How I realized I was over Star Wars completely

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:35 am

Please tell me you really did call San Diego for a booty call.

unlimitedpudding · Post by **unlimitedpudding** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:43 pm

Please tell me you bought a ShamWow.

Senor JabbaJohnL · Post by **Senor JabbaJohnL** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:45 pm

unlimitedpudding wrote:Please tell me you bought a ShamWow.

I bought eight.

unlimitedpudding · Post by **unlimitedpudding** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:33 pm

You are the man.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:44 pm

They've got them at Costco and Target now, did you know?

Senor JabbaJohnL · Post by **Senor JabbaJohnL** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:53 pm

I've seen them at Target, Walmart, and Walgreen's, which is where I got mine. I don't remember where, but I've seen that they sell them in single packs now (or there might be a few in there; the box is a lot smaller than the set of eight).

Ran · Post by **Ran** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:36 pm

Post subject: Re: How I realized I was over Star Wars completely

When the discussion turned into places you can buy ShamWow and no one seemed to care.

Senor JabbaJohnL · Post by **Senor JabbaJohnL** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:39 pm

It was either that or keep listening to Chux say how much he hates George Lucas. I'll take the ShamWow discussion, thanks.

Ran · Post by **Ran** » Wed May 13, 2009 5:04 pm

Want to see something funny?

Go to http://www.google.com and click on maps

Do a search for Russell Road and Lamb Blvd in Las Vegas, NV.

When the map comes up, look at the neighborhood streets just northeast of the intersection.

Vader, Tarkin, Skywalker, Leia....and Kinobe St? They neighborhood appears to have been built in 1979. They all have street addresses in the 4000s, so no 1138. Looks like you can live there for around $150k.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:59 am

Here's the big reason the Clone Wars bugs me: willy-nilly tossing out of everything that came before in films, books, comics, whatever. Need a new little girl character? Anakin has a Padawan! Plo Koon's always been said to have a kooky alien voice that might be difficult to understand? Voila! He now talks like an English bloke.

Here's the big one I just came across that's just brick-shittingly bad:

The Approaching Storm came out in 2002, and introduced Barriss Offee. She's slightly older than Anakin, and more experienced. She appeared in AOTC; the actress who played her is four years older than Hayden Christiansen, and, while no Dolly Parton, would definitely experience some discomfort if jogging without a sports bra that provided adequate support. She was knighted before Anakin Skywalker; if you go by the first cartoon, she was knighted in the second season whereas Anakin was knighted in the third... by the novels, she was knighted about six months before Anakin.

And, now, in the CW cartoon, she's only slightly older than Ahsoka and still a Padawan. This isn't some minor continuity error like Obi-Wan's braid switching sides or Obi-Wan never mentioning he had a master other than Yoda. This is suddenly regressing a character about ten years, invalidating or calling into question previous storylines simply because someone wanted another little girl character.

I'm using this only as an example, because, regardless of whether I think the character is the shit or not, it's a pretty extreme case (let's be honest, almost as extreme as Anakin suddenly having a Padawan who's not mentioned at all in ROTS in spite of her not being old enough to be a Knight by that time, and her likely death seeming like it'd be a HUGE deal in terms of Anakin's mindset in that movie). I'm not a continuity hound, but, honestly, how hard is it to read the fifteen or so novels and maybe 40 comic books prior to writing a TV show set in the same time period? It's really like having four seasons of The Sopranos exactly as they aired, then, at the beginning of season 5, Meadow is suddenly 10 years old only because it's convenient.

Senor JabbaJohnL · Post by **Senor JabbaJohnL** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:41 pm

Look at those. You telling me she's supposed to be a kid?

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:42 pm

She acted like a kid in the clip I saw.

The real actress has nicer breasteses, though. I tried feeling up the screen, and they were hard, cold, and surprisingly flat. (Note: I didn't really.)

Slicker · Post by **Slicker** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:13 pm

It's just sad that they feel they HAVE to add a young female character to entice pathetic fanboys to watch. I can GUARANTEE that there are more than a few people at the other site that have fapped it thinking about Ashoka...

Diabolical · Post by **Diabolical** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:26 pm

'nark, you're taking this continuity gaffe was too seriously. The Approaching Storm doesn't count because it sucked balls, and the comics were only passable as entertainment. She was never knighted in the Tartarsauceky Clone Wars (no idea where Wookiepedia inferred that from).
It would be like me bitching that Lucas destroyed the Rebo Band's continuity in Tales From Jabba's Palace when he made the Special Editions.

After they killed Chewie with a giant rock, everything post-Jedi was negated for me. And after giving Anakin that little brat as a padawan, I'm not considering The Clone Wars anything but a distraction.
I have my own Star Wars Continuity where I pick and choose what's "real," which includes that includes the flicks and whatever little bit I happen to enjoy in the EU (like Shadows of the Empire).

Slicker wrote: I can GUARANTEE that there are more than a few people at the other site that have fapped it thinking about Ashoka...

oyes. I wish I could remember where it was exactly, but awhile back there were two posters in particular (one might have been MSP) that made a few...disturbing statements about Ahsoka. When I called them out on it, they denied any lewd intention.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:32 pm

Not to change from a disturbing-as-hell topic, but I'd probably buy animated Barriss. Fuck knows Hasbro refuses to give us a proper realistic figure of her, despite the, what, 43rd fucking Plo Koon just coming out. Now with removable mask to reveal the face never seen in movies, TV shows, comics, or video games! Who gives a shit?

Wait, I was wrong. It appears he was shown unmasked in one of those Toys R Us freebie comics that were fucking impossible to find. His face looks more like a vagina than the Sarlaac. I always figured he looked like a Predator, since he's got the same tusks going on.