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The Doctor Who EU is wierd because Doctor Who is both very attached to its canon, but also doesn't take it too seriously. The best EU stuff is the standalone stories that could have been an episode if they were scripts instead, which is why the audio plays work so well (and having the actual cast helps. John Hurt is going to be reprising his role as the Doctor this year in them!). Lost tried to have an EU, there were some really bad YA novels that were pointless. Remember when they introduced Nikki and Pablo in season 3, acted like they'd be important and they were doing secret stuff in the background before, but the fans hated them and they got killed off quickly so the show could go back to the actual plot after the writer's strike? The books were a worse version of that. The game is truly awful - it's not even fun in a bad way like say, The Walking Dead:Survival Instinct is. You walk around, talk to some low quality recreations of characters from the show (most not voiced by the actual actors), solve a few fusebox puzzles, and the game ends on a nonsensical cliffhanger, and was quickly declared non-canon to the show. The oddest thing was the Lost Experience ARG. At first it was cool, hinting at the background of some of the lore, filling in some plot details, hinting at future storylines. Then it got wierd by focusing on a hacker lady. Fair enough, but then they did increasingly odd things like giving out chocolate at comic shops. There's a minor character in the pilot who gets sucked into a turbine, and throughout the first and second seasons, the characters pass around a manuscript for a novel he was carrying, just for something to read. They actually published the novel, and it was really, really bad, and had nothing to do with Lost except a few namedrops and being used as a cipher for puzzles in the ARG. Then the hacker lady turned up at comic-con to yell at the Lost writers in a scripted bit? Then it turned out that the numbers from the show were used to predict the apocalyse and that was the big reveal? (Note: none of this had any bearing on the TV show's plot, and was actually contradicted by the end of the show - according to the ARG, the DHARMA group was still active in the modern day, in the show it became defunct in 70s, stuff like that). And all of this was sponsored by Sprite for some reason. They did another ARG the year after, but it was about one of the anonymous background survivors played by extras, and didn't cause that much of a stir. As much as I liked that show, the attempts at giving it an EU seem like a waste of time and money in hindsight.
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Light Gun Man posted:Yeah, exactly, this would fuckin rule. poo poo let's at least get a Ghostbusters VS Jason or something. There's a VS Freddy fan movie, haven't watched it though. Ghostbusters is the cast. The entire movie is the characters and the way they play off each other. Ghostbusters without them is something completely different.
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Light Gun Man posted:I feel like Ghostbusters is entirely too goddamn attached to it's original cast and I think the tech and the concept works without them. I guess we'll see soon enough though. *melissa mccarthy gets her pussy ate by a ghost in the middle of the night*
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also the best ghostbusters EU is The Real Ghostbusters cartoon that featured Slimer as a pet or something
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:*melissa mccarthy gets her pussy ate by a ghost in the middle of the night* Please don't ruin my pubescent masturbation bank.
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There was Extreme Ghostbusters which took place after The Real Ghostbusters and features a cripple. It's better than it sounds.
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Jan 7, 2016 02:27
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Gutcruncher posted:There was Extreme Ghostbusters which took place after The Real Ghostbusters and features a cripple. It's better than it sounds.
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Jan 7, 2016 02:46
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Gutcruncher posted:There was Extreme Ghostbusters which took place after The Real Ghostbusters and features a cripple. It's better than it sounds. This is also a show with an episode where a talking sphincter with the voice of Maurice LaMarche attacks Billy West.
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boom boom boom posted:Ghostbusters is the cast. The entire movie is the characters and the way they play off each other. Ghostbusters without them is something completely different. I am not so sure. Like I said, the tech/props and the concept are solid on their own, I think it could work in other contexts. Real Ghostbusters proved it can work pretty well as a different sort of adventure story, those characters are barely their actors anymore. Maybe this is just another part of that weird thing where I guess I don't "get" Bill Murray whereas everyone else my age seems to worship the guy. Ramis was the funniest Ghostbuster Gutcruncher posted:There was Extreme Ghostbusters which took place after The Real Ghostbusters and features a cripple. It's better than it sounds. The gothy chick is in the comic book, works at Ray's book store.
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OldMemes posted:The Doctor Who EU is wierd because Doctor Who is both very attached to its canon, but also doesn't take it too seriously. The best EU stuff is the standalone stories that could have been an episode if they were scripts instead, which is why the audio plays work so well (and having the actual cast helps. John Hurt is going to be reprising his role as the Doctor this year in them!). wernt they all dead the whole time or some poo poo. i tried getting into lost, but it wasnt for me.
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That guy is the main reason I want to rewatch it. We were somewhere around Dantooine, on the edge of the outer rim, when the spice began to take hold.
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effectual posted:That guy is the main reason I want to rewatch it. I hear spice takes ahold of you a lot faster when you spread it on your outer rim, if you know what I mean. We can't stop here! This is Bantha Country!
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fuckingtest posted:I hear spice takes ahold of you a lot faster when you spread it on your outer rim, if you know what I mean. This post is Poodoo
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VendaGoat posted:This post is Poodoo You're PooDoo. This whole forum is PooDoo. Tusker Poop.
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Okay so Im several episodes into Clone Wars and I'm still unclear on something. How come every time Ashoka and Anakin are in a scene together, Anakin has to say something extremely filthy and inappropriate for children's TV, followed immediately by him looking straight into the camera and doing an eyebrow thing? His bow-tie even did a goofy spin that one time. I'm okay with this kind of stuff in my TV shows, but usually there's some kind of explanation in the first few episodes why a character would keep doing that.
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Jan 8, 2016 22:32
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Gutcruncher posted:Okay so Im several episodes into Clone Wars and I'm still unclear on something. Are you watching the same clone wars as us?
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Gutcruncher posted:Okay so Im several episodes into Clone Wars and I'm still unclear on something. Just wait until S2E15 "the Aristocrats."
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New thread title on point as always.
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Gutcruncher posted:Anakin has to say something extremely filthy and inappropriate for children's TV, followed immediately by him looking straight into the camera and doing an eyebrow thing anakin actually never fell to the dark side, he was just sorta a passive agressively nudged there by the jedi council after they got tired of him cracking boner jokes during their meditation.
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Gutcruncher posted:Okay so Im several episodes into Clone Wars and I'm still unclear on something. I'm more disgusted by the annoying references to online gambling and drinking products, like they know their primary audience is 20-somethings instead of children.
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isnt his apprentice like 14
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Have we talked about a bunch of whiney pissbabies making a petition to get Lucas involved with the films again? Because lol.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Have we talked about a bunch of whiney pissbabies making a petition to get Lucas involved with the films again? Because lol. where
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I saw it on FB. Fuckin lol.fans are the worst
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Have we talked about a bunch of whiney pissbabies making a petition to get Lucas involved with the films again? Because lol. Cinema Discusso has gone too far.
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I'd be ok with bringing his exwife back into the fold, since apparently she was the best thing to ever happen to star wars
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site posted:Are you watching the same clone wars as us? Whatever he's watching sounds much better.
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The Auralnauts Starwars re-edits? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSCm8yAxBr8
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:I they take kids away from their families when they are like one or two years old to start training them and i don't recall any reference to ahsoka being too young to be a padawan but i didn't get past season two
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I think a padawan is specifically an apprentice at the point in their training where they actually go out alongside a knight/master and take care of business. Anakin was too old to begin the training, as in he couldnt be one of those dumb kids doing the lightsaber training thing crammed together close with those other children.
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Thx Star Wars nerds
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The Star Wars card trader app has a new card that identifies the name of the creature the scavenger who took BB8 rode on. It's called a Luggabeast.  I'm sure the novelization and further EU will have a really dumb species name for it.
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Man if I were a kid I'd have Luggabeast vs Dewback races all day.
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fuckingtest posted:You're PooDoo. This whole forum is PooDoo. poodoo means fodder not poop; I'm starting to question your credentials
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Germstore posted:poodoo means fodder not poop; I'm starting to question your credentials Remember, tusken raiders march in single file to hide their numbers. Which wouldn't work at all in any circumstance, but then they are stick-wielding maniacs on a planet with a space-faring civilization.
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Chill la Chill posted:The Star Wars card trader app has a new card that identifies the name of the creature the scavenger who took BB8 rode on. It's called a Luggabeast. Apparently, the Luggabeast is wearing a helmet made from this.
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I always thought it was stupid in the PT they decided that all Jedi wear robes all the time. Like, in ANH Obi Wan and Luke wore robes because they lived in a loving desert, not because that was the Jedi uniform. In fact it would have been really stupid of Obi Wan to be dressing like a goddamn Jedi if he was supposed to be in hiding. Notice how in ESB and ROTJ Luke just wears normal clothes.
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muscles like this? posted:I always thought it was stupid in the PT they decided that all Jedi wear robes all the time. Like, in ANH Obi Wan and Luke wore robes because they lived in a loving desert, not because that was the Jedi uniform. In fact it would have been really stupid of Obi Wan to be dressing like a goddamn Jedi if he was supposed to be in hiding. Notice how in ESB and ROTJ Luke just wears normal clothes.  Rekt your argument is.
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