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Post by Somny on Mar 29, 2023 20:29:32 GMT
I started a blog. I've been meaning to do so for a while now. It's nothing too fancy. I just felt like I could use a place to dump some of my random thoughts on Star Wars minutia, especially of the prequels. These are all just my interpretations of things, which I like about SW. You can look at things from many different points of view. seekerofthewhills.wordpress.com/2023/03/29/prequel-thoughts-jedi-rave/Lovely! I appreciated the reference in your inaugural post to the subtle, visual ornamentation of the marching armies on the holographic displays. Such a potent detail I'd never noticed! |
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Post by Seeker of the Whills on Mar 30, 2023 3:47:48 GMT
I started a blog. I've been meaning to do so for a while now. It's nothing too fancy. I just felt like I could use a place to dump some of my random thoughts on Star Wars minutia, especially of the prequels. These are all just my interpretations of things, which I like about SW. You can look at things from many different points of view. seekerofthewhills.wordpress.com/2023/03/29/prequel-thoughts-jedi-rave/Lovely! I appreciated the reference in your inaugural post to the subtle, visual ornamentation of the marching armies on the holographic displays. Such a potent detail I'd never noticed! Ever since I became cognizant of that detail, I've been fascinated by that moment. A lot more could be written about it, so I may follow up on it. That moment is just visual jazz at its finest. |
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Post by Samnz on Mar 31, 2023 14:12:53 GMT
I started a blog. I've been meaning to do so for a while now. It's nothing too fancy. I just felt like I could use a place to dump some of my random thoughts on Star Wars minutia, especially of the prequels. These are all just my interpretations of things, which I like about SW. You can look at things from many different points of view. seekerofthewhills.wordpress.com/2023/03/29/prequel-thoughts-jedi-rave/Love the choice for your first post because I hate people who judge art primarily on the own, very limited understanding of "realism". There is nothing more boring than that and an obvious sign of people clearly thinking inside the box and not outside the box, which is a trademark of visionaries like George Lucas. |
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Post by Seeker of the Whills on Mar 31, 2023 14:38:05 GMT
I started a blog. I've been meaning to do so for a while now. It's nothing too fancy. I just felt like I could use a place to dump some of my random thoughts on Star Wars minutia, especially of the prequels. These are all just my interpretations of things, which I like about SW. You can look at things from many different points of view. seekerofthewhills.wordpress.com/2023/03/29/prequel-thoughts-jedi-rave/Love the choice for your first post because I hate people who judge art primarily on the own, very limited understanding of "realism". There is nothing more boring than that and an obvious sign of people clearly thinking inside the box and not outside the box, which is a trademark of visionaries like George Lucas. Yeah, I totally agree. Lucas is a virtuoso who plays with images like a musician plays notes. The whole Battle of the Heroes sequence and how it's intercut with Yoda vs. Palpatine creates such a strong emotional effect, that it becomes like a visual tone poem. The music by John Williams is also phenomenal, how it incorporates some of Duel of the Fates, calling back to that first battle between Jedi and Sith. You have the personal battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan, and the battle for the soul of the entire Republic with Yoda and Palpatine. The emotion of the duel between Ani and Obi is so strong and exhaustive, that you almost need that short break there, and the whole fight is really well segmented. |
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Post by jppiper on Apr 1, 2023 16:46:11 GMT
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Post by Somny on Apr 1, 2023 18:18:58 GMT
I remember when this happened on the official site in 2001! It lasted for a week or two, if I recall correctly.  |
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Post by Subtext Mining on Apr 21, 2023 19:34:50 GMT
Anyone else having trouble with Starwarsscreencaps.com? For about a month now I can't get any of the screencap images to load. I don't know if its just my end or what. Sometimes the first page of a movie will load, but when I go to a subsequent page, nothing. Yes. Very frustrating. The site has always suffered from patchy screencaps loading, or not loading, at random from one page to the next, often leaving nearly half the caps or more per page blank. And on occasion I could bring up any number of pages with virtually zero loading issues whatsoever. But as of late the site seems to have lost its shit. Which is unfortunate, as no other archive online is as complete and of high-res quality.  |
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Post by Cryogenic on Apr 21, 2023 22:55:36 GMT
Yes. Very frustrating. The site has always suffered from patchy screencaps loading, or not loading, at random from one page to the next, often leaving nearly half the caps or more per page blank. And on occasion I could bring up any number of pages with virtually zero loading issues whatsoever. But as of late the site seems to have lost its shit. Which is unfortunate, as no other archive online is as complete and of high-res quality.  |
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Post by Samnz on May 1, 2023 9:34:12 GMT
Just a random thought. That sweet smell of spring that is in the air at this time of the year just screams "Episode II" to my inner senses. It's like the Naboo Lake Country flows through the air.
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Post by Subtext Mining on May 1, 2023 18:53:32 GMT
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Post by Subtext Mining on May 8, 2023 16:26:33 GMT
I don't want things to change.
I guess some things (young Anakins) never do.
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Post by smittysgelato on May 8, 2023 19:15:36 GMT
Find me a clip of young Hayden saying, "Yippeee!" and I will love you forever.
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Post by Subtext Mining on May 11, 2023 15:14:07 GMT
That was my first thought too. Here's one you can insert a lot of PT lines into. I'd also like to insert a lot of lines from this into the PT  |
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Post by smittysgelato on May 11, 2023 19:56:07 GMT
Shoulda ended with Hayden exclaiming: "Poodoo!" xD
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Post by Seeker of the Whills on Jun 2, 2023 10:29:10 GMT
I'm a big fan of DC Comics, especially their classic comics from the Golden, Silver and Bronze age. My second favorite character after Batman, of course, is Hawkman, and I just happened to discover this issue with a very familiar title.  |
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Post by Subtext Mining on Jun 3, 2023 6:58:11 GMT
Great find! Yeah, as a kid I loved Hawkman, he definitely deserves more love. And yes, I've come across The Phantom Menace a few times in other places, I wish I had kept the references though, because now I can't remember where they were from. But that term seemed to be used a bit during the earlier part of the cold war era.
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Post by smittysgelato on Jun 3, 2023 19:35:05 GMT
Great find! Yeah, as a kid I loved Hawkman, he definitely deserves more love. And yes, I've come across The Phantom Menace a few times in other places, I wish I had kept the references though, because now I can't remember where they were from. But that term seemed to be used a bit during the earlier part of the cold war era. That makes so much sense. The infiltration of institutions by hostile ideologies seems to be a reoccurring fear that is expressed in American media. |
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Post by Ingram on Jun 7, 2023 5:54:46 GMT
That was my first thought too. Here's one you can insert a lot of PT lines into. I'd also like to insert a lot of lines from this into the PT
Anakin in a yellow speeder. C'mon.
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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on Jun 10, 2023 1:37:24 GMT
Yup, May is very much Star Wars month.
Good in the sense of spring as you suggest, bad in the sense that May is also usually examination month (or the time closely leading up to it) for a student. Exams in December don't tend to be as serious |
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Post by Subtext Mining on Jul 10, 2023 12:39:13 GMT
Anyone heard of the card game Love Letter? It's one of my favorite games, and they also have a Star Wars edition, based around the goings-on of Jabba's Palace, which I own. Back in around May, I took it with me to a trivia quiz to kill time between rounds. Now during quizzes, it's best to write down your guess for an answer on a piece of paper while discussing it with your teammates, so the other teams don't hear you. But in this quiz one question was, "Who speaks the first line in the first Star Wars film [ANH]?" And instead of writing it down, I got the C-3P0 card out of the deck and put on the table. And we ended up winning that one, too.  |
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