ST Get In Line - A Social Countdown to Episode VII

I had a wonderful dream about Episode VII last night (that's when you know you are thinking about it too much when it starts invading your dreams. ) Apparently it's going to be a nice little art house film about one son's struggle to get his father off drugs. I guess Luke had a bit harder time getting over his father's fall to the dark side than he let on in ROTJ because he started drinking, became a dead beat dad, and Mara finally left him. That's when he started with the drugs. What I can remember of the dream was very poignant.

 

Mara left him? Yeah, sounds like a good time for a party to me.

 

Welcome to the boards, ConnorLovesPadme.

Yeah, when the first commercials start popping up on TV I'm going to geek out. The first trailer for a new Star Wars movie is always an exciting time to be a fan. Oh, how I'll analyze every single frame of it just to get a sense of what to expect. It's going to be fun!

 

My best memories of the TV ads were for the SEs, in which the ads told those of us who were in our mid-20s at the time that we could "see it again--on the big screen!"

I also enjoyed seeing little Jake Lloyd in front of the hut on Tatooine and realizing that, holy hell, that's Anakin Skywalker. I'm finally going to find out what happened to him to make him turn dark.

 

The thing I remember most about the build-up to Episode I was those banners that the official site would put up that had scenes from the film and a little snippet of dialogue. I remember when I first saw the one with Palpatine in his office and thinking that he looks nothing like the Emperor.

 

I had dial-up and a computer with 8 MB of RAM. I doubt I could load the official site.

 

I couldn't either on my computer at home. Whenever I went to the computer lab at my high school I would sneak onto the site whenever the teacher wasn't looking. Those were fun times.

Don't I know it. The bad thing is my wife checked them before they left and is certain they didn't have any then so it looks like they got them at camp but according to my girls they're the only ones being sent home. They're quite upset.

 

Well, Ok man, except this is the wrong forum for that. There is a PT forum for discussing those movies. Trust me, you'll get all the discussion you can handle there. Meanwhile, we're all for discussing Ep. VII and general tomfoolery here.

 

I've been craving a Budweiser Chelada all day and now I have one. That and some homemade ravioli makes for a wonderful dinner.

 

I'm watching my kids ride their last amusement park ride of the evening, after which I'm going to take them home, put them to bed and open the nice chilled bottle of Pinot Grigio that is currently in my refrigerator.

 

Sharing Our Bedroom With Bats: Week 7 - UPDATE EDITION: The legislatively un-evictable bat family has chosen to home school. Today began a handful of lessons in basic alphabet pronunciation. Mom/HomeschoolTeacher Bat patiently made a vowel sound in repetition until the children responded with the same vowel sound. Once they could manage to grasp the lesson, the next vowel sound would be repeated with endless patience until it was comprehended. Since it is homeschooling, this class only lasted 6 or so hours. I am happy to report the kids seem to be making what I can only assume is apparent progress in their education. They grow up so fast.

 

I'm sorry you all have this problem and I'm hoping you've got good earplugs and a supply of melatonin.

But that description was hilarious.

 

The internet wasn't a regular thing for me back then due to dial-up (I was 14 at the time and my parents had me on an internet limit because I used to always tie up the phone line), so I had to resort to other methods of obtaining news such as Star Wars Insider and the news outlets on TV. I remember waiting in agony through an episode of Entertainment Tonight just to see the first look at the teaser trailer for TPM. I also taped it and proceeded to watch it over and over again.