The title of "Episode IV: A New Hope" was added in the fall re-release in 1977, not during the 1997 SE re-releases. I was there, I remember it and it is far from the "retroactive tampering" you are whining about.
Also, you're in the minority on ANH being the best film - ESB is considered to be, by far, the best of the movies. The original (and the others) is severely lacking when it comes to 1) acting; 2) plot; 3) direction; and 4) emotion. However, when you consider the Leigh Brackett (who, by the way, was a better writer than Asimov any day) was one of the screenwriters for ESB and the Irwin Kirschner was the director, you can see why. I highly suggest viewing both movies with an open mind and you'll see why ESB is clearly the stronger film out of the two.
There have been many of us in the fanbase asking for Lucas to bring Kirschner back for the prequels but: 1) Lucas is quoted as telling Kirschner "You're ruining my movie!" during the filming of ESB; and 2) Kirschner has said he would never work for Lucas again.
And, finally, some constructive criticism: don't try to assume that all of the fans are placing SW on the same level as Asimov or Tolkien. Lucas definitely doesn't. SW is FANTASY, not science fiction. It has never pretended to be science fiction (just because there are lasers and spaceships and robots does not make it SF). Stop trying to compare it to something it was never meant to be compared to. If you want to be academic then go read Harlan Ellison.
Oh, well. I enjoy the movies for what they are: popcorn fare and some fun storytelling. And, yes, I will be sitting in a showing on opening day.:p
No, the Clone Wars kill a bunch of Jedi and then Vader comes in and cleans house. We've already seen Jedi die in AOTC and even more die in the animated Clone Wars series.
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.
If you need to ask what the Sith are getting revenge for then you don't know the story.
Back around the time of the Knights of the Old Republic videogames, the Jedi beat the Sith down brutally and to the point where the Jedi think there are no Sith left. But, unknown to the Jedi, there is one left. He takes an apprentice and sets the Rule of Two (one Sith master, one Sith apprentice). And so it goes for thousands of years, until Darth Sidious and his apprentices.
Think about what Darth Maul said on Coruscant and Yoda said at Qui-gon's funeral in TPM. Then, when you also remember that ROTJ was originally Revenge of the Jedi (and then Lucas decided that Jedi do not take revenge), the title choice makes even more sense. The title has been obvious for years - you only needed to pay attention.
Let me be clear, however, that our concern about its future application should not hold up this bill.
This is the point where all of us have to contact our senators because they are listening to the dullwit expertise of a woman who, frankly, would obviosuly not know what the proer use of a copyright was if it bit her in the face!
The louder you are, and the more obvious you are about the fact that you are watching them, the more likely you are to be heard.
Especially if you have a senator who is up for re-election.
Contact your senator. Phone, e-mail, etc. Scream as load as you can. Tell your family and friends - scare them about the idea that their VCRs and TiVos could be considered illegal - and get them to contact their senators, too. This thing has to die in the Senate - fast.
Well, the only thing I disagree with you here is: you're assuming Trippi wrote the text, which I'm assuming he didn't. My guess is he never even saw the message before it was mailed.
Not really. Those of us who have managed campaigns and are interested in the use of technology in them found Dean's campaign to be a sign of things to come.
The campaign itself the the tactics worked - Dean got the press he needed. What didn't work was the candidate - as has been the problem with most of Trippi's other campaigns: the candidates (Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale) find a way, usually on national TV, to point a figurative shotgun at their foot and squeeze the trigger. However, that doesn't mean the campaign was a bad campaign or not one to model other campaigns on.
Inside political arenas, the Dean campaign is going to be studied for years. It's going to be studied by people who want to emerge from the back of the pack as quickly as possible - and that is the kind of success story Trippi is talking about here.
It is also going to be studied by those who, knowing they are at the front of the pack, want to stay at the front of the pack and win. The answer there is: don't manage a national campaign for Dean, Mondale, etc...
Dude... if you're going to put up the "...is dying" post, then will you please attempt to make it somewhat realistic and, perhaps, update it to the most recent numbers? Please? I know it's difficult for people like you to actually do any amount of work other than "copy-paste-submit," though, so I expect little will change...
After Apple decided to charge for the name "FireWire." That has since changed, and Apple has dropped the royalty charging, and FireWire is showing up more and more these days. Sony keeps using i.Link because their customers probably think i.Link is something special to Sony products, thus will need to continue buying Sony products...
Again, as fictional as they are, the xenomorphs in Alien do have an absurdly fast growth/reproduction cycle, don't they? The xenomorphs were also flamable. Amazing... now that I'm thinking about it, I never thought these folks had put any science into their thinking about the Alien series...
We also have to assume that the vast majority of planets are not warm - only a few can be truly close to their sun. Just as on Earth, one thing leads to another and you have a little bit of organic stew going on in some water and then -POP- there's some life and evolution starts.
It could happen. Your friend isn't saying it can't. For all we know there are silicon-based beings out there having the same debate about carbon-based ones.:)
Carl Sagan, in Cosmos, believed that, when (and yes, he was a firm believer of when) we encounter life on another planet we should not be surprised if we find silicon-based life.
Popular imagination doesn't think of alien lifeforms as anything other than carbon-based (see almost any popular SF TV show in the past 40 years) or cyborgs (the Borg in Star Trek, of course). The best example of a silicon-based lifeform in popular fiction is the xenomorph (the aliens) from the Alien and, frankly, the fictional biology/biochemistry of the xenomorph is close to what you are describing.
I just hope we run into things that are a little less agressive than xenomorphs.:)
Face it folks - the iPod (or any large audio player) has massive potential on campus. I've been trying to get my campus to pursue something like this for a while:
Special version of iTunes, that links into the university's library. Using your ID and password, it returns all of the lectures you are a part of and allows you to download them. Taking a humanities class concerning Candide? Download it. History class talking about FDR's fireside chats? Download them. Tired of floppies that are still cluttering up your PC labs (until this very day - arrrrrrggghhhh!)? Let the kids save to the iPod.
The iPod just becomes the central repository for things that, until now, were spread out across the dorm room. If the kid loses it, the kid loses it - same could be said about anything else (books, tapes, DVDs, etc.).
The only application that I don't think will work: audiobooks. It's really difficult to study from an audiobook. Even more difficult to use an audiobook in an open-book test, too...
Ahhh... but isn't the video character portraying Dunst portraying Mary Jane? Therefore, in this case, the character would be portraying the actor, not vice-versa.
It's a question of what the iPod has become in society. The story here, other than the fact that the 4G iPod is coming out, is about the fact that Jobs is on the cover of Newsweek. That's what is actually important - a major weekly considers a new iPod, and the product's impact on society, important enough to put it, and Jobs, on the cover.
I agreed with you, until I upgraded from my 10GB to my 40GB earlier this year (bought a house, got a nice tax refund, had more than 10GB of music... what can I say?). Anyhow, after driving from Detroit to Miami with the 10GB, i found it to be more than a little difficult to control (and, thus, handed the iPod over to my wife during the trip). Since then, I have found the upper row of buttons much easier to quickly control the iPod.
I'm not saying I dislike the new one, but I think I'll hold on to the old one for a while.:)
Define "just." A co-worker of mine bought, and took delivery of, a 30GB two days before they unveiled the 40GB.
I think they may upgrade you if you bought it in the past week or so. If you consider "just" as being in the past month... well, then, no soup for you.:)
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Also, you're in the minority on ANH being the best film - ESB is considered to be, by far, the best of the movies. The original (and the others) is severely lacking when it comes to 1) acting; 2) plot; 3) direction; and 4) emotion. However, when you consider the Leigh Brackett (who, by the way, was a better writer than Asimov any day) was one of the screenwriters for ESB and the Irwin Kirschner was the director, you can see why. I highly suggest viewing both movies with an open mind and you'll see why ESB is clearly the stronger film out of the two.
There have been many of us in the fanbase asking for Lucas to bring Kirschner back for the prequels but: 1) Lucas is quoted as telling Kirschner "You're ruining my movie!" during the filming of ESB; and 2) Kirschner has said he would never work for Lucas again.
And, finally, some constructive criticism: don't try to assume that all of the fans are placing SW on the same level as Asimov or Tolkien. Lucas definitely doesn't. SW is FANTASY, not science fiction. It has never pretended to be science fiction (just because there are lasers and spaceships and robots does not make it SF). Stop trying to compare it to something it was never meant to be compared to. If you want to be academic then go read Harlan Ellison.
Oh, well. I enjoy the movies for what they are: popcorn fare and some fun storytelling. And, yes, I will be sitting in a showing on opening day. :p
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.
Revised special edition, not just the SE from 1997. There are some significant changes coming on the DVDs...
Back around the time of the Knights of the Old Republic videogames, the Jedi beat the Sith down brutally and to the point where the Jedi think there are no Sith left. But, unknown to the Jedi, there is one left. He takes an apprentice and sets the Rule of Two (one Sith master, one Sith apprentice). And so it goes for thousands of years, until Darth Sidious and his apprentices.
Think about what Darth Maul said on Coruscant and Yoda said at Qui-gon's funeral in TPM. Then, when you also remember that ROTJ was originally Revenge of the Jedi (and then Lucas decided that Jedi do not take revenge), the title choice makes even more sense. The title has been obvious for years - you only needed to pay attention.
Let me be clear, however, that our concern about its future application should not hold up this bill.
This is the point where all of us have to contact our senators because they are listening to the dullwit expertise of a woman who, frankly, would obviosuly not know what the proer use of a copyright was if it bit her in the face!
The louder you are, and the more obvious you are about the fact that you are watching them, the more likely you are to be heard.
Especially if you have a senator who is up for re-election.
Contact your senator. Phone, e-mail, etc. Scream as load as you can. Tell your family and friends - scare them about the idea that their VCRs and TiVos could be considered illegal - and get them to contact their senators, too. This thing has to die in the Senate - fast.
Well, the only thing I disagree with you here is: you're assuming Trippi wrote the text, which I'm assuming he didn't. My guess is he never even saw the message before it was mailed.
The campaign itself the the tactics worked - Dean got the press he needed. What didn't work was the candidate - as has been the problem with most of Trippi's other campaigns: the candidates (Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale) find a way, usually on national TV, to point a figurative shotgun at their foot and squeeze the trigger. However, that doesn't mean the campaign was a bad campaign or not one to model other campaigns on.
Inside political arenas, the Dean campaign is going to be studied for years. It's going to be studied by people who want to emerge from the back of the pack as quickly as possible - and that is the kind of success story Trippi is talking about here.
It is also going to be studied by those who, knowing they are at the front of the pack, want to stay at the front of the pack and win. The answer there is: don't manage a national campaign for Dean, Mondale, etc...
How are those reruns of Sanford and Son, by the way?
Dude... if you're going to put up the "...is dying" post, then will you please attempt to make it somewhat realistic and, perhaps, update it to the most recent numbers? Please? I know it's difficult for people like you to actually do any amount of work other than "copy-paste-submit," though, so I expect little will change...
After Apple decided to charge for the name "FireWire." That has since changed, and Apple has dropped the royalty charging, and FireWire is showing up more and more these days. Sony keeps using i.Link because their customers probably think i.Link is something special to Sony products, thus will need to continue buying Sony products...
And Taco was referring to the fact that Apple didn't just go and call it Zeroconf...
Therefore, if you're the ignorant one, how about not adding your comments?
They have. #10's ID was willed to him by his great-grandfather...
We also have to assume that the vast majority of planets are not warm - only a few can be truly close to their sun. Just as on Earth, one thing leads to another and you have a little bit of organic stew going on in some water and then -POP- there's some life and evolution starts.
It could happen. Your friend isn't saying it can't. For all we know there are silicon-based beings out there having the same debate about carbon-based ones. :)
Popular imagination doesn't think of alien lifeforms as anything other than carbon-based (see almost any popular SF TV show in the past 40 years) or cyborgs (the Borg in Star Trek, of course). The best example of a silicon-based lifeform in popular fiction is the xenomorph (the aliens) from the Alien and, frankly, the fictional biology/biochemistry of the xenomorph is close to what you are describing.
I just hope we run into things that are a little less agressive than xenomorphs. :)
Face it folks - the iPod (or any large audio player) has massive potential on campus. I've been trying to get my campus to pursue something like this for a while:
Special version of iTunes, that links into the university's library. Using your ID and password, it returns all of the lectures you are a part of and allows you to download them. Taking a humanities class concerning Candide? Download it. History class talking about FDR's fireside chats? Download them. Tired of floppies that are still cluttering up your PC labs (until this very day - arrrrrrggghhhh!)? Let the kids save to the iPod.
The iPod just becomes the central repository for things that, until now, were spread out across the dorm room. If the kid loses it, the kid loses it - same could be said about anything else (books, tapes, DVDs, etc.).
The only application that I don't think will work: audiobooks. It's really difficult to study from an audiobook. Even more difficult to use an audiobook in an open-book test, too...
Ahhh... but isn't the video character portraying Dunst portraying Mary Jane? Therefore, in this case, the character would be portraying the actor, not vice-versa.
It's a magazine that talks about more than just the new iPod. Try RTFA, getting a clue and then come back and talk with the big boys.
It's a question of what the iPod has become in society. The story here, other than the fact that the 4G iPod is coming out, is about the fact that Jobs is on the cover of Newsweek. That's what is actually important - a major weekly considers a new iPod, and the product's impact on society, important enough to put it, and Jobs, on the cover.
I'm not saying I dislike the new one, but I think I'll hold on to the old one for a while. :)
Post, not the Times! It was the New York Post that got the VP selection wrong.
I think they may upgrade you if you bought it in the past week or so. If you consider "just" as being in the past month... well, then, no soup for you. :)
I believe Google bought it. There was a /. story on it way back when... maybe you'll find the info on here.
Funny, I thought I was reading about my Filipino in-laws when thye first met me. :)
Just want you to be completely fair and non-partisan, here: Tipper was a co-chair of that group with Lynne Cheney - Dick Cheney's wife.
Maybe it's something about future VP's spouses...