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"Boris the blade? As in Boris the Bullet Dodger?" -"Why do they call him the bullet dodger?" "Cuz he dodges bullets Avi" That my friends is a movie done by Guy Ritchie which I thought was just fantastic.

Well the nice thing about an Outer Rim planet, provided you can take a planet that had a construction yard is that you can usually colonize a planet there and decide right off the bat if you should make it a mining or refining planet or a shipyard world. The one thing though that irritates me to no end is the blasted hyperspace travel times if you send a building between sectors...takes forever.

I wish That last cover is the one of which book? And dont I feel dumb. HAHAHA. Oh well, it was worth asking.

"Pain is weakness leaving the body"

Ooo she seems like she might be pretty hot. A friend of yours Mad?

"Chance favors the prepared mind." I forgot who said it but its actually pretty true, anyone who tries to prepare themselves for the unexpected tend to do better than someone who doesnt.

Wow that start sucks Kaja. You need RebEd

Hahaha an interesting way to tell the story. In a good way mind you, I wasnt being negative.

What are tertiary studies exactly? You mean like graduate school?

Actually in all of my games as the Empire I rarely had a need to colonize and take planets in the outer rim.

Hey Mad, I dont know if its cause I am running Firefox but your img link seems broken or something.

I agree with most of your points. I am just saying you can see in TPM the introduction of characters who really serve no purpose. Jar Jar most notable. He was obviously there for the kids. Most little kids I talked to said they liked him, though myself personally hated him. Worst character ever made I think.

Good links SOCL.

Thats true, and notice that ESB is regarded as the best of the original movies.

Frank Klepacki - Red Alert March theme song

I dont know about Christensen. I saw a few of his other movies and he acted well in them. I honestly think that the reason why everyone complains about his acting and Portman's is that its because of Lucas. Back when the Original Trilogy was being done the actors would resist Lucas throwing in such corny dialog. You have to understand, an actor can be the best in the world but it wont matter if the DIRECTOR tells them to do it a certain way. I have taken a few drama classes and I can tell you that the director is the one who calls most of the shots. He dictates where the cameras go, what sort of facial expressions he wants the actors to use, the tone of the scene etc. The fact is, Lucas only did what he wanted to do and didnt care about criticisms. We have to accept that, I know we can blame Hayden and Natalie for this but thats too easy. Keep in mind they arent the ones who wrote the story or created the dialog, Lucas did. Whatever it was they said, Lucas made them. In the Originals, Lucas and Harrison Ford got into an argument about Han Solo. Harrison wanted Han to die in Empire or Return of the Jedi but Lucas didnt want that to happen. Harrison also didnt like Lucas' reply for when Leia told Han she loved him. Originally it was supposed to go: "I love you" -"I love you too", or something like that. Instead Harrison Ford got the director to let him do his line on the spot, so now: "I love you" -"I know" Which is way more in sync with Han's character. Lucas lets face it, he writes dialog that in a more fantastical world with fairies and butterflies and reindeer running around would be more appropriate. Like a kid's fairy-tale. Star Wars though succeeds in so many ways because lets face it, it embraces aspects of fantasy and molds them in with the sci-fi. For the fantasy side we have the Force, on the sci-fi side we have ships with blasters and Death Stars etc. A classic good vs. evil. Which is why a lot of people love the originals so much. Thats also why he chose to do the latter part of the story and not do the prequels originally. Anyway, I ranted long enough. I just wanted to point out that the director of the movie has a lot of say in how a scene is done. And Lucas cannot direct adult story movies very well. He does well for the kids, which is why I view the prequels as more kid movies. If you notice, after Empire Strikes Back we start seeing aspects of this kiddy cutey crap appearing like Ewoks and so on. This eventually continues into his prequels. In my opinion its due to him A) wanting to market Star Wars to a younger audience again b) get money from being able to sell toys. Remember Lucas owns 100% of Star Wars. Whatever toy that gets sold, he gets money for in royalties and so on. Anyway, just remember that the director has a lot of power and say over what gets shown in a movie to us the audience.

Thats good news. I hope it will be easier to mod than Generals was or even Battle For Middle Earth.

Yeah...the TIE Defenders are necessary due to their hyperdrive. I made the mistake of loading nothing but Interceptors and well..it took forever for them to get deployed and the damn rebs did a death star attack run on me.

Yeah...plus I think at this point its just a small nitpick about Vader's mask. Does it help the story if its symmetrical or not...depends I guess. Lucas though back in the day wanted the mask to be symmetrical I am sure its just the technology for making it so wasnt around back then.

For some reason I have problems envisioning Thrawn as a Grand Admiral of the Sith. I think 'Grand Admiral' in itself is good enough, on the other hand this is because I think Thrawn is one of the best imperial 'villains' to have ever been written into a book.

Earlier in my car i was listening to Linkin Park - Hit The Floor

This is old, but its still pretty funny.

Sometimes the military bombardment still resorts in collateral damage. Personally I mostly use assaults, unless a planet is dual shielded.

Yipee!! Are you here to free the slaves? Are you an angel? You are right, he's very annoying... But again ep I is filled with all sorts of annoying characters. The Obi-Waqn characterization in TPM was also annoying, as was Watto and essentially everyone on Tatooine, and on Naboo for that matter. So essentially everyone was annoying

Umm I never said you never fought hard. I was just agreeing with what Thrawn said about how LEC has never really let their games be used for modding purposes and they lately have just churned out crap. Hopefully EaW will break this habit that they got into.