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beccatoriaSo, I saw the BSG finale, and I promise, thoughts are forthcoming. However, I'm not in a thinky mood right now, and I just discovered THIS on Wookipedia (Star Wars Wiki):
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Neimoidian_headgear
Seriously. This is an entry all about the HATS that those trade federation blue fish dudes from Episode One wore.
Also, the attempts of Lucasfilm to integrate EVERYTHING into canon (which I respect; I really really do, when it doesn't lead to travesties like this) means that the following Star Wars: Galaxies plotline is canon: "It also allows them to interact with the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi whom is lost on Mustafar and needs the aid of the players to help him "find his way back"."
They have, unfortunately changed the wording now so it's slightly less ridiculous. But seriously... "Strike me down, Darth, and I will become more disoriented than you can possibly imagine!"
Also: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cody_Sunn-Childe
Crack. Absolute crack I tell you. And you know what, all that stuff in the Marvel 1970s comics? Canon.
Also, I am playing Necromunda again (miniatures war game where you err, play a futuristic 1980s style gang fighting for control of territory in the "underhive"). I love my new gang. My leader is Nancy Pelosi and she is fearsome and has a flamethrower. Also Isis Roslin managed to gain IMPRESSIVE SCARZZZZZ and now has a badass rep. Finally, Mara "If You Fuck With Me I'll Kill You" Carandini Lee (yes after Christopher Carandini Lee) managed to survive without getting nailed by absolutely ever other ganger on the table for the presumption of her name. So all in all it was a good. Perhaps I shall play again later in the week.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Neimoidian_headgear
Seriously. This is an entry all about the HATS that those trade federation blue fish dudes from Episode One wore.
Also, the attempts of Lucasfilm to integrate EVERYTHING into canon (which I respect; I really really do, when it doesn't lead to travesties like this) means that the following Star Wars: Galaxies plotline is canon: "It also allows them to interact with the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi whom is lost on Mustafar and needs the aid of the players to help him "find his way back"."
They have, unfortunately changed the wording now so it's slightly less ridiculous. But seriously... "Strike me down, Darth, and I will become more disoriented than you can possibly imagine!"
Also: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cody_Sunn-Childe
Crack. Absolute crack I tell you. And you know what, all that stuff in the Marvel 1970s comics? Canon.
Also, I am playing Necromunda again (miniatures war game where you err, play a futuristic 1980s style gang fighting for control of territory in the "underhive"). I love my new gang. My leader is Nancy Pelosi and she is fearsome and has a flamethrower. Also Isis Roslin managed to gain IMPRESSIVE SCARZZZZZ and now has a badass rep. Finally, Mara "If You Fuck With Me I'll Kill You" Carandini Lee (yes after Christopher Carandini Lee) managed to survive without getting nailed by absolutely ever other ganger on the table for the presumption of her name. So all in all it was a good. Perhaps I shall play again later in the week.
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Date: 2007-03-27 12:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-27 02:52 pm (UTC)Seriously. "Stuff That's True In Star Wars," - better than crack...
There's a whole series of Lando books even more tripped out than Splinter. He's fighting and evil, conniving, terrifying, overlordish...snail.
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Date: 2007-03-27 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-27 07:16 pm (UTC)After a while you move from shock to bargaining (please, just don't make THAT canon!) to hilarity to acceptance and then finally to grudging respect. And then you're not sure what to do when you realise that a totally awesome, three-dimensional character had her roots in a terrible 1970s Marvel comic and...and...now you're forever stuck with that in her backstory.
I call it the 6 stages of
grieving foracclimitising to the Star Wars Extended Universe.no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 12:12 pm (UTC)...oh dear gods.... I'm so scared to get your reply to this question...
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Date: 2007-03-28 04:38 pm (UTC)But seriously, I'm not sure how any attempt at serious wording can get over the fact that he got lost as an insanely powerful Force ghost on Mustafar. What was he doing? Going for a quick tour of his life's "greatest hits" before wandering over to save dear old Luke from certain death?! And then random people give him a lift back to Hoth? To quote Star Trek for a change, "What does a Force ghost need with a starship?"
ARGH.
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Date: 2007-03-28 04:49 pm (UTC)BTW can I
BTW can I <a href=(ADDITION: The music, triggered by the location on their path to earth, suggests I'm right about the Earth connection. Go me!>metaquote</a> you on that line then, now that I know it wasn't *shudder* really a part of their canon?
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Date: 2007-03-28 04:52 pm (UTC)Wow. I think I'm glad I ended with the Star Wars world when I did. And perhaps I shall not go and look at that Wiki at all. I will live in my delusions. Greedo shot first. Greedo shot first....
BTW can I
Wow. I think I'm glad I ended with the Star Wars world when I did. And perhaps I shall not go and look at that Wiki at all. I will live in my delusions. Greedo shot first. Greedo shot first....
BTW can I <a hrefhttp://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes
>metaquote</a> you on that line then, now that I know it wasn't *shudder* really a part of their canon?
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Date: 2007-03-28 05:19 pm (UTC)Also, to be fair to the Star Wars EU I think, on the whole (with the exception of some of the computer games) it's getting better. The whole latest series is really quite incredible in some regards. One character (Jacen Solo) in particular has had some amazing charracter development.
It's a mixed bag, but...I was kind of serious about my Stages of Acceptance. And now I kind of love how detailed the world is. It's full of individual things that are just nuts but somehow the overall effect is greater than the sum of its parts. Even if it's no longer quite the universe of the original trilogy (and thankfully different to the universe of the prequels...)
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Date: 2007-03-28 05:31 pm (UTC)I'll just post the link without trying to be fancy then: http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/5963591.html
I used to be very impressed with the way Lucas seemed to ensure that anyone who wrote about the Clone Wars (prior to the new movies) was not allowed to say anything too specific about the event itself, allowing him to save all that for the movies.
Hm. Is there an X-Men wiki? I probably shouldn't look at that either. uncanny.net has revealed some headshaking things for me in regard to this, my other love and obsession that I have long since given up on.
You know, one thing about all that crack:
Date: 2007-07-07 04:53 pm (UTC)(At least that would be a nice way of rationalising it, wouldn't it?)
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Date: 2007-03-27 09:18 pm (UTC)http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jaxxon
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Date: 2007-03-27 09:26 pm (UTC)If I ever have an urge to take hallucinogenic drugs, I think I'll just start reading the Marvel Star Wars comics instead.
But I'm not entirely certain it beats Ben Kenobi's ghost lost on Mustafar because apparently it's so much easier to find than Hoth. I think my favourite part of that story is that the Player Characters in Star Wars: Galaxies aren't canon so...who rescues him?
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Date: 2007-03-27 09:56 pm (UTC)Kyle Katarn in Dark Forces
The main character in X-Wing for the PC
Rianna Saren in Lethal Alliance
im sure there must be more
was it like a relay race or something, galactic pass the parcel maybe
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Date: 2007-03-28 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-28 05:15 pm (UTC)"Many bothans died to bring you this paperback!"