And “royal” titles don’t seem to have been as associated with hereditary monarchy as they are in our galaxy. Natalie Portman, after all, was elected queen for a term.
Is that line supposed to be funny? They’re about to dive into a dumpster. I’d expect it to smell bad, and it’s not a stretch that the big, hairy space alien has a keener sense of smell than a human. Chewbacca doesn’t strike me as a comic relief character. There’s some humor around him, but it all derives from how the other characters react to this menacing fur monster standing around, not from anything Chewbacca actually says or does. “Get this walking carpet out of my way,” is Leia being funny, not Chebacca.
Silly how? (Heh. I feel like Joe Pesci. “Silly how? Do I amuse you? Am I some kind of alien space clown to you?”) I don’t get a “silly” vibe off the cantina scene aliens, I get a “dangerous lowlifes” vibe. They look pretty weird, sure, but not in a silly way.
The Sith Empire (in the Expanded Universe) rose and fell repeatedly over the millennia. It’s the Sith Empire which is referred to in SWTOR.
About 1000 years before the time of the movies, the Sith (practitioners of the Dark Side of the Force) were nearly wiped out, and (IIRC) the two remaining Sith went into hiding. They then pursued a strategy of having only two Sith alive at any one time, until one finally arose (Darth Sidious, a.k.a. Senator / Chancellor / Emperor Palpatine) who was capable of exacting the Siths’ revenge against the Galactic Republic. Sidious then established the Galactic Empire, which is the “Empire” referred to in the movies.
Wretched, perhaps? Scum, you might say. Villainous, even.
Nose flutes.
Look, Han shot first, I know. I’ve fallen into a den of fan boys. I’ll buy everyone a drink and just back on out…
You mean these guys?
(Like Han, draws Broomstick Mauser under the table and sets it to “Emasculate”.)
Why, yes, thank you. Drinks are on me, guys. I left the coffee pot on back on Altair IV. Gotta go. It’s been real.
Broomstick Mauser.
…Backs slowly towards the door…
But he has. At least, I have them. Thisis the exact copy of Star Wars that I have on DVD - my husband bought it for me for Christmas several years ago. Yes, it does have the disasterous “enhanced” edition on it from 1997, but it also has the original theatrical 1977 release on it (although in 4:3, not in widescreen). That’s the one I’ll watch; I’ll never watch the enhanced one. Similar DVDs are available for Empire and Return. You can also get the original theatrical versions (and enhanced versions) in a bundle- it’s hella expensive, but it’s available. No, the original theatrical versions are not restored; they’re transfers from videodisk masters, but they are the ones you saw back in the 80s.
And the “enhanced versions” and episodes 1-3 are available in blu-ray, here and here.