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Oh chin up there, buttercup. They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Erm...I fixed this for you ages ago.

True, but most people grow up and leave the snide condescension in high school. Why would we steal your lunch money? Lucas pays us insane sums to pimp his movies here, from atop our pillars of righteousness. Remember? Hell, if you say so it must be true.

I always thought the 350Z looks alright. But Yellowlightman is definitely right about how the 350Z has lost a lot of its lustre since the "other" imports arrived on our shores. Not that 350Z owners seem to understand that, right Yellow?

Jeeze, how old are you? That's it...me and AgentONE are gonna...like, wait for you after class in the parking lot.

You're right. It's just crazy! Black is white, up is down, right is wrong....

Blaine, you forgot to mention that Thulsa Doom has those swinging orgies where big sweaty men serve participants Split Pea and Man soup. But then you'd have a Top 11 list, and that just doesn't have the same ring to it.

I think its a sound that he's very familiar with.

Best answer since....well, mine.

Kill mine first, he's a "charming" CGI Gungan with a mildly racist speech impediment AND the force. He attacks sonic-the-hedgehog style like Yoda and he frequently compares skin to sand while accidently defeating entire fleets in a wacky, endearing fashion while sampling his midoclorian count. And he has tiny hands. You can't leave out the tiny hands.

Next game session, I am SO killing off your character, Hurin.

Wow, I just watched the video of Warrior's speaking engagement. This guy is...something else. He makes John Milius look downright liberal.

You know, if you don't simmer down, I won't invite you over to play the Star Wars RPG. And it wasn't going to be any of that revisionist D20 crap either. I'm talking oldschool West End Games. So play nice.

Dude, get off the cross. Somebody else needs the wood.

That may or may not have worked, but its completely removed from the story Lucas has written. And quite frankly I don't see how this is any better than the existing version of Anakin's fall. Whats so wrong about an Anakin who is increasingly concerned...obsessed really....with controlling the destinies of those around him? An obsession that will eventually cause him to make a deal with the devil, destroy all he had ever cared about and eventually kill the very person he was trying to save. Your story isn't better. Its just different for differences sake.

I know that Sidious/Palpatine told them to invade. But why did they listen? What did the Trade Federation have to gain by blockading Naboo? This is never established. And if it is Sidious giving them all the Jedi/Sith mind trick, that isn't established either. It's always been a gaping plot hole for me in TPM. The opening crawl tells us that the the taxation of trade routes is in dispute, and that the greedy corporate types have blockaded Naboo. I'm assuming it was intended as a retalitory move, possibly to gain leverage for their position in the senate. But Qui Gon tells us that the blockade/invasion is too overt for the usual Trade Fed modus operendi, and that it made little sense. The film shows us that the Neimodians have little idea what they're actually doing, so I have no trouble accepting that Sidious convinced them to do it either by mind trick or by appealing to their greed. Either way, it can't really be considered a "plot hole" because the film itself tells us that the blockade is illogical. D'oh! I completely forgot the trade treaty that they wanted to force the Naboo to agree to. It was basically commerce at gunpoint.

Bah, he's got it coming. Mace Windu represents everything that's wrong with the Jedi in this period in galactic history.

IIRC, don't some of the rogue Zentraedi fire captured GU-11's at Hikaru when he pilots the Spartan? The shells seem to have little or no effect on the Spartan whatsoever, and he promptly beats the crap out of them. It could be argued that maybe the gunpods were loaded with some sort of non-lethal ammunition, like the wooden and rubber bullets used in the 20th century, but that's pure conjecture.

Sure we do. Or at least, we see as much as is necessary for the story. We see that Obi Wan is somewhat frustrated with his uberskilled apprentice, and seems to keep him on a short leash. On the other side of the coin, we see that Anakin respects his master ("He's like a father") but at the same time he feels held back. That's all we need in AOTC. If fans want to see all kinds of specifics of Anakin's training then they're out of luck. You won't see any Dagobah-esque sequences with Obi & Ani running, jumping and feeeeeeling the force, since all of that would have taken place between chapters. Keep in mind that all six films seem to take place at key turning points in the lives of the Skywalkers, and cramming some unnecessary training scenes into AOTC would have been pretty pointless. And BTW, if anybody had bothered to read the spoiler thread, you'd already know that the first two reels of ROTS establish that Obi Wan and Anakin have finally become the dynamic duo that fanboys have dreamt of. In fact, Palpatine will go to great lengths to break their bond throughout the films running time. So quit yer bitching. *Edited horrible spelling error

Umm...they invaded because Sidious told them to invade. And Sidious is Palpatine, dontcha know? Its as if you understand, and yet don't understand at the same time.

Wow, it's good to see you guys are getting warmed up. They say that's important to do before you do anything strenuous. I was worried you might pull something on May 19th. Edit: I had had a .jpeg that mocked the notion that Kurtz was somehow the be-all, end-all of the OT but I seem to have either deleted it or its on another computer. So instead, as a peace offering, I'll offer you this t-shirt. Wear it in good health.