So, did anyone catch that last night? I wasted an hour of my life watching the O.C., but I suppose it was worth it to see the trailer at the end of it. It looks -really- good. As in, not like the first three!

Anakin gets more badass, Darth Sidious/the chancellor/the emporer gets more evil, Obi-wan gets his not yet white Episode IV beard, and it looks like we might get to see both Yoda and the chancellor fight in this movie.

I can't wait till someone kills count dookie!

I was enthralled. Dare I hope Lucas has returned to form?

I didnt see it, but if this star wars sucks I will get a lobotomy and have the doctor cut out all my star wars childhood memories (like going to see Ewoks on Ice.. Hahahaha!)

Edit: Oh yeah and the reason why Lucas is such a bastard is because of the Ewoks.. they were what lead to his demise as a respected filmmaker.

Fain, you're a raving lunatic.

Star wars makes me want to curl up in the corner and cram forks in my eyes. It is the pain. And Fain isnt crazy, Fain is snuggly! SNUGGLY WUMPKINS!

Please dont hurt me.

Snuggly as a crotamine envenomed scimitar combined with shieldstun and haymaker all at once.

I gave up on Star Wars after attack of the clones. The load of crap that was episodes one and two is so huge that three simply isn't going to be enough to change my opinion.

"Phantom Menace" of course could have been renamed "Revenge of the Ewoks: the Dark Side of Cuteness". "Clone Wars" was not great, but not bad. This episode looks like Lucas decided not to sell out. I must admit that I look forward to it. I also look forward to evil finally winning. It's about time!

Nonetheless, if any of you ever want to ruin all respect you have for Star Wars, if you have any left, try and dig up a copy of the Star Wars Holiday Special. (I have it on VHS!) This is so bad that words cannot describe it. This is not something to be explained, but rather must be experienced to fully grok its foulness. (Though as a preview: imagine a half hour of wookie dialogue without any humans to translate the grunting.)

I saw the trailer, saw lots of Yoda crawling about fighting the Emperor with his lightsabre, aircraft flying about shooting each other and Siths doing nasty Fainish stuff with Force light and stuff. Looked pretty amazing. And then I saw Amidala crying and looking gorgeous and thought 'Bollocks, the ****er's wrecked it!'

I have the Ewok Adventure and the Ewok Battle for Endor (christmas specials) burned off old vhs tapes onto dvd, mostly because alot of true star wars fans dont know about em, and never saw how George Lucas sold out hardcore to make cutesy snuggly disney-like characters. So sometimes I show em to people and it blows their mind how lame they are.

Which one of those involved the kids saving their parents from giants? I have a vague memory of that when I was a kid...

The giant one was Ewok Adventure. Ewok battle for Endor had this sorceress in it and it was like Willow, more fantasy-ish, definitely not like Star Wars at all.

The first one. In the second one, the Ewoks are attacked by humanoid pseudo-lizard guys (one of them is very short and always follows the others). Their boss is badass, the rest... well, is not. All I could remember.

EDIT: Didn't know Fain was a Ninja God. *grumble*

Anyway, the Heir to the Empire trilogy, by Timothy Zahn (did I spell the name correctly?) was one of the best SW book series. When I have first heard about Lucas making three more episodes, I thought he'd film these. That would so rock.
Or if he HAD to make the films take action before episodes 4-6, he could at least film the adventures of Han Solo (another trilogy, don't remember the English names of books). They weren't bad either.
But no - instead, we have Star Wars Kid Edition, and Star Wars Kid Edition 2, AKA Yoda Does the Gymnastics. Not to mention the blasphemies - Jedi aren't catholic monks, they don't have celibate. Midichlorians, right... I won't even comment these. When Obi Wan met Anakin for the first time, Skywalker was an experienced pilot already - and he was MATURE (about 20), dammit. And I'm almost sure that it didn't take place on Tattooine - why does Lucas like that ball of sand so much?

Um... Cuber your so wrong on so many things I can't even begin to start... Lucas wrote 9 move scripts, 3 trilogies. He released the second one because it had the most action. The other stories were always there, he's now doing the first trilogy. He said the third one will never be made, mainly because it takes like 10 years to make all 3 movies, and he'll probably die before that.

I can't believe someone would take the work of second hand authors over the original creators work...

My guess as to why he loves the sand so much is because his friend Akira Kurosawa, who created The Hidden Fortress which is the first Star Wars story essentially, had a couple of his samurai movies converted into classic american westerns: Yojimbo became A Fistful of Dollars , Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven . I think Lucas just feels that the desert breeds heros, and it mixes well with the jedi theme (jedi are essentially samurai)

Star Wars Holiday Special:
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How hasn't Lucas sued to bring this down?

I've never bothered to find the holiday special. I figured it would blow my mind.

It might be fun to watch while high. Though maybe that'd ruin the trip...

*gasp*

zomg getting high from drugs is bad.