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Fuzz: Jun 2, 2003; Avatar brought to you by the TG Sanity fund

The new EU sounds worse than the old EU.

# ? Feb 14, 2017 16:05

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# ? May 29, 2024 07:40

Barudak: May 7, 2007

Fuzz posted:

The new EU sounds worse than the old EU.

Dont worey, when Disney gets bought itll get deleted again. Or you can wait until 2150 when everything could maybe be in the public domain.

Better idea still is to travel to 3150 where the worlds largest religion is the chirch of the living force.

# ? Feb 14, 2017 16:06

Mulva: Sep 13, 2011; It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.

In 3150 Disney *will* be religion.

# ? Feb 14, 2017 16:19

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE: Aug 1, 2004; whoa, what just happened here?; College Slice

No, that was the Star Wars Trek, not the Star Trek Wars.

# ? Feb 14, 2017 16:20

TheMaestroso: Nov 4, 2014; I must know your secrets.

Not plot-related, but interesting news nonetheless.

I, for one, am intrigued by the idea of using the score to shape the film's editing. I would expect someone like Johnson to be able to balance that with proper editing for flow, but we'll have to wait and see how this turns out in the end.

# ? Feb 15, 2017 00:14

Electromax: May 6, 2007

I wonder how sick JW is of sitting down to write new Star Wars songs at this point.

# ? Feb 15, 2017 00:48

Barudak: May 7, 2007

Electromax posted:

I wonder how sick JW is of sitting down to write new Star Wars songs at this point.

We go now, live, to John Williams in his beautiful mansion paid for with endless Star Wars dollars.

# ? Feb 15, 2017 01:10

AndyElusive: Jan 7, 2007

Electromax posted:

I wonder how sick JW is of sitting down to write new Star Wars songs at this point.

Didn't the dude just win his 5th Grammy from Star Wars thanks to his TFA score, making that his 23rd in total? Ya I'm sure he's real sick of this poo poo.

# ? Feb 15, 2017 01:13

TheMaestroso: Nov 4, 2014; I must know your secrets.

Electromax posted:

I wonder how sick JW is of sitting down to write new Star Wars songs at this point.

I dunno, his TFA score has some of his most delicate orchestration. He's a craftsman who loves his craft.

# ? Feb 15, 2017 01:33

Bugblatter: Aug 4, 2003

TheMaestroso posted:

Not plot-related, but interesting news nonetheless.

I, for one, am intrigued by the idea of using the score to shape the film's editing. I would expect someone like Johnson to be able to balance that with proper editing for flow, but we'll have to wait and see how this turns out in the end.

There are quite a few notable directors who prefer to have the soundtrack recorded prior to the edit, or even filming. Sergio Leone and Terrence Malick have done this for all of their films. Tarantino has done it on occasion and Steven Spielberg did on a few key sequences such as the ending of E.T. It's ideal for certain kinds of sequences, I imagine this is being done for one such key scene which will work well choreographed to the soundtrack (Such as Malick's Journey to the Line sequence in The Thin Red Line, or the aforementioned ending of E.T.) and not the film as a whole.

# ? Feb 15, 2017 01:58

Assepoester: Jul 18, 2004; Can't post for 10 years!; Melman v2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzzvE74hPDA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sk1fUTOijo

# ? Feb 15, 2017 02:00

Crackbone: May 23, 2003; Vlaada is my co-pilot.

Cardboard Box A posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzzvE74hPDA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sk1fUTOijo

Thanks for aimless speculation.

# ? Feb 15, 2017 03:08

well why not: Feb 10, 2009

TheMaestroso posted:

I dunno, his TFA score has some of his most delicate orchestration. He's a craftsman who loves his craft.

This is very true. Star Wars is also a property that allows for huge leitmotifs and also some more quiet music. It's a great fit for him and it seems like he relishes it.

Also he's probably made tens of millions of dollars from it.

# ? Feb 15, 2017 12:56

thrawn527: Mar 27, 2004; Thrawn/Pellaeon
Studying the art of terrorists
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Jerk McJerkface posted:

I thought they showed jar jar die on alderaan in one of the George edits?

That was a fan edit.

# ? Feb 15, 2017 15:04

Assepoester: Jul 18, 2004; Can't post for 10 years!; Melman v2

Crackbone posted:

Thanks for aimless speculation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJrEUFcH1Mo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox-6vAifnXw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTomzvUKMc

# ? Feb 15, 2017 16:03

Vintersorg: Mar 3, 2004; President of
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If you sit down to watch that time sucking bullshit speculation.

# ? Feb 15, 2017 16:23

Jose Oquendo: Jun 20, 2004; Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a boring movie

I have an irrational hatred for videos like that. How many hits do those things get anyway?

# ? Feb 15, 2017 16:52

Electromax: May 6, 2007

AndyElusive posted:

Didn't the dude just win his 5th Grammy from Star Wars thanks to his TFA score, making that his 23rd in total? Ya I'm sure he's real sick of this poo poo.

I wasn't trying to insult him, just wondering. He's 85 and it's his 8th time sitting down to come up with jedi leitmotifs, thought it was plausible he's getting less interested in awards and money at that age.

Interviews suggest he had somewhat of a reinvigoration with TFA though and did BFG after, though. Surprised to see that he has never watched a SW movie and he considers his scores for them fairly unremarkable, suppose that's just modesty.

# ? Feb 15, 2017 19:21

TheMaestroso: Nov 4, 2014; I must know your secrets.

Electromax posted:

Surprised to see that he has never watched a SW movie and he considers his scores for them fairly unremarkable, suppose that's just modesty.

Clarification: he has never seen a SW film in theaters (that might actually be the case for most/all of the films he's scored, I'm not sure), but has seen them in the process of scoring for them.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 00:24

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Rumors about of Finn in an imperial officer's uniform aboard a super star destroyer, getting his butt smacked by a former comrade congratulating him on his "promotion".

# ? Feb 16, 2017 05:02

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

Zeris posted:

Rumors about of Finn in an imperial officer's uniform aboard a super star destroyer, getting his butt smacked by a former comrade congratulating him on his "promotion".

Isn't that supposed to be done by a famous person doing a cameo simular to Daniel Craig? I'm blanking on who though.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 06:30

Jerkface: May 21, 2001; HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE DEAD, MOTHERFUCKER?

Codependent Poster posted:

Isn't that supposed to be done by a famous person doing a cameo simular to Daniel Craig? I'm blanking on who though.

Tom Hardy is in the next one

# ? Feb 16, 2017 06:34

Neo Rasa: Mar 8, 2007; Everyone should play DUKE games.

Ahmed Best.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 06:35

Super-NintendoUser: Jan 16, 2004; COWABUNGERDER COMPADRES; Soiled Meat

New details about why Han and Leia break up in the new Afterman book. Turns out it heavily revolves around Han buying a pregnant Leia too much space fruit.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 15:00

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

Zeris posted:

Rumors about of Finn in an imperial officer's uniform aboard a super star destroyer, getting his butt smacked by a former comrade congratulating him on his "promotion".

I think this is from the porn parody

# ? Feb 16, 2017 15:03

Barudak: May 7, 2007

Jerk McJerkface posted:

New details about why Han and Leia break up in the new Afterman book. Turns out it heavily revolves around Han buying a pregnant Leia too much space fruit.

Im gonna need more details because we seem to have gone full EU in less than two movies

# ? Feb 16, 2017 16:40

Super-NintendoUser: Jan 16, 2004; COWABUNGERDER COMPADRES; Soiled Meat

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Leia startles at the sound of a furious pounding on the door, her knee banging into the table above which a glittering star map is projected. The map flickers, and when the voice comes through the door��Leia! Leia!��she struggles to stand swiftly, almost forgetting the tremendous living weight around her midsection. The child inside her kicks and tumbles as she endeavors to get upright. Calm down, little angel. You�ll be free soon enough.

�Mum,� says her protocol droid, T-2LC. �It appears as if someone is at the door.�

�Yes, I hear that, Elsie.� She winces as she moves out from around the couch. That couch was supposed to be comfortable�but all it does is swallow her up like a devouring sarlacc. �It�s just Han.�

�Is he in danger, mum? He sounds like he�s in danger. Should I open the door? I don�t want to let the danger in, but��

�Leia, damnit, the door,� Han says from the other side. His voice is followed swiftly by more thumps and thuds. He�s kicking the door, she realizes.

�I�m coming!� she yells back. To the droid she says: �I�ll get it.� �But your condition, mum��

�I�m not dying, I�m pregnant,� she snaps back, then opens the door. Han wastes no time in almost falling through it, his arm cradling a lumpy, uneven bag of something.

�Took you long enough,� he says, smirking as he juggles his footing and skirts past her, giving her a quick kiss on the cheek as he does. �Don�t you know,� she says, shooting T-2LC a dubious look, �I have a condition.�

�Elsie, I told you, Leia doesn�t have a drat condition.� But then, more seriously and in a lower register, he says to her: �You do need to slow it down a little bit.� He gestures toward the star map. �For instance.�

�I am in command of my own body, thank you very much.�

�Tell that to the little bandit,� he says, dropping the sack of whatever down on the counter in the kitchen. The little bandit is what he�s taken to calling the child currently wrestling inside her belly.

�You mean the little angel.� She follows him into the kitchen, and T-2LC�s whining servomotors behind her indicate he�s following closely behind because someone (Han) told the droid to keep close to her in case she falls. Never mind the fact the droid stays so close to her, she�s nearly tripped on his metal feet half a dozen times already. �What did you bring?�

Han winks, thrusts his hand down into the bag, and pulls it out again, gripping a jogan fruit. �Look.� He gives it a lascivious squeeze.

She sighs, crestfallen. �Is that . . . whole bag full of jogan fruit?� �Yeah. Why?�

�I cannot possibly eat that much jogan fruit.� �Sure you can.�

�Let me rephrase: I don�t want to eat that much jogan fruit.� �It�s good for you.�

�Not that good.� �The doctors��

�Dr. Kalonia said to incorporate jogan into my diet, not to replace everything with jogan fruit.�

He sweeps up on her, cradling her face with his rough hand. He strokes her cheek gently. �All right, all right. I�m just trying to do right by you two.�

�I know, Han.�

�If I think I can help, I�ll always help. With whatever you or our son needs. You know that, right?�

She laughs. �I know.�

It�s been hard for Han. He won�t say it out loud, but she can see it on his face. Her husband needs something to do. He�s bored. Chewbacca�s back home, looking for his family. Luke�s searching the galaxy for old Jedi teachings. Han Solo�s got nothing to smuggle, nowhere to gamble, no foolish Rebellion to fight for.

He�s like the Falcon: retired to a hangar somewhere, waiting for something, anything, to happen.

So he buys fruit. Lots and lots of fruit.

And, of course, he worries about her. He turns her toward the table and the star map. �You�re not still on this, are you?�

�What?�

�Leia, Kashyyyk was a fluke. We got lucky.�

�I�m always lucky with you by my side, scoundrel.� He shakes his head. �You joke, but this is nuts.�

�It�s not nuts,� she says, suddenly irritated. �What we did on Kashyyyk was the right thing to do, and you know it. If we could formalize that process, if we could target other worlds that the Senate is too cowardly to liberate, then maybe we could�with the unofficial sanction of our friendly chancellor�find a way to do right by those worlds. Which means not only do we save whole systems, but those systems might swing our way and join the chorus of voices here in the New Republic.�

He sighs. �I dunno. Can�t somebody else handle this? Just for now . . .�

�Look,� she says, heading over to the star map. �Tatooine. Kerev Doi. Demesel. Horuz. All worlds still in thrall either to some Imperial remnant or to criminal syndicates or gangs. Rebellions work. We�ve seen it. We�ve helped make it happen.�

�You know Mon�s not going to go for that.� �She already has. In a way.�

In the aftermath of the attack on Chandrila, the New Republic was left reeling. Already the whispers arose: The New Republic cannot protect itself, how can it protect us? Already the accusations have been aimed at Mon Mothma�s head like turning rifles: She is weak on military presence and now she�s injured, how can she truly lead us? Leia and Han came back bringing a much-needed�if illegal and unexpected�victory for the New Republic at a time when it badly needed it. Yes, Chandrila was attacked. But they saved Kashyyyk. They ran off the Empire and liberated the Wookiees. It was a win. And it stopped the Senate from hemorrhaging loyal senators.

She starts to say, �If we could aid rebels on each of these worlds�� Mum,� T-2LC chimes in, literally thrusting his copper-shine protocol droid head in front of her. �You have a call.�

�I�ll take it here.� She settles back down into the couch, then swipes the star map off the projector. A new image replaces it: the face of Norra Wexley. Once a pilot for the Rebellion, and recently the leader of a team of �Imperial hunters,� tracking down the Empire�s many war criminals when they fled to various corners of the galaxy to hide. She had helped Leia in a different capacity, finding her missing husband and helping Han free Chewbacca and his planet from the Empire. Now, though? Norra is out there looking for prey most elusive: Grand Admiral Rae Sloane.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 17:14

Fuzz: Jun 2, 2003; Avatar brought to you by the TG Sanity fund

Confirmed. New EU is worse than old EU.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 17:18

Super-NintendoUser: Jan 16, 2004; COWABUNGERDER COMPADRES; Soiled Meat

quote:

�Yes, I hear that, Elsie.� She winces as she moves out from around the couch. That couch was supposed to be comfortable�but all it does is swallow her up like a devouring sarlacc. �It�s just Han.�

# ? Feb 16, 2017 17:33

Ass Catchcum: Dec 21, 2008; I REALLY NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP FOREVER.

How many times can you say angel in 4 paragraphs.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 17:45

Fuzz: Jun 2, 2003; Avatar brought to you by the TG Sanity fund

Why would the word 'angel' even exist?

JUDEO-CHRISTIO-ISLAMIC IMAGERY?! NOT IN MY STAR WORLDS!
:arghfist:

# ? Feb 16, 2017 18:01

Ass Catchcum: Dec 21, 2008; I REALLY NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP FOREVER.

Doesn't anakin call padme and angel in the preqs

# ? Feb 16, 2017 18:05

Ass Catchcum: Dec 21, 2008; I REALLY NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP FOREVER.

Christianity is canon.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 18:06

Hodgepodge: Jan 29, 2006; Can't post for 211 days!

They should have invented space angels instead smdh

# ? Feb 16, 2017 18:08

Ass Catchcum: Dec 21, 2008; I REALLY NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP FOREVER.

My friend says in clone wars that it clears it up that Angels are their own species.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 18:15

Hodgepodge: Jan 29, 2006; Can't post for 211 days!

rear end Catchcum posted:

My friend says in clone wars that it clears it up that Angels are their own species.

Death to canon.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 18:16

Kingtheninja: Jul 29, 2004; "You're the best looking guy here."

Yeah I think obi Wan and anakin go to "the moons of eago" or wherever angels are from.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 21:07

AndyElusive: Jan 7, 2007

Did all the lascivious jogan fruit cause little angel Benjamin Solo to turn to the Darkside?

# ? Feb 16, 2017 21:10

Fuzz: Jun 2, 2003; Avatar brought to you by the TG Sanity fund

AndyElusive posted:

Did all the lascivious jogan fruit cause little angel Benjamin Solo to turn to the Darkside?

No, that was all the juggalo fruit.

# ? Feb 16, 2017 21:16

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# ? May 29, 2024 07:40

Milkfred E. Moore: Aug 27, 2006; 'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'

I see someone played Fallout 4 and decided that this robot should also call people "mum", too.

# ? Feb 17, 2017 03:28

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