How I realized I was over Star Wars completely

[Rollo Tomassi]

How old is Dengar? It's conceivable to have him as some sort of Naboonese janitor who just happens to be at the bottom of the shaft when Maul lands and sews him back together. Ha ha! They shit would totally fit in an EU story.

[anarky]

Speaking of Dengar....

There's another preview up for a future episode. Apparently, Asajj is joining Boba Fett, Cad Bane, Bossk... and Dengar. Dengar is an adult, complete with bandages (though it's unclear if he has his cybernetic parts). Yup, that's right. The Dengar who is roughly Han's age and was injured in a swoop accident racing Han. The one who became a bounty hunter on Vader's watch around the time of the Battle of Yavin. He's an adult, a bounty hunter, and wearing his trademark costume--when he should be about five years old.

At this point, I really think Lucas is just trying to see how far he can go before the fans try to kill him.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Hmmmm...this makes me think Lucas will shoehorn Cad Bane and Aurra Sing into the Bounty Hunter scene on the Executor in ESB. Or worse, he'll remove guys like Zuckuss and 4-LOM and digitally replace them Cad Bane.

[anarky]

How simple would it be to just make up new characters? Greedo showed up, Dengar showed up, fucking Sy Snootles killed her former lover, Ziro the Hutt. Really, there's Cad Bane and Miley Ahsoka... anyone else? Nope, just movie characters shoehorned in.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Well, unless George is the one writing the episodes, I can't see them coming up with original ideas. I sure as fuck wouldn't come up with an awesome original character knowing G.Lu was gonna profit off it 100% and I'd get Jack shit. Eff that noise.

[anarky]

In fairness to the creative team, I understand most of the really awful ideas come directly from Lucas. Ziro talking like Truman Capote, Maul's brother, Maul's resurrection, Greedo showing up....

Granted, they do run with them. But I'm not sure that I can honestly say I wouldn't if I got Clone Wars style money for following Lucas's insane suggestions.

[Rollo Tomassi]

I'd have every character in every episode stepping in dookie. They're own dookie. Other people's dookie. I'd have them be on a poop planet named Dookooine. Or Poopooine. I'd make up an alien race that spoke only in flatulence. They'd be called Methanians. And their leader would be Tarf Airbisc.

[Diabolical]

On the bright side, Dengar = Simon Pegg.

[vynsane]

i've been watching the original 'clone wars' cartoon (the gendy version) with my daughter and thought of a funny little character-building idea for anakin, inspired by one of the crazy maneuvers he uses in the first season. something about how, after a while, the only astromech droid that would fly with him was R2-D2 because of how reckless his piloting seemed.

[Zero]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JAKE LLOYD.

I DIDN'T REALIZE HE AND SEÑOR JABBA JOHNATHAN LINDQUIST WERE THE SAME AGE.

[Diabolical]

Topher Grace's 85 min Star Wars prequel edit:
http://www.slashfilm.com/topher-grace-e ... ute-movie/

Interesting. I'd like to see it, but it sounds like it'll never happen.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

I had no idea Dominic West was in TPM. And no desire to go watch it and find him in the background of the Naboo scenes.
He played a Naboo Guard.
That'll come in handy when playing 'Six Degrees'.

[Ran]

Topher Grace's 85 min Star Wars prequel edit:
http://www.slashfilm.com/topher-grace-e ... ute-movie/

Interesting. I'd like to see it, but it sounds like it'll never happen.

I'd be interested in seeing it, too.

There was a link for this at the bottom of that page. Gary Kurtz didn't like the prequels (or Hayden Christensen) either and thinks the success of the toys changed Lucas' decisions in making the OT.
http://www.slashfilm.com/star-wars-triv ... er-ending/

[Ran]

Caught the end of TPM and beginning of AOTC on TV today. They are both worse than I remember, especially AOTC.

Something I caught that I didn't notice before was that the Naboo pilots wearing goggles. If they were flying open air speeders they might need them, but why would they need goggles in space? Something else bothered me about the Darth Maul lightsaber duel at the end, but I can't remember what it was.

Did I mention AOTC sucks still? Well, except for that Dexter character. I liked him for some reason.

[Diabolical]

And X-Wing pilots had visors.