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Re: Why not wait
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Date: 
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 18:52:50 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Jeremy Sproat writes:
> Dave Schuler wrote:
> >   I'd have preferred Milli Vanilli music over that ridiculous Ewok nonsense.
> > For that matter, I've preferred Rob and Fab themselves over the stupid teddy
> > bears, but we all know the George-wanted-wookies-but-it-wouldn't-have-worked
> > story.
> 
> You know, Rob and Fab would've been cool to watch -- esp. with the casualities
> they'd've taken during the battle.  ;-)

  Nah, they'd probably have acted like they'd been injured, but it would
really have been someone else.

> Well...  Before ROTJ was released, everyone and their dog was oohing and
> aahing over Fett, based upon the few minutes he had on-screen in TESB and the
> Christmas Special.  Boba Fett just had this...charisma I guess, some dark
> appeal for the teenage boy market.  Lucas didn't like this affection over a
> bad guy, so he purposefully scripted Fett's early death for ROTJ.

  That's interesting, especially considering the superultramegaheavy-duty
marketing push they gave Darth Maul, who likewise had about 2 lines and fell
into a pit.  Hmm...

> (Personally, I felt he could've spruced up Fett's character with all sorts of
> ninja moves and sundry b-movie bad guy stuff, and let him linger until at
> least half way through the movie, but that's just me.)

  Possibly, but Fett really had very little to do with the story as a whole,
so there would have to have been significant alterations to the script to give
his character a larger useful role.

> The extra Fett scenes in the Special Editions is Lucas' attempt at an apology,
> after seeing how Fett's popularity could be translated into $$$.  Seeing him
> now prance around Jabba's palace during the music scene made me want to gag.

  I'm afraid I agree.  And what was with that stupid big-mouthed, big-toothed
singer they added?  The CGI was terrible, at least as bad as that insipid
"Blarp" in Lost in Space.  Every second that thing (the singer or Blarp) was
on-screen, the quality of the effect was sufficiently poor to distract from
the scene.

     Dave!



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(...) The running joke among my friends is that the Stupid Little Spacemonkey ("Blarp" from Lost in Space) should have had a meter over his head, ringing up the number of dollars from the SFX budget that were going to animating very second he was on (...) (27 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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(...) You know, Rob and Fab would've been cool to watch -- esp. with the casualities they'd've taken during the battle. ;-) (...) Well... Before ROTJ was released, everyone and their dog was oohing and aahing over Fett, based upon the few minutes he (...) (27 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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