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Memnoch wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:39:22 -0700, James Garvin <jgarvin2004@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>>Memnoch wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 05:57:51 GMT, Troll <newstroll@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>>Alfie [UK] wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:45:23 -0000, "Morgan Sales"
>>>>><msales.DIESPAMMER@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>You can't really say that Lucas doesn't understand the franchise seeing as
>>>>>>he wrote the bloody films.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I think the problem most of the older fans have is that they grew up
>>>>>with it, as pre-teen or young teenage boys, from when Ep IV came out (I
>>>>>was seven).
>>>>>
>>>>>Lucas was aiming at the pre-teen/young teen market from the start and
>>>>>has continued in that vein, maybe lowering the age-sight a little, and
>>>>>the older fans feel that the franchise hasn't grown with them.
>>>>>
>>>>>Lucas never intended that it should grow up. If you ever saw any of the
>>>>>interviews with him back then (1977) he talked about it exactly the same
>>>>>way as he does now about the new films, like he's pitching to 8-14 year
>>>>>olds. All he's done is update his original story ideas using current
>>>>>technological abilities to turn it into movies, and in the differences
>>>>>between Original and Special Editions of Eps IV-VI you can see how he
>>>>>had to scale his original ideas back because of technological
>>>>>constraints.
>>>>>
>>>>>I think any hints of the darker side, or the more adult humour, came
>>>>>mostly from the actors themselves, particularly Harrison Ford, who
>>>>>supposedly liked to 'do things his way' once he became Hollywood
>>>>>hot-property and realised that he had some clout.
>>>>>
>>>>>The only real problem I've ever had with the franchise is that Lucas
>>>>>should stop trying to have so much input on the dialog and let a decent
>>>>>script writer at it, but I doubt that will ever happen.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>That would also help to avoid unnecessary (and mind-bogglingly stupid)
>>>>items like metachlorians (sp?) and a political system that has an
>>>>elected monarchy (?!?) where 14 year olds are the most compelling
>>>>candidates (one suspects that maybe the Gungans are *not* the dumbest
>>>>things that walk on two legs on Naboo). IMO, those all make the "it's
>>>>the ship that did the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs" line look like it
>>>>was written by Stephen Hawking.
>>>
>>>
>>>I thought that line had been explained. Something about it not being a
>>>accidental use of a measurement of distance used in place of one of time but
>>>that the Kessel run was something you could navigate i.e. you could take
>>>different routes from London to Cambridge.
>>
>>Right. The idea is that there is a black hole near Kessel. If you do
>>it in 12 parsecs you come awfully close the the black hole...Usually the
>>Kessel run in 16 parsecs.
>
>
> And there was me thinking that when they entered Hyperspace that they weren't
> actually in this universe anymore and they could fly through objects,
> presumably even black holes. If not then why does Han say to Luke that if they
> didn't plot a course correctly they could fly through a sun? Admittedly he
> didn't say that they would come out the other side but it does imply that you
> would somehow end up inside the thing.
Things with large gravitational pull can pull you out of hyperspace....
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