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For better or worse DJ, not everyone sees it that way. Probably something about not wanting to clutter the site with too many categories, setting a precedent, etc.

TV's Frink said:

You are making the rules here, not me.

Excellent.

Ah but those were a gift, considered an antique, no? Conveniently, they were pretty old when he sold them in the 80s in IV.

Well we are a bunch of jerkoffs.

And no, no one wears glasses. It's the long-time-ago-far-away-future, which is a kind of future, and no one wears glasses in the future.

Perhaps they are made not to suffer. They are most existentially fulfilled in servitude.

It's not entirely baseless though. Please, consider the following:

• The most aliens we see are on backwater worlds, or in the Alliance
• We never see Imperial aliens
• The guard in the Detention Block refers to Chewie as "that thing".

Is the Empire inherently speciest within OT-canon? It's not explicitly stated, but it sure is easy to draw that conclusion.

CP3S said:

Bingowings said:

Racial epithets are only bigoted when they are attached to a history of repression.

No.

Example?

Stinky-Dinkins said:

Mmm, Obi Wan too orange, too baked.

 

Flesh tones, Harmy. Flesh tones.

So you're saying the robe should be black?

I do want to point out that the last bit of Jedi Rocks is not bad at all. The part with no words.

I'd actually say you're dead wrong about the B-Wing/Y-Wing switch. The ROTJ-Y-Wing shot you posted appears to be the same window-shapes as the ANH-Y-Wing shot, only the camera is in front of the pilot, rather than behind, thus we see less of the side-windows. You can see the the corners of the side windows starting, however. The ROTJ-Y-Wing has struts coming up on the left and right sides of that screencap, while photos of the B-Wing model show that there really shouldn't be any struts there. The interior of cockpits may have changed, but I'd bet they got window-shapes pretty close to correct.

Han Solo Adventures and Lando Calrissian Adventures are great books, as long as you don't mind some of the more bizarre stuff - Particularly in Lando.

Anybody know of people who have built their own cockpits and/or Falcon-turrets?

He kind of does when that other guy's head is on top of him, though.

I dunno Frink, that photo is pretty convincing.

I'm gonna add my vote to the focal-length camp. It gets too blurry too soon.

}{eywood said:

Sure no one can get Carrie to stop trying to be British, or change her clothes.  I just pointed those things out because they are continuity errors, not seriously to get someone to fix them.  Honestly I think Carrie was hanging around so many British people on set that it just started creeping into her delivery, not on purpose.  this brings Thumb Wars to mind "I have a question.  Why do we all speak in British accents when we're in outer space and there's no Britain?"

When does she use the accent and when doesn't she? (Note: Brits on the forum have been known to insist it's not British, but posh-American or something like that)

}{eywood said:

368 pages is a lot to read before posting.

Don't worry, a lot of it probably isn't important (moreso on the ESB:R thread)

The little comedy moments added to the SE at the beginning of the Mos Eisley scene (the probe droid getting hit by the landspeeder and the Jawa falling off the Ronto) really shouldn't have been removed.  If the fims were meant to be that dry then the mouse droid scene on the Death Star should have been cut as well.

At the same time though, if the films were meant to be that silly, then some equivalent scene would have existed prior to the Special Edition. The little droid and the ronto were 1997 additions which Ady (and frankly, most of us) found to be ridiculous and overly silly. Chewie's scene with the mouse droid is in keeping with his character, but do we really need extra silly stuff in the background?

And I honestly think someone somewhere should do something about Leia's British accent when she meets Tarkin.  What's all that about?  

It's the formal accent of a Senator working in her official capacity, talking to an officer. Compare with the Padme/Amidala voice changes, as much as I hate to bring the Prequels into this.

And for Christ's sake, someone needs to make the TIE fighter that they follow to the Death Star move around a bit.  The thing just hangs there in the window of the Falcon.  This has bothered me since I was a little kid.  Wouldn't it dodge, or maneuver in some way?  The thing practically looks like its painted on the window.

I always figured it was moving in a fairly straight and thus quick line towards the Death Star. The Falcon's not shooting yet, so why dodge?

The Dianoga sure makes a lot of interesting dinosaur type noises, considering that its underwater the whole time.

I always took the biggest of its noises to be some sort of door closing, down below, prior to compression.

The explosion of the last of the four pursuing TIE fighters after the escape from the Death Star is far too dramatic.  Its better than the Death Star explosion.  This should be redone to be not so huge.

Yeah, that thing is huge. It fits with the movie emotionally though, so I'm going to say the best bet is to really fix the Death Star explosion.

Does anyone know how the Death Star propels itself?  it has no engine ports anywhere, yet it seems to go where they want it to.  Maybe some propulsion exhaust effects somewhere as it pulls up to Yavin?

I always figured it has lots of comparatively small engines that don't show up in distance shots?

I love the addition of the Imperial March throughout the movie, especially in the new Death Star reveal shot and when the TIEs appear at Yavin, but there is a big section of the trench battle with no music.  That is where Vader comes into the foray, yet his theme is not there.

Not every scene should have music - Perhaps the silence fits better.

The Death Star explosion is puny compared to the one of the aforementioned TIE fighter.  Swapping them might help.  The TIE keep on exploding, like something big with a reactor.  In comparison the DS is a little pop.

I'm not a fan of the Stargate-lifted explosion in ANH:R, either. Hoping for a really big, custom-rendered one in A:R:SE ... preferably without any Praxis-ring. (Same goes for ROTJ:R)

Luke stills yells "Carrie!" when he first sees her upon his return

No, he doesn't and he never has. He yells "HEY" or something like that.

The rest of your points are either good or something that I don't know much about. Welcome aboard!

She's just expressing a lack of sexual attraction towards Wookies. That's not racism, is it?

Surely we can admit that this is the wrong thread for this discussion?

Frink, if you're making the argument I think you're making...

She's better looking in ESB.

Wow. You catch on pretty quick.

ben_danger said:

enstead of adding aliens though, really need to look at adding all those sideburns that we lost after ANH.

Sounds like a Prequel Edit Wish to me!

kilik64 said:

Akwat Kbrana said:

Mostly innuendo. "Look at the size of that thing!"

"Get on top of it!" "I'm trying!"

"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!"

"She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts."

Etc.

Put "that's what she said" after each one.

 

Oh, I get it. I understand how it's potentially innuendo. But was it intended that way? Nope.