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How Episode IV Should Have Ended

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ouch dept.

OverNeith writes "An excellent cartoon film showing how SW:Episode IV would have ended in a non-Lucas reality. Enjoy!" From the cartoon: "Han: Boy, you said it Chewie. I was this close to going back and helping those people."

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  1. Thanks for giving away the punchline, jackass by trauma · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah the rest of it was funny too, but please. Hurting that bad for a clever editorial comment? Sheesh.

  2. Re:I've had this exact same discussion! by gad_zuki! · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > I sometimes wonder what movies would be like if logically thinking people made them.

    Lets count the ways:

    1. Flying through space would involve a crew, safety checks, and published flight plans in an advances society. So no two man smuggling teams.

    2. Effeminate robots and a beeping speech system would never have made it past the "stupidity test" thus no R2 and 3P0. Instead you'd have two very predictable and obedient automatons.

    3. No faster than light travel. So long galactic civilization.

    4. No sounds in space.

    5. Stormtroopers being professional soldiers would take careful aim, set up snipers, etc thus all gun fights end with the good guys dying and quickly.

    6. No force, no prophesies, etc. No such thing.

    7. No one acting out of stupid impulse or emotion, thus Luke never leaves tatooine.

    etc.

    Err, I'd rather not watch the Vulcan version of Star Wars. The silliness is part of its charm. Storytelling is much more an unpredictable art than a science.

  3. But is it secret? Is it safe? by shmlco · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Speaking of BitTorrent, upon seeing that the "how it should have ended" site only distributed files using that method I way I fired it up to download them.

    Everything was proceeding nicely when, suddenly, my firewall started going nuts with dozens of incoming probes to ports commonly used by sql server, oracle, various license managers, and so on.

    Is it just me, or are hackers are using the ip addresses distributed by the trackers to find currently connected computers to attack?

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  4. Re:Episode 4 should have ended. . . by ericdano · · Score: 1, Insightful

    However, if Lucas allows OTHERS write the script, based on these novels, we might have some good movies finally.....after 20 years ;-)

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  5. Re:Heres a transcript in case you can't get the mo by MemoryDragon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ahem... the plot was taken straight out of several Kurosawa movies, the special effects I agree with you.

  6. Minor Problem... by kbranch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As I recall, Yavin was a gas giant. What good is vaporising vapor going to do?

  7. Re:How Episode IV should have ended? by 01000011011101000111 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I personally thought episode III should have ended with a scene of JarJar walking away, reaching up, pulling off a mask and it being Sideous underneath... Would also conveniently explain why the guy didn't appear at all in the later 3 films...

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