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Lord_NoONE
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Date Posted:
10/18/07 1:55pm
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There's another article, in addition to the one I linked to last night, on msnbc.com. It can be found HERE.
Mostly a non-fan "worrying" about Lucas' direction with the gffa. It's not really that interesting of a read; however, it's an article related to the television series.
Personally, I think the article is bereft of any productive thought.
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Darthsuggs
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10/18/07 2:45pm
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That article is garbage and the editor that ran it is garbage. In all seriousness that article is nothing but a cesspool of neagatvity and pessimism. I agree with you that it is valid because of the TV show subject matter.
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Master_Starwalker
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10/18/07 3:09pm
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I think the point that Lucas has changed is a valid one but that it's ultimately is an angry sensationalist piece. She's a journalist in DC, she should be dealing with far more important things than an anti-Lucas rant.
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Lord_NoONE
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10/18/07 5:06pm
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I agree. I honestly cannot think of a single reason why the author would write that article.
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Robimus
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10/18/07 9:58pm
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Jesus and the virgin Mary hun? Yeah this writer is way off base on all her points. The word idiot comes to mind. They should keep there editorials away from the most successful franchise in the history of entertainment. Whats she base her critism on? The billion+ dollars the prequel trilogy made or all the New York Times best sellers Del Rey is putting out. For a channel about finances to claim George Lucas is failing or has failed in some way is just silly. He's only worth around 5 billion dollars and has changed the face of movies as we know them. No GL, no Jurassic Park, LOTR or Transformers films because we wouldn't have ILM's perfection of computer graphics.
Anyway I'm ranting, stupid MSNBC
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Master_Starwalker
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10/18/07 11:32pm
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MSNBC isn't the financial channel though.
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G-FETT
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10/19/07 4:59am
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Thats the kind of rant that makes me depressed with the Internet, because what the WWW has done, is its given people who would otherwise have had no attention, a voice. 
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Darth_Shpydar
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10/19/07 6:19am
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Lord_NoONE posted:
I agree. I honestly cannot think of a single reason why the author would write that article.
The same reason that has them endlessly cover the "woes" of Paris, Britney, Lindsey, et al, rather than cover actual news like, oh, i don't know, that Americans are fighting in a war? Why cover actual news when they can just talk about Anna Nicole Smith's baby?
It makes me both sad and infuriated how idiotic most TV news coverage has become.
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vong333
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10/19/07 8:29pm
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I tend to agree with the article and it may not reporesent what many fans on these site feel, it is what most of the regular movie, video game, comic book, and book going public feel. Too many the prequels were crud and the expanded universe is gotten way out of hand. The article has its merits becuase I for one never agreed with the special editions. They should have been left how they were. In their original format, and the prequels were bad compared to other fare, ie Spiderman 1-3, Lord of the Rings (all three movies), the five Harry Potter movies, the Halo video games. In many ways I am worried about the live action tv series because they have the air of suckiness to them. I remember real well how bad the Indiana Jones TV series were back then, and I think that the live action is going in that direction. On the other hand, its the animated 3-d cartoon that might be the best of the bunch. I like the article and if you are Star Wars fan, then you have every reason to worry.
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JediOverlord
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10/20/07 5:30pm
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I agree, the writer of that article is an idiot. The caption with the picture, about how the Clone Wars animated series won't have any of the OT characters in it, is what gets me. Of course it won't! Except for the droids, Yoda, and Obi-Wan, but that's besides the point.
Sometimes I want to smack people like this.
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vong333
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10/21/07 4:58pm
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I do not agree that the writer is an idiot. I for one never agreed to the changes that the special editions got, and saw them as a warning perview of what was to come with the prequels. Though I will reserve judgemnt for the live action tv series, I have more faith in the clone wars animated series. That one looks very promising.
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PerfectCell
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10/21/07 5:11pm
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Classic TFN, anyone that says a bad word about Papa Lucas is an idiot. The author makes some very valid points, stop reading with biased eyes and that would be plain as day.
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Master_Starwalker
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10/21/07 6:42pm
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vong333 posted:
I do not agree that the writer is an idiot. I for one never agreed to the changes that the special editions got, and saw them as a warning perview of what was to come with the prequels. Though I will reserve judgemnt for the live action tv series, I have more faith in the clone wars animated series. That one looks very promising.
She's definitely not an idiot. I think the point that he's changed and possibly for the worse artistically is certainly valid. The only gripe I've got with the piece is the tone.
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Cid
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10/22/07 8:55pm
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I'm still optimistic about the LAS, but there are some valid points in that article. Just remember, however, that Lucas isn't going to be 100% involved in the LAS. Maybe that's a good thing. It seemed, to me, that the PT was made more out of a sense of duty than a sense of passion... meaning that he made them because he felt he was keeping a promise he made (though i'm no mind reader, but that's the impression i got). Maybe it's time for Lucas to sit back and let some fresh voices work with the LAS a little, and just keep veto rights. I can imagine a lot of up and coming, hungry, writers would LOVE to play around in that universe. Get them, keep them from going nuts, and let them do their thing. Maybe come up with the overarcing story and drop THAT in everyones lap to write out. That's one benefit to being the head honcho.
Remember KOTOR? That was a breath of fresh GFFA air, imo, and that was made post OS:SE.
Lucas won't be writing the dialogue. That's enough to give me hope if nothing else. I liked some of Obi Wan's lines, but Anakin picking up on Padme? Yeeeeach! Try that down here and you're awful lonely.
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Padmes_love_slave24
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Date Posted:
10/25/07 6:00pm
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oh the writers from MSNBC.COM are complete morons, and they obviously have no idea what they are talking about, here is the link to her stupid article:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21365041/
Another article of interest came out in 2004 suggesting that Lucas should be fired, shouldn't the idiot who wrote this article have understood that Lucas is the boss and he the only one who can fire Lucas is Lucas?! All the msnbc writers are idiots who are bunch of mid 40 year olds still trying to get off of acid!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4980465/
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Master_Starwalker
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Date Posted:
10/25/07 8:27pm
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Considering that most of the worst ideas in the last two films came from Lucas himself, he might start by handing over the reins to another filmmaker.
It might be difficult to convince Lucas to go along with it, but if necessary Lucas could probably be tricked by telling him that Joseph Campbell is waiting with a documentary crew to massage Lucas’ ego by interviewing him about his wonderful mythic imagination. When Lucas shows up, knock him out, encase him in a block of frozen carbonite and put him out of the way somewhere until the movie is out in theaters.
So yeah, they're aware that Lucas is the boss.
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