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(...) I admit that my expectations were really high, but...they were high because the trailer was so great. That trailer really pumped me up (it was actually worth sitting through that 3 hours of coma-inducing detritus called Meet Joe Black to see (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) **snip** (...) I was making a rhetorical point, rather than giving a precise suggestion of how to get Forceful. (...) If you're speaking figuratively, not at all. If, as I was, you're referring to actual manna in his actual blood, then you're (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) That's certainly true, but that's not what we're doing here--we're simply discussing what's readily apparent on the screen. It's not as though we're analyzing the significance of Darth Maul's clockwise versus counterclockwise spin during the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Alright to put this whole thing to rest... If you lurk on alt.startrek.vs.starwars long enough you will be forced to learn this. Lucasfilm's offical order of canon (in the event of a contradiction the highest source takes priority) is as (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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In lugnet.starwars, Dave Schuler writes: (snipped into pieces, to make reply "more readable") I first must say that I take it for granted that those of you that dislike TPM like the first movies and thought TPM was bad in comparison. I must also (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) What I remember is that 3P0 and R2 developed their "personality quirks" because they didn't get regular memory wipes. But anyway, if 3P0 *did* get a memory wipe...how would he know, unless someone told him? It's entirely possible for both to (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) That depends. If you want to "juice up" the efficiency of turning food into energy, do you go to your doctor for a quick shot of mitochondria? No? If you want to be smarter, can you just put some neurons in a syringe and launch them into your (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) So if I want to juice up my Forcability, do I run to the doctor for a quick shot of midichlorians? Quantifying the accessibility of the Force in any way by definition strips it of some of its mysticism, much like saying that someone is more (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Oh, come on! Calling it a piece of art sounds a lot like a smokescreen tactic intended to remove the film from discussions of quality. Even if it is "a piece of art," why can’t it also be considered a film, which it most certainly is? You are, (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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Good post, Eric. I agree with almost everything you said. I think it's possible to over-analyze every movie. In lugnet.starwars, Eric Kingsley writes: <snip> (...) slap him at (...) Heh, yeah... we laugh about the Toschi Station line all the time. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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