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Discussion in 'Archive: The Phantom Menace' started by Mist_Devil, Mar 5, 2005.

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  1. Mist_Devil

    Mist_Devil Jedi Youngling star 1

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    does that two-headed anouncer in the pod races just annoy you?! There is just something about him that just makes me want to go into a blind rage and eat his face off.
     
  2. CommanderJamesBond

    CommanderJamesBond Jedi Youngling star 1

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    Well...I wouldn't want to eat him, but yeah he's pretty annoying.
     
  3. BLemelisk

    BLemelisk Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    I thought he was ok, but you're right, a one-header would have fit the bill better.

    --Just an irrelevant sidenote, I went back to watch that scene and I noticed on one of the panels in the announcer's box is that schematic of the first Death Star from the briefing in A New Hope. Yeah.....just thought I'd make that observation while I'm at it. :p
     
  4. Deeysew

    Deeysew Jedi Youngling star 4

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    Objectively, I see him as a failed experiment, which is mainly what TPM was all about: Trying different things, new technologies, alternatives to how things were done back in the day. We know from early drafts that GL always intended the star wars movies to be full of the weirdest looking aliens from Men in Black, you've ever seen. This, however fails, because the announcer sounds like he's from our world, using the same idiomatic phrases we use. Coming from a human, it works. From a two headed thingy whatever, it's slightly distracting.


    :D POO DOO
     
  5. BauconBatista

    BauconBatista Jedi Padawan star 4

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  6. Sith-Jedi-Master

    Sith-Jedi-Master Jedi Padawan star 4

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    yeah i did not like him either...but you what do you do...these are some of the characters that you see in star wars...which is not surprising
     
  7. Steve1977

    Steve1977 Jedi Youngling star 3

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    Every sports event has a co-commentator, just turns out this one has one also...but they'r the same body.
     
  8. Jedi_Ford_Prefect

    Jedi_Ford_Prefect Jedi Master star 4

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    Give Greg Proops some respect, guys. He's actually pretty funny, most of the time.
     
  9. Latorski

    Latorski Jedi Master star 4

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    I love the movie and hate that announcer.
     
  10. Absinthe666

    Absinthe666 Jedi Youngling

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    I think he's just there to be like your average commentator...i.e. trying to be humorous. Didn't pay much attention to his green head, however.
     
  11. Matt-trooper

    Matt-trooper Jedi Youngling star 3

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    I really didn't like him. A two headed alien was just weird. I hope he was just a mutant of his species and there aern't anymore 2 headed freaks like him running around.
     
  12. Mace Windy

    Mace Windy Manager Emeritus star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Personally, I never hated him, and actually thought that he was pretty funny.

    After hearing how many of the fans took to it, however, I think that it may have been better for George to stick with a one-headed announcer that spoke subtitled Huttese.



    :cool: Mace Windy,
    too windy for spoilers!
     
  13. Chancellor_Ewok

    Chancellor_Ewok Chosen One star 7

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    I think Deeysew probably has a point. Ep.I was the first Star Wars film is something like 20 years. Lucas probably didn't for absolutely sure what people were going to go for.
     
  14. Mist_Devil

    Mist_Devil Jedi Youngling star 1

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    I think maybe what annoyed me the most is the way they moved around and how they both had goofy smiles on there faces.
     
  15. redsabreanakin

    redsabreanakin Jedi Knight star 5

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    yeah..pretty bad..
     
  16. Darth Kruel

    Darth Kruel Jedi Padawan star 4

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    I thought they were funny, especially when they did the 'cabbage patch' dance after Anakin won the podrace.
     
  17. Lars_Muul

    Lars_Muul Jedi Grand Master star 6

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    Eat his face off? That reminds me, I watched The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal this weekend....



    "I am giving serious thought to eating your wife"
    /LM
     
  18. theBluePhoenix

    theBluePhoenix Jedi Master star 3

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    The two-headed announcer is just one of several things in TPM that really annoy me.
     
  19. Mist_Devil

    Mist_Devil Jedi Youngling star 1

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    Lars_Muul

    Eat his face off? That reminds me, I watched The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal this weekend....


    mmmmm....faces... :p
     
  20. Darth-Stryphe

    Darth-Stryphe Former Mod and City Rep star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Two-headed announcer didn't bother me that much. I'll take him over Ben Quadrenaro.
     
  21. orangefuzz

    orangefuzz Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    The fact that he had two heads is what annoyed me. The commentary and remarks were fine but the two heads looks kind of retarded. Actually really retarded now that I think about it. But oh well.
     
  22. Tartarus

    Tartarus Jedi Youngling star 1

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    a lot of tings in TPM annoyed me, the two headed announcer was definitely not the smallest offender.
     
  23. Mr_Burns

    Mr_Burns Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    I'll take him over Ben Quadrenaro.

    But he's the tragic heart of the saga!
     
  24. Darth-Stryphe

    Darth-Stryphe Former Mod and City Rep star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    But he's the tragic heart of the saga!

    If by that you mean the fact he was in the Saga, then I agree :p
     
  25. DS615

    DS615 Jedi Padawan star 4

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    I'm pretty sure he's supposed to be a nod to Zaphrod Beeblebrox.

    Most of TPM is a "tribute" to something or another.

     
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