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The Definitive Episode 3 Spoiler Synopsis

An anonymous reader submits "Want to know who gets killed in the first ten minutes of the movie? How come Yoda runs off to Dagobah? Who will Darth Vader kill? Will the Clonetroopers become Stormtroopers? Will Chewbacca or Grand Moff Tarkin have a role in Star Wars:Episode III, and if so what is it? AgonyEngine of the Phatooine Network dares to answers these questions with a definitive timeline synopsis and character analysis, carefully compiled from the many spoilers and spy reports from the insiders and interviews."

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  1. IN EPISODE THREE TRINITY DIES!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    i fail it. i fail it. i fail it. i really do.

  2. OMG!?! ANAKIN IS DARTH VADER?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the hell?! Lucas shocks us again! This is bigger than Vader begin Luke's father, or Leia being Luke's sister.

    1. Re:OMG!?! ANAKIN IS DARTH VADER?! by RatBastard · · Score: 2, Funny

      I don't know. The whole Luke kissing his sister thing is a pretty huge shock.

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    2. Re:OMG!?! ANAKIN IS DARTH VADER?! by mjpaci · · Score: 4, Funny

      Lucas wrote the whole Star Wars saga a long time ago

      Don't you mean a long long time ago?

  3. Timeline Synopsis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    00:00:03 Server /.'ed.

  4. SPOILER! by Neurotoxic666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spoiler: Phatooine Network gets /.ed in the first few minutes.

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  5. You could have warned us! by TheWart · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks for ruining the movie...didn't even say the link contained spoilers.

    1. Re:You could have warned us! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm sure Senior Lucas would have done a fine job ruining the movie all by himself anyway.

    2. Re:You could have warned us! by Malc · · Score: 1, Funny

      So now I know somebody important dies in the first ten minutes of the movie? I know that Yoda runs off to Dagobah? Etc.

      No wonder the guy submitted the story anonymously. What an arsehole! It seems that is is impossible to avoid spoilers around here - I need a secretary to pre-parse the stories for me. Where's my wife...

    3. Re:You could have warned us! by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 2, Funny
      Thanks for ruining the movie

      I agree! What's the point of even watching it, now? So, in response to ruining the movie for me, let me tell you a few things:

      1) Rosebud is Citizen Kane's sled.

      2) In Spaceballs, Mega-Maid goes from "suck" to "blow".

      3) And, in Titanic, the ship sinks.

    4. Re:You could have warned us! by xSauronx · · Score: 2, Funny
      you read slashdot and have a permanent female companion?

      2 funnies in one post, hurrah for you! :P

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  6. The Force is not strong in this one... by Darth_brooks · · Score: 0, Funny

    /.'d

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    1. Re:The Force is not strong in this one... by alaric187 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ancient protocols and hokey subnets are no match for a good T3 by your server, kid.

  7. The dark side... by wazzzup · · Score: 5, Funny

    is clouding my connection to the server. I heard a million requests and all went silent.

    1. Re:The dark side... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's what I'm trying to tell you kid, it's gone. It's not there anymore.

    2. Re:The dark side... by JudgeFurious · · Score: 4, Funny


      "You would prefer another server? A military server perhaps? THEN NAME THE URL!"

      or of course I can see the guy running this server having a worried looking I.T. guy come up to him and report "We've analyzed the incoming traffic and there does appear to be some danger, should I prepare your shuttle to escape the potential slashdotting?"

      "Evacuate? When my website is about to experience it's moment of triumph? I think you badly overestimate the slashdot effect!"

      Then the little IT guy, knowing damned well what Slashdot can do to a server heads for the shuttle himself.

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    3. Re:The dark side... by bckrispi · · Score: 2, Funny

      You will pay the price for your lack of bandwidth!!

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    4. Re:The dark side... by Eccles · · Score: 5, Funny

      No no, it's
      "I find your lack of bandwidth disturbing."

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  8. Cameo (spoiler!) by Alex+Reynolds · · Score: 5, Funny

    Look out the for a walk-on from Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. It's so awesome, Triumph walks up to Darth and asks him which button to press on his breather to call his parents to come pick him up! I'm pooping with anticipation!

    1. Re:Cameo (spoiler!) by fain0v · · Score: 3, Funny

      http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/nerds.php

  9. LAF by BrainSmashR · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know they made a book out of those movies?? LAF

  10. I read *all* spoilers these days, except for... by Hubert+Q.+Gruntley · · Score: 3, Funny

    movies I know I'm going to like.

    So I read the spoiler for Matrix: Revolution, and now I have absolutely no desire to see it. This technique also works for execrable movie adaptations like Timeline.

    This saves me:
    * a metric buttload of money;
    * from disappointment;
    * more time for my kids.

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    1. Re:I read *all* spoilers these days, except for... by nobody69 · · Score: 4, Funny

      BTW, 'Rosebud' is a sled.

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  11. Dead in 10 minutes by The+Ape+With+No+Name · · Score: 5, Funny

    Want to know who gets killed in the first ten minutes of the movie?

    That would be httpd, Bob.

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    1. Re:Dead in 10 minutes by nizo · · Score: 4, Funny
      Want to know who gets killed in the first ten minutes of the movie?

      Please let it be Jar Jar, and as revenge for inflicting him on us in the first movie, let it be by explosive decompression.

  12. All that work for a SW III spoiler... by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    All that research! If we could only focus that amount of mental power on piecing together other important issues, like where Saddam Hussein is, or what exactly Michael Jackson was doing with those kids...

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  13. Slashdotting good for something by MisterFancypants · · Score: 4, Funny

    Today's Slashdotting has saved my weak-willed self from spoiling the movie. Hopefully the urge to click through has passed by the time the site is responding...

  14. Re:A year away by Neurotoxic666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    .... yeeaaaah... like, maybe Leia is in fact Darth Vader, Anakin is an ewok, Darth Vader was born with his helmet on and the Jedi order lived happily ever after. Who knows.

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  15. Sheesh... by AppyPappy · · Score: 4, Funny

    You'd think a Jedi could handle a little slashdotting.
    He should have joined the Dark Side.

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    1. Re:Sheesh... by shawn(at)fsu · · Score: 5, Funny

      So many great Yoda quotes for when a SW server gets /. server quotes. (with paraphrasing of course)

      Question: Why didn't they see this coming?
      Yoda: "Always unclear the future is"

      Statement: I can not seem to find the web page.
      Yoda: "Lost a server you did, most embarrassing indeed"

      Statement: My browser is taking for every to try and load this page
      Yoda: "Do or do not there is no try"

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    2. Re:Sheesh... by BorgCopyeditor · · Score: 5, Funny
      You'd think a Jedi could handle a little slashdotting.

      *waves hand*. This is not the URL you were looking for. Move along.

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    3. Re:Sheesh... by halr9000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      GET /droids/ HTTP/1.0

      307 Temporary Redirect
      Location: /carry_on/

      :)

    4. Re:Sheesh... by Guppy06 · · Score: 2, Funny

      "This is not the URL you were looking for. Move along."

      Huh? When did VeriSign turn Site Finder back on?

  16. Thanks alot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You have ruined the ending for us all. At least we can all look forward to being suprised at the end of The Passion and Return Of The King.

  17. /.'d already by Amigori · · Score: 1, Funny

    25 comments in and its /.'d already. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, this is Slashdot afterall. Its not like there are any Star Wars geeks here.

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  18. You cherished childhood memories raped for $$$$!! by Thud457 · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Thanks for ruining the movie..."

    Seeing his recent track record, I'm sure George Lucas took care of that already.

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  19. Portman by The+Ape+With+No+Name · · Score: 4, Funny
    Rated PG - Rumored to push the PG envelope


    That sound you hear is ten of thousands of 35-year-old men padding off to "be alone" for a bit.

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  20. Timothy wins by WinDoze · · Score: 5, Funny

    from the is-anakin-her-first dept.

    Best... Slashdot... Dept... EVER!

  21. Who gets killed in the first ten minutes? by bfg9000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please God, let it be Jar Jar. Three hours of "Faces of Death"-like gore footage of Jar Jar getting digested by that big sand worm would get *MY* ten bucks.

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  22. Re:I hate spoilers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thanks for ruining matrix reloaded asshole. I havent seen it yet.

  23. Blown Away by Guppy · · Score: 5, Funny

    LUKE: What's going on?

    HAN: Our link is correct, except...no, Website!

    LUKE: What do you mean? Where is it?

    HAN: Thats what I'm trying to tell you, kid. It ain't there. It's been
    totally blown away.

    LUKE: What? How?

    1. Re:Blown Away by vgaphil · · Score: 2, Funny

      BEN: 0wn3d..by the /.ers!

      HAN: The entire /. community couldn't destroy the whole website. It'd take a thousand browser requests and more exploits than I've...

      Sorry, I couldn't resist.

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    2. Re:Blown Away by Guppy06 · · Score: 2, Funny

      The ability to host a website is insignificant next to the power of a Slashdotting.

  24. Han Solo by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Wow, who would have thought that Han Solo was Anakin Skywalker's half-brother."

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  25. Spoiler Synopsis by jazman_777 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everything in EP3 ends up the way things are when EP4 begins.

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  26. You may as well read it... by artemis67 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Today's Slashdotting has saved my weak-willed self from spoiling the movie. Hopefully the urge to click through has passed by the time the site is responding...

    If the last two movies were any indication of how the next one will play, then the spoilers will be far more entertaining.

  27. So that's why... by rjung2k · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...Episode IV was titled "A New Hope".

    "Finally! A Star Wars movie that doesn't suck!"

  28. Re:Chewbaca's younger years.. as an ewok. by PhuCknuT · · Score: 3, Funny

    They used walkie talkies to communicate.

    don't you mean wookie talkies?

  29. Yoda Says by notcreative · · Score: 2, Funny


    "Begun, this Spoiler Season has."

  30. My eyes! The goggles do nothing! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    A shirtless Anakin, a pregnant Padme, and a curious C-3PO have a scene together.

    Sounds like a synopsis of some of the worse fanfic out there. There's "pushing PG" and there's just plain wrong.

  31. Re:Read soem of it by TheRaven64 · · Score: 1, Funny

    The movie's not scheduled to be out until 2005 - almost two years from now (source, starwars.com). I read the spoliers content in the knowledge that I will have forgotten them by the time I see the film...

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  32. Tarkin by Thrymm · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is all I need, along with the nifty Dark Side and Empire. "I love it when a plan comes together" is what Palpatine should say at the end like Hannibal Smith.

  33. Slashdotted by BorgCopyeditor · · Score: 2, Funny

    I feel a great disturbance in the force. It is as if a thousand TCP connections timed out and then were dropped.

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  34. Re:A year away by Jerf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah yes, the Star Trek "alternate timeline" approach^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H copout.

    "Those other movies are on another timeline. Everything actually turns out happily ever after! Here's more Jar-Jar for you!"

  35. WHOA!! Slow down... by revery · · Score: 4, Funny

    What the hell?! Lucas shocks us again! This is bigger than Vader begin Luke's father, or Leia being Luke's sister.

    Vader is Luke's father?!?!!

    Leia is Luke's sister!?!?

    Man, talk about a bad day for me to wake up from a 26 year coma and immediately log onto Slashdot...

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    or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.

  36. Re:Character analysis (seeing as it got slashdotte by I'm+Spartacus! · · Score: 5, Funny

    > A shirtless Anakin, a pregnant Padme, and a
    > curious C-3PO have a scene together

    Dude, that's just sick!!!

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  37. Threesome? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    A shirtless Anakin, a pregnant Padme, and a curious C-3PO have a scene together.

    I'm already getting all hot and bothered.

  38. Meanwhile, in the Slashdot senate... by karmaflux · · Score: 3, Funny

    Queen AgonyEngine: I was not elected to watch my website suffer and die while you discuss this invasion in a committee! If this body is not capable of action, I suggest new leadership is needed. I move for a vote of "no confidence" in CowboyNeal's leadership.

    CowboyNeal : What?...No!

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  39. Re:plot alternatives by Slamtilt · · Score: 2, Funny

    My grandkids, if they watch them at all (which I rather doubt), will watch them IV, V, and OK, you can watch VI to finish the story. I'll then tell them that there were some other ones made but they were pretty bad, so so they don't need to waste their time.

  40. Wait wait wait a minute... by reznorbot · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about Lando?

  41. Re:Better story synopsis by Gilmoure · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe Obi-Wan's been packing grits, if you know what I mean and Luke and Leia are his? Once Anakin finds out what's up, he goes all postal and shit.

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  42. Since when . . . by Vinnie_333 · · Score: 4, Funny

    . . . does the PLOT matter in a Star Wars movie? Actors recite cheesy dialogue, things blow up, everyone's happy. The only plot point in a SW movie was the hole "you're my dad?" thing in SW:ESB.

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  43. This does not make sense! by dexter+riley · · Score: 3, Funny

    Therefore, we must acquit!

  44. Curious C-3PO by goldfndr · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was bound to happen - the card had to happen somehow!

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