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Old 11-07-2013, 08:55 AM   #721
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Rachel and Thomas = Jacen and Jaina?
Could be, even though some of the stuff that I've read says that Abram's is basically going to take a big giagantic none of this stuff happened on the EU

So we might just get an all new universe here.

which is find by me since my biggest fear is the villain is yanked from the EU and we end up with a hyperdimensional gold encrusted tube worm as the villain.

So in the Abramverse a clear play on the Whedonverse by the way, Ben Skywalker, Anakin Solo and the twits Jacen and Jaina probably don't exist.

For all we know these two are being cast as the kids of Ben Quadronaro from the Phantom Menace.
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Old 11-07-2013, 01:50 PM   #722
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which is find by me since my biggest fear is the villain is yanked from the EU and we end up with a hyperdimensional gold encrusted tube worm as the villain.
No, sounds more like a Brannon Braga Star Trek script.
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Old 11-07-2013, 03:02 PM   #723
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All worship the crap that is Waru

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Waru

They also need to have the Rabbit as one of the main heros

https://www.google.ca/search?q=star+...ml%3B300%3B222
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I wonder if it will even become Disney's biggest franchise? Can it actually compete with Avengers and its sequel? The first Avengers made almost 500 million more at the box office than any Star Wars movie, heck even Iron Man 3 made 200 more than Episode 1. Different time obviously, but it's going to be interesting to see what happens.
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I wonder if it will even become Disney's biggest franchise? Can it actually compete with Avengers and its sequel? The first Avengers made almost 500 million more at the box office than any Star Wars movie, heck even Iron Man 3 made 200 more than Episode 1. Different time obviously, but it's going to be interesting to see what happens.
pirates is sitting at something like 5.7 billion dollars right know.
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Could be, even though some of the stuff that I've read says that Abram's is basically going to take a big giagantic none of this stuff happened on the EU

So we might just get an all new universe here.

which is find by me since my biggest fear is the villain is yanked from the EU and we end up with a hyperdimensional gold encrusted tube worm as the villain.

So in the Abramverse a clear play on the Whedonverse by the way, Ben Skywalker, Anakin Solo and the twits Jacen and Jaina probably don't exist.

For all we know these two are being cast as the kids of Ben Quadronaro from the Phantom Menace.
Enraging the Star Trek fanboys wasn't enough? Now he wants to add the Star Wars ones too?
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All worship the crap that is Waru

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Waru

They also need to have the Rabbit as one of the main heros

https://www.google.ca/search?q=star+...ml%3B300%3B222

Wait, was that Crystal Star? Didn't McIntyre write Trek novels too?
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That was crystal star.
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Enraging the Star Trek fanboys wasn't enough? Now he wants to add the Star Wars ones too?
While Lucas had his explosive rings, JJ has his lens flares, just wait until Luke Skywalker takes on Luuke Skywalker, they both fire up their lightsabres and the screen explodes with 60 lens flares, and every time the light sabres collide, lens flare.

Michael Bay has his explosions, JJ lens flares.

And I think that no matter what happens, the expectations are going to be so freaking high because this is suppossed to repair the damage done by the prequels (though I liked aspects of the prequel) that it can't help but not meet expectation.

The Star Wars fan base is not only rabid. But the real hard core fans will rip apart anything that doesn't jive with their knowledge and vision.

there will also be a split in the fan base between the EU and anti-EU people.

OMG how can you not have Grand Admiral Thrawn in this movie, he was like awesome. And Plageous is the greatest most intriguing villian of all time. And Jedi can throw star destroyers across the galaxy with a flick of their finger.

while the Anti-EU - Thrawn was a lame villain who lost every battle he fought, Plageous is completely dead and nowhere in the movie did Jedi destroy star destroyers. This movie sucks because the sand on Tatoinne is the wrong color.

You get my drift.

If I was a director, I would never ever do a Star Wars movie, no matter how well you do, this movie is going to be screamed down.
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Old 11-08-2013, 10:07 AM   #733
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Nerds!

Of course I am one of the nerds, I get a nerd boner every time this thread updates, or anytime Star Wars is mentioned online, anywhere.
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Old 11-08-2013, 11:31 AM   #735
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That was crystal star.
The Crystal Star has to be in the running for Worst EU Book ever. I'm amazed I ever bothered to finish reading it, but I did. I haven't read the Yuuzhan Vong books but I feel confident in saying it's one of the worst.
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Old 11-08-2013, 11:58 AM   #736
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That one, and the book where the Hutts built their own version of the death star were utter crap.

There was a lot of crap in the EU especially the post ROTJ stuff. The EU old republic and prequel era stuff were actually really good.
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Old 11-08-2013, 12:09 PM   #737
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There was a lot of crap in the EU.
There definitely was. It's generally referred to as "The EU".
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Oh please. There's crap books on both sides of the timeline from the movies, but there's some really good stuff too. To shun the entire EU because it's not the movies, or to shun everything after the movies because of a few bad apples is just silly.

That's not even to mention CaptainCrunch's mind being clouded by the Sith!
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Old 11-08-2013, 12:23 PM   #739
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Nah, the EU is rightfully ridiculed and shunned. The best thing the new movies could do would be to invalidate everything in the EU.

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