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#770277
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The OT.com J. R. R. Tolkien & Middle Earth Discussion Thread
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TheBoost said:

generalfrevious said:

... ...a greedy bastard who bashes the system for the very thing he is guilty of. The Hobbit/Lord Of the Rings means nothing to him except as an intellectual property he can milk to build his second mansion. 

 While I usually don't think building narratives about creators is a useful way to analyze work, it might be worth noting that Peter Jackson still lives in the same house he lived in before starting LOTRs.

 With significant additions, no?

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#770256
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The OT.com J. R. R. Tolkien & Middle Earth Discussion Thread
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DuracellEnergizer said:

timdiggerm said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Whatever happened to Left and Right Earth?

 Well, Left Earth, aka Valinor, was removed from the normal world when the world was made a sphere at the end of the Second Age. Right Earth is never really talked about.

Ask a silly question, get a serious answer. 

 I thought I might try to revive Akwat's dream

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#770094
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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Anchorhead said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

^Shame to waste a beautiful actress by having her play some goofy CG alien.

 I have to say, I've been very surprised by that also.  If I had her in the cast of a film, I'd want her on screen as much as possible.  That's an awful lot of talent and beauty to cover up with an animation.  

 As much as I get it, I guess this is a good way of showing that she's valued for her acting not just her looks, you know?

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#769731
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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Akton said:

Bingowings said:

Focusing on a core group of characters isn't universe shrinkage.

Falstaff appearing across a group of plays doesn't make Shakespeare's oeuvre smaller. It's enriching it with detail over brevity.

It is 100% fan service but fan service can be done well it doesn't have to be to the general PT level of naffness.

Adding new characters however is universe enlargement.

 Very salient points.

And, lest anyone forget, Boba Fett's very creation as a character was a kind of fan service... His appearance in the Holiday Special was, in essence, a fan service two years ahead of his first proper film appearance. What I'm hoping for in his possible inclusion in TFA, and his possible portrayal by an actor of such gravitas as Max Von Sydow, is to finally see some substantive incorporation of the character into the Saga; to justify the hype machine created around him that's nearly as old as the franchise itself. That'd be the very opposite of mere fan service. To me, fan service is Han Solo saying "I always shoot first" or some such stupid (but hopefully not inevitable) thing.

 Ugh, that potential Han line would be awful. :(

And his appearance in the HS is not fan service; it's promotion.

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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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generalfrevious said:

Ok what about Jakku? I hope it isn't Tatooine all over again, much like John Harrison was Kahn all along. We've seen that planet five times already.

 I wonder if Jakku will turn out to be a sad story. Beautiful world, turned to desert from the fallout of the massive battle that littered its surface with wreckage.

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#765888
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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msycamore said:

SilverWook said:

There was an expectation after ESB that Star Wars was going to go on long enough for the actors to grow old in their parts. Weird Al referenced this in his Yoda song.

Starlog magazine even made jokes about their early 21st century incarnation that would come on a computer disk, and feature an interview with an aged Mark Hamill in his Jedi Master costume on the set of the latest episode. They couldn't predict their own demise, alas.

Never heard or been aware of such expectations. As I recall, there was uncertainty Ford would even do a third one at the time, (the character arc of Solo was basically complete by the end of the second film and he hadn't yet signed for a third movie like Fisher and Hamill) reports were that Lucas would make SW movies out of sequence with completely different characters after the third one, even back then.

 It checks out

Weird Al said:

Well, I heard my friends really got in a mess
So I'm gonna have to leave Yoda I guess
But I know that I'll be coming back some day
I'll be playing this part 'till I'm old and gray