xhonzi

I have a friend who loves Star Wars, he loves the OT, is in 'really like' if not love with the PT, and has tons of action figures and posters and stuff... but he's not too much into the EU.  Not even Thrawn Trilogy.  His chief complaint about the Thrawn Trilogy is the character of Mara Jade, whom I consider to be a highpoint.  He thinks it's too ridiculous that this character would have been in the subtext of the OT the whole time and never seen or mentioned.

My answer was mostly along the lines of "I want Luke to find someone who can be his equal and with whom he can be happy...  If not someone like Mara Jade, then who?"

He gave me an answer to that question, but I wanted to ask you as well, fellow OT.com'ers.  In your minds, after RotJ:

1. Does Luke dedicate his life to the Jedi order and become celibate like a monk?
2. Is he some kind of space pimp/James Bond character that is too dedicated to his life's work to settle down, but catches some action from time to time as the mission allows?
3. Or does he get to have a wife and kids?

If #3, then what kind of woman can he call equal?  Does she have to be a Jedi to stand shoulder to shoulder with him?  Or are there other "separate but equal" qualities she could have?

Give me your thoughts!

(Yes 005, you should definitely link this thread in your sig!)

Neven?  Are you contracting never even?  I like it!

<Panaka> If he start pushin' his Ackbar Crunch against my Panakacakes for pwnership of the breakfast table, then we gonna have trouble!</panaka>

TV's Frink said:

...especially if it screws up xhonzi's page control thingy.

 We'll neven know, as long as you're here SCREWING IT UP first.

ESB
ANH
ROTJ
Going Back to Highschool
Doing Homework
Getting a Wedgie and then a Swirly
Getting Punched in the face
Getting strangled to death
Watching my wife and kids brutally murdered by people in clown suits while they pour melted wax on my arms and legs, and then rip my hair out.
Then a three way tie between 1, 2, & 3, assuming someone actually made Star Wars Prequels and they were as terrible as I assume they would be.  ;)

But here's my non-hyperbolic interpretation of the Prequels:  As far as quality goes, RotS was the best, AotC was 2nd, and TPM was the worst.  HOWEVER, how good each film should have been runs the same way.  TPM could have been "meh" as long as AotC was "pretty good" and RotS was "AWESOME!"  But TPM failed to reach "meh" and AotC was merely "meh" and RotS was maybe a hair above "meh."  Therefore, RotS is the best AND the most disappointing, AotC is 2nd best and 2nd most disappointing... and TPM continues to fail at being 'meh.'

*oohh carp!*

Trust him, Trust him! </c3po>

PRO board, thank you very much.

Yeah, those aren't the same lyrics as on the Rock Band Song.

It's pretty easy if you also forget all of the movies he's in.

Both of those songs were a little disappointing, even for a dollar.  At 2 minutes, You All Everybody is a joke about 2 minutes too long.

In other news, Maxim's list of Lost Spinoff's:

http://www.maxim.com/tv/guy-tv/90510/ultimate-lost-spin-offs.html

*ohh snap!*

*ooh snap!*

<jabba> Ahh... the might Pah-nah-kah! </jabba>

I don't think she was too bad in Transformers 1.  Not great, but not bad.  But man, seeing her in that Jonah Hex trailer is downright torture!

I have several of them.  I bought them for the "expanded info and pictures"/dictionary aspect to them as opposed to any desire to play the game.  I bought all of mine in the early-mid nineties when I wanted every aspect of the Star Wars Galaxy to be explored.

I was also trying to make a LucasArts style adventure game off of Heir to the Empire, and I think the HTTE Sourcebook was the first I bought.  I still enjoy pulling them off the shelf and flipping through them, and I have enjoyed looking at some of the newest ones at the bookstore, but I haven't bought any in a long time.

Is this an old game?  I'm not sure I know of the game, but it sounds intriguing.

Geronimo Jackson's Dharma Lady and Drive Shaft's You All Everybody are now available on Rock Band Network.

I'm afraid I'll have to have these, no matter my feelings toward the finale.

Horror?

And how about Alien?  Is it Thriller, Action, FX Fantasy, or Horror?

Added a few Jedi/Dark Jedi questions.

I think this is the "only the hardwood lasts" effect.  Someone please come up with a better name.  When people think of old music, generally speaking only the top 10% of stuff survives.  All the crap sinks to the bottom and no one cares to remember it or put it on the radio today.  Then look at all of the crap music today.  In 20 years, it will all but be forgotten and people will think that Weezer was the only band in the 90's and 00's (I kid, I kid... though I really do like the =W=)

We have a pair of friends who see all of these dumb comedies in the theatre multiple times and then buy them on Bluray as soon as they come out.  They loan them to us, we chuckle at a few jokes, and then they're totally gone.  In a couple years, people will have completely forgotten the modern Pink Panther 1/2 and Get Smart movies.  But Peter Seller's Pink Panther movies and Get Smart the TV show will live on.

A lot of the movies that come out in any year are really just momentary distractions.  The ones that are quality enough to survive will, and in 30 years people will look back at 2009 and think that all of the movies that came out were great (because only the great will have survived) and they will lament that all of the movies coming out in 2039 are teh suck.

Well, you should be used to being the unstobbable force railing against the unmovable object, for that is what we O-OT fans are.

And dwell on them I will, until the next shiny object that will eventually disappoint me comes along.  :)

And does anyone else feel a lot of similarities between Lost Seasons 1-5 vs Season 6 and Star Wars Original Trilogy VS Prequels? 

One of the ones that's really getting to me can be seen here at the end of this video:

http://tv.ign.com/dor/objects/821880/lost/videos/lost_wc_end_052410.html

And that is this: A redefinition of what the show was to fit new material.  i.e. "Star Wars is just for kids, why are you getting so upset about it?" and "Lost was always just about the characters.  If you read more into these mysteries than was meant to, that's your fault."  And the air of superiority among people that liked it and how they look down on people that "refuse to 'let go'".  They're essentially saying, "You're so immature (and so, so, so much less mature than I) because you're so hung up on the mysteries.  Maybe one day, when you grow up some, you'll be like me and will see the show for as beautiful as it is."

To be fair, I'm probably doing the opposite.  I do really think that as the emotional high wears off, a lot of people are going to look back at it... or rewatch parts of the show, and will realize how much the show was focused on the mysteries of the island, how unsatisfactory the answers we did get were, and how many mysteries were just left hanging.  They'll realize that the 'emotional' part of the finale was really just a big switcheroo, and that they were promised filet mignon and wine, fed hotdogs and diet soda, and sent home with a full belly.

People are accusing me of 'expecting too much.'  I expected it to be good, and to have some decent surprises, and for it to wow me to some degree like all of the past season finales have done.  I don't think that is too much to expect...

Mysteries:

Why did Hurley and Miles have 'dead' people related Super Powers?
What was the kid Jacob doing, what was the point of that?
Why did the others call the smoke monster 'a sort of security system?'
Why did they create 'cerebus vents' for the smoke monster to move around?  Who made the vents?
How could the smoke monster turn into Christian Shephard and Alex after he was already locked into the John Locke body?
Why did the numbers appear in so many non-island contexts? (The lottery, and everything in Hurley's life?)
The Valenzetti equation?
Why did Rousseau re-record the recording with the numbers?  Why was the original recording in Hurley's voice?
Why did DHARMA use Egyptian hieroglyphs on the countdown timer at the Swan?
How did Yemi's plane make it all of the way to the island?
Why did the Blast Door Map say that the incident was in 1984/5, but the show then said the incident was in 1977?
Who was Magnus Hanso, and what was his connection to Alvar Hanso?
Why was the DHARMA film cut/spliced?