timdiggerm

Bingowings said:

Ben aged at the same rate as a normal human being.

 Faster, even.

Leia the older stateswoman will work just fine.

I feel like we would need to learn about/hear from crosscultural adoptees to really talk about this?

adywan said:

It seems a shame that they are going to include all the interiors

 But those don't even fit inside the exterior, as I understand it.

DuracellEnergizer said:

imperialscum said:

when it comes to reproducing creatures, puppet based SFX just suck compared to CGI. CGI can reproduce more natural behaviour and motion of a creature. In the end they both look fake.

I'll take the less-than-fluid movements of puppets over the plastic surfaces and weightlessness of CGI any day.

What if sometimes one is better, and sometimes the other is better?

I just don't see the reason in investing great amount of time, effort and money in making a stop-motion SFX with a puppet. Especially when it usually look very unnatural. The way to solve this is either putting a guy into a costume or using CGI.

You do realize that in this day and age, the herky-jerkiness of stop-motion can be corrected, don't you?

 How? With...computers?!

Unless they seriously screw things up between the draft I read online and the final script, Interstellar is going to be great.

...Ady's gonna have to built a DSII model. And then he'll shoot it from several angles, so that it's not always seen from only one side.

ROTJ:R is gonna take forever

Bingowings said:

Doesn't Billy Dee do this scene in the Radio drama?

 Alas, no, he only did the ESB Radio Drama.

Just had another one.

Bingowings said:

^Count Dooku has reprogrammed himself to be much younger and broken his nose and it's nice to see the Probot getting on with Chewie, Threepio and R5?

I like to see the symmetrical Vader queens faces when they see that Dark Lord.

Leia is missing a few digits and aged a bit too quickly and Luke is wearing...well it's hard to tell...is he one of the Osmonds because that looks very 70's Vegas?

 It's a fascinating choice, recasting Han, Luke and Leia.

http://imgur.com/Jot5XkB

Found this on reddit and knew it'd be appreciated here.

DuracellEnergizer said:

timdiggerm said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Now, this makes me wonder -- is the cancellation of the series so soon after the regime change a coincidence, or did the powers-that-be's unhealthy preoccupation with "canon" end up alienating the readers who liked the comic for what it was, not what they wanted it to be?

 You don't have to project our dislike of canon onto the general fandom for this to make sense. Disliking canon and liking a place for non-canon to exist are not the same. Tales provided a place for non-canon stories; that was what was great about it. You lose that, you lose what's great, you lose the audience. Again, just because the audience liked to read non-canon stories doesn't mean that they dislike canon, only that they liked having a place for non-canon.

 I thought that was implied by what I said =\

 Oh, then I totally misunderstood. Sorry!

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DuracellEnergizer said:

Now, this makes me wonder -- is the cancellation of the series so soon after the regime change a coincidence, or did the powers-that-be's unhealthy preoccupation with "canon" end up alienating the readers who liked the comic for what it was, not what they wanted it to be?

 You don't have to project our dislike of canon onto the general fandom for this to make sense. Disliking canon and liking a place for non-canon to exist are not the same. Tales provided a place for non-canon stories; that was what was great about it. You lose that, you lose what's great, you lose the audience. Again, just because the audience liked to read non-canon stories doesn't mean that they dislike canon, only that they liked having a place for non-canon.

Also, if the nuTales was a dumping ground, that may have something to do with it.

ferris209 said:

timdiggerm said:

ferris209 said:

Why did the phones belonging to passengers still ring hours after it was lost and why could they not answer?

 This part, at least, is not mysterious. The hijackers collected everyone's phones, but did not go through the tedious effort of turning them all off.

Although it does imply they were receiving cell service, no?

 Still, how did they manage to collect over 200 phones from people without one single text message or phone call being made?

 Guns, I assume.

I agree, it's not a totally explains-everything solution, but it works well enough for me.

That does work pretty well.

ferris209 said:

Why did the phones belonging to passengers still ring hours after it was lost and why could they not answer?

 This part, at least, is not mysterious. The hijackers collected everyone's phones, but did not go through the tedious effort of turning them all off.

Although it does imply they were receiving cell service, no?

DuracellEnergizer said:

timdiggerm said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

the giant horned lizard.

 Excuse me, I believe you mean the Reek?

 Yes.

 It's very important to refer to everything in the Star Wars Universe by their correct names.

DuracellEnergizer said:

the giant horned lizard.

 Excuse me, I believe you mean the Reek?

I'm confused about this miniaturization effect. When VFX guys shoot models, don't they use lenses meant to make things not look like miniatures?

Man, and here I am liking the theaters that aren't stadium seating, so that sometimes peoples heads are in the way and sometimes people laugh and clap during the film.

Beatleboy99 said:

Since the release of the Star Wars Special Editions, Praxis shocwaves were added to the Death Star explosions and the destruction of Alderaan. But has anyone ever noticed that when Anakin Skywalker destroys the trade federation ship at the end of The Phantom Menace,it is missing the shockwave? Just something I noticed..

 It's a smaller explosion. Only really, really big ones get shockwaves.

Anything but the group photo

michaelkirschner said:

Another thing to keep in mind is that although anti-static bags protect their contents from static charge the outside of these bags potentially has MASSIVE amounts of stored up charge I have heard of many people who will take out sensitive electronics and set them down on those bags this is a major no no

 Oh.

Um....

Well I learned a thing.

Fang Zei said:

Do you think they'll put the Bad Robot logo at the front of Episode VII as well?

 Unfortunately, yes. I wouldn't mind, if it weren't such a bad logo.