screams in the void

I made a Dune 1984 poster …https://www.deviantart.com/screamsinthevoid/art/Dune-1984-839803627

SilverWook said:

Cthulhunicron said:

SilverWook said:

Maybe the crowd was just more of these guys?

Or else I think it’s just his personal army of Torgos. ;P

Who exactly are those guys? Anyone know?

IIRC, they were supposed to be his advisors, so pretty much like all the flunkies he kept around in the prequels only less alien.
I don’t think I’ve ever spotted the conehead one in the movie.

What was Kenner thinking making one of these guys an action figure when we never even got a Wedge?

Poor chap never even got a proper name at the time.

^ Wow , I never noticed just how much those guys look like something drawn by Jean Geraud Moebius ! He had an influence on the look of the probe droid , so I wonder if they used him for inspiration here as well ? I would be willing to bet that they did .

^ that is AWESOME!!! And the music makes it ten times more exciting !

They fought on …like cadets .

ray_afraid said:

^ Hey, I was talking on the phone with my mom this morning & happened, for some reason, to mention waking up thirsty, & she said the SAME THING YOU DID!
I laughed & when she asked what was funny, I just told her “A kind soul just passed off this same info.” 😄
Kinda has me thinking though… Maybe I should cut back on my water intake just so see how my thirst is really doing? Sounds strange, but.

^ Mom’s are the greatest ! Your body does need water though, so I would recommend drinking a moderate amount . Exercise is key and avoiding too many carbs and sugars . Portion control on food . You can still enjoy things but in moderation . You need to burn off what you take in .Wish I had been more aware of this before I was diagnosed . I might have prevented it .But then , I was in my mid 40’s and it was adult onset. plus ,it can be hereditary . 2 of my relatives had type 2 .Even a brisk 15 minute walk per day can help towards prevention .

^ good question , I will ask Nathan in the comments .almost sounds like something from a Star Trek film to me .lol

Dig it ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SspyGTSzQo0 From the Star Wars Home Video Library #268: THX Remastered Edition In-store Preview VHS

^ you’re welcome .

I have multiple vhs copies of Batman 89 . I bought a 13 inch tv/vcr combo at a thrift shop back in 2013 and it played all of the vhs tapes that I put in it just fine , but for some reason , it kept eating every copy of Batman 89 that I put into it . That little tv combo really hates that movie ! I still have a sealed copy and a playable one that works fine in my stand alone vcr though.

ray_afraid said:

Last night I woke up middle of the night VERY thirsty.
It was weird, because it took me a sec to figure out what this sensation was. I haven’t actually been thirsty in years! I’m constantly drinking water, so the feeling of thirsty just never happens anymore.
Or, rarely, I guess.

^ keep an eye on that…I have type 2 diabetes and excessive thirst is one of the early warning signs .If it continues , I would recommend seeing a doctor . I was diagnosed about 5 years ago and that was how it started for me .I could not stop drinking water .

idir_hh said:

Kylo Ren seeks out THE SITH MASTER Tor Valum (FanMade audiobook excerpt)
https://youtu.be/XiUqPZjqyCA

^ That is awesome ! I hope he does the whole script this way !

^ good question , although the writer of that comic Archie Goodwin ened up killing off Dodonna in his newspaper strip . He planted charges all over Yavin base to buy the Rebels more time to escape when the Empire came back to drive them off Yavin , sacrificing himself.

ZkinandBonez said:

screams in the void said:

NBC network television premiere of TESB intro…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naGx6ZfL_-g

Television Intro from “NBC Sunday Night at the Movies”
Aired and recorded the night of: 11/22/87

Great find. I love that Outer Limits style voice-over, it’s always fun when ads like this got creative instead of just cutting a bunch of movie clips together.

^ the fact that James Earl Jones as Darth Vader narrates the intro is the icing on the cake ! could be a good resource for fan editors who can isolate the audio …

NBC network television premiere of TESB intro…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naGx6ZfL_-g

Television Intro from “NBC Sunday Night at the Movies”
Aired and recorded the night of: 11/22/87

^ I got the 7 volume set of A Long Time Ago trades from Dark Horse as soon as they came out in 2002 , I love em , but I like the omnibus presentation a bit more . The covers of these were just strange https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=10949481

fantastic article ! I just wish they had used an actual image from the original rather than that pic from ROS .

oojason said:

‘General Leia Organa is a revered figure amongst the Resistance. But early drafts for the sequel trilogy suggested that Carrie Fisher’s alter ego wasn’t beloved in all quarters. In a treatment outlined by Michael Arndt, it was revealed that Leia’s status as Darth Vader’s daughter sidelined her while the Rebellion tried to transition into building a new Republic.’
 

^ I think this would have been a welcome addition to what we saw on screen - especially for the lack of world-building and awareness on the ‘lay of the land’ / current state of the Galaxy in The Force Awakens… especially in regards to the plight of the Resistance, the New Republic, and also the status of the First Order itself.

^this is the whole premise of the book Bloodline by Claudia Gray . One of the few Disney books that I thoroughly enjoyed .
and this would have been awesome too…https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Scandal_of_Blood

the ones I have bought …1992 Special Collectors edition widescreen VHS set , I plopped down 120 bucks for it after seeing it in Suncoast Motion Picture Company and it was the first time I saw the film in widescreen outside of the times I saw them in the theater . I had the pan and scan tapes beginning in 1987 after they were given to me in clear plastic cases from someone I knew who ran a small video rental store and got extra copies of the tapes…1997 special edition pan and scan gold box set …2000 Vhs Box set Pan and scan because it was cheap and I liked the packaging . 2004 DVD silver box set .All three of the Walmart exclusive GOUT with the comic adaptations . The widescreen vhs collectors edition of TPM . The DVD of TPM ( it was my first dvd and I bought my first dvd player with it , an APEX which I still have) AOTC widescreen DVD , ROTS Widescreen DVD TFA blu ray ,TLJ blu ray and a friend bought my a basic blu ray player with the 2015 blu ray box set as a gift that year.I also bought the 95 faces vhs pan and scan box for 10 bucks from a dear departed friend in 2010.

I feel kind of funny ,like when I used to climb the rope in gym class. I’ll see myself out…

Henceforth ,he shall be known as Insidious Sheev Palpatations .

^ "wars not make one great "- Master Yoda . I think she is both . She started out as a senator from Alderaan . I liked that the early EU , before EU was a term for it , addressed the issue of Leia being torn between being a diplomat and a military leader in the wake of ROTJ in the original Marvel Star Wars comic …https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_90:_The_Choice

NFBisms said:

Here’s a pretty detailed rambling about the Force from George himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68dvgRT3Kx8

Lucas talks about the dark side as selfishness versus the light side as selflessness.

From video: “And you want to keep it in balance.” ^(following left/right arm movements reminiscent of a metronome)

Selfishness is dark side. The dark side itself is not the anger, greed, hatred, fear, jealousy, etc. - those are all just extensions of self-preservation and greed - manifestations of the extent you are passionate about what you desire. How angry or scared you are, defining how far you’re willing to go in your actions. What you want, how much you want, as correlative to what you’ll do to keep it. Serving only yourself and those desires - following a path paved by those intentions - is imbalance.

And it’s easy because at their basest level those feelings are natural, “biological pleasures” as Lucas puts it. You can want innocuous things, you can even want good things. That’s what makes it dangerous, that’s its power. Where the Light Side requires discipline to maintain, passion and desire is human.

Lucas talks about it as motivated from those tangible, quantifiable things - not occult magic. No side of the Force actually corrupts or controls you. Not any more than a child learning and pushing the limits of what they’re capable of, men earning money and status, or a politician with “power” in an authority sense. If anything, you corrupt it. The Force within yourself.

Lucas says that Force remains in balance when you follow its will. But he makes it a point in the video’s opening lines to say that you still have free will. A choice to reject it if you want to.

TLJ adheres to that point and tries to reiterate that almost to a fault (since a lot of ppl don’t like Luke’s arc in it. Or Poe’s. Or Finn’s. Even Rey’s for that matter). Luke talking about the “balance in nature between light and dark” is in a conversation all about the Force within oneself. The natural balanced energy that Rey could feel throughout the island as well as within herself. Luke specifically says this doesn’t belong to anybody, nor is it a power you wield. This entire point you brought up as a fundamental misunderstanding, is slavishly adherent to Lucas’s ideas.

great observations here ,also , I think Irvin Kershner should get more recognition for bringing these concepts into Star Wars as well . He is quoted in many interviews as wanting to bring concepts of Zen Buddhism into the saga and it neatly parallels those themes. From The A to Z of Buddhism by Charles S.Prebish The Scarecrow Press Inc . 2001 on Karma -" Sanskrit technical term, literally translated as “action” and referring yo the Buddhist notion that any volitional activity accrues retribution appropriate to the nature of the deed . In the simplestsense,Buddhists believe that any act that is volitional in it’s basis creates a karmic “seed” that will eventually ripen and bear fruit . Volitional acts may be judged to be “good” or “bad” while non volitional acts are generally designated as neutral. For an act to be negatively motivated,it must be motivated by one of the so-called three poisons on Buddhism 1.lust 2.hatred 3.delusion .The opposite of each of these three motivating factors are then necessarily considered as the basis of positive karmic acts .Invariably ,eack individual is presumed to manifest free will in each experiential moment of his or her life ,thus suggesting that one’s station in life is intimately linked to the motivations behind one’s actions.- that sounds a lot like the Force to me ! see also…https://www.kimt.com/content/national/471355904.html Now I should read some Carlos Castenada…

well , here is a bit of a rare find I stumbled on to while searching for " Star Wars VHS " on youtube…
 

‘VHS rip of Behind the Scenes of Star Wars Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace’:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuRoctm6gv4 - 65 mins
 

Exclusive to the UK Star Wars fan club.

Features some rare footage and the wonderful Steve Sansweet

^ ah , c’mon man , you know the Crystal Star was a masterpiece ! 😃

I just saw an upload of the most recent Marvel Star Wars comic on youtube , takes place right after Empire and the whole thing strains credibility…no way they would go back there so soon and the ending of the issue , all I can say is ," Are you fucking kidding me ?"