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  • #61
    i havent seen the star wars movies but they're a big part of pop culture so to speak so the story and characters and what not has filtered down to me... but i don't really see the appeal of the star wars 'universe'. you got fat ass aliens, teddy bear aliens, and chinese aliens that people made fun of. there was a republic that collapsed and was replaced by an empire which was then defeated by some rag-tag rebels...

    do people write so many books about it just to fill it out and make it interesting? i personally think the universe and concept of a show like Andromeda is far more interesting than this star wars. the show may not be that great but it has a great concept.
    "Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
    "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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    • #62
      Originally posted by Provost Harrison
      I wonder what is going on in that galaxy now
      You don't want to know...
      (Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you meant our galaxy.)
      "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
      "Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
      2004 Presidential Candidate
      2008 Presidential Candidate (for what its worth)

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      • #63
        He may have ventured into dark side area and been tempted, but I don't think you can be 'turned' until you've acknowledged that you are going into the Dark Side.
        but isn't that only if you want to go all the way dark? You can still be mostly dark, but not entirely evil, and still have turned to the dark side.
        Lysistrata: It comes down to this: Only we women can save Greece.
        Kalonike: Only we women? Poor Greece!

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        • #64
          I haven't read the books, so I honestly don't know, but is there any proof of this?
          “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
          - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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          • #65
            A lot of people should have read Nineteen-Eighty-Four right?

            Was Oceania never at war with Eastasia? Wasn't it always allied with Eurasia? The Empire has always existed in the modern time period, whereas the Old Republic was some backwards civilization from some indefinite time period ago, just like the era before the Revolution.

            Even the proles couldn't remember.
            Arise ye starvelings from your slumbers; arise ye prisoners of want
            The reason for revolt now thunders; and at last ends the age of "can't"
            Away with all your superstitions -servile masses, arise, arise!
            We'll change forthwith the old conditions And spurn the dust to win the prize

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            • #66
              Originally posted by Solomwi
              Ozzy, I can't believe you, of all people, would deny the Empire the glory and grandeur it so deserves just because it's too young for your tastes.

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              • #67
                Originally posted by Solomwi
                Good, I thought it was just me that found the Yu-whatever Vong dumb, uninspiring and a damn fine reason to quit reading the books. I tried to hang on for the first few, but they felt an awful lot like that sequel that you have no doubt halfway through will be the absolute last one, simply because it's an interest-killer.

                Thrawn was, indeed, the Empire at its finest. I became a Zahn fan with that trilogy, and I don't even read sci-fi, outside the SW books.
                Yeah, the IMO the NJO books are not part of the Expanded Universe. They're just pure crap.

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                • #68
                  Originally posted by bipolarbear
                  yeah, but htey way they talk about it, makes it seems ancient, not jsut like a twenty year ago thing.
                  Finally. It took 3 pages, but someone finally agreed with me. Whew.
                  Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012

                  When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah

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                  • #69
                    Originally posted by Solomwi

                    Good, I thought it was just me that found the Yu-whatever Vong dumb, uninspiring and a damn fine reason to quit reading the books. I tried to hang on for the first few, but they felt an awful lot like that sequel that you have no doubt halfway through will be the absolute last one, simply because it's an interest-killer.

                    Thrawn was, indeed, the Empire at its finest. I became a Zahn fan with that trilogy, and I don't even read sci-fi, outside the SW books.
                    Yeah, I did the same thing. The YuVong guys are lame, the storylines are boring, and they killed Chewie! WTF!

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                    • #70
                      They killed Chewie?!!



                      (you bastards!)
                      Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012

                      When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah

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                      • #71
                        And they killed Anakin

                        They were really building up his character, and a ton of foreshadowing that he'd be really important, and then he just... dies. Poof. WTF?

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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by Kuciwalker
                          And they killed Anakin

                          They were really building up his character, and a ton of foreshadowing that he'd be really important, and then he just... dies. Poof. WTF?
                          They did? That's just crap.

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                          • #73
                            Yes. I just stared and though: not only is this crap, but they can't even write! And the last book was so frigging anticlimactic that I was just "huh?"

                            Part of the problem was about 20 different authors with different ideas each writing a segment, so it was a huge inconsistent mess.

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                            • #74
                              They should have let Chewie die of old age.

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                              • #75
                                do you know how long a wookie lives?
                                I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
                                [Brandon Roderick? You mean Brock's Toadie?][Hanged from Yggdrasil]

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