Star Wars 7 shit talk

(Which I started playing for my girlfriend last year because she didn't believe that such a thing even existed. I don't think she was any more convinced of its existence after actually seeing it.)

the selling line for both was "pastiches of old movie serials"

The Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon movie serials had a nostalgic revival in the 60s, as did the newspaper strips ... when young George wasn't cruising around American Graffiti style, maybe he was making notes in the margins of this:

https://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/n_iv/600/575547.jpg

I always liked how the movies let us know what R2 and Chewie are saying without resorting to subtitles. I dunno if that's at all original to Star Wars.

I dunno, it's pretty much the same thing they as when you only hear one side of a telephone conversation in a movie or tv show, basically just repeating what the other person just said.

http://famousdude.com/images/harry-corbett-06.jpg

i think the FG serials were probably run endlessly on TV in the '50s when GL was a yute

(or maybe even smalltown matinees in the neigborhood bijou)

"What, Lassie? Old man Jenkins is trapped at Cedar Bluff??"

xp iirc after his car accident, he was laid up watching a lot of old TV and that's exactly where he saw them.

http://www.amazon.com/Anniversary-McQuarrie-Hasbro-Collector-Collectible/dp/B003GQQDQ0/ref=pd_bxgy_21_img_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0NT0A5FGJA6PXYZ1YHG3

mcquarrie designs turned into action figures

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/711qUPcLRWL._SX522_.jpg

I have the McQuarrie Luke, Vader, R2-D2 and C-3PO figures at home. They're really well done.

do you get a lot of quality playtime out of them

Luke didn't have to hear R2, a translation pops up on his console.

When he's not in his ship, he can only understand the droid thru tone.

"If you're saying coming here was a bad idea, I'm beginning to agree with you."

He understood those bleeps and bloops, he was just gaslighting R2 like a dick

Dicklighting

One thing about the Despecialized versions is that you can see far more errors, especially after watching the blooper reels. Fr'stance, the hooded PA crouched behind R2 at the Jawa sale and who had to give the droid a push, since they apparently didn't account for wheels on desert

The cut scenes are klunky as fuuuuuck, but they set up a lot of shit about Luke well, so his immediate jump to hyper-excitement when C3P0 mentions the Rebellion is far more of a piece when you've seen the interaction with Biggs mentioning his plans to go AWOL from the Academy to join the other side.

"Tibanna Gas-mining" is the preferred in-universe term, I believe

Biggs Dicklighter

Gaslightsaber

Luke actually doesn't understand language, he just forms vowel and consonant shapes that get mistaken for monologue

lol

All of these people dressing up as these new Star Wars characters for Halloween will be really embarrassed if this movie is all about racists

Or if the characters turn out to be really into bestiality

The hero of the prequels was a mass murderer of children, didn't really cause much shame at halloween

Citation required that anyone ever went out as Anakin for Halloween.

You do realize that Darth Vader and Anakin are the same person

But also people dress as the Grim Reaper during Halloween, so no idea where this "shame for killing fictional children!" idea comes from

http://bunburyinthestacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Darth-Vader-Nooooo.jpg

Wasn't Darth Vader the hero of the original movies?

All of these people dressing up as these new Star Wars characters for Halloween will be really embarrassed if this movie is all about racists
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, October 31, 2015 4:59 PM

Hulk Hogan

Wasn't Darth Vader the hero of the original movies?

― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Saturday, October 31, 2015 8:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Alderaan was sheltering a massive kiddie porn ring iirc

Blowing up Princess Leia's planet of perverts for the good of the galaxy

You couldn't see it but a single tear rolled down Vader's cheek inside his mask as he whispered "for the children..."

while the Cantina band quietly strummed "Luka"

Can I just

(see the mention upthread about Halloween costumes for characters we don't know anything about yet...what if you're unknowingly dressing your kid up like a space racist???).

― Don't Call Me A Lunkhead, You Dingbat! (Old Lunch), Thursday, October 22, 2015 7:30 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://darthjarjar.com/

also:
http://s.mlkshk-cdn.com/r/16DK7

hahahahah

sith lord binks

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/3qvj6w/theory_jar_jar_binks_was_a_trained_force_user

I'm your mama
I'm your daddy
I'm that wookiee in the alley

two boys (6 and 4) watched star wars for the first time last night. they get super excited when vader steps on ben's mysteriously empty robes and they turn to me, eyes shining: "he's faking, daddy! obi wan's not dead!" and well, it is a pretty mysterious thing, the empty robes, isn't it? it's never explained, never spelled out.

I have just spent far too long going through that Reddit on JarJar Binks. There's a very great deal of circumstantial evidence to back it up, including some animation shots that make little sense if it isn't true.

my take on that is trying to discern the motives of something that makes no goddamn sense lends itself well to complex conspiracy theory
BUT IF IT'S TRUE i take it all back

Friend told me there's some new comic or series that tries to explain all the weird shifts between the first movie and Empire, like how Vader went from underling flying his own plane to evil leader, or how he couldn't even sense he had a daughter, etc .

Yeah, the new(er) Marvel series, which by all reports are great

Vader ends up using a black market weapons specialist to get some shady side work done and she has a pair of killer droids, coincidentally a protocol droid/astromech pair, who were decommissioned because they love murdering more than anything else

it is interesting watching the first one how Peter Cushing calls the shots and tells Vader what to do and Leia even mocks Vader for it to his face

fell in love with Leia all over again obv

i love the jar jar theory. it all rhymes! he's evil yoda.