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I'll have to hurry up and see Episode II before this comes out.
Actually, I'll have to see Episode I again too... It was so dull that I've forgotten the entire plot...
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If I'm in your area it would be fun to go with you . . . nothing better than going with a fanbo^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H true belie^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H casual watcher.
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It'll be stupid obviously but, still, with all the stuff that they're going to have to cram into there to fill the hole between episodes 2 and 4, I have to admit, I'm kind of excited. Let's see, the republic will have to be overthrown, the senator dude will show his true colors, the war will end, the emperor will somehow take control of the clone army from the republic, the empire will be established, Luke and Leah will be born, Obi Wan will take them into hiding, and, of course, Anakin turns into Vader.
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Does anyone else think they should just go ahead and give in and call it a straight animated movie instead of continuing to pretend its live action?
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Yeah, Yoda looks great... but the Wookies and Darth Vader look they came out of Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds or X-Wing or something(both computer games not known for having great graphics).
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You know, I surely can't be the only person who thinks this trailer's completely faked up. It consisted almost entirely of clips from earlier films -- and, in some cases, what appear to be animations and character closeups from those films pasted onto new backgrounds. There are brief moments of what look like genuinely new footage, but the new footage in that trailer is footage I've seen elsewhere on the web before and is therefore fair game.
Are we absolutely certain that this is the official Lucasfilm trailer?
The reason I ask, all technical questions aside, is that it appears to genuinely suck eggs. It's not a particularly well-made trailer -- and the trailers and teaser trailers for the last two films were, in many ways, superior in craft to the films they advertised. If this is indeed a Lucasfilm trailer, I think it's a sign that Lucas has really lost more than a few steps.
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See, if ROTJ was the best of the original trilogy, then you might be onto something. But it wasn't. If anything, it was the corniest.
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it appears to be authentic. starwars.com recently sent out a mailer to their email list about the epIII trailer available only for hyperspace members and this has the hyperspace logo on it.
not that it couldn't be faked, just that it appears to me (not the biggest starwars geek around) to be authentic.
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Just to a limited audience. Apparently some of that audience took the time to download it and repost it elsewhere.
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Well, to me it looks less like a teaser trailer and more like just an announcement that the movie will exist.
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I hope my Mission President is cool and lets me go see the movie. I highly doubt it, but you never know.
p.s. In case you're wondering for some weird, wiggidy-whacked reason my Mission President will be President Ashton (the guy who owned WordPerfect)
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Hey, you can't fault Lucas for putting in too much crap for the Uber-fans of Star Wars into the new trilogy. Plus, there was too much stuff written about the Star Wars Universe that wasn't Lucas. It was okayed by him, but it wasn't him, so most of the story kinda got lost in the hype. But come on, even if it suck, you know you're gonna see it, so no one is really feeling like its important to make an awesome movie here (And its still in Post-Production, so it may look better when it comes out.)
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"Plus, there was too much stuff written about the Star Wars Universe that wasn't Lucas."
Ironically, some of the better and more sensible elements of the Star Wars Universe come from West End's RPG materials and the Timothy Zahn novels which used those same materials as technical references. (To be fair, most of the other SWU books blow chunks, too.) If anything, hewing closer to the better and more coherent parts of the SWU would have improved Lucas' storyline enormously, IMO.
You can't blame Jar Jar, pod races, and skin unlike sand on the fans, I'm afraid.
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Just go see The Incredibles this weekend. I'm spoiler-free (though I can make "educated" guesses as to the plot), so I won't be downloading anything. I'm not sure what exactly this will accomplish, other than giving me a false sense of superiority. Gotta get my kicks somewhere, I suppose.
Incidentally, I wanted to see The Incredibles before it was announced that the ROTS trailer was playing with it.
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oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo i can't wait!!!! And personally I liked the tie-ins to IV in the teaser.
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To be honest, I really don't want to see this movie because I know the ending is going to be sad. I don't really care about Anakin, but I can't stand to see Amidala completely betrayed. *pouts*
Also, why the heck is Chewbacca there? I mean, we've already agreed to overlook the fact that C3PO and R2D2 being in the prequels completely invalidates the back story they're given in the original trilogy. Chewbacca, though? How much coincidence does he expect us to take. I really don't think a few cute scenes are enough to make up for how impossible it will be for anyone to write SW spinoffs after this.
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quote: Also, why the heck is Chewbacca there? I mean, we've already agreed to overlook the fact that C3PO and R2D2 being in the prequels completely invalidates the back story they're given in the original trilogy. Chewbacca, though? How much coincidence does he expect us to take. I really don't think a few cute scenes are enough to make up for how impossible it will be for anyone to write SW spinoffs after this.
I'd like to recommend watching Episode 4 again, while paying close attention to the scenes in Mos Eisley- who was it that Obi-Wan talked to first immediately upon arriving in the bar? Also, I'd like to recommend you getting the Star Wars radio shows... from somewhere, if you can.
quote: I'd like to recommend watching Episode 4 again, while paying close attention to the scenes in Mos Eisley. Also, I'd like to recommend you getting the Star Wars radio shows... from somewhere, if you can.
I've done all of this, I was a rabid Star Wars fan for about 3 years. I've also read all of the books that were published before 1999. What am I missing?
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Chewbacca has a back story. It doesn't involve being a member of a horde of warcrying Wookies. At all.
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1) When he gets to Mos Eisley, he immediately spies Chewbacca, and begins talking with him, and works out the deal pretty easily.
2) In the radio shows, if I recall correctly (been about 2 years) it talks about Chewbacca and Obi-Wan seeming to have a previous relation. It doesn't bluntly state that they have, only that it seemed that way.
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From what I've heard, most of Chewie's involvement in Episode III is delivering the twins.
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Also, keep in mind that almost all the novels aren't canon, so any backstory for chewbacca mentioned in them might as well be so much spearmint gum.
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I really don't get that. All novels have to be approved by George Lucas. How can they not be canon? "Oh, well, I just decided the prequels can have more crappy storylines if I ignore these books, so they aren't canon anymore. That was easy."
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While I disagree with Chewbacca's involvement in the prequels, in my opinion, it does not invalidate the originals, like the droids do so far (still speculating on that one).
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No, they haven't been canon for far longer than the prequels have been under serious consideration.
The novels aren't (for the most part) canon because while Lucas wanted to allow his fans more material and the chance to explore the worlds of star wars/make more money, he didn't want to give up creative control. By keeping novels outside canon he can approve novels with great leeway, even ones that contradict each other, without "corrupting" the star wars universe or creating paradox. They still have to be approved by him, of course, so that his rights are protected and people don't do things like right star wars slash and get it published.
Canon isn't the same as being approved by the rights holder, canon is part of the "real" star wars universe.
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a. It leaves fans no way (or makes it very difficult) to tell what's canon. b. it results in a contradictory universe, when most fans reading Star Wars novels are doing it to escape into the universe, this makes that impossible. c. Either there are a lot more than ten canon novels or the official website has character biographies of characters that don't exist in the universe. d. it is completely a ploy to make money off of other people's reverence for your creation, which I personally find morally reprehensible.
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The films are the final authority when it comes to Canon. Period. Lucas can't be bound by Kevin J Anderson's ideas of the Sith Posts: 2689 | Registered: Apr 2000
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