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Offline General Battuta

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haha I just realized that passage contains what may be Star Wars' first middle finger.

 

Offline redsniper

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At first I thought it was a scene from a movie or some other novel you converted to Star Wars form, but then I googled.
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Yeah, it is hard to believe that's from a prequel novel. :lol:
17:37:02   Quanto: I want to have sexual intercourse with every space elf in existence
17:37:11   SpardaSon21: even the males?
17:37:22   Quanto: its not gay if its an elf

[21:51] <@Droid803> I now realize
[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
[21:51] <@Droid803> as this rich psychic girl will now be tsundere for a loli.
[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

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Offline General Battuta

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Matt Stover is the best EU writer.

 

Offline Sushi

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Windu vs. Palpatine is one of the better scenes in the entire hexalogy

I am now in cardiac arrest.

No reallly. I mean, just making someone *think* about Palpatine's idiotic face lift while raycasting Windu's light saber, while mr. Asshole Skywalker delivers some of the dumbest lines in the whole prequels (and that takes something) should probably qualify as attempt of brain murder.

TL;DR:

 
Apparently the money from the sale is going towards improving education. George Lucas has regained my respect.

 

Offline CommanderDJ

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Whilst this is probably going to get me flamed, I actually liked the prequels.
[16:57] <CommanderDJ> What prompted the decision to split WiH into acts?
[16:58] <battuta> it was long, we wanted to release something
[16:58] <battuta> it felt good to have a target to hit
[17:00] <RangerKarl> not sure if talking about strike mission, or jerking off
[17:00] <CommanderDJ> WUT
[17:00] <CommanderDJ> hahahahaha
[17:00] <battuta> hahahaha
[17:00] <RangerKarl> same thing really, if you think about it

 

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I actually liked parts of the prequels.

Fixed that for you... because surely you didn't like this.. I mean. DAT WRITING.
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Whilst this is probably going to get me flamed, I actually liked the prequels.

Not flamed no... as a matter of fact, I will defend to the utmost your right to be wrong. :D
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Offline CommanderDJ

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I actually liked parts of the prequels.

Fixed that for you...

If you want to get technical, every movie has better and worse scenes. You could "fix" that statement for every movie ever made, because we all like parts of every movie and dislike others.


because surely you didn't like this.. I mean. DAT WRITING.

Which part of that 14-minute clip were you referring to? If it's the romance scenes, they're fairly corny, true, but I don't see what's so abhorrent about them. I guess it's all a matter of taste, I was just putting my opinion forward.
[16:57] <CommanderDJ> What prompted the decision to split WiH into acts?
[16:58] <battuta> it was long, we wanted to release something
[16:58] <battuta> it felt good to have a target to hit
[17:00] <RangerKarl> not sure if talking about strike mission, or jerking off
[17:00] <CommanderDJ> WUT
[17:00] <CommanderDJ> hahahahaha
[17:00] <battuta> hahahaha
[17:00] <RangerKarl> same thing really, if you think about it

 
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"I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating. And it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here, everything is soft and smooth." *creepily rubs Padme's arm*

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Offline Dragon

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I actually liked parts of the prequels.

Fixed that for you...

If you want to get technical, every movie has better and worse scenes. You could "fix" that statement for every movie ever made, because we all like parts of every movie and dislike others.
Well, there are really great movies which contain no bad/dull scenes. Very few, but they do exist. I don't think any of them is very recent though, today's movies are mostly either drivel or complete abstraction.

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Which part of that 14-minute clip were you referring to? If it's the romance scenes, they're fairly corny, true, but I don't see what's so abhorrent about them. I guess it's all a matter of taste, I was just putting my opinion forward.

You can be briefly sucked in by the trappings of the genre, playing along rather like if you were watching an episode of CSI, but suddenly you realize the CSI episode is set on the Poseidon Adventure and as they carefully process the crime scene with the water up to their waists and rising (or in this case the utterly bizarre interactions of Padme and Anakin), you realize that this isn't CSI but some new form of absolute madness. Why?

The romance scenes in the prequels are like the "this is how to witness to people" scenes in evangelical movies; those heavily-scripted, responding to inept-argument perfectly for allowing further inept-argument to succeed as well until they break down and accept they are sinful and need saving. No such conversation has ever taken place in reality, though, because real people don't obey the script these come from, and no real person has ever been convinced by a stranger that they are sinful and need saving with mere verbal argumentation. (They'd exit the conversation long before you managed it even if you made progress.)

The result is inhuman, anti-human even. Half the scene is merely bad and scripted and inept. That's never fun, but it's pedestrian badness. The other half, however, responds to the first in a fashion that immediately renders the first's badness moot because it's moved to a whole other plane. Real people will not and can not respond in the fashion portrayed and thus you are instantly aware that you are watching a work of fiction and these are not real people. With your suspension of disbelief ****ed over, gg no re writer, not buying this as a story.
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Offline Dragon

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I never paid attention to the romantic subplot in the prequels. OT barely had any romance screentime wise. It was always in the background, developing during action scenes. Prequels had long, drawn out scenes between Padme and Anakin, which weren't very interesting and sometimes felt like padding.

 

Offline General Battuta

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I never paid attention to the romantic subplot in the prequels. OT barely had any romance screentime wise. It was always in the background, developing during action scenes. Prequels had long, drawn out scenes between Padme and Anakin, which weren't very interesting and sometimes felt like padding.

OT had a lot of romance right up front on camera, it was just handled well.

 

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Indeed, Leia obviously falls in love with Han over the course of the movies in a way that is easy to believe. You can fully see how someone who at first considers Han to be far below her station can fall for someone like him.

The prequels tried to copy this (as they tried to copy almost everything else) and failed miserably. It's almost inexplicable why Padme would fall for Anakin.
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Offline Beskargam

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the him meeting her when he is 8 and she 16 or so is really weird as well. also idc bout grammar. re-watched episode IV with friends tonight, twas great. Thoough the characters are really really shallow. and it is inexplicable that luke isn't sad by the loss of his aunt and uncle or ben. at most ben gets a few mentions, "I miss him", which is odd cause he only knew ben for a few days. and no mention of his aunt and uncle is made.

 

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I loved the scene in the RedLetterMedia review, where Anakin is boasting about how powerful he is and how everyone is just jealous to the tune of various warning klaxons ;)

 

Offline Luis Dias

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It was hard to top Leia's flirting with Solo throughout Empire. But damn, did they ever screwed up in the prequels. I mean DAMN.

edit: by "top" I mean that in Empire it was damn good romance cinema. Damn good. Still works today as well as it did then. The lines "You like me because I'm a scoundrel. There aren't enough scoundrels in your life."," I happen to like nice men.", "I'm a nice man." are still gold today.
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