More JEDI COUNCIL Nonsense, Rick McCallum Speaks, Plus A Big Fat Honkin

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Let the flaming begin talkbackers

Man, the crowd went insane when Yoda pulled his lightsaber out last summer and started bounding around that hangar...we all think we know the palpatine/sidious connection, but I'm assuming it's not as simple as just sidious = palpatine....there may be quite a bit more, at least i'm hoping.

I'm just sayin, is all.

Hell, I'd like even more of these.

Palpatine = clone of Siddious. End of speculation.

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All McCallum meant was the original films, he didn't mean excluding the special editions. The original trilogy, to non-web site operators, just means ANH, ESB and ROTJ. It has nothing to do with jerking fans around, it just has to do with, once again, your retarded fanboy need to create self-fulfilling prophecies (Lucas dicks us over, and here is the proof!) It's pathetic. How in the world you don't feel guilty about being such a lazy douche bag, I will never know.

Uh...Mori (snapping fingers in front of your face)...snap out of it, dude! Stop trying to read between some lines or envision what you want to hear BEFORE you go off on another tirade. Plain and simple, to Lucas and McCullum the "revised" versions of the original trilogy ARE the OT now. That's what they still define films 4, 5 and 6 as. And Lucas has clearly stated they'll continue going in order and put the original films out on DVD -- once Episode III is out FIRST. The OT will come out all right, just in their newly remastered and altered forms. So neither guy has contradicted the other. When you asked "Will you put out the OT?" and Lucas AND McCullum both said "yes" they simply meant "Yes, of course we're going to put them out on DVD. Why wouldn't we put out the whole saga? What kind of question is that? Were you drinking or something, kid?"

Great art- worth a read-

Anyone read them? What do you think? They do have images that can only be in Revolutions.

No one gives a flying shiat how many lightsabers or planets this movie will have. The other movie had more veneer than a fabrege egg and they sucked... out and out sucked. Why didn't someone ask... "Hey Rick, has anyone had the balls to tell George his past two efforts were shite and maybe, just maybe, he should consider surrendering the helm to a competent writer and director, and concentrate on something he

Phh-bhh-ppttt-bhhhhhttt!!!!!

If the movie was cool it would have that BABY!!!!!

Oh great Kermit fights again. GIVE US SOMETHING FUCKING ORIGINAL GEORGE. Like Yoda tapping dancing. I'd pay to see that. Whose he going to fight anyway? Seeing as he fought the 6 ft 3 Lee in ATTACK OF THE CLOWNS, I suppose his foe will be bigger. So it's Yoda Vs. Checbacca.

Fucking cool shit.

But when Dooku suggested to Yoda that they will have to settle it with their "lightsabers." The only thing that went through my mind was. ("You...Dork, you don't actually saaaay lightsaber, you just use it. That's like some bumfuck balling up his fist and saying "Hey, I'm gonna hit you with my fist!" Oh, really I thought you were gonna bruise me with your elbow. Any other moves you wanna telegraph to me you insufferable asshat." ) Well, if I don't hear lines like that again, I'll be fine.

that line RULED. It was a sign of a more civilized age. It was a gentleman's way of kicking off a fight. Something that will be long gone by the time the OT movies are seen. I had problems with that fight, but that line was one of the best parts.

"You! Have you ever kissed a girl?"

I really want to know about whether Darth Sidious is Palpatine or if Palpatine made his own clone, aged him up a bit and called him 'darth sidious'. Maybe Palpatine is totally innocent and someone created his clone without his knowing ? Maybe Palpatine's shape-shifting pal is Sidious. At any rate, we know 'Senator Palpatine' does not survive - so who kills him ? Any way, it's unfortunate that we will only get the SEs, because ... they really suck.

That line might be to Yoda, who stated in Ep. 1 (all together now!) 'fear leads to anger...' So he might say something along the lines of 'I don't fear ... I hate.' Maybe they can work in some suffering there, too.

What about Grando Calrissian? How does he fit into all of this?

Why is anyone getting excited about this? EP1 and 2 were shit, worse than The Mummy, maybe even worse than Mummy Returns. The Special Editions detracted from the original movies rather than enhance them. George Lucas has lost it BIG TIME. Just put out the original unaltered Trilogy on DVD with no extras. As far as Star Wars goes that's all you need.

Yeah, I know what they were TRYING to do, turn around, walk ten passes, turn, fire, BLah Blah Blah. But no, it didn't work, not with the word LIGHTSABER, "Saber" maybe. He could have said " Traditional weapons then?" or " Let our Sabers decide this." But "Lightsabers" just sounds silly in that context, especially from two old farts. But if you really want to analyze it, I don't think they (Two Very Powerful Jedi) should have resorted to Lightsabers in the first place. The force is a far more powerful weapon than the Lightsabers would ever be. Yoda and Dooku already evolved to a higher plateau of power (think Vader choking the guy from his ship). I think the real reason George had them resort to the 'laser swords' was to please the crowd, probably felt a pure FORCE battle would be a little too cerebral and abstract to the general audiences. In closing, you don't stop using your 'akira' power and pick up a fire stick, and even if for some reason you do, you don't saaaay "fire stick" we KNOW it's a fire stick, just hit em with it.

well according to the logic of the movies and not your mind, you're wrong. Dooku even says "Clearly this cannot be decided by our knowledge of the force." That's why they go to the sabers. And why didn't you have a problem with EVERY OTHER CHARACTER IN STAR WARS who refers to them as light sabers? Some people will bitch about anything.

Of course he's going to give you a reason. I'm just saying it's a lame one. The Force is a long range weapon, not to mention a versatile one. The evolution of weapons tells us that people tend to lead toward the long range weapons, the fist to the sword, the sword to the arrow, the arrow to the gun, the gun to missile and so on and so forth. Now, as one who writes stories dealing with supernatural characters all the time, I could come up with a thousand different offensive attacks using the 'Force' most of which would be more DAMAGING then a laser sword. But hey, don't get me wrong, I love Lightsabers, I just think these guys are beyond them. As for the other movies, I don't recall any other jedi saying the word 'lightsaber' DURING a fight, if you know of one in particular let me know.

You guys who have nothing better to do than sit around and bag on Star Wars movies that aren't even out yet can lick my balls. You guys suck more than the so-called "idiots" that like the prequel trilogy. I can't believe it's taken you 3 films already and you still push your opinion where it's not welcome. Go cry about it with the local professional critics at your favorite comic/gaming shop. We know you think these films suck, just like I know when I need to take a crap, there doesn't need to be someone there to remind me all the time. You just sound like a broken bitter, balding, overweight, NES fanatic that still plays Bionic Commando as if you're going to magically find that new level you never found. Why do I come back to this home of the most pathetic bitches of all time. Cry, cry, cry...

and the crowd went beserk, the crowd I was a part of didn't go beserk, they started laughing. Laughing at the ridiculousness and puerileness of it. Cheers.

"General Grievance, go with Major Panic, Conductor Norchestra and Guard Meback and report to Lord Knows at once, brother."

Goddamn shitty programmer!

Did anyone see that!!! where is there a forum for that revolutions spolier..looks legit to me!

dreadlocked wookies?, lucas is clearly insane, case in point - in the starwars series doco, it showed footage of him dining for like 10 minutes, the only way that could have happened is if lucas specificly demanded that he be "filmed whilst dining"

It's okay to say it, but not in a fight? You write fantasy characers all the time? Glad to hear that writing fan fiction is going well for you. You know what I would think if Lucas started whipping out tons of weird powers for Dooku that were never seen at the climax of the films in ROTJ? I would think some jackass fanboy got his hands on it. I don't want to see the Force do insane things. I want it to be manifested in lightning. That's the symbol of the direct forces competing, rather than objects they manipulate. When all they can do is fight that energy back and forth, good vs evil, it makes sense to get down to business with a light saber. And there's nothing wrong with actually saying it. You've got nothing.

Go kiss a duck, brother!

Well I guess I do because I read that whole damn interview and didn't understand anything Mr. McCallum was talking about. I do understand that Phantom Menace sucked shit and should never have been made. But since it was made it should never have been released theatrically, it should have gone straight to video. Attack of the Clones was great and should have been the real Episode One. Lucas should really title this upcoming movie Episode 2 then give us one more movie in 2008 titled The Real Episode 3. Or just re-number all the movies so we'll wind up with 7 films total instead of 6. That would be great. But if possible just erase Phantom Menace from existence, go back in time if necessary because it was so awful and boring and stupid that it doesn't deserve to exist. Simple really when you think about it. Classify Phantom Menace as just George getting his directing wheels back in motion, it was just practice, like pre-season baseball or pre-season football, doesn't really count at all.

The guys a lousy story teller man, its gonna suck, only fan boys will love it like they loved episode one

I'm not debating this nonsense with you. My opinion is simple, a supposed seasoned warrior is not going to stand around blabbing to a formidable opponent about what weapon he's going to use on him next, any more than two countries at war with each other are going to share military strategies, that's just stupid (and it sounds stupid to). Oh and if you think space fairing intergalactic warriors are going to have the same battle ideology as colonial duelers you've been smoking too much Bantha Fodder. Yeah, go ahead and pull out your lightstick Fan Boy, I'll use the force to dismantle it peice by peice and reconstruct it inside your colon, but don't worry I won't let you die because after that everytime you use the bathroom your lightsaber will go BUSHSWOON! and you'll think of me. May the force be with you, Meleractor out-

Lucas will goof this one up in some way, absolutely. But if his last two films are indicative of a trend, it'll still be better than Episode 1. So there's hope that it won't be too bad. The acting will probably still be stale, and there will be more CGI than Spirits Within, but we'll all find something rewarding and Lucas will make another billion dollars off the whole ordeal.

The penultimate example of a true lack of self=awareness. Ironic, and not in the Alanis sense.

A cursory perusal of the talkbacks Jason, would have revealed it was not I who started tossing fanatic associated insults, I was merely returning the favor. And three old original star wars tapes and a good memory do not a fanboy make.

It's all in your head. Think about it. The entire prequel trilogy is a hallucination brought on by childhood trauma. Do you need proof? Here it is: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Have you ever had a dream with a movie in it? If you did, the movie probably didn't make much sense. The plot wouldn't have had any real direction. Characters would appear and then disappear without any reason for existing in the first place. This doesn't reflect poorly on your intelligence or imagination; it's just the way dreams work, like how the numbers on a digital clock won't come into focus in a dream. Delusions work the same way. Think about it: The first movie was clogged with gungans and midichlorians, but where are they now? All the new characters have names like Pad Me, Mace Window, Count Cuckoo, Bale Organ, Agent Color, Mass A Meter, Newt Gun Ray, Kid Fist-o, Boulder Swan, Sly More, Bear Is Offee, Captain Typhoid, Poor Noodle, Sass Alley, Mom Mothra, Luminary Undulate, Horn Frito, Shock Tea, Plo Coon, and so on. Would any sane screenwriter give his characters names like these? I don't think so. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It isn't a question of how good or bad the movie will be. There is no movie. It's all in your head.

Darth Tyranosaurus, General Grievance, an Grand Muff Tractor.

...the reaper" sk

If you're going to bitch about something make it the shitty acting, characterisation and rape of Darth Vader as a decent villian, NOT, the use of the term lightsabre during a battle. These Starwars TBs are brilliant. (See Chewbacca would know their scent, last council) And another thing, DREADLOCKED WOKKIES??? Shizzle fo da hizzle indeed.

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Especially when the Count was holding him down and screaming, "Take it, BITCH!!!" And Anakin was yelling, "Dude! My ass!!!"

...I can't watch Eps4-6 without imaging Vader saying, in his best Kevin the teenager voice, "God, it's sooooo unfair" and flouncing off (or indeed, "Dude, my ass" lol)

but this one sounded real bitter to me. You can only bitch so much befre it just gets to be background noise. I'm not deflating my expectations any, but I think the more you pester the man the more aggravated Lucas gets about the whole SW thing and throws in stuff that everyone hates because he starts to think that there's no way he's going to please everyone and ceases to care. I'm still pretty adamant in my admiration for Episodes I and II. And I think III is the one he's been gearing up for. I feel a genuine excitement this time among the SW crew when reading about this that I didn't feel last time. I think it's time to set the bitterness aside and just let this be what it turns out to be. It's not the only Franchise in the movie universe.

means second to last jackasses

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Sadly, this line will be better than any actual dialog in the film....

General Huge E. Reaction.

Where's the Matrix Spoiler/Absolutely true that some of you have mentioned? Is it a link I haven't seen? What's it all about?

The correct line is "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer."

-Star Wars (Obi Wan): "...your father's lightsaber. A more elegant weapon, for a more civilized time..." -Return of the Jedi (Vader): "...I see you have constructed a new lightsaber..." Upon giving Luke to the Emperor and handing over his lightsaber: "His lightsaber..."

Or I am assuming, nobody is BADDER than Sam Jackson. I am assuming he's going to be the one with two sabers. I have a feeling the Palpatine is going to have Anakin defend Dooku and take his side. Therefore, the "always two" thing continues.

I meant defeat not defend.

I think that is a cool interview... oh yeah... I'm a rebel.... I said something nice... how dare me!!!! They beat us when you leave......

In the middle of a huge article about insignificant piddling details about the crappy last chapter of a worthless franchise you out in a link taking us through all the major points of the last chapter of a fucking great one? Without an appropriate spoiler warning. This might surprise you, but whilst I don't give a fuck about knowing in advance how Lucas is going to hammer the final nail into Star Wars' coffin, I'm a bit pissed off that I've had the potentially kickass Matrix finale ruined. I assumed that since the link appeared on the same page as that (highly entertaining) General Grievance stuff it should be treated with the same amount of respect, but it looks convincing to me. How does this not deserve a HUGE fucking link on the main page with appropriate spoiler tags? Harry was happy to run that Grando shit but not this? Sigh. Please, someone post a feasible way that those spoilers and accompanying photos are bullshit.

I hope they have they scene were Han shoots Greedo in cold blood in the Deleted Scenes section!

I think it is probably Asajj Ventress. http://209.95.35.130/covers/12/12552.jpg She wouldn't be all over the Dark Horse comic book and in the Cartoon Network Clone Wars cartoon if they weren't somehow going to use her.

Chaffro and FatPaul, you scored the LoLs today. Man, I've gotta get funnier if I'm gonna compete!

that is a pretty elaborate spoiler and it seems to work with what has been established in the previous matrix movies and the Animatrix. The kid is the first person to ever free himself from the matrix on his own, so it kind of makes sense what happens to him in the end, according to the spoiler.

During a fight goddammit, I said during a fight! It sounded silly, like they were 8 standing out in their moms backyard. Dammit people when it's all said and done Stars Wars basically comes down to one thing, Supernatural Samurai with laserswords, we all know this, and hey that's fine. But storytelling wise it makes it more realistic and serious if you encapsulate that with other factors; Trade Federations, Empires, Rebels, Imperial Societies, Romance..etc. But we all know what brought us there in the first place, supernatural samurai with laserswords. So I can't help but cringe when some old fart ACTUALLY SAYS " Well have to settle this with our Lightsabers." oh!!!! In my opinion it takes away the veneer that gave the weapons respectability, or the illusion of respectability in the first place. That's all I'm saying, I can't says no more

A nice big SPOILER warning on that "ABSOLUTELY TRUE" link would have been nice. I generally like your writing, Moriarty, but if there is any truth to that link you posted, it shows a complete lack of thought on your part. Show some discretion next time

"I don't fear shit, motherfucker!" Oh, and that other guy's email is dead on! I saw the advanced screening of Episode III and that's exactly how it went down! The next scene after that involves the ship crashing on Lava-426, and Obi-Wan pushes Anakin into a pit and says, "I'm tired of you getting all the pussy!" And Anakin says, "I'll be back later to kill you on the Death star, bitch! It will all go as the Emperor has forseen..." *glug glug glug*

My grandmother could write a more believable crawl text than that piece of shit someone is trying to pass off as real. Man. That is laughable. Of course the real thing might only be a bit better... Lucas wrote it and he's the same guy who came up with the brilliant line "I wish I could just wish away my feelings." (Moron!)

Was the teaser trailer for episode one. It was sooooo awesome! Perfectly paced. Great action. No cheezy dialogue... Too bad the movie was a bit of a letdown though. Episode 2 was, in my book the worst one so far though. Dialogue... awful. Acting... pathetic (Natalie was the worst she's ever been.) Action... weak... poorly shot and just simply chaotic. There was never a sense that the battles were progressing. The lightsaber fights at the end... nowhere near as intense as the one in episode one. I thik Hayden's just too clutzy to pull off that caliber of action.

I wanted to throw in my 2 cents on the OT DVD set, and please reply with feedback! First, THERE IS NO WAY WE'LL GET ANYTHING BUT A SE EDITION OF EPISODES 4-6... I can even see Lucas releasing a SE edition of Episodes 1-3, and as retarded as that would be, I

From the machines cruising over the bright green field to Darth Maul revealing that mug, masterpeice. OH and the music, the music!

Pounding his fist into his hand Anakin sneers, "I hate Colonel Lingus! What a c-nt!" Nodding, Obiwan replies, "Indeed, my young padawan, I'd like to lick Colonel Lingus!"

I haven't kept as close tabs of the new SW episodes as I did the original ones when I was a kid. The new episodes don't seem as magical to me in my advancing years; I blame it on my adulthood (adultness? adultery?) and the fact that the bar has been raised pretty high special effects-wise since 1977. Anyway, do any of you younger folk know whether Han Solo is in this new movie? It seems to me that in the SW world of comics, novels, etc. that he was once an imperial officer. If so, it would be very cool to see what made him turn to smuggling in the new movie. Who would play Han Solo? Harrison Ford's elderly ass couldn't hack it. (says this ugly fat old guy who never could).

When McCallum said that, he wasn't referring to the original VERSIONS. Just the original MOVIES. And when Lucas says the originals will never be released, he's talking about the non-Special Editions. Are you people just intentionally miscontruing quotes in order to have something to be pissed off about now?

Han in Ep III would be about 10 years old. All he'd be smuggling is issues of "Juggs'n'Lekku" past any parental/guardian-type figures in his life. He wouldn't enter the Academy to become an Imperial Officer for another 8-10 years at least (and there'd be no Imperial Academy yet, as the Empire has yet to be born!). So no, we won't see Han Solo becoming a smuggler in this film. Simple math says so. Han's around 30 in Ep IV, while Luke & Leia are 20. As for that potential spoiler of the first part of Ep III... the lame crawl? Does nobody remember the lame crawl in front of Episode I? That said... General Grievous? Good lord that's terrible. Though the mention of his carrying the lightsabers of his defeated foes says "This is the very bad guy McCallum was talking about... or whoever wrote this banged it out after reading the chat's spoilers". General Grievous. When The official website has a headline in Jar-Jar-speak, but has the wisdom to subtitle it "Don't worry, it's just a headline!", you'd think someone might rise about the ass-kissing of GL and say "What, is Major Payne just a little too much even for you? Good lord man... snap out of it!"

...and I think he's dead.

If this is EpIII,I'll lop off my nuts and Next Day Air them to that guy.There is no way in hell that they've got that much of the movie done.~If I make up some half-assed EpIII plot will you guys post mine too? Jeez!

Episode III: I wanna see stuff that turns the whole OT upside down. How about this: Obi Wan is the real father of Luke and Leia. That's right. He was pokin' Padme all during the clone wars. How does Obi justify this? Because he doesn't know Anakin and Padme are married. It's a secret remember? Padme is afraid to tell Anakin because she knows he's an evil son of a bitch. So she pretends the kids are Anakins. Until ... she tries to tell him right before they are born and he goes ballistic. he tries to kill obi. he is in total denial. he doesn't even believe the kids are obi's in the OT. Or, here is another alternate suggestion: Padme doesn't want to be married to Anakin any more. But she is raped by Anakin and has the children in secret. She doesn't want the children to know their terrible father. So it is poetic justice that the son nearly kill the father in ROTJ. Or, here is the best one yet: Anakin and Obi Wan know about the twins, but they vow to keep their existence a secret from the emperor. Anakin, Yoda and Obi arrange the distribution of the children. So all through the OT, Darth Vader knows he has a son and secretly hates the emperor. He is just waiting for his son to get powerful enough so they can kill the emporer. Remember his speech in Empire. He's totally telling the truth and it's the plot all along ... join forces and overthrow the emperor. Unfortunately luke doesn't buy it and we have to wait til ROTJ!

I have found out something that, I

All the images in the Matrix Revolutions spoiler are from the two trailers floating around the net right now. One trailer is at the end of the videogame, and the other is listed as the "UK trailer." Neither of them are on the Matrix official site yet, which hasn't been updated since June 5th. I'm sniffing hoax here.

That spoiler is nothing but a fans theory, and one that isn't even bacjed up by his own pictures. If you watch the trailers he got the images from, you learn that his statement about Morpheus taking down SMith/Bane in the real world is bogus because we see NEO fighting Bane in the trailer. This guy even posted a picture of the two fighting in his synopsis. He also seems to skip over a fight between Neo and the Twins that has been confirmed by several sources. The other problem is that Neo went to the source... making him the One. This synopsis is a load of bunk. Take it down guys. Don;t ruin you reputation

Just in case this is considered a spoiler...... Excerpted from the Prologue of the novel Star Wars by George Lucas "Aided and abetted by restless, power-hungry individuals within the government, and the massive organs of commerce, the ambitious Senator Palpatine caused himself to be elected President of the Republic. . . Once secure in office he declared himself Emperor, shutting himself away from the populace. Soon he was controlled by the very assistants and boot-lickers he had appointed to high office, and the cries of the people for justice did not reach his ears."

First post here. I attempted to include spoiler space, but everything sorta ran together. Oh well.

This all fits in with what the Revolutions Spoiler page had to say... ORACLE: Niobe..... NIOBE: Do I know you? ORACLE: You know me, though you just may not recognize me. NIOBE: Are you telling me that you are the Oracle? ORACLE: I know this may not be easy for any of you, change never is. I wish the face you remember was the face I was still wearing, but that face is gone. NIOBE: If you are the Oracle, tell me if I believe you are. ORACLE: You don't right now, but you will. NIOBE: Are you going to tell me something to make me believe you? ORACLE: Come on Niobe, you know I can't do that. N: Why not? O: Because I cannot make you do anything. N: At least you sound the same. O: As I said, you may not recognize the face, but who and what I am underneath remains the same. N: Can I ask what happened? O: The Merovingian warned me, that If I made a certain choice it would cost me. He is, among other things, a man of his word. N: What was the choice? O: The same one you yourself will have to make: The choice to help Neo or not. N: Then Neo is still alive? O: Yes, he touched the source and seperated his mind from his body. Now he lies trapped in a place between your world and ours. N: Can we free him? O: Trinity can, but she will have to fight her way through hell to do it. N: Can I help? O: That's why I called you. I cannot tell you what is going to happen. All I can do is hope that if given the chance, you will find the courage to do what you can. N: You once told me you knew everything you needed to. O: I do. I knew everything from the begining of this path to the end. N: I don't understand. O: Even I can't see beyond the end. N: The end? Are you trying to tell me the world is going to end? O: Yes. If we cannot save it, it will end. N: You mean Neo. O: I mean we. The path of the one is made by the many. I have a role to play just as you have yours.

I mean, seriously. The SW films are getting progressively worse with thier focus on poor VFX and narrative center being solely to set up the original trilogy. Trade embargos! Sepratist movements! Exciting. Having stood crazily by these movies for over 20 years has worn me down. It's over. There's a new trilogy alright, Lord of the Rings. All I can do is watch those and hug my large size Boba Fett with 1 missing arm that I got when I was 5, and remember how good it was, and how sad it has become.

My guess is that he was talking about the SE OT. It would have been nice if you guys clarified that with him so you could get a straight answer. I really think their dicking us around and it's really starting to make me to hate them. Don't get me wrong, I still love Star Wars with all my heart and will see Episode III just as excited as the rest of you, but stop dicking us around and give us a straight answer. Why is it so hard to please the fans?

From the unvalidted e-mail: Good News: Obi's mullet is gone Bad News: He's sounds like Olive Oil having to be rescued that much in just the opening of the movie.

Hey joshua and you other people that say "Forget Star Wars it's over, there's another Trilogy, and it's called Lord Of The Rings." I hate to break the news to you, but Episode III will be released in May 2005, long after your precious Lord Of The Rings Trilogy will be over this year. LMFAO!

I believe that Palpatine will reveal to Anakin that not only is Dooku his father but that Dooku was responsible for having the Tuskens Raiders kidnap and torture Shimi. He does this to torment Anakin and bring him closer to the darkside.. remember that she was kidnaped and tortured for over a month.. which anakin could sense through the force in his dreams. The Tuskens were instructed to keep her alive just long enough for Anakin to find her. (I believe Shimi knew that Dooku was the father but was ashamed because she knew of Dooku's fall to the darkside and dodged the questions when confronted by Qui-gon.) Shimi's kidnapping & murder was planned out by Palpatine as steps to bring Anakin closer to the darkside.. This news will enrage Anakin and cause him too seek out Dooku and confront him.. he will find him in the presence of the Emperor but his face is hidden by his cloak and Anakin will not yet know who the Emperor is.. Anakin will fight & brutally beat Dooku and just before he kills him he backs down to spare Dooku's life.. but Palpatine urges him on and tells him that he must make Dooku pay for what he has done to Anakin.. This is when the Emperor will reveal that he is Palpatine and this will confuse and anger Anakin even more causing him to explode in a violent rage and slay Dooku. (this parallels with the Luke & Vader fight from ROTJ when the Emperor tries to convince Luke to destroy Vader but Luke chooses the light.. anakin will not) Anakin will even try to attack Palpatine because he is so hurt and confused and Palpatine shocks him severely with force lightning which is the final step in Anakin's fall to the darkside.. he rises from the floor and replaces Dooku at the Emperor's side. yep, PAUL

Lucas had other plans it seems with a certain former Padawan learner and his universal-all purpose laser sword.

I think he was on about the original trilogy, and before special edition (Note: The thing said OT, not SE). Plus when they re-do the films again, there's no point of a Special Edition, is there?

I've been a Star Wars fan since my pre-teens, and I honestly don't give a shit about anything that Lucas and McCallum does from now on. What does that tell you?

I don't fear wedgies anymore, so hand me my thong.

I swear some of this fanboy bullshit is getting out of hand