Ah hell, Since you brought it up Dan, how did you guys
like the new Battlestar Galactica?
I thought it was pretty good.

-Marc

--- Dan Pinal <danp--massmedia.com> wrote:
> At least nobody's defending the prequels. :) Jedi
> has about 20 minutes of
> nice story that is done very well. The original
> story was not to be set on
> Chewbacca's Wookie homeworld. Lucas somehow claimed
> they couldn't afford
> to do this?! Or perhaps they couldn't afford to
> miss the opportunity to
> market Star Wars teddy bears. Lets see. They hear a
> nice bedtime story and
> then about a 100 decide to go out and throw rocks at
> battalions of elite
> Empire troops and armor that apparently run on
> nitroglycerine, 'cuz one tap
> and kablooie. I also hated the cheezy burning wires
> when speeder bikes hit
> trees.
>
> I was lucky enough to see Empire at a film festival
> with Kirshner who
> talked about the film and did a Q&A. Empire was
> written by an actual
> sci-fi writer that understood sci-fi and fantasy.
> She died with 90% of the
> script complete, Kasdan gets equal billing but just
> finished it as a favor
> to Lucas -- he detests sci-fi. The director also
> understood fantasy and
> deliberately insured several themes were preserved.
> In fantasy symbolism,
> the losing of a hand means the loss of feeling, and
> in particular the right
> hand signifies the fall from grace and inability to
> feel goodness and the
> taint of evil. Luke is deliberately shown to feel
> pain with his artificial
> hand at the end, giving hope of his ability to
> return to the good side.
>
> I think age has a lot to do with it. I work with
> and am amazed at people
> who saw and liked the original Battlestar Galactica
> series as children. Oh
> wait, that's another off-topic topic.
>
> DanP
> I'm sorry, this is a no-smoking execution facility.
> Altoid?
>
>
>
>
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