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Lucas has never claimed otherwise. Some fans have, misremembering, but Lucas has always admitted the truth on that one. Proof here (click “Episode IV Behind-the-scenes”, then “When did it become IV”)
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Sorry, but that’s Lucas’s site, it’s not exactly unbiased. Lucas also said at one time there’d be nine movies in the series, and then backpedaled on that, and denied ever saying it, even though it’s in his introduction to the original edition of The Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
Sorry, but that’s Lucas’s site, it’s not exactly unbiased. Lucas also said at one time there’d be nine movies in the series, and then backpedaled on that, and denied ever saying it, even though it’s in his introduction to the original edition of The Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.
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I always thought the idea for a series came after the success of the first one. It was a huge surprise that the movie was so successful, I remember. Didn’t think a sequel had even been thought of until then.
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
Sorry, but that’s Lucas’s site, it’s not exactly unbiased. Lucas also said at one time there’d be nine movies in the series, and then backpedaled on that, and denied ever saying it, even though it’s in his introduction to the original edition of The Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.
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Unbiased? You’re asking for a fact, not an opinion. You claimed that he denied it - but I’ve never seen evidence of him denying it.
Yes, he did renege on the nine movies, but he never denied ever saying it in the first place. What he has said, repeatedly, is that he thought maybe he could make a sequel trilogy, back when he was caught up in the fever of success in 1977, but he didn’t really have a story planned for them, and soon realised it wasn’t going to happen - too much time required, and the story just wasn’t there. He barely managed the prequel trilogy - a sequel trilogy is another decade of work that he just didn’t want to commit to.
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Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books. Utterly stupid characters, a complete lack of understanding of what it would take to terraform Mars (Windmills with heaters to warm the atmosphere? Are you fucking kidding me? Why would you even think that was a good idea? I don’t care that in a later book he points out that it wouldn’t have done any good, nobody, and I mean no fucking body would ever think that was a practical idea. Especially not a trained scientist.), and just pisspoor plots.
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I thought maybe it was just me. I was always hearing how great these were, but I had missed them when they first came out. Last year I found them in a used book store and picked them up. When I started reading Red Mars and thought “Og, this is dragging on. When does the story start?” The other two have been sitting on my paperback shelf for six months sneering at me.
However you try to disguise the taste(Mocha,Latte,esspresso and all the other pretentious coffee culture terms)Coffee tastes like heated cow slurry.
I dont like Elvis.
Nurses aren’t angels they are just doing a job.
Theres nothing wonderful or difficult about motherhood and pregnant women dont glow they are a turn off.
There should be some sort of intelligence test to earn the vote.
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Jimi Hendrix. Yeah, okay, a few of his songs are good. “Voodoo Chile” is great. And he could play guitar well. But lots of people can play guitar well, his songwriting overall is mediocre, his voice is terrible (he knew that, which makes it even worse: get a singer, dude), and more than 15 minutes of him puts me to sleep. He was good at making noises, not as good at making music. Mitch Mitchell was the best talent in the Experience, not Hendrix.
[QUOTE=GuanoLad]
Unbiased? You’re asking for a fact, not an opinion. You claimed that he denied it - but I’ve never seen evidence of him denying it.
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See this thread on why official pronouncements from Lucasfilm are not to be trusted.
He’s denied it, so much so that Mark Hamill came out and said that when he signed on, it was to be a total of nine films. Lucas has shifted his story on what happened, and what was planned and what was unplanned that he’s not to be trusted. Nor, has he, to my knowledge, ever acknowledged that “the story wasn’t there” for any of his films, including Howard the Duck.
I’m jumping on the “Joss Whedon stuff is dreck” bandwagon, but mostly because I’m sick of the fanboys/girls who think it’s the best TV and movie ever made, anytime, ever, and that includes the Buffy stuff. And the Buffy fanbase is old and tired, too.
I’d also like to aim a silver bullet at the heart of NPR’s “This I Believe.” It’s just five minutes of some idiot bloviating about their personal “values”. This goes double for my local station’s version of it. It’s neither enlightening nor interesting. It’s precious, twee wanking. If I wanted to hear that crap, I’d go to church.
Ooh, speaking of motherhood, there’s a sacred cow for ya - The Cult of the Child. No, not all children are precious - some are crappy and will grow up to be crappy adults. No, children should not be allowed to just be children in places where their behaviour is negatively affecting other people. And no, you’re not special because you’re a parent - the only people on the planet that you are more special to now is your own children. You’re just an average Jane to the rest of us still (albeit probably a more entitled-acting one now).
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Trip in a cow byre. Just once. Really, that’s all you need. Just once.
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I have spent more time than you might be prepared to believe looking at the rear ends of cows. Actually, I’ve had my arm up the fundaments of several cows, what with A-I and difficult calvings, etc., but I guess it’s my good luck that so far - blessedly so - I have never managed to mess up in such a way that cow dung and my taste buds have actually met and interacted in any way.
OTOH, I know only too well what fresh cow plops feel like between bare toes.
I once read, and perhaps since you used the word “byre” you might know if this is true or not, that cowherds in the Highlands used to put cow dung in their boots to keep their feet warm? My thoughts recoil . . :eek:
[QUOTE=Scissorjack]
Science fiction. Face it, it’s a dead genre [snip] SF is about as relevant now as black and white cowboy ‘n’ injun movies.
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1960 wants its scathing, biting criticism back.
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
Sorry, but that’s Lucas’s site, it’s not exactly unbiased. Lucas also said at one time there’d be nine movies in the series, and then backpedaled on that, and denied ever saying it, even though it’s in his introduction to the original edition of The Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.
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The fact that it’s Lucas’s site kind of makes it more definitive that Lucas doesn’t deny that the Episode IV crawl was added after the fact. I’m not sure what you’re disbelieving here.
On the other fact, you’re correct. I believe the change occured in the Special Edition version of the novelizations, in which he said it was always his plan to only make six movies, prompting hundreds of thousands of readers to say, “Wha…?” in unison.
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The fact that it’s Lucas’s site kind of makes it more definitive that Lucas doesn’t deny that the Episode IV crawl was added after the fact. I’m not sure what you’re disbelieving here.
[/quote] Now, he’s claiming that it was added, but that hasn’t always been the case. In the past, he’s said it was there from the beginning.
It was also stripped from the rerelease of The Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.
Not every Native American who ever lived was born in perfect harmony with Mother Nature, instinctively living in a way that had no negative ecological impact.
Peter Jackson. He’s done two decent movies in his life: Meet the Feebles and that one about the lesbians. The rest? Long, ponderous, overly CGI’d shit.
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You forgot Dead Alive.
I’m not sure I’ve ever run into someone who was heavily into science fiction and liked the Mars books. The overwhelming consensus seems to be that they’re pretty awful.
Lurk, it just gets worse from Red Mars. Trust me; don’t read them unless you have to.
I always thought the idea for a series came after the success of the first one. It was a huge surprise that the movie was so successful, I remember. Didn’t think a sequel had even been thought of until then.