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NGL posted:I don't remember which novel it's from (there's a bit with Lando betting on blob racing), but at one point, Luke starts psychically exploring Leia's brain (for Force sensitivity, I believe) and in the very back, he finds a little psychic protuberance. When he... probes it with the Force, it knocks him on his rear end. Only Force-sensitive have the psychic Force clit. Jedi Academy Trilogy: Jedi Search For stupidest concept in the whole of Star Wars, I have to nominate the life-force-draining cockroaches that melt into your body that eventually turn into humanoids. Also they're made of plague or some poo poo, too. ZeeToo fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Nov 8, 2010 |
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ZeeToo posted:For stupidest concept in the whole of Star Wars, I have to nominate the life-force-draining cockroaches that melt into your body that eventually turn into humanoids.
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SeanBeansShako posted:If we're going to fight over which has stupider concepts (EU or movies) we might as well just give up and go get laid. I thought we were fighting over Star Wars because we can't get laid in the first place?
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ZeeToo posted:Jedi Academy Trilogy: Jedi Search There you have it, folks. Kevin J. Anderson is responsible for Psychic Force Clit. 
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BonHair posted:I thought we were fighting over Star Wars because we can't get laid in the first place? Poontang leads to the Dark Side. Look what happened to Anakin!
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NGL posted:
Well, that still sounds a lot better, story-wise, than being able to tell someone's degree of force power by means of a blood test. If a trained Jedi had to go around checking everyone's mind individually, it would make sense that it'd be a lot harder to find new candidates than if you could just screen everyone at birth.
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Suenteus Po posted:Anakin building Threepio (to help his mom do ???) I have to defend this one. Anakin was probably like 6 when he started tinkering, thinking "OH MAN THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME, IT CAN HELP MOM WITH STUFF!" In TPM, he was what, 8? Clearly he wasn't old enough to think it through to the logical "Wait... this won't help with poo poo" conclusion. Kids get dumb ideas about things. Parents patronize their kids' ideas all the time.
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Faerunner posted:I have to defend this one. I hear what you are saying, but I disagree on the basis of Anakin building C3PO is just retarded. The way Lucas tries to throw every character into the prequels is just awful.
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Duckman2008 posted:I hear what you are saying, but I disagree on the basis of Anakin building C3PO is just retarded. The way Lucas tries to throw every character into the prequels is just awful. I think the most awful part was the using of C3P0 during the climax battle in the Genosian arena as comedic relief during a scene where tons of Jedi are being slaughtered. It completely took away the emotional impact.
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LLJKSiLk posted:I think the most awful part was the using of C3P0 during the climax battle in the Genosian arena as comedic relief during a scene where tons of Jedi are being slaughtered. It completely took away the emotional impact. Yeah, there's no defense there.
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Duckman2008 posted:I hear what you are saying, but I disagree on the basis of Anakin building C3PO is just retarded. The way Lucas tries to throw every character into the prequels is just awful. It's still awful but people keep quoting RLM like it was their idea.
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Faerunner posted:I have to defend this one. So your defense of this is that Anakin was a dumb poo poo? Ok, I can buy that.
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Duckman2008 posted:I hear what you are saying, but I disagree on the basis of Anakin building C3PO is just retarded. The way Lucas tries to throw every character into the prequels is just awful. Thank god he used what little scrap of moderation he had and didn't show us whiny early teenage Lando and Han in Revenge of The Sith. Or just forgot trying to cram as much terrible easily dated ham fisted political subtext into his 'script'.
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Han was supposed to be on Kashyyyk living among the wookies. Thank god.
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Faerunner posted:I have to defend this one. I could buy this argument if not for one very important detail. The eight-year-old kid's science fair project goes on to be a major character in the original films. If this were any new random droid, people wouldn't have this problem with it. Anakin could be established as good with machines*, and the droid could end up more forgotten than Shmi was during the decade after Phantom Menace. (Or given the EU, it too could steal the death star plans) But that's not what happened. Instead we need a chain of implausible events leading C3P0 from a slave's property to Captain Antilles by way of unfunny comedy to shoehorn him into the prequels. *EDIT: I just realized that this never really comes into play. I can't remember anywhere in Clones or RotS where Anakin needed to fix or build anything. The scene is even more pointless than I thought. Astribulus fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Nov 8, 2010 |
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quote:Anakin building Threepio (to help his mom do ???) Here's my personal canon on that matter: Shmi needs a protocol droid because she's terrible at speaking and understanding alien languages. Many nonhumans in the Star Wars universe can't or won't speak languages other than their own, even if they understand Basic, and Shmi would have had a hard time negotiating encounters with the many nonhumans on Tatooine without the proper language skills. Imagine poor Shmi coming home exhausted from a day at the marketplace, only to be beaten by her master for overpaying for blue milk! Imagine her being screamed at by a client who can't be made to understand that Watto is out for the day! (Why couldn't Lucas have established this with a sentence or two of dialogue in the film? The world may never know.)
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LLJKSiLk posted:I think the most awful part was the using of C3P0 during the climax battle in the Genosian arena as comedic relief during a scene where tons of Jedi are being slaughtered. It completely took away the emotional impact. You're really going to love the deleted scene in the first minute of this. Basically, Anakin and Obi-Wan witness a dear friend murdered before their eyes and immediately perform a Marx Brothers routine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjUAatYo6us
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Pththya-lyi posted:(Why couldn't Lucas have established this with a sentence or two of dialogue in the film? The world may never know.) Because the script is an incoherent mess? this is probably the smallest of things that could have been changed.
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What gets me is that it would have made so much more sense if Anakin had built R2, and Padme had owned C3PO. Because R2 is a useful tool for a high-tech junkyard (he can help solder stuff or whatever), and a protocol droid is a sensible thing for a diplomat to own. And then in the OT, it makes sense because R2 has already been shown to be quite willing to lie and deceive, whereas 3PO is a gormless twit. So you don't have to wipe either of their memories and a lot of what R2 instigates (going to find Obi-Wan) makes total sense.
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Captain von Trapp posted:You're really going to love the deleted scene in the first minute of this. Basically, Anakin and Obi-Wan witness a dear friend murdered before their eyes and immediately perform a Marx Brothers routine. what in the gently caress. Grievous stabs a woman in the back with a lightsaber and IMMEDIATELY follwing this all you see is a screen full of robots going ROGER ROGER ROGER ROER; ROGER.
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Captain von Trapp posted:You're really going to love the deleted scene in the first minute of this. Basically, Anakin and Obi-Wan witness a dear friend murdered before their eyes and immediately perform a Marx Brothers routine. That first scene actually makes it look like Anakin and Obi Wan are friends. I mean, they're completely overlooking a murder in favor of shtick, but they're written by an autist and that's as good as it's getting. It also makes Grievous look sorta threatening. The scenes with the Rebellion being founded - I hope to God they were cut so as to not conflict with Force Unleashed. Because that would be just delightful.
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That deleted scene made Grevious look more like a serial rapist with the way he touched Shaak-Ti.
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Attack of the Clones is on right now; I haven't watched it sober since I saw it in theatres. Jesus Christ, the Padme on a conveyor belt scene looks like the final round of Nick Arcade, it's amazing.
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No, it's really lazy and uninspired.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:No, it's really lazy and uninspired. Yeah it looks like it is available without filez. I was asking about Something Something Dark Side.
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Biplane posted:what in the gently caress. It doesn't justify the horribleness of the rest of the movie...there's a reason it got cut.
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SeanBeansShako posted:That deleted scene made Grevious look more like a serial rapist with the way he touched Shaak-Ti. I am certain there are frightening amounts of fanfiction built around this concept.
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EDIT ^^^ Weirdest fanfic pairing I ever saw was Chancellor Palpatine + Anakin's mom. However, it had someone buy Shmi out of slavery so it still made more sense than the movies.LLJKSiLk posted:I think the most awful part was the using of C3P0 during the climax battle in the Genosian arena as comedic relief during a scene where tons of Jedi are being slaughtered. It completely took away the emotional impact. God, I know! I was laughing hysterically watching all these Jedi being gunned down, and then all of a sudden there's this awful pair of Odd Couple robots. Is there a movie that doesn't feature 3PO and R2 slowly walking through a withering hail of blasterfire?
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Mad Hamish posted:God, I know! I was laughing hysterically watching all these Jedi being gunned down, and then all of a sudden there's this awful pair of Odd Couple robots. Imagine 3PO and R2 doing slapstick while Han is being frozen in carbonite. It would be pure comedy gold.
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NovemberMike posted:Imagine 3PO and R2 doing slapstick while Han is being frozen in carbonite. Don't give George any ideas for the fuckin' 3D releases, man!
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NovemberMike posted:Imagine 3PO and R2 doing slapstick while Han is being frozen in carbonite. Slapstick..........or vaudeville?
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Mad Hamish posted:Slapstick..........or vaudeville? Gungan-face makeup. Sure to offend someone.
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Having Threepio in The Phantom Menace was pretty charming, I thought. It wasn't the Prequels use of existing characters that bugged me, it was the overuse. Give Threepio and Artoo a scene, let them fade into the background. Same for the Fett guys.
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deadguy posted:Having Threepio in The Phantom Menace was pretty charming, I thought. It wasn't the Prequels use of existing characters that bugged me, it was the overuse. Give Threepio and Artoo a scene, let them fade into the background. Same for the Fett guys. That's what they did with Chewie and people still complained.
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WhyteRyce posted:That's what they did with Chewie and people still complained. That's because the prequels have to be 100% consistent with the OT without actually featuring any characters from it.  I honestly didn't have a problem with Artoo and Threepio appearing in the PT. How they were executed, however, was pretty bad. If Anakin had to build one, it would've made sense to have it be Artoo. And, of course, Threepio would be Padme's protocol droid.
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Astribulus posted:*EDIT: I just realized that this never really comes into play. I can't remember anywhere in Clones or RotS where Anakin needed to fix or build anything. The scene is even more pointless than I thought. In one of the PT novels we're told that Anakin would find broken droids, fix them, and let them wander around the Jedi Temple... only to find out that the droids were planted in trash bins by the Trade Federation to exploit Anakin's stupidity and spy on the Jedi. When the Council finds out, they quickly put an end to his bullshit.
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Diacritical Mark posted:In one of the PT novels we're told that Anakin would find broken droids, fix them, and let them wander around the Jedi Temple... only to find out that the droids were planted in trash bins by the Trade Federation to exploit Anakin's stupidity and spy on the Jedi. When the Council finds out, they quickly put an end to his bullshit. Our hero.
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Diacritical Mark posted:In one of the PT novels we're told that Anakin would find broken droids, fix them, and let them wander around the Jedi Temple... only to find out that the droids were planted in trash bins by the Trade Federation to exploit Anakin's stupidity and spy on the Jedi. When the Council finds out, they quickly put an end to his bullshit. Every time I read this thread Star Wars becomes even more retarded. 
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