[redmenace]

As per the children:
what if the emporer takes them and makes them siths...or those dudes in the red robes in ROTJ.

[Gloriano]

Originally posted by redmenace
As per the children:
what if the emporer takes them and makes them siths...or those dudes in the red robes in ROTJ.

Jed childrens are killed in temple.

[Ashrak]

Originally posted by Holy Imperial Gloriano


Jed childrens are killed in temple.

awwwww this was suposed to be a "Dark Movie" ... didnt lucas make a kiddie version of it too?

[Fineus]

Looks pretty damn fantastic.. but then so did Episode 1 when the trailer for that came out so I'm not about to get too excited just yet.

As an aside, it looks like most if not all of the fighting takes place on/around Coruscant (I just realised that the location of Yoda/Palpatines fight is the senates council chamber... those "frisbies" are the platforms they used to talk to float about on and shout at eachother on...

There's a lot of references to the coming Empire though, prototype TIE fighters and an Imperial shuttle shown during the opening scene... Star Destroyers and so forth... and Anakin being suitably angsty as usual. If only those damn tribesmen hadn't killed his mother, the fate of the galaxy could've been so much more pleasent for everyone

[Sandwich]

Oh puhleese... those "Star Destroyers" aren't. They're the big landing craft (very big, mind you) from the end of EP II. Readily identifiable by that tail they have sticking out the back.

And yeah, on the face of it, it looks pretty good. But like Thunder said, so did Ep I (and II). I'm not getting my hopes up.

Though of course I will go see it.

[Fineus]

Nothing to say that those landing craft aren't prototype SDs though, is there? I mean they have to get the idea from somewhere...

[Ghost]

Yeah... Sandwich, those are Star Destroyer's predecessors. It's really quite obvious... also, if you look in the Guide to Vehicles and Vessels, it says Star Destroyers were first developed for the Republic.

And guys.. those tank things? Those are Juggernaughts. Finally, Lucas is taking something cool from the expanded universe...

[SadisticSid]

Looking forward to seeing the Emperor kicking some Jedi ass. Hopefully it won't leave me in tears of laughter like the Dooku-Yoda fight.

[Ford Prefect]

Dooku is fairly lame as Siths go. He's just Palpatine's temporary b!tch until he can seduce Anakin.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by redmenace
As per the children:
what if the emporer takes them and makes them siths...or those dudes in the red robes in ROTJ.

those guys in red robes were just the emperor's personal guards, weren't they?

[RedgeTester]

Imperial Guards, IIRC.

I think they might've been force-sensetive, but not trained in the use of it.

[redmenace]

Weird question though, if the emporer is so powerful why does he need personal gaurds?

[phatosealpha]

In case some farmboy comes along and convinces his manservant to toss him down an energy shaft?

[RedgeTester]

I think they're mostly ceremonial.

But Palpatine isn't invulnerable. Sure, he can kick the ass of pretty much anyone in the galaxy, but if he got rushed by enough people he'd need some cannon fodder so he could run without being shot in the back.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by redmenace
Weird question though, if the emporer is so powerful why does he need personal gaurds?

Why fight when someone else can die for you?

[Gai Daigoji]

OH YEAH BABY! This film is so gonna rock, cant wait for it to come out!

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Ghost
Yeah... Sandwich, those are Star Destroyer's predecessors. It's really quite obvious... also, if you look in the Guide to Vehicles and Vessels, it says Star Destroyers were first developed for the Republic.

No duh, really? The spearhead-shaped hulls didn't give it away AT ALL, honest!!!oneone



Doesn't negate the fact that those aren't "Star Destroyers" though - they're Acclamator-class trans-galactic military transport ships - aka. Republic Assault Ships.

Originally posted by SadisticSid
Hopefully it won't leave me in tears of laughter like the Dooku-Yoda fight.

I couldn't agree more. Freakin' green bouncy ball.

As for the red-cloaked Elite Guards, I don't get it. Why does everyone think they're all that? I mean, Obi-wan said himself that those "blast points, too accurate for Sand People. Only Imperial stormtrooper are so precise."

And then, of course, we see all over the Death Star that Imperial Stormtroopers can't hit the broadside of a barn door at 10 paces.

Which leads to the question: If the Elite Guard are so good, is it a relative "good" or an absolute "good"? Cuz I gotta say, the relative "good" ain't worth crap.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Sandwich

Which leads to the question: If the Elite Guard are so good, is it a relative "good" or an absolute "good"? Cuz I gotta say, the relative "good" ain't worth crap.

Maybe the Emperor likes playing ping pong and needs a steady supply of opponents?

[Deepblue]

[Ghost]

Aldo.. I have a question. Whatever you're on, can I have some?


Sandwich: I didn't say they were SDs. It's obvious that they aren't... anywho. I generally don't go by the prequels; all my knowledge comes from the expanded universe and the original Trilogy.