DARTH ANIBAL
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Sometimes it just works. "Warts" and all.
Lets talk all things Star Wars
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Pretty much, yeah. Ask most of those folks the significance of 5/25, and they would have absolutely NO idea. That day is for *us*. May 4th is when everyone we know who's never even seen SW sends us memes/texts/gifs--it's more for them.
I have an analogy I've used before, but I'll keep it off the boards. Now that I'm thinking about it, a few come to mind, though.
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*Disclaimer: My first love is SW, but I also LOVE Peter Jackson's LOTR films. Not even the theatrical ones, only the extended editions will do.
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CT1138
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Highly disagree. I always liked that the lightsabers seemed to produce a light without a glow. It felt otherworldly, and mystical. It made it seem like the lightsaber was made with a technology you could never reproduce on Earth, because it was something only a Jedi could build. One thing that I disliked about AotC visually was the introduction of the "glowing" lightsaber blade.
Yeah, there were things about the OT lightsabers I liked and that weren't "flaws". The core was intensely bright, but it didn't light up a room. The blade cast a shadow. It was its own thing, not a glowstick you could also use to kill people.
sztriki
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I also think that it would have been very difficult to model Vader's helmet and add the glows without replacing his entire head and costume digitally and then you have the landslide with remodeling parts pf Luke to have blue cast on hime etc etc...the only time it bothers me a bit that sabers don't cast light is when Vader is looking for Luke under the staircase in ROTJ. Strange effect that he is totally dark, hss a red glowing thing in his hand yet still the only colour on him is dark blue.
Look up virtual particles. It's not a locked answer, but physicists who understand this stuff better than I do have postulated that with the intense electromagnetic flux of the blade, plus its effective "spinning" at near-lightspeed as the arc is handed off to the next adjacent emitter node pair, tremendous amounts of high-energy virtual photons would be generated, with their decay rate seeing them drop off asymptotically the further away from the blade core they get. So you could have a blade that is too bright to look at directly for long, with the light fading off to nothing less than a foot away from it.
Rumored that Hayden will be back in the Obi Wan series -
Hayden Christensen Rumored To Return As Anakin Skywalker For OBI-WAN KENOBI Series
Could we see Hayden Christensen rejoin Star Wars prequels costar Ewan McGregor as a pre-Darth Vader Anakin Skywalker in the upcoming Disney+ Obi-Wan Kenobi series? Get some salt ready for this one...www.comicbookmovie.com
That would be cool if he can be Vader and not just Anakin in flashbacks.
It's crazy to think that he's basically the same age Vader would be during the series (~40)
It makes zero sense to have him back to play Vader. I generally liked the Prequels, so I don't hate him, but I do agree he didn't make a good Vader, physically. I totally understand him wanting to do it, so I don't think anyone faults him for wanting to suit up. I can easily see him doing flashbacks because he really doesn't look a whole lot older. OR! He can do scenes as Vader with his helmet off like he's in his meditation chamber or something.. That would actually work really well.
robn1
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Anything dense enough will cast a shadow, even a candle flame.What I loved about the OT lightsabers is the blade of light cast a shadow on the floor
A shadow is cast by an object that absorbs incident radiation (or scatters it, or otherwise prevents it from continuing in a straight line)..
A flame is a plasma - gas that is so hot that it partially dissociated. The recombination of electrons and ions can cause emission of light. Some flames (especially the yellow ones) also contain small particles (e.g. soot) that get so hot that they glow. This gives rise to "black body radiation" across a wide ranges of wavelengths - some visible, some invisible (mostly infrared).
However, in all cases the flame has a very low density - it is mostly still a gas and nearly transparent. This means that a light beam aimed at a flame will mostly go right through (although some wavelengths may be more strongly absorbed by the ionized species).
However, if you look at the "shadow" of a flame cast at a distance, you will definitely "something". This is because the hot flame has lower density than the surrounding air; this means that it has a lower refractive index, and that it bends light slightly away. Thus, the shadow of a point source of light at a long distance from a small flame (like a candle) will actually show a dark region around the flame. This is due to refraction, not absorption.
A flame is a plasma - gas that is so hot that it partially dissociated. The recombination of electrons and ions can cause emission of light. Some flames (especially the yellow ones) also contain small particles (e.g. soot) that get so hot that they glow. This gives rise to "black body radiation" across a wide ranges of wavelengths - some visible, some invisible (mostly infrared).
However, in all cases the flame has a very low density - it is mostly still a gas and nearly transparent. This means that a light beam aimed at a flame will mostly go right through (although some wavelengths may be more strongly absorbed by the ionized species).
However, if you look at the "shadow" of a flame cast at a distance, you will definitely "something". This is because the hot flame has lower density than the surrounding air; this means that it has a lower refractive index, and that it bends light slightly away. Thus, the shadow of a point source of light at a long distance from a small flame (like a candle) will actually show a dark region around the flame. This is due to refraction, not absorption.
DARTH ANIBAL
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Nerds.
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Hey, as I've said before, there are at least theoretical models for everything in Star Wars -- even the Force -- except the artificial gravity/repulsorlifts/tractor beams... And that last is mostly because we're still working out what the heck gravity is, let alone how to manipulate it.Reading all this tech talk made me think I was in a Star Trek thread! Awesome!
I think that's what pisses me off most about the ST -- for all those who dismiss Star Wars as "space fantasy", and thus not needing internal rules and structure and physical laws, it's not. It's a sci-fi setting, being used to tell an operatic story, and thus there are physical rules and laws, and The Powers That Be behind the ST keep ignoring and/or breaking those. There was a good story there struggling to get out past heavy-handed filmmaking and that just kills me.
CT1138
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I just love how Vader says that Obi-Wan has taught Luke well, as he's standing on the high ground.What I loved about the OT lightsabers is the blade of light cast a shadow on the floor
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Joek3rr
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What are some of those laws broken in the ST? At the moment I can't think of any.
First and foremost, travel time in hyperspace. JJ had the same problem in Trek09 -- it's just a jump to the left. Earth to Vulcan? Seconds. Anywhere in the ST to anywhere else? When the camera doesn't cut away, it's seconds. Can't slow down the pacing to let people actually get somewhere. From Tatooine in the Outer Rim to Alderaan in the Core was at least half an hour along a known route. Sullust to Endor was a good schlep, going by what transpired from the fleet jumping to hyperspace to the commencement of the attack. Longest jump I think we've seen in the ST was from the vicinity of Jakku to Takodana. Minutes -- and that only because of the time needed for the compressor dialogue.
Then there was the whole everyone-in-the-galaxy-can-see-the-Hosnian-system-destroyed-and-in-realtime-even-though-they're-parsecs-away thing. Nothing comparable with Alderaan. ADF handwaved it in the novelazation to say there was some kind of hyperspace lensing effect caused by the weapon.
TIE Fighters are, per ANH, short range fighters without hyperdrive. Would've been a nice touch if Ben had found and repaired his granddad's fighter, or maybe a shuttle (love those Lambdas), not a ship we are used to not being able to travel interstellar without a mothership.
There are others, but those are the ones that come to mind right now. I'm due for a re-watch of the entire trilogy (which should be more than a trilogy, but we all know my opinions on that).
Then there was the whole everyone-in-the-galaxy-can-see-the-Hosnian-system-destroyed-and-in-realtime-even-though-they're-parsecs-away thing. Nothing comparable with Alderaan. ADF handwaved it in the novelazation to say there was some kind of hyperspace lensing effect caused by the weapon.
TIE Fighters are, per ANH, short range fighters without hyperdrive. Would've been a nice touch if Ben had found and repaired his granddad's fighter, or maybe a shuttle (love those Lambdas), not a ship we are used to not being able to travel interstellar without a mothership.
There are others, but those are the ones that come to mind right now. I'm due for a re-watch of the entire trilogy (which should be more than a trilogy, but we all know my opinions on that).
Joek3rr
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Is there any scene in the ST which show them jumping and then dropping out of hyperspace? I guess the jump from D'Qar to Ach-To is quick. But even then there's a cut. And there's a little adventure shown in a comic. The Jakku to Takodana trip isn't like that. They jump from within the Ervana, cut to Starkiller, cut back to the Falcon. Han gives them a little history lesson, then they arrive at Jakku. No different then Obi-Wan making his trip to Utapau. It cuts to Anakin and Padmé talking then cuts back to Obi-Wan arriving.
That is from ancillary material though. In the film it seems that only 5 to 10 minutes go by until they arrive at Alderaan. And in ESB from the time that it takes the captain of the Avenger to report to Vader. Adrimal Piett surmises in that time that the Falcon must be on the other side of the galaxy. So unless the good captain took a couple of hours until reported loosing the Falcon, hyperspace must be pretty fast.
Considering we've never seen anything on the scale as Starkiller base before. I don't see any issues. But that's just me.
Basic TIE/LNs don't have hyperdrives. But most of the other models do. And according to the novel, it is a scout model.
Joek3rr
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Yeah Geeks & Gamers is not reliable. The guy admitted the only reason he makes videos about Kathy is because it gets him clicks, and in turn more money.
CB2001
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But isn't he quoting from a source? I mean, I heard of WDW Pro before (from one of Doomcock's videos in regards to Disney parks having issues due to workers not being there to maintain rides). Honestly, I don't know what to make of it, which is why I asked if anyone else heard about it.
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