Merusk
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I'll take "None of the Expanded Universe crap will be in" for $10,000, Alex. Hey, eventually the grey area guys get sick of the crusaders and the Hutts and shit and get some lightsabers and Star Destroyers and war the shit out of all the stars. The End.
"Hey do Star Wars, but make it something different!" This approach would be as successful as SWG was. Lots of neckbeard love, not enough revenue. |
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Ironwood
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It would, of course, be hilarious to have Han turn round to Leia at one point and say 'Thank God we didn't have kids, since that would have been retarded.'
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You guys are all looking for the wrong EU story, anyway. Give me the lizard people that power their technology with people's souls!
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Ironwood
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That book was utterly, utterly fucking retarded. How it went from 'calcification of Jedi bones' to 'Machines powered by souls' was utterly, utterly beyond me.
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Soulflame
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The Sith Emperor isn't dead after all!
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HaemishM
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Palpatine was really an apprentice.  And if that proves to accurate, fuck you, J.J. Abrams. |
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Palpatine was really an apprentice. And if that proves to accurate, fuck you, J.J. Abrams. So Darth Plagueis is still alive? Makes sense... |
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Malakili
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Palpatine was really an apprentice. And if that proves to accurate, fuck you, J.J. Abrams. So Darth Plagueis is still alive? Makes sense... I heard he can manipulate medichlorians to create...... life. So that's where the Palpatine clones will come from. Man, we're figuring out the plot of this movie so fast. |
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calapine
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Yep, that. Much more than any possible "lore rape" it's J. J. Abrams that is to fear. God knows what he will come up with. I expect a hyper-active action spectacle that doesn't feel Star Wars-y at all. Including a stupid romance sub-plot, of course.  |
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Nevermore
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Yeah! Everyone hated that stupid Leia/Han romance subplot!
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Over and out.
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Since this is a JJ Abrams movie, we should really be speculating on what the Mystery Box is going to be.
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Soulflame
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Yeah! Everyone hated that stupid Leia/Luke romance subplot!
Fixed for ewwwwwwwwww. |
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Ingmar
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There's also really no reason the next guy couldn't just go "ok, fuck this Rule of Two shit" since that's more or less how they got it in the first place.
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Draegan
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Once this trilogy is done (9 years from now?), I would hope they go back a re-make the prequel to not suck ass.
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Reg
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Why on earth would they ever do that? They're far more likely to crush our childhood memories by remaking the first three.
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eldaec
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There's also really no reason the next guy couldn't just go "ok, fuck this Rule of Two shit" since that's more or less how they got it in the first place.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the 'rule' is supported by just one line of dialogue at the end of phantom, which could just as easily (and much more sustainably) be interpreted as 'sith come in pairs'. |
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Margalis
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If there is a whole council of Jedi and light/dark are two competing sides of a coin it makes fuck all sense for there to be only two Sith at a time. The good Jedi must be totally incompetent in that case.
Anyway even if this is a "rule" it can undone with two lines of dialogue:
"A dozen Sith? I thought they only came in twos!"
"Well kid, guess that wasn't working so well for them."
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Nevermore
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If the Clone Wars animated series is still considered canon, then there's already been more than two Sith running around at the same time.
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Abagadro
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Considering the intellectual bankruptcy of Hollywood, I have a feeling it will be Harry Potter in space with the old cast basically being the faculty at Jedi-Hogwarts and we will have Draco Malfoy-sith.
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Lakov_Sanite
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This movie will be regarded as the second coming because as seen above, expectations could not be lower.
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calapine
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Yeah! Everyone hated that stupid Leia/Han romance subplot!
Bah. You know what I mean!  |
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Margalis
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Considering the intellectual bankruptcy of Hollywood, I have a feeling it will be Harry Potter in space with the old cast basically being the faculty at Jedi-Hogwarts and we will have Draco Malfoy-sith.
Ha ha that would be amazing. In all seriousness I expect a competently made but fucking stupid adventure romp. I mean, that's what JJ Abrams does. But competently made stupid movies will still be a huge step up from the prequels. |
vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Ginaz
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I predict this thread will reach 10 pages in less than a week and 1000 before the movie opens, 90% of which will be filled with nerd rage and nostalgia.  |
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Zetor
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Is that before or after the heated discussions about whether Luke in a mech could beat Vader in a tank? Anyway, I actually have only seen Ep4, half of Ep5, Ep1 and Ep2 so far... so I'll be going into this with a somewhat-clean slate. If it manages to not be as dumb as Ep2 was... bonus! |
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Malakili
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In all seriousness I expect a competently made but fucking stupid adventure romp. I mean, that's what JJ Abrams does. But competently made stupid movies will still be a huge step up from the prequels.
Exactly. The prequels were neither competently made or exciting. They were just really bad, like... really shockingly bad. The original Star Wars was such a good movie that it's shocking George Lucas had anything to do with it, given what happened to the prequels when he had the fame and wealth to have total control. |
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calapine
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Personally I think the first film was the best. It had a special slowness to it, compared to the second one. Add to that a particular-ness of starting somewhere in the middle of a fight and ending abrupt with just one single battle won in a large war. No conclusion of seeing the arch villain die. Would have loved it to stop right there and the rest stay a mystery for everyone.
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apocrypha
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the 'rule' is supported by just one line of dialogue at the end of phantom, which could just as easily (and much more sustainably) be interpreted as 'sith come in pairs'.
That'd be rule 34. |
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calapine
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That'd be rule 34. Hah. Rule 34 is universal! You wouldn't believe what a Google image search for 'Sith Porn' turns up...   |
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I'm betting they'll focus on the Rebellion struggling to maintain control, and splinter factions rising up to establish the New Galatic Order. Jedi will of course be sent to investigate.
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Venkman
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Is that before or after the heated discussions about whether Luke in a mech could beat Vader in a tank? Anyway, I actually have only seen Ep4, half of Ep5, Ep1 and Ep2 so far... so I'll be going into this with a somewhat-clean slate. If it manages to not be as dumb as Ep2 was... bonus! Ha, if you skipped Ep1, you'd be doing it in "machette order". Which I only know because NPR had some wonk on the other day talking about the best order in which to watch the movies (4, 5, 2, 3, 6, with 2 and 3 being the extended flashback and 1 establishing nothing worth keeping). That NPR gave this topic upwards of 5 minutes indicates the time of day I was listening  |
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Margalis
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I'm shocked nobody jumped on me for talking about "good Jedi." Aren't all Jedi good by definition, as when they become evil they are Sith? You guys are slipping. |
vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Cyrrex
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Pssh. Jedi gone bad are Dark Jedi. Sith is like a whole separate religion. And besides, the only people who would define the Jedi as universally good are the Jedi themselves. Regular people see little difference between them and Sith.
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