OneThousandMonkeys posted:I had always assumed that the plot point about Sifo-Dyas in Episode II was clearly intended as "Someone impersonating Sifo-Dyas [SIDIOUS] placed the order." Of course the EU then ran with this Sifo-Dyas character, who is never seen on-screen, and created an incomprehensible and awful backstory for him. Hay guyz, I created for new charactersm wat u think? Onu Qam Kemovi Amalim Dkyqalket Darth Cader Toda Darth Cum
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Hingehead posted:Hay guyz, I created for new charactersm wat u think? http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Malameu_Toda I am so sorry.
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Jace Madan posted:http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Malameu_Toda gently caress me....they actually did it. How long before Darth Cum becomes a character?
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Dec 31, 2014 10:46
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Hingehead posted:gently caress me....they actually did it. How long before Darth Cum becomes a character?
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Dec 31, 2014 10:50
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oh hey that's so clever haha darth  oh and http://darthipedia.com/wiki/Darth_Boner sadly not part of canon yet
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Dec 31, 2014 11:12
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Aesop Poprock posted:I didn't care at all because my interest in star wars is pretty much non-existant atm aside from this thread but if this was pre-2000ish I would've been annoyingly stoked about it. I probably will end up seeing it though I meant more do people actually applaud and fist pump and poo poo unless they're poorly acting in a video like that guy? redshirt posted:Also, why are people calling Palpatine "Sheev"? Watch the Plinkett trailer video.
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Weird BIAS posted:Palpatine was not given a first name in any canonical or Star Wars Legends source until 2014, when the character's first name—Sheev—was revealed in the novel Tarkin by James Luceno.[18] The Lucasfilm Story Group approached Del Rey and asked if they wanted to use the name, which was created by George Lucas, in the Tarkin novel, to which Del Rey agreed.[35] george lucas gets in one last 'gently caress you' from dowwwwwnnnnntoooooowwwwn lmao
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Dec 31, 2014 13:25
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I can't remember, did the emperor even have a name besides "the emperor" in the OT?
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Groovelord Neato posted:I meant more do people actually applaud and fist pump and poo poo unless they're poorly acting in a video like that guy? When I first saw ROTS in theater, a bunch of nerds in front of me applaud when duel of the fate music popped up during the yoda/sidious fight. I wouldn't be surprised if nerds really do exaggerate their excitements.
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Spakstik posted:I can't remember, did the emperor even have a name besides "the emperor" in the OT? p sure he is never name checked on screen, but it might be mentioned in the novelizations
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Dec 31, 2014 13:43
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I'm pretty sure they mentioned it with his toy.
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Dec 31, 2014 13:48
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muscles like this? posted:I'm pretty sure they mentioned it with his toy. quick GIS indicates contemporary action figure cards were labelled "the emperor(tm)" 
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Dec 31, 2014 13:53
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He was never called Palpatine in the OT, but I recall him being referred to as "Emperor Palpatine" in the books way before the prequels came out, and they had said he was once a senator. It could just be one of those EU things that retroactively got added to the prequels, like Coruscant.
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Dec 31, 2014 15:07
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Hingehead posted:When I first saw ROTS in theater, a bunch of nerds in front of me applaud when duel of the fate music popped up during the yoda/sidious fight. I wouldn't be surprised if nerds really do exaggerate their excitements. I was in a theater when the TPM trailer first came out. A fat nerd in front of me tucked his head in his lap, covered his ears, and started humming to protect himself from spoilers.
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P-Mack posted:I was in a theater when the TPM trailer first came out. A fat nerd in front of me tucked his head in his lap, covered his ears, and started humming to protect himself from spoilers. Did you trolled him by speaking loudly to your friend or someone next to you about the trailer?
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Dec 31, 2014 15:54
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Hingehead posted:Did you trolled him by speaking loudly to your friend or someone next to you about the trailer? Nah, but I'm sure there's no way he actually made it to release day without hearing the words "double sided lightsaber."
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My reaction to the Episode 7 trailers was a blank expression on my face. Afterward, I had this conversation with my roommate. Me: "Welp, that looks like a Star Wars movie all right. What'd you think?" Him: "Yeah. Sure seemed like 80 seconds of clips with no context." Me: "Yep."
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i use to call coruscant "cor-oo-scant" because i was an idiot child
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Not like that's your fault, it's apparently a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOd3lwluQIw
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Weird BIAS posted:Palpatine was not given a first name in any canonical or Star Wars Legends source until 2014, when the character's first name—Sheev—was revealed in the novel Tarkin by James Luceno.[18] The Lucasfilm Story Group approached Del Rey and asked if they wanted to use the name, which was created by George Lucas, in the Tarkin novel, to which Del Rey agreed.[35] how much do these authors generally make per book? i would definitely write some extremely lovely star wars novelizations if it meant i don't ever have to work
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I like how the guy posted a toda and a darth cader when toda and a darth cadus actually exist This thread loving rules, its like a wheres waldo of terrible writing combined with madlibs
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Dec 31, 2014 19:09
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Why isn't there a Darth Tater yet
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my star wars novels will be about Darth Tater
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Dec 31, 2014 19:12
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http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth There's like a million Darths
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Fil5000 posted:http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth No time to look, busy writing novel. Nobody's taken Darth Darth, right?
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Why do people even like Boba Fett? In his one fight scene he got owned by a giant sand vagina.
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His armor is cool looking (I never got it either, Bossk and IG-88 look cooler). It's funny when you bring up that Lucas only inserted him into the prequels as fanservice and the other thread tries to justify it as good storytelling or not just a cash-in. The prequels are about 90 percent fan service but nah it was all part of rich storytelling.
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The Boba Fett action figure was a mail-away and came out before the Empire Strikes Back was released. Boba Fett also showed up in the holiday special. They hyped up Boba Fett as "the most feared Bounty Hunter in the Galaxy" and said he was this mysterious badass in the marketing, but he didn't do much in the actual movies. Also, he looks cool. Then the EU and prequels went hog wild capitalizing on his popularity. If getting beaten by a blind man and getting eaten by a sand vagina doesn't ruin his mystique, all the plethora of Boba Fett EU stories and seeing him as a little kid in episode II sure do. The thing is, some things are just best left up to the imagination and are best left unsaid. Something a lot of people found appealing about Star Wars was how it we were suddenly thrust into a bizarre alien world with weird stuff left and right that they didn't explain felt like it was part of a bigger universe. The Clone Wars? What was that? What's the deal with that Boba Fett guy? The EU explains everything. Every single alien in the Cantina has a backstory. And he's probably a badass and knows the main characters somehow. The Star Wars movies were filled to the brim with imagination and wonder. The EU explains every little detail and sweeps it all away. If there was a character in the movies who was an alien, all members of his species do what he does. Every other person with a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, Smuggler or Politician. There aren't any other walks of life. The Force has no mystery - it's become mundane. The Star Wars EU is a black hole of imagination. It takes creativity and drowns it.
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Inevitable posted:Why do people even like Boba Fett? In his one fight scene he got owned by a giant sand vagina. He's your stereotypical silent mysterious badass that nerds drool over.
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Gammatron 64 posted:The Boba Fett action figure was a mail-away and came out before the Empire Strikes Back was released. Boba Fett also showed up in the holiday special. They hyped up Boba Fett as "the most feared Bounty Hunter in the Galaxy" and said he was this mysterious badass in the marketing, but he didn't do much in the actual movies. Also, he looks cool. Boba Fett was definitely a badass until Return of the Jedi came out. Even back when he was just the mail-order figure and the bad guy from the cartoon in the Holiday Special, there was the rumor that on select figures, the rocket in his jetpack would actually fire. Very few of these were actually made, but it was enough to start the rumor that you might get one of the rocket-firing ones if you kept saving the proofs-of-purchase and mailing away for figures. For a little while, Boba Fett was the most tangible piece of The Empire Strikes Back that a kid could have, and then he got away with Han Solo (!!!) so his place in history was cemented.
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Hingehead posted:Hay guyz, I created for new charactersm wat u think? Here have 70,000 words: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth_Caedus
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Gammatron 64 posted:The EU explains everything. Every single alien in the Cantina has a backstory. And he's probably a badass and knows the main characters somehow. The Star Wars movies were filled to the brim with imagination and wonder. The EU explains every little detail and sweeps it all away. If there was a character in the movies who was an alien, all members of his species do what he does. Every other person with a Jedi, Sith, Bounty Hunter, Smuggler or Politician. There aren't any other walks of life. The Force has no mystery - it's become mundane. The Star Wars EU is a black hole of imagination. It takes creativity and drowns it. That's why I suspect/hope that midichlorians may have been a troll by Lucas of Wookiepedia editors/EU authors rather than just retarded. The EU ruins so much of the mystery and wonder of the universe Lucas created by over-explaining everything, so Lucas says gently caress you all, I'm going to give a stupid over-explanation to the one thing left you can't ruin, the force.
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gohuskies posted:That's why I suspect/hope that midichlorians may have been a troll by Lucas of Wookiepedia editors/EU authors rather than just retarded. The EU ruins so much of the mystery and wonder of the universe Lucas created by over-explaining everything, so Lucas says gently caress you all, I'm going to give a stupid over-explanation to the one thing left you can't ruin, the force. SMG thinks that all the prequel episodes are a direct response to fanwankery, even though there exists video evidence (and mounds of other material, because because Star Wars is the most closely-watched nerd subject in history) making it very clear that they were just incompetent all the way down. The reaction shots of the production team members' eyes glazed over in horror after the first screening of Episode I is incredible.
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They also insult you if you think the prequels are just bad or disagree with their "interpretations" (half of which is actually prequel fanfiction. when i have time i have something really funny to find and show)
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:SMG thinks that all the prequel episodes are a direct response to fanwankery, even though there exists video evidence (and mounds of other material, because because Star Wars is the most closely-watched nerd subject in history) making it very clear that they were just incompetent all the way down. The reaction shots of the production team members' eyes glazed over in horror after the first screening of Episode I is incredible. That was a point I tried to make in the thread. I said even if you don't think the prequels are bad Star Wars (they are, but lots of people over there try to defend it) they are just bad films. Hell, SMG - the guy whose best posts were pointing out how horribly framed shots are in the Avengers actually defended poo poo like shot-reverse shot. It just seems like everyone in there is trolling when you bring up totally objective film making complaints (framing, editing, dialogue, etc) and they still defend the movies.
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Groovelord Neato posted:That was a point I tried to make in the thread. I said even if you don't think the prequels are bad Star Wars (they are, but lots of people over there try to defend it) they are just bad films. Hell, SMG - the guy whose best posts were pointing out how horribly framed shots are in the Avengers actually defended poo poo like shot-reverse shot. It just seems like everyone in there is trolling when you bring up totally objective film making complaints (framing, editing, dialogue, etc) and they still defend the movies. Just stay out of CD, it's a mistake I keep making and it's never worth it
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gohuskies posted:That's why I suspect/hope that midichlorians may have been a troll by Lucas of Wookiepedia editors/EU authors rather than just retarded. The EU ruins so much of the mystery and wonder of the universe Lucas created by over-explaining everything, so Lucas says gently caress you all, I'm going to give a stupid over-explanation to the one thing left you can't ruin, the force. I doubt it. George has stated that he doesn't really care about the EU and has never read any of the books. OneThousandMonkeys posted:Just stay out of CD, it's a mistake I keep making and it's never worth it I generally do. Seriously, I think CD might be the worst subforum on all of SA and given how terrible some of the subforums are that says a loving lot (I don't read a lot of them though and people tell me the book barn also really sucks)
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Gammatron 64 posted:I doubt it. George has stated that he doesn't really care about the EU and has never read any of the books. I'm not sure how CD can be worse than ADTRW, a forum populated by adult males who literally want to gently caress anime characters representative of pre-pubescent girls.
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Gammatron 64 posted:The Boba Fett action figure was a mail-away and came out before the Empire Strikes Back was released. Boba Fett also showed up in the holiday special. They hyped up Boba Fett as "the most feared Bounty Hunter in the Galaxy" and said he was this mysterious badass in the marketing, but he didn't do much in the actual movies. Also, he looks cool. Welp. After all these years you have put into words what I've always disliked about LOTR and Dune. I couldn't ever really figure it out but now I know. Those genealogies and over explained historical footnotes that nobody cares about right there. And you're punished for it if you don't look in one of the 50 appendices at the back cuz the book assumes you've memorized it already.
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:I'm not sure how CD can be worse than ADTRW, a forum populated by adult males who literally want to gently caress anime characters representative of pre-pubescent girls. it's funny you mention that because I started thinking the exact same thing right after I posted that, but I honestly think I dislike ADTRW less. I don't actually see people talking about wanting to gently caress pre-pubescent anime girls like ever, but the only animes I'll watch are either about big robots or big muscle men punching things and nothing involving cutesy high school girls so I might just not be exposed to it of course it's also literally called Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse so there's that I dunno it's a toss up for me honestly
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