Schwarzwald posted:

During a Q&A with George Lucas:

Tim’s time finally comes, and it looks like he will be the second to the last question. He approaches the mic and starts his question - or more correctly his explanation. He goes on about how he always felt the strength of the films was in the protagonists, and how thoughts of Luke, Leia, Han and Chewey always helped get him through sad times because they were such fun and life-embracing people (people, not characters). I can’t even paraphrase everything he said, or how his excitement and joy grew with each word, but after a couple of minutes he finally got to the question. “So, basically, my question is to ask what happened to them after Jedi. Did they stay friends? Go on more adventures? Did they ever have kids of their own?”

This whole time George has been sitting in his chair with the table and water at his side on the stage in front of the screen. He doesn’t move or blink during the question, and appears to be giving Tim his rapt attention. After Tim finishes, he looks up for a moment or two in a “pondering” pose, then looks back and slowly says “They died.” He then turns to the other aisle for the final question.

Tim just sort of slowly stood at the mic after that. I couldn’t see his face, but his entire body just sort of slumped. The person in the other aisle just quietly said “I think you answered my question already” and went back to his seat. The theater was pitch quiet, Lucas had turned back to face the center of the theater and took a sip of water, and the professor just sort of slowly walked forward and said “If there are no more questions, lets take our break and start the film in ten minutes.”

[I sadly don't recall who wrote this originally. This copy was from Neil Cicierega's blog.]

Captain Splendid posted:

CelticPredator posted:

He should’ve thrown it at her face.

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

Knowing Hamill I can't tell if he means he really milked the puppet or he really milked the scene.

No Mods No Masters posted:

https://twitter.com/shutupmikeginn/status/1145896723346149377

Robot Style posted:

Battlefront IV was going to do a dumb what-if storyline too, but at least they bothered to do some redesigns instead of just pallette swapping everyone.