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| Jace_Varitek | Date: Tuesday, 11 Sep 2012, 9:36 PM | Message # 1 |
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| So remember when George Lucas brought Darth Maul back to life in the Clone Wars show to coincide with the release of The Phantom Menace in 3D? Yeah, so that killed the Clone Wars show. The Darth Maul business, following as it did on the heels of that bullshit series of episodes about the Force incarnated, caused viewership to plummet. The show has been re-scheduled into what's known as a "death slot," and the writers are tying up loose ends as fast as possible because they're worried the show will be canceled before the season is over.
(And George's insistence on putting Darth Maul into a Star Wars action figure line killed that as well, if anyone is interested).
Now there's this new Star Wars animated comedy show. George Lucas was on the panel with Seth Green when they unveiled the new trailer for it. Some of you have seen it; did anyone laugh, at all? It has George's personal touch all over it.
I'd just like to point out that literally everything he's done recently, since Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, has been a disaster. For the first time it looks as though his money-lust is causing him to make not only bad artistic decisions but bad business decisions too. If he weren't so smug about it all, I'd feel bad for him at this point.
Jace Varitek
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"When my information changes, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?"
—John Maynard Keynes
Furthermore, a dancing Wookiee:
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| Rath-Deschain | Date: Tuesday, 11 Sep 2012, 9:42 PM | Message # 2 |
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| Something about escaping a nuclear blast in a lead-lined fridge just kills all credibility.
Rath Deschain
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| Jace_Varitek | Date: Tuesday, 11 Sep 2012, 9:49 PM | Message # 3 |
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| Hence "nuke the fridge" has become the cinema equivalent of TV's "jump the shark."
Jace Varitek
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My recent posts here, pre-2009 archives here
"When my information changes, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?"
—John Maynard Keynes
Furthermore, a dancing Wookiee:
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| Rath-Deschain | Date: Tuesday, 11 Sep 2012, 11:20 PM | Message # 4 |
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| At least we know what to do when the Russians come calling.
Rath Deschain
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| Fajra_Merav | Date: Wednesday, 12 Sep 2012, 10:35 PM | Message # 5 |
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| But I'm in love with Maul :(.
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| Jaron | Date: Thursday, 13 Sep 2012, 2:27 PM | Message # 6 |
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| You and I are probably the only Maul fans here, Fajra. That said, I also had issues with bringing Maul back. It certainly did have a "jumping the shark"/"nuke the fridge" quality to it. Then again, so did the Mandalorians (a whole other rant that I'm also wanting to avoid making here).
Jaron Park
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| Havoc | Date: Thursday, 13 Sep 2012, 2:58 PM | Message # 7 |
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| You aren't avoiding it, Jaron.
You just have no testicles to prove a point.
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