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I'd be shocked to see a poll that actually shows a majority of viewers accepting the prequels as "on par" with episodes 4,5,6.

Here's one.

Just cause they made millions of $ doesn't mean they didn't suck.

Please re-read my original post. I never said millions of dollars. I said millions of fans. Big difference.

I think a TV series *might* be good, as long as (like everyone else says) Lucas isn't involved too much. I mean, look at how many great things have happened to the series without Lucas around.

That said, I would love the series to be either a series of short stories (or short miniseries) focusing on the various time periods. 'Young Han Solo Plays it Safe' one week, another episode featuring Ulic Quel-Droma(sp?) the next, etc. etc.

There's *so much* material to go from, it would be hard to ruin a TV series (knock on wood).

That's all right. I am still convinced I saw a scene in which Luke shows up in a bar in Anchorhead and talks to Biggs. A scene in the novelization, interestingly, but vehemently denied to have been able to happen. ;)

Honestly, there is a good bit of life in the Star Wars Galaxy. Take a notice of the Jedi and Sith Wars in the Knights of the Old Republic or the rumored Spielberg Star Wars Miniseries.

The "Rise of Vader" done in HDTV format would be impressive due to Speilberg getting his directing/producing chops in made for TV movies and a wealth of experiance.

With the animation studio ready and there is plenty of Star Wars lore to be explored. The difference between the Lucas Empire and Viacom is that LucasFilm/Arts/IML/Skywalker Sound/Lucasfilm Animation is all in house and focused on Star Wars while Star Trek is nothing more than a former Desilu Production under the Viacom Empire.

According to this,
it is coming out May 19th, 2005.

There was a Saturday Morning cartoon called "Ewoks" and one called "Droids". IIRC they ran between 1984-1985. Both series will be released on dvd this winter.

perhaps 'tis the Bantha you seek?

Actually, in the Expanded Universe (short stories, books, comics, etc.), Boba Fett isn't dead. Just thought you'd like to know.

(Yes, I know - I'm a hopeless SW fanboy)

I think you mean Greedo and not Greebo.

No, seriously. Kit Fisto.

Or this

Episode III Behind the Scenes Preview: The Return of Darth Vader
The Birth of the Lightsaber
The Characters of Star Wars
The Force Is With Them: The Legacy of Star Wars
Star Wars Battlefront Trailer and Playable Demo
Star Wars: Episode III Making the Game Preview
Original Trailers and TV Spots
Never-Before-Seen Production Gallery
Original Posters and Print Campaigns

Episode III Behind the Scenes Preview: The Return of Darth Vader
The Birth of the Lightsaber
The Characters of Star Wars
The Force Is With Them: The Legacy of Star Wars
Star Wars Battlefront Trailer and Playable Demo
Star Wars: Episode III Making the Game Preview
Original Trailers and TV Spots
Never-Before-Seen Production Gallery
Original Posters and Print Campaigns

Episode III Behind the Scenes Preview: The Return of Darth Vader
The Birth of the Lightsaber
The Characters of Star Wars
The Force Is With Them: The Legacy of Star Wars
Star Wars Battlefront Trailer and Playable Demo
Star Wars: Episode III Making the Game Preview
Original Trailers and TV Spots
Never-Before-Seen Production Gallery
Original Posters and Print Campaigns

all 6 movies????

There were only three

all 6 movies????

There were only three

all 6 movies????

There were only three

And the Sith.

I suddenly got a horrid vision of a Trek / Star Wars crossover where Old Kirk wrestles Jabba the Hutt for the attentions of the green-skinned Twi'lek slave girl, Oola.

Excuse me while I go sandblast that image out of my brain...

George Lucas needs more people to tell him he's wrong about some things and he needs to listen to at least some of them. Needs more collaboration.

The current batch of Star Wars movies are great examples of the movie just being his own vision.

If he had things his way, one of the more famous scenes in Star Wars would have been this:

Leia to Solo: "I love you".
Solo:"I love you too"

That's BORING!!! That's very like the newer Star Wars stuff.

But instead of that - Harrison Ford said: "I know"

Fortunately for all of us, Lucas kept that line after the director's insistence.

I have to wonder what on earth she was thinking when she chose that photo. She has better ones on her webpage... why choose that unless you want to be associated with Jabba?

I have to wonder what on earth she was thinking when she chose that photo. She has better ones on her webpage... why choose that unless you want to be associated with Jabba?

And what do you know? She could.

I mildly curious as to why she'd post the ugliest picture of her off her personal web page as her Blogger profile pic. But, being a lawyer, I guess that preditorial "Jabba the Hutt" look is what she's going for.

Okay, I'm officially much more excited about this movie next summer than Revenge of the Sith. It looks like they're going back to what works for Batman; George long ago lost sight of what was good in Star Wars.

Interesting to notice that there isn't a prominently featured love interest anywhere in the photos on the website. This is great to see: romantic subplots really don't jive with the whole disturbed-anarchist-hell-bent-on-vengance thing.

Yeah, I hate it when my memory plays tricks on me like that too!

Check out the main Star Wars site. It has a picture of Vader before the helmet and the respirator.

Or did you think Anakin only decided to become Palpatine's apprentice after Obi-wan dumps him in the lava?

It's Lucas's story - let him tell it the way he wants to. If you don't like it, fine. But it is still his story to tell - we, the viewers, don't make those decisions. We can only decide whether we like something or not - that's it.

You don't even have to buy a Star Wars product to know most of the storylines in the Star Wars universe. So long as you have an Internet connection, you can read the Star Wars Databank.

Actually, the navbar on the Official Ep3 Page shows some concept art of Anakin/Vader before the mask. Pretty impressive. I assume paid subscribers have already seen Hayden in this costume.

• Birth of the Empire, huh? In your face, The Sun!
• Ugh, lava. Seems there's gonna be some surfin' action indeed. - IMHO, Cameron Diaz was more pleasing to the eye in Charlie's Angels 2....
  

You could try the official site for starters. Or how about the ending credits? You have seen the film, right?

Turner was spending lots of cash on the Goodwill Games back when all of the Cold War conservative experts constantly expressed their GroupThink opinion that the Soviet Union was the Evil Empire and the only thing to do was to spend money on weapons to protect ourselves from them. Because, as a dictatorship, they could spend any amount of money they wanted on weapons without the need to get the approval of their people. So the Cold War would never end, and all we could do is follow the Peace through Strength policiy of huge war budgets and more bombs, missles and nuclear subs every year.

Even when Gorbachev started letting up on the totalitarins reigns all of the Conservative pundits regularly informed us that 'it's only a trick' and 'they'd never let any REAL change happen in the Evil Empire.

The New Party Line that Raygun cleverly outspent the Soviets because he knew the US would win the Cold War if we did so is a more recent piece of Revisionist history.

Star Wars Insider of course!

Er, a parsec is a measure of distance, not speed.

First of all, you meant "distance, not time"...

Secondly,

Read this and then STFU.

Years later, one in a string of careless owners jettisoned Artoo and Threepio over the deserts of Ingo. After such an unceremonious disposal, Threepio and Artoo finally found some responsible masters -- the speeder racers Jord Dusat and Thall Joben. The droids helped the racers win the Boonta speeder races.

During a short stint with the Intergalactic Droid Agency, Threepio and Artoo were assigned very odd jobs, including waiting tables at Doodnik's Cafe on Tyne's Horky. The droids found themselves on auction, and soon became the property of miner Jann Tosh. It was around this time that Threepio and Artoo became embroiled in the intrigue surrounding the ascendancy of Tammuz-an's royal ruler.

Threepio and Artoo came to be property of Mungo Baobab, a trader from the Manda system. After some adventuring in and around the Roon system, Threepio and Artoo again found themselves without a master before arriving at Kalarba.

There, the Pitareeze family took in the droids, and gave them a good home. The family had acquired considerable wealth from the development of a popular hyperdrive model. Despite living in their most comfortable surroundings in months, Threepio and Artoo still managed to find trouble. They had several run-ins with not-so-legitimate businessman Olag Greck on nearby Hosk Station. In one encounter, Threepio was nearly scrapped when he was sent to compete in a gladiatorial arena match after being mistaken for the assassin droid C-3PX.

After thwarting another of Greck's schemes, Threepio and Artoo were deputized by Unit Zed, security constable for Hosk Station. The two pursued Greck and became mixed up in the cutthroat rivalry between businessmen Movo Brattakin and Boonda the Hutt. Threepio, outfitted with modified programming, even became a tool of Brattakin's, leading a droid rebellion against Boonda. By caper's end, Threepio's newfound firebrand programming was returned to its original milquetoast form.

Thanks for the link to C-3PO in the article, I forgot who he was...

Ion cannons, anyone?

Jawas and Gungans already exist as NPCs, which means the rendering is done. While I don't see Jawas as likely (kind of boring from a customization standpoint), Gungans are possible. They are richly populated throughout Naboo and don't have the kind of bad rep in-game as Jar Jar Binks does from the movies.

We know there will be two new races with the JTL space expansion. I wouldn't be surprised to see Neimoidian (Trade Federation) as one of the races. And maybe the Sullustan, since they were prominent as rebels. These seem more likely to me since they are space-faring races and the expansion is space-centric.

Jawas and Gungans already exist as NPCs, which means the rendering is done. While I don't see Jawas as likely (kind of boring from a customization standpoint), Gungans are possible. They are richly populated throughout Naboo and don't have the kind of bad rep in-game as Jar Jar Binks does from the movies.

We know there will be two new races with the JTL space expansion. I wouldn't be surprised to see Neimoidian (Trade Federation) as one of the races. And maybe the Sullustan, since they were prominent as rebels. These seem more likely to me since they are space-faring races and the expansion is space-centric.

....this is a training remote. This (as referenced in the submission) is an Imperial interrogation droid.

....this is a training remote. This (as referenced in the submission) is an Imperial interrogation droid.

True, the slashdot article link is to the torture droid and not the Training Remote, but in Dubya's brave new world, IT-0 may be what NASA had in mind after all-- gotta keep close watch on them astronauts. Shifty, the lot of 'em.

Wrong SW droid man! The IT-0 droid in that link is a torture droid. You will find the correct Training Remote Here. May the Force be with YOU!

Why is it always the popular planets that get recognition? Support the lesser-knowns! Get in touch with the nice folks at Sony and tell them that you want to go to Ord Mantell!

There's nothing in the movies for anyone, adult or child. What Lucas needs to do is open up the license like Sunset did with the Gundam series, and allow new directors and writers to create new storylines based in the universe Lucas created. Otherwise, SW is going to die a slow, boring death, and I'm not going to pay 9 bucks to watch it.

I don't know about you, but I was rather disappointed with the third one (us old-timers still refer to the order when they came out and not this "New Hope" or prequel nonsense). The Ewoks really killed it for me. They served no purpose in the movie other than commercial tie-ins. I found them as annoying as Jar Jar. It also really bothered me that Darth Vader, the guy who blew up a billion people, was absolved of his sins and was able to enter the glowing Valhalla-state with Obi Wan and Yoda at the very end of the movie. That was way too cheesy for me, though it did prove out the Bart Simpson plan to do what you want and recant on your deathbed. :)

so, like, whatever, man. Episode III: It's a Wrap

anything in the OT Novels that doesn't contradict the movies outright is officially considered canon by Lucasfilm.

"When it comes to absolute canon, the real story of Star Wars, you must turn to the films themselves - and only the films. Even novelizations are interpretations of the film, and while they are largely true to George Lucas' vision (he works quite closely with the novel authors), the method in which they are written does allow for some minor differences."

-- Starwars.com

Birth of the Empire will be released one year from Today! SWEET!

Artist conception of next generation units here. Apparently, the shepherd unit is also multilingual.

I believe they are being built by Industrial Automaton

The IMPERIAL Star Destroyer is only 1.6km long!