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Yeah not just Ghorman but the massacre as well has a long history before the Andor show. Originally created in 1990 by West End Games for their Star Wars Roleplaying Game in The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook, it was relatively obscure in the old EU. No story ever actually featured it, but it was mentioned a few times in a couple novels and reference books. In that version of the story, the Empire imposed some taxes on Ghorman, a bunch of people did a sit-in protest at the Imperial spaceport, blocking off the landing pads used by the Imperial tax-collector ships. Tarkin, who was at this time still an Imperial Captain, landed his ship anyway - crushing/killing hundreds of protestors. In modern Disney Star Wars it got mentioned on screen in a 2017 episode of Star Wars Rebels, where the Ghost crew smuggles Mon Mothma to safety after having given a controversial speech about the Ghorman Massacre. At that point it was still intended to be the Tarkin landing on protestors event - until Andor came along and retconned that. The show still does mention the Tarkin event, that's what that memorial at Palmo square was for. There is definitely a Tatooine effect in some aspects (i.e. Saruman, Galadriel, Sauron, etc.), but it's a bit hard to apply to everything since The Hobbit is the intended first appearance of The Shire, Rivendell, the Misty Mountains, etc.

Oh I definitely agree, the Jackson cuts of the Hobbit trilogy are designed as a LOTR prequel with lots of hamfisted references that have no place in the story, and even minor spoilers. But that still doesn't change the fact that the LOTR trilogy was designed as a sequel to the Hobbit book Neither film trilogy makes an ideal starting point for a newcomer to the series. That's one of the big reasons I'm such an advocate of the M4 edit. Someone totally new to the franchise could watch that first, followed by the LOTR trilogy without missing any context in the latter, but without spoiling it early either

Idk, the last time I watched FOTR I noticed just how many Hobbit references there are. It feels very much like a sequel, I'm almost amazed that audiences gave the LOTR trilogy a chance without the missing context. I guess some of these were added back in the Extended Edition, but just in FOTR you have: - basically the entire character of Bilbo - Bilbo and Gandalf's friendship - The map to the Lonely Mountain - "That incident with the dragon" - Bilbo's troll story at the party - references to acquiring the ring from Gollum - "Mr. Bilbo's trolls" - Rivendell - The Eagles - There And Back Again: Bilbo mentions Mirkwood, Laketown, the Lonely Mountain - Gimli son of Gloin - Sting + Bilbo's Mithril vest - Balin's tomb I guess they do provide enough information that you can fill in some of the blanks, but I think there are enough unexplained connections and passing references that you would definitely feel like you were missing something if you were totally unfamiliar with The Hobbit. It's nothing like Star Wars - the original film was not designed with prequels in mind. Other than brief mentions of The Clone Wars and the hunting down of the Jedi Knights, there aren't really any references to past story material. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was an adaptation of the sequel first and it explicitly kept as many references to The Hobbit as it could get away with

#2.34 ESB (1980) - 9m6-10m1 Carbon Freeze (Wook link)

Any idea if that game has any otherwise unreleased music?

Damn with more notice I might've been able to catch this live. Will a recording be posted anywhere?

Anyone else see the tease of an upcoming missing episode announcement? Apparently the Film is Fabulous initiative has recovered "several episodes" from "several collectors", with more details to come in the next couple months I've seen people speculating anywhere from 3-9 episodes recovered

Oh I just mentioned them on the previous page

That might've been the draft that the Ares character originated from, which Leto asked to have an entire movie about instead You don't understand why people wouldn't like an alleged creep, pedophile, cult leader?

Yeah I've been really busy with a lot of personal stuff these last couple weeks; sorry I don't want to go into too many details but I haven't forgotten about the series - I have a lot more planned, hopefully I'll be able to get back to my regular posting schedule before the end of the month

The answer to your questions is actually Jared Leto The movie only got made because he convinced them to make it and helped pay for it, and that's also why he stars in it and is the main character. Apparently the Ares character was part of a previous Tron 3 draft that Disney was considering like 10 years ago with Leto in it, and he suggested "why not make the whole movie about this character ?" The sad truth is if Leto wasn't in it it would've never been made. The whole project was doomed from the start

I'm surprised you hadn't heard about it, people all over the internet were discussing it in reference to the film

Some more detailed and graphic allegations here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/predatory-terrifying-and-unacceptable-problem-jared-leto/

I don't agree with this at all, just anecdotally I'm personally a huge fan of the TRON series; I love Legacy and its score, I played a lot of Evolution, I even watched Uprising when it was originally airing. I have not and will not watch Ares, and the reason is mostly to boycott Jared Leto. I've seen a lot of similar sentiment online. Even if it was a different actor I still probably wouldn't like that they mostly ditched Legacy but I'd at least give the film a chance. There's absolutely a case to be made that Jared Leto's involvement poisoned the box office performance of this film, in a similar way to how Ezra Miller killed The Flash

I know, I'm just saying that in 2018 when the 16-tracks were available the 16-tracks would have been no easier to mix than the 35mm since they both contain the film mix