Star Wars Saga (OT/PT/ST) Discussion Thread

[Otomofan]

I had a Star Wars dream last night.

I know, I know...there's no possible worse way to start a sentence than with "In my dream last night..." I hate hearing about other people's dreams. It's bad enough hearing boring ass stories about their lives, but stories that aren't even REAL? Get outta here. I have a rule that no description of a dream should ever be more than one sentence long. "I had a dream that my old music teacher was a vampire." Boom. Done. Not "Oh man, in my dream I was in my old house but I knew it wasn't MY house cause I've moved but I was there anyway for some reason, and then I noticed...." No. Never.

ANYWAY.

This will take more than a sentence, so please indulge me. Or don't.

In my dream, there's a Star Wars universe equivalent of Halloween where everyone loves dressing up in costumes. There's a lot of potential to wear a blatantly racist costume of a species you don't like and stuff like that. We can imagine how it would go. Wookiees and Trandoshans hate each other, etc.

The Empire strictly forbids anyone ever dressing in their uniforms. Penalty of death and all that. But...you know how people are, there's a group of rapscallions that do it every year anyway. And one of the most popular costumes is of course Darth Vader. They all meet on some barren asteroid every year and have a secret Darth Vader cosplay party with lots of drinking and dancing.

But what they don't know is....Vader actually loves it. He goes every year and blends in with the crowd, and it's the one day a year he actually has fun and enjoys himself.

There's fake Boba Fetts there, too. One year, the real Vader and the real Boba Fett spot each other in the crowd, but they don't say anything. They just stare at each other for a moment and then walk away. But they both "knew."

And that was it. Did I dream up the plot for an imaginary 8 page Star Wars Tales comic book....or was this already an 8 page comic book in some back issue of Star Wars Tales that I read 20 years ago and forgot about?

 

[Wor-Gar]

There's a lot of potential to wear a blatantly racist costume of a species you don't like and stuff like that. The Empire strictly forbids anyone ever dressing in their uniforms. Penalty of death and all that.

I've heard of this... somewhere...

 

[xipotec]

Lucas ripped off Dune pretty liberally. None of the complexity and deep world-building, but a great deal of the imagery and broad strokes.

Yeah, watching Boba Fett again and the fact that the whole plot revolves around spice, which looks exactly like Dune Spice, was a little too on the nose.

 

[Khev]

Lucas ripped off Dune pretty liberally. None of the complexity and deep world-building, but a great deal of the imagery and broad strokes.

The Rebels teaming up with ewoks to defeat the Empire was so much cooler than Paul and the Fremen riding sandworms into battle though. Oh wait, lol.

 

[Khev]

Yup ROTJ did solid business at the ole box office, wow.

And it's only showing on one super out of the way theater in the entire Twin Cities area. I'm surprised. ROTK was playing at the AMC just down the street but apparently there's no love for SW in these parts so thank you Lizzo for ruining it for the rest of us, lol.

 

[ZE_501]

And yet none of the adaptations of Dune comes anywhere near the quality of A New Hope (Never read the novel). I personally found both of those movies absolutely horrendous, albeit for slightly different reasons. I would also argue that Lucas' design team borrowed even more from the comic book Valerian. In the end though, he put enough of his own spin on those tropes and story beats to make SW uniquely his own.

I'm not overly familiar with Valerian outside the film, but I imagine he mined that book pretty hard. Dune is one of my favourite novels of all time; it's complex and deeply imagined with some truly original ideas -- nearly impossible to adapt as a film, IMO -- it would have done best given the GoT treatment by HBO.

I agree that Star Wars was his own in terms of the story, but the imagery is all pastiche. In that sense it may well be one of the first truly post-modern films.

 

[wormlander]

The Rebels teaming up with ewoks to defeat the Empire was so much cooler than Paul and the Fremen riding sandworms into battle though. Oh wait, lol.

You'll never be truly cool until you learn to embrace your inner Ewok

 

[Wor-Gar]

You'll never be truly cool until you learn to embrace your inner Ewok

you learn to embrace your inner Ewok, you'll never be truly cool

 

[VintageDisney]

I had a Star Wars dream last night.

I know, I know...there's no possible worse way to start a sentence than with "In my dream last night..." I hate hearing about other people's dreams. It's bad enough hearing boring ass stories about their lives, but stories that aren't even REAL? Get outta here. I have a rule that no description of a dream should ever be more than one sentence long. "I had a dream that my old music teacher was a vampire." Boom. Done. Not "Oh man, in my dream I was in my old house but I knew it wasn't MY house cause I've moved but I was there anyway for some reason, and then I noticed...." No. Never.

ANYWAY.

This will take more than a sentence, so please indulge me. Or don't.

In my dream, there's a Star Wars universe equivalent of Halloween where everyone loves dressing up in costumes. There's a lot of potential to wear a blatantly racist costume of a species you don't like and stuff like that. We can imagine how it would go. Wookiees and Trandoshans hate each other, etc.

The Empire strictly forbids anyone ever dressing in their uniforms. Penalty of death and all that. But...you know how people are, there's a group of rapscallions that do it every year anyway. And one of the most popular costumes is of course Darth Vader. They all meet on some barren asteroid every year and have a secret Darth Vader cosplay party with lots of drinking and dancing.

But what they don't know is....Vader actually loves it. He goes every year and blends in with the crowd, and it's the one day a year he actually has fun and enjoys himself.

There's fake Boba Fetts there, too. One year, the real Vader and the real Boba Fett spot each other in the crowd, but they don't say anything. They just stare at each other for a moment and then walk away. But they both "knew."

And that was it. Did I dream up the plot for an imaginary 8 page Star Wars Tales comic book....or was this already an 8 page comic book in some back issue of Star Wars Tales that I read 20 years ago and forgot about?

Give me some of what you’re having

 

[Neal136]

My nephew and I went to see ROTJ at the theater last night. I haven't seen this movie theatrically since the Special Editions were released. Even with some of the questionable changes and additions over the years, the ol' girl looked pretty good.

 

[wormlander]

you learn to embrace your inner Ewok, you'll never be truly cool

So easily tricked... Now I know your biggest fear

 

[DiFabio]

The Ewoks had more personality than Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford in Jedi.

I like the Chief one the best. Scary eyes and teeth on some of them.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I like the Chief one the best. Scary eyes and teeth on some of them.

 

[Otomofan]

Do you mean Chief Chirpa? Or Logray?

If I hadn't had the action figures that distinctly told me one was the Chief and the other was the Medicine Man, I'd have assumed Logray was the Chief based on the movie. He had more screen time and seemed to be in charge more than Chirpa.

 

[DiFabio]

I dunno. The black and grey one.

 

[a-dev]

I dunno. The black and grey one.

Teebo I think. (Been documenting my Star Wars collection the past few weeks)

 

[xipotec]

 

[Zurdo95D]

Some Hoth Princess Leia pics!

Spoiler

 

[jye4ever]

 

[Zurdo95D]