--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: F1B00006 Date: 12/20/97 From: TONY PATON Time: 09:32pm \/To: STEVE BOLEN (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Episode I Title -=> While breaking out of cloud Steve Bolen boldly told James about Episode I Title SB> thought that just occured to me. Isn't it funny how Star Wars is a SB> completly different universe one where Earth doesn't even exist, and SB> yet the concepts of 'hell' and 'damnation' still filtered it's way SB> into it, which I beleive Han Solo expressed on different occasions? In SB> other words, the words HELL and DAMN where used as a form of cursing? SB> I just find it interesting that a universe "far far away" developed SB> similar enough religious ideals to invent the same cuss words we use. SB> I've probably gone off on a real tangent here, but I can see I'll SB> probably kick up a good dust storm with this one, and I love an It's a big coincidence how they can all speak English! \ ------------ >-==- TONY PATON / ... "Yeow! I'm looking good today!" -- The Cat ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: Computropolis Interactive Net Server +612-9545-0186 (3:712/407) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: F1B00007 Date: 12/20/97 From: TONY PATON Time: 09:33pm \/To: STEVE BOLEN (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Ships! Droids! -=> While breaking out of cloud Steve Bolen boldly told James about Ships! Droids! -=> Quoting James Dixon to All <=- JD> Come on, guys, this place is slowing down... JD> What's Your Favorite...ship? Droid? SB> My favorite ship is the X-wing! I know it's outdated, but to me it's SB> like a 1967 Mustang? Ho ho ho ho ho (Tool man grunts)! More like the 1945 P-51 Mustang! She kicks arse. \ ------------ >-==- TONY PATON / ... "You can't sing you know." -- Talkie Toaster ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: Computropolis Interactive Net Server +612-9545-0186 (3:712/407) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: F1B00008 Date: 01/02/98 From: STEVE BOLEN Time: 11:27pm \/To: CAREY TERANISHI (Read 0 times) Subj: SW Saga -=> Quoting Carey Teranishi to Steve Bolen <=- SB> What vacation time? :( CT> Hmmm! What can I say. You doing sweat shop labor or something? :) CT> Now is the time to stand up and shout --- I'm mad as hell and CT> I'm not going to take this anymore! Give me a vacation, or give me CT> death. SB> They'd probably give me death. CT> Wow! Tuff place to work, huh? :-) CT> Who knows, you could change your name to Patrick Henry and CT> start a new revolution for the 2 day work week and minimum 6 month CT> paid vacation idea. :) cya! SB> I'm too much of a wussy! :) CT> Well, you never know until you're heard. You can do a Sally Field CT> thing and stand on a table at work and hold up a cardboard sign CT> saying "UNION" for all to see. :-) SW Forever! Well, I'm not union, and would probably be beaten severely for suggesting as much. :) ... He who laughs last found the dirty meaning. --- EzyBlueWave V1.48g0 01fa0167 * Origin: Milky Way, Langley, BC [604] 532-4367 (1:153/307) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: F1B00009 Date: 01/06/98 From: JAMES DIXON Time: 06:22pm \/To: OLIVER J. HANAU (Read 0 times) Subj: Star Wars Questions OJH>JD> There's also something of a debate over when the "Episode IV" was OJH>JD> tacked onto the first film... OJH>There is? I thought it was pretty much an established fact that it was OJH>added as soon as there were certainly going to be other episodes, ie. for OJH>the 1979 pre-TESB re-release. Ah, pre-TESB re-release... I'm talking about the original 1977 release... I honestly can't remember seeing it (being blown away by everything else up there!) but some will swear that it was added shortly thereafter... OJH>JD> I honestly thought it was always there, but my memory of seeing it OJH>JD> there 20 years ago when the film was first released isn't all that OJH>JD> great... OJH>If I may ask, how old are you? I'm 25, so I COULD HAVE seen ANH when it I'm a decade older... OJH>opened, but I didn't until my father dragged my into a re-release around OJH>1980. (I remember we were on vacation in southern Germany shortly OJH>afterwards and couldn't find a theatre that still showed TESB.) I know it was there in the 80s... The question is whether or not it was always there... There's certainly no question about the episode numbers in TESB and ROTJ... --- OLXWin 1.00a Star Fleet Command - Star Fleet Headquarters - U.F.P. --- RyPacker v2.5a * Origin: The Right Place V.34 DS Ft.Lee,NJ 201-947-8231 (1:2604/539) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: F1B00010 Date: 01/06/98 From: JAMES DIXON Time: 06:26pm \/To: OLIVER J. HANAU (Read 0 times) Subj: Ships! Droids! OJH>JD> What's Your Favorite...ship? Droid? OJH>That's hard to answer. OJH>Droids ... OJH>As a character, Threepio. I just love him. I'd have to agree with you here... OJH>Visually, the Power Droid (aka Gonk), especially due to his touching OJH>performance in ROTJ. I don't think anyone would agree with you there! Looked like a goofy gas pump to me! OJH>And I also like the white humanoid droid that sits in a corner in both H OJH>and ROTJ. (Wasn't he also in TESB?) You mean that..."goofy"...looking droid? OJH>Ships ... OJH>Same problem: As a character, the Falcon, without thinking. OJH>But the Super Star Destroyer is the most impressive ship I've seen, OJH>wherefore it wins visually. Yah, generally I'd go with the Star Destroyers... OJH>And as I think you're not conducting a survey and don't have to be OJH>neutral, which are your favourites? See above... No survey, just trying to jump-start the conference... It needs it every so often... And I like being here than in some of the more moderator-happy conferences where if you so much as mention some small item which isn't a part of the relevent SF universe, you get bad-mouthed and stoned by moderators, and of course the moderators' friends who use the opportunity to get in good with the gods... --- OLXWin 1.00a STARDATE 7312.31 APPROVED BY GENE RODDENBERRY-ST Blueprints --- RyPacker v2.5a * Origin: The Right Place V.34 DS Ft.Lee,NJ 201-947-8231 (1:2604/539) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: F1B00011 Date: 01/06/98 From: JAMES DIXON Time: 06:31pm \/To: OLIVER J. HANAU (Read 0 times) Subj: 6 Films OJH>JD> All I'm gonna say is this: If Lucas Has Any Respect For The Star Wars OJH>JD> Fans He Will Not Contradict The Novels... OJH>Which I think he isn't going to. As little idea as he most probably has OJH>of what's going on in the SW novels and other spin-offs, he wouldn't have OJH>had to bother with the 'no less than x years before ANH, no more than y OJH>years after ROTJ' rule if he plans to tell his story without regard for OJH>the novels. OJH> This way (having established this rule), authors can basically do OJH>anything but kill Han's children without the threat of contradiction. I hope you're right... For I've pretty much had it for all the liberties taken with the Star TREK universe within the past decade... I figure with all the care and control taken in Star WARS there should be no need for any drastic continuity blunders... --- OLXWin 1.00a The Fans keep Trek alive and CARE more for it than P'mount --- RyPacker v2.5a * Origin: The Right Place V.34 DS Ft.Lee,NJ 201-947-8231 (1:2604/539) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: F1B00012 Date: 01/06/98 From: JAMES DIXON Time: 06:34pm \/To: OLIVER J. HANAU (Read 0 times) Subj: Sw Words OJH>JD>>> Maybe he's been watching Babylon 5 and has taken a liking to OJH>JD>>> Londo's hairstyle... OJH>JD> Hey, don't laugh... Wierder things have happened... If I'd told you OJH>JD> 20 years ago that the Empire would be toppled with the help of cute OJH>JD> little teddy bears, would you have believe me? OJH>Possibly. I think there are pre-ROTJ interviews with Lucas in which he OJH>states that he wanted the Empire to be defeated by a primitive race as OJH>part of his 'technology won't save us' statement. Dunno... I do remember Lucas saying in an interview after ROTJ that he liked the idea of primitives rising up against the superior technology... --- RyPacker v2.5a * Origin: The Right Place V.34 DS Ft.Lee,NJ 201-947-8231 (1:2604/539) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: F1B00013 Date: 01/05/98 From: STEVE LAMSON Time: 07:11am \/To: AMY KING (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Levitation > This movie is my favorite in the series Mine too! --- T.A.G. 2.7c Standard * Origin: The Abacus * v.32/v.42 * (517)645-7343 * Node 1 (1:159/100) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: F1C00000 Date: 01/05/98 From: TOBIAS THIERER Time: 01:56pm \/To: PAUL KRUEGER (Rcvd) (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: 12 PARSECS PAUL KRUEGER@1:154/280 wrote about "12 PARSECS": PK> I have come up with a theory on how the "12 parsecs" line in ANH is PK> *not* a blooper. There are 2 variations on this theory depending on PK> wether "the Kessel Run" is a race or a smuggler's route, but the basic PK> theory is this: the time allowed to complete the Kessel Run is always PK> the same, so you HAVE TO judge performance by DISTANCE. PK> PK> If it's a race, it's obviously one were the time involved is always the PK> same, and Han was 12 parsecs away from the starting line when the clock PK> ran out. PK> PK> If it's a smuggler's route, there's probably a "sell by" limit on how PK> long you can have unrefrigerated Kessel spice, and Han apparently can PK> make a delivery 12 parsecs away without spoilage. So way does he say "This ship made the kessel run in less than 12 parsecs"? ^^^^ If the goal was to get away as far as possible from the starting line, he would not have mentioned this "less". The goal must have been to achieve a rather small number of parsecs! I think that 2 parsecs was the minimum distance to Kessel that he had during the run. CU, Tobias --- CrossPoint v3.1 R * Origin: In HELL we trust (2:2487/3001.101) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 138 STAR WARS Ref: F1C00001 Date: 01/07/98 From: CAREY TERANISHI Time: 12:34pm \/To: STEVE BOLEN (Read 0 times) Subj: SW Saga SB> -=> Quoting Carey Teranishi to Steve Bolen <=- SB> SB> What vacation time? :( Hmmm! What can I say. You doing sweat shop SB> CT> labor or something? :) Now is the time to stand up and shout SB> CT> --- I'm mad as hell and SB> CT> I'm not going to take this anymore! Give me a vacation, or give me SB> CT> death. SB> SB> They'd probably give me death. SB> CT> Wow! Tuff place to work, huh? :-) SB> CT> Who knows, you could change your name to Patrick Henry and SB> CT> start a new revolution for the 2 day work week and minimum 6 month SB> CT> paid vacation idea. :) cya! SB> SB> I'm too much of a wussy! :) SB> CT> Well, you never know until you're heard. You can do a Sally Field SB> CT> thing and stand on a table at work and hold up a cardboard sign SB> CT> saying "UNION" for all to see. :-) SW Forever! SB> Well, I'm not union, and would probably be beaten severely SB> for suggesting SB> as much. :) You're kidding, right? What's wrong with a union? Anyway, Samuel L. Jackson finished his part in the Star Wars film recently. He said he really liked Yoda, the Dick Clark of the Universe, and his philosophy. Quite funny, actually. --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Starfleet Command BBS (604) 521-8963 (1:153/8011)