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Calax posted:IMO it'd be a bit creepy to have a parent who's mostly known for one outfit that doesn't hide that much (or if you're in the right position, anything apparently). As the lady herself said in an interview, "Not only is it revealing, it doesn't go where you go. If you were standing behind me, you could see all the way to Florida."
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Poor Anthony Daniels. He was standing behind her the whole time but couldn't appreciate the view.
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Mar 29, 2013 13:23
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Albu-quirky Guy posted:Poor Anthony Daniels. He was standing behind her the whole time but couldn't appreciate the view. The man has been awfully tight-lipped about his private life, so I'm not entirely sure if he'd have appreciated the view even if he had seen it.
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Mar 29, 2013 13:35
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Even a homosexual man would appreciate that view. Artistically.
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Mar 29, 2013 13:55
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Flagrant Abuse posted:For all the flak it gets, that's one of the reasons I like the NJO. Most of its covers that featured the Big Three aged them appropriately. In the middle of the series, Luke looked like this (warning: kind of huge), which, while not exactly how Hamill looked at the time, at least looked believable for a 45 year old man with an active lifestyle. Luke looks like Jeff Fahey in this one.
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Mar 29, 2013 14:43
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Dave Syndrome posted:The man has been awfully tight-lipped about his private life, so I'm not entirely sure if he'd have appreciated the view even if he had seen it. Considering the rumours of his nasty ego, I have a feeling Anthony Daniels really only loves Anthony Daniels.
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Insane Totoro posted:Even a homosexual man would appreciate that view. Artistically. I wonder what military strategies Thrawn could come up with after understanding this particular work of art.
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Powered Descent posted:I wonder what military strategies Thrawn could come up with after understanding this particular work of art. goddamn this post is loving goony as hell
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Powered Descent posted:I wonder what military strategies Thrawn could come up with after understanding this particular work of art. You know, I've wondered about how Thrawn, an Imperial officer, got to know so much about art that he can virtually predict peoples' movements after he looked at it. I wonder because the Empire doesn't exactly look like a place where they like art.
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I don't think that's completely true. Didn't Imperial Center on Coruscant have a giant art museum that Jaina and Jacen got lost in? edit; http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Galactic_Museum So yeah, it seems like there was a big rear end museum that had the Jedi section closed off. VaultAggie fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Mar 29, 2013 |
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VaultAggie posted:I don't think that's completely true. Didn't Imperial Center on Coruscant have a giant art museum that Jaina and Jacen got lost in? I haven't read much EU stuff, I'm mostly having these ideas on the basis that the Empire is modeled after historical fascist regimes. And historical fascist regimes weren't all that keen on art if it didn't support the fascist regime. So the only art I'd expect to see in that museum would be lifelike marble statues of Our Glorious Emperor and pictures where he rides a unicorn to liberate the Republic from the shackles of democracy and stuff like that.
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I have the same feeling, I expect as long as the art isn't 'gently caress The Empire/Republic was pretty good actually/GO JEDI/ALLIANCE!' it'd get a pass and a distinction if it did the complete opposite of the stuff that wouldn't get through. Also, Luke is looking very RULE THE JEDI EVERY DAY in that art.
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SeanBeansShako posted:I have the same feeling, I expect as long as the art isn't 'gently caress The Empire/Republic was pretty good actually/GO JEDI/ALLIANCE!' it'd get a pass and a distinction if it did the complete opposite of the stuff that wouldn't get through. Pretty much canon Imperial Censorship here
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Grendels Dad posted:I haven't read much EU stuff, I'm mostly having these ideas on the basis that the Empire is modeled after historical fascist regimes. And historical fascist regimes weren't all that keen on art if it didn't support the fascist regime. So the only art I'd expect to see in that museum would be lifelike marble statues of Our Glorious Emperor and pictures where he rides a unicorn to liberate the Republic from the shackles of democracy and stuff like that. If my memory of books I read 20 years ago is reliable, Thrawn was written as a cold, calculating leader who had no qualms about ruthlessly prosecuting a war, but not evil for its own sake like the Emperor and Vader. I think he even mentions how he despised how Vader killed people out of anger. I imagine he would see propaganda as a useful tool, but would personally appreciate art, architecture, etc. as a well-rounded brilliant mind, even if only for its strategic/tactical insights. I don't recall that they ever discussed much of his "domestic policy" as opposed to his military leadership.
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Derek Dominoe posted:If my memory of books I read 20 years ago is reliable, Thrawn was written as a cold, calculating leader who had no qualms about ruthlessly prosecuting a war, but not evil for its own sake like the Emperor and Vader. I think he even mentions how he despised how Vader killed people out of anger. Yeah, he was a more pragmatic villain than either of them. There's a pretty well-known scene in either Heir To the Empire or Dark Force Rising where a flaw in the tractor beam on Thrawn's star destroyer allows Luke to escape, and whereas Vader would've killed the officer in charge, Thrawn promoted him for attempting an innovative solution which was a good try even if it didn't work. At the same time, there was another scene in which Thrawn ordered the Noghri to execute an incompetent crewman who failed to show any initiative in similar circumstances and tried to pass the blame for his failure.
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Also, remember Thrawn grew up outside the Empire, also. I think in one of the later NJO books they go to a Chiss art museum or library or something like that, where it's mentioned the Chiss have info on every culture in the Unknown Regions they encountered. So Thrawn coming out of that society would make a bit more sense about him liking art. Also in the early EU when Thrawn was conceived the Empire's military was still more of a sort of Prussian-like military-arisotocratic type of society, so it makes sense high-ranking officers would like to see themselves as cultured and highbrow. Derek Dominoe posted:I don't recall that they ever discussed much of his "domestic policy" as opposed to his military leadership. It's not Thrawn, but I remember one of the Legacy of the Force novels mentioned how Pellaeon never liked how Palpatine's Empire had secret police. Which seems a bit silly to me, but then again I think that was one of Traviss's books so of course it's going to not make much sense.
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Metal Loaf posted:Yeah, he was a more pragmatic villain than either of them. There's a pretty well-known scene in either Heir To the Empire or Dark Force Rising where a flaw in the tractor beam on Thrawn's star destroyer allows Luke to escape, and whereas Vader would've killed the officer in charge, Thrawn promoted him for attempting an innovative solution which was a good try even if it didn't work. At the same time, there was another scene in which Thrawn ordered the Noghri to execute an incompetent crewman who failed to show any initiative in similar circumstances and tried to pass the blame for his failure. I think the kill took place in HTTE, and the promotion took place in DFR, for what it's worth. And yeah Zahn played up the contrast between the two, as well as references to all the poo poo Vader pulled in ESB.
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Grendels Dad posted:I haven't read much EU stuff, I'm mostly having these ideas on the basis that the Empire is modeled after historical fascist regimes. And historical fascist regimes weren't all that keen on art if it didn't support the fascist regime. So the only art I'd expect to see in that museum would be lifelike marble statues of Our Glorious Emperor and pictures where he rides a unicorn to liberate the Republic from the shackles of democracy and stuff like that. You have to differ between the official art, where it was usually all about the regime and hating everything deemed sub-human/wrong and what the leaders/upper-crust of the regime privately liked. You had lots of Nazis officially hating all those Jewish "entartete" art, but loving and collecting it privately, a very few even protecting favourite Jewish artists/actors/directors, giving dispersions if necessary. Take old Hitler himself: He loved and collected Disney movies. Goebbels had tons upon tons of Jewish/"entartete" art in his home. So while you have the official museums showing crappy propaganda art you have private collections full of exquisite "forbidden" art.
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There was a Mara Jade comic story (written by Timothy Zahn for an issue of Star Wars Tales) which suggested that Palpatine had one of the largest private art collections in the galaxy, having confiscated rare specimens from all across his empire.
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Looks like Dark Horse is going to do an 8-issue adaptation of "The Star Wars". As in the original ANH draft. http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03/31/dark-horse-to-adapt-george-lucas-original-concept-the-star-wars-into-comics-wondercon/ I love the concept, but I'm a bit worried that JW Rinzler is doing the writing of it. He's done a ton of behind the scenes stuff, but as far as I know he's never written any fiction before.
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Chairman Capone posted:Looks like Dark Horse is going to do an 8-issue adaptation of "The Star Wars". As in the original ANH draft. Are we sure this isn't an April Fool's thing?
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A few Dark Horse editors have stated that it's not an April Fool's. I mean, I guess we won't know for sure until tomorrow, but it seems legitimate.
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That sounds pretty rad, to be honest. I dunno, there's something about it that makes it seem real. Like. It's not ridiculous enough to be a joke.
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Is this the version where Chewbacca is an eight-foot tall oranguntan and Han Solo is the Creature From the Black Lagoon?
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Metal Loaf posted:Is this the version where Chewbacca is an eight-foot tall oranguntan and Han Solo is the Creature From the Black Lagoon? Yup, and the version with Annikin Starkiller and where if I recall correctly the Luke-analog character was a woman.
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Disney is closing LucasArts  . This also most likely means that 1313 is completely dead.
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No Battlefront 3, that is sad. Or are the properties going to be licensed out? (I feel bad for those poor employees.)
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astr0man posted:Disney is closing LucasArts  Good riddance. euphronius posted:Or are the properties going to be licensed out?
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Disney statement posted:After evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games. As a result of this change, we've had layoffs across the organization. We are incredibly appreciative and proud of the talented teams who have been developing our new titles.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:
The trick is, that wasn't Lucasarts. That was an IP licensed out to these guys. So what I'm saying is, expect more of that.
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Ursine Asylum posted:The trick is, that wasn't Lucasarts. That was an IP licensed out to these guys.
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astr0man posted:Disney is closing LucasArts Aw man. Okay, so maybe they haven't been so great lately. But back in the golden age of X-Wing and Day of the Tentacle, they were my favorite game company.
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This isn't the end of Star Wars games. It's just the end of the garbage Lucasarts developed and/or published. We still have garbage from other companies who get the Star Wars license to look forward to.
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I'm just happy because LA has never seemed to know exactly what they wanted to do. After about 2000-2001 they kept changing their decisions on if they'd develop internally or not. So they wiped out the talent they'd built up, then three years later they decided to restart that but couldn't get a fantastic group but together, and they did this three times.
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Give me an HK-47 Hitman knock-off drat it
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Metal Loaf posted:Yeah, he was a more pragmatic villain than either of them. There's a pretty well-known scene in either Heir To the Empire or Dark Force Rising where a flaw in the tractor beam on Thrawn's star destroyer allows Luke to escape, and whereas Vader would've killed the officer in charge, Thrawn promoted him for attempting an innovative solution which was a good try even if it didn't work. At the same time, there was another scene in which Thrawn ordered the Noghri to execute an incompetent crewman who failed to show any initiative in similar circumstances and tried to pass the blame for his failure. Every time I remember how much the Thrawn trilogy sucked, I read something like this and remember it sucked far, far worse than I remember.
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Davros1 posted:Every time I remember how much the Thrawn trilogy sucked, I read something like this and remember it sucked far, far worse than I remember. This but the exact opposite.
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I like to pretend every time some guy mentions hating the Thrawn Trilogy that he actually means the Jedi Prince books for kids he just vaguely gets confused.
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