as a child it was cool. as an adult it’s just sooooooo loooooooong…
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
on 19 Sep 2025 23:38
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I saw the movie in the theater during the original run. I have a copy on VHS, and I have a copy on DVD. The version on the DVD is longer and adds NOTHING, it’s more footage of the same shit happening.
doomcanoe@piefed.social
on 20 Sep 2025 00:35
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Fuck I miss seeing things as a child…
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub
on 19 Sep 2025 18:29
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IIRC, you don’t need the force to cheat at Sabbac. Just need to be the main character who goes first
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world
on 19 Sep 2025 19:48
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“What if we just let George do whatever he wants and nobody says anything?”
chuckleslord@lemmy.world
on 19 Sep 2025 19:55
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Oh, people said things. But he just told them off and did what he was going to do anyways.
Like when he wanted cgi troopers for attack of the clones. Everyone told him it was going to be costly, look worse than real actors, and be time consuming. He stuck his feet in the sand and they did it anyways.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
on 20 Sep 2025 06:48
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“Now that I’ve mastered digital eyelash rendering my characters are better than ever!”
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 19 Sep 2025 21:54
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The prequels were huge blow to Auteur Theory. Even if you think they’re redeemed, I think you still have to admit that this isn’t the result you would want for complete creative control.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world
on 19 Sep 2025 19:58
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Yes, and that’s why you’re the nerd Padawan and I’m the cool, hotshot Jedi Knight
lividweasel@lemmy.world
on 19 Sep 2025 20:06
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“I’m not your Palawan, buddy!”
shittydwarf@piefed.social
on 19 Sep 2025 20:59
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We’ll be coming back for his mom, right master?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
on 20 Sep 2025 18:53
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Maybe later, once we’re finished with all our duties, like putting down the illegal Tattooine slave uprising and various other revolts that threaten the status quo.
Actually, on second thought, a mother is a personal connection. Can’t have the Jedi making human connections because if they end up dying without heirs, the Jedi order usually gets most or all of their shit. We’ll just ignore the whole genetic component of force sensitivity (and also fail to discover that Anakin’s strength is because his father was literally the dark side of the force).
ImWaitingForRetcons@lemmy.world
on 23 Sep 2025 23:49
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In Legends, he actually sent a valuable item to Shmi for her to buy herself her freedom, which she gave to Cliegg for him to buy her freedom from Watto.
Edit: he being Qui-Gon
Edit 2: the book was Tatooine Ghost
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
on 24 Sep 2025 01:02
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Which “he”? Obi Wan or Anakin? Or Qui Gon maybe, I could see him doing that soon after getting back to Correscant and there were a lot of significant things that happening off screen during Phantom Menace (eg, that’s when the tragedy of Darth Plagueis happens, right after Palpatine secures the Chancellorship, when Plagueis gets drunk celebrating it).
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
on 25 Sep 2025 02:55
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Hold up, Darth Plagueis was still alive during the events of TPM? I always assumed that Sheev must have killed him before he took on Maul as an apprentice. Rule of two, and all that.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
on 25 Sep 2025 15:50
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Plagueis didn’t believe in the rule of 2 and allowed Palpatine to take an apprentice. He thought they should use whatever strength they could get.
Palpatine also didn’t believe in the rule of 2, but instead followed his own rule of one: he planned on becoming immortal (which the whole coming back was a part of). So he’d take apprentices knowing that they might come for him eventually, and just planned on killing them and replacing them. Like with Vader’s apprentices, he just needed to discover them and make Vader turn on them because he wasn’t confident enough to confront him directly until RotJ when he was killing Luke (after openly offering him Vader’s spot… He hated Vader being broken right from the start, but no one else held a candle to him other than Palp himself).
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
on 26 Sep 2025 05:58
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Huh, thanks for the info!
DarkCloud@lemmy.world
on 19 Sep 2025 21:50
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He knows that
a) pod racing brings other good stuff (tourism, commerce, street vendors).
b) the pod racing industry are wealthy and can take the hit. Rather than betting against other gamblers he’s betting against bookies (the gambling industry).
c) homegrown hero stories bring the planet closer to supporting rebellion politics.
Jesus_666@lemmy.world
on 19 Sep 2025 23:19
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Aren’t the rebels the bad guys at that point? You know, with the whole gassing thing? The rebellion against the Galactic Empire doesn’t exist, seeing how the Galactic Empire doesn’t even exist yet.
elephantium@lemmy.world
on 20 Sep 2025 00:50
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IIRC they called the bad guys the Separatists in that movie.
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But then we wouldn’t have a cool pod-racing scene!
Or the n64 cash grab game! (That I actually kinda liked)
The PC pod racing game was fun. At least, I thought it was at the time.
I remember the Gameboy Color game with rumble pack being pretty fun as well, but really hard.
as a child it was cool. as an adult it’s just sooooooo loooooooong…
I saw the movie in the theater during the original run. I have a copy on VHS, and I have a copy on DVD. The version on the DVD is longer and adds NOTHING, it’s more footage of the same shit happening.
Fuck I miss seeing things as a child…
IIRC, you don’t need the force to cheat at Sabbac. Just need to be the main character who goes first
“What if we just let George do whatever he wants and nobody says anything?”
Oh, people said things. But he just told them off and did what he was going to do anyways.
Like when he wanted cgi troopers for attack of the clones. Everyone told him it was going to be costly, look worse than real actors, and be time consuming. He stuck his feet in the sand and they did it anyways.
“Now that I’ve mastered digital eyelash rendering my characters are better than ever!”
The prequels were huge blow to Auteur Theory. Even if you think they’re redeemed, I think you still have to admit that this isn’t the result you would want for complete creative control.
Yes, and that’s why you’re the nerd Padawan and I’m the cool, hotshot Jedi Knight
“I’m not your Palawan, buddy!”
We’ll be coming back for his mom, right master?
Maybe later, once we’re finished with all our duties, like putting down the illegal Tattooine slave uprising and various other revolts that threaten the status quo.
Actually, on second thought, a mother is a personal connection. Can’t have the Jedi making human connections because if they end up dying without heirs, the Jedi order usually gets most or all of their shit. We’ll just ignore the whole genetic component of force sensitivity (and also fail to discover that Anakin’s strength is because his father was literally the dark side of the force).
In Legends, he actually sent a valuable item to Shmi for her to buy herself her freedom, which she gave to Cliegg for him to buy her freedom from Watto.
Edit: he being Qui-Gon Edit 2: the book was Tatooine Ghost
Which “he”? Obi Wan or Anakin? Or Qui Gon maybe, I could see him doing that soon after getting back to Correscant and there were a lot of significant things that happening off screen during Phantom Menace (eg, that’s when the tragedy of Darth Plagueis happens, right after Palpatine secures the Chancellorship, when Plagueis gets drunk celebrating it).
Hold up, Darth Plagueis was still alive during the events of TPM? I always assumed that Sheev must have killed him before he took on Maul as an apprentice. Rule of two, and all that.
Plagueis didn’t believe in the rule of 2 and allowed Palpatine to take an apprentice. He thought they should use whatever strength they could get.
Palpatine also didn’t believe in the rule of 2, but instead followed his own rule of one: he planned on becoming immortal (which the whole coming back was a part of). So he’d take apprentices knowing that they might come for him eventually, and just planned on killing them and replacing them. Like with Vader’s apprentices, he just needed to discover them and make Vader turn on them because he wasn’t confident enough to confront him directly until RotJ when he was killing Luke (after openly offering him Vader’s spot… He hated Vader being broken right from the start, but no one else held a candle to him other than Palp himself).
Huh, thanks for the info!
He knows that
a) pod racing brings other good stuff (tourism, commerce, street vendors).
b) the pod racing industry are wealthy and can take the hit. Rather than betting against other gamblers he’s betting against bookies (the gambling industry).
c) homegrown hero stories bring the planet closer to supporting rebellion politics.
Aren’t the rebels the bad guys at that point? You know, with the whole gassing thing? The rebellion against the Galactic Empire doesn’t exist, seeing how the Galactic Empire doesn’t even exist yet.
IIRC they called the bad guys the Separatists in that movie.
They didn’t exist then either. The bad guys were the Trade Federation that blockaded Naboo and wanted to take over the planet.
Weren’t the trade federation and the separatists the same thing?
Or am I mixing up my ep 1 and ep 2 names?
It’s been a while, and tbh I’m not eager to go back and rewatch them.
The Trade Federation were part of the Separatist in Episode 2 and 3 (and the Clone Wars series).