Star Wars (was Re: WotC [was Re: 2e Drow Deathspider]

Well, you know, the logic behind the tech is that Episode One is in the age
of the Great Empire, before society, and technology with it, started to fall
apart.  So the tech is still reliable and pretty.  The Romans had
spectacles, pipe organs, and ice cream, and the knowledge of these things
was lost as their civilization fell.  The earlier Star Wars tech (in terms
of production, not Chronology) represents jerry-rigged versions of the
technology that's still readily available in Episode One.  Imagine what
would happen to computers if we had a worldwide plague tomorrow and our
civilization started to fall apart.  I'm sure you've seen enough si-fi to
imagine it. :)  (I know I have!)

But I'm with you about the loss of pilot dialogue and the latex.  There was
less focus on the "little people" in Episode One; and that aspect is one of
the things that made the trilogy so real and so poignant for me.  When Biggs
gets creamed, you care, and he's "just a guy."

Yours,
Sable

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From: "Tay JK" <tayjk@???????.com>
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Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] WotC [was Re: 2e Drow Deathspider]


> That and it downplayed two of my favorite things from the original:  The
> fighter pilot dialogue (I can hold it!  I can hold it!  Ahhhhh-*boom*),
and
> the tech.  I miss the switchs and buttons and knobs, not it looks like
Star
> Trek.  Oh, and too much computer graphics when latex could have done just
as
> well if not better.
>
> >From: "Downer, Chris" <Chris.Downer@?????????.com>
> >Reply-To: Discussion list for the Spelljammer campaign setting
> ><SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com>
> >To: SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com
> >Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] WotC [was Re: 2e Drow Deathspider]
> >Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 13:29:56 -0500
> >
> >That's what happens when you "kiddy up" a movie.
> >And what was he thinking when he put JA JA Binks in it. That character
> >ruined the movie. It maid all the other blaring mistakes minor. The only
> >other mistake that comes close was the kid, he couldn't act his way out
of
> >a
> >paper bag. It is a shame they couldn't get the kid from that Bruce Willis
> >movie, the one where the kid saw dead people (can't remember the name)
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: woodelf [mailto:woodelph@???????.net]
> >Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 10:45 AM
> >To: SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com
> >Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] WotC [was Re: 2e Drow Deathspider]
> >
> >
> >At 16:51 -0500 5/1/02, Eric Anondson wrote:
> > >IMO, a bigger blunder was Hasbro paying George Lucas $600,000,000 (yup,
> > >that is the correct number of zeros) for the license to Star Wars toys,
> > >and then watching what Lucas did to devalue the entire Star Wars
> > >franchise with The Phantom Menace overkill.  This certianly hasn't been
> > >a good time for management at Hasbro.
> > >
> >just an honest mistake.  could *anyone* have guessed, based on the
> >first three movies, or even Lucas' record in general, that Phantom
> >Menace would be such dreck?  i kinda figured it wouldn't live up to
> >anybody's favorite of eps 4-6, but i expected it'd be better than the
> >vast majority of non-Star Wars SF movies, rather than beneath even
> >the median.
> >--
> >woodelf                <*>
> >woodelf@???.net
> >http://webpages.charter.net/woodelph/
> >
> >"But this...this, this, *this* is like being *nibbled* to death
> >by...what are those Earth creatures called?  Feathers, long bill, webbed
> >feet...go quack..."   "Cats."   "Cats.  I'm being nibbled to death by
> >cats." -- Londo and Vir
> >
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