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so Dooku leaves the order to pursue the second sith, whomever might be, as he's already convinced Maul is the apprentice

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So Dooku was a Jedi until the end of Phantom Menace and set out on his own to find the other Sith and ending up turning?

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Yes, that's the story they made up for him in the EU. Of course, he didn't appear anywhere in TPM, which would have made the story make sense, but George Lucas!

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Hell yes. Though a stormtrooper fighting a lightsaber user hand to hand is weird.

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I thought it looked kinda awesome.

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Btw, exactly one month from this very moment many of us will be in the theater watching a brand new Star Wars movie.

EDIT: Never mind - that was last night!

Just as a counterpoint, my 2, 4, and 6 year olds have seen Episodes 1-6 more times than i can count. My 2 year ago can name most major characters. I'd bet on my 6 year old in any Star Wars trivia contest. Last week i mentioned to my 6 year old that the Ghost crew probably retires to Alderaan, and he laughed out loud.

I'm taking my 4 and 6 year olds to TFA in 3D. I would recommend taking a young child to a 3D movie to test their reaction before taking them to TFA. I took my 6 year old to see The Martian in 3D and he did well. I'm taking the 4 year ago to see The Peanuts Movie this week.

I saw ANH probably 15 times as a 7-8 year old. These are kid movies. They can handle it.

Seems legit

18. An Old Hope and End Credits

Han's grisly end
The reunion of Rey Skywalker and her grandfather
General Jar Jars March

General Jar Jar's March ... Could be legit, I am pretty sure he was promoted to general toward the end of TPM

Is anybody else seeing the marathon of every movie in theaters? Cannot wait for December 18

I'll be in the seats at 3AM on the 17th for the marathon in Dallas.

That stormtrooper has some major balls taking on a lightsaber. I like it. Those dudes have the potential to be some bad mofos

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That one probably has more excited than the others.

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Padme as her favorite character? lol.

Now, she says Han Solo is her favorite character...

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I first I was thinking "man that is a horrible photoshop"

Then I realized it was an actual still from the actual movie.

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...introduce the guy that trained & was later betrayed and thought killed by Palps.

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Is there no evidence to Palp offing Plag? Seems like it's just speculation....but you see it mentioned alot on the interwebs.

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The great novel Darth Plageius opens with Palpy having just killed Plageuis. And it's pretty concrete that the dude is dead. It's on the eve of Palpy being elected Supreme Chancellor during the events of TPM. WIthin the last year, Plageius has mastered the ability to bring dead beings back to life. He does it to another Force User, a Bith that was the second apprentice of his own Master (who he killed early in the novel in a mine collapse).

Over the course of the novel, which is really excellent, Plag recruits Palps and teaches him, and Palps ultimately saves Plag when he is nearly killed by assassins on Coruscant who don't know he's a Sith Lord, they think he's just a really important Muun.

Anyway, his wealth and power allow him to get Palps deeper and deeper into the politics game, and they are allowing themselves a very low key celebration - sharing a bottle of some high-end liquor while Palps writes his speech, which will include Plag, in his public form, being elevated to co-Chancellor, so they can rule together and live forever (sounds like a Rick Astley song).

Plag has been able to alter his body via the Force so that he no longer even sleeps, but falls asleep because of the heavy amount of booze he imbibes. He wears a breathing mask because of the injuries he sustained in the attacks years earlier, and the thing at first doesn't know how to compensate when he falls asleep. Palps uses this momentary confusion, and the fact that nobody's around, to light Plags up with Force Lightning.

Plags first doesn't do anything, doesn't even counter attack because he's so confident that he can bring himself back to life from the edge of death regardless of the amount of damage being done, but then Palps switches to a Force Choke and Plags can't bring himself back because he runs out of air to breath and dies.

Is that book part of the office new cannon?

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This.

Even if the story hadn't been horrible and boring and nonsensical, I probably still wouldn't have bothered to watch them any more than twice because they looked so bad.


The r2 comment is a perfect example of this "because you can" problem. There was zero reason for having booster rockers on r2. Especially when viewed in light of the hanger screen in star wars.

The bespin interior scenes in the special edition was a good use of cgi

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You use CGI when you must, not because you can.

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Exactly! And sometimes, simply get rid of a particular shot when it forces you to go 100% CG and it's just not going to work.

You referenced a few CG R2 scenes. I specifically remember that scene in the factory when R2 pushess 3PO of the ledge and he ends up going for a ride on that flying robot thing. It was 100% CG 3PO getting tossed around and it looked really bad an unnatural. That's a prime example of "that shot isn't necessary" if it looks like crap. You can get the point across of 3PO getting made into a battle droid (which was also dumb and unnecessary) in other ways. But hey, that entire scene was 100% CG across the board, so when you draw it up that way (this is CG, and this is CG, and this is CG.... we'll make that CG too) it's hard to get these practical shots cause it's not part of the time budget... Anthony Daniels probably wasn't even on set when they shot those scenes with Natalie and Hayden jumping around on green foam pads with a big green curtain in the background.

I still give tons of credit to George for investing his money into so many things that really pushed special effects and sound for the entire movie industry. Unfortunately the prequels were a lesson learned that too much CG is a bad thing.

Buddy reminded me of this... I still chuckle at a few parts of it.

I like the "you don't know a thing about me" line in the new TV Spot. Hearing all the "I know your eyes" talk (probably towards Rey)... and, what I assume is the same scene, Finn is all 'Lady, you know know me!'.

Soon!