Comments on: Death Star was an inside job: a Loose Change parody

By: Anthony Hernandez

Anthony Hernandez — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:39:00 +0000

C’mon Rootie, show us the Jawaish Gold! Show us the blood money!

By: Anthony Hernandez

Anthony Hernandez — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:38:00 +0000

Where is the Jawaish Gold used to pay off the corrupt Empire officials? For example, chancellor Rootie Chewliani is said to have a stash of Jawa Gold in his basement.

By: Kenmrph

Kenmrph — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:33:00 +0000

Subtle!

By: Gatto

Gatto — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:22:00 +0000

I haven’t watched Loose Change, but I’ve heard there are a handful of pronunciation errors and slightly off names. I think Alderbraan, and the Leia Organa stuff was deliberate.

By: G3

G3 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:36:00 +0000

Your issue, and ours, is that we’re looking at doctored explosion footage. The original explosion, you remember, was old-school. Only after Lucas “digitized” this version does it look so cinematic. We need the original [Macgruder] tapes! I demand to know if there was anyone on the grassy black hole knoll!

By: Jake Ruiz

Jake Ruiz — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:21:00 +0000

nice one

By: willi0000000

willi0000000 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:21:00 +0000

typical clone response. always asking for proof when it’s just staring them in the face. besides, where does a clone get off calling us real humans sheeple?

DON’T MAKE ME USE MY CAPS-LOCK ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: AnthonyC

AnthonyC — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:51:00 +0000

The EU is basically internally consistent, but Lucas has free reign to ignore it. When he does, they retcon the EU as much as possible.

By: AnthonyC

AnthonyC — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:50:00 +0000

@ocker3:disqus Yes, Lucas himself he has said he doesn’t much care about continuity with the EU. He said he thinks of them as separate but parallel worlds. However, the people officially in charge of EU continuity disagree, and say there’s only one world, and had to retcon a bunch of stuff after I-III came out.

By: Marja Erwin

Marja Erwin — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:59:00 +0000

Well, I care!

I think most fans cared. Just because George Lucas doesn’t care, why should we not care?

By: AnthonyC

AnthonyC — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:36:00 +0000

No, planets with one biome don’t bother me if we accept moon-sized spacecraft and a precursor race than can move black holes. It’s more the “I see you and immediately recognize you as a member of a species known for spying” effect. You wouldn’t tickle a barabel, and I would assume you wouldn’t hire a bothan to handle sensitive documents.

By: organizizer

organizizer — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:16:00 +0000

also its not a “Corellian class” anything, although its reputed to have “outrun the big Corellian ships.” – although that may have only been the boast of its pilot anxious to land some business..

By: Andrew Brannan

Andrew Brannan — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:14:00 +0000

There’s no way a simple cargo freighter could have shot and crippled one of the most advanced imperial fighters in the fleet.

By: kringlebertfistyebuns

kringlebertfistyebuns — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:07:00 +0000

He’s clearly a Crisis Actor.

By: organizizer

organizizer — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:03:00 +0000

Those are not the correct plans for the Millenium Falcon. The cockpit is in the wrong place, in the middle of the cargo loading dock. (and before you say it, that’s basic structure, not “modification”. That’d be like making an 18-wheeler tractor push its trailer instead of pulling it, and calling it a “modification”)

Obviously, this flimsy piece of under-researched agitprop is from the same people who who’d have you believe that a member of one of our local militia allies who went by the name “Greedo”, murdered while interrogating the pilot of the Third Party Ship just days before the suicide attack, shot first.

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:09:00 +0000

Why are we discussing the validity of Death Star I when we all know that the destruction of Death Star II at the Battle of Endor was a fiasco!

This document does not advocate or condone the extinction or betrayal of ewoks, it merely reports upon a physical situation and the acts involved. The circumstances at the end of Return of the Jedi lead inevitably to an environmental disaster on the Endor moon. The explosion of a small artificial moon in low orbit sends a meteoric rain onto the ewok sanctuary, on a scale unmatched since Endor formed. Through either direct atmospheric injection of small particles, or showers of ejecta from large impacts, the atmosphere will be filled with smoke and fallout causing a gargantuan nuclear-winter effect.

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:00:00 +0000

I used that extension for a while, but then I realized that I was missing half the fun of YouTube.

The hardcore conspiracy nuts’ comments are already largely incomprehensible, anyway.

By: Scurra

Scurra — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:51:00 +0000

Thank you. Both for the link and the thread. It reminds me why BB is still one of my favourite sites.

By: Mordicai

Mordicai — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:30:00 +0000

I think the fiction that the EU was canon, even soft-canon, isn’t taken seriously…right? I never have, anyhow. I see it as a vast reserve of ideas to mine, but I wouldn’t take it as gospel. I’d like to see Thrawn without seen C’Baoth, for instance, or I’d like Dathomir to show up but I don’t need the whole book to go with it, you know?

By: agooddecision

agooddecision — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:25:00 +0000

It is clearly stated in the briefing before the assault on the death star that the rebels have ‘acquired’ the top secret plans for the death star. They have not employed some kind of space engineer guy to fucking reverse-engineer the plans, they have acquired the actual death star plans.

This statement, if you don’t have cloth for ears, make it quite fucking apparent that it is by it’s very definition an inside job. Someone on the inside leaked the plans to the rebels. Inside job.

QED

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:24:00 +0000

They’re just that good.

By: humanresource

humanresource — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Who cares? The first Death Star was full of Imperial Stormtroopers. But what about the unfinished second Death Star? A construction job of that magnitude would require a helluva lot more manpower than the Imperial army had to offer. I’ll bet there were independent contractors working on that thing: plumbers, aluminum siders, roofers. Look-you’re a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia – this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn’t ask for that. You have no personal politics. You’re just trying to scrape out a living.

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:36:00 +0000

Two meters? That’s no bigger than a womp rat.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 07:44:00 +0000

I don’t think Lucas cared that much about serious continuity

By: ImmutableMichael

ImmutableMichael — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 07:41:00 +0000

…and don’t get me started on midichlorians.

By: ImmutableMichael

ImmutableMichael — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 07:34:00 +0000

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By: Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:44:00 +0000

Taken at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, October 2010

By: Rhyolite

Rhyolite — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:39:00 +0000

Hey, don’t let realism intrude into the Star Wars universe. Pretty soon you will be complaining about planets with only one biome and the Galaxy’s most elite fighting force being defeated by teddy bears with pointy sticks.

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:05:00 +0000

The Ducumenteries ‘A New Hope’ ‘Empire Strikes Back’ and ‘return of the jedi’ are the propaganda films. This ‘force’ hocus pocus that keeps getting bandied about and used as a narrative crutch. Substitute ‘force’ for ‘divine will’ and you can see the Jedi’s strings for what they are.

Hell they keep updating and re’releasing the darned things and removing prior editions in hopes of closing up holes… yet keep introducing new problems, especially with the shoddy editing and CGI.#jediconspiracy

By: loopyduck

loopyduck — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:04:00 +0000

Cockpit voice recorders show that Anakin Skywalker initially ordered his wingmen to hold off when the Y-Wings and first flight of X-Wings were making their trench runs and personally destroyed each craft. You failed to address how Anakin Skywalker would be aware that his son was–or would have arranged for his son to be–in the second flight, and in which specific X-Wing. Flight logs also show that Skywalker’s TIE Fighter was subjected to a strong external force and subsequently lost control, producing a flight profile impossible for his craft to achieve as it lacked thrust vectoring; the out-of-control craft could very well have impacted the trench. The nature of this force is unexplained to this day, and raises doubts as to who actually ordered the false flag operation… if there was one to begin with.

In fact, the better question is: considering that the various stationary defenses of the Death Star were designed to take on capital ships and other large craft, why did it take so long for fighters to be deployed? Why were CAPs not flown? Historical records show that no TIE Fighters were deployed until shortly before Skywalker’s craft left a Death Star hangar and after the Y-Wing fighters began their trench run.