screams in the void

Superweapon VII said:

screams in the void said:

Mocata said:

Anyway I might find a few online copies of Dark Empire or the Thrawn trilogy.

to paraphrase Yoda , " If into Dark Empire 2 and Empire’s End you go , only pain will you find . "

Well, that and nice art.

^ sure , if you don’t mind Cam Kennedy being switched out for a different artist, in a tonally different style on Empire’s End and the rush job that was done on it , wrapping the whole thing up in just 2 issues

Saw it today and yes ,it was the 2019 cut . The theater I went to has leather reclining seats with temperature controls in the arm rests and they use a DLP projector on a very large curved screen. Enjoyed it for the most part , but seemed to be a rainbow effect as there were straight red lines all around the corners of the screen. When I would move my head to the side , they would disappear and then come back when looking at all the edges of the screen. Was most prominent in bright outdoor scenes. Thought I was having problems with my eyes for a bit but then looked up issues with DLP projectors . Anyone else ever experienced this at a movie theater ?

Mango said:

I feel like my dad has been disappointed in me since I came out as bi a few years ago. I didn’t think that would make him change his entire perspective of me, but it’s starting to drive me insane.

His intolerance is a reflection of him , not of you .
“Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.”-Tyrion Lannister

Mocata said:

Anyway I might find a few online copies of Dark Empire or the Thrawn trilogy.

to paraphrase Yoda , " If into Dark Empire 2 and Empire’s End you go , only pain will you find . "

The reason retro gamers seek out CRTs is due to the fast refresh rates and less lag . Those were the TVs that those games were designed for , though as time has gone by ,this issue has improved some with flat panels . The TV manual for that 4x3 LCD that I linked to lists improved refresh rates for fast motion as a feature also . As for watching VHS tapes , those were also designed with CRTs in mind ,as the large flat panels were not a thing yet when they were in their heyday . Part of it is that the technology is completely different between a crt and an lcd flat panel . Interlaced video vs. progressive scan . The way an LCD or other flat panel progressively scans the image and it’s higher native resolution, plus the size of the screen , makes it difficult to display VHS and older analog video sources accurately ,so VHS and other analog video will always look better on a CRT . Some things can be done to give it a boost , like adding video upscalers and comb filters or using a DVD/VHS combo unit that can output VHS over HDMI . I have one ,and the HDMI connection does provide a boost , but I still have to sit back quite a bit to get the benefits on my 55 inch LCD tv . That older 4x3 is not such an issue as it is only 20 inches . And for those who may be unaware , this is what tracking issues are on VHS …https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_tape_tracking basically , its when the picture has static lines across it or rolls or shudders ,etc . Sometimes it can be adjusted with the remote , sometimes it can’t , depending on the age and condition of the tape . Also , my oldest CRT Tv is an RCA black and white radio /combo from 1984 and it still works great . Same with my 19 inch color Sanyo TV , I bought in 1997 . I’ve had large flat panel LCDs that didn’t last five years .

Me too ! The interface and the Storm trooper Weapons test alone were worth the price alone and the whole 2 discs were a rabbit hole I went down for hours on end . I was just looking at that old original thread that Gary1 linked to . Did anyone ever complete a preservation project of this ?

Just watched my 1992 letterbox vhs of the first Star Wars movie again . I recently went to a resale shop and brought home a 4x3 LCD tv that I picked up for 10 bucks .It was manufactured around 2006 and has a warm color setting that gives everything a kind of Technicolor look . Watching it while sitting a couple feet away from this 20 inch set , it reminded me a lot of the color grading of 4k77 . It didn’t quite have the look of true film that that project has , but the color grading of the 92 letterbox vhs release looked stellar on this set . This is probably the best I have seen vhs look on an LCD , almost comparable to a CRT display ,with a little bit of chroma noise . Maybe I will try component instead of composite cables next time to see if there is an uptick in quality . I have had this tape since I bought the boxed set in 92 and I think I enjoyed watching it today almost as much as the day I bought it and watched it on the 50 inch CRT rear projection tv my folks had back then . The tape still plays great after all these years ,only a little tracking issues/static lines right as the credits roll and then it clears up .I also plugged a set of quality stereo headphones into the tv for added enjoyment . Is it just me , or did some of those early LCD TVs have some better vivid colors ,despite the lower resolution ? This TV has a resolution of 640 x 480 . This is the manual for it …https://www.manualslib.com/manual/97694/Magnavox-20mf500t.html

I still have mine , but no way to watch it or use it . I know there are emulators, iso files and such , but find it a hassle to deal with . Someone did a youtube video in 2 parts recently though , going through all the trivia sections on the discs and delving a bit into the behind the scenes stuff relating to that trivia . I just wish he had delved more into those sections . Here is part one …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL1yOiCbGP4

also , the video that Gary1 linked to is for Making Magic ,which was a cd rom for the special editions ,which was a separate thing from Behind The Magic

I think all parties involved would have discussed the plan ahead of time . Leia showed from the beginning that she can handle herself and I think if Luke had expressed Jabba’s reputation and treatment of captive women , Leia would have told Luke that she is a grown woman and can handle herself . And where was it stated that Luke had sole input in devising the plan ? Perhaps Leia knew the risks and decided how to proceed in her part herself anyway . Still , the plan as shown in the movie was convoluted for sure .

Pretty neat watch list there . While perhaps not essential to the Mandoverse , I would add the Landing at point rain episodes as well as the Pong Krell arc . I haven’t rewatched the series in many years now , but when I think back to the series ,those two stories are the ones that really stuck with me as they dealt with important themes and had much drama and action . I would probably add in most of season 6 " the lost missions " as they are also important to the overall lore of the saga as a whole ,explaining the mystery of Sifo Diyas , Yoda’s first visit to Dagobah , communing with Qui Gon etc . Those are episodes I wouldn’t want to miss .

Yeah , I liked this episode too , despite some confounding logic like the T.I.E.'s disappearing after shooting down the cruiser and the destruction of the Darksaber . I did get a big smile seeing the aerial battle between the Mandalorians and the Beskar troopers though . As for Gideon , I’m not completely convinced he is dead , as we never saw the body …and this has happened with villains in Star Wars a lot . I kinda wonder how much the creators of the show look at fan comments on this site and others and use it for feedback . I kind of agree with the sentiment someone else expressed , that the ending of thee season finale felt rushed like a final exam essay that ran out of time . It did feel tacked on ,but the new assignment that the Armorer gave Din Jarin in regards to Grogu ,seems like an opportunity to reset the series back to the Lone Wolf And Cub vibe of season one . Maybe as a result of fan criticism ,they tacked on that ending for that purpose ? Also makes me wonder if we will see Filoni’s movie before or after season 4 of Mando . I still get the feeling they have been holding things back for that event .

" the jedi knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy " I’m sure Luke would have passed that on to Grogu . The way I see it , Grogu was fulfilling the role of peace keeper .

Mocata said:

I think he meant that Grogu learned that by himself through his own initiative, not that he must have learned it from Luke. Not convinced about that whole 2 year thing at all.

I wasn’t convinced about the 2 year thing either when I heard it . Came out of left field in regards to the two shows , but to me it hints at a reason , contrived as it was , to tie things into the proposed movie . I disagree on Grogu and his own initiative, I think it’s very possible that Luke would have taught him to step in and mediate peacekeeping like that . But we’ll see how things pan out

And I agree that the set up for the state of the galaxy in the sequel trilogy was poorly set up . It should have been explained in the movies , but there is a book that came out in 2016 called Bloodline by Claudia Gray that does a good job explaining it . It’s set about 6 years before TFA and grew out of an animated short film that was intended to be shown as a prologue to TFA . Man , I’d still like to see that animated short ! Thd book was Really good though. Probably the best book in the new Canon that I have read.

I’m willing to bet he was playing his cards close to the vest in that interview and they are already working on it . This film will be the big event movie that ties the streaming shows together and I am sure we will see Luke and his Jedi students in their prime against the forces of Thrawn . They hinted at it in this week’s Mandalorian when Bo Katan told Djin Jarin that he taught his apprentice well and he responded with " He didn’t learn that from me ." We saw Luke start to build his academy in Book Of Boba Fett and Filoni has said Grogu was away training with Luke for 2 years now . The Ai and deep fake technology is improving every day so my guess is that Luke will look even better by the time this movie hits . I’m looking forward to it .

to the people that are butthurt because " Rey took away from Luke’s story " …the sequel trilogy was never intended to be Luke’s story , even when George talked about as far back as interviews from the 1980s , he said if it got made it would be about passing the baton to the next generation and Luke would be in his 60s . Rey is that next generation . I love a lot of the EU/Legends material myself , but it got over bloated towards they end , enough to where they had to put a dramitis personae listing of all the characters at the start of each book . And Luke didn’t exactly have a happy ending in the Legends material either . So what if Rey is getting her own movie ya whiny snowflakes , it should be pretty obvious by now to anybody who has been watching the streaming shows ,that we will see Luke in his prime again , leading a Jedi order , which we already saw him start to establish in The Book Of Boba Fett . The AI technology gets better every day and I would be willing to bet they have already started work on it . So , both the story of Luke’s Jedi order and Rey’s Jedi order will be told and can exist side by side…https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-is-dave-filoni-making-an-heir-to-the-empire-movie

Definitely ! And the extension of this scene that was deleted , and can be found on the 2011 Blu Ray extras , has Lawrence Kasdan’s writing stamp all over it . Whenever I watch it , I can picture Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood having a similar back and forth .

the existence of realtors implies the existence of faketors .

As much as I don’t think it was a good idea basing all of these shows on the Marvel model of everything connecting , and I thought this show worked better as a standalone like the first season ,it is what it is now .

           Disney has been reporting on wanting to get the movies right in the future an there is one thing they could do that would be a cash cow for them ...all of this is obviously leading up to a reworking of the Thrawn trilogy , so I think that should result in a big event movie on the big screen .      

                                         I have a feeling it was the Imperial Supercommandos seen in Rebels and based on McQuarrie's artwork , that freed Gideon and placed evidence to implicate the Mandalorians of a crime . Probably uner orders from Thrawn . Seems like something he would do . Favreau and Filoni have said that Grogu was away training with Luke for 2 years and we saw the new Jedi temple being built at the start of his training .

I would love to see a battle betweeen Hundreds of Jedi and Mandalorians / super commandos on screen . It would be like taking some of the earliest lore , especially the bit from the ESB novel about Fett’s armor being the kind worn by a group of evil warriors defeated by the Jedi Knights during the Clone Wars , only shown now in the post OT era ,rather than the Clone Wars era. It’s something I thought we would see in the prequels and many sources in the 80s and early 90s speculated on as well . Plus , with the cloning technology being a subplot in The Mandalorian ,it would make for an awesome reworking of The Clone Wars or even The Second Clone War if done right . And what better villain to bring to the big screen than Thrawn for an epic event ?

The original Star Wars trilogy is not the only one that never had its theatrical version available on dvd in anamorphic widescreen . No , there is another …Conan The Barbarian 1982 . The original DVD release from the late 90s is letterboxed non anamorphic and very grainy .Reminds me of the GOUT. The releases from 2002 onwards have added scenes and an altered ending ,which ,while those scenes were originally shot at the time of filming , are not the theatrical release . I prefer the original ending where Conan goes of his own agency to kill Thulsa Doom without having to be led there . CTB 82 is one of my favorite films outside of Star Wars and the original theatrical deserves a proper modern HD release as well .

and the deleted cantina scene with the dialogue in question was first released to the general public on the 1998 Star Wars Behind The Magic C-ROM , which I still have with sadly no machine to play it on anymore . I know there are emulators , but I don’t wish to go through the hassle .

Just watched episode 3 of The Mandalorian season 3 . This one was a mixed bag . Started out strong with great action and then in the middle it switched to follow other characters in what looked and played like a bad fan film with an enormous budget. I mean, yeah , the establishing shots and the incorporation of some of Ralph Mcquarrie’s art were great , but I kept getting distracted by the bad lighting on the actors and the bad framing in some shots . The photon fizzles were ridiculous too …light lollipops , really ? Then there was the ending with a cosplayer cult initiation .

I did like the production art at the end though and it looks like they missed the mark in capturing the look and feel of it . I would like to see an animated show that looks just like the production art now . Overall I would rate this episode a 3 out of 10 . And I have to agree with others on here that the forced medical procedures by the New Republic were fucked up .like a twisted version of conversion therapy . I can’t buy that these were the same people who fought a rebellion against the Empire . I don’t know who directed this episode , but I hope it’s a one off and gets better . Has me worried for how they will handle Thrawn when he inevitably shows up , either here or the Ahsoka series .

Another criticism I have is that in modern Star Wars , even the sequel trilogy , which I mostly enjoyed up until TROS ,except for the Canto Bight stuff in TLJ ,is that the aliens don’t feel alien enough . That’s something I appreciated about the original trilogy …Ben Burrt came up with all those wonderful alien languages that had strange sound effects layered underneath and subtitles were added for them . ( they mostly dropped the ball on that in the prequels too ) . Now we get aliens with hillbilly accents speaking English ( or Basic , galactic standard ,what have you ) .

Yeah , Admiral Ackbar spoke English ,but it had some nice guttural and reverb effects added to it which helped retain an alien quality to it . The Mon Cal in this episode could have used more of that .The aliens in recent shows have seemed more to me like Star Trek aliens in the way they are portrayed onscreen , sadly . even the legacy ones .

I think comparing this show to Andor is apples to oranges . Andor is the more intellectual political drama/thriller , Mando is more pulpy adventure /space western . This episode felt like filler before the meat of the story gets told this season . Not my favorite episode thus far , but I had fun with it anyway . It probably would have been better if those 2 episodes from BOBF were used to open the season here instead though . As for alien accents , I think the problem started way back in The Phantom Menace and they should have taken their cues from the original trilogy and had Ben Burrt come up with alien languages for all of the alien characters with subtitles . Yeah , There was a lot of dialogue for those characters in the prequels , but Jabba had a substantial role in ROTJ and that technique worked for him . They should have stuck with that approach throughout the whole saga . Also , in regards to this weeks Mandalorian episode , I’m still wondering why Swamp Thing made an appearance .

awesome website puzosep ! Thank you for the link , should add this to the list of Star Wars internet rabbit holes !

What I most disliked about the old EU , was the super weapon of the week trope . Fortunately the creators of the EU later realized it was getting stale and changed things up a bit .