h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I wondered why the 50Hz buzzing of my amp was so evocative. SHould be dead easy to mock-up a decent sound effect using a simple line input, badly regulated DC converter and basic sound processing technology. SHould be quite good as the Critical Stop noise.

You do. Why in the name of Williams do you not stay for the credits? This isn't any film, this is one with a John Williams soundtrack. You get a little bit of vader breath, about as much as there was in the teaser trailer over the "every saga has a beginning" caption. More than that, you get a tiny little bit of the Imperial March ("daah dahh dahh, dah dah-dahhhh, dah dah-dahhhh" [of which Anakin's theme is a cunning reworking]) at the end. It's like watching until the end of the credits in Toy Story and seeing Luxo Jr. bouncing about the PIXAR letters. I love little in-jokes. Has anyone spotted where the Indy lookalike is in the podrace crowd? There was one line somewhere in TPM that seemed a blatant in-joke - I can't remember what it is and thus will be forced to watch it all again. Anyone got any ideas of what I might be thinking of? Might have been either Neeson or McGregor that said it.

What exactly are yedis ? Are they perhaps the Yiddish form of Jedis ? Anyway enough of the piss take. I don't know if anyones mentioned this, because there is just far to much to read if you've been away, Kats-eyes has got a point as in Episode 3 Obi Wan just faeds when he is killed...

Yedi's are the German pronunciation of Jedi's. Or something...

Anyway, I've been away too and am not bothered reading all this stuff, but there are theories on the whole "fading" trick that Obi-wan does. Yoda (or Joda) does the same thing when he dies, so maybe they can die at will or something. And THEN they become all light side and all that. SO maybe he just decided to fade out at that point.

Or maybe Alec Guiness just can't do a death scene like Liam Neeson.

"Does it matter? And even if it does matter, does it matter that it matters??" - Marvin

*sheds a silent tear in sympathy*

Yeah, right, like you need an excuse to go watch it again. I don't watch credits because they don't interest me. Who cares who the hairdresser's personal assistant's accountant was? Anyway, by the time the words "THE END" appear, I've normally got to hustle to make it to the pub for last orders and a post mortem of the film. And as for a John Williams soundtrack, he hasn't done anything as good as the work he did with Tristan Fry and Herbie Flowers as part of Sky. Toccata, anyone?

Death Scenes. I thought it spoke volumes for Darth Maul that he didn't bother to watch Liam Neeson fall, just got on with facing Obi Wan. It was the same earlier, on Tatooine. No preamble from DM, just straight in and MOSH. Run over the kid and slice the Jedi, no words necessary. Again I lament the waste of a damn fine villain. The difference between Obi Wan's death and Liam Neeson's appears to me to be just a continuity error. Sorry. It's the same with the droid armies. In later episodes they'd switched to the Stormtroopers. Why? Why build spaceships with canteens, bunks, hospitals, foodstores and plumbing when you can simply stick in a couple of workshops and a spare part stores. Why put up with sentient cowardice and unreliability when obedient robots are available? I just think that the Great God Lucas created the droid armies so that not too many people got killed and he kept his "U" certificate. Continuity be damned

I apologize deeply truly madly about that really stuuuupid typo...

Or maybe the Emporer decides that the robots are complete shite. And they are, right? Two Jedis (Yedis to our German friends) practically fight their waay through an entire god damned army of the things. You wouldn't catch Luke Skywalker trying that on with storm troopers. Don't know why...he just wouldn't. Maybe he sucks as well? No what am I saying...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Apology accepeted, you may have a doughnut.

If you can't read typoese you've no business on an interactive computer.

As I stated in another forum about alien abductioin one of the problems is when water gets in your ear and your Babel fish swims out. Look let me demonstrate. One glass of water. Lie head to one side. Pour water into ase ser ferew as$%er and hte @)(*=# all is well again.

So you see that I am one of the few people who doesn't speak the language I would naturally understand. This does sometimes cause confusion.

There is also the fact of the upcoming clone-wars. They made it possible to have LOTS of the same great warrior instead of some good and some bad. Maybe then the Imperial bases all had human facilities installed by the end of the wars and so they kept on with humans. Also, Palpatine is known to be a VERY strict racist (I think so anyway) so maybe that included robots.

"But uncle Owen, I wanted to go into Taaschie station to pick up some power converters..." - proof that Luke did indeed suck at one point.

Apparently Bearded George has a reason up his sleeve for the Obi-Wan and Yoda disappearances (luminous beings are they) whilst Qui-Gonn merely dies with a large hole in him - the continuity arse-up comes from the fact that Vader eventually dies without fading yet still manages to come back as a ghost à la Obi-Wan and Yoda in the penultimate shot of Jedi. Strictly speaking this means that Qui-Gonn ought to be able to come back as a ghost too, seeing as he was burnt in much the same way as Vader/Anakin. Maybe it's something to do with knowing exactly when you're going to die so that you can do the metaphysical equivalent of cancelling the milk and turning off the plugs in the kitchen. The thing is that QUi-Gonn did know that he was going to die as he'd had a large hole in his chest for the last five minutes of his life. Doubtless we shall learn more in the next couple of episodes when Jedi in abundance are being topped by mandalorian warriors and further luckless Palpatine henchmen.

Wow, this thread is unstoppable now. HAHAHAHAha... Sorry...

I'm here to actually answer the original question!

I'm sorry I know this, but the energy from a litsabre is supposed to be a very narrow arc. The tip of the blade is where the energy loops back to the hilt.

Hmmm... I'm sure I already read that somewhere.

typoese... graet word *snicker*

or what if your babelfish momentarily looses contact to your hands due to a lack of coffee or alkohol... or because some nice babelfish of opposite (or interesting) sex happens to pass by ?

That's easy...

Remove Robe
hang robe on hook
cover drain with towel
put satchel by panel
put mail on satchel

push button on vending machine


and get yourself another.... Of course, the downside is that you may be forced to listen to another hour of Vogon poetry... *eeps*