(prequel) SW 3-sentence fic & SW thought
Dec. 22nd, 2015 10:31 pm( Star Wars, any, the secret lives of the Royal Naboo Handmaidens )
and the thought:
in a new hope, when luke come to rescue leia & she gives him that line about being short for a storm-trooper, i never realized how major that is. here is a woman who has seen her home planet destroyed, been tortured (probably physically & mentally) for who knows how long & still she's sassing the grunt who, for whatever reason, has come to her cell.
my brother says it's her way of still being defiant.
tips to advoid SW7 spoilers
Dec. 19th, 2015 11:28 pmi was probably about 10-15% interested in the new star wars movie, but got hit with a major spoiler last night. you can avoid posts about the movie on social media, but that will only take you so far.
don't read the comments on any SW story or article, you shouldn't read the comments on anything anyway but it goes double for this. this is how i got it. someone posted something like: "don't waste your money [MAJOR SPOILER]." the lowest level of the special hell is reserved for this dipsh!+ & others like him or her.
don't do an internet search for character or actors names. there often is a spoiler in the search suggestion or the preview of the results.
don't do an internet search containing the words star wars. if you want to know when it's playing at your local theater, search for the theater's name & look at their site.
if you're waiting until it comes out on DVD/blue-ray, God help you. if you avoid the internet for the next 4-6 months, you might be able to be 100% spoiler free. (is such a thing possible in this day & age?) but if you're on-line during that time & you follow the above, you might be able to be 70-80% spoiler free.
don't read the comments on any SW story or article, you shouldn't read the comments on anything anyway but it goes double for this. this is how i got it. someone posted something like: "don't waste your money [MAJOR SPOILER]." the lowest level of the special hell is reserved for this dipsh!+ & others like him or her.
don't do an internet search for character or actors names. there often is a spoiler in the search suggestion or the preview of the results.
don't do an internet search containing the words star wars. if you want to know when it's playing at your local theater, search for the theater's name & look at their site.
if you're waiting until it comes out on DVD/blue-ray, God help you. if you avoid the internet for the next 4-6 months, you might be able to be 100% spoiler free. (is such a thing possible in this day & age?) but if you're on-line during that time & you follow the above, you might be able to be 70-80% spoiler free.
star wars tv series still a possibliity
Dec. 15th, 2015 12:31 ama few year back i posted about ABC looking to do a live-action star wars series in the wake of disney buying lucasfilm. well it looks like some insiders are not closing the door on that yet.
read more over here
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geekgirls
I talked to Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy over the weekend at the Star Wars: The Force Awakens press junket, the full interview will hit the site later in the week. During my chat I learned that the company is still spending a lot of time looking, discussing and developing two of the most notorious left-over projects from the George Lucas era: the live-action Star Wars TV show Star Wars: Underworld and the Star Wars 1313 video game. Could either of these thought to have been abandoned projects find new light in the Disney era? Find out after the jump.
read more over here
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geekgirls
leia's force sensitivity
Sep. 21st, 2015 09:52 pmthere's a new star wars movie coming out & to be honest i'm rather indifferent about it. i don't know if it's because of j.j. abrams or those other star wars movies were such a disappointment. or it could be just a general apathy towards most of what hollywood puts out these days.
anyway, i came across this post over at![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
geekgirlvideo which got it from robotsandfrippary which gets into whether or not leia is force-sensitive because someone said that it hadn't been established that she was. i mentioned this to my brother & he was like: "WTF?! of course she was!" and then went on to cite some of the things that the post did.
anyway, i came across this post over at
3-sentence fic time again
Jan. 4th, 2015 12:51 amfor some reason i was looking at my stuff on the 3-sentence fic tag & wondered if![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caramelsilver might be doing it again & she/he is!
it stared in dec. but i guess you can still do stuff. i did. check it out over here at this thread.
( Star Wars, Han/Leia, another roll of the dice )
caramelsilver might be doing it again & she/he is!it stared in dec. but i guess you can still do stuff. i did. check it out over here at this thread.
( Star Wars, Han/Leia, another roll of the dice )
interesting geek-type news
Nov. 7th, 2013 06:22 pmboth found via ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
twistedchick
a klingon general (j.g. hertzler) has been elected to public office.
qapla'!
when you translate star wars (a new hope) into navajo, interesting things happen.
cross posted togeekgirls & (the trek info ) to startrek
twistedchicka klingon general (j.g. hertzler) has been elected to public office.
qapla'!
when you translate star wars (a new hope) into navajo, interesting things happen.
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geekgirls & (the trek info ) to startrek 
fandom without the internet
Apr. 14th, 2013 05:04 pmi just finished reading harry, a history by melissa anelli the webmistress of the leaky cauldron. it's about the history of harry potter (how the idea come about & how the books got published) and craziness that followed, which didn't explode until 1999 when the third book was published and livejournal started. in many parts of the book you could remove the words harry potter and insert the name of most any fandom (star trek, star wars, stargate), since the book touches on many issues fandom deals with; fanfic, canon, shipping wars & spoilers. while reading it i started thinking; what would fandom be like without the internet?
( fandom in a world without internet )
( fandom in a world without internet )
and another one
Mar. 29th, 2013 08:42 pmanother thing from that thing over at rthstewart's
( Star Wars, Leia, Jedi lessons )
(ETA:) and i continued it somewhat after the OP's reply;
( how soon is soon? )
rthstewart's ( Star Wars, Leia, Jedi lessons )
(ETA:) and i continued it somewhat after the OP's reply;
( how soon is soon? )
star wars meme
Jan. 20th, 2013 08:15 pmit's been so long since i've done a meme.
found viajackwabbit who got it from jediknightmuse
( spoilers if you haven't seen the movies )
found via
jackwabbit who got it from jediknightmuse ( spoilers if you haven't seen the movies )
festivids!
Jan. 19th, 2013 10:20 pmit's that time of year again! the master list is posted here if some don't work with firefox, try chrome.
the ones i liked; (warning & such are on each vid post)
charlie's angels ('70s TV show--the angelic look
charlie's angels (movies)--circus of heartbreakin' divas
daria--freakin friends
a league of their own (1992)--back to avalon
the mission impossible movies--sabotage
star wars (original trilogy)--greased lightning
wonder woman (1975)--titanium
the ones i liked; (warning & such are on each vid post)
charlie's angels ('70s TV show--the angelic look
charlie's angels (movies)--circus of heartbreakin' divas
daria--freakin friends
a league of their own (1992)--back to avalon
the mission impossible movies--sabotage
star wars (original trilogy)--greased lightning
wonder woman (1975)--titanium
why we can't have a death star
Jan. 17th, 2013 10:50 pmWe already knew President Barack Obama was a nerd but this…this solidifies his place in our intergalactic records. Remember when we reported on that petition someone started to get the United States government to fund the building of a Death Star ala Star Wars? We all had a good laugh, knew it wouldn’t happen, and assumed they wouldn’t even get a response. They did. While it may not be the one petitioners were hoping for, it’s probably the single best response to anything, ever.the rest at themarysue.com
Petitions submitted to WhiteHouse.gov need to get 25,000 signatures before the administration is required to respond. The Death Star submission got almost 10,000 more. So what about that reply?
First of all, it was titled “This Isn’t the Petition Response You’re Looking For,” so we knew right off the bat this was going to be good. The author of the reply, Paul Shawcross, Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget, goes on to break down the most important reasons why they decided not to build a Death Star for the U.S
found via
bluemeridian cross-posted to geekgirls 
live action star wars might happen
Jan. 12th, 2013 08:25 pmABC entertainment president Paul Lee says he’s going to take a look at the long-gestating Star Wars live-action TV series now that the Disney deal to acquire Lucasfilm is complete.
“We’d love to do something with Lucasfilm, we’re not sure what yet,” Lee exclusively told EW. “We haven’t even sat down with them. We’re going to look at [the live-action series], we’re going to look at all of them, and see what’s right. We weren’t able to discuss this with them until [the acquisition] closed and it just closed. It’s definitely going to be part of the conversation.”
Even many working in Hollywood don’t realize a live-action Star Wars TV series has been sitting on the shelf the past few years. The project was commissioned by longtime Lucasfilm producer Rick McCallum, who enlisted writers such as Battlestar Galactica‘s Ron Moore and swore them to NDA secrecy on the plot details (more on the show’s storyline below). Fifty scripts were written. McCallum once called the scripts the most “provocative, bold and daring material that we’ve ever done.”
And then … nothing.
the rest of the story here
according to the linked story in the quoted paragraph, it could cost 4 or 5 million per episode. yikes! makes terra nova at about 1 million seem cheap, doesn't it. i guess they could cut cost by eliminating a lot of the special effects or reusing stuff like establishing shots of planets and cities. also by building sets that could be reused a lot just by redecorating them a little to be used for multiple places.
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disney buys lucasfilm for $4 billion
Oct. 30th, 2012 08:04 pmThe Walt Disney Co. has acquired Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion in cash and stock and announced a new Star Wars movie to be released in 2015.
Kathleen Kennedy, current co-chair of Lucasfilm, will become Lucasfilm's president, reporting to Walt Disney Studios chair Alan Horn as part of the stock and cash transaction. Disney is paying approximately half the price in cash and will issue 40 million shares of stock, the company said Tuesday in a statement.
Kennedy will serve as executive producer on new Star Wars feature films, with the franchise's creator and Lucasfilm founder George Lucas, 68, serving as creative consultant. There are plans to release a new Star Wars film every two or three years.
more at the hollywood reporter.
more info over here
there's even going to be a series on disney XD. i wonder if it will be animated?
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geekgirls 
stuff is random
Sep. 9th, 2012 07:04 pmi found some books at a local thrift store. the first four of the star wars x-wing series. i didn't want to get them at first, i didn't want to start a new series, but it had been so long since i found any books at a thrift place that i caved and got them. they had three or four other SW books, but they are one ones i already had.
it's been much cooler here lately with rain. almost fall like.
speaking of fall oreo is putting out a candy corn flavor starting sept. 10 until halloween, only at target. i used to love candy corn, but now can't stand it., so i'm conflicted on this. but according to a quote in that story i linked, there's hardly any candy corn flavor in them. so there's a good chance i might try them. maybe the birthday cake ones too, it they're still out.
it's been much cooler here lately with rain. almost fall like.
speaking of fall oreo is putting out a candy corn flavor starting sept. 10 until halloween, only at target. i used to love candy corn, but now can't stand it., so i'm conflicted on this. but according to a quote in that story i linked, there's hardly any candy corn flavor in them. so there's a good chance i might try them. maybe the birthday cake ones too, it they're still out.
women of star wars
Sep. 6th, 2012 07:22 pmas they say at the site:
This blog is dedicated to the women of Star Wars, in the movies and in the books, named and unnamed.
spoilers for anything you haven't read or seen yet
star trek vs star wars
Dec. 14th, 2011 06:08 pmfirst william shatner gave his opinion on the issue.
that started a war of words with carrie fisher.
now george takei attempts to make peace by reminding us we have a common enemy.
cross posted togeekgirls & startrek
that started a war of words with carrie fisher.
now george takei attempts to make peace by reminding us we have a common enemy.
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geekgirls & startrek big movie meme 1-10
Nov. 20th, 2011 09:14 pmfound via jargonelle (there’s a song one too!), but seen all over. there's no way i'd remember to do this daily, so i've broken it down into parts. the rest can be found under the meme thing tag
( movie questions 1-10 )
jargonelle (there’s a song one too!), but seen all over. there's no way i'd remember to do this daily, so i've broken it down into parts. the rest can be found under the meme thing tag( movie questions 1-10 )
