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Star Wars Expanded Universe

maflynn said:
My take on this, is probably more due to changing viewing habits and technology improvements.

Its one thing to watch A New Hope on a 15" TV with a 4:3 aspect, and quite another on a 60" 16:9 aspect TV with a sound bar (or 5.1 speaker setup)

There's really no reason to go to a movie with what we have at home, and given how people seem less polite/considerate in theaters. I'd rather pay a king's ransom to take my family to the movies.
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I saw an advertisement for TV’s earlier (forgot the brand). They started at 48” and went up to 80”. That’s just obscene! It’s like the cinema is in your lounge.
 
Apple fanboy said:
I saw an advertisement for TV’s earlier (forgot the brand). They started at 48” and went up to 80”. That’s just obscene! It’s like the cinema is in your lounge.
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Yep, my 32" monitor is 2x the size my famliy's first tv when I was a wee lad, oh that was only a black and white model, given to us by a family member who bought a new tv
 
maflynn said:
Yep, my 32" monitor is 2x the size my famliy's first tv when I was a wee lad, oh that was only a black and white model, given to us by a family member who bought a new tv
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Oh yes black and white TV’s. Or those green and black computer screens. All CRT’s of course!
 
Certificate of Excellence said:
Wait .. what? Your monitor isnt green and black?
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In 1984, this is what I bought.(IBM XT) you always remember your first

(not an actual picture of my PC but from wikipedia)
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maflynn said:
In 1984, this is what I bought.(IBM XT) you always remember your first

(not an actual picture of my PC but from wikipedia)
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Was that about $8K? I almost think $10K for the XT, but that still sounds ridiculous.

I guess that would depend on the memory configuration (256K/640K). Later on there was an add in PCI card (Zuckerboard) so you could get up to 1 MB of memory.
 
Non-Euclidean said:
Was that about $8K? I almost think $10K for the XT, but that still sounds ridiculous.
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I forget what I paid, there's been too many years since that purchase. I'm like 99% sure I did not pay $10,000 dollars. I had just graduated the year before and I was working a basic office job - there was no way I would be willing to drop 10,000 dollars. I think the price was closer to the 2 to 3k range then the 8 to 10k range. Again this was eons ago, and I have long forgotten the price.
 
maflynn said:
I forget what I paid, there's been too many years since that purchase. I'm like 99% sure I did not pay $10,000 dollars. I had just graduated the year before and I was working a basic office job - there was no way I would be willing to drop 10,000 dollars. I think the price was closer to the 2 to 3k range then the 8 to 10k range. Again this was eons ago, and I have long forgotten the price.
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Yeah, you are right, I misremembered.

Creative Computing that year named the PC the best desktop computer between $2,000 and $4,000, praising its vast hardware and software selection, manufacturer support, and resale value.
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Wow the orignal trailer for the last film in the OT: Return Revenge of the Jedi. This was the original title before George Lucas changed it to Return of the Jedi as Jedi aren't supposed to seek revenge.


Another on list of of Lucas' revisions.
 
decafjava said:
Wow the orignal trailer for the last film in the OT: Return Revenge of the Jedi. This was the original title before George Lucas changed it to Return of the Jedi as Jedi aren't supposed to seek revenge.


Another on list of of Lucas' revisions.
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That’s been well known for a good few years. Is that news to you? Just curious as I assumed things like this are common knowledge.

Like Luke was originally going to be called Luke Starkiller. Before that it was going to be Annikin Starkiller.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
That’s been well known for a good few years. Is that news to you? Just curious as I assumed things like this are common knowledge.

Like Luke was originally going to be called Luke Starkiller. Before that it was going to be Annikin Starkiller.
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Yes I did know this, I have never seen the trailer though.
 
decafjava said:
Wow the orignal trailer for the last film in the OT: Return Revenge of the Jedi. This was the original title before George Lucas changed it to Return of the Jedi as Jedi aren't supposed to seek revenge.


Another on list of of Lucas' revisions.
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Not for nothing but that was an awesome trailer.

As for return/revenge of the Jedi, Lucas had second thoughts on the name because revenge goes against the jedi code, so to better align the jedi ideals, the movie was renamed. As you can see, this name change came very late in the overall process.
 
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maflynn said:
Not for nothing but that was an awesome trailer.

As for return/revenge of the Jedi, Lucas had second thoughts on the name because revenge goes against the jedi code, so to better align the jedi ideals, the movie was renamed. As you can see, this name change came very late in the overall process.
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Thanks for this. Well it goes along with Lucas’ revisionist writing. Vader being Luke’s dad was ok. Leia being his sister errr well at least we got a ton of hilarious memes. 😅
 
maflynn said:
Yeah, things were written on the fly and as Lucas developed the story, there were continuity issues

"A young jedi knight named Darth Vader"

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They retconned this in the Kenobi show.

I think it was in the final confrontation between Anakin/Vader and Obi-Wan. Anakin/Vader tells Obi-Wan "you didn't kill him (Anakin). I did".
 
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Obi Wan Kenobi said:
I think it was in the final confrontation between Anakin/Vader and Obi-Wan. Anakin/Vader tells Obi-Wan "you didn't kill him (Anakin). I did".
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I think there's some comic book entries where Vader states he killed Anakin (also some books?), I don' take that as a retconn, but with a New Hope we have a jedi pilot named Darth Vader, but that was changed to a title afterwards.

The Obi Wan show, did try to retconn it a bit - having Obi call him Darth as he walked away from Vader after their duel which not for nothing was cool - that was the best part of the series.
 
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On another matter of continuity, and this isn’t strictly EU either, but was Vader/Anakin aware of the Final Order and were there times he could/should have told Luke or Ahsoka?
 
maflynn said:
I think there's some comic book entries where Vader states he killed Anakin (also some books?), I don' take that as a retconn, but with a New Hope we have a jedi pilot named Darth Vader, but that was changed to a title afterwards.

The Obi Wan show, did try to retconn it a bit - having Obi call him Darth as he walked away from Vader after their duel which not for nothing was cool - that was the best part of the series.
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When Old Ben encounters Vader on the Death Star in ANH, he uses Darth as a first name as well.

Memorably, Vader says "When I left you, I was but a boy. Now I am the master."

Kenobi replies "Only a master of evil, Darth"
 
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