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Did Luke say that 4 of his students were unaccounted for after Ben went nuts?
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- SimonCat
- Aug 12, 2016
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by Nyc_Tattoo
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A Star Wars movie where the Praetorian Guards killed off the Emperor and auctioned off the throne to the highest bidder would have been much better than what we got.
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Jan 2, 2018 15:43
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- SimonCat
- Aug 12, 2016
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by Nyc_Tattoo
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The discussions of the new Star Wars characters reminds me of this passage from "So long, and thanks for all the fish!"
Douglas Adams posted:
Chapter Twenty-five
Those who are regular followers of the doings of Arthur Dent may have received an impression of his character and habits which, while it includes the truth and, of course, nothing but the truth, falls somewhat short, in its composition, of the whole truth in all its glorious aspects.
And the reasons for this are obvious. Editing, selection, the need to balance that which is interesting with that which is relevant and cut out all the tedious happenstance.
Like this for instance. ``Arthur Dent went to bed. He went up the stairs, all fifteen of them, opened the door, went into his room, took off his shoes and socks and then all the rest of his clothes one by one and left them in a neatly crumpled heap on the floor. He put on his pyjamas, the blue ones with the stripe. He washed his face and hands, cleaned his teeth, went to the lavatory, realized that he had once again got this all in the wrong order, had to wash his hands again and went to bed. He read for fifteen minutes, spending the first ten minutes of that trying to work out where in the book he had got to the previous night, then he turned out the light and within a minute or so more was asleep.
``It was dark. He lay on his left side for a good hour.
``After that he moved restlessly in his sleep for a moment and then turned over to sleep on his right side. Another hour after this his eyes flickered briefly and he slightly scratched his nose, though there was still a good twenty minutes to go before he turned back on to his left side. And so he whiled the night away, sleeping.
``At four he got up and went to the lavatory again. He opened the door to the lavatory ...'' and so on.
It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere. You don't, in short, want to know.
But there are other omissions as well, beside the teethcleaning and trying to find fresh socks variety, and in some of these people have often seemed inordinately interested.
What, they want to know, about all that stuff off in the wings with Arthur and Trillian, did that ever get anywhere?
To which the answer is, of course, mind your own business.
And what, they say, was he up to all those nights on the planet Krikkit? Just because the planet didn't have Fuolornis Fire Dragons or Dire Straits doesn't mean that everyone just sat up every night reading.
Or to take a more specific example, what about the night after the committee meeting party on Prehistoric Earth, when Arthur found himself sitting on a hillside watching the moon rise over the softly burning trees in company with a beautiful young girl called Mella, recently escaped from a lifetime of staring every morning at a hundred nearly identical photographs of moodily lit tubes of toothpaste in the art department of an advertising agency on the planet Golgafrincham. What then? What happened next? And the answer is, of course, that the book ended.
The next one didn't resume the story till five years later, and you can, claim some, take discretion too far. ``This Arthur Dent,'' comes the cry from the furthest reaches of the galaxy, and has even now been found inscribed on a mysterious deep space probe thought to originate from an alien galaxy at a distance too hideous to contemplate, ``what is he, man or mouse? Is he interested in nothing more than tea and the wider issues of life? Has he no spirit? has he no passion? Does he not, to put it in a nutshell, gently caress?''
Those who wish to know should read on. Others may wish to skip on to the last chapter which is a good bit and has Marvin in it.
Basically what I'm saying here is I wish Douglas Adams was alive and had written the Last Jedi.
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Jan 3, 2018 00:34
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- SimonCat
- Aug 12, 2016
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by Nyc_Tattoo
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Alternate reading: The Last Jedi is the series' Mostly Harmless.
Oh, that is a good one.
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Jan 3, 2018 01:31
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- SimonCat
- Aug 12, 2016
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by Nyc_Tattoo
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Rey is good. People who get mad at her are literally just sexist and too blind to see that they’re sexist.
Hillary, is that you?
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Jan 3, 2018 01:34
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- SimonCat
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by Nyc_Tattoo
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Honestly she felt like an audience surrogate for fat cosplayers.
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Jan 4, 2018 14:21
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- SimonCat
- Aug 12, 2016
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Yeah, right.
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Jan 4, 2018 15:36
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- SimonCat
- Aug 12, 2016
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by Nyc_Tattoo
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She really is.
Her attitude is the same as so many fans at Q/A's asking inane questions of their idols. It's quippy and referential without understanding that while a thing might have sounded cool in the movie you watched, it doesn't when you say it.
She's also an awful character since her role should have been filled by Poe, who has much more chemistry with Finn.
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Jan 4, 2018 15:49
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- SimonCat
- Aug 12, 2016
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by Nyc_Tattoo
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Rose is amongst my least favourite primary characters in Star Wars, but it's fairly lovely to continue on insulting Kelly Marie Tran's weight, don't you think?
How does it serve you to think that she's fat?
I'm not being insulting to Kelly Marie Tran. If I said John Candy, or Dan Akroyd, or Chris Farley was fat, I would also be making an accurate statement. People aren't accidentally cast in major tent pole films, especially ones made by Disney. Everything about her character was carefully crafted to speak to a particular demographic. That is, the socially awkward, overweight, cosplaying fans who buy Star Wars merchandise. She looks like "regular" people, and that's why she was cast.
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Jan 4, 2018 18:13
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- SimonCat
- Aug 12, 2016
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by Nyc_Tattoo
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His bombing run lost a handful of bombers to destroy a major military target far in excess of their value, and by the point Leia starts getting cold feet about it, it isn't like the bombers are going to be able to turn around.
Also, if he hadn't destroyed that thing they'd all be dead, as their one advantage in the stupid chase scene was being able to keep out of effective range.
Leia also physically assaults Poe before demoting him. I think you can tell she is used to being royalty.
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- SimonCat
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Envious that you've never seen a Ron Howard film.
Oh come on, Willow is pretty cool.
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