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Like Darth Homer said, great movies can live on, and Star Wars is a great movie, all six chapters of it. Star Wars revolutionized film making, and that's just stating the obvious. Before Star Wars, sci-fi was just for kids, meaning without Lucas, you... [Read More]
Maybe the high energy being directed through them degrades the crystals over time so that they loose their sharp focus and coloration... though one would think that the Dark Lord of the Sith would keep his crystal nice and fresh, but oh well ;)... [Read More]
From the Episode I Scrapbook: Samurai Inspiration For the word Jedi, George Lucas was inspired by the Japanese Jidai Geki, which refers to a drama set in medieval Japan during the time of the samurai.... [Read More]
I personally think that Obi-Wan has become so embittered by the fact that his Apprentice wiped out the Jedi Order that he's using Luke to erradicate his failure. Think about it: Obi-Wan told Luke Vader murdered his real father, then lets Luke see Vad... [Read More]
Inside of the Vader helmet, there're these tubes on either side of Anakin's mouth. They're clearly visible in RotJ, and in the DK books, and a book called "The Best of the Lucasfilm Archives." As I recall, these tubes allow Vader to eat a s... [Read More]
<<I'm not old enoguh to buy a car and use it. ^_^>> You'll wish you'd saved that money the day you turn 16. I know I do. Every time I look at my action figures and basketball cards, which I so dutifully collected for almost a decade, I th... [Read More]
Biggs Darklighter was Luke's best friend on Tatooine. Biggs went off to the Imperial Academy before SW4, returned home during SW4 and told Luke that he was going to join the rebels. This scene was shot, but Lucas cut it out because of bad acting, I t... [Read More]
I'd imagine that as bots like R2 units are used as early as Ep1(and possibly much further back) a lot of people could understand their beeps. Still, no word on what he's meant to say? Has anyone tried to translate the aurubesh on that screen in Anak... [Read More]
Maybe Jar Jar, like 3PO and R2, goes to Alderaan with Leia... but then, I don't think Amidala would trust Jar Jar with a baby. "Goochie, gooshie... aah! Mesa tripp-ed on mesa own feetas! Utoh! Whersa da baby?" Jar Jar looks over rail into a... [Read More]
Lucas has directed THX1138, both a student film version and a theatrical release... I believe the theatrical release was produced by Francis Ford Coppola. He directed American Graffiti. And he's directed Star Wars, The Phantom Menace and Attack of th... [Read More]
Zahn's Trilogy is technically incredible. It has a great story, memorable and likable characters and a good villian. Dark Force Rising was the worst book of the trilogy because it dragged; felt like filler, to me. Zahn's Trilogy is comparable to Ba... [Read More]
I'm going to kill you. *gets lightsaber* You'll have to go through me, first! :slsaber: The worst thing to happen to Star Wars was Timothy Zahn, period.... [Read More]
I think you overestimate the relevance of the EU in Star War's survival, my friend. It's true that I read EU before the Prequels, but I know a few people who have never picked up an SW novel and were as excited as myself at the announcement that the... [Read More]
My pet theory is that Yoda is a freakishly-giant midi-chlorian. Yes, people, there are tens-of-thousands of little teeny-tiny Yodas living in Anakin's cells and telling him stuff like, "Mmm... Wars not make one great!" and "Ooo, good c... [Read More]
The disappearing matter, well, it's been said that a Jedi needs to accept his death if he wants to "become one with the Force", ofcourse, Qui-Gon, defiant as he was in his nature seemed to want to struggle against it untill his very final b... [Read More]
Star Wars does borrow a lot from the rise of the Roman Empire and the German Third Reich. That said, Lucas is not telling a dead story, the story of the Roman Republic becoming an Empire set in space, he is telling a living story, a story that is rel... [Read More]
The Stormtrooper question is difficult to answer... there were tens of thousands of young and pre-natal clones in the Topica City cloning facility, so those could be used for a decade after the Prequels, and I don't see why they wouldn't continue pro... [Read More]
tatooine isn't "popular".... stuff just happens there. Amen! I think Tatooine is the most visually uninteresting planet in the saga. My two favorite Star Wars movies are the two that have Tatooine in them the least :p... [Read More]
I see the Star Wars saga as the creation of one Auteur, one creative mind that drives the process. That Auteur is obviously George Lucas, who conceived of the story, has directed the majority of the movies and been a very hands-on producer of the res... [Read More]
If you think about it that way, then in one sentence the movies have completly and utterly wiped out the age of the Republic even in the movies, as it now seem to say both that the Republic has lasted for a thousand years, and also atleast for a thou... [Read More]
Tossing in again... the stuff under "The Movies" banner is not all canon because it uses things from the novelizations, which, while closer to canon than your average EU book or comic, because they're based off of Lucas' movies, are still E... [Read More]