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From: mason
Subject: Re: Favorite SW Moments
Organization: Rice University  
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 07:43:44 GMT

Most of my favorite scenes involve verbal exchanges between
Han and Leia (I knew they were made for each other from the
very beginning ... no, really).  Forgive me if I get any of
these wrong, I don't have my scripts handy.
 
"Into the garbage chute, flyboy."
"Wonderful girl ... either I'm gonna kill her or I'm beginning
to like her."
 
"You came here in that thing?  You're braver than I thought."
 
" ... I take orders from just one person.  Me."
"It's a wonder you're still alive.  Would someone get this big
walking carpet out of my way?"
 
"Would it help if I got out and pushed?"
"It might!"
 
"I'd just as soon kiss a Wookie!"
"I can arrange that!  You could use a good kiss!"
 
"You don't have to do this to impress me ..."
 
And best of all:
"I love you."
"I know."
 
-- mason
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:41:30 EST
From: <DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: C3PO's silver leg...?
 <1992Dec10.052830.16630@u.washington.edu> <2546@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>

In article <2546@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>, mb7@ukc.ac.uk (M.Bloom) says:
>>       Given the number of references to modern life in ANH(such as
>>the dice in the Millenium Falcon and the facing the wrong way in
>>the elevator), I think the silver leg fits right in: it reminds me of a car

  Wait....what dice?
From: lccs1011@blurt.oswego.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Star Destroyer question
Date: 17 Dec 92 14:30:06 GMT
Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <BzBEB2.2Mo@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, smp@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Samuel Penn) writes:
> In article <1992Dec13.231824.15793@udel.edu> bragg@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Aquatic Joe) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec12.202917.936@ra.msstate.edu> paul@pj.tmc.edu (Thorongil) writes:
>>>Do you *WANT* to try to dock a star destroyer with the Death Star?
>>>Just think what happens if you miss the approach. :)
>>
>>	Not only that, but think of the forces of gravity involved!
> 
> Forces of gravity? This is Star Wars we're talking about here - we can't let physics
> get in the way of a damn good movie!
> 
> And while on the subject on physics, has anyone ever come up with a really good
> quasi-believable reason why all the air in the docking bays of the Death Star doesn't
> escape into space (considering they are wide open to a vacuum, and ships fly in and
> out of them all the time). Whenever I'm GMing Star Wars my players always seem to find
> a way of coming up with this question. Of course, I just ramble on about air being
> made up of 'diggle' particles, and special diggle repulser fields...
> 
That's easy. The DS has a magnetic field, which holds the air in. (Like in the
ST:TNG episode "Disaster")  I seem to remember hearing someone say,
"Deactivating the magnetic field," or something like that when they're bringing
the Falcon in.

just my 8 rubles worth...

Ray the RA Russian major from Oswego
From: redrum@carson.u.washington.edu (Joe Stremick)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: C3PO's silver leg...?
Date: 11 Dec 92 20:08:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec11.200846.25546
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <2546@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> mb7@ukc.ac.uk (M.Bloom) writes:
>In article <1992Dec10.052830.16630@u.washington.edu> redrum@carson.u.washington.edu (Joe Stremick) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec09.223027.94067@watson.ibm.com> trogers@yktvmv.vnet.ibm.com writes:
>>>
>>>No doubt because as far as droids go, C-3P0 seems both clumsy and unlucky.
>>>Probably this is a replacement to a section damaged sometimes in the
>>>episode I-III timeframe.  This would be kinda nice to see.  Kinda like how
>>>Indy got is scar, whip, Fedora, etc in Indy III.
>>>
>>	With the amount of bashing both droids are on the receiving
>>end of, I'd be amazed if they had *any* original parts left.
>>	Given the number of references to modern life in ANH(such as 
>>the dice in the Millenium Falcon and the facing the wrong way in
>>the elevator), I think the silver leg fits right in: it reminds me of a car
>>with a  different color door or fender.
>
>Oh, I agree... the silver leg fits right in brilliantly... however, can
>anyone confirm whether the leg was deliberatly made to look silver for
>this "knocked-about" reason, or was it due to a lack of a gold leg when
>filming/creating Threepio?
>
	Well, it seems logical to me that the entire costume would
be constructed all at once.  Given the sheer amount of detail in
this film, I doubt it was accidental.
	Another thing: I was looking at a poster of 3P0 on my ceiling,
and it seems that part of his right hand is also silver.
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From: lone@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (John Hale)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: The Kessel Run, the Princes, and funny marks
Date: 16 Dec 92 00:35:19 GMT
Organization: The Heart of Gold BBS, Lemont PA

rahayden@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (R Andrew Hayden) writes:

> HAN:  Fast ship?  You mean you've never heard of hte Mellanium (sp) Falcon?
> BEN:  Should I have?
> HAN:  It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs.
> 
> what does the term "kessel" refer to?
> 
...Yes, this has entrigued me too. Perhaps it refers to the Falcon's navi 
computer's prowess, 5-dimensionally computing a VERY short course.... Of 
course, the RPG refers to the Kessel run being a "well-plotted" 
hyperspace course, that smugglers test their ships full speed on. From 
what SW RPG says about travelling through hyperspace (and what Solo 
berates Luke about in ANH!), a trade route, even a SPICE rout would make 
sense as a well-plotted, stable hyperspace racetrack.....
"Travellin' through hyperspace ain't like dustin' crops, boy. Without 
precise calculations we'd fly right through a star, or bounce too close 
to a supernova, and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn'd it."
<yes I KNOW that's what Ford actually says as compared to the script in 
the novelization...>
                                                        -Lone Wolf
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From: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu.UUCP (Chris Blaise)
Subject: Re: how much is the new Dark Horse comic worth?
Originator: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu
Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:34:51 GMT

From article <BzDIyy.2oC@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, by rku45136@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rajiv Udani):
> I know there are six comics in the new star wars comic series. how much
> are they worth? how many were reprinted?
> Also, how much are those CLassic SW comics going for?
> it seems to me that these are now worth more than the Marvel Comics series.
> (I'm a little pissed because I have all 107 Marvel comics +annuals, etc
> and they seem to be worthless :(  )

	If they're worthless to you, how about selling them all to me for
free?  I'll pay S/H.

 TTYL
 Chris
From: cottoncp@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Chad P Cotton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Favorite Star Wars Moments
Date: 14 Dec 1992 03:43:05 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
Reply-To: cottoncp@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Chad P Cotton)
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> 	What is your favorite Star Wars moments?
> 	Like a scene, a line, a situation, etc. that you find
> particularly appealing or meaningful.

	I believe that the best scene is where Jabba drops Luke into the  
pit (RoTJ).  I love it when he refers to Luke as "Bantha pudu." (I think  
this is said in Huttese or whatever.)



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From: hatcher@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Donald L.C. Blewett)
Subject: Delta Source and Suggestion
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:26:30 GMT


Well, I must admit, you got me.  I never even considered that Delta Source 
could be a TREE.  (I'm an animal racist from way back.) I still think it's
Winter, but if you're right, feel free to give me the big "I told you so."

I also have an amusing SW figure fatality story.  Two of my first figures 
where Darth Vader and Ben Kenobi.  I palyed with those toys so much, that 
both their heads fell off!  I was really upset by this, but decided to make
the most of it.  Several weeks later, my evil friends introduced me to the
joys of parachuting your toys, so I made parachutes for my decapitated heros.
Well, one day while at school, Darth got caught in a tree!  He hung there
for several weeks until, I swear, the tree got hit by lightning.  All I ever
found was his arm that didn't hold the lightsaber.

Anther thing that pissed me off at my mother was this one time this lady 
came over to visit, and she brought her two year old.  Well, that brat got
hold of my brand new R2-D2 and proptly started to suck on it!  I was so mad,
I grabbed it out of his mouth.  Well, the brat started bawling and my mom 
smacked me and said "Share your toys!"  I always thought that sharing was
when you let other kids play with your toys, not eat them.  That brat
ruined MY toy and I got in trouble.  I think we all should remember this 
incident when we have kids who won't share.  Maybe they are just trying
to protect their favourite toys!

Now a suggestion.  Recently, a jerk flamed all of us.  In the future I think it
would be wise if we did not reply in the news group.  I think a fitting
punishment would be to get the biggest, longest most obnoxious executable 
image file we have and mail it to him, every day!  If a hundred people start 
flooding his mailbox with crap, he'll learn his lesson.


Well, gotta go, got an exam in an hour.

Don.


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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 15:40:32 MST
From: julie@alaska.et.byu.edu (Julie Gritton)
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Lucas the literary genius? (LONG)
Reply-To: julie@bones.et.byu.edu

I agree that we have to wait to see if it stands the test of time, but
it is ridiculous to call something a classic when it is only 15 years
old.  Part of the definition of a classic is simply what you said,
that it stands the test of time, that it endures well beyond its age
and its popularity.  I simply don't see SW doing that, beyond this
diehard group of fans, of course.  I mean, there will always be fans
of everything, but I'm sure there were many things that were called
classics in their day that no one nowadays has ever heard of.  I am
merely suggesting that we wait and see how SW is received by future
generations before drooling all over it and comparing Lucas to
Shakespeare.  It's partially this need to justify their love of the
form that makes people think of SF fans as so, well, weird.  You can
love a movie or a filmmaker, or anything, without having to justify it
intellectually, that is, if you have enough self-confidence.  I will
hold to my opinion that Lucas does not have the genius of a Dickens or
a Shakespeare, despite the fact that they both wrote for the public.

"You could use a good kiss!"		JULIE
From: wggray@mothra.syr.EDU (Wild Bill)
Subject: Re: Favorite Star Wars Moments
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 15:44:38 EST

In article <2kBoVB4w166w@hogbbs.scol.pa.us> lone@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (John Hale) writes:
>
>> 
>> 	Here's a question:
>> 	What is your favorite Star Wars moments?
>> 	Like a scene, a line, a situation, etc. that you find
>> particularly appealing or meaningful.

	One of my -favorite- scenes has got to be when Luke is on
Dagobah (ESB) and he's trying to get his X-Wing out of the swamp,
and even though it's moving, he can't do it. Then Yoda proves to him
that the task is all in the mind by moving it out himself. That and
the Awards Ceremony at the end of ANH I find particularly moving
(among others).:-)
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:10:07 -0500 
From: Robert Edward Timlin <rt16+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Thrawn & Pellaeon


     Having freshly re-read both Heir to the Empire and Dark Force Rising, I
was struck by a strange thought - the Empire is being lead by Sherlock Holmes
and Dr. Watson. Seriously! The only thing that's missing is for Thrawn to
quip, "Elementary, my dear Pellaeon," at some point.

     The image is strongest in HTTE, and once I thought of it, I couldn't get
it out of my head. I just see Thrawn sitting there in cap & cape, smoking a
pipe while explaining things to Pellaeon.

     Anybody else get this impression? I swear, almost seems like Zahn did it
intentionally. Or I am just overstressed from finals and totally looney? :-)

                                                -Robb Timlin
                                                 rt16@andrew.cmu.edu
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From: sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter)
Subject: Re: Star Destroyer question
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:40:37 GMT

smp@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Samuel Penn) writes:

>And while on the subject on physics, has anyone ever come up with a really good
>quasi-believable reason why all the air in the docking bays of the Death Star doesn't
>escape into space (considering they are wide open to a vacuum, and ships fly in and
>out of them all the time). Whenever I'm GMing Star Wars my players always seem to find
>a way of coming up with this question. Of course, I just ramble on about air being
>made up of 'diggle' particles, and special diggle repulser fields...

I use the explanation that the entrance to the bay is protected by a very
weak force field -- weak enough that shuttles and so forth can fly through
it with no problem, but strong enough to hold the air in.


                                   --Steve Stelter
                                     sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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From: sdt8s@curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU (Steve Tilson)
Subject: Re: Favorite SW Moments
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:21:51 GMT

There are a lot of moments in the trilogy that are
haunting/chilling/etc, but my two favorites are both from ESB:

Yoda raising the sunken X-wing.
Luke: I... I don't believe it!
Yoda: *That* is why you fail.

The last minute or so of the movie: with some of the saddest,
most forlorn music of the series playing, Luke, Leia and the
droids watch the Falcon fly away from the fleet to begin the
search for Han. Especially effective on the big screen.

Steve
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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:12:44 EST
From: Ernie Oporto <EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: why don't all you star wars fans get a life
Distribution: world
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In article <10DEC92162659@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu>,
dkemper@oolong.hacks.arizona.edu (David Kemper) says:
>
>No, it's a lot fascist.  I don't really like to flame people, but in my
>opinion Scott has shown himself to be a bigger jerk than the original
>poster.  Maybe you don't agree with his views, but is that any reason to
>violate his freedom of speech?  What's next?  Do you mail the sysop of Dan
>Shoham because you don't like his theory of how a lightsaber is powered by
>the Force?

Freedom of speech nothing.  If a university doesn't want their computer
used for such things, they shouldn't have to allow it.  This is just like
how you can't force a newspaper to print stuff they don't want.  It's
their resources for their own uses and under their own rules.  The original
poster can go buy himself his own mainframe and get his own internet
connection if it's that important for him to express his views in such ways.
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From: avik@icase.edu (Avik Banerjee)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: Luke Gone Down Hill?
Date: 16 Dec 1992 18:35:35 GMT
Organization: ICASE/NASA Langley
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he's made so much money that he can do the films he wants to do, not 
the ones that will be box office hits. i think he did guyver because
(if i remember correctly) that is based on a japanimation story and he
likes that stuff. 

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From: paul@pj.tmc.edu (Thorongil)
Subject: Re: Splinter of a Mind's Eye
Organization: Mississippi State University ERC
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:31:52 GMT

>
>Okay, that's about ruined it for anyone planning to read it some
>time, though as far as I'm aware the book is no longer available in
>print (well, I haven't been able to find any of the Han Solo or Lando
>one's, so I presume the same goes for SOFME as well).
>
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Actually the Han Solo and Lando books are available as I saw them in a
bookstore yesterday.  _Splinter_ may or may not be available.  I've seen
several copies in used book stores for certain and I may have seen it in
a regular bookstore, though it is hard to remember since I was more interested
in the Tolkien book in my hands.

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From: thpr_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Thomas Parker)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: New Questions
Date: 15 Dec 92 20:04:18 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York


In rec.arts.sf.starwars julie@bones.et.byu.edu writes:

>lars4752@mach1.wlu.ca (Bradley Larsen u) writes:


>> Got some more questions for the net.

>> 1)  Supposedly the time between TESB and ROTJ is 6 months.  How long did it
>> take Boba Fett to reach Tationne sp? If it only took say a couple of weeks
>> why would he still be hanging around Jabba's palace after 6 months?

>Looks to me like he's bodyguarding the place while waiting for his
>next assignment.

Agreed, but also...
He "caught" Han.  He wants to make sure Jabba keeps his prize, Though it
doesn't seem too likely he'll disappear.
But Han did have friends.

>> 4)  Where did the emporor get all of his evil powers?

>Use the Force, Luke.

>> 5)  What kind of weapons do the emporor's guards use?

>Nifty blasters that match their nifty robes.

NOPE!!

Those "Spears" that the guards carry are not ceremonial.  That is their
weapon.  It is called a "force pike."  Nasty weapon should you get hit
by it.


>> 6)  In ANH, when the MF encounters the TIE fighter scout (near Alderaan) Han
>> flicks a switch, and some guns start firing above the cockpit?  Are these
>> just secondary type weapons that were originally on the ship or are they one
>> of Han's special modifications?

>I think you'd have to ask Han that one...

Personal modification.  The original ship design that the MF was derived from
only had one weapon.  (The big ones where Luke got all exstatic about
blowing up a TIE fighter.


>> 7)  What is your favorite ship/vehicle from Star Wars? (mine's the ATAT)

>The Millenium Falcon, hands down.  I still get a lump in my throat
>when I see her maneuvering through the clouds at Bespin.

The Rebel cruisers.  Don't remember the race that makes 'em though...


>> 8)  Who is the character(s) you would have liked to seen more of in the mov!
>>     (I always wished that the Han would have ran into IG-88 somewhere along
>>      the line, but Boba Fett's still pretty cool.)

>Wedge Antilles.  Sharp, cool, and in command in the third movie, they
>could have done a lot more with him than just made him a yes man for
>Luke and Lando.

IG-88!!!!!!!!!!!
Definitely!!

>"You could use a good kiss!"           JULIE

?



Tom Parker

thpr_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
From: cottoncp@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Chad P Cotton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: size of Death Star
Date: 15 Dec 92 05:38:43 GMT
Reply-To: cottoncp@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Chad P Cotton)
Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
NNTP-Posting-Host: g222-23.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu

> Determination of the size of the Death Star.

	I once considered this point about a year ago and posted to this  
group.  Someone answered by quoting the size of the Death Star(both of  
them) from a RPG book.  I can't remember now what the dimensions were or  
what my calculations of the respective gravities of Endor and the Death  
Star were.

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