DarthTofu

Bona Fortuna, SOCL. As a person who just passed a very easy Latin II class I doubt that I can help you, but if you ever feel the need to ask about any of the declension endings- I'm your man. First through fifth are locked in my head! I would have preferred to see a Luke vs. Jacen battle. And you know what? I wanted Jacen to stick with his old green lightsaber blade. He didn't perceive himself as evil, and I think that he refrained from getting a mechanical left arm in order to avoid emulating his grandfather. So why would he call a red blade a "proper" one? I agreed about the whole Daala thing. She's been outside of the series for so long, and then she just suddenly pops back in? No. Sorry. I, too, was disappointed in the lack of character arcs continuing across every single novel. Only Jacen/Caedus, Luke, Leia, Han, and (toward the end) Jaina showed up on a regular basis, despite Denning's use of Alema (Who Aalston was good enough to kill for us- though I really wish he'd have killed Zekk or Jag in the process), Aalston's use of Wedge (Wedge needs to go ahead and die. I'm sorry, it hurts to say it, but he's far too old to stick around for much longer. Focus on his awesome daughters a bit more), and Traviss's infamous use of Fett and the Mandaloians. If the other authors are going to introduce characters that will recur, everyone ought to make use of them. What ever happened the Pennir? Phennir is one of my favorite Imps, no lie. And where was the 181st? The 501st got references, but not the 181st? Come on! I also wanted a bit more info on that Sith Lord on the asteroid and how he was tied to Jacen/Caedus. What was the deal there? Hopefully Millennium Falcon will explore that.

Bona Fortuna, SOCL. As a person who just passed a very easy Latin II class I doubt that I can help you, but if you ever feel the need to ask about any of the declension endings- I'm your man. First through fifth are locked in my head! I would have preferred to see a Luke vs. Jacen battle. And you know what? I wanted Jacen to stick with his old green lightsaber blade. He didn't perceive himself as evil, and I think that he refrained from getting a mechanical left arm in order to avoid emulating his grandfather. So why would he call a red blade a "proper" one? I agreed about the whole Daala thing. She's been outside of the series for so long, and then she just suddenly pops back in? No. Sorry. I, too, was disappointed in the lack of character arcs continuing across every single novel. Only Jacen/Caedus, Luke, Leia, Han, and (toward the end) Jaina showed up on a regular basis, despite Denning's use of Alema (Who Aalston was good enough to kill for us- though I really wish he'd have killed Zekk or Jag in the process), Aalston's use of Wedge (Wedge needs to go ahead and die. I'm sorry, it hurts to say it, but he's far too old to stick around for much longer. Focus on his awesome daughters a bit more), and Traviss's infamous use of Fett and the Mandaloians. If the other authors are going to introduce characters that will recur, everyone ought to make use of them. What ever happened the Pennir? Phennir is one of my favorite Imps, no lie. And where was the 181st? The 501st got references, but not the 181st? Come on! I also wanted a bit more info on that Sith Lord on the asteroid and how he was tied to Jacen/Caedus. What was the deal there? Hopefully Millennium Falcon will explore that.

I was still pushing for Jacen Solo after he went dark. It doesn't take much to make me loyal to the Sith after reading the novelization of episode three. Matthew Stover turned me to the Dark Side.

You sound like a Fundamentalist/Scientologist/X-Files person/The Plot of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull.

Sooooooo... you're saying that it's so bad we should see it? I'm confused by your rating, forge.

Clinton is dropping out. She said that she's waiting to do so until Friday, and that at that time she will endorse Obama. Question: Why the heck is she "waiting" until Friday? Is she planning to continue pushing for the Presidency until Friday? If she's already announced her intention, this is really just, to quote the media, "forty-eight hours of turmoil."

I've only ever played Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, but the main complaints that I've heard about Academy lie in the way that it's a slightly revamped version of Outcast. Same game engine, same graphics, similar plot, very slight improvements. It's supposed to be slightly more fun than Outcast, though, so go for it. Reportedly it killed the Jedi Knight series, though.

I've never really cared about the military all that much. As a direct result of that I don't pay any attention to what anything we have can and can't do beyond the occasional discovery channel program.

I watched an old movie the other day- From Dusk Till Dawn. Quite possibly the dumbest movie that I've ever seen. It makes me want to watch The Evil Dead, now.

A helicopter just did a barrel roll. That isn't allowed- that's just.... you've upset Isaac Newton, Eagle. Are you happy, now? Well? Are you? That's nuts. I'm going to refrain from getting into a war with Euroforces.

New complaint: An ad just told me to buy tickets in advance for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I recognize that this site needs money if it's going to stay up and running, and I recognize that I provide none of it,but have we no moral standards? I mean, come on- have you seen how awful the movie is, E?

Holy crap! I went out and grabbed my Euro Coins to figure out how big that hail is- it's bigger than a bloody golf ball! Those things are, like, tennis ball-sized! That's madness! As per usual, it's really freaking hot in Florida. Like, mid-nineties (F) hot. Like, thirties © hot.

The quality is kinda low, because it's YouTube, but when I burned it to DVD it was pretty impressive-looking. The songs are both by John Williams- the Banquet scene from Hook, and Jim's new Life from something about an Emperor. Just good classic-style scores for the pictures.

Seconded- if you drop off the forums I'll find you via Facebook or something, hunt you down, and chain you to a computer that will only play Rebellion and access the forums- nothing else! No fair pulling a JediHunter or a GeneralAntilles on us! You popped away once- don't make that mistake a second time! Hate speech much? Edit: I want a bottle of this stuff!

Here here! I liked the idea that Jacen was decent and that the Sith weren't evil- after some of Matthew Stover's arguments for the Dark Side I found myself wanting to turn to it. No offense meant to Aaron Allston, but his best work is behind him- I could really tell that he was trying to copy what Stover did in Traitor and the novelization of episode three. Maybe I was supposed to, what with Ganner Squadron and all that- it seemed like a tribute to me. I would actually have preferred to see Jacen kill more Jedi in "bend before they can break" battles. This thing was a Jedi affair over a galactic affair, and it wasn't portrayed as such. Sure, Jacen needed to take over the fleets and stuff to influence the galaxy, but he didn't have to go blasting Bothans and such. Jedi who were so convinced that Jacen must be evil because he's a Sith, and so strike out on their own, without Luke's approval, might make for an interesting third party. Granted, we have no real assorted Jedi Knights lying around except Zekk, Lobacca, etc, so we'd need some new ones. Wow, I started writing this short post at 11:00 and finished at 2:33 AM. Thank you, messaging services...

@Mad: I think I passed anyway. So hah. @Krytos: That is rather nuts. @Rob: Best of luck, man. You've made it through college (five years before I will) and you're getting ready for the ultimate freedom. To paraphrase the great John Stewart: "The unfortunately wonderful thing about life is that there is no core curriculum. The entire thing is electives. So don't worry about money or success- no one is giving you a grade for living your life but you. Get out there and live it, because no one but you can tell you if you passed." I was torn between telling you that one and Connan O'Brian's line at a graduation ceremony: "The last time I was invited to Harvard it cost $110,000."

You mean right after Betrayal? If anybody has a good overall plot I'm game. Summer's coming up, and despite my need to work about ninety six hour days to raise enough money for a second Euro trip my Senior year (*Raise da roof!*) I'll still have time to sit inside and get extra-pasty-skinned writing about Star Wars. Did anyone else ever get the impression that Jacen was in the right throughout the series? That he was never really a bad guy, and that whenever he was portrayed as such the author was totally missing how the character was meant to turn out? I was rather frustrated with Inferno and Revelation because they both flipped the "Evil Switch" as I like to call it on Jacen. Revelation did it less-so than Inferno, but both still bothered me, because Jacen had never taken pleasure in anyone else's pain before- he had no reason to enjoy their pain. That was the whole point of him becoming a Sith- his was the path of sacrifice, and ultimately it was that one last sacrifice that achieved his goal for him. My final verdict on Jacen is that he wasn't evil. He made some unscrupulous alliances, but throughout everything his actions were selfless above all else.

Lucas: I always felt that it was important that we see that the Nazis almost always shot before Indy in any and all cases. Also, I wanted to make the scene where Indy captured the the truck with the Arc in it back more exotic, so I added in a few digital dancing girls in the back to keep the Nazis happy! But we added too many dancing girls (silly us) so we also added twenty-eight more Nazis for Indy to fight (all in digital form, of course) and extended the fight scene to a full hour. I really feel like this adds a good twenty dollars worth of entertainment to the movie, which is why we're re-selling Raiders of the Lost Arc as the "special" edition for $60 (Plus bastard charges. Shipping not included.)

Thank you for that game, Mad. You've just determined that I will fail my PreCalculus exam on Friday. Are you happy, now? Are you, sir? Are you? Edit: This is how bored I got during my period one exam. That's what libraries are for, right? (Check the kill count)

I like dark and dreary (That's why I like Del Ray- they killed three major characters in the Solo clan!) as much as the next guy, but the characters need a bit of a break. I say let the next generation tackle a bit more of the next problem- give us a few Jedi vinnetes of some sort for a couple of EU years, and then let Han, Luke, Leia, and (*Sniffle*) Wedge pass on. They're up in their years, far too old to keep at it forever. Because I swear, if Luke shows up at some point saying, "When nine hundred years old you reach, look so good you will not, hmmm?" I'm going to get even more annoyed with Lucas than I presently am for Indy 4. I'm not advocating a return to care-free, but maybe to something along the lines of what Rogue Squadron and Wraith Squadron had going- getting to know some new characters and expanding a galaxy that's been contracting due to character deaths like mad since the Vong war. Don't get me wrong- I love the experience of being afraid of who might go next, but you can get that without sacrificing OT characters or putting them at risk.

He went to Atlantis in the videogame "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis." It turned out rather well, especially for nineties tech- easily moddable, too, which made for a lot of new Indy games by fans. The biggest problem you're referring to is the central plot, Rob. The central plot was horrible. That is not Indiana Jones- that's Star Trek.

Double post, I know, but I feel that is my civic duty to warn you all against the piece of flaming dog crap that is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I went in with low expectations; they were not met. This is the first movie that I have been willing to give a rating of negative five stars to. I could have watched The Phantom Menace after that movie and considered Episode I a masterpiece. Indy 4 had none of the feel of the other three movies, and suffered horribly from it. There were a few laugh-fest moments, but Indy didn't even feature that heavily in the film. Sure, he tagged along for the adventure, but more than anything else it seemed to be The Adventures of Shia LeBauf. Spoilers follow: ALIENS! They had ****ing ALIENS in this STUPID, HORRIBLE EXCUSE FOR AN INDY MOVIE! ALIENS?!?! No! Indiana Jones does not consort with aliens except in joking comic books! JOKES! Aliens are central to the plot, with a crystal skull being an alien skull. At the end of the movie a flying saucer comes out of a seven-thousand-year-old Mayan temple (We can only assume it was piloted by the dead aliens that were found within the temple) and then randomly disappears after destroying the temple. The movie includes numerous pointless scenes and moments of crap humor. Some of the only good moments come when they reference previous films, such as by giving the Arc of the Covenant a cameo, or by bringing in Indy's fear of snakes, or by bringing in Marion. I spent almost the entire ending of the movie slamming my face with my kneecap in a vain effort to end the pain and suffering. Raiders and Last Crusade were based on Judeo-Christian beliefs, and were great. Temple of Doom was based on Hindu beliefs, and was weird, but alright. Crystal Skull was based on Scientology and comic books; it sucked hair Wookie ones.

Alright, so Invincible has been out for over a week, now, and nobody's bothered to update this thread. (Major spoilers follow: You have been warned) Jacen Solo is now dead. His death wasn't quite what I was hoping for- getting his in the heart is alright, I guess, but I was thinking it would be something a bit more... profound than the insane-amounts-of-violence deaths Denning has become famous for. That said, Denning did a good job with Invincible. Only a few points had me groaning, and they were few and far between. Those A Long Time Ago... sections had me getting a little bit emotional from time to time, and I have to admit that the jokes at the beginning of each chapter, while pathetic and tremendously stupid (Sort of like Kevin J. Anderson) had a good effect with making everyone remember how Jacen had warped into Caedus. I also liked how Caedus died- with that last shadow of Jacen Solo poking through. When he lost his arm and didn't bother to replace it with the old one/a mechanical one I was decidedly perturbed by the lack of utilitarian logic, but I understood why he didn't get a robotic arm- too much like his grandfather. I wish a bit more emphasis would have been placed upon the Sith ring uncovered at Korriban, but it looks like that will be brought to light in Millennium Falcon when it comes out. Speaking of the future, does anyone here follow Legacy at all? Roan Fell, leader of the Empire. Jagged Fel, new leader of the Imperial Remnant/Empire. Zekk seems to be dead, and Force sensitivity comes into the Fel family line somewhere... Anybody else think Jaina and Jag might get together? I was really hoping to see some little Fels running about after the New Jedi Order books, and let's face it- everything's cooler with the Fel family.

I dunno. Maybe I've just started to "lose interest" in the Internet. I'm living in real life now- madness, I know. If I wind up disappearing from the forums, it's probably RL stuff going on, just letting every one know. And for the record, I still want to pass on that the Sasquatch is a load-of-crap, piece-of-fiction legend for people who can't understand basic biological needs. Give it up, Rob.