NumberSix Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 So we don't get to elucidate Shadowdog on glitterstim? Good luck with that! I believe I know someone who can help: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 "Glitterstem" sounds like the name of a Disney girl band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerimar Nyliram Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 If you want to know what spice is, read Frank Herbert's Dune. It's more or less a blatant ripoff, though not given such a significant role as in Herbert's books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 Yeah, knowing how much ANH was cribbed from Dune I always assumed Spice was drugs. Why else would you smuggle it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Human Torch Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 You smuggle what either can't be obtained in legal ways or is too expensive to obtain in legal ways. If someone wanted oranges but oranges were illegal in Lalaland then you could smuggle oranges into Lalaland for fun and profit. I also made the Dune connection, but it's not explained so it could be anything, maybe it's the debut album for the Spice Girls. The Hutts wanna wanna really wanna zig-a-zig-ah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Good lord. That's worse than drugs. So there are drugs in Star Wars. Buh bye last little piece of my childhood! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 "Hey, you wanna buy some death sticks?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Oh yeah. The prequels exist. Good point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Sorry to remind you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 LOL But seriously I took that as a metaphor for cigarettes. They killed my mom so they're death sticks. But obviously its drugs. I guess I had a blind spot all my life when it came to Star Wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryn Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 NOWHERE IS SAFE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Human Torch Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Cigarettes are a drug, technically. It's only the life long association of being socially/legally acceptable which makes it odd to think of them as a drug. I also associated the Death Sticks scene with cigarettes. Back to smuggling for a parsec... Let's say you're a teen which attends a live-in school; could be Catholic, Hogwarts, Military, whatever. Our bodies are our bodies and urges are urges. There is a market for nudie-books, it's not allowed by school charter of course. All of a sudden you could be a smuggler for this market. So maybe spice is a nudie-book brand name. This week in SPICE Ackmena on Ackbar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerimar Nyliram Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Do people peddle cigarettes like a profitable business like that, though? The value they are shown, plus Obi-Wan's reaction to it, indicate that they are something a little more serious, and probably illegal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Human Torch Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Just has to be illegal or expensive to obtain and then there is a market. Look at Prohibition. If cigarettes were illegal tomorrow you'd have smugglers and dealers just like any other substance. When my Pops was young and in the military overseas he realized there was a market for cigarettes because of their price in that locale. He could buy them from the commissary and then peddle them off base for a good profit. Of course this was frowned upon, punishable even, but the risk vs return was obviously favorable so there was a market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerimar Nyliram Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 True. Coruscant could well be a progressive nanny state, much like Washington, D.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumberSix Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 You smuggle what either can't be obtained in legal ways or is too expensive to obtain in legal ways. If someone wanted oranges but oranges were illegal in Lalaland then you could smuggle oranges into Lalaland for fun and profit. Somewhere in Lucas' files, I'm sure there's an unused twelve-page from his original ANH script that was a conversation between Han and Ben Kenobi discussing the specifics of intergalactic commerce treaties, the Empire's complicated and Draconian tariff system, past attempts at legislative trade reform that stalled because of the Sith voting bloc, a history of failed embargoes by other neighboring star systems, and an intricate outlining of how all the various black-market export-trafficking families work with and around each other (y'know, like the New Day Co-Op in The Wire), all capped off with a six-minute monologue in which Han explains his daily procedures, back-channel dealings, Imperial watchdog bypassing methods, and the complicated formula that determines how he charges each client on the books using a benign cover business while taking a percentage under the table to be used for bribing politicians and paying his informants and lackeys and such. ... ...or "spice" could just be drugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DESTINY Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 What a hunk of junk...... Batman! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryn Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 Hope they knock that loose when they sweep for mynocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doze Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 That stupid video gave me goose bumps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DINVADER2 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Wader Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Hate to be the guy linking to AICN but the link to the EW article on the site is broken and I'm too lazy to actually look it up. But thought this quote from Oscar Isaac was interesting: …what they’re trying to do and what’s really great is J.J.’s been loosening it up a little bit and trying to make it alive and energized. It’s not formal. They’re messy, energized people. We’ve all intentionally tried to do that. Just make it a little more fiery and messy. Also this about working with the original cast: Have you had much interactions with the original trio of Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, and Mark Hamill on or off-screen? Yeah, I have. Both. They’re such funny people. Carrie is hilarious and doing such cool work. Harrison is back. He went on hiatus for a little while, but he’s 150 percent back. It’s pretty amazing to see him bounce back. He looks incredible. Everyone’s having a really good time. J.J. sets that tone. There’s a lot of enthusiasm and it’s being done with a lot of heart. There’s nothing cynical about the way we’re doing this. Even in the way he’s shooting it—he’s shooting on film and actually building the sets, so you’ve got hundreds of Stormtroopers or whatever, and hundreds of extras and all the ships. You actually see it. It’s all real. Everyone can interact with the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamonAtila Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 We have actual confirmation there is going to be stormtroopers!!! holy high hell!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue 3 Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Warwick Davis confirmed in Episode VII http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=42498 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 I want all casting announcements to be like that. Warwick is hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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