Glad to hear it!
I assume you've also trawled the collection that SWArchive's fb page has? It looks like a different bunch from their .com
Isn't Threepio's presence in most of the saga pointless besides comic relief?
Frink's obnoxious and useless commentary aside, this has demonstrated pretty well that this group account is probably more confusing than it's worth.
mrbenja0618 said:
Michaeldor said:
My storyline for C-3PO in TPM was:
1) He's on Trade Federation ship, everything is the same until...
2) In the scene, where Nute Gunray landed in Theed and says "ah, victory!" I imagined there would be perfect place to put TC (or 3PO). Now, he's appointed by Gunray to accompany the queen.
3) Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan free the queen with her handmaidens and 3PO goes with them to Tatooine and Coruscant.
In conclusion, at the end of TPM Trade Federation is defeated, Maul is dead, and C-3PO serves now Padme.
The idea of Trade Federation 3PO would be good if you redub Gunray with alien voice. He would translate Gunray's lines to Amidala and the rest of the Naboo folk.
By the way, hilts of Obi-Wan's TPM lightsaber is almost the same as Qui-Gons. The only difference are the little spikes at the end of Kenobi's hilt.I appreciate your passion for a truly great character, but to me these movies already have way too much fan service as is. The only character I feel should be in the prequels is R2. R2 in A New Hope seems to already understand how to get around on Tattooine as 3P0 is lost. And I know they had that convenient scene in ROTS where he gets his memory erased, but I never understood why they didn't do the same with R2. Just dumb.
We already have R2, Jabba, Chewbacca, Greedo (in a cut scene) and I just read an article that a young Han Solo was originally supposed to be featured in ROTS in a scene WITH YODA!
My problem is that with all these little winks and nods to the other films, it makes a galaxy that's supposed to be vast seem a lot smaller.
Long story, short (Too late?) I think Aalenfae is on the right path thus far.
I definitely disagree. An original premise of SW was that it's told from the point of view of the little people, the droids, much like Hidden Fortress (at least, I think that's the source). Getting 3PO in at the beginning and having him serve the Queen thanks to the Federation hijinks allows for the Threeio/Artoo team to be formed in the first film (instead of forming, being broken up, re-forming, stupid battle jokes, etc) and removes the terrible Ani-built-him stuff. It's not a wink/nod; it's preserving a central theme/quality of the saga.
A wink/nod is Boba Fett at Mos Eisley.
bkev said:
Let's be fair here and think about the reasons our internet is so much slower. America's about as first world as it gets in terms of levels of consumption - sure, the economy sucks, but nobody likes to act like it does . Everybody who can has the biggest TV package, the biggest TV, and the newest stereo (whether they use it properly or not.) It's very in line with our society for EVERYONE to have internet. The amount of users probably far outnumbers those in other countries - hence our internet is slower because more people are connected.
At least I always thought it was that way.
No, it has more to do with local monopolies giving ISPs no reason to improve.
darth_ender said:
If I knew where you lived, I'd kiss you!!!
No thanks!
You_Too was correct! Using Chrome developer tools (F12), which are equivalent to Firebug in Firefox, I was able to view individual http requests as the site got each image. This gave me the urls for the individual images, which are all hosted on flickr, such as: http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7269/7553585052_40b213e5c8_b.jpg
After some googling, I used the bookmarklet found here: http://www.bram.us/2008/01/12/my-priceless-flickr-tip-how-to-find-the-original-flickr-photo-url-and-user-from-a-static-flickr-image-url/ on one of the images and found his flickr account. http://www.flickr.com/photos/77542667@N08/ or http://www.flickr.com/photos/77542667@N08/sets/ for more organization.
Then I plugged that url (the photostream link) into the software found at http://www.flickrdownloader.com/ and soon I had all the files on my hard drive. Unfortunately, I didn't download set by set, but manual sorting while looking at his sets was surprisingly quick. From there it was a quick zip and upload.
I played around with a watermark removing tool ("Photo Stamp Remover") but results were pretty attrocious. If anyone has better ideas, let me know.
Anyway, PM me if you want the link. Ender, obviously I'm just sending it to you.
I have solved the problem entirely but am going to wait on posting details until the operation is complete. If this all works correctly, the only thing left to do would be removing watermarks. And good gracious does that guy love his hideous watermarks.
darth_ender said:
I wish I could get some help (hint hint). Most particularly, I'm struggling with starwarsarchives.com. Tyrphanax has offered to help, but I know he's plenty busy. That dude has some unique material, and even though much is watermarked, I'd still like to get ahold of it. But as far as I can tell, since it's a flash site, there is only one way to get those pictures: printscreen, paste to Paint, save.
Couldn't someone w/ Flash (the creation tool, not the plugin) decompile and extract the assets?
And I can only do this with the smaller pictures because once you enlarge most of them, they always take up more than your screen, no matter what efforts you use to try to shrink them to simply fill your screen.
What about doing an image in pieces and reassembling?
Bingowings said:
One change I am hoping for with ROTS:SE sounds simple but might actually be pretty tricky.
ROTS is now in no possible way the last Star Wars film (unless you class it as the last George Star Wars film) so it doesn't make sense to me that it's soundtrack should end with a medley of themes from films that "haven't happened yet".
What I propose is that a new end title track be constructed, one that sounds like it's going to end on a bum note (The Emperor's theme for example) but then there is a tiny ray of light with a Force theme reprise.
One big problem (one of many) I had leaving the cinema after seeing ROTS was the end titles were way too up beat for such a downer of a film.
Timing such a creature would be a challenge though.
I've got some fan-compiled extended ROTS score, and I think the track called "Revenge of the Sith Orchestral Suite" is exactly what you mean.
Similarly I'd either drop Vader's breathing from the end of TPM or have some similar lead in sound effect acting as a foreshadowing of the next episode.
So in TPM we might hear Nute demand Padme's death.
In AOTC we could hear Vader's breath.
In ROTS we could hear Leia's transmission to Obi-Wan.
By the time ROTJ:R is out we might even have a sound clip that could be placed there to lead into Episode VII.
I really would just rather have none of that.
WOOOOOOOOO BAAAALTIIIIMOOOOOOORE
seriously though, that was the 2nd game I've bothered to watch this season, despite living in the Greater Baltimore Metropolitan Area, and I found myself remarkably interested.
TV's Frink said:
asterisk8 said:
Can we get a Purist version with Crappy Yoda Puppet, please?
Already got it. It's called the original DVD.
Oh, so you're gonna settle for pink tint and cropped frames? Some purist!
TV's Frink said:
More git arrogance, please.
Uh, okay?
Git is the best revision control system ever created, far superior to Subversion and other competitors.
Bingowings said:
JJ has proved that he can get actors to play characters (most of the time) instead of just looking bewildered at a dot on a wall but he has very little control over the quality of the situations those characters are facing (otherwise Star Trek 2009 would have been more than just an average Star Trek film with new actors in).
Which, given the writing team they've got, is probably going to turn out okay. I mean, there's no Orci.
This thread is now a merger of OffTopic's Trek and Prometheus threads.
CP3S said:
Oooh, found another great one too!
chyron8472 said:
Are you telling her that downloading any fanedits whatsoever is illegal, no matter what form of media one owns a copy of the original work on?
Not only is this not true (it's profiting from the fanedits that is illegal), but you might as well have told her to stick it and to go away.
Good luck proving that in court.
Info_Jedi said:
Oh , there was a moon landing alright. I have no doubt about that. People just never saw it. What was shown on TV was just that , a show. A show being filmed on a set.
As I have already done to others in this thread, I now refer you to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXTF6bs1IU
georgec said:
SW isn't really sci-fi. SW is an action-adventure-drama that takes place in outer space.
I believe the term you're looking for is "space fantasy"?
craigisashark said:
timdiggerm said:
As much as this is an advertisement and as much as it's the prequels, I think we can mostly agree that we're really glad to see this happen. If you can, eventually, get AOTC's soundtrack released, the way Williams wrote it (particularly the finale), we'd be even happier.
But gosh this is tempting.
Was the CD version different? I'm just starting to looking into the variations of the Episode 2 now and the full plan. Love the input!
As I recall, the CD version is the same as the film, with a chunk of Imperial March inserted into the finale, removing other things Williams had recorded as part of the finale, such as a big intro into Across the Stars. Something like that. The original version's never been released.
BmB said:
SilverWook said:
Anyone here who believes in any of this moon landing hoax hogwash, might be interested in some prime Florida property I have for sale. ;)
You're still not making an actual point, just ridiculing opposing beliefs. This is not logic.
Any thoughts on the link I posted?
Blue is often used, particularly with snow, to indicate night, or twilight.
doubleofive said:
I'm still forming my opinion on the idea, but I'd like to point out that all the articles "confirming" it point to the same article on a site you've never heard of using no quotes and a single unnammed source who "works close to the production".
I dunno why no one is paying attention to that.
How we know the moon landings happened: It was impossible to fake
Just remember, source for all this is The Vulture, and they were wrong about Snyder.
Warbler said:
off topic?
Yes, that's the name of the board.