... ep2 wallpaper which I got hold of sometime in 1999 wherein Leo was dressed in Jedi getup. He was at the center of the wallpaper seemingly sitting with a bearded obi-wan on his left and padme on his right... (no, Aegis, not left lap and right lapOriginally posted by Georgi
I don't think Leo was seriously in the running. But out of the rest of them...
) GO HOBBITS! 
apart from the uncanningly look-a-like?Originally posted by Georgi
(and let's face it, Christopher Lee playing him doesn't leave much room for doubt - BTW, did anyone else think there were some interesting parallels between Dooku and Saruman?
well dooku had shorter beard and hair, that's about it... btw can yedi's decide what colour light saber they get??? i'd get black, but that would prolly be considered sinister so i'd go with yellow In the crappy EU (Expanded Universe) novels the Jedi are like the Goddamned Power Rangers (I’m the Pink Saber Jedi! I’m the Yellow Saber Jedi!, ad nauseum).Originally posted by Locke Da'averan
btw can yedi's decide what colour light saber they get??? i'd get black, but that would prolly be considered sinister so i'd go with yellow
In the movies it’s Blue and Green for good guys, red for Sith (with special exception made for Samuel L. Jackson and his purple saber). So Jedi can choose between either Blue or Green in the canon material, and nothing else (unless you're Sam Jackson). 
Looks like it's red for me then.Originally posted by Kayless
Fun fact: No blue lightsaber has ever won a fight and every Star Wars movie has at least one severed appendage.
Walrus dude’s arm in the Mos Eisley cantina and Obi-Wan’s head on the Death Star.Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
BTW, what was the severed appendage in ANH?
Of course if we’re really playing semantics we can just call them Star Wars Mutilations/Dismemberments instead. 
Well, it worked for Mark Hamill...Originally posted by Aegis
Just imagine what this is gonna do for his career, though. Starting off with Star Wars is enough to get anyone a dozen scripts handed to him.
Originally posted by Locke Da'averan
apart from the uncanningly look-a-like?
Yes, apart from that... I mean like the fact he has this big underground industrial complex where he's building an army for his master, the Dark Lord... the way he tries to get Obi-Wan to join him... etc. So I'll take that as a no, then... Originally posted by Morlock
@ Georgi: was your reply about the music just to annoy me?
No, if you actually read it you would have noticed I was saying what happened in the showing I went to. I said I was expecting the cheering to be when the music started, for the exact reasons you say, but it wasn't. At least he can always get a guest role on The Simpsons.Originally posted by Georgi
Well, it worked for Mark Hamill...
Well, also according to the Expanded Universe, the Lightsabre's colour depend on the type of crystal that is used to focus the energy beam, so I guess you can have as many different colours Lightsabres as there are crystals - of course you need a certain type of crystal for it to work properly.Originally posted by Kayless
In the crappy EU (Expanded Universe) novels the Jedi are like the Goddamned Power Rangers (I’m the Pink Saber Jedi! I’m the Yellow Saber Jedi!, ad nauseum).
This is also exactly what George Lucas said in one of the On Location videos on the Star Wars site, I forgot which one it was.In the movies it’s Blue and Green for good guys, red for Sith (with special exception made for Samuel L. Jackson and his purple saber). So Jedi can choose between either Blue or Green in the canon material, and nothing else (unless you're Sam Jackson).
Of course it did- he did Star Wars and BAM! only 23 years later he was in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and the Simpsons! He's on fire!Originally posted by Georgi
Well, it worked for Mark Hamill...
Hey Sabre- don't see you around here much!Originally posted by Sabre
This is also exactly what George Lucas said in one of the On Location videos on the Star Wars site, I forgot which one it was.
You're right; that was poor word choice on my part. Perhaps I should have said, "I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition . . . "Originally posted by Georgi
I wouldn't really class those as "plot twists".
Now if Lucas had been really smart he'd have stuck to the EU lightsabre colours, and opened the way for more merchandising opportunities from spoilt little rich brats who had to have every lightsabre color. They could have marketed them with the now classic "Collect them all!" line.Originally posted by Kayless
In the movies it’s Blue and Green for good guys, red for Sith (with special exception made for Samuel L. Jackson and his purple saber). So Jedi can choose between either Blue or Green in the canon material, and nothing else (unless you're Sam Jackson).
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. Hey, don't forget about The Big Red One and The Guyver . . .Originally posted by Morlock
Of course it did- he did Star Wars and BAM! only 23 years later he was in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and the Simpsons! He's on fire!
Sorry don't know anywhere else to get them, I don't think they actually let anyone mirror those videos. You can try going to the page directly and see if it works.Originally posted by Morlock
Do you know of any other place from which to downlaod/view the making of movies? Since my PC always freezes at starwars.com.
I’ve read some of the EU material and it’s just not my thing.Originally posted by HighLordDave
The EU isn't all bad; some of it is very good (ie-The Thrawn Trilogy, Vector Prime, Dark Empire), some of it is okay (ie-Star by Star), and a lot of it blows (ie-Darksaber, Children of the Jedi, Black Fleet Trilogy), but not everything is worthless.
My main gripe is that the EU treats Star Wars as though it were Sci-Fi. It’s not. It’s myth set to a Sci-Fi backdrop. To me the Expanded Universe has more in common with Star Trek then the Star Wars movies in its feel (I love Trek and Sci-Fi, but Star Wars is in a whole different genre). There is also this compulsory desire to one up the movies in the EU (You have a Death Star that can blow up a planet? I have a Suncrusher that can blow up a star! Harhar!). 
Not to mention all the retcons that the EU has to do in order to fit movie continuity (Storm Troopers broke up the celebration on Coruscant seen in RotJ: SE? Gimme a fricking break). 
No one is ever going to convince me that Mara Jade is not a gross violation of the Sith rule of Two ("Emperor’s Hand" my ass). 
And how about the fact that it’s in vogue for every Jedi to go to the Dark Side for the hell of it, then just as easily come back? That "Chosen One" Anakin must’ve been a real wuss for not doing it sooner! 
And don't get me started on the whole Emperor Clone fiasco (as well as the "Colors of the Rainbow" lightsaber deal). 
Rant, rant, rant. I could go on day and night but I'll stop here. Suffice to say that EU just isn’t my thing. 
