Dynaman

That is the problem. The prequals stunk, if anything THEY should get redone, by a competant film maker. (ROTJ is pretty dreadful too though, so if he has to mess with one of the original trilogy that would cause the least harm)

Reminds me of a Bloom County strip, where everyone starts waxing philosophical about the meaning of life, then Opus comes along and says "you are born, you go on a few diets, you die". I'm with Opus, and changing this to SW "They are born, they get a few force powers, they die"

Nah, I forget how it all started a couple days ago, but my philosophy is "Don't ascribe to some master plot, that which can be more easily explained by a plot hole" I like Star Wars, plot holes, bad dialog, and all the rest that goes along with it.

EXACLTY! If no one is looking then there is no need to hide them, unless Vader could sense who they were if he got close enough. To that we add the silliness of leaving them with a known relative (someone looking for them or not, that is just stupid considering the stakes). But I repeat myself.

From what is shown in the films, that is a good interpretation. That just leaves us to wonder why Luke had to be hidden out in the boonies to get Vader from finding him. We have to totally disregard the fact that they sent him to the one place where any competant government WOULD have found him(*) (if they are looking at all) as well... (and if they bought the bit about the kids dying with Padme, the only way Luke would be found would be for Vader to sense him, and till he is trained that just isn't going to happen) (*) - I assume the Empire has law enforcement of some kind, and they would know that the first thing to do when finding someone on the run is to put a watch on all their relatives...

It's not a case of looking at it, it's a case of George adding in the bit about Luke being Vader's son later. Ditto my answer above. Luke is Strong with the force, more so then Kenobi, even untrained - supposedly that is part of the reason they sent him out to the boonies to keep him from being sensed by Vader, yet when Vader is a few yards away he still doesn't sense him. Some people try to come up with Arcane reasons for that kind of thing, I call it a continuity error and leave it at that...

The only thing there at the time Star Wars was being filmed was Ben thinking "I can help this boy more in Death then I can while alive - and Vader does not know it" Vader should also have been easily able to sense Luke while he was on the Death Star (heck, only a few yards away at one point, his force sense ability comes and goes it seems)

You must be right, I looked around the web and no one else ever mentions the line being changed. Could swear I remember that line though.

Not worse, and I think the line got snipped from later copies of the movie, but Obi Wan says he never owned droids before, especially not new ones like these - the new ones bit was snipped from later releases of Star Wars (or I am remembering something that never happened, really hard to tell these days). Vader Not remembering 3PO or R2 is pretty bad too. The worst is how they worked around the "Vader murdered your father line", I'd have to say that counts as the worst continuity problem. (Common George, fess up and admit that Vader was not originally Luke's father, that you came up with it between Star Wars and Empire, and I'll gladly forgive all)

This whole thing reminds me of a Benny Hill skit. Benny is playing an independent film maker being interviewed by Patrick Mcgeee... Mcgee - "You switch from color to black and white when she realizes her world is crashing down, brilliant" Hill- "No, No, No, we run out of color film..." Mcgee - "The leading lady was perfect, except for her lisp, what made you decide to give here a lisp?" Hill - "I did not give her a lisp, she had a lisp" Mcgee - "You searched all England for a girl with a Lisp" Hill - "no, she was the producer's girlfriend..." Sounds incredibly the same as the justifactions being used to cover up the plot holes of the Star Wars prequals...

I think her dying the way she did was just George not being a very good writer...

Don't say that to George...

The book is so different that they are not nearly the same character either though. Only a couple of scenese make it intact from book to movie.

Long before it was ever even constructed to boot. More seriously - is that pod a re-creation, or did they find one of the original props somewhere (from 2010 I guess, I heard that they destroyed all the props from 2001 so they would not be used over and over in cheap scifi movies like other old starship props had been - look what happened to Lost in Space's robot for example)

The BEST version of TMP is the one on youtube where someone pieces together all the shots of the crew looking at the viewscreen and they use a "blue" movie to fill in the audio. As for making it BD, they went to the trouble of adding the shots for DVD, maybe they will go through the trouble of doing it again for BD.

They own the film (in nearly all cases), that gives them the right to make whatever changes they want - it is the devil's bargain that goes with studio funding. Despite the horror stories of studio execs butchering movies they are also just as often responsible for making them better as well.

I don't remember any peripheral characters from ST2 in ST6, who are you reffering to?

As you allude, it probably worked for your ex since that had Kirk regretting some of the choices he had made, especially in regards to Carol Marcus. (And she is the one that left him - really too bad that they mess it up in Star Trek: Generations - it should have been Carol Marcus he was seeing in the Nexus)

Of course, any fanboy who did not see the FIRST showing is only a fanboy wannabe.

I was reduced to tears when Annakin became Darth Vader too, albeit for different reasons then a 5 year old I would expect...

I have plenty of google fu, in this instance I couldn't be arsed to look. Some things just are not worth the bother... I thought that was Space Battleship Yamato. Can't remember what I have never seen before! And man that dub sounds bad.

As much as HG is hated for what they did to get Macross on the air, it pails in comparison to what was done to Gatchaman - I would actually count that show as an argument in favor of HG helping to bring Anime to the West... Those two, along with Star Blazers and Marine Boy (never knew the Japanese title) are the best arguments against HG's claim.

Thank God, personally I'm really tired of the modern US film industry needing to turn every film into a "franchise" [edit] - I don't know what the standard for this kind of thing are in Japan. But in this case it would be good for Hollywood to learn something from them.

You forgot one additional thing, unremembered... (excepting Red Devil of course) I'm also sure someone out there can "prove" that the invid are the disciples of zor...

That movie was pretty bad even WITH the MST3K treatment, but Crow and Servo's refueling skit is priceless.