screams in the void

^ Ah, come on man ! You are being too logical ! 😃

^ needs life meters above the combatants 😃

this seems like the appropriate place to leave this …https://www.wired.com/story/cantina-talk-84/?fbclid=IwAR1n48i6qvujd1uo5PfHP9akBNWo6EZiB8GdvSQPBdXQqj0EnCXccHBbhxg&mbid=social_fb&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=wired&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=facebook be interesting to hear what people think …

^awesome ! Would love to read some of your project .

I would like to see the two youtube clips combined , the tracking shot from the first one you posted with the dive from the second one.

^ lol …that was the part of the documentary where he was describing how Sy Snootle’s lips should move.

^good question , and yeah , that sure looks like a female Tusken . I dig the art on that cover though and I have always wondered if James Cameron borrowed the look of the Terminator from Valance ,especially in T2 . Valance predates the Terminator by many years and Cameron has been known to lift elements from other sources , such as Harlan Ellison and Roger Dean , the artist behind the albums for prog rock band Yes even tried to sue him for the uncanny similarities between his own work and Avatar .

SomethingStarWarsRelated said:

I just came across this short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N0P-qsXxUY

I like shot composition better shows how the death star is not yet in range. Plus the extra fighters.

^ that is an amazing tracking shot ! and there appear to be about 30 rebel ships , but they’re so small ,they’re evading our turbolasers !

SilverWook said:

Shocking since the two Jedi docs capture the moment he suggested putting lips on her. 😉

" all it really needs to do is go , this this this ,wow ! this this this ,wow !It’s kind of a binary system "-George Lucas , from Star Wars to Jedi the making of a saga .

^ It was basically a combination of two of my favorite properties…Conan The Barbarian and Star Wars ! His sunsword was practically a lightsaber and Ookla was pretty much a Wookiee .Throw in that fact that a large portion of the show was designed by the late, great Jack Kirby , and what’s not to love ? glad you got the joke Wook !

^ this is true , and the vhs of the original Star Wars came out in 1982 , a full two years before it premiered on network tv and it made the rounds on cable television before network tv

Star Wars as well…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtQJk9Z44BA

The Empire premiere intro is on youtube…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHzVjP9sH50

^ oh man , I would keep the CED of Raiders just for the artwork alone and use it as a display piece or hang it on my wall ! those things are the size of record albums and the art looks great on them.

I think AC/DC should retool their song Thunderstruck into Thundarrstruck and have Ookla The Mok come out on stage…

a noble soul who will be greatly missed . GROOOONK !

this looks great !

I have watched the ultimate cut of Watchmen numerous times as well as the fan edit Watchmen Midnight , without so much as one bathroom break . I love that film as well as the original graphic novel . I lose all sense of time watching it and get immersed in it and see new things every time . If a film is good, 3 hours is a cakewalk . Have yet to see Endgame but will try and catch it soon. I would be all for a compelling 3 hour Star Wars film.

ZkinandBonez said:

Thought this was quite funny;

This was an advertisement for the regular SW series in Return of the Jedi #2. It re-purposed Tom Palmer’s cover for SW #70 (“The Stenax Shuffle”) with some added speech bubbles.

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I also just found out that the ROTJ miniseries was coloured differently for the TPB. Does anyone know why this was done?
Source

Here ya go ! scroll down a bit and you will see some info on the coloring of the various Jedi adaptations …seems it had something to do with the paper stock…http://classiccomics.org/thread/1039/star-wars-marvel-reviews-confessor?page=57&scrollTo=153630 oops ! saw that was the source you posted as well , still , interesting question /topic .

Shopping Maul said:

yotsuya said:

Well, from his reaction to seeing Ben, it seems pretty clear Ben had not appeared to him before so Ben would not have been teaching him from beyond the grave. Otherwise there would be no need for Yoda.

It would not make sense for Luke to simply give up on the Force for the three years between ANH and TESB. You wouldn’t go “oh well, my mentor’s dead so I’m out”. The implication is that he kept training - to whatever extent. “But I’ve learned so much” is an indication of that.

The Marvel series had Luke training with remotes, meditating, using the Force in battle, and communing with ghost-Obi Wan. This obviously doesn’t count as ‘canon’, but it does indicate the logic of assuming Luke would carry on as best he could. Marvel were on a tight leash with regard to how much they could develop these characters, and they did not know the details of TESB until very close to the movie. There was a fan letter in one issue circa mid-1980 that said something like “you need to pick up the pace because it looks like Luke will be levitating small objects in the next movie - you guys still have him practising with his Lightsaber”. Again, this is a fan assuming the logic of Luke self-training as best he could. Yoda never said “download these skills you must, save time you will”. Training is crucial in the OT. Not in the ST.

one thing about that original Marvel series you did not mention is that in issue 23 , Luke was able to reach out telepathically and touch Vader’s mind , eliciting a very loud scream of agony from Vader . Pretty advanced stuff for a fledgling Jedi ! No one taught him that trick , but hey , it’s not “canon” after all…

interesting review of the 1994 UK VHS editions , mentions that it is digitally mastered in PAL before the 95 THX Digital remasters …anyone got any answers to the uploader’s questions about them that are posed in this video ? being from the U.S. myself , I am very curious …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfwQBm7Tdag

What about the blue T.I.E. lasers in the asteroid field in the faces vhs of Empire ?

I have the treasury edition of The Empire Strikes Back adaptation , to me it is the best way to enjoy it . The colors are much better than in the monthly comic and Al Williamson and Carlos Garzon’s artwork really shines in the large format .

RogueLeader said:

Yoda does say, “Lost Ben Solo, you did. Lose Rey, we cannot.”

He also says something along the lines of, “Wisdom they held, but that library contained nothing that the girl Rey does not already possess.”

Which, we find out he means literally, but I also think there is a figurative meaning he was trying convey to Luke about Rey’s own abilities and disposition. Basically that she has the right mindset to be a good Jedi.

And I’ve mentioned this before, and I know people disagree with me, but I kind of think a lot of us have just assumed how the Force works without considering that it might be a little more mysterious than we’ve thought.

The Force, through the lightsaber, called out to Rey, even Maz described it as such. The Force called Rey to the Tree on Ach-To. The lightsaber flew into Rey’s hands not because she’s more powerful than Kylo Ren, but because the Force chose her. When Rey lets go of her own desires, the Force is acting through her. The Force has literally awakened, and I feel it plays a more active and obvious role in this story than it may have had in the past.

So the way I see it, it isn’t that Rey just has all these amazing skills. Yeah, she has some piloting, mechanic and survival skills, but that’s from her growing up on Jakku. Her “Jedi” skills are, in my opinion, are based in faith. She starts believing in the Force, especially after Han tells her and Finn about the Force and the Jedi.

I’m not trying to say your guys’ own interpretations are wrong or anything like that, but if you think of it this way it might be easier to rationalize. When I try to picture myself in her position, learning that stories of Jedi I grew up on were real, that the Force is real and that it is calling to me too, it helps me sympathize with how she is afraid of this newfound awakening within her and her desperation to understand it, like she is in The Last Jedi.

And who knows, maybe IX will reveal more to us about Rey, the Force, etc.

Also wanted to say despite my disagreements with OP and some others, I’m glad you guys feel like this is a pretty positive environment to discuss stuff. I might argue with people on here every once in a while, but it is all in good faith and I enjoy talking about it with you all!

best explanation of Rey’s abilities I have heard so far and I agree wholeheartedly with it . Kudos for your diplomatic statement at the end of your post as well RogueLeader !

and another cool item ,the culmination of one of the major issues that inspired me to create this thread…https://people.com/movies/kelly-marie-tran-tearfully-receives-standing-ovation-star-wars-celebration/