--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E4Q00034 Date: 04/18/97 From: JOHN SNYDER Time: 04:58pm \/To: BRANDON WOLGAST (Read 1 times) Subj: Boba Fett -> Sure he gets shot and falls over, but I've seen Luke get shot, Leia, -> even R2 and 3PO and they come back. And in the next scene Greedo is -> in the streets of Mos Eisley! And then he is with Jabba! And in -> Jedi he comes back for revenge to get Han again in Jabba's palace! -> If you look you can see Greedo is back. Fett gets chomped though. . jeez, i hope you are being sarcastic, brandon..... -John --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0154 * Origin: MicroLink BBS * Dinuba, CA 209-591-8753 (1:214/80) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E4Q00035 Date: 04/18/97 From: JOHN SNYDER Time: 05:01pm \/To: BRANDON WOLGAST (Read 0 times) Subj: Star Wars: A New Hope -> Did you notice I am in total agreement with you on this "discussion" -> right now? Strange. . strange indeed. :) but cool. i think you make good points most of the time, brandon, and i'm sorry if i come across as an ass. maybe we disagree on the Fett issue, but other than that, we're pretty cool. hope we can continue to get along on here. :) -John --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0154 * Origin: MicroLink BBS * Dinuba, CA 209-591-8753 (1:214/80) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E4Q00036 Date: 04/18/97 From: JOHN SNYDER Time: 05:03pm \/To: BRANDON WOLGAST (Read 0 times) Subj: Star Wars: A New Hope -> only one and it is all but a black dot in the background. They look -> far better now. I think the Special Editions are far superior and -> cannot wait for them on laserdisk. . well, that's good. i personally won't be buying tehm unless they're released on VHS, and that doesn't seem likely. i'm certainly not going to buy a DVD system just to get the SE's. i don't think they're that much better. seeing them in the theaters was more of a novelty than anything else to me. -John --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0154 * Origin: MicroLink BBS * Dinuba, CA 209-591-8753 (1:214/80) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E4Q00037 Date: 04/18/97 From: JOHN SNYDER Time: 05:04pm \/To: BRANDON WOLGAST (Read 1 times) Subj: Boba Fett -> It is in the Special Edition, it chomps on Fett along with a few -> others. . not to re-open the old can of worms, but NO IT DOESN'T! in the old one, Fett just kinda rolled into the pit. now he just kinda rolls into the beak. no chomping involved.... -John --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0154 * Origin: MicroLink BBS * Dinuba, CA 209-591-8753 (1:214/80) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E4Q00038 Date: 04/19/97 From: JOSH WATKO Time: 01:08pm \/To: KURT KLUGE (Read 0 times) Subj: Star Wars Figures -> Question: We all bought lots of Star Wars figures in the late -> 70's/early 80's. Now, however, it seems that most of them are gone. -> How did they disappear? And, if you're like me, what sadistic things -> did you do to the figures to hasten their demise? I remeber C3P0 had -> an encounter with a weed whacker, Yoda got melted, Luke got M-80'd. -> It kind of upsets me that I did these things, but...IT WAS FUN!!!!! There are still alot out there. I have all but 10 or less of the originals.-\/\/ --- Platinum Xpress/Wildcat! v1.2N * Origin: Frank's Place*Pittsburgh, PA*(412)422-8246*28.8 (1:129/311) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E4Q00039 Date: 04/16/97 From: SCOTT CYR Time: 09:38pm \/To: TIBERIUS QUIRK (Read 0 times) Subj: Carrie Fisher and Blues Brothers! TQ> The only major name to have a staying power is Harrison Ford....oh TQ> yeah and James Earl Jones (Darth Vader's voice) other actors have TQ> stayed behind and are "cashing in" on the Star Wars revival! ummm... while he may not be a major name, mark hamil has been rather successful outside of sw... he did a few movies after, most of which were bad 80's flicks (but then, aren't all 80's flicks bad) now he is a very respected voice artists who does work on batman (the joker), the incredible hulk (gargoyle), and wing commander academy... there's the wing commander games which he stars in, and he is the author of a comic book (the black pearl) which is in the process of being made into a movie (he's also writing the screenplay)... ... "bother," said Pooh, as the Emperor tried to turn him to the dark side --- Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] * Origin: LSD iNFoSyS : "Where boys fear to tread..." (1:323/140) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E4Q00040 Date: 04/16/97 From: SCOTT CYR Time: 10:35pm \/To: BRION LIENHART (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: End of ROTJ Special E -JS>"FACT: George Lucas wrote the screenplay"....but i'm wrong? BL> You probably believe that William Shatner really wrote all those BL> Tek-Thing novels too, don't you? Ever heard of a ghost writer? That's BL> when somebody says "I have this really neat idea, why don't you write BL> a story about it?" If you or I said that to a real writer, the best BL> you would get is laughed at. If somebody famous says it, Bam! instant BL> best seller. funny that this topic should come up here... since i once heard a rumor that the anh novel was ghost written by alan dean foster... ... UTINNI! --- Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] * Origin: LSD iNFoSyS : "Where boys fear to tread..." (1:323/140) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E4Q00041 Date: 04/16/97 From: SCOTT CYR Time: 10:52pm \/To: STEPHEN MORRIS (Read 0 times) Subj: Imperial Stormtroopers SM> 2. What is it with their amour?? - it's about as deflective of blaster SM> fire as a sponge!! It seems to offer no protection at all! - can SM> anyone explain?? (I stringly suspect that the armour does afford SM> excellent protection, but it just wouldn't look good if no one could SM> kill them easily!). stormtrooper armor was probably meant to provide protection against standard non-energy weapons (like projectile weapons, bow & arrow, etc...) although it didn't seem to work so well against the ewoks... so who knows, maybe it was just to create fear by presenting a faceless enemy... ... "spaceballs....? oh shit, there goes the planet!" --- Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] * Origin: LSD iNFoSyS : "Where boys fear to tread..." (1:323/140) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E4Q00042 Date: 04/16/97 From: SCOTT CYR Time: 11:00pm \/To: SPANKEE (Read 0 times) Subj: Novels Sp> All you people talk about is the movies!! Don' you read the books? Sp> They are much better. boy are you asking for trouble! ... "bother," said Pooh, as the Emperor tried to turn him to the dark side --- Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] * Origin: LSD iNFoSyS : "Where boys fear to tread..." (1:323/140) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: E4Q00043 Date: 04/16/97 From: SCOTT CYR Time: 11:06pm \/To: JOHN SNYDER (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Star Wars: A New Hope JS> same with Star Wars. just because it was released with a subtitle to JS> differentiate it from the rest does NOT mean that that is it's real JS> title. the ORIGINAL (and therefore AUTHENTIC) is called simply "Star JS> Wars". you can't argue with that, and you can't say it's wrong because JS> it is 100% true. the original film is called Star Wars, and that will JS> ALWAYS be true. the original was only named star wars because at the time lucas had no way of knowing it would mbe popular enough to do a sequel... therefore putting an episode title in it would have been wrong (kinda like when the first book of a trilogy comes out and doesn't sell well and so the other two aren't made)... so why then did lucas give it an episode title? simply for the reasons stated in this thread... it would have been confusing otherwise... and i have to say that i really don't see what the big deal is... everybody always screams canon... well lucas gave it its title, whether it be in 1977 or 1980... that makes it pretty official in my book... and besides, we all know lucas had a much larger story written, maybe in some secret notebook somewhere he had it titled anh all along... i just think this needs to die. scott ... who's scruffy looking? --- Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] * Origin: LSD iNFoSyS : "Where boys fear to tread..." 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