New Episode 2 Chracters

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Kane_Starkiller
I've just been checking out the toy fair photos (I'll pressume most of you here have all done the same), and via the medium of primarily hasbro toys (!) getting to grips with some of the new characters seen in AOTC - mainly jedi, and geonosians.

I don't know, it's wierd.

Although these pics by no means give away any plot dtails by the way, you should avoid them if you're not into character spoilers!

Maybe it's just me, but when I think of the jedi I think of bearded men with mullets, wielding light sabers. Alright, granted, Yoda is by no means human-like in appearance, but does any one else find it difficult to imagine all these new creatures as jedi? (this is more from a films-only stand point, and excludes the EU).

I'm talking specifically about characters such as Kit Fisto, Plo Koon and Luminara Unduli . And I really can't see Shaak Ti as a Jed MASTER (of all things). I feel more at home with hooded humans and yoda.

What do you all think?

LanceWindu
Well the only reason it's weird is because in the OT we never got to see many Jedi at all. But in the new PT we get to see an earlier part of the story that has never been told until now.

yerssot
The OT is about the emperor who doesn't like aliens, hence, no one in the army is alien etc.

So it's only naturaly that the one surviving Jedi that was still trackable (not Yoda I take) was humanoid

finti
I dont find that natural at all , and the fact that the emperor is anti alien is very very much EU

yerssot
there is only one alien I can think of that KINDA works for the empire and that's Bluetooth and he's even unimportant

finti
EU

yerssot
ok, his name perhaps, but watch ANH again, please!

finti
to find what???????????

yerssot
that person I'm talking about!

Kane_Starkiller
don't get me wrong, there's shit loads of aliens in the OT. EVERYWHERE in fact. From the cantina on Tatooine, to Vader's wacky ol' bunch of bounty hunters (including the mysterious and twisted ... sorry, the noraml kid, Bobba Fett wink ), there's all sorts of life forms to be seen, especially during the scenes at Jabba's palace ... although, depending on which version you watch, some closer resembling computer characters than aliens (special edition anyone??)

But, you grow up with a wise old bunch of men as Jedi Warriors in your heart, and now they're all sorts of creatures and species.

It's hard for me to get over, much like you wouldn't expect Han Solo to annouce to the world that he is, in fact, a wookie (although the debates as to whether or not he shagged one once still continue)

finti
I have no idea of who you are talking about Yers

yerssot
thought that, yeah.

The one I'm talking about:

ANH, Ben and Luke sold the speeder and are hurrying to docking bay 94. Someone follows them and grabs a comlink and utters something...
After a while Stormtroopers arrive and that person tells them (and points) where they went.

finti
oh the snitch

yerssot
that's the only one I know about

queeq
I'm sure he's a local snitch making an extra buck.

yerssot
and that's why people believe the emperor is anti-alien

finti
nah The trade federation are quite alien

yerssot
he wasn't emperor at the time and he uses them as powns

Kane_Starkiller
pawns...

... unless you meant "porns".

The emperor uses them as porn. mm. It's plausable - I suppose when you're THAT old, and ugly, you'd do anything for kicks. And maybe twisted fetishes comes as part of the dark side package.

Beware the dark side of the force! It's evil. REAL evil!

yerssot
Kane, you were almost funny, keep trying...

Kane_Starkiller
Bloody hell!

I'll keep trying and if it fails, I'll give it all up and just go back to doing what I do best - arguing that the pod race was not, in fact, a heaving pile of crap, but instead, a cinematic masterpiece involving whips, chains and wookies ... oh, wait sorry - just a cinematic masterpiece. In my world, Quadronearo is my Robert DiNiro, the Pod Racer my automobile, and Chewie my Derk Digg ... oh wait!!!

Either that or I'll revert to Petting Ewoks full time. You see, although they got their lucky break from George, since then many have become homeless or neglected. There's always an ewok ready to be fed and loved, or a kettle drum ready to worshiped as a god. The only problem is the noise. The consistent chanting of "Nub Yub", and the Stormtrooper Helmet drumming that NEVER SEEMS TO STOP! Damn them! Damn them all .... etc

yerssot
*steps away from Kane*

Kane_Starkiller
yeah, that was crap wasn't it?

Captain REX
That was almost funny again. Try just a little harder.

I like the pic of early R2, Kane.

finti
Keep it on topic

Geonosian_guard
geonosians, Kaminoians.......thats all I can think of..
Good nite everyone...
Seeyas tomorow!

yerssot
we haven't talked about the guilds

Kane_Starkiller
Thanks REX!!!

I wanted to bring up a question about the Kaminoians (which look cool BTW). does anyone know if they speak in English, or in their own language which is sub-titled a la Jabba/Greedo/Sebulba ????

Also, don't you think the Kaminoians look like the aliens from Speilberg's A.I?? I liked the way they could communicate telepathically in that movie and it was subtitled at the bottom, but I thought it was naff when they gave up and just started talking in English at the end of the film

yerssot
think they don't speak at all... well, the guards that is

Kane_Starkiller
I think I'd prefer it that way!

And another thing. Do the Geonosians really look ANYTHING like the battle droids? I mean, really?!?

yerssot
don't know, I'm going to eat and after that, I'm going to do some good info searching about it all

Kane_Starkiller
wink

yerssot
hmm, just got back and I'm searching already...

About that sw.com pic where people/aliens are getting in a big ship...
When you zoom in, it's VERY poor quality, and you search really hard you can get something that resambles a shocktroopers helmet

mah
that's hard to see

yerssot
ok, it didn't saved the zoom :rollseyes:

try this one

Kane_Starkiller
JEEZ?!!!!!

BTW what are those clonetroopers with the pink shit down their arms and armour

you see one in one of the toy fair photos

It mentions something about rank

yerssot
it's not pink for me...
I posted it on http://www.swmovies.net, they have like orange sleeves and blue helmets, that's why I'm wondering...

Kane_Starkiller
here's a toy picture

yerssot
then explain me why the helmet isn't red

Kane_Starkiller
I've looked a little closer at that picture, yerssot, and I see your point.

As you say yourself, the quality when zoomed in, IS somewhat poor, and as for the brown troopers - they look brown, but could this be something to do with lighting?

yerssot
the brown ones, have the same helmets as the toy ones, making them the clonetroopers, I take...

Well, mah and I are looking at that still shot...
After the "curiosities" I wrote to Ratcat, here's something new that didn't caught my eye ...

The "captains" don't have totall orange sleeves, they also have green gloves

djee, the suspence...

Kane_Starkiller
ah! big grin

yerssot
like mah said, perhaps a temp fault

Kane_Starkiller
who's Djas Puhr, guys?

yerssot
don't know, let me check

Kane_Starkiller
ok, this is wierd. apparently he's a bounty hunter.

this is a picture of him at the official sites toy fair coverage Djas Puhr

and here's a couple of fan pages addressing him as friend of sebulba's and inhabitant of ANH's Mos Eisley cantina

Could this be another OT cameo? (albeit, a v.minor one?)

yerssot
VERY minor indeed

Captain REX
Duh. I've seen him there. Alien in the background. Black Skin. Big head.

yerssot
that's you just saw the pics wink

Captain REX
I saw him first on the one of the sites, then I saw him in the movie. Is kinda hidden by the darkness, but he's not too hard to spot.

Kane_Starkiller
...........................

.....er, anyway.

The main thing is the star wars official site decided to include him in their preview of the AOTC toys, so maybe he'll have a heightened role in episode2!

Julie
Which picture is of Bariss Offee....I recently finished Approaching Storm and would like to know what she looks like.

Kane_Starkiller
er, I dunno

there's an interview with the actor that plays her, here

Bariss Offee

Julie
Thanks...those were very nice interviews...and I do have a better idea of what Barris chould look like.

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