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So, some of you may or may not be aware that in the early eightes, National Public Radio made dramtizations of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. Then their funding got cut, and they didn't make Return of the Jedi until, like, 1996 when the Expanded Universe was big bucks again.
The point to all this is, my increasingly nocturnal lifestyle means that I've been whiling away the early hours of the morning inskeezy Star Wars related skeezy chatrooms. And then someone found a website that let you stream the entire SW radio drama, and then some of us started listening to it, and then it was the most hilarious group-across-net-activity on the planet.
LET ME TELL YOU WHY.
( NONSTOP GAY INNUENDO )
( HILARIOUS VOICE 'ACTORS' AND HILARIOUSLY AWESOME VOICE ACTORS! )
( LUKE/LEIA OTP?! WTF?! )
( And seriously, some of this shit is DARK; perhaps even intentionally. )
And, um, finally, there's the piece de resistance.
THIS:
You know when Vader shows up to interrogate Princess Leia with that evil looking floaty ball thing? Yeah, well, this is what happens after the tasteful cut.
Now...fair warning. This is, um, disturbing. It's also hilarious, but it's the kind of hilarious you feel dirty for laughing at. Or more accurately, it's the kind of disturbing you have to laugh at because otherwise you might run screaming into the night.
Now, true, making this in 1981, they couldn't have had any idea how pertinent it would be for Vader to choose burning alive as an imagery for pain, or, far more disturbingly, how WRONG it would be to have him yell, "DON'T YOU WANT TO PLEASE YOUR FATHER?!" while Porno!Leia is...moaning somewhere on the floor.
But still. Um. Yeah. Well. THAT.
So, final verdict on the radio dramas? They are incredible if you're willing to approach them as CRACK ON TOAST. It's like 60% amazingly produced drama that improves on its source material, 10% OMG what have you DONE to the source material?!, 20% you MUST have realised how suggestive/disturbed that sounded at the time - was it intentional? cus if it was intentional then RESPECT, and 10% you know, in hindsight this is all TERRIBLY dodgy.
Either way, it was a great ride, and best listened to in a group.
The point to all this is, my increasingly nocturnal lifestyle means that I've been whiling away the early hours of the morning in
LET ME TELL YOU WHY.
( NONSTOP GAY INNUENDO )
( HILARIOUS VOICE 'ACTORS' AND HILARIOUSLY AWESOME VOICE ACTORS! )
( LUKE/LEIA OTP?! WTF?! )
( And seriously, some of this shit is DARK; perhaps even intentionally. )
And, um, finally, there's the piece de resistance.
THIS:
You know when Vader shows up to interrogate Princess Leia with that evil looking floaty ball thing? Yeah, well, this is what happens after the tasteful cut.
Now...fair warning. This is, um, disturbing. It's also hilarious, but it's the kind of hilarious you feel dirty for laughing at. Or more accurately, it's the kind of disturbing you have to laugh at because otherwise you might run screaming into the night.
Now, true, making this in 1981, they couldn't have had any idea how pertinent it would be for Vader to choose burning alive as an imagery for pain, or, far more disturbingly, how WRONG it would be to have him yell, "DON'T YOU WANT TO PLEASE YOUR FATHER?!" while Porno!Leia is...moaning somewhere on the floor.
But still. Um. Yeah. Well. THAT.
So, final verdict on the radio dramas? They are incredible if you're willing to approach them as CRACK ON TOAST. It's like 60% amazingly produced drama that improves on its source material, 10% OMG what have you DONE to the source material?!, 20% you MUST have realised how suggestive/disturbed that sounded at the time - was it intentional? cus if it was intentional then RESPECT, and 10% you know, in hindsight this is all TERRIBLY dodgy.
Either way, it was a great ride, and best listened to in a group.
