Zekiran_Immortal

I loved this idea on chat, sounds fun! Any level / zone in particular?

They were not in YOUR THEATER'S copy of the movie. They were pretty clearly in dozens of other theaters.

Lucas is WELL known for out and out LYING to his fans. About his motivations, his actions, everything. I've got plenty of evidence to back up how much he spins around on his own opinion, having a couple very old and then-current Starlog magazines with extensive interviews. Those were flat-out contradicted in later discussions, and it's like no one bothered to even wave it at him and say, "dude. stop it."

There were no making-of's by the time I saw the movie the 2nd time and knew it was missing something. The book didn't have photos of those scenes, how else would I have known to look for very specific things (washed out yellow coloration, the chick with the binoculars, Biggs *at all* connected to luke?). To my knowledge I never even SAW a making-of video, though I did see the Holiday special. Which, for many years, Lucas ALSO saw fit to deny. Of course, he had compelling reason to do so... except for that nagging little "first appearance of Boba Fett" thing that he tried sliding in as "oh we did film it but it wasn't good enough". THAT scene was certainly never shown, because it was *clearly* unfinished from what I've seen of it before they (badly) added the Hutt... But he's tried many times to re-imagine things, and frankly it's ridiculous. So many of us were there. I would say ... many of us have seen the movies far more often than HE ever did.

Awww, well your stuff will be here for you when you upgrade or jump back on! Don't forget the freebie weekends

*hugs* later Baff, have fun!

I didn't have one. :/

I did have cassette players and Record players (what's a "record"?) and for whatever reason I still own some 8 tracks, but never really had a functional player for them.

I'll stick to my USB turntable.

Aww. Well hopefully they'll do it again. I can't think of a time when Star Wars won't have a line out the door if it's in a theater. It's like a mini-convention

That is pretty cool, actually, I think that was his best album. Very raw, but at the same time showed just how much talent as a composer there was in Trent. And everyone else on it, of course, but... lol. Now if only I could find my 'fixed' EP ...

Oh god no kidding.

My ex's dad once worked with them, when he was still doing radio. I thought that was pretty cool when I found out.

I had the great pleasure of learning of the Firesign Theater from my neighbor years and years ago. Blissfully, they did their anniversary tour and came to San Diego, so I treated him to go to it, and it was AMAZING. None of the jokes had aged, the whole "sector R" tv food thing translated perfectly into the internet, I was just floored.

I would rep you the WORLD if I could, for presenting one of the single most hilarious pieces of dialog in the Firesign Theater's collection.

Am I the only one that got it?

It's being held on the same day (though I don't know of the time) as the big official NC contest o.o SUCK! >_> If their times are right maybe we can make both. *crosses fingers*

Eventually, I'd love it for Lucas to apologize to those of us who DID see it in theaters. It WAS there, when I saw the movie for the first time it made *sense*. When I saw it again, back home in San Diego (I'd been in Wisconsin when first seen) we got to the end of the movie and I was like.... wait. There was... something... else? Of course I was only ten, and I didn't know they changed things around like that. No idea how movies were made.

Lucasfilms claims that those of us (and I know personally at least half a dozen including myself, and many more online) that we "hallucinated" or saw something else on TV a year later, or it was from the book or... whatever, dude. I know what I saw. I know what I DIDN'T see later.

And it's absolutely true, those scenes were very powerful if badly acted. They really should have been left intact, I can only guess that they didn't feel like crediting or paying the other actors? or that it cut down theater time enough for one more showing. :/ But whatever they did, it was stupid. It lent far more background and credibility to Luke and Biggs' relationship when they're reunited later, and when Biggs is killed it actually tears me up. It makes me sad, though, knowing that there are whole generations of people who have no idea why Luke even cares why this other guy dies... :/

So this is different from the Term story? o.o so much writing!

Please count me in though I'm spreading myself way too thin already lol.

I could probably slap a list together of the things I'd do or not do for PERC, however I think TP said it already in that regular bumping of contest and information threads is vital to ANY event anywhere. In the case that an event changes in any way, I'd love to KNOW it. Also, the forums have a public calendar. I went looking for the information in it, just before discovering that my note on what time it started was for the wrong time zone, and obviously didn't see it anywhere. It's the 2nd highest thing in the whole forums, y'know?

I'm not going to hold my breath on an apology, and it wasn't your doing or your fault TS, but thank you anyway. My life is pretty much a wreck just now, and I was really hoping that I'd be able to at least show off my skills at this year's event. I've placed reasonably high before, though I don't recall ever having a contest that early in the day before either.

Do you want the terms to be in all caps, or just the first letter?

This sounds hilariously fun, though I'm going to be trying to do Nano this year again ... real life has had a way with interrupting that every year though. so... All caps or just one?