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(...) How about "The Menace may be destroyed, but the new Darth Maul lurks in the nearby future." I know it sounds weird, but Maul didn't bleed when Obi-Wan chopped him in half. I'm thinking that he is a droid. Maybe? Greg citrusx__@yahoo.com (URL) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Lighsabres are hot, thus cauterizing any wound they make. So, no Bleeding. Jeff (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) ObSWnitpick: Lightsabres aren't hot, they excite the particles in the objects they are passing through, and cause the 'burn' effect differently. If lightsabres were hot enough to create the kind of heat needed to burn/cauterize the kind of (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) lot of gore. And I swear that when OWK slices DM in half, there is a brief flash of red on the screen - like a subliminal suggestion of blood spatter. Besides, doesn't the "Phantom Menace" refer to Senator Palpatine and his secret life? -- (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) secret (...) IMO, the 'Phantom Menace' is the Trade Federation. Their attack on Naboo was just a ploy so Palpatine could become Chancelor(?). After the Trade Federation's attack is stopped, most people (except Mace and Yoda) think everything (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Agreed. (...) Yep. I noticed that the second time I saw the movie. But I also wondered if it might have been DM's light-staff, just below the screen. (...) I don't know. It seems like George Lucas thinks the meaning of "the phantom menace" is (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Yeah but in ANH in the canteena when OB1 sliced off bubbies arm the was no blood just a cauterized limb. (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) But, didn't he say something like "Sorry about the mess?"(1) Maybe everybody is right about not wanting to show a lot of blood, but... Greg citrusx__@yahoo.com (URL) or was that Han Solo? (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Seems like there was *some* blood, just not a puddle. I remember being pretty shocked the first time I saw the shot of the arm. Steve (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Menace the Trade Feds might be, but phantoms they are not. Out in the open, they are. (1) And the attack was a ploy on Palpatines part, for sure. And at the very end, all seems well with the Republic, except for the phantom menace of the Sith, (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) <Dragonelf1@aol.com> wrote: (...) Palpatine and his (...) attack on Naboo was (...) Trade (...) Yoda) think (...) in the open, (...) the very end, (...) of the Sith, in (...) Ah, Terry you shoulda said "Yoda-speak seem I to be using" :) Ryan (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Nah, that is what I (don't) pay you for. Fixing my mistakes. :-) -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Ah, but something out in the open can still be a 'phantom'. A phantom is 'something existing in perception only', and the Sith are a very real menace. The Naboo thought the Trade Federation was the threat to them and the republic, so the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:11:56 GMT, Greg Majewski uttered the following profundities... (...) It was Han Solo, tossing a coin to the bartender, after he blasted Greedo. (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) So you're saying George could have called this movie "The Feint"? Steve (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) republic, (...) Sure. Of course, it is his movie, so he could've called it anything just about anything. :) Jeff (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <376ff3be.4167207@lu...et.com>... (...) I don't remember blood. It' was also same for Luke, when he lost his arm to his fathers light sabre. Selçuk (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I do kinda remember a puddle of blood, but the wounds didn't spray blood. Heck, there wasn't any blood flowing at all. It confused me when I first say it. Jeff (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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some spoiler below..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (...) Ah... but it's not! Part of the purpose of this movie was to demonstrate how ineffective and weak the Republic was. This was wonderfully shown in the Senate Chamber (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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