confession: I am actually superghey for Revenge of the Sith, warts and all

Actually, i would have to say that out of the 3 piles of sh!t we got for prequels, ROtS smelled the least.

There is much good left in you, Madhammer. I can sense it.

I think me doing a ghey fan edit of it helped a lot.

Please tell me you cut out the "Threepio will protect me" line. My wife and I audibly laughed in the theater until the angry gazes of the Star Warriors told us that wasn't a joke on the part of Portman's character.

my wife laughed at it, too. It did kind of kill what little seriousness remained in the moment.

Um.... actually no I don't think I cut that out. I guess I lost the ability to tell when Lucas' characters were trying to be funny a long time ago.

but I did lose the " so love has blinded you?" scene

In all seriousness, why did the two of you trek to the theater for it? Your deep hatred for the prequels was already in full swing, IIRC...

Oh, and then there's this:

OMFG

Did I just see Alf's man-sausage in relief?

Yes...well, Melmacian-sausage, anyway.

...can't stop laughing...

*ahem* Alf sausage aside...

"hope springs eternal"?

Come on, how was I gonna boycott the film I've been waiting to see for 25 years?

Well, I meant Hobbes and the wife. They already knew they were gonna hate it.

This is all new levels of Awesome!

Wha? The alfsausage did not forward!

It's a cultural thing. Lucas has you by the short 'n' curlies. What, am I gonna be the only geek in my writer's group that didn't bother to see it?

Luuuuucas!

If you don't add your picture attachments into your posts, they aren't quotable.

Come on, we know you saw that before at scififurries.com - although... perhaps you never got beyond the photos of Chewie's cornhole.

Chewie's Cornhole???



A whole new world!

How would that be distinguishable from an Ewok's face?

An Ewok has your beer can on top of its head.

Jesus Tapdancing Christ

Liar.
That site doesn't actually exist.

and I'm spent

The film insinuates that Hutt is a clan name, rather than the species.

Not as bad as the previews would have you believe (shocka), although as many have said, the animation doesn't look right.

In conclusion:
Clone troopers: WIN.
Droids: Still bloody stupid. But not as stupid as ROTS droids, they're just damned Sarcastic in this.
Calling your Padawan "snips" all the time: Makes me think of Skins.

Actually that makes more sense, though if so they've never identified the species. Which would be odd for the SW universe, since they have a name for every alien species ever (except for people, lol).

According to Wookiepedia Jabba's full name is Jabba Desilijic Tiure.

But then I guess if Lucas didn't write it himself it doesn't exist. Even if his name is on all those books saying that they're sanctioned by him. Because it's not like the books are only for the fans who mostly enjoy a single continuity, and get pissed when the original creator mucks everything up.

I believe the only true canon book out there (besides novelizations of the movies) is "Shadows of the Empire." Anything else can be mucked with.

And alot of those books are pretty awful, so I don't much mind them being tossed aside.

This is what I always thought, via TPM.

I skipped most of this topic but I will give my 2cents

I watched the trilogy first when I must have been around 5 and loved it I then seen the first Special edition with the expanded cloud city and I thought it was cool.

but prequels killed it for me

so the force is just a nasty parasite that some how lets you use physic powers? but what pissed me off the most is how Anakins age jumped 10 years in the space of what must of been a year

*i did have a rant about how Maul was a waste of a good baddie and how I wanted Jar Jar to die but it was turning into a rant so I removed it*

so this new CGI toon is a waste that's cool I wondered why they were not giving it much hype. but I will say I don't think I was going to see it any ways given how I don't think they could do much more between the original films and the new stuff before totally f**king up continuity

lol dude, there *was* a ten-year jump between TPM and AotC, and the nasty parasite is just a medium through which humans can sense the Force. Not that there isn't still Jar-Jar and weak scripting and terrible acting and shallow characterization and bla bla bla.

Anyway, the wife went to see Clone Wars with the boys last night. The boys liked it, though my oldest didn't like it as much as he was expecting to -- he was hoping to see more clone action. But my six-year-old loved it, and he's probably right in the center of the target demographic for this show. (Also, my wife didn't have much to say about it, but she said that she liked this Anakin better than the real one. Yikes.)

Wait wait wait...Blitz REALLY thought there was only a year's time between TPM and AotC? Come on...

Man, thinking that for the past 6 years must've really jacked up whatever enjoyment he was able to derive from the movies...

I was going by the wording from the quote ST53 posted. Also, if it's a clan name, wouldn't it just be it "So-and-so the Hutt, " not "Huttlet."

I always took it to be the species name, like Chewbacca the Wookie, Greedo the Rodian, Wicket the Ewok, Luke the whiny little lolcat. This is the way it has been portrayed in the supporting media (i.e. NOT the films, which name relatively few of the alien species)...they speak Huttese, their home planet is Nal Hutta, etc. I don't think the films were ever clear on what a Hutt was, just that Jabba was one.

EDIT: oh, and that "they are gangsters" according to Capt. Panaka.

Unless its deemed canon by Lucas, i.e. the films and relatively little ancillary media ("Shadows of the Empire" and the original "Clone Wars" cartoon, though the latter may not be anymore), it's not official and can be tossed aside at any point. Its annoying, but in my experience that's standard operation procedure when it comes to novels-based-on-movies-or-TV-shows.

So if this new "Clone Wars" says Hutt is a clan name, its a clan name, and every other interpretation will be retconned as a misunderstanding in future books.

So?
I'm English, I speak English, but It's not my species.
As for Sci-Fi, the Slytheen of Doctor Who, they have their own worlds, their own language, but it's just a family name.

But but but -- there can only be ONE Species and ONE language and ONE climate on any ONE planet!!

Heh, I think there was a TNG/DS9 Star Trek that basically retconned you point by saying that Earth was an extremely unusual case in that it had such a large number of cultures/language.

Also from Wookipedia

I still have my VHS Special Eds, I'll have to check this out.

I'll have to skim back over Shadows of the Empire to see what it says about Hutts. (Not sure why this book counts as "cannon" and the six million Other SW books do not.)

LOL to the SW nerd discussion that I'm not a part of

As I recall, before SotE came out, Star Wars was pretty much at the nadir of it's popularity - and they wanted to reenergize the public for the upcoming prequels, and therefore came up with the concept of a multimedia blitz that featured almost everything (books, comics, toys, etc.) that would go with a feature film release (except the film itself). I'm guessing that along with getting people excited about Star Wars again, part of Lucasfilm's strategy was to also get an understanding of everything they would need to have in place for the giant marketing push necessary for the prequels (don't forget, Lucas isn't a billionaire because of the Star Wars films themselves, it's because he's always had control of the licencing and merchandising).

Since the entire SoeE concept was a pretty expensive undertaking, it was deemed "canon" to give the project the credibility needed.

i remember when star wars was actually "good". nowadays it's just lucas milking out what's left of the dried out bovine. the thing wuth lucas is he takes a good idea and adds and adds more undesired,contradicting. crap to it. like: anakin had teh apprentice during da clone,but wait...isn't anakin a apprentice.... maybe i'm overreacting...

and for the record i'm not seeing it....

I saw it.

I enjoyed it.

I thought it was a lot of fun. (which, to me, is why it worked.)

Perfect? Absolutely not, not even by a long shot, but it was a nice little Star Wars story without having to have the entire friggin' saga.

IIRC, the popularity of SW was on the upswing when SotE came out. The toy line had just been restarted, and we were several years into the book series. Now THAT was a good time to be a SW fan...before all the hate.

I agree with this. There was no better time to be a SW fan than the mid-90s. Except maybe when the movies first came out.

Beefy Luke!

VADER: Obi Wan never TOLD you what really happened to your father
LUKE: Please don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry!

POTF2 'roid rage FTMFW!

Obi-Wan who never stands up FTL!

uggh, I actually bought that dog-faced Leia too

to the beefy luke

I don't know about anyone else but the thing that kept my interest in SW during the late 80s and the early 90s was the super awesome Pinball machine. 2hrs on that is better than TPM

In the late 80's, I had zero luv for SW... it wasn't until the THX'D trilogy was released on VHS in 1992 (?) that I started to get back into it again. It was then that my present-day opinions of the movies started to form.