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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:23 am Post subject: Star Wars and Star Trek returning |
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First up star trek is coming back:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7246641.stm
But delayed until May 2009, not Christmas 2008. Hrmph. You ask me, I like a Star Trek movie at Christmas time. I like this idea, actually, of doing the old series but with new actors. Wonder what they'll do with the Klingons?
Lucas is coming out with a clone wars cartoon:
http://www.starwars.com/theclonewars/news/announcement.html
I much didn't like the previous clone wars cartoon. This is supposed to then kick off a TV show. I thought the TV would be live action. I was hoping something of the quality of Battlestar Galactica. But I dunno. I don't really look forward to a cartoon.
Tho, looking at some initial video:
http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000623.html
the animation looks rather good. Hrm. The still I've seen looked stupid but the animation has me going "ah this might work". |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:26 am Post subject: |
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| The Star Wars fan fiction is pretty good. My son got me hooked on it. I especially like the writing style of Timothy Zahn. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:53 am Post subject: |
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| bluelake wrote: |
| The Star Wars fan fiction is pretty good. My son got me hooked on it. I especially like the writing style of Timothy Zahn. |
The Zahn stuff was good, with the exception of how Thrawn could psychoanalyze an entire planet by looking at a single painting and from that, extrapolating every possible future action of said planet, planning for it, and then countering it. |
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JustJohn
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:46 am Post subject: |
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| I didn't remember Thrawn knowing psycohistory in those books. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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JustJohn
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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Not quite as funny as the (fake?) laughter makes it sound, but still pretty funny.  |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Ah, Triumph... |
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garykasparov
Joined: 27 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:27 am Post subject: |
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| I will be camping out weeks ahead of time for both. |
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aaabank
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| George Lucas wrote: |
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Translation:
"I felt there was a lot more money to be made." |
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blurgalurgalurga
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| aaabank wrote: |
| George Lucas wrote: |
| "I felt there were a lot more Star Wars stories left to tell" |
Translation:
"I felt there was a lot more money to be made." |
Translation $2:
"Better to be a repetitive one-trick pony than a no-trick pony." |
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Kimchi Cowboy
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| bluelake wrote: |
| The Star Wars fan fiction is pretty good. |
Ever seen the fan movie, "Troops"? You can download it here:
http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/shortfilms/troops/
It's short, only 10 minutes, but really well-done. |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't seen that one, but did you ever see the fan movie Dark Resurrection? It's about an hour long and also pretty good. I downloaded it off of Azureus Vuze. |
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Kimchi Cowboy
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Ah, I should add that it's a parody/spoof of the show Cops; Stormtroopers on Tatooine (sp?) Serious fans may be offended, but I thought it filled in a couple of holes rather tidily. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| blurgalurgalurga wrote: |
| aaabank wrote: |
| George Lucas wrote: |
| "I felt there were a lot more Star Wars stories left to tell" |
Translation:
"I felt there was a lot more money to be made." |
Translation $2:
"Better to be a repetitive one-trick pony than a no-trick pony." |
Translation #3:
"I felt like if we changed where Han shot Greedo, and edited in some cheesy laser shot of Greedo taking the shot first and missing at point-blank range, we could sell different versions of boxed sets and make even more money, while also appearing to be more politically correct." |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Kimchi Cowboy wrote: |
| Ah, I should add that it's a parody/spoof of the show Cops; Stormtroopers on Tatooine (sp?) Serious fans may be offended, but I thought it filled in a couple of holes rather tidily. |
Yeah that was done like 10 years ago now but it is still, in my opinion, the best piece of fan video fiction ever done. |
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