Well, because after the original show was over, “five O” became slang for a cop.
Yes, as I recently learned. But it’s one thing not to believe it, another to openly scoff that any such thing could possibly be true in this universe. Weird.
So I got around to watching Star Wars (“A New Hope”) this week, and I discovered something I had not noticed before. No, not C3PO’s silver lower leg - that’s been pointed out before. No, this was truly earth-shattering.
Han Solo’s shirt is NOT white. It’s actually a pale yellow/green color. Check it out.
Apparently I’m not the only one, as even the action figures have white shirts.
(Yes, this was the new version where Greedo shoots and Han ducks. It also for some reason omitted the “many Bothans died to bring us this” line. I think maybe edited for time.)
Also, I watched the scrolling intro, and it said something about the Rebels having won their first major battle and stolen the plans to the Death Star. I don’t recall that, but it has been forever since I’ve watched the show and I didn’t have the scroll memorized or anything. So the prequel they just released last year fits better than I thought.
There’s also a missed continuity - when the stormtroopers are stopping Luke and Obi-wan in the landspeeder, they have surrounded the vehicle and several scenes show troopers on the other side be Obi-wan. And then the final cut to that view after Obi-wan does his magic with the “move along” there aren’t any troopers there. None on the backside or far side, where they were just seconds before. I suppose one could pretend they walked out of view to the back, but that’s cheating.
Or maybe because that line is in *Return of the Jedi. *
I’m really late to this thread’s party but, no I don’t think so.
Watch this. This is when Luke asks Obi-wan how his father died. Watch Obi-Wan’s expression.
Now, I suppose one could look at Obi-wan’s immediate shifty expression there as “reliving a bad memory” there. However, I look at it as “I’m about to unload a pile of bullshit.” Now, in retrospect, we know what the bullshit was. But to the audience, at the time, they wouldn’t have known that.
I do think George gave direction to Alec to play it off as shifty. I don’t think he told Alec what it was about, but I think George knew there was more to this story than Obi-wan was saying. Maybe not that Vader was his father, but quite possibly.
“young Sheldon” has some very big shoes to fill, having to play a character so firmly established in The Big Bang Theory. Maybe the big boots at the beginning of the show’s opening sequence are a reflection of that idea?
I was listening to Georgie Girl the other day and I just noticed they kept throwing the line “a little bit” into the lyrics. In other words, loosen up but don’t go wild.
Ear worm successfully implanted. Thanks, furryman.
Thanks. That certainly clears up a confusion in my brain.
I was being a bit facetious there. I agree Obi-wan looks a bit shifty, and can be interpreted as giving a “sanitized” version of the story, so maybe Lucas knew that all along.
There are plenty of things to seriously criticize. Like the trash compactor - where does all the trash go? The room starts out twenty feet wide and by the end of the sequence it is only a couple feet wide, but somehow all the trash got compacted without spreading into the upper half of the chamber. And somehow Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewy manage to not get tangled in the debris and crushed by the stuff that is getting mushed. Hmmmmm, maybe the toy got it right. Star Wars News, Articles & Quizzes | StarWars.com (Scroll past the glowing review to the pic of the trash compactor.)
Or why only Luke and Han get medals, but Chewy just gets to stand there. Or what about the other two pilots who were in the mission and made it back? They get no recognition at all for risking their lives - 30 went out and three come back, plus the Millennium Falcon. Oh well.
In all the Mission: Impossible movies, how many things does Tom Cruise fly, or fall, off of? I counted five in just the current trailer. I think it would be funny to watch the movies, estimate the distance of each plummet, and add them all up.
More of a dingy cream, IMO, but, yes, not clean white.
I just realised why the new movie Ocean’s 8 chose the number 8. It’s because if they make enough sequels for a trilogy, it will be -9 and -10, and it won’t ever encroach on the original Ocean’s 11.
I just listened to the audiobook of The Handmaid’s Tale, after having watched the show and, years ago, read the book. It finally dawned on me that the generically-religious sounding phrase “Under His Eye” has deeper meaning, particularly with the word “His” in there.
I’ve known Jethro Tull’s song Aqualung ever since the eponymous album came out in 1971. I owned it on vinyl and have listened to it thousands of times over the past five decades.
Despite that, it was only a week or two ago that I heard the lines
Leg hurting bad as he bends to pick a dog end
He goes down to a bog and warms his feet
and realized that “bog” referred to a public rest room. I’ve known this bit of British slang for ages, but perhaps not when I first heard the song as a teenager. At that time I imagined that it was referring to a literal bog (and wondered how he could warm his feet in “wet muddy ground”). Later, when I learned the slang meaning, I somehow never consciously transposed that sense of the word into the song. My mind held onto its first, literal, understanding. :smack:
However, to my credit, I did always know that “dog end” meant a discarded cigarette butt.
I just realized that the classic game “Tetris” is so-named because all the pieces are composed of 4 little squares.
::dopesmack::
Holy shit. An entry for this thread which (a) is actually obvious, (b) is actually true, and (c) probably was noticed after a very large number of times (if not literally a million). I may hug you!
I heard about a neuroscientist studying dreams who realized he could control the content of dreams by exposing subjects to hours of the same stimulus. He had his subjects play Tetris for hours on end, and after that, they dreamed of falling Block shapes. I’ve had those dreams in my younger years…
Just gotta say one more thing: “Line piece! Line piece! LINE PIECE!”
One thing I just realized about the original Blues Brothers film: The restaurant scene with Matt, Lou and Aretha, is the only scene in the whole movie where people break into an incredible song-and-dance routine in a venue where that never happens. Even other singing scene is in a place where people normally do such things (though the church scene and the jail house rock scene are a bit much).
Having worked for several decades in the prison system, I can tell you that your belief that they’re places were spontaneous song and dance routines normally occur is incorrect.