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Offline Roanoke

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Re: Revenge of the Sith DVD
Reply #80 on: December 13, 2005, 05:10:32 pm
Sypher Dias. Couldn't remember  for the life of me.
 

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Reply #81 on: December 13, 2005, 05:28:21 pm
Quote from: Flipside on December 13, 2005, 06:12:14 am
Heh, I didn't even notice to be honest, I just wondered why they had to use an entire cartoon series to build up General Grievous for this film when, with the original films, they had to do all the merchandising and background afterwards. I'm sure that's some kind of ambiguous comment on how strong the original characters were, and how much external support the new characters needed...

RotJ really had a "and here's our new toy line!" feel at a lot of chunks too though...
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Reply #82 on: December 13, 2005, 06:01:07 pm
I didn't really get that feel. I suppose the B-Wings and Admiral Ackbar and possibly the Ewoks were the only toys that actually 'came' from ROTJ, though the main characters changed enough that they released, for example, and Episode 4 AND an Episode 6 version of Darth Vader, but the success of the Original series was as much a surprise, I think, to Lucas as it was to the actors. Admittedly, Alec Guiness and Vincent Price wouldn't have got involved if they hadn't seem something, but no-one was expecting what happened.

The recent three Episodes were the other way around, it was like... 'Right, first up, what kind of marketable material can we fit into this film? Once we've sorted that out, we'll start looking at the plot etc.'
 

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Reply #83 on: December 13, 2005, 06:07:02 pm
****, they could have easily fitted the first (prequel) film into the opening crawl of the 2nd, after all.........
 

Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #84 on: December 13, 2005, 09:35:39 pm
The Ewoks are the real flaw of Episode VI. That, and the fact that Gary Kurtz left after ESB.
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Reply #85 on: December 13, 2005, 09:50:26 pm
but... but... the cuteness!!
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Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
 

Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #86 on: December 13, 2005, 09:52:39 pm
Early drafts called for them to be Wookies, but Wookies just wouldn't market as well as Ewoks :rolleyes:
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Reply #87 on: December 13, 2005, 09:53:47 pm
Yet more plausible.

Then again, it's Star Wars. Plausibility doesn' t matter. Yay sci-fi!
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Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
 

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Reply #88 on: December 13, 2005, 10:12:27 pm
Heh, from what I remember, the original idea was wookies, but the costume department would have been facing the biggest challenge since Planet of the Apes. Someone suggested that maybe having a small, inoffensive-seeming race that the Empire assumed were no threat might be a good plot-twist. Apparently Lucas somehow confused the two into small innoffensive Wookies, hence the Ewoks which is only really an anagram of a 'Wok-e' which is, at a leap, a short version of Wookie.

And yes, I made that last bit up on the spot :P
 

Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #89 on: December 13, 2005, 10:17:43 pm
I personally thought he just reversed the syllables.
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Reply #90 on: December 14, 2005, 01:26:01 am
What's the problem with Ewoks?  Cute little buggers...deadly with a good-sized rock in their hands...throw one hell of a barbeque...provide much better comic relief than Jar-Jar could ever dream of, mainly because they can't say a word of English...manage to make the most well-trained fighting force in the galaxy look like a bunch of idiots.  Honestly, I'll never understand why the Ewoks get so much hate.  Where's the wuv? :p
 

Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #91 on: December 14, 2005, 01:28:00 am
Wookies would kick the Ewoks' collective ass.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
 

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Reply #92 on: December 14, 2005, 03:40:35 am
Ewoks were like Neanderthal Carebears though...

Personally I think it worked, if for no other reason than Han Solo had pretty much the same opinion of the Ewoks as the audience did, ie. 'WTF?'.
 

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Reply #93 on: December 14, 2005, 04:22:58 am
Ewoks are ugly little bastards, though.  Sure, they might be short and furry, but look at their beady little eyes!

 

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Reply #94 on: December 14, 2005, 04:29:55 am
It's the teeth that get me.

Right, who's going to photoshop on some bling?
 

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Reply #95 on: December 14, 2005, 05:02:56 am
Hmmm, how many people saw the Ewok spinoffs?
 

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Reply #96 on: December 14, 2005, 10:47:25 am
Bash not the Ewoks, lest they come pay thee and thine a visit in the wee hours of the night...

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Reply #97 on: December 16, 2005, 07:50:19 pm
Quote from: WMCoolmon on December 13, 2005, 06:46:15 am
Even then, for some reason Lucas felt it was necessary to give Grievous the wheezing cough.

How different the reaction to Darth Vader would've been if he'd keeled over coughing and wheezing just seconds after stepping through the door of the Tantive IV...

Both Vader and Grevious had a breathing problem. Darth Vader's hooooooooooo-pppppppprrrrrrrrrrrr, when mixed with David Prowse's sheer height and build and the evil dark uniform is simply much more badass than the weak little *cough* *wheeze* *hack* from Grevious.

Then again, Grevious's thick accent kind of blurs the whole part about him anyways.
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Reply #98 on: December 17, 2005, 03:12:11 pm
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Reply #99 on: December 18, 2005, 04:47:32 pm
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Orson Scott Card's review of the movie.

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