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Episode III - More Images (Possible Spoilers)
2005-04-19, 11:03 AM #641
He gets killed with one blaster pistol shot!?!? In JO I could take like 15 hits like that and still be in decent health.
2005-04-19, 11:06 AM #642
/me humps timewolf.

furiously.
2005-04-19, 11:06 AM #643
Yes well, Boba Fett gets accidently whacked in the back by a stick weilded by a blind man.

Stupidest death for a potentially cool character ever.
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2005-04-19, 11:15 AM #644
But consider that he wouldn't normally be vulnerable due to his lightsabers. I'm guessing Obi-Wan had to work pretty damn hard to get him that vulnerable.
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2005-04-19, 12:29 PM #645
Quote:
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet
He gets killed with one blaster pistol shot!?!? In JO I could take like 15 hits like that and still be in decent health.


That's beacause JO is a video game.
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2005-04-19, 12:51 PM #646
I think there is more to it than just a blaster shot. Think about it, that guy goes into battle, he doesn't have the Force to use the lightsabers to block blaster shots, so he probably gets shot. The Super Battle Droids can take some shots before they get destroyed. He had to of had something else happen before he gets shot.

Not to mention in the book it says his armor can resist blasters .
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2005-04-19, 2:51 PM #647
He does electrocute Grievous with one of his MagnaGuards' electrostaff, as seen in a picture a few pages back. That probably messes up something with him. Afterall, Grievous is just a set of lungs and a brain, everything else is artifical.
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2005-04-19, 2:57 PM #648
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/me humps timewolf.

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2005-04-19, 4:17 PM #649
I think I've seen more humpage in this thread alone than in all others combined...
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2005-04-19, 4:18 PM #650
In this thread I've been humped more than Jenna Jameson.
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2005-04-19, 4:38 PM #651
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Originally posted by Bill
Yes a valid point there. You knew what you were getting into when you clicked it.

Also, the new tv spots remind me of the OT trailers from way back when. That's sort of cool.

Probably because most of the use the OT music...
2005-04-19, 4:42 PM #652
The narration kind of reminded me of the OT previews.
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2005-04-19, 4:53 PM #653
Movie looks incredible. Something from the end doesn't add up though: Why does it take more than 20 years to construct the first Death Star, if the second one (which is bigger, more advanced and features prototype technologies) takes less than 2?
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2005-04-19, 5:11 PM #654
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Originally posted by Forsakahn
Movie looks incredible. Something from the end doesn't add up though: Why does it take more than 20 years to construct the first Death Star, if the second one (which is bigger, more advanced and features prototype technologies) takes less than 2?


1; First they'd need to construct a shipyard big enough to build a Death Star (which they probably used to construct the second one, as well), which probably took some time
2; We don't know when they began working on it exactly, so for all we know they may not have begun constructing it until two years prior to ANH
3; The second death star could have been under construction before the first one was complete
4; The second death star wasn't even completed by the time it was destroyed; It was fully operational, but it wasn't finished

(sorry if that came off as offensive or hostile, i mean it with the kindest intent. not trying to flame you or anything, just trying to clear it up for you and stuff)
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2005-04-19, 5:24 PM #655
1. The Death Stars are constructed as-is, there is no shipyard.
2. One of the final scenes in Ep III is the beginnings of the Death Star
3. It wasn't, see #2
4. They had four years from ANH to ROTJ to get the thing working, and since they've already done one, and as pointed out it wasn't completed, they easily could've refined techniques for building something that big, and not wasted time with sections that weren't absolutely vital.
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2005-04-19, 5:50 PM #656
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Originally posted by Darkjedibob
1. The Death Stars are constructed as-is, there is no shipyard.


That's right djb, they were constructed in the scientific research facility in the Maw. I believe one of the X-wing books explains it. Man, I hope the movie doesn't screw up Qwi Xux's (sp?) part in the storyline.
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2005-04-19, 6:10 PM #657
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Originally posted by thesilentpyro
That's right djb, they were constructed in the scientific research facility in the Maw. I believe one of the X-wing books explains it. Man, I hope the movie doesn't screw up Qwi Xux's (sp?) part in the storyline.


That's essentially what I meant, they would have needed to do all the research and build the equipment necessary for constructing a death star, which they could then recycle to use for the second one.

And #2 doesn't disprove that the second one could have started being built around the same time as the first one, it just means that the first one was started at the end of episode 3. Note that the second one was operational four years after the first one, and the first one took twenty years to build. That leaves 22 years of potential construction time (leaving out one year after Episode 3 and one year before RotJ). They very well could have started construction on the second before the first one was finished. It happens all the time with current technology (especially software; it's not unheard of for developers to work on a "version 2" before version 1 is even released)
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2005-04-19, 6:55 PM #658
Deathstar Version 2.0
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2005-04-19, 6:59 PM #659
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Originally posted by DesertPike
Deathstar Version 2.0


Changelog:

- Fixed an exploit which would allow a single one-player starfighter to crash the program by firing at an exhaust port
- Battle station is now armed and fully operational
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2005-04-19, 8:07 PM #660
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Originally posted by A_Big_Fat_CoW
And #2 doesn't disprove that the second one could have started being built around the same time as the first one, it just means that the first one was started at the end of episode 3.


My beef with this is yeah, we know they've been working on the DS for a while, but in typical GL "EU isn't real" fashion, I don't see a way that the prototype could still be done, unless it was a simlutaneous effort, building the main body at whatever planet in Ep III instead of Despayre, and working on the superlaser back at the Maw, then adding the superlaser portion after part of the frame was complete.

Unless that version was built way before Dooku even brought it to the Geonosians in the first place.
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2005-04-19, 11:46 PM #661
It is most unfortunate that we will never know.
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2005-04-19, 11:58 PM #662
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Originally posted by thesilentpyro
That's right djb, they were constructed in the scientific research facility in the Maw. I believe one of the X-wing books explains it. Man, I hope the movie doesn't screw up Qwi Xux's (sp?) part in the storyline.


I have a feeling that none of the Maw storyline from the Jedi Academy books is going to be part of the movie.
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2005-04-20, 12:48 AM #663
Haven't you guys seen Clerks? The second Death Star was quicker to build due to.... independent contractors!
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2005-04-20, 1:14 AM #664
Well, of course!
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2005-04-20, 8:34 AM #665
Quote:
Originally posted by A_Big_Fat_CoW
Changelog:

- Fixed an exploit which would allow a single one-player starfighter to crash the program by firing at an exhaust port
- Battle station is now armed and fully operational


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2005-04-22, 12:09 PM #666
Here's another crispy vader picture:

[http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-4/996284/burntvader.jpg]
2005-04-22, 12:11 PM #667
Someone needs to make a P-W-N-D pic of that.
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2005-04-22, 5:25 PM #668
It's 2-1B! Almost 20 years after putting together Vader, he attaches a hand for Luke. It's a conspiracy!
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2005-04-22, 6:17 PM #669
Here
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2005-04-22, 7:15 PM #670
One thing i don't get: how can vader survive on the table like that w/o a respirator or anything?
2005-04-22, 7:22 PM #671
Perhaps Palpatine has the power to keep people from dying.
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2005-04-22, 7:50 PM #672
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Originally posted by Avenger
I have a feeling that none of the Maw storyline from the Jedi Academy books is going to be part of the movie.

Good riddance. The Jedi Academy books are terrible...I don't mind the Maw Installation, but I never liked much of the rest of it. Ooh Suncrusher, yet ANOTHER superweapon. Original, Kevin J.
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2005-04-22, 7:51 PM #673
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Originally posted by Pagewizard_YKS
One thing i don't get: how can vader survive on the table like that w/o a respirator or anything?


Maybe it's similar to his chamber on the Executor
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2005-04-22, 8:19 PM #674
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Originally posted by Bill
Perhaps Palpatine has the power to keep people from dying.


Actually that's the one thing Palpatine can't do, but deceives Anakin to turn to the dark side for. Only the Jedi (through Qui-Gon's teachings to Yoda and Obi-Wan) have the ability to sustain life after death. Palpatine kills his master (Darth Plagueis), who was looking for the secret to eternal life, though never achieved.
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2005-04-22, 8:40 PM #675
Well if he lied to Anakin, why doesn't Anakin just kill him when he find out? That's something I don't get, why not just kill the Emperor when you find out he lied to you. Your wife is dead because of you, and he didnt save her like he said he could, so why bother keeping him around?
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2005-04-22, 9:05 PM #676
Might be politically risky, there's no way he can control the empire on his own. He's no where near as cunning as Sidius.
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2005-04-22, 9:21 PM #677
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Originally posted by THRAWN
Well if he lied to Anakin, why doesn't Anakin just kill him when he find out? That's something I don't get, why not just kill the Emperor when you find out he lied to you. Your wife is dead because of you, and he didnt save her like he said he could, so why bother keeping him around?


He isn't powerful enough to anymore. The damages he suffers in the duel greatly reduce his ability to wield the force.

Quote:
Originally posted by tinny
Might be politically risky, there's no way he can control the empire on his own. He's no where near as cunning as Sidius.


Anakin's original plan was to overthrow Palpatine and have he and Padme rule the government.
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2005-04-22, 9:27 PM #678
i just can't help myself

/me humps
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2005-04-22, 9:32 PM #679
Quote:
Originally posted by THRAWN
Well if he lied to Anakin, why doesn't Anakin just kill him when he find out? That's something I don't get, why not just kill the Emperor when you find out he lied to you. Your wife is dead because of you, and he didnt save her like he said he could, so why bother keeping him around?
Palpatine is the most evil man in the galaxy, so he could
probably kick anakin/vader's a** in a straight fight. Vader only killed him in ROTJ b/c palpy was not expecting it and was taken by surprise. Palpy killed vader, though... all that lightning fried Vader's life support. (if you freeze-frame the sequence when vader picks up palpy on the death star II, you can see what looks like vader's skull and some of his bones flashing briefly. Vader was already dying when his mask was removed, he said so himself.
2005-04-22, 10:22 PM #680
Yeah his lifesupport systems failed on him I mean electricity to a giant machine would do some damage.
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