Episode ii
<div class="IPBDescription">And that "readin' thing"</div>OK, I just thought I'd post this because some people on here have mentioned reading a couple o' Star Wars books...now, concerning Episode 2...
Leaving the movie, I did feel somewhat satiated, but still a bit confused. I'm not going to go into the acting, or the writing, or anything like that. That shall be left to a reviewer with an audience larger than mine.
No, my complaint comes from something I read once in an interview, where an author was saying that whenever a book is written in the Star Wars universe, Lucasfilm's editors pore over it, looking for discrepincies. Hell, there have been god-knows-how-many guides the the Star Wars vehicles, or the Star Wars weapons, or the Star Wars bathroom units. But it seems that Mr. Lucas deems himself above maintaining continuity. I was under the impression, from the original Thrawn series by the great Timothy Zahn, that the Spaarti had the only cloning technology, not the Camino, or the Kamino, or however it's spelled. And in the beginning, when the Chancellor is discussing who may have tried to attack Senator Amidala, someone says it could have been "angry spice miners from the moon of Naboo." Spice miners on the moon of Naboo? I was under the impression from "'Jedi Search" that spice, or glitterstim, could only come from the moon-world Kessel. And in that same trilogy, we were exposed to the Imperial think tank in the Maw Cluster, which dreamed up both the Sun Crusher and the Death Star, the latter of which was proposed to Palpatine by Moff Tarkin, not Count Dooku, and made by some kind of bat-like creatures.
Love it or hate it, I don't care. Myself, it was a satisfying cinema experience. I only wish that it fit flawlessly into everything that came before it.
-Ryan!
"Age is nothing to a live man."
-- Edward E. Purinton
Leaving the movie, I did feel somewhat satiated, but still a bit confused. I'm not going to go into the acting, or the writing, or anything like that. That shall be left to a reviewer with an audience larger than mine.
No, my complaint comes from something I read once in an interview, where an author was saying that whenever a book is written in the Star Wars universe, Lucasfilm's editors pore over it, looking for discrepincies. Hell, there have been god-knows-how-many guides the the Star Wars vehicles, or the Star Wars weapons, or the Star Wars bathroom units. But it seems that Mr. Lucas deems himself above maintaining continuity. I was under the impression, from the original Thrawn series by the great Timothy Zahn, that the Spaarti had the only cloning technology, not the Camino, or the Kamino, or however it's spelled. And in the beginning, when the Chancellor is discussing who may have tried to attack Senator Amidala, someone says it could have been "angry spice miners from the moon of Naboo." Spice miners on the moon of Naboo? I was under the impression from "'Jedi Search" that spice, or glitterstim, could only come from the moon-world Kessel. And in that same trilogy, we were exposed to the Imperial think tank in the Maw Cluster, which dreamed up both the Sun Crusher and the Death Star, the latter of which was proposed to Palpatine by Moff Tarkin, not Count Dooku, and made by some kind of bat-like creatures.
Love it or hate it, I don't care. Myself, it was a satisfying cinema experience. I only wish that it fit flawlessly into everything that came before it.
-Ryan!
"Age is nothing to a live man."
-- Edward E. Purinton
Comments
as far as books go, what I hear is that lucas and his buds give it a once over, then stamp it and watch the money. they dont exactly "pore over it".
second, when does it say only the spaarti could clone? maybe they were the only known cloners at that time. i can understand people not knowing about kaminoins, the whole galaxy should be ###### at 'em.
Sgt. X handled the spice thing.
The maw cluster didnt have any "bat like creatures", it was just a top secret research facililty (read area 51 without the aliens). and moff tarkin only proposed it, did not design it. dooku and the geonosians did that, which is the only discrepancy. i can handle only 1 error, cant u?
The maw cluster didnt have any "bat like creatures", it was just a top secret research facililty (read area 51 without the aliens). and moff tarkin only proposed it, did not design it. dooku and the geonosians did that, which is the only discrepancy. i can handle only 1 error, cant u?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well, Palpatine had a mountain full of cloning hardware from the Spaarti. I had assumed that they established in the book that it was once a facility for producing Storm Troopers.
And I never said that the maw cluster had any bat-like creatures. I said that scientists in the Maw Cluster designed the Death Star (remember the wire-frame Death Star?), and it was propsed to Palpatine by Moff Tarkin...the move that put Tarkin in Palpatine's good graces. Episode II changed that to Count Dooku giving the proposal to Palpatine, and the Genosians designing it.
And no, as a perfectionist, I dislike even a single dicrepancy. I die a little each day.
-Ryan!
"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."
-- Woodrow Wyatt