Re: [spoon-discuss] the new-and-improved version!

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Glotmorf,

> On 7/1/02 at 4:08 PM Baron von Skippy wrote:
> 
>>> A valid thought, but Vader redeemed himself in SW6.  Okay, he died in the
>>> process, but still, he was then right up there with Obi-Wan and Yoda in
>> the
>>> Happy Ghost Troupe.
>>> 
>>> Glotmorf
>> 
>> -I don't care if he had redeemed himself, he popped up as a phantasm in an
>> Ewok (these are the teddy bears that thought C-3PO was a god- not to
>> bright,
>> and rather spiritual...) celebration. That's just malicious. What if a few
>> of the buggers had seen him, eh? He could have caused a panic. Anyway, he
>> was an evil bastard, and Amidala liked the "tall, dark, and tragic" look,
>> apparently. Did I mention he's one of the three coolest characters in the
>> hexology, along with Han Solo and Yoda?-
>> 
>> -BvS-
> 
> Maybe Vader, the tall, darth and helmeted version in 4-6 was cool.  Annikin in
> 1 was a whiny little brat; Annikin in 2 was a whiny teenage brat.  And neither
> benefited from having a decent actor behind the character.  And Amidala's
> liking Annikin's look didn't say much for Amidala, especially since they
> couldn't manage to make her look older than him.
> 
> Yoda?  Maybe, given his demonstrated sense of knowing just a whole pile more
> than those around him, though one wonders at the wisdom at his using the
> clones.  Imagine you go out of your frat house and find a pile of food in the
> front yard.  You have no idea where it came from or why someone would leave it
> there, but then someone says there's a party scheduled tonight, so you figure,
> what the hell, let's use it.  Your guests are innocent victims, but you
> deserve the poisoning you get.  And who would use a commander that uses such
> tortured phrases as, "Around the jedi a defensive perimeter create!"?
> 
> Okay, Han "It's not my fault!" Solo wasn't bad, though I'm also fond of the
> guy from the gas mine whose name I can't recall.  But my favorite was Alec
> Guinness as the elder Obi-Wan.  He was serene, he was on top of the situation,
> he made a fairly decent ghost, and, unlike the younger Obi-Wan in 2, he
> didn't...titter.

You know, the letters in 'Alec  Guinness' can be rearranged to spell
'Geniune Class'...

-- 
Wonko

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