One and Only Star Wars Geekiness Thread

[The Metal Maniac 0]

I can't believe that, in all that time, no one ever said "Hey George? Did you notice this movie sucks?"

[Black Lushus 0]

and you know, the thing is, I honestly liked the newer trilogy, if anything on the basis that it was Star Wars...but man, they really could have been leagues better given the amount of time we all waited on them.

[pochorenella 0]

and you know, the thing is, I honestly liked the newer trilogy, if anything on the basis that it was Star Wars...but man, they really could have been leagues better given the amount of time we all waited on them.

 

Yeah, I like the new trilogy for the most part. There's redeeming qualities to each movie like the light-saber fights, Palpatine, Obi-Wan, etc. But I honestly think the people's expectations set the bar extremely high, and realistically few creators could have met those expectations without disappointing a lot of folks.

[Rendclaw 0]

If George had balanced his time between storytelling and special effects instead of going 30/70 like he did, Episodes I-III would have been much, much better.

[The Metal Maniac 0]

Hell, if Lucas had sat down and wrote the scripts for all three movies at the same time, they would've been lightyears better, simply because they would've flowed together a lot better.

[bobobrazil1984 0]

Lucas by his own admission actually hates the scriptwriting process. and it shows. it seems like his only joy was creating some cool special effect setpieces.

Even the OT script he wrote, the original, has some bad lines saved by the charm of the actors, and also when I read this Annotated Screenplays book, they had an asterisk next to exchanges that were written by these two other guys, there wasn't a lot but it mostly all the funny dialogue.

 

He really should have outlined the plots, then just handed the sucker off to a good screenwriter.

[SuperJerk 0]

He really should have outlined the plots, then just handed the sucker off to a good screenwriter.

 

Even that didn't help. Ep. 2 was written by Jonathon Hales. For each film, because I'm a huge nerd, I read the novelizations before I saw the films. The stories actually worked in that form, in my opinion.

 

I'm convinced the problem was with the acting (which, judging from behind the scenes footage, Lucas intentionally directed to be a stiff and dull as possible) and editing (because Lucas thinks 34563 separate shots of ships taking off and landing really ads to the mythos of the epic I guess). The gigantic gaping plotholes didn't help either.

 

I enjoyed watching them a lot the first time I saw each of them, but none of the films in the new trilogy stand up to repeat viewing the way that the original trilogy did.

[CBright7831 0]

"First up, the Stars Wars TV series that we’ve been hearing about since Sith came out. “That’s not going to happen probably for another year and a half while we develop scripts and everything else. But it’s fantastic; we’ve got some incredible writers. It’s going to be much darker, much more character-based, and I think it’s going to be everything the fans always wanted the prequels to be. They’ll be one-hour episode. It takes place between Episodes III and IV. It’s going to be all-new characters, maybe a few bounty hunters in there to start the series off.”"

 

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=18269

[Guest Vitamin X]

"Sure, we'll throw some bounty hunters here and there maybe some wacko alien sidekicks and some special effects and you'll lap it up like good little dogs and love it."

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

You know it!

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

What's the highest rated TV premiere of all time? I bet a Star Wars TV show would come awful close to it, if not break the record.

 

Then it would collapse as fans realized that the Star Wars universe does not lend itself to one hour (minus commercials) episodes. Unless they went something along the lines of Lost, with one or two main storylines tying everything together, then each episode somehow branches off to focus on a certain character. Hmmm... Nah I still don't see it.

[Black Lushus 0]

you guys may shit on this, but I'd almost rather see a series that takes place after the OT with the main characters recasted (that's right, I said recast the main characters)that followed stories from the EU than I would something that takes place between 3 and 4.

[Conspiracy_Victim 0]

I'd love to see the Thrawn trilogy or the Rogue Squadron series on any screen, but since Lucas apparently doesn't like stories that are better than his, he shits all over the EU. These are all going to be approved by Lucas, and they're going to further distance the EU and the movie "canon".

[Black Lushus 0]

I'd love to see the Thrawn trilogy, but since Lucas apparently doesn't like stories that are better than his, he shits all over the EU.

 

you know, they wouldn't even HAVE to follow EU, he can start his OWN EU for all I care, I just see the timeframe between 3 and 4 to be boring. I'd rather see Luke struggle to rekindle the Jedi Order, the New Republic still trying to vanquish the remnants of the Empire and what not. I mean, what, exactly, would they cover in this series?

[Special K 0]

The Thrawn series is awesome.

 

Here's my whole pisstake on the new trilogy.

 

Ok: Clearly Anakin and Obi-Wan are the main characters. Why on earth would you waste the ENTIRE first movie with little to no character development for Anakin? Making him a kid was the worst mistake they could have made. Sure the kid sucked, but you were wasting the whole movie in the first place. It should have been an entire movie with Anakin turning. It happened way too fast in Sith (a pretty good movie) and made Anakin look, frankly, gullible and stupid.

 

And let's face it, the series loses a LOT without a Han Solo character. A bunch of Jedis sitting around, twiddling their fucking thumbs and speaking in platitudes is not that exciting.

 

I can see that SWII is an enjoyable movie if you don't compare it to the previous Star Wars movies, but Phantom Menace is a straight-up terrible movie. Just terrible.

 

But either way, the Thrawn series is awesome, and reads like a movie.

[SuperJerk 0]

"First up, the Stars Wars TV series that we’ve been hearing about since Sith came out. “That’s not going to happen probably for another year and a half while we develop scripts and everything else. But it’s fantastic; we’ve got some incredible writers. It’s going to be much darker, much more character-based, and I think it’s going to be everything the fans always wanted the prequels to be. They’ll be one-hour episode. It takes place between Episodes III and IV. It’s going to be all-new characters, maybe a few bounty hunters in there to start the series off.”"

 

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=18269

Translation: "We thought the prequels kind of sucked too, and now we want to redeem ourselves."

 

Just like how every new prequel tried to fix the mistakes of the last one, but just ended up making brand new mistakes for people to bitch about.

[Mole 0]

Soo I am watching episode III right now and there is the whole prego thing with Padmé and how it is illegal that it is Anakin's baby.

 

I am sure this has been answered before, but if the Jedi aren't allowed to be married, how can they have kids who will be future Jedi? Or are they just allowed to breed randomly to make more Jedi?

[LessonInMachismo 0]

Soo I am watching episode III right now and there is the whole prego thing with Padmé and how it is illegal that it is Anakin's baby.

 

I am sure this has been answered before, but if the Jedi aren't allowed to be married, how can they have kids who will be future Jedi? Or are they just allowed to breed randomly to make more Jedi?

 

I don't believe it's ever been specified how, but they identify infants with Force potential and appropriate them. With the parents' permission, of course.

 

In Babylon 5, when they identify a telepath, they give a choice: Join Psi Corps or go on a drug that inhibits telepathy. Problem is, the drug leads to depression and suicide. The Jedi need a moral ambiguity like that to make them more interesting.

[Black Lushus 0]

from what I understand, some are just born with the presence of the Force. Lucas decided to create the whole Medecholorian thing so I guess having a high count of that is a sign that the force is strong in that child.

 

With the inclusion of the medecholorians, there is speculation that they alone created Anakin and he's almost like the Jesus of the Star Wars world (with Shmi Skywalker as Mary).

 

other silliness mentioned is that Palpatine's master (forgot his name) may have manipulated the meds. to create Anakin.

 

Obviously, Jedi offspring naturally have the force...the others are just born with it

[Mole 0]

So Palpatine was born with the Medecholorian? They said that they usual find kids with a lot of it when they are younger, so they must have missed Palpatine or something.

[Black Lushus 0]

So Palpatine was born with the Medecholorian? They said that they usual find kids with a lot of it when they are younger, so they must have missed Palpatine or something.

 

either that or his master either A. got to him first or B. his master was a Jedi that turned and took Palpatine with him and the Jedi assumed they were gone or killed or whatever

[Mole 0]

Yeah yeah, that makes sense.

[Black Lushus 0]

the Sith Lords are apparently powerful enough to mask their presence from the Jedi so you could go with either A or B there.

 

Think about this...Palpatine was powerful enough to mask his presence long enough to start a fake war, create an army of clones and take over an entire republic...but he wasn't good enough to keep his apprentice from betraying and murdering him, something that has happened time and time again in Sith lore.

[Mole 0]

I think that is one of the whole points of the Darkside.

 

Like how Palpatine told the story about the man who knew the power to heal people and his apprentice killed him (which I am guessing was Palpatine who did the killing.) They can't seem to protect themselves from their own people.

[LessonInMachismo 0]

Yeah, I know they use midichlorian counts to check for Force sensitivity, but it's never said how they do it. Do they check every baby in every hospital in the galaxy?

 

Palpatine's master, Darth Plagueis, was not a Jedi from what I know. Wikipedia erroneously lists the information of Plageuis being Palpy's master as Expanded Universe when it is implied in the movie and stated in the novelization, which is canon. I am sure we will learn more as novels come out over the years. THOSE will be EU.

 

A novel about Darth Bane is coming out later this year. I believe it is called Path of Destruction and follows the events of the awful Jedi vs. Sith comic.

[Black Lushus 0]

I assumed they checked it whenever they felt the presence of the force in the baby...like checking just to make sure. Fucking midichlorians...

[Art Sandusky 0]

I'm sure that there are some kinds of medical databases that would make up complete records. This is a galaxy that's using hyperdrives and shit. They gotta keep paperwork.

[Darthtiki 0]

Mole does bring up a good point in the fact of that if Padme is still a Senator, wouldn't somebody on the Jedi Council who does work with the Senate, put 2 and 2 together?

 

Also folks, for those who may not know Celebration 4 is coming 2007 to Los Angeles

[Black Lushus 0]

yeah...I never understood how the pregnancy as well as the force residing in the fetuses (fetusi?) were able to remain hidden from the Jedi as well as Palpatine...unless Anakin is more powerful then both and he can hide it...but that'd be silly, wouldn't it?

[2GOLD 0]

yeah...I never understood how the pregnancy as well as the force residing in the fetuses (fetusi?) were able to remain hidden from the Jedi as well as Palpatine...unless Anakin is more powerful then both and he can hide it...but that'd be silly, wouldn't it?

 

It may not be that far fetched for the Senator to have a child who would end up a Jedi. I mean, she was a strong willed woman who fought for what she believed in (except her kids..they weren't important, it's all about Annie). As for the Pregnancy, I guess they were too busy with the Clone Wars to really pay much attention to who a Senator was banging on the side.

 

They pretty much left it up to Obi Wan to keep track and he failed miserably.