I blame myself, I just started building a DeLorean model.I must have driven a bit fast today on the way to work, as I seem to have travelled back to 2017.....
I blame myself. I just started building a DeLorean.I blame myself, I just started building a DeLorean model.
For real?!I blame myself. I just started building a DeLorean.
For real?!
Yep... Even back then, Mark would call out decisions he didn't fully embrace, like the fact that Leia being his sister came out of nowhere.No he wasn't.
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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi's DARKEST Ending Was Awful
The original ending for 1983's Star Wars: Return of the Jedi was a lot darker, and much worse, than the one we ended up getting.www.cbr.com
And I'm going out on a limb here...but maaaaaaybe, just maybe the Boba Fett=Luke's mother line was...how do they call it? A joke?
I think of that ever surfaces, it'll be in the form of a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' book.I'd love to see this elusive completed tome of George's "original vision." With all the variations it must be about 1,000 pages long.
No he wasn't.
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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi's DARKEST Ending Was Awful
The original ending for 1983's Star Wars: Return of the Jedi was a lot darker, and much worse, than the one we ended up getting.www.cbr.com
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One of the new engine cover grilles, with the protective film still on, as a tease.![]()
The only question I have is plutonium chamber or Mr. Fusion???View attachment 1413866
One of the new engine cover grilles, with the protective film still on, as a tease.![]()
I plan to start a thread over in the General Modeling section eventually (I think of it as a 1:1 scale working model -- it certainly has about as many pieces as the 1:72 PG Falcon kit!), but to put it succinctly, I'm doing my own thing -- one or two BTTF DeLoreans is cool, but there are so many now I find it trite. Plus, the thought of doing that to one of these cars is about as painful as the thought of butchering an original Graflex or Mauser to make a prop replica. But to answer your question, CNG with solar.The only question I have is plutonium chamber or Mr. Fusion???
They should have had the faith in their creators and let Trevorrow make his movie
Well, Lucas' plan had been to have Obi-Wan gradually pulling his sense of self back together over Luke's arc -- from disembodied voice to hazy and distant static figure to close and clear but still static figure to fully present and mobile and able to interact with the physical world -- and, ultimately, to step back across the veil to full corporeality when Luke faced the Emperor. Remember the full line he delivered to Vader in Star Wars was, "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine -- but if my blade finds its mark, you will cease to exist." It was a rare-ish discipline, in his mind, but a thing Jedi could do and Sith couldn't. Part of his problem with the EU was things like Exar Kun -- in his view, Sith didn't leave Force ghosts.So I had a thought the other day. In ESB Obi-Wan tells Luke. "If you choose to face Vader, you will do it alone. I cannot interfere." I was thinking why would Obi-Wan tell this to Luke? I mean he's a Force spirit and obviously he can't interfere, right? But then I started wondering if this was meant to be a reference to Splinters if the Mind's Eye? Where Obi-Wan takes control of Luke to help him in his fight with Vader?
You say the story sessions for ROTJ? But the "I can not interfere." line comes from ESB. I don't quite understand.Well, Lucas' plan had been to have Obi-Wan gradually pulling his sense of self back together over Luke's arc -- from disembodied voice to hazy and distant static figure to close and clear but still static figure to fully present and mobile and able to interact with the physical world -- and, ultimately, to step back across the veil to full corporeality when Luke faced the Emperor. Remember the full line he delivered to Vader in Star Wars was, "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine -- but if my blade finds its mark, you will cease to exist." It was a rare-ish discipline, in his mind, but a thing Jedi could do and Sith couldn't. Part of his problem with the EU was things like Exar Kun -- in his view, Sith didn't leave Force ghosts.
Anyway, that notion survived all the way up until he had compressed the rest of Luke's arc from four films to one and it was in story sessions for ROTJ that he decided having Obi-Wan come back would undercut Luke's triumph, and the "I cannot interfere" line was created. I, personally, like to think it's just because Luke would be confronting the Emperor in his Place of Power and the Dark Side would be too strong for Ben to manifest there. After the Prequels, I further like to imagine that moment as Ghost Obi-Wan steels himself, closes his eyes, takes a step -- and with a skin-crinkling effect, he's there in the flesh... Ewan MacGregor's flesh. Now-in-his-prime-again Obi-Wan looks down at his hands, raises his eyebrows, and says, "Well... I admit I wasn't expecting that."
I still stand by that he couldn't interfere because of the Dark-Side miasma surrounding the Emperor (and Vader?) keeping him out. "Piss off, ghost!" and that we never plumbed the depths of what Force ghosts were or were not capable of, but I feel "I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" should have more clout than just "...because it will give the next Hero his burning motivation to kick your ass when he sees you kill me".
I didn't like, either, how EU authors had no idea what to do with Force ghosts, so just pretty much wrote them out. Of the things TROS did right, I do feel they reclaimed Force ghosts.