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Best part of the EU, or worst? (NSFW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVJjP2Jsj1g
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Dec 12, 2014 15:31
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Groovelord Neato posted:That gif is the prequels.
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Dec 12, 2014 16:13
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FlamingLiberal posted:It would be more accurate if you replaced that background with a blank green screen, since Lucas insisted on green-screening EVERYTHING in the prequels. why didn't lucas hire stunt men to wear green suits to do better light saber fights, and just green screen the actors faces and costumes onto the dudes?
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Dec 12, 2014 16:15
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TOILETLORD posted:why didn't lucas hire stunt men to wear green suits to do better light saber fights, and just green screen the actors faces and costumes onto the dudes? Pretty sure that's what he did for parts of the Yoda/count Dooku fight and it looked terrible.
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Dec 12, 2014 16:33
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Present posted:Pretty sure that's what he did for parts of the Yoda/count Dooku fight and it looked terrible. can we force disney to just make the guy that plays the green arrow a jedi, since he can do stunt work? Heck i'd watch a movie that was just the supernatural guys as bounty hunters.
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Dec 12, 2014 16:34
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The guy that played Darth Maul was their actual movie fight choreographer or something like that so that's why all his fights were super sweet. Best part of Episode One. Not like that is saying much.
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Dec 12, 2014 16:55
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Present posted:Best part of Episode One. Not like that is saying much. Nope. Episode One sets the bar pretty low. Star Wars Christmas low.
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Dec 12, 2014 17:00
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Present posted:The guy that played Darth Maul was their actual movie fight choreographer or something like that so that's why all his fights were super sweet.
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Dec 12, 2014 17:42
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Present posted:The guy that played Darth Maul was their actual movie fight choreographer or something like that so that's why all his fights were super sweet. Yeah that's Ray Park, who does a lot of fight choreography-heavy roles and started as a stunt double.
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Dec 12, 2014 17:49
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FlamingLiberal posted:That actor is also a trained martial artist. Maul was the perfect role for him since he had like 5 whole lines and mostly just glowered. And his five lines were dubbed over by Peter Serafinowicz. Also, the guy who played Wedge is scottish, and every movie he was redubbed with a different person. And David Prowse is also scottish, and got redubbed by James Earl Jones. I think Star Wars just hates scotland.
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Dec 12, 2014 18:22
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Arcsquad12 posted:David Prowse is also scottish Wha I thought he was English.
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Dec 12, 2014 18:34
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Lincoln posted:Wha I thought he was English. it is well known that scotland is a part of england 
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Dec 12, 2014 18:38
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Darth Vader with Prowse's West-country accent would've almost been as ridiculous as the Star Wars EU.
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Dec 12, 2014 18:46
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Tsaedje posted:Darth Vader with Prowse's West-country accent would've almost been as ridiculous as the Star Wars EU. Darth Prowse is amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQFho0_G1VI
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Dec 12, 2014 18:50
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Arcsquad12 posted:Also, the guy who played Wedge is scottish, and every movie he was redubbed with a different person. Wedge is also Ewan McGregor's real life Uncle.
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Dec 12, 2014 18:53
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Tsaedje posted:Darth Vader with Prowse's West-country accent would've almost been as ridiculous as the Star Wars EU.
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Dec 12, 2014 18:58
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:Wedge is also Ewan McGregor's real life Uncle. learned a lot of completely useless trivia today the darth maul fight is actually pretty dope. between that and the podracing video game episode 1 actually had some redeeming features.
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Dec 12, 2014 22:39
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shiksa posted:learned a lot of completely useless trivia today I think racing and vehicle culture are two of George Lucas' under-appreciated strengths. In a lot of sci-fi, the "good guys" all have one kind of ship and the "bad guys" all have another (maybe one other kind that's their base in space).
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Dec 12, 2014 22:42
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Present posted:The guy that played Darth Maul was their actual movie fight choreographer or something like that so that's why all his fights were super sweet. No the fights were hella dumb.
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Dec 12, 2014 22:49
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This stuff makes me cringe the most https://www.youtube.com/user/kidcardco The sorts of people raging that the expanded universe isn't canon anymore are literally retarded Like how the gently caress do they expect them to make a new movie and adhere to hundreds of tie-in novels and comics, that vast majority of which are really loving stupid That would require the writers to: 1) Be familiar with ALL of that poo poo, something no professional writer has time to do 2) Make movies that cater to a tiny portion of moviegoers who have actually read all this poo poo and gently caress everybody else who chooses not to 3) Be constricted within the confines of 30 years of continuity at the expense of a good story Anyone with more than two brain cells would realize how insane this would be, but then again nobody who thinks the EU is actually good has more than two brain cells. Like most of this poo poo is so bad it makes the prequels look like good movies Plus Mara Jade and Thrawn are really popular anyways and will almost definitely return in some form in the new EU
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Dec 12, 2014 22:54
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lol that anyone over the age of 12 thought the EU was "cool" or had any merit.
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Dec 12, 2014 22:55
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Lincoln posted:Wha I thought he was English. He is, he's from Bristol
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Dec 12, 2014 22:58
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Groovelord Neato posted:lol that anyone over the age of 12 thought the EU was "cool" or had any merit. honestly it's really kind of depressing that people are getting worked up over what is "canon" and what isn't. it's all fictional. like watching the youtube videos of idiot nerd losers screaming in outrage about how dare the mouse say those stories aren't real is honestly starting to make me  like seriously I've struggled with depression and hated my life for years but I can't even begin to contemplate how terrible their lives must be if they choose to exist in a fantasy world like this. it's just so sad and pathetic.
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Dec 12, 2014 23:04
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Yeah if you're gonna live in a fictional world, at least take the one with holodeck porn and real democracy, for God's sake
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Dec 12, 2014 23:10
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Gammatron 64 posted:honestly it's really kind of depressing that people are getting worked up over what is "canon" and what isn't. it's all fictional. like watching the youtube videos of idiot nerd losers screaming in outrage about how dare the mouse say those stories aren't real is honestly starting to make me But if you're gonna get your gundarks in a knot over your fiction at least let it be not embarrassingly bad. EU is some Dr Who level poo poo.
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Dec 12, 2014 23:16
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Groovelord Neato posted:But if you're gonna get your gundarks in a knot over your fiction at least let it be not embarrassingly bad. EU is some Dr Who level poo poo. dunno lets compare it to the star trek books.
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Dec 12, 2014 23:17
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Gammatron 64 posted:honestly it's really kind of depressing that people are getting worked up over what is "canon" and what isn't. it's all fictional. like watching the youtube videos of idiot nerd losers screaming in outrage about how dare the mouse say those stories aren't real is honestly starting to make me My entire experience with the EU ending was me reading about it here, feeling bummed out for a night, and checking out the last book released in the series after not touching any EU books for 8 years. After reading the last 20 pages of Crucible I was laughing so hard I couldn't even see. What the EU was to me as a child was a engaging series of books and comics where I could read about the lives of my favorite characters and their kids. What the EU became in the last decade was a complete joke of a franchise that no one at LucasArts really gave a poo poo about and just authorized contracts and deals to people on the basis that the original cast was untouchable and past that anything was possible. I'd really love to see an interview with the LucasArts people and the writing staff involved with the very first NJO book where Chewbacca died where they had a meeting and worked out exactly what they were allowed to do, how Chewbacca had to die, etc. That seems to be the very last time the LA editorial staff exerted any influence over the EU novel process.
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Dec 12, 2014 23:19
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The last EU book I read was Death Troopers and it was really bad but not in a funny way. Just sort of meandering and boring. Did you know that Han Solo fought zombies?????? It's true
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Dec 12, 2014 23:33
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I want KOTOR 1 and 2 to be at least somewhat canon, as well as Kyle Katarn. That's about all I want to be canon again.
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Dec 12, 2014 23:34
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Is that Star Wars kid video considered canon?
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Dec 12, 2014 23:35
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star wars zombies should have been the last eu book and then shut it down and slit the throat of the author as a ritual sacrifice at the altar of creative bankruptcy.
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Dec 12, 2014 23:36
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shiksa posted:star wars zombies should have been the last eu book and then shut it down and slit the throat of the author as a ritual sacrifice at the altar of creative bankruptcy. they fought zombies on clone wars.
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Dec 12, 2014 23:37
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SaltLick posted:Is that Star Wars kid video considered canon? Sorry, I think Darth Adipos got relegated to non-canon status.
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Dec 12, 2014 23:38
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SunAndSpring posted:I want KOTOR 1 and 2 to be at least somewhat canon, as well as Kyle Katarn. That's about all I want to be canon again. The videogames are better than the movies, at least when they are not just cloning the drat movies. Yoda Stories is canon right?
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Dec 12, 2014 23:40
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pentyne posted:My entire experience with the EU ending was me reading about it here, feeling bummed out for a night, and checking out the last book released in the series after not touching any EU books for 8 years. It's easy to call the EU itself kinda stupid, and it is. But it's also designed largely for "young adults" and to evangelize the brand. Even when I was a teen I knew some or most of the books were bad (The Crystal Star, one of the most boring books I've ever read), but some of it was fun at the time. The plot to Darksaber is ridiculous, and then there's Bossk's coming-of-age story where he has to eat his dad because he's too old. Crazy bounty hunters are essentially the coolest thing about the setting other than Jedi. The really dumb poo poo comes from the people who can't let it go and instead make it part of their ego. At the shallow end, people don't realize that the supposedly "best" stuff (Thrawn trilogy) is just as dumb as anything. It took like five posts in this thread for someone to tear Thrawn apart, but I don't know how many years in a row I would hear someone say they should film that crap. At the deep end, "childhoods" are "destroyed" when a studio announces they are not following the plot of 200 really lovely tie-in books and comics. Probably the only really good things to come out of the "EU" are a small handful of video games. As far as I know that's basically: -KOTOR 1 and patched KOTOR 2 -Battlefront 2 -The Jedi Knight Series (Academy still has an active lightsaber duel server population) -X-Wing Vs. TIE Fighter -Lego STAR WARS, still by far the best Lego game, for whatever that's worth -The first level of The Force Unleashed, after that the game becomes progressively less fun -Some people like Republic Commando, I thought it was poo poo ...And that's about it.
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Dec 13, 2014 00:06
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Groovelord Neato posted:But if you're gonna get your gundarks in a knot over your fiction at least let it be not embarrassingly bad. EU is some Dr Who level poo poo. Yeah Dr. Who is just loving awful. Star Trek sometimes gets really bad, but it also has very, very little emphasis on continuity compared to Star Wars. A bad Trek episode or movie doesn't really matter much in the grand scheme of things. I thought Into Darkness was really dumb but it doesn't exactly bother me because there's plenty of other good Trek movies and I can just ignore it. It's not like Into Darkness, Star Trek 5, Insurrection or Nemesis make any other Trek stuff less enjoyable. pentyne posted:My entire experience with the EU ending was me reading about it here, feeling bummed out for a night, and checking out the last book released in the series after not touching any EU books for 8 years. Same here, I used to be really, really, REALLY into Star Wars and the EU while I was still in high school but once I became an adult I realized just how dumb it was. Plus, the New Jedi Order has like 20 books in it. Who has time to loving read all of that? Even regardless of quality, both Star Wars and Star Trek were in dire need of reboots just because they had both gotten so drat big and bloated over the years. Plus, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Mara Jade, Kyle Katarn and Shadows of the Empire are all really popular and I'm sure they're going to show up again in some shape or form. Mara Jade might not be Luke's wife this time around, but I'm sure she'll be back.
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Dec 13, 2014 00:07
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Also the Episode 1: Racer Arcade cabinet with the sit in cockpit and twin throttles and such. That was cool.
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Dec 13, 2014 00:08
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All of it
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it's not even cringeworthy It's cringeworthless
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