Maybe it’s a Galactic Standard suffix meaning “extreme climate.”
Ooh, ooh, Mr. Kotter, I can fanwank that one! How about “-tooine” is the rundown remainder of a word that means ‘planet’?
Just like if you took four or five random town names in the U.S., there’s a decent chance that two of them would end in “-ton” (or “-ville”); or four or five random countries in Asia would end in “-stan”.
[SW Geek mode On] Also mentioned is Kessel, as in Spice Mines of Kessel.[ SW Geek mode Off]
I’m not sure I entirely understand that. She’s beautiful to him, because she’s a beautiful ogre. I mean, the whole interspecies thing would be… odd?
But haven’t ogres been known to be attracted to humans? At least in fairy tale land?
Plus, if you want interspecies, how about Donkey and Dragon?
I just think there could have been a moment where Neo or Trinity or Morpheus expressed a hint of regret for all of the slaves they had to sacrifice so they could save the rest. Or even a scene where they say “Let’s do it this way instead because we’ll encounter fewer enslaved guards so we can avoid killing them.” But they always attacked the most direct way possible and killed as many people as possible and their only apparent concern was how cool they looked while doing it.
Well, this scene does address that issue. Essentially, if any person can instantly transform into a sentient hunter/killer program, self-preservation for a freed mind has to take priority over an enslaved one. The movie doesn’t gloss over this either (we repeatedly see, after an agent is killed, that the corpse transforms back into a civilian), but I think with the scale of the struggle against them, they can’t afford to do excessive hand-wringing about “collateral damage”. And except for the rescue of Morpheus, we never see them engage in any combat. Their goal is to be as inconspicuous as possible (designer duds, notwithstanding). The reason they go over-the-top with the assault on the building was exactly to get the agents’ attention. My $0.02.
Perhaps in Buzz’s ignorance of being a toy he also did not know how to break the toy rules, but that still leaves Woody. He claims to be Andy’s friend, and goes into a catatonic state and ignores him whenever he’s around. If Andy likes a lifeless cowboy doll with a pull string, how much would he love a sentient cowboy that he could interact with? But Woody gives him the ultimate cold shoulder, the bastard.
How can you mutilate toys? They’re hunks of plastic, at least as far as Sid knows. It’s clear he’s a bully, because of how he treats his sister and dog, but the stuff with the toys is actually pretty cool. To Andy, a cowboy is just a cowboy, a spaceman is a spaceman; everything is what it is and always shall be. Sid is the creative one, the inventor; the kind of kid who (sentient toys aside) would grow up to found a company like Pixar, to do something the world has never seen before. Andy will grow up to be an accountant.
Every time I see this thread title, I misread it as “Richard Petty rants against against well liked movies.”
I stand corrected.
Fine fanwanks, to be sure, but a fine fanwank is nothing more than an acknowledgement of a kludgy original story. Lucas’s doing this without providing a context for it is simply a crude storytelling mistake. Like having an Imperial officer named “Larkin” wandering around in the same story as Tarkin would have been.
I disagree - it’s quite realistic that places would have similar names, and Lucas recognizing this is a nice touch. Take, for instance:
Uruguay vs. Paraguay
North Dakota vs. South Dakota
Iraq vs. Iran
Switzerland vs. Swaziland
Kansas vs. Arkansas
London vs. Londonderry
India vs. Indiana.
Slovakia vs. Slovenia
If I even invented a world I’d make sure that some of the names were similar, and I’d never explain it. That’s because worlds are messy, disorganized places places.
North Virginia vs South Virginia 
Then Lucas picked a really odd element to use to shove “realism” in our faces, I’d say. It’s a poor storyteller who decides to put a stumbling block to understanding what’s being said right in the middle of one of the tenser scenes in his story.
Oh, come on. Four of the the planets in our solar system end in “-nus” in their original latinate form. You’d think the Romans would be more inventive with the names for their greater deities, but there you go.
Again, it’s about context. When you learn the names of the planets in our solar system, you can ask “what’s up with that?” Lucas is telling a story in a way that doesn’t permit such queries, and that’s poor storytelling. Besides which, he’s not working with a mythology that existed before he used it to tell his story. He’s making his story up as he goes along.
But before this degenerates, let’s not forget that the thread title calls for “petty rants.” I’m just picking at a loose thread in his tapestry here, folks.
The thing is, I hear ‘Dantooine’ and think, “hey, that sounds a lot like ‘Tatooine.’ I wonder why that is? There’s got to be a story there.” In world-building terms, giving the impression that there are more stories than one in the universe is a good thing.
What is this Londonderry of which you speak? 
What bugged me about the movie was the German they releases was somehow made out to be more evil when then discovered he was fighting them again.
Er…what exactly was he supposed to do? Hide in France? Surrender to the French resistance? Go back to his platoon and tell them that since the Americans had let him go he couldn’t fight anymore?
I woulnd’t add the smiley…:eek:
that’s one of the most awful things I have ever read on this message board. Honestly, I don’t even agree with Lissner’s view but this comment is miserable.