Star Wars 7 shit talk

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xpost Oh man, costume changes! And it gets weirder!

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link

Sometimes I think Lucas is actually history's greatest and most successful troll, giving background characters "names" that are never spoken onscreen or used anywhere than on toy packaging or Wookieepedia, just to see how people will react.

Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:52 (eight years ago) link

he sure played a long con. 30+ years of "Star Wars is all written out, it's 12 movies long!" while just making stuff all along paid off mightily in the end.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 18:54 (eight years ago) link

My jam when I was 5:

I was surprised not to hear that Meco track in the movie, since it was on the radio constantly when the film finally came to my town late in the year. (Also remember being puzzled at my realization, 20 minutes in, of the absence of any opening credits.)

kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:01 (eight years ago) link

Droopy McCool.

the best character name is still Salacious B. Crumb!

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link

also, further evidence that either lucas is some kind idiot-savant or is a magnificent troll:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jizz

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link

Wait, Salacious has a middle initial? How has that escaped my notice?

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link

I wish I could've gotten a job recommending character names to Lucas. Sludge Fartpants. Smirk Hamhands. Fidget O'Dicksplitter.

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link

or at least a job with MAD Magazine

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link

Same diff.

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link

Wait, Salacious has a middle initial? How has that escaped my notice?

― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, December 15, 2015 1:19 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the real question is, what does that middle initial stand for? disney ought to address this before the new film is released.

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link

Sometimes I think Lucas is actually history's greatest and most successful troll, giving background characters "names" that are never spoken onscreen or used anywhere than on toy packaging or Wookieepedia, just to see how people will react.

― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:52 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

am i wrong that boba fett (sp?) isn't actually named in the original trilogy? he's kind of the ultimate example of this.

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link

he is referred to numerous times simply as "bounty hunter" as i recall.

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:48 (eight years ago) link

In Jedi during the fight around the Sarlacc, you can just hear Han Solo say, "Boba Fett? Where?" He's definitely not named on-screen in Empire, but he was in the cartoon segment of the Holiday Special, which preceded it. So a borderline case.

Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link

so is the holiday special canon?

i was describing it to some friends recently, and they didn't seem to believe me.

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:53 (eight years ago) link

1:20s

Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link

send them the youtube link, amateurist!

polyphonic, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link

well that depends on how you feel about Bea Arthur xxpost

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link

My gf had no idea that it existed, so I started playing it for her last year. She had a hard time believing it was real. Understandably.

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link

i saw it for the first time over thanksgiving, truly mind boggling

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link

poor Boba Fett, he was just a sap with daddy issues

Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link

if JJ Abrams were truly cool, he'd embed an obscure allusion to the christmas special somewhere in 'the force awakens'

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link

maybe a cutaway to a wookiee family gathering

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link

My wife and I watched the Rifftrax version over T'giving, although I do also own a bootleg DVD of it.

Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link

I love how Boba Fett's death is so cartoony and ignominious, befitting the fact that he's a complete non-character, when his 'origin' in the prequels is this very momentous scene.

jmm, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link

I remember having no idea who 'Boba Fett' referred to even after having seen all the films a couple of times. I still don't get why he's such a big deal.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link

his costume is cool/badass

Karl Rove Knausgård (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link

wears a helmet, has a wrist rope, sucks dick

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link

Vader is firm with him, among the other bounty hunters, about not killing Skywalker, implying he's ruthless or something

also that whole carbonite freezing thing

μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link

I love how Boba Fett's death is so cartoony and ignominious, befitting the fact that he's a complete non-character, when his 'origin' in the prequels is this very momentous scene.

yeah i thought about this as i was rewatching the 'original trilogy.' i don't actually follow this stuff closely, but i get the sense that his role in the star wars world was enlarged in various auxilliary/ancillary narratives (comic books, tv shows, etc.) in the time between the two trilogies.

i sometimes wonder what it'd be like to watch the prequel trilogy first, and only then watch the original trilogy. i imagine there are any number of young (and not so young?) kids who had this experience. i imagine that there's lots in the original trilogy that would seem truly inexplicable if not perverse in light of the metastasized backstory of the prequels.

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link

still have no idea who Boba Fett is

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link

A good friend of mind just did exactly that in prep for this movie -- watched all the movies with his son in numerical order. He said his son was really, really freaked out and upset by the end of Episode III, so he had to assure him that it gets better, then they watched the original trilogy.

Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link

Boba Fett was a big deal in large part because they went out of their way to make him a big deal long before Empire was released.

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link

I've read somewhere about people who watch all of them in numerical order, and they say the original trilogy becomes gibberish as a result. So much of those films depend on the great great twists, so a lot of it becomes a slog when everything has been spelled out in advance.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link

still have no idea who Boba Fett is

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, December 15, 2015 2:07 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mascot of a chain of shrimp restaurants IIRC

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link

he was a legendary action figure because he got recalled (removably rocket was a safety hazard)

akm, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link

but enough about scott walker

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link

xpost Just like the Death Star (whose trash compactor was filled with razor-sharp shrapnel before they replaced it with a low-grade foam).

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link

that ellen video is amazing, carrie fisher is rad

Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link

xpost Just like the Death Star (whose trash compactor was filled with razor-sharp shrapnel before they replaced it with a low-grade foam).

― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, December 15, 2015 2:17 PM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on that note, remember that weird creature in the trash compactor? the one that almost kills luke? how did that creature survive the compactor being, well, compacted every few hours?

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link

it was really skinny

Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link

Its biological composition was largely low-grade foam.

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link

boba fett helmet was one of the rejected prototypes/concepts for vader's helmet iirc

ogmor, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link

still have no idea who Boba Fett is

he's Fetty Wap's dad

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link

We called him Bubba Fat when we were kids.

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link

Boba Fett's "rep" during the original trilogy was totally established by stuff outside the film - he was the first action figure you could order via "mail away", for ex.

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link

The foam in the trash compactor was in the mini toy version iirc

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link


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