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Finishing up my Star Wars watchthrough and decided to follow up the blu-rays with Lego Star Wars: The Padawan Menace and holy poo poo, this thing is awesome! It occupies a higher place in my personal canon than the entirety of the prequel trilogy. Yoda fistbumping little kids owns hard and don't try to tell me otherwise.
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Mister Roboto posted:I still think it's funny that no one was smart enough to develop a Final Fantasy style triple-bullet angle gun: Well, you see, The Force would allow them to block it because Alternate answer: Midichlorians.
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Nov 11, 2011 12:11
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Today is the 33rd anniversary of The Holiday Special! My favorite C-Canon Star Wars film.
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Nov 17, 2011 21:29
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My college roommate apparently started reading Wookiepedia recently, as evidenced by the fact he sent me a text message that read: "BIGGS' COUSIN GAVIN hosed A BOTHAN!" I'm pretty torn between really shattering his mind by telling him about Force Cthulhu, Force-sensitive Wampas (or any of the dozens of other things from the EU that are substantially worse) and letting him find all of that poo poo out on his own. On that note, I vaguely remember reading in this thread a while back that Palpatine foresaw the Yuuzhan Vong invasion like 20 years in advance or something. Is that true? I hope that's not true.
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Dec 8, 2011 10:40
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TOOT BOOT posted:I'm completely confused about the Sith. I thought there were only supposed to be 2 of them at a time? Yet the EU has stuff about Darth's Vader's apprentice, and there's a whole empire of them in the Old Republic. Yeah, only two Sith is the official rule, but since they're evil, they've never quite had a problem with rule breaking. But yeah, there's a big difference between being a Sith and being affiliated with the Dark Side. In the Clone Wars microseries, for example, I'm pretty sure Asajj Ventress tells Dooku/Darth Tyranus that she's a Sith and he responds by laughing and telling her to shut her stupid mouth. I'm pretty sure Dooku has had at least 4 or 5 Dark Acolytes, but no official Apprentice, since he himself is the apprentice. Anyone can be Force-sensitive, anyone can study the dark side, but in order to be a Sith, you have to have the Master/Apprentice relationship and take place in some stupid naming ceremony like the one in Revenge of the Sith. Then again, I have no clue why Sith bother to take apprentices in the first place, since one of them almost always ends up killing the other.
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Dec 26, 2011 02:44
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computer parts posted:If you mean them using the name itself it was probably "eh this name sounds sci-fi ish and isn't absurdly retarded like Teh Roxxor so let's just call it a day." I loving hate the EU sometimes.
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Dec 27, 2011 11:34
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SeanBeansShako posted:Makes you think how ROTJ could have been a lot better if Lucas actually cared for Star Wars and instead of making a cheesy marketing grab with the Ewoks put a race of normally sized humanoid aliens in their place instead. I'd be happier if he had just stayed with his original choice for Jedi, the Wookiees. I don't remember why he changed it anyway (Other than marketability, I would assume)
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Jan 9, 2012 20:22
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From io9's latest spoiler article, the live action series has a title and plot now.quote:Producer and longtime George Lucas collaborator Rick McCallum dropped some key hints about the long-planned live-action Star Wars TV show - the one that supposedly has 50 scripts already written and is just waiting for the costs of visual effects to drop before moving forward. McCallum revealed the show's working title is Star Wars: Underworld, it is indeed set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, that "it's about that period when the Empire is trying to take things [over]", and that the show's primary focus will be on the criminal underbelly of the Star Wars universe. McCallum elaborates: On one hand, if it's anything like Cad Bane in the new Clone Wars series, it'll be awesome. On the other hand, expect a lot of heavy-handed, hamfisted metaphors for current events.
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Jan 10, 2012 20:00
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Phylodox posted:I don't know why we're discussing anyone other than the Blackstar Warrior. The guy who plays Han just screams "Guy in a Star Wars-themed porno playing Han"
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Jan 11, 2012 01:07
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Mister Roboto posted:You do realize that Lucas is a fat nerd just like everyone here is, right? And fat nerds tend to be sociopaths who get off on the slightest bit of power--see messageboards, website admins, comic book store owners, etc. Well, that is true. I don't have any money or influence and I'm already a gigantic manchild who thinks I'm cleverer and smarter than I actually am.
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Jan 12, 2012 07:45
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I'll say 100 million at the box office. I think a lot of people will watch it just because it's Star Wars and it's 3D. Plus, I'm sure the "Stoners who love a 3D movie" demographic will be coming out in full force for this one. Also, I just had an awful vision of Lucas releasing a statement in 2014, saying that the first three films didn't make enough money at the box office to warrant the OT being put out in theatres.
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Jan 15, 2012 23:12
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euphronius posted:What happened to Luke's lightsaber after his hand was cut off in Could City? Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to.  http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Anakin_Skywalker%27s_second_lightsaber List of canonical owners of Anakin Skywalker's second lightsaber (I presume it means Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader Dooku Hondo Ohnaka Padmé Amidala Grievous Obi-Wan Kenobi Luke Skywalker Palpatine Luuke Skywalker Leia Organa Solo Mara Jade Skywalker Locutus of Bald fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Jan 30, 2012 |
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Jan 30, 2012 16:58
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McGann posted:So I happened across this while looking over the forums earlier... Holy poo poo, what's the opposite of a highlight reel? Because that would be what I just watched. Everything soulless and wrong about Menace summed up in 1:45 with an obnoxious voiceover. I'm starting to rethink my decision to buy tickets in advance.
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Feb 2, 2012 23:53
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Chairman Capone posted:Something interesting about Tarpals is that he's voiced by Steve Speirs. Also the protocol droid at the start is voiced by Lindsay Duncan. And of course Maul is Peter Serafinowicz. I never realized any of those people did TPM voices until years after the fact. The TPM casting fact that always shocks me is that Dominic West played a Naboo palace guard. I'm sure he doesn't have any lines, but I remember seeing him during the movie and saying, "What? What's McNutty doing here?"
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Feb 7, 2012 21:14
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Big Mean Jerk posted:So apparently Darth Maul surviving the Theed battle is an official Lucas-canon thing now. Oh, yeah, I heard about that. Are they still going with the "his hatred of the Jedi gave him the power!" explanation? I feel like this isn't the first time Palpatine's line about "The Dark Side being the pathway to abilities some consider to be unnatural" has been used to justify a lovely idea, but I can't remember offhand where else it was used.
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Feb 18, 2012 10:52
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Big Mean Jerk posted:You're assuming TCW gives a poo poo about canon. This is actually true. The Clone Wars TV series is a higher level of canon of the rest of the EU, so everything that came before it (except the most recent version of the 6 movies, deleted scenes that don't contradict the events of the movies and every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of George Lucas) can go straight to hell.
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Mar 3, 2012 10:43
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Rhjamiz posted:Reading about George's latest canon-clarifications about the Force or whatever else he decrees fills me with a sort of bemused pity as he single-handedly destroys his own creation, piece by piece. I'm really hoping that the series continues Star Trek-style after Lucas' death, with a potential new trilogy being the Deep Space Nine of Star Wars. (In that Gene Roddenberry would have hated DS9, but it is objectively the best Star Trek series.)
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Mar 11, 2012 20:03
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Chairman Capone posted:According to Lucas, aren't the movies literally supposed to be R2-D2 showing an account of galactic history to some space shaman a hundred years after Luke and Leia and Han die? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLyxmD_UAK4 Also, how the hell does R2 know about all this poo poo that happened when he wasn't around?
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Mar 13, 2012 03:39
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ecureuilmatrix posted:edit: So I hear this Darth Maul guy is a real party animal. gently caress you Wookiepedia, that's canon. I don't care what Keeper of the Holocron Leland Chee says, that's more canon than 90% of the EU. fake edit: I am ashamed of myself for knowing offhand the name of the dude in charge of Star Wars Canon.
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Mar 18, 2012 09:15
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Powered Descent posted:Wishing you all a happy Star Wars Day. Is it that time of year already? Tomorrow sounds like a good day to start my next major Star Wars marathon. This time, I'll watch every Star Wars production, in order of internal chronology (and then in order of release, when the timeline is unclear [Specifically, The Clone Wars]). Which, I assume would be the following (Please correct me if I'm wrong): Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones Star Wars: Clone Wars (Tartakovsky series) Star Wars: The Clone Wars film Star Wars: The Clone Wars series Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Star Wars: Droids Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Star Wars Holiday Special Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure Ewoks: The Battle for Endor Star Wars: Ewoks Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi I will, of course, be watching the original unmodified theatrical releases of the OT because anything else would be heresy. Also, I haven't bought the Blu-Rays yet.
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May 4, 2012 03:07
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I look forward to Pixar giving us the animated adventures of Bren Derlin
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Oct 30, 2012 22:19
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Duckula posted:I imagine Anthony Daniels will be sitting next to his phone for the next few months... ftfy
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Oct 30, 2012 22:28
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Well, I certainly can't wait until the Death Star goes back in time 25 years and blows up Tatooine. And Mark Hamill shows up to give advice to Alternate Reality Luke.
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Jan 26, 2013 11:12
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BonHair posted:The main thing that bothers me is that the Fetts are dark side. There are three sides of the blade Well, the poll was hosted on StarWars.com and I'm pretty sure you'll find that in the movies and tv shows, there is only completely good and cartoonishly evil, with very little middle ground (I mean, Vader becomes good at the end of Jedi, but for the most part, everyone is either a hero or a complete dick. I mean, poo poo, even Uncle Owen had like, no redeeming qualities. Dude's only in like two scenes). They only accept T-canon and above.
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Apr 15, 2013 11:17
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Reminder that the Lego Star Wars tv specials are hilarious and are more canon to me than the prequels or the last 10 years of EU novels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFuKnXPf6xA
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Aug 29, 2013 01:44
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My only hope for episode 7 is that it just ends up being a 2 hour long adaptation of "The Glove of Darth Vader". I'd pay good money for that poo poo. Don't act like you wouldn't
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Dec 2, 2013 15:15
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Tunicate posted:Peter Mayhew's playing him again, so looks like NJO is out. Yeah, suck it NJO Literally fistpumping irl over this
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