timdiggerm

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.

I bet they'll get Williams to write a new intro fanfare to put under the studio logos.

Mithrandir said:

It's the same reveal as in ANH. Desert place looking for someone. Some guy comes around and is asked: "Hey do you know *****". "Yes it's me".

 No it's not. With Yoda, there's a period of "oh this little green guy is going to take me to Yoda later". They're pretty different!

And I say that as someone who thinks preserving the Yoda surprise is dumb.

wookieepedia says:

Additionally, lightsabers were installed in his elbows, forearms, wrists, and knees.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Irek_Ismaren

DuracellEnergizer said:

I think this might be the single worst image on all of Wookieepedia

 You're right. So many sabers, and they're all one color? Terrible. He should have at least 5 different colors going on.

Well, you have to cut Lando out of the fight. This might be tricky (I haven't actually watched the fight to check), but it does mean getting rid of Han leaning over the side and shooting while mostly-blind.

Not that that's a bad thing, mind you.

On the definite plus side, you get to take out those shots of him lowering his facemask just enough to reveal his identity.

Also, the Falcon coming up over the dunes would look awesome.

A new Jabba Plan

1. The droids (I didn't want this first, but it has to be)
2. Leia & Chewie
3. Leia unfreezes Han. Maybe she's already busted Chewie out of his cell or something?
4. Luke
5. Sarlaac
6. Luke starts kicking & slashing, Leia chokes Jabba
7. Lando shows up in the Falcon and blows up the barge

I spent several minutes trying to think of an explanation for the Jabba plan.

It's worse than the convoluted Dark Knight & Skyfall situations

Bingowings said:

I'm sure someone will remember seeing your dream on screen in 1977 sometime in the future.

 I hope Harmy fakes this one too.

adywan said:

The set up process involves matching the lighting, setting up the green screen and then you have to set up the camera and model so that exactly matches the angle of the original full scale speeder set. That isn’t as easy as you would think.

 I would think that that's really difficult! But I'd like more information as to just how one figures this out, particularly when it comes to matching motion.

Maybe they can't find the original child-actor audio tapes?

sure it is.

prove it.