Dude, swords (well, more people who can use swords stylishly) arenot lame. YOU’re lame! 
Yeah… every once in a while I wonder what my father would think of me and it makes me glad to at least know that he’d like that I’m a big sci-fi geek. Most of the rest I’m not so sure he’d be thrilled by, but that would please him.
This American Life had a show with a segment with an Iraqi interpreter for the US Army. He said he was frequently editing his translations. Once, an American officer was bluntly ordering some Iraqi police to stop flicking their cigarette butts on the floor. The translation was more like, “please stop throwing them on the floor. Put them in the cans, please. You want to impress anyone who come here, right?” etc, etc. Nice and diplomatic.
He outright lied once. The local police chief said “yeah, we can handling the crowd if things turn ugly.” Interpreter guy’s thinking that riot cops beating everybody up isn’t a good way to build happy feelings with the locals. So, he tells the Americans, “he says they can’t handle them, maybe another day?”
Considering the tone of many of R2’s squawks, 3PO was editing and lying all the time.
R2: Dude! She’s your sister!
3PO: Artoo hopes you will find familial comfort together.
R2: You’re a douche!
3PO: Artoo thinks I need a lubricant bath. I agree.
i can totally see that. but wouldn’t R2 know that 3PO was making stuff up? I get the impression that even though R2 doesn’t speak Galactic Standard, it understands when people talk to it?
No, no. More
So are we saying that C3P0 and the Ewoks are like the pedophile scandal? Because when you were saying he was abusing them, that is totally what jumped into my mind.
I wish I could erase that image…
Self-censoring here.
Just so you know that I’m a very bad person.
You’re going to the special hell.
Well, i’m very glad we have finally reached the Original Trilogy. I couldn’t imagine what my life would be like had I not grown up with Star Wars. It fueled my dreams, expanded my imagination, and well, just made being a kid in the 80’s damn fun!!!
It was a very long and difficult delivery. 
How about “Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket”? Seriously, force field generator outside the frakkin’ force field??? That’s just nutty.
I always imagined it was a pet that got flushed when it grew too big, like an alligator in the sewer. 
I’ll always remember him for his fine cabinetry. :rolleyes:
At least he won’t be alone.
My father took me to SW IV I was told to get me out of the house. There was an open house and thought it best to keep the kids somewhere else so it would sell. I think my dad also used it as an excuse to go to the movie. He was the one who liked the science fiction in the house.
Audra thank you for sticking up for Leia. She was not the princess type that was waiting to be saved by a man. Men seem to have mixed feelings about that.
Do you know it is strange to hear your name said over and over in a podcast?
I think the IV was in the title in 77. I saw the movie so many times on tv that I could be wrong but I am pretty sure it was there.
So Han and Indy shoot first.
Why you gotta make me giggle and ruin my rep Leah? Seriously
it would have been much cooler if he whipped the guy’s sward away.
Alas, poor Roderick, we knew him (well).
The Vader board room scene that Chuck discussed, the one in which the Imperial officer mocks Vader’s dead religion – especially after Eps 1-3, I find that one of the most poignant bits from the entire series. Anakin turns into Vader (partially) out of this tremendous guilt, and he’s always carrying around the knowledge that he was instrumental in wiping out the Jedi, the order/religion that was all about the Force.
And he finds himself as, essentially, one of of two people in his world that believe in the Force. And there he is, clinging to his belief and trying to spread it a little, in a speech that’s a little off-topic. And he’s mocked for it.
And you don’t mock the Vader.
And it’s also kinda humanizing when he gets all flustered and says “I have to go to the toilet.”
Or, wait, I think that’s a different scene.
I think Han, um Indy, Um Mr. H. Ford was very ill so they rewrote the “shot”. The story also goes they changed it from the whip to the gun to cut down on time.
Giggles are good for the force. Seriously :rolleyes: