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VanL writes
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Looks like episodes 7,8, and 9 are not to be. Lucas told
Vanity Fair that he plans to quit after the prequels are
done."
Related news for Dutch Trekkies below.
In a related story
Merijn Broeren wrote in to tell us "
More geeky news for Dutch viewers. There will be a Star
Trek Movie marathon next week (16 January), an all night
Trek fest, with 4 shows after each other. The first three
you can choose between the 8 old movies, then in three
rooms at once the new Insurrection. 1400 trekkies will
attend!" More info
in Dutch (which I can't read).
The Dutch text... (Score:1)
Agreed... (Score:1)
Movies are a bit different... a good director can keep doing good movies. He doesn't have to crank out one per week.
Coruscant and ROTJ:SE, canon, etc. (Score:1)
Actually, in the latest X-Wing novel, one of the characters says that he was involved with a group that broadcast the destruction of the death star by hacking into the computer systems on Coruscant to bypass the Imperial propaganda. This set off a lot of celebrations... which were unfortunately later quelled by stormtroopers firing into crowds. Just thought that might be relevant.
bobba fett ... (Score:1)
He did? I musta missed something...
Maybe too late... (Score:1)
I'm going to not be negative, I'll look forward and stand in line with anticipation with everyone else. But I really fear he will not (and from the trailer it looks this way) figure a good enough reason for Anakin to go bad. At best I anticipate the old plot of a good kid who is confused and impresionable, and the bad people seem to be the only ones who understand him. (i.e. Hook)
Seems better to have it insinuated(sp?), huh.
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ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have.
Maybe too late... (Score:1)
The plot as you describe it is (BiON) pretty much what I'm suspecting. It just seems to me that the downfall of the Jedi's should really be themselves. They are getting lazy, proud, and lonely at the top so they start fighting amongst themselves. The forget the ways that lead them to the status they were. (Anger moves people to the Dark Side references and all.) Darth is just the single embodiment of the fall.
But as it is I foresee a "Young Indiana Jones" style of storylines that wind up with an old man sitting in a rocking chair saying "And
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ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have.
No surprise (Score:1)
Thank God (Score:1)
For his own mental sanity, it sounded like he needed to quit.
Originality, please... (Score:1)
...why dredge out tired old plots, characters and Universes when you can use your imagination and come up with your own?
Software: Code reuse is good.
Entertainment: Plot reuse is bad.
Good. (Score:1)
the whole story of Darth Vader's life. The series
begins with his birth, and ends with his death.
Just like Titus Groan
This is probably a good thing. (Score:1)
Hey, get a grip! It's just a film!
axolotl
Yeah well. (Score:1)
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Glad Lucas knows when to quit... (Score:1)
I don't think that death, (or how they die,) is really an issue to Paramount and the Star Trek crowd. They see it as a bottomless pit and it's idiots like me who make it possible. Oh well, I enjoy myself!
JMS (Score:1)
JMS is J. Michael Straczinski(sp?), creator of Babylon-5.
Schwab
dutch trek "marathon" (Score:1)
Star Wars, Star Trek, same problem (Score:1)
While I will not disagree with you one whit about the Ewoks (I thought they were cute at the time, but not so much any more) there's a reason movie and TV producers try to cater to new viewers as well as die-hards, and it starts with "$"...
You have to open the franchise up at some point to new viewers, otherwise as the die hard fans start leaving (as some Trek fans are apt to do when Voyager is the only TV left) there's no one left to fill their shoes.
Babylon 5 is the exception that proves the rule, by the way... it's only now at the end we can say it was a success. It could have foundered and died after the 1st season when they lost their leading man. When I'd heard that O'Hare was leaving, I thought "that's it, the show is toast."
I'm not ashamed to admit that I stopped watching B5 halfway through season 1, and didn't start watching again until they started dropping hints about the Shadows, which appealed to the H.P. Lovecraft and conspiracy fan in me. I'm glad I stuck around for the ride the second time around (plus getting to catch up on the episodes I missed in seasons 1 and 2 on TNT...)
Jay (=
(Who knows someone who honestly thinks that a Trek series based on and starring Klingons would actually be a success...)
What would they be about anyway... (Score:1)
He would have to make up an entirely new story line, which would be rather anticlimatic.
the books ARE non canon. (Score:1)
Didn't he say this before? (Score:1)
Not exactly the best news there could be (Score:1)
SL