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I think my favorite thing about Star Wars is when Samuel L. Jackson ignited his PURPLE lightsaber(although it started an unoriginal new color trend in the Expanded Universe) and he was totally a BLACK jedi with a PURPLE lightsaber(kickass). But then again when Yoda walks in that room and faces Palpatine, just waves his hand and the guards just drop to the ground that was HILARIOUS and everyone in the theater roared in triumph.
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does anyone else here wish Lucas had cast Rudy Ray Moore as Lando Calrissian instead of Billy Dee Williams? I also thought Windu should have done more cool stuff like he did in the Clone Wars cartoon where he is clearly Captain Kickass. Has anyone here seen the 1978 Star Wars Holiday TV Special?
"Judge me by my size do you? And well you should not! For my ally is the force, and a powerful ally it is!
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I saw...I have it on my comp actually. It was the WORST thing I have ever seen. 20 minutes of wookies talking about daily activities..[xx(]
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did you see all of it? it's 2 hours long. there's a lot of BIZARRE stuff in it. in 1978 they anticipated both the internet AND web porn with that weird as hell part where chewbacca's dad puts on the helmet and watches that movie. I thought the animated Boba Fett adventure was great. most people get a kick out of it when i show them. the best part is seeing pre-rehab Carrie Fisher stagger around a console and stare into the camera with HUGE dilated eyes that don't track evenly. what in hell was she on?and the song she sings at the end....oh...my....gawd...
"Judge me by my size do you? And well you should not! For my ally is the force, and a powerful ally it is!
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Yeah, like WTF! If you see how the Jedi fight in Clone Wars versus the movies, it's like, Mace should be able to jump onto something after Palpatine and Anakin "beat" him. That was bs! It should not have been that easy! Anakin and Mace should have fought to at least show Anakins power! "The Chosen One!" Yeah right, I don't think so, how about "The Whining One"
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I liked Anakin in the original movies for his strength to come back and admit he was wrong. But honestly, after seeing him whine, I wanted to cry after seeing Ep. II. Clone Wars did better, but seriously how can a snively brat become the likes of Vader!?!? Hence why I like Mara Jade and Mace Windu, they are billy bad @$$ through and through.
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Sorry, dbraxton, I totally misunderstood what you were implying with your statement. Yes, I agree. Seriously, if Yoda had been studying the force for almost a thousand years he should be well beyond using a saber, and your suggestions are exactly what I would expect to see. It should be something like the Neo from the Matrix or Dragonball Z. Whatever, it should look like, Yoda should be well beyond traditional hack and slash. You have some superb thoughts and I hope you get somewhere with your material. I did think that Clone Wars more adequately showed how the jedi, in my mind, would fight, and how they would act. As far as the eastern philosophy thing goes, I'm a Christian, so, to me, eastern philosophy and star wars philosophy is contradictory to itself and its logic ravels apart at the ends. <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by dbraxton9
In a universe where Darth Vader, the ultimate movie bad guy and archetype of evil, gets sentimental and just gives up and quits at the end, anything can happen! I didn't mean Yoda should be a pacifist, rather I think his style of combat should have been more meditative, more psychological (more Taoist!), and more subtle than a Tazmanian Devil with a lightsaber. Stormtroopers attacking Yoda should have suddenly turned their fire on each other, Count Dooku should have seen 100 yodas everywhere around him, growing to monstrous proportions and swallowing him alive in a twisted Force-fed hallucination driving him to suicide. The Ep3 battle between yoda and palpatine looked like a cat fight backstage at a drag show. why didn't they just pull each other's hair and give each other titty-twisters? while the emperor was throwing lightning, yoda should have been able to defend himself by slowing time or something classier, more mystical and less video-gamey than just doing the same thing back to him. That's just my opinion. i know most people think of Star Wars as just another action/adventure movie, but what sets it apart from LOTR and the Matrix etc. is the idea that the Force is greater than physical might. "Don't be so proud of this technological terror you have contructed. the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force." "Judge me by my size do you? And well you do not! for my ally is the force, and a powerful ally it is!"
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eastern philosophy has nothing to do with logic. it's about paradox. but that's beside the point. Lucas is a kid in the world's biggest sandbox and he doesn't care about theme or character development or anything like that. he's into chase scenes, shoot-outs, dogfighting space ships and laser sword duels. i'm hoping the new SW tv show will be better than the prequels. maybe he'll use one of my scripts or let me direct...ha ha ha!
"Look at me! Judge me by my size do you? And well you do not! For my ally is the force, and a powerful ally it is!
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Yeah, you're right, and that's what makes people REALLY get into a story - character development. Lucas's greatest asset is guys like you. Unfortunately, he has only listened to his fans to a limited degree in the past. To me, that's unwise.
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You dbraxton9 you forgot to add quotes to the end of your signature.
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