Nckdictator posted:

Yoda: Dark Rendezvous was pretty good even if it's a prequel novel.

I was skeptical about a Yoda novel but it's done pretty well honestly. It makes Dooku pretty sympathetic.

elestupendojudio posted:

Alright, so I know the dumb explanation for why Jedi don't just force aneurysm their opponents, but why can't they do that to droids? When fighting MagnaGuards for instance, why not just pop a couple gears in their limbs or something? They make it seem relatively difficult to fight them in the movies and the cartoon, and there is no explanation for why Jedi don't immediately cripple droids and tear them apart. I need answers!

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Lucas also wanted to make Indiana Jones a pedophile who had sex with Marion when she was 12. That explains the line "I was a child. It was wrong and you knew it!" when Jones meets Marion in Nepal. Spielberg and Lawrence Kasdan had to talk Lucas out of providing too many details to the audience about their relationship.

WhyteRyce posted:

Bieber Fever in the new Blu-Ray release!

movax posted:

Yeah, black X-Wing pilot in ROTJ. Pretty sure he gets blown up too, go figure, right? Black dude never makes it to the end

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Locutus Of Bored posted:

In my personal canon, Palpatine is the father, because that's much less stupid than "she got Force-raped by midichlorians" although I think it's (eventually going to be) canon that Palpatine and/or Plagueis went to Tatooine and chose Shmi (stupid name).

I prefer it this way because now both trilogies are about fathers and sons.

Faerunner posted:

There's a Micro Machines Death Star / Tatooine transforming playset on the shelf in our living room.

SeanBeansShako posted:

I cuss the hell out of this every time I play that one Rogue Squadron game with the Battle of Endor where you have to defend that unarmed piece of poo poo.

Shut up lady I'm trying argh!

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It did not have guns.

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Demonstrating some of the footage at Empire's Big Screen festival in the O2 Arena in London (which runs until 14 August), visual effects supervisor Bill George and digital artist John Goodson showed us how an AT-AT Walker topples onto its side during the Battle of Hoth in Star Wars: Episode IV - The Empire Strikes Back. Somebody (Ed Hirsh) was sat under the table and poked at the underside of one of its feet with a stick.

If you look very closely at the new transfer, you can just see the tip of the stick appear.

Goodson believes that this is just one tiny secret that may now be unveiled: "You’re going to see a lot of interesting things in this," he said. "It’s going to reveal a lot of things that we’re never intended to be seen."

However, it is mainly the original trilogy that will be affected by the new, cleaner format, as Episodes I to III were shot digitally: "The first three films were done on film, so they were never seen like this before. We’ve never seen them at this resolution, so you’re going to see things that you’ve never seen before," said Goodson.

"We were watching footage the other day of the walker sequence [in Empire Strikes Back] and we both keyed on the same thing at the same moment - which is when one of the walkers is being hit by laser fire, and you see [marks] appearing on it. I don’t think that either one of us have ever noticed that before."

The ILM duo also revealed that some work was needed before the original trilogy was fit for Blu-ray, although fans will be happy that was confined to improving the picture quality, rather than fiddling with the films themselves: "The interesting thing about Star Wars and the Star Wars series of films is that they’ve been restored two or three times in the past decade, and so they were in pretty good shape to begin with.," said Bill George.

Hemp Knight posted:

It was pink on the DVDs, and now it's purple.

Casimir Radon posted:

Well it would have been clever to show hintings of his deformations without outright spelling out how he got that way. But no.

Suenteus Po posted:

I was asking about the new one, which is definitely a commentary track.

thrawn527 posted:

So I went and looked up this new book Crucible you guys are talking about and...I saw the cover...um...



This isn't real, is it? Please tell me this is a working copy? It's the one Wookieepedia and Amazon have, so I assume it's real, but holy poo poo is that terrible. They're mutants! I mean, look at it. LOOK AT IT!

Luke has apparently had a stroke. Leia's face is sliding down her head. And Han's face is making a run for it to stage right. Christ, how did this get approved?

Calliper posted:

Here is 1138 behind the scenes photos

http://imgur.com/a/0RmF7#33

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

Is there a story behind Kenobi learning Vader's identity or is it assumed he simply did the math when Palpatine's robot apprentice showed up?