.
 

The ‘super awesome with the force’ trope is something I just don’t see in Rey and what has occurred onscreen.

For me if she were ‘super awesome with the force’…

she would not have been so easily captured by Kylo upon her running away, needed to read to Kylo’s mind during her interrogation to learn some of these powers (or the mind-trick at least), nor lost the later fight vs Kylo before ‘letting the Force in’, Snoke wouldn’t be throwing her around like a ragdoll in his throneroom, nor have to have relied on Kylo betraying and killing Snoke to save her from execution, and she would not have needed to team up with Kylo to defeat the Imperial Guards after killing Snoke - something she struggled with during the fight. Pulling that 'sabre from Kylo wouldn’t be much of a problem either.

Her knowledge and understanding of The Force would also be better than it was in TLJ (and Luke training her and having to even explain the basics - ‘everything she just said was wrong’, y’know… 😉) - which again was far from ‘super awesome with the force’.

It would have been Rey who would have been her that saved the Resistance on Crait with her ‘super awesome with the force’ abilities to save or even defeat the FO - and not Luke sacrificing himself to buy them just enough time to escape with their lives to live another day…

Seems obvious to me Rey had total respect for Luke Skywalker - frustrated and confused why he wouldn’t leave the island and join her in the fight - sure. Yet full on respect for Luke is there - maybe viewing the end scenes of TLJ again will underline this.
 

As I’ve said before, this trilogy is incomplete… and we may well yet receive an explanation (or more understanding) of how Rey came to have that ‘Something inside me has always been there, but now it’s awake and I need help’, the dreams of familiar places etc, in TROS.
 

But Rey being ‘super awesome with the force’? No, that just hasn’t happened for me. YMMV.

Anyway, this is not a place to rehash previous circular and oft-repeated debates that have taken place in the TFA/TLJ or more relevant character threads etc - this thread is for discussing Episode IX itself; so let’s get back on topic.

theprequelsrule said:

oojason said:

theprequelsrule said:

oojason said:

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oojason said:

theprequelsrule said:

oojason said:

‘The Rise of Skywalker Will Introduce New Force Powers’:-

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/12/rise-of-skywalker-new-force-powers
 

We need less Force powers, not more. Disney is clueless.

Showing various type of force powers through the Star Wars films has occurred before Disney got involved.

Yes indeed…and not to the benefit of the franchise. The Force has been far too powerful since ESB.

So really your post was just another excuse to bash on Disney for something that you had issues with… long before Disney actually got involved with making Star Wars films.

An excuse? No. A reason? Yes.

So really your post was just another ‘reason’ to bash on Disney for something that you had issues with… long before Disney actually got involved with making Star Wars films.

Fixed for you.

If Disney chooses not to correct what I perceive as flaws in the conception of the Star Wars Universe, flaws that I consider diminish both a suspension of disbelief and a shrinking of potential storylines, then I am comfortable with my “bashing”. The Force needs to be toned down in power so that our heroes seem vulnerable. Disney will not do this because SW has become all about wish fulfillment fantasies of children and teenagers - or those with the equivalent mindset. No offence intended to you personally.

A shame you didn’t just write the above in your opening post on the issue instead of the irrelevant and somewhat nonsensical dig at Disney you initially posted.

Star Wars has always tried to appeal to wish fulfillment fantasies of the young - and much more besides. I imagine that’s a considerable reason why many have became fans.

No offence taken.

theprequelsrule said:

oojason said:

theprequelsrule said:

oojason said:

theprequelsrule said:

oojason said:

‘The Rise of Skywalker Will Introduce New Force Powers’:-

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/12/rise-of-skywalker-new-force-powers
 

We need less Force powers, not more. Disney is clueless.

Showing various type of force powers through the Star Wars films has occurred before Disney got involved.

Yes indeed…and not to the benefit of the franchise. The Force has been far too powerful since ESB.

So really your post was just another excuse to bash on Disney for something that you had issues with… long before Disney actually got involved with making Star Wars films.

An excuse? No. A reason? Yes.

So really your post was just another ‘reason’ to bash on Disney for something that you had issues with… long before Disney actually got involved with making Star Wars films.

Fixed for you.

theprequelsrule said:

oojason said:

theprequelsrule said:

oojason said:

‘The Rise of Skywalker Will Introduce New Force Powers’:-

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/12/rise-of-skywalker-new-force-powers
 

We need less Force powers, not more. Disney is clueless.

Showing various type of force powers through the Star Wars films has occurred before Disney got involved.

Yes indeed…and not to the benefit of the franchise. The Force has been far too powerful since ESB.

So really your post was just another excuse to bash on Disney for something that you had issues with… long before Disney actually got involved with making Star Wars films.

theprequelsrule said:

oojason said:

‘The Rise of Skywalker Will Introduce New Force Powers’:-

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/12/rise-of-skywalker-new-force-powers
 

We need less Force powers, not more. Disney is clueless.

Showing various type of force powers through the Star Wars films has occurred before Disney bought Lucasfilm.

I’m not aware of Disney demanding there be more force powers in the Sequel Films like there were in the PR and OT - could you provide a link to the article where you saw this?

‘The Rise of Skywalker Will Introduce New Force Powers’:-

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/12/rise-of-skywalker-new-force-powers
 

‘NO TIME TO DIE’ - Trailer UK:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og2vYP7VzUs - at the official James Bond 007 youtube channel
 

‘In No Time To Die, Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.’

‘No Time To Die: First trailer for new James Bond film debuts’:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50645415

https://twitter.com/RichardEGrant/status/1202114990209032192:-

‘Just seen the 1st cast screening of @starwars #THE RISE OF SKYWALKER. What it achieves, weaves & resolves, is a total emotional meltdown & resurrection of the Spirit. Bravo to @jjabrams & his astonishing cast & creative crew 💥🚀💥🚀💥🚀💥🚀💥🚀💥🚀’

with quite a happy & also emotional video in the link above (no spoilers in it)
 

‘Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge’ - new kids game show coming to Disney+

https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-jedi-temple-challenge

'Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge, an exciting new Disney+ game show set in a galaxy far, far away, will test young contestants’ abilities in the core Jedi principles of strength, knowledge, and bravery as they face thrilling and fun obstacles in an attempt to achieve the rank of Jedi Knight! From lightsabers to hyperspace, the Force, and the dark side, Jedi Temple Challenge transports viewers and contestants into the Star Wars galaxy like never before.

The show is hosted by Ahmed Best, who will play a Jedi Master and mentor to the contestants. Known to many fans as Jar Jar Binks from the Star Wars prequels, Best’s unique set of skills as an actor, dancer, martial arts expert, STOMP musician, and Star Wars fan make him the perfect choice as the show’s host and mentor. Best is joined by a hilarious humanoid droid companion, voiced by Mary Holland.

“This is definitely a kids game show like no other,” says Lucasfilm’s senior director of Online Content & Programming, Mickey Capoferri. “The various challenges will test a Padawan’s connection to the Force in three locations — a forest planet, on board a Jedi star cruiser, and inside a Jedi temple — immersing them and the audience in a fun, humorous, and exciting competition.”

“Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge brings together the best of Star Wars — competitive spirit, harrowing obstacles and a hero’s triumph over challenges — in a totally new format for the franchise,” said Dan Silver, vice president, Originals — Unscripted Content, Disney+. “A game show set in the Star Wars galaxy is a perfect fit for Disney+.”

Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge is developed by Lucasfilm’s Scott Bromley and Steve Blank with Mickey Capoferri and Christine Beebe serving as executive producers. The series is produced by Lucasfilm and Endeavor Content’s non-scripted group with executive producers Dean Houser, David Chamberlin, and Mike Antinoro."
 

Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge will stream exclusively on Disney+ in 2020.
 

I saw this again earlier today…

A really absorbing and insightful documentary (from 2015) - featuring Dave himself, and interviews with Star Wars producers Gary Kurtz & Robert Watts, actors Kenny Baker & Jeremy Bulloch, along with archive footage of Ben Burrt & James Earl Jones, and many people behind the scenes involved the making of the OT films and the look and design of Vader.

It features some stunning artwork depicting famous scenes and images from throughout the Original Trilogy.

The doc also touches on his early life, his long career in film and tv before and after the Original Trilogy films, as well as his life since.

As the story goes in regards to Dave Prowse supposedly revealing the end of the Original Trilogy to the press before filming had finished… this is debunked here. Also there is story from the journalists who broke the leaked story at the time - in which they claim it was NOT David Prowse who was the source providing the leaks to them.

Yet still Lucasfilm persist with shunning the actor, making him persona non grata from attending official functions etc, and also from the larger conventions - which the doc also covers.
 

Well worth a watch - and with some top narration from Colm Meaney.
 

I imagine these will be selling well - not sure about that delivery / pickup date for them though…

^ ‘The Star Wars Child 11 Plush’

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Star-Wars-The-Child-11-Plush/863451787 - $24.99 for the 11" plush toy