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Star Wars TV Show Tainted By Memories of Jar Jar
bowman9991 writes "Can George Lucas' new Star Wars TV series, the first Star Wars spin off with real actors, atone for the flawed follow-ups to his original classics? Producer Rick McCallum calls the new series 'much darker,' a 'much more character-based series' and 'more adult,' while George Lucas himself calls it more like the first Star Wars film. The new TV show takes place in the 'dark times' between the last prequel Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, when most of the Jedi and anti-emperor politicians were hunted down and killed. The characters of Boba Fett, C-3PO, and the Emperor Palpatine will return, and casting has now begun. Mark Hamill, the actor who played Luke Skywalker from the original movies, believes George Lucas lost his way, 'making it bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger until you're just exploding with special effects all over the screen like some fireworks display,' but thinks the new show is a 'positive' step forward. Hopefully George Lucas can wipe the memory of Jar Jar Binks, Anakin and Padme's romance, his shameless merchandising, and some lame attempts at humor from everyone's minds once and for all."
"Hopefully George Lucas can wipe the memory of Jar Jar Binks, Anakin and Padme's romance, his shameless merchandising, and some lame attempts at humor from everyone's minds once and for all."
I had managed to block all that crap from my consciousness. That is, until you brought it up again just now. Thanks a lot - you can expect to see my therapist's bill.
I find your excess of faith disturbing.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
...first in the opening sequence of every episode
Memories of Jar Jar sounds like a fragrance that George Lucas would put on the market.
Who??
And there are no prequels, and there is no way to ever make any. Any possible existence of Star Wars prequels have been curiously eliminated in the space time continuum. Interestingly the same applies to the much later stand-alone sci-fi movie Matrix (in case anyone wondered why no sequels were ever made). No one knows why this stands as such immutable facts though.
"There is no fixed release date for the show, but it's expected sometime in 2011 or 2012..."
Lets see, the Mayans called it in 2012.
Nostradamus called it around 2012.
People are all end times for 2012.
Then we had Jar Jar... DEAR GOD NO!
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Don't bet on it.
There are worse things. The Star Wars Holiday Special. Absolutely nothing in episodes I-III is as bad as that...
"Little does he know, but there is no 'I' in 'Idiot'!"
There's a 3-way my mind could have done without.
Despite having approval on the novels (at least, that's what I've heard), Lucas let a lot of things go into the novels that he later contradicted with the prequels. I feel tremendous sympathy for these novelists scrambling to reconcile what has been written and things that are now, for good or ill, considered canon.
Re: GP's comments about the MMO, I got the impression that Bioware and the Old Republic era works have a much better odor among fans. I know that my husband, who is a much bigger fan than I am, is chomping at the bit for TOR to come out. (And I assure you, he is definitely anti-prequel. He's currently running a D6 WEG Star Wars tabletop game in which he has repeatedly hammered home to the players that the events of the prequels are NOT what happened in his game.)
Perfectly stated!
Or more accurately, stated in a manner that completely agrees with my stance, which of course I consider to be perfect.
Paul Lenhart writes words!
Hopefully George Lucas can wipe the memory of Jar Jar Binks, Anakin and Padme's romance
I must have missed this perverse threesome when I watched the film.
"Much Darker" just means more poorly lit sets.
Gritty means there will be rain, garbage strewn about, and major set pieces will be taking place in either abandoned industrial complexes, or abandoned buildings.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Darn, and I was hoping for something along the lines of Peewee Herman's BigTop adventures, with Jarjar the main character, constantly breaking the third wall to talk to a juvenile audience about toy endorsements, "Can yousa kids say to Mommy, "Meesaw want Jarjar action figures!" "
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Either that or it means they didn't light the scenes properly.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
"We found him in the Academy sewers and the burns on the decapitated corpse indicate lightsaber cuts, which means the killer is probably... *beat* It's not a Jedi that I'm looking for. Please move along. Move along!"
Mark Hamill is probably just bitter because he never did get those power converters.
What? Doesn't "Bobby, milkman to the Emperor's pet cat OF DUNE" count?
I don't know, if the Star Wars holiday Special existed it would probably be as terrible as the chemistry between Padmé and Anakin if they existed.
It is no longer uncommon to be uncommon.
Copying anyone other than Kurosawa is ripping off that person.
Copying Kurosawa is making something more awesome than it has any business being.
You know Lucas won't be able to keep himself from fucking with establish events. In this version, Luke goes to Tashi Station first.
Ok, so a movie about space operates in a vacuum, that's not really a fair complaint, is it?
If he's bitter, it is more likely because Carrie Fisher ended up being his sister.