George Lucas, not content to let dead horse lie, begins raping it with lightsaber...

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Straybow
[... 2) anything else in SW I-III.

The pod races were good...except for the two-headed announcer, who should beheadedbeheaded , and then there was...uh...there was...er, um...I'm sure something else was good in there...umm...

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
The pod races were good...except for the two-headed announcer, who should beheadedbeheaded , and then there was...uh...there was...er, um...I'm sure something else was good in there...umm...

In Episode I, it's the lightsaber battle between Maul and Obiwan and Quigon.

In Episode II, it's the fact that Natalie Portman's outfits are tighter and more revealing than in I and III.

In Episode III, it's all about Obiwan vs. Anakin. Everything else is setup as far as I'm concerned. All about that sans Anakin screaming, "FROM MY POINT OF VIEW THE JEDI ARE EVIL!"

[Dis]

lol, that's all I remember about episode 2 as well. portman looked good in that.

that and a bunch of robots and clones I could care less about. And terrible acting by the Fett guy and his kid was especially bad at acting. It was embarassing to watch.

3 was watchable, but just barely.

as I mentioned above. enough of the robots already!! Same with cute characters. Does Lucas actually believe that's what made star wars popular?

I mentioned it already, but I'll say it again. Han Solo is the reason star wars became popular. Sure it was an ensemble effort, but he was the star. Chewbacca was cool, but not because he was cute. He was an ugly sob.

[Zkribbler]

And I liked the Italian city Portman lived in...especially the waterfall.

Darth Maul was.;.of course...great. But I wish he'd have been flying around in the Millenium Falcom, whith Biily Dee Williams stealing it from him at one point.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Somebody should make the Thrawn trilogy into a TV or movie format. The writing was good and the tactical ideas in that series were solid and innovative.

[Impaler[WrG]]

or the fact that in 5 Luke apeared to be too old for the training as a Jedi, but there was never mentioned that Anakin as well, at a far younger age than Luke, was to old for the traning as a jedi (which we known since 2).

Duuu the "To old to begin the Training" line is either (A) Something Yoda says when he has a stick up his ass and doesn't want to train someone and or (B) Classic Zen technique to test to student to see if they are really committed to learning. Obviously their is no real age limit for force training and their never was, as much as I'd love to nit-pick Lucas this isn't an inconsistency on his part its a characterization of Yoda which an astute viewer should see through.

[Patroklos]

and the tactical ideas in that series were solid and innovative.

Thrawn tactical breakthrough #1 = if I tractor a starship between me and the enemy, the enemy can't shoot me.

Thrawn tactical breakthrough #3 = Being one of a handful Grand Admirals with a terrifying reputation, I will try and reactivate a few hundred obsolete derelicts instead of simply marshaling the at least 1 million modern, kilometer long, devastating warships available to me at the extreme conservative end.

Thrawn tactical breakthrough #2 = I will choose a minor Imperial warship as my command ship instead of one of the myriad, while still minor by Imperial standards, warships in the imperal arsenal that would be more powerful the every Rebel ship eventually encountered in the campaign combined. In fact, I won't include any of those ships in my fleet at all!

Face it, SW writers suck. I trust almost any of you on Poly to write a book with more "solid and innovative" tactics than any one of the retarded SOBs that pollute the SW novel scene.

We can start by using the right length for the Executor, or at least being consistent with which one you use. How ****ing hard is that?

[snoopy369]

The Executor That was the first "good" card I ever got back when I played Decipher "Star Wars" CCG... mmmmm

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by Dis
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I mentioned it already, but I'll say it again. Han Solo is the reason star wars became popular.

Han Solo is the epitome of cool

[Patroklos]

And he most definetly shot first

[Straybow]

Damn straight!
And the green guy was asking for it, too.

[Whoha]

Thrawn tactical breakthrough #3 = Being one of a handful Grand Admirals with a terrifying reputation, I will try and reactivate a few hundred obsolete derelicts instead of simply marshaling the at least 1 million modern, kilometer long, devastating warships available to me at the extreme conservative end.

Thrawn tactical breakthrough #2 = I will choose a minor Imperial warship as my command ship instead of one of the myriad, while still minor by Imperial standards, warships in the imperal arsenal that would be more powerful the every Rebel ship eventually encountered in the campaign combined. In fact, I won't include any of those ships in my fleet at all!

these are somewhat unfair. According to Zahn there weren't ten billion Imperial fleets lying around. Those were tacked on by other authors.

Still, I have to reject the entirety of the EU.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Asher

No kidding. Lucas is a hack, I hate the guy. Terrible movies that terrible people like.

He definately doesn't have a knack for dialog but his video games are sometimes cool. Back in the early to mid 90's X-Wing was the ****! Everyone in my high school played it.

[Riesstiu IV]

Although I've only read Zahn's trilogy concerning Thrawn, I can safely say that I dislike the EU.

I think the main problem is that the EU doesn't create the same epic struggle between good and evil found in the original films. Grand Admiral Thrawn, despite he supposed tactical cunningness, just doesn't have the same villainous aura or threatening factor that Emperor Palpatine or Vader had. He really doesn't come off as evil at all.

[Dinner]

I liked the original trilogy of books for Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Lando Calrissian was great. Back in the late 70's and early 80's they were the only Star Wars books and they greatly fleshed out the Star Wars universe.

I haven't read any of the books post 1988 or so.