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Matt Zimmer ([personal profile] matt_zimmer) wrote2008-11-23 08:32 am
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Jar-Jar Binks is on my television screen

Why is Jar-Jar Binks on my television screen? Did someone actually think I'd WANT Jar-Jar Binks on my television screen? Whose idea was it to put Jar-Jar Binks on my television screen?

[identity profile] wampus-cat.livejournal.com 2008-11-23 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I think George Lucas just hasn't come to terms with the fact that Jar Jar Binks sucks.

[identity profile] mattzimmer.livejournal.com 2008-11-23 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Well he needs to. Now. This is unacceptable.

[identity profile] style92.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
It's YOUR television screen. Why'd you put him there?

Wait, you aren't falling for the giant money making scam that is the "Clone Wars" CGI animated franchise are you? I don't even understand the point of this series after Episode III...

[identity profile] mattzimmer.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Morbid curiousity. They had an episode centered around Jar-Jar Binks. The series sucks but even I didn't expect them to go there.

[identity profile] style92.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
I just don't get it. Episode III spelled it all out that the "Clone War" was one giant BS war whose only goals and purposes were 1) the advancement of Senator Palpatine's political career and 2) the annihilation of the Jedi.

So no, I can't get behind a franchise that asks me to forget Episode 3 happened and go back to that time when the Clone War seemed Legit.

[identity profile] mattzimmer.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
I think the thing that bothers me most about the series is that George Lucas has been trying to pretend the MUCH superior Clone Wars animated shorts by Genndy Tartakovsky don't exist and has even made the DVDs out of print. He did the exact same thing to the Old Indy segments on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and it was to neither franchise's benefit.

[identity profile] stinkingbishop.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
George Lucas scares me. The man's in his own private universe.

[identity profile] mattzimmer.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It's ridiculous. He has no idea how much he's hurting his franchises and he won't listen to common sense or feedback.

[identity profile] style92.livejournal.com 2008-11-25 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, the young indy dvds don't have the old indy segments? not even the when where Harrison Ford made a cameo? Man, not that they were on my agenda, but that news removes even my minimal interest in that series.

[identity profile] mattzimmer.livejournal.com 2008-11-25 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure about the Harrison Ford segment. I know they kept that particular one when the series came to VHS but they STILL cut the George Hall ones. I don't actually OWN the DVDs for the same reason as you but yeah, this really puts them down the priorities list for me.

[identity profile] casarbi.livejournal.com 2008-11-25 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Millennium? The theme to the Frank Black Millennium (one I love to play to myself on the piano). Remember how I always said never do any internet campaigns?

www.backtofrankblack.com

Bloody hypocrite me.

[identity profile] mattzimmer.livejournal.com 2008-11-25 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
I already signed it. I friggin' love Millennium. I got the Complete Series box set the day it was released. It only cost me $52 on Amazon.

[identity profile] casarbi.livejournal.com 2008-11-26 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Same here. We're pushing for letters, as I'm sure you recall me constantly harping on about, but the petition is useful too. And we're doing good. we're in contact with Frank Spotnitz and Lance Henriksen. Kristen Cloke has made a statement and actor Trevor White has just done an interview. And with any luck, I should be doing an interview with Lance himself - he's a supporter as well. Well, I had to put my money where my mouth was some day.

[identity profile] mattzimmer.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Man, if there IS a Millennium movie, Kristen Cloke as Lara Means has GOT to be in it. They just completely dropped the ball with what happened to her in the final season. Who did Trevor White play? I also want to see Sarah-Jane Redmomd as Lucy Butler. Yesterday.