Woman of the Week #4 - Princess Leia!
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I did kinda notice myself using the word "awesome" a lot more after I started watching it...
And I have a new respect for microwaves.
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Oh, I've watched Chuck, just not often enough to know who anyone other than Chuck is.Chuck is awesomesauce. Nerys Myk, YellowSubmarine, I'm afraid I'm going to have to shun you both.
Chuck's the guy with the hair, right?
I've read and liked Stackpole's Battletech books and I've always been kinda curious about his Star Wars. Worth checking out (after Zahn of course)?
I actually really like the contrast between the two and the Naboo aesthetic in particular - the transport at the beginning of Episode 2 is a beautiful starship IMO. If it had been more than... what, 25-30 years?... it would strike me as much more of a "this is how things used to be in the grand old days."
Definitely. His X-wing books are some of my favorites. Since you're familiar with his Battletech work, I think you'd enjoy them, too.
Yeah, I agree. Zahn actually seemed to have written the Thrawn Trilogy with the understanding that the Clone Wars had occurred closer to 30 or 40 years before ANH, which makes me think that was how Lucas originally envisioned it until making the war more recent in the prequels.
The explanation I've always read and have just sort of accepted is that the great difference in visual styling between the Prequels and the OT is supposed to reflect the archaic elegance that was lost as the Old Republic collapsed, Palpatine's dark New Order assumed control and the Galactic Empire grew and expanded. The creativity, energy, zest and, as it were, very life of the old ways of wardrobe, travel and other aspects of daily existence decayed and died off, replaced by the militaristic, antiseptic, almost sterile and colorless atmosphere that was encouraged by the new Empire. An Empire that demanded obedience and conformity of thought.
So the sleek and elegant spacecraft of the Republic era were quickly replaced by mass-produced machines that had no soul or personality. They were designed for the sole purposes of utilitarian transportation or the raw expression of brute power, so there was no widespread need for polished, smooth and largely featureless surfaces or majestic, inspirational designs. Because the soul of the Emperor's regime was essentially nonexistent and he and Vader ruled their empire according to dark and lifeless Sith philosophy that was concerned solely with accruing and using power, the vessels, technologies, uniforms and other clothing of the Imperial era largely reflected the empty, heartless nature of the governing dictatorship.
In real world, practical terms, though, I never liked most of the Prequel CGI as much as the actual three-dimensional effects and photographic shooting models of the Original Trilogy era. The old Star Destroyers, Death Stars, Millenium Falcon, etc. all had such a real world, gritty and realistic "lived-in" feel and look to them, as opposed to a lot of the prequel ships which seemed too clean, polished and shiny for their own good. But you know, to each their own.
So the sleek and elegant spacecraft of the Republic era were quickly replaced by mass-produced machines that had no soul or personality. They were designed for the sole purposes of utilitarian transportation or the raw expression of brute power, so there was no widespread need for polished, smooth and largely featureless surfaces or majestic, inspirational designs. Because the soul of the Emperor's regime was essentially nonexistent and he and Vader ruled their empire according to dark and lifeless Sith philosophy that was concerned solely with accruing and using power, the vessels, technologies, uniforms and other clothing of the Imperial era largely reflected the empty, heartless nature of the governing dictatorship.
In real world, practical terms, though, I never liked most of the Prequel CGI as much as the actual three-dimensional effects and photographic shooting models of the Original Trilogy era. The old Star Destroyers, Death Stars, Millenium Falcon, etc. all had such a real world, gritty and realistic "lived-in" feel and look to them, as opposed to a lot of the prequel ships which seemed too clean, polished and shiny for their own good. But you know, to each their own.
