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Can you believe there is actually going to be podracing in AOTC? Go over to starwars.com and go to the Jedi Council where they answer questions from fans. One guy asked if there was going to be a podrace sequence in AOTC. The answer was Yes.

What is flaklypa?

personally i would have liked to have seen something new. podracing...eh...its been done :P.

Yeah but maybe it will be even better this time.

well, it's only going to be in the background, I think, probably on Tatooine again...

Most likely, but it would be cool if it was on one of the planets listed in the Episode I: Racer game

Or the sequel.

Well, that has to be the most succint JC answer ever! But I agree, this is almost certainly a background detail.

I just want to know if they mention it at all in the movie.

Maybe Anakin takes Padme there to watch a race.

good chance for that

It most likely won't happen but it would be nice if it would

I bet for Tatooine like I said in my first post...

you can't expact to podrace in the rain or on a planet that likes to kill Jedi...

True but I thought they don't start to kill the Jedi until after Palpy says that he is the Emperor.

well, they already have a form of entertainment there so two won't be fair

Two won't be fair for what? Two races on the same planet in the same movie series?

and two Jedis on Tatooine is fair?

If they have another Pod race, that's dumb. That can't be true.

Well, pods will definitely be seen, the sirte says so and it wouldn't give an answer like that without being certain.

But they are almost certainly just a background etail; we won;t be following a whole race again

think that there will be only two orso in the background

because nobody knew this, we can say the pods are clearly cg

I think at the end of the day, if the intention was for there to be another huge pod race sequence in attack of the clones

a) we'd know about it by now
b) the official site would have said more than just "yes"

The pod race was a lengthy, well thought out sequence, intented to pad out episode 1, because it was a bit thin. It rocked, fans loved it, and it's a cool thing to put in the background and reference in episode 2.

My guess is it'll be on tatooine again, and it'll last maybe 2 seconds. Maybe we'll get to see some cameos from TPM's pod racers (or did they ALL die??). Quadronaero getting past the starting line for eg, or maybe Sebulba zooming by.

bythewaysebulbarocks

Actually, Kane, quite a few people here disliked the pod race. I am sure they will comment sooner or later!

We didn't see all the racers die, so they could easily have lived.

Here I am already!

BTW; that blue little creature that crashed in the cave? He sort of survives... (you can see him getting carried away by two pitdroids)
so I think everyone survived it

oh! I apologise.

I take the pod race and the darth maul duel to be the redeeming features of TPM. I guess, that's my opinion anyway. A lot of non-fans I've spoken too didn't like the film, but did like the pod race. i suppose I took it as given!

Anyway, on a side-line what is that you didn't like? Was it the fact that it was completely CGI (or near enough), or the fact that it was unessential to the plot line, maybe?

I can appreciate that rather than filling episode 1 with unimportant gubbins (ie, the crappy gungans, the pod race) Lucas could well have jumped in the deep end, and started the new trilogy roughly where episode 2 takes off. I guess, that way, there would have been more room for development in eps 2 and 3

Yes, certainly ground that is getting a lot of coverage lately.

I still think, 'avoidable' as it was, there is a place for set pieces likew the pod race in Star Wars films.

As to the start from Ep. ii, as I say in the thread somwhere around here that talks about that, I used to think that way but now I an mot so sure.

Hey, don't get me wrong, I am support cg's (excapt Yoda :rollseyes: )

The podrace was, for me, too long and actually not necessary at all

in which case you "loved" the extended pod race on the dvd, with extended scenes and new characters ... right??!!

it's still SW... but yeah, it's not the best part of the DVD

The pod race in episode I is essential, cause that's how they get the money and parts to get off tatooine and get to the other parts of the movie.

Well, OBVIOUSLY, but only because they MADE it essential. People who think it shouldn't have been there would want the plot changed.

To what though?

Anakin digs in the backyard and finds a can full of money?

if they really wanted to, they could make the story that QGJ fell Anakin, no hyperdrive that was leaking and stuff

Indeed; the pod race was quite a contrived plotline.

That's not a criticism in any way. Plenty of good plots are very contrived indeed. But those who dislike the podrace talk sense when they say it could have easily been removed.

But it has an importance beyond that directly related to the plot. I'm glad it was in.

so the quote
"When I met your father he was already a great pilot"
made sense, otherwhise we had OB1's point of view again

TPM kind of told about things that weren't told in the OT:
-Jedi Order
-The Skywalker Family
-Obi-Wan before he's old
-R2 and 3PO meet for the first time
-Palpy at the roots of his evil before it's blossomed in ROTJ
It's just stuff they wouldn't be able to during the start of the Clone Wars.

Kind of a prequel to the Clone Wars

the clone war is at the end of the movie, mind you

I'm saying that all the events in TPM were a prequel to the Clone Wars.

you make it sounds as if the whole movie is about the Clone Wars

Well it would be better if it was, unless that is for Episode III.

don't think that will happen, but I hope we will see Anakin vs Mace because they say Mace is a great swordsman

You better believe it.

come again?

You better believe that Mace is a good swordsman!

"I want proof! not leads!"

You'll get your proof soon enough.

can i just ask something?

I'm doing the whole spoiler-free thing, and didn't know about the spoiler text in these forums.

Can you just let me know if I'm okay to highlight the above spoilers?

Thanks

The one above isn't really much.

don't do it
hence "spoiler- highlight to read it"

It's something that might not happen though. Something we want but don't know if it will.

a'ight. I'll play it safe!

so your not going to check it out?

er .... no.

I guess not!!

I'm open to things such as new characters, AOTC art work, music, new locations etc, but I'm trying to keep as many elements of the plot as near a secret as possible.

Are most people like that?

Not me. I already know almost word for word the whole movie.

Ok, let's spoil KS:

There will be a new Star Wars movie this year!

Ha!

GAAAAHHHHH!!!

Well, that's it!!! Why don't you just spoil the whole thing for me!

After that, there's no point in my carrying on this fiasco. I may as well just fold up my lap top, scrape my self away from this godforsaken wall, and return to a normal life ... even though, I've been stood outside the Odeon Hull Branch queing for tickets for almost 2 months!!!

I hate you die-hards with your desire to spoil everyone's fun!!

Yup, that's my allright!

hee hee!

Spoiler free huh......well I wasn't for TPM and I'm not for AOTC...so I'll prob continue for EPIII too. Kane, were you spoiler free for TPM? Have you seen the trailers for AOTC...if you have I guess you're not entirely spoiler free......
Spoilers or not...it matters not to me.....but is this a spoiler or not I admire people who stay away from spoilers

I wonder if he's going to highlight that.

That's the point ....hmm should we let him in on the secret????....

I was 100% spoiler-free for TPM and I'm about 50% (or less) for AOTC. yes, I've seen the trailers.

and Julie, I also know who you admire

It's funny because I admire people that come on the internet late at night, and leave a reply on every thread made in the last two weeks! wierd!

So who does Julie admire?

Ha...so you figured it out.....well I guess you're not talkin' about me seeing it's 6:20 EST

How the heck did you keep spoiler free for TPM??????I read a collector mag that outlined the entire story, but for AOTC just being online is enough to spoil most!

It's 5:20 CST

how did I stay spoiler-free for TPM?

You wanna know my secret?

I didn't have the internet!

Ah, that would work mesa thinks.

I'm coming to this thread late, but Podracing in EPII substanciates a rumour I heard a while back and dismissed as phooey. Here goes (I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THE BLACK OUT SPOILER THING SO, ON THE OFF CHANCE THERE IS MORE TO THIS THAN THE RUBBISH I TOOK IT FOR, possible SPOLIER WARNING...):

On returning to Tatooine Anakin is told by Watto that he had to sell his mother on. Watto refuses to tell Anakin where or who to unless Anakin races again and helps him win back the money he lost in EpI.

There you go - still sounds like rubbish to me, but it does fit with the revelation of Podracing in EpII.

Go figure...

why? Draw a lightsabre and it's ok

huh?????
EpII podrace.....guess we'll have to wait til it comes out to see why it's there...do you think that it'll be shorter than EpI?

Jul, since we all know the story and this came as a complete surprise, you can bet that it's in the background

Good.....the one in EpI was good but long

This sounds strange but has anybody else epxerienced the longer version of the pod race, the flashing vents and flip overtaking moves and so on. It to me seems to go quicker because it has more excitment in it and it seems less contrived. plus the tusken raiders are a lot funnier and help setup some plot points for EPII.

If it is in EPII then i havent seen it and i have read the whole story about 40 times much to my own annoyance. i really tried to go spolier free this time, but when your job is boring and you think that 99% of the interent is garbage then there are no choices to make - you simply must read the spoliers. i might re code net nanny to stop myself for EPIII

I think the DVD-version is a bit too long, even with the added 'exciting' features....the shorter version had the right length.

Mah's right.

some things in the DVD were good, but they had to cut other things!!

The original Podrace was the right lenght but the scond lap was way too short.

Why didn't they put the scene where OB1 swims in the swamp with his lightsaber? It would have explained why he was wet and couldn't defend himself from the droid on the S.T.A.P.

shot failed, even in reshooting, I thought I heared that somewhere...

Oh, that would have been a nice scene to have though.

the unfinished shot is on the DVD, so it's not THAT bad,
it's also in the TPM videogame

Where is it on the DVD???

in one of the six documentaries...don't know where... sorry

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