would rather see microbe wars than Star Wars The Regurgitated Jedi
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 June 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/022/940/mockingspongebobbb.jpg
― Eliza D., Thursday, 14 June 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
So if I'm connecting the dots correctly, Lucas's original idea for episode VII was tweaked to remove all SW references and ultimately filmed as
http://oneguyrambling.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/216033.1020.A-202x300.jpg
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 June 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
When Is Someone Gonna Make A Sci-Fi Show Or Movie Without Any People In Them?
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 June 2018 02:04 (six years ago) link
i mean the original draft for star wars was called journal of the whills or something, right? but if those microbiotic creatures are supposedly operate differently than us, what use would they have for journals?
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
they weren't microbes thenthe great thing about those embryonic SW versions is how they are really just these collections of cool evocative names and titles with the actual story and character matter unstable as fuck. i love that.
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
It was triumph not journals iirc
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
It's almost, almost, as if Lucas considers storytelling to be the least important element of telling a story.
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
which can be totally awesome! if only he had the boldness to make truly ornamental/ambient SF in that mode
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
I agree! I wish he could've realized his strengths and played to them more.
― Gladys McFlatus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
just edit the prequel trilogy to just the cutscenes and i think you'd have it.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 14 June 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
"This is the story of Mace Windy, a revered Jedi-bendu of Ophuchi, as related to us by C.J. Thorpe, padawan learner to the famed Jedi."
Cool and evocative names, eh?
― Number None, Thursday, 14 June 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
"ophuchi" sounds like something you'd hear this guy blabbering
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/56/Cornholion_in_Holy_Cornholio.jpg/250px-Cornholion_in_Holy_Cornholio.jpg
― Eliza D., Thursday, 14 June 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
I assume it's a fuckup of Ophiuchi, an actual constellation
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 15 June 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
lol wins
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Friday, 15 June 2018 03:58 (six years ago) link
padawan learner to the famed Jedi
this is a cool turn of phrase
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 June 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
just found out about this:
On the set of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Lucas shared his ideas with animation director Rob Coleman, when Coleman arrived for his first day. As Chris Taylor relates in his fantastic book How Star Wars Conquered the Universe, Lucas told Coleman “his ultimate framing device.” Taylor writes:“The entire story of Star Wars is actually being recounted to the keeper of the Journal of the Whills—remember that?—a hundred years after the events of Return of the Jedi by none other than R2-D2.”
“The entire story of Star Wars is actually being recounted to the keeper of the Journal of the Whills—remember that?—a hundred years after the events of Return of the Jedi by none other than R2-D2.”
i do not remember that btw
― omar little, Monday, 11 March 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
lmao
r2d2 just beepin' and bloopin' for hours at a time to some low-level functionary who needs to keep stopping him because his wrist is getting tired from writing in the journal with a space fountain pen
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 11 March 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
Is r2d2 a reliable narrator? This now makes me suspicious of the endless # of scenes where r2d2 slides up and coolly saves the day while everyone else is panicking like idiots...
― One Eye Open, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link
It would certainly explain the gratuitous number of hardcore droid-on-droid scenes so liberally sprinkled throughout the series.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 March 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
lol journal of the whills only mentioned in a couple of novelizations
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Monday, 11 March 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
Only too late does the journal keeper realize R2 was Darth Sidious all along
https://media.giphy.com/media/Z8uqXqZaNT4n6/giphy.gif
― jmm, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
Damn it, should have double-checked that gif
― jmm, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
nah that gif seems v thread-appropriate tbh
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 11 March 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
That cup is where he keeps his whill
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 00:09 (five years ago) link
Not directly SW related but this is the most relevant thread I can find: The redlettermedia review of the latest Marvel movie calls Brie Larson a virtue-signalling, sexist, racist bitch for saying that most movie critics are white men. The critics of the Plinkett reviews were right -- they are awful people.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
Not surprised.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
Few phrases are as inadvertently self-descriptive as 'virtue-signalling' (see also: 'social justice warrior' as a pejorative). Like when you start to casually malign aspirational behavior I think you technically qualify for villain status.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
I have zero reason to watch the narrative video version of clickbait that passes for commentary on youtube
a few years ago I watched a few short clips doing that sort of thing and it was entertaining as a one-off novelty but everything's gone down the path of "this movie is a failure because it has a political agenda" or "top ten plot holes!" where a plot hole is anything that has an implied offscreen action that wasn't spoon-fed to the viewers
― mh, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
I just saw a 'May the Fourth be With You' sign in the window of a funeral directors.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 5 May 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
xp: it is the world's worst promotional tie-in product ever; a giant lollipop shaped like a tongue in a case shaped like Jar-Jar's head with a plunger on the back you have to push in to make it open, meaning that eating the lollipop requires french-kissing a Jar-Jar Binks toy
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:58 (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I have a still-unopened one of these buried somewhere in a pile of junk in my house, because when I saw that thing it was just too hilarious for me not to purchase it
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:58 (eight years ago)
^^^ you're not the only one... (NSFW obviously)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-drxdYedUU
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link