Welcome to Naberrie Fields! Introductions & banter

Registration done. Not only the top pictures, but your avatars are avesome. I should fine a good one.

Welcome PiscesPeacemonger! I look forward to discussing the wonder of the prequels with you.

Hello! It's about time but I am here.

How has everyone been doing? Is that private message chat still going strong?

Hey man, good to see you. The PM thread hasn't been quite the same since you and Cryogenic were banned. But yes, we still all get together on Skype sometimes. Speaking of which, be sure to check your messages there, I messaged you last month about an upcoming chat we had. I also added you to our ongoing conversation, so you can read it and join in if you want. Take care.

Welcome new members.

Also, it's great how this has turned into the (much needed) welcoming thread for new members, when it's actually a welcoming thread for the admin by the host company , that I forgot to put on private. But hey, c'est la vie.

(Dr. Nick voice) Hi, everybody!

Miss me? Cryo's back in town...

Took a bit of prodding, I'll admit, to get me back in town.

And you all have Arch Duke to thank for the honour -- if it all goes wrong, blame him! Arch Duke not only prodded, he may have also punched and even threatened to blow up my house (or, failing that, he may have intimated he was going to bury my house under an enormous mound of "The Last Jedi" Blu-rays -- can't remember, but I wouldn't put it past him to deliver an ironic punishment or two...).

Kidding aside, I should have made some effort to start posting here ages ago. I last saw y'all during the last Ice Age, I believe? And now, I hear, it's getting warm. From Hoth to Tatooine. Anyway, looking forward to rolling up my sleeves and causing some trouble! What else are message boards for?   

On another note, gah! This interface is a little odd, isn't it? My screen is swamped by chat window. Too much chat window. I have to get used to a new "text" canvas and I'm feeling a little disoriented right now. If you didn't know, I've been skulking a lot in the Naboo News comments section, recently -- another THX-y (and rather unsex-y) sea of white interface. I've had many an engaging conversation with the aforementioned Arch Duke on there. In a way, I'm getting a taste of my own medicine by posting here, since I kept encouraging him to join Naberrie Fields -- and he actually did, then started harassing me about it! The nerve!     

Ha! You can never go wrong quoting Palpatine. 

I, too, hope we get a few of the "old crew" back -- all of them, in fact.

And plenty of new ones, including familiar faces from a former message board that started going down the tubes a few years ago...

I'm trying to think of a dedicated prequel board existing anywhere else. I think Lazy Padawan, the owner of SWPAS, or The Star Wars Prequel Appreciation Society, had one attached to her site, some years ago. That's right. I even made a few posts there. This is definitely going back a while, though.

There are one or two more general Star Wars boards around, and I'm sure most of us are familiar with at least one of them. Perhaps focusing just on the prequels and originals -- or the six-film George Lucas saga -- is too narrow. Who knows? I guess this site can be considered a bit of an experiment.

The Disney films seem to have gone over like a lead balloon for a lot of hardcore prequel fans. Although I don't think that means they can't be discussed here. But I love the saga-centric focus of this site. Again, that means the Lucas saga, with the prequels providing the foundation. If you're a prequel fan, in other words, you've come to the right place.

By the way...

As that last message proves (I'll leave it unedited), there are plenty of kinks to try and iron out here.

I enlarged the font for that one line, to emphasise my astonishment at noticing Troll Dahl having posted here, and then I set the size back down. But something weird happened. The last two lines of my message look smaller, to me, than the preceding ones. But I didn't tamper with the size setting a second time? All those lines should match.

Text spacing also seems to glitch between the text box (or the full-reply box) and actually posting; they don't seem to fully correspond. In other words: when you are typing out your response, everything may look okay, but when you submit your post and look at it in the thread, spacing errors (in the form of extra spaces) have suddenly been introduced. Annoying.

Anyway, what we have is what we have -- for now. Here's hoping more people join. And hello, again, to all existing members, and hello to even the lurkers and shirkers! Please join. This is a relaxed enclave. Once again, if you like the prequels, you're at the right place.