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Offline Lybus

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Any Star Wars fans here?
« on: May 14, 2009, 09:22:49 PM »
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  • Just out of curiosity, are any of you into Star Wars? What's your favorite character?

    In regards to being a responsible man, would it be interesting to learn, after six years of accuмulating all the wisdom you could, that you had it right all alon

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    « Reply #1 on: May 14, 2009, 09:39:49 PM »
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  • Obi Wan Kenobi.

    Star Wars was one of the few movies I watched before I gave movies up altogether.

    Even as a very young man, my favorite character was Obi Wan. I guess I liked the way he was detached from everything else, and was involved with high and important issues.
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    Offline trent13

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    « Reply #2 on: May 14, 2009, 10:30:05 PM »
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  • Han Solo.  I liked his bluff swagger and then he turns out to be such a peach...

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    « Reply #3 on: May 14, 2009, 11:27:43 PM »
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  • I am a big Star Wars buff - believe it or not, Kenobi also had an "affair" with his colleague, Master Siri (as she, just in case anyone was wondering), therefore, it is speculated that he knew the nature of the relationship of Anakin and Padme. My favourite characters are Boba Fett and General Grievous on account of being bad ass.

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    « Reply #4 on: May 15, 2009, 04:54:41 AM »
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  • Yoda, my favourite character is.


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    « Reply #5 on: May 15, 2009, 08:48:44 AM »
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  • Chewy or Yoda.

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    « Reply #6 on: May 15, 2009, 03:44:59 PM »
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  • I used to be a huge Star Wars fan but, I kind of drifted away from it. My favorite characters would have to be Jabba the Hutt, Jango & Boba Fett, and Qui-Gon Jinn.

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    « Reply #7 on: May 15, 2009, 03:48:49 PM »
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  • I should point out that, as a guy over 30, I was never into the "new" Star Wars.

    The ones that were released in the 70's and early 80's were all I ever enjoyed.

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    « Reply #8 on: May 15, 2009, 05:02:32 PM »
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  • Quote from: ChantCd
    I should point out that, as a guy over 30, I was never into the "new" Star Wars.

    The ones that were released in the 70's and early 80's were all I ever enjoyed.



    With the exception of Revenge of the Sith, the new trilogy was a huge dissappointment.

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    « Reply #9 on: May 16, 2009, 04:20:56 PM »
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  • Yoda is probably my favorite character for the reason that he is very knowledgeable, very wise, firm, but also humorous and laid back. He's also a great martial artist.
    Personally, I found all 6 of the movies to be pretty good. What was disappointing about the new trilogy, DeMaistre?

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    « Reply #10 on: May 17, 2009, 10:29:14 AM »
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  • Quote from: ChantCd
    I should point out that, as a guy over 30, I was never into the "new" Star Wars.

    The ones that were released in the 70's and early 80's were all I ever enjoyed.

    Yes, I still prefer the 70's and 80's Star Wars over the new ones.


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    « Reply #11 on: May 17, 2009, 01:06:05 PM »
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  • For what it's worth, here's what Solange Hertz had to say about "Star Wars" in "On the Contrary" (Chapter 3: "The Old Religion", pp69-70):
     
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    Of pre-eminent gnostic inspiration is the science fiction movie "Star Wars", whose hero Luke Skywalker, "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away," fights valiantly for "the Rebel Alliance" against the malevolent Emperor who insists on ruling the universe. Originally subtitled "A New Hope", the screenplay was conceived by its author George Lucas in apocalyptic dimensions. In conjunction with two sequels, "The Empire Strikes Back" and "The Return of the Jedi", it constitutes only the mid-section of a greater nine-part epic called "The Adventures of Luke Skywalker". Three "prequels", scheduled to begin appearing in 1999, will explain how the "evil" Emperor seized power in the first place, and the whole story should eventually close on what happens after his defeat.

    When "Star Wars" came out in 1977 only the sophisticated New Yorker magazine commented on its "neo-Sophoclean" and "mythic" overtones. Although it is not hard to recognize Lucifer in names like "Luke" and "Skywalker", most reviewers declared the production nothing more than good, clean, noisy fun with the simplest of plots. That the rebel group's headquarters occupies a temple described in the book as "converted to modern service by technicians of the Alliance", where an ancient throne room "too beautiful for the architects to modify" was left intact and presumably awaiting an occupant, apparently raised no eyebrows. Nor did the mysterious Obi-Wan-Kenobi, ably portrayed by the English Catholic convert Alec Guinness, who would form a kind of anti-trinity with Luke and the eerie creature Yoda.

    If any critics suspected at the show's opening that the plot which appears so simple on the surface actually contained subtleties fully grasped only by adepts of the Old Religion, or that the evil Empire and its foremost defender the sinister knight Darth Vader (who turns out to be Luke's father) might be reverse representations of the Kingdom of God and His Christ, they never voiced their opinions. In the Catholic diocesan reviews no alarms sounded, even when Obi-Wan arms the neophyte Luke with a "lightsaber" for the deadly warfare of mind over matter about to take place and indoctrinates him inot the use of the "Force", a secret power existing in everything, "binding the universe together" and enabling the initiate to control all technology.

    There would be a dramatic awakening twenty years later, however, when Newsweek for January 20, 1997 would call the epic "a classic fairytale about good and evil, evoking old-time mythology with futuristic intergalactic cavalries. It has religious, paternal and political overtones". Proclaiming it "part of the culture", the magazine furthermore announced that "the Smithsonian next fall will open a big exhibition on the mythology and social themes of 'Star Wars'" whose "score was a hymn, the plot a parable". Even the general public may be catching on, for at the movie's revival at the Gotham Cinema in Manhattan, a man in the men's room was heard to exclaim "God, this is spiritual, isn't it?" But then, as a gnostic proverb has it... "Nothing is concealed, from him who knows!"


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    « Reply #12 on: May 17, 2009, 02:47:38 PM »
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  • Out of curiosity, how many of you Star Wars fans believe the Sun revolves around the Earth?

    There Is No Such Thing As 'Sede Vacantism'...
    nor is there such thing as a 'Feeneyite' or 'Feeneyism'

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    « Reply #13 on: May 17, 2009, 02:59:05 PM »
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  • Maybe I should rephrase the question-- how many of you Star Wars fans believe the Earth to rev around the Sun?
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    « Reply #14 on: May 18, 2009, 05:02:51 AM »
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  • Quote from: roscoe
    Maybe I should rephrase the question-- how many of you Star Wars fans believe the Earth to rev around the Sun?


    I keep an open mind. I certainly haven't ruled geocentrism out.