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I am a gracious man, as everyone knows. And I have heard enough demand from the old-school fans here. Therefore, VFPFilm, Ltd. is proud to announce "Vote_For_Palpatine's Original Unaltered Trilogy", or VOUT for short.

Please bear in mind that, in the course of restoring ANP for the Special Edition, some of the original binary code had deteriorated badly - beyond repair in some cases - but using a 1993 reproduction of the original post, saved to a 1.44 MB floppy disk, we have been able to successfully re-release the post in the way you remember it. Now we will find out who prefers which versions. Now it will all come out in the end.

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Ric, you mean to say "another chess game to call", as a match is a series of games.

Warbler, with Yavin Weekly yet again with a follow up.  So you admit you are a Sith?

Isn't it true that you are running the Trade Federation, that you are playing the Republic and the Trade Federation against each in an effort to gain more power?

Sith? Not a Sith? What do we make of labels? This is the state of galactic politics today - just a bunch of labels no one pays attention to.

The Trade Federation is an avaricious, contemptible pack of greedy mongrels; I don't even know Nute Gunray.

Ric Olie with the Naboobian News Tribune Post Times, follow up question:

Ewwwww?

I'm sorry, I need a translator. I don't recognize the dialect.

I suppose the question is whether you prefer selective, judicious use of CGI or liberal use of it. I always prefer "less is more". Point, Spielberg.

Warbler, with Yavin Weekly again.    Any truth to the rumor that you are in reality an evil Sith Lord hellbent on conquering the galaxy?

Of course it's nothing more than idle rumor. I'm neither evil nor hellbent.

Ric Olie with the Naboobian News Tribune Post Times.

Could you please address the rumor that you have been bathing Anakin Skywalker and pimping him out to horny pilots...er...rather...horny politicians?

I only bathe him and, as stated before, occasionally take the lad's temperature. The worrywarts in Coruscant's CPS department get skittish with me simply because I insist on accuracy, and oral thermometers are rather scattershot with their readings.

My Master! So...you have not yet fixed the latte machine. If you will not fix it...then perhaps I will...Nooooooooah! I have burned myself-again!

Lord Vader...I don't understand how you drink anything in the first place, let alone an espresso drink. Last thing you need is something to put you on edge.

Warbler again with the Yavin Weekly.  Could you please tell us about order 66?

You again? I thought my Crimson Guard showed you out! Very well. But you shouldn't go asking questions for which there are perfectly obvious answers. The popular children's holo-show, Palpatine Street, did a wonderful musical number explaining how Order 66 works and why it was necessary.

If you insist, I will reproduce the song. And then you will be covering the police beat on Kessel for the rest of your life. Think it over.

Such naked activism by a member of the fourth estate - that supposedly impartial body. I'm appalled.

But I'll allow the question. There is nothing improper about my fatherly advice to a young boy in need of a little guidance. And like all good fathers, I occasionally need to take the lad's temperature and bathe him, is that so wrong?

This thread is now about...George Lucas!!!

BTW, TV's Frink, the title of the thread should reflect what the thread is currently about. Just a suggestion.

People here think Octorox is a woman.

People here don't think Davnes 007 is a woman.

People here think Gaffer Tape is a woman.

I don't see a pattern here.

Anyway, where the hell did my topic go? Does this happen to every thread here? I don't feel like researching the matter, so someone give me the Cliff's Notes version.

I have not - repeat NOT - been pimping them out to anyone.

Next question, guy in front row who apparently used to play goalie for the darts team?

What do you plan to do regarding the taxation of trade routes to outlying systems? The growing Separatist movement led by the nefarious Count Dooku? How about garbage collection on Coruscant? Some guy ended up throwing his garbage out his window and it almost caused my speeder to crash!

1) For whom do you write?

2) Try not to blurt out questions before I get to you. I was still answering the first question.

On to your questions:

A) Is taxation too difficult to deal with? Hey, those hyperspace routes don't maintain themselves. B) I would love to deal with the separatist movement *sigh* if only we had a military. C) The best thing to do with garbage is: pitch it right out the window. The mouth-breathing simpletons in the lower levels of Coruscant could use the extra currency...wait a second. It hit your speeder? If that happened, you must live in...well, when I said "mouth-breathing simpletons", of course I didn't mean you. I meant all of those people you live next to.

Please state your name and group affiliation when asking a question of me

Are you a freelance journalist, sir? For whom do you write?

Yes, um... I don't want to vote for Palpatine.  Is that okay?

Works for me. And to represent all points of view on the ballot box, we've got an opponent on the ballot you may vote for. His name is "Sidious".

Did you have a follow-up?

I'm holding a press conference right here in this thread. Please state your name and group affiliation when asking a question of me so that everyone else in the press pool can cite properly when writing the story.

You there - second row, "Phish" t-shirt. You have a question?

It's a lot easier to unring the bell for the EU than it is to do the same for the PT.

The stories that always grabbed me from the EU were those that didn't incorporate these cliched, hacky elements:

1) Snapshot of the OT heroes enjoying life as a prelude for upcoming conflict

2) Distant villain plotting dastardly, galaxy-conquering scheme aimed squarely at our heroes - often at Han & Leia's kids

3) Previously mentioned scheme involves some sort of superweapon

4) A "Trilogy". (Sorry, rant in 3, 2, 1...go!)

THE GODDAMN TRILOGY STORIES - IF THOSE WEREN'T THE MOST OBVIOUS, DESPARATE LUNGES FOR SIMILARITY TO THE OT MOVIES, THEN I'VE NEVER FUCKING SEEN A DESPARATE LUNGE BEFORE! THE THRAWN TRILOGY, THE JEDI ACADEMY TRILOGY, THE BLACK FLEET TRILOGY, THE CORELLIAN TRILOGY, THE HAN SOLO TRILOGY, THE BOUNTY HUNTER WARS TRILOGY - JESUS H. MOYNIHAN, MUST EVERY STORY TAKE PLACE OVER THE SPAN OF THREE BOOKS??

Mind you, some of those trilogies had some good works in them - it's the principle I objected to.

5) The new force user that went unnoticed during the time of the Empire but is more powerful than Luke, Vader, Yoda, Obi-Wan and Palpatine combined.

The best of EU avoids that sort of thing.

You know, Citizen Kane was spoiled for me thanks to the innumerable references to it made throughout pop culture. I could not begin to appreciate it.

Who the hell is VPN?

vote_palpatine_now, a poster with a name similar to mine who has not yet weighed in on this thread. Or, for that matter, probably hasn't registered.

How old is the fictional Ms. Possible?

(no 2nd posts be damned)

There is no such prohibition on second posts. If you'll review A New Post: SE, you'll find nothing of the sort. It was always my intention for people to have multiple posts on this thread. The Rolling Stone interview I did in the late '70's has been taken out of context, but unfortunately the myth persists to this day.

vaderisnotjake

Salt and pepper in a beard lends the wearer gravitas, even to a dime-store auteur like Lucas. Hence, my vote goes to Lucas.

You forgot the term "Exeunt". That aside, a wonderful slice-of-life play. I was...moved.

This guy could land a burning fighter plane without a scratch, am I right?

Suppose it's murder?

Bump This is the Holiday Post Special! And if I get a hold of this post one day, I will smash it with a hammer!