Ryn Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Do you do those very things he listed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 To the "only for boys" point, I remember Natalie Portman saying "Before I was cast as Padme I never watched Star Wars because I'm a girl." I always thought that was irritating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerimar Nyliram Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 Compared to Zerimar, I'm a casual fan.Most people are. Get in line. Doze: Your post cracked me up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Compared to Zerimar, I'm a casual fan.Most people are. Get in line. Most people don't run Star Wars websites and haven't served as admins for Star Wars message boards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerimar Nyliram Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 I'll provide you with a quote I overheard from my priest earlier today: "I'm a theologian. I run circles around priests, bishops, you name it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamonAtila Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 When casual fans get recruited by EU-hugging, Lucas-Hating Death Star Zionists. I try to be there to protect them whenever I can, when they walk past Death Star recruitment centers, stormtroopers telling them cosplay girls will think they're hot, they'll get to meet Mara Jade Solo at Comic-Con. I try to help them any way I can. When one comes up to me and they know more about Asoka than the OT, it's hard. But they're not without hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerimar Nyliram Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 Who the hell is Mara Jade Solo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevil Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 The PT is awesome in so many ways Tank you SOB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi Cool Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 2. People who type "Dark Side" capitalized, or "darkside" all as one word. (Although I can understand the confusion. "Force" is always capitalized, but its two manifestations--"light side" and "dark side"--are not.) Oops. It must be like fingers on a blackboard when you come across that in my chapter summaries. Mine is when someone calls it Star War. Just like that. No "s" at the end of Wars. Ugh. Or people that get it confused with Star Track....I mean Trek. Not remotely the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Maker Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Yeah, the Star Wars/Star Trek mix-up gets me too. And also when people refer to C-3PO as C-P3O (I knew a couple of folks who did this--I would never correct them, I just frequently bit my tongue). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerimar Nyliram Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 Oops. It must be like fingers on a blackboard when you come across that in my chapter summaries. Never noticed that in particular, to be honest, but I will admit that it drives me up a wall when you write "Ventriss," mainly because other people here have latched onto it and have begun spelling it that way themselves. It's like an STD that spreads. Another one is "Wookie," without the additional "e" at the end. What is ironic about this particular mistake is that it was originally "Wookee" in the early drafts of Lucas' scripts, but he later added an "i" to make it "Wookiee." So the "e's" were around before the "i" was, and have a longer-standing relationship with the word, yet it is always that second "e" that gets overlooked. The "Star Track" mispronunciation does me in as well. My dad does it. Although I must admit that I was guilty of this myself when I was young, though mine was more of a "Star-a-track." Weird, I know. I also used to say "refroodgerator" for the longest time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas1138 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 I didn't realize/care there was a second E in Wookiee until somewhat recently (like, I don't know, 3 to 5 years?). This despite being an at-one-time avid consumer of the EU and having spent a LOT of time reading various articles on WookieEpedia so it's not like I had never seen it written down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.CAllen Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 I also used to say "refroodgerator" for the longest time. Makes a lot of sense to me. It's where the frood goes to get refrooded so that, later, I can eat the frood and it'll still be fresh frood. Take that frood out of the refroodgerator, pop it in the migrowave, get that frood all nice all tasty so it can go down my mouth and into my insides where my belly button turns it into strength and stamina. Go out. Get more frood from the froodstore. Stick the frood in the refroodgerator --- the cycle continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryn Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Bubba/Bahbah Fett mis-pronunciation gets me. "He's my favorite character. He's the coolest." Really? Then how come you have so much trouble getting his name right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerimar Nyliram Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 I pose the same question to people who type "Starwars." If you're such a big fan, why can't you spell the name of the damn franchise right? It's the first thing that appears on the screen after "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. . . ." R.C.: Yep, pretty much. Except that I didn't pronounce the "oo" the way sounds in "food." It was more like the "oo" in "hood." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Bubba/Bahbah Fett mis-pronunciation gets me. "He's my favorite character. He's the coolest." Really? Then how come you have so much trouble getting his name right? Well from my memory the first time we hear his name actually said in a movie is during the battle at Jabba's when Han says "Boba Fett? Boba Fett? where?". And he says it very much like "Bah Bah Fett". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 George Lucas says "lazersword" so...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacen123 Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Let's not forget Dodonna referring to a certain princess as Leeuh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 I don't really see characters mispronouncing names as a problem. I mean in real life people mispronounce names all the time. It's like in old John Ford Westerns, if you watch alot of times characters slip when getting on or off their horses, or guns misfired. Ford always kept that in the movie because it was more real to him, people sometimes slip, guns sometimes misfire. People mispronounce names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedigoat Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 This topic reminds me of when I was at Celebration 3 in Indy. My friend Aaron and I were in line for something and I was doing Star Wars small talk with two other guys in front of me. One of these guys asks the other about when Han said "Then I'll see you in hell" if Han was talking about the same hell that we refer to here on Earth or some other different hell that exists separately in their universe.I turn to my friend, who is about to burst into laughter. I started laughing too, thankfully. Because at first, I was so annoyed by this guy I wanted to hit him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoLA Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 This topic reminds me of when I was at Celebration 3 in Indy. My friend Aaron and I were in line for something and I was doing Star Wars small talk with two other guys in front of me.One of these guys asks the other about when Han said "Then I'll see you in hell" if Han was talking about the same hell that we refer to here on Earth or some other different hell that exists separately in their universe.I turn to my friend, who is about to burst into laughter. I started laughing too, thankfully. Because at first, I was so annoyed by this guy I wanted to hit him.I've never thought about that. What are the views on the afterlife in SW? There are Force ghosts but it doesn't seem like anyone knew about those until Qui-Gon started doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Just like panaka saying they're sitting ducks obviously proof there are ducks in starwars. Or they're both just common expressions familiar to the audience that are used to convey a basic idea without wasting time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedigoat Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerimar Nyliram Posted March 27, 2015 Author Share Posted March 27, 2015 Qui-Gon rediscovered the Force ghost thing. And Han was referring to the Hell from ancient Correlian mythology. Yes, that's from the EU. If you don't like it, suck it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 God, what a pathetic fantasy world you live in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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