Lando is NSFW
Created on: November 29th, 2007
Landown3d or chew3d
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Following the war, Lando builds a mining complex on the Nkllon - the hot inner planet in orbit of the star Athega - called Nomad City. The city consists of an old Dreadnaught carried across the landscape on the night side of the planet. The city always stays on the night side - as close as the planet is to the sun most materials would not last very long in direct sunlight. Custom builds shield ships with special cooling equipment so that ordinary ships could be protected from the Athega's intense heat on the trip inward. Calrissian's startup costs are high, but he makes a large profit from the materials he mined from the planet.
Nomad City is destroyed during Grand Admiral Thrawn's campaign against the New Republic, portrayed in The Thrawn Trilogy. When Emperor Palpatine reappears in Dark Empire and begins his own campaign against the New Republic, Calrissian rejoins the Republic's military at his previous rank. After Palpatine is finally destroyed in Empire's End, Calrissian leaves the military. When Kessel is abandoned following Grand Admiral Daala's attack on the planet, Calrissian takes over the planet, converts its prison into a mining complex, and mines spice from the planet for a number of years.
During The Corellian Trilogy, Calrissian goes on a galaxy-wide hunt for a rich wife. The businessman, reasoning that marriage is partly a financial relationship, meets Tendra Risant from Sacorria, whom he marries. With Tendra's family's money and his entrepreneurial abilities, he opens a mining facility on the planet of Dubrillion on the Outer Rim. On the side, Lando unofficially runs an asteroid training facility for smuggler pilots, in order to improve their skills. He will also f*ck all of your mothers.
wheelyum: He didn't make that explicit, so I didn't assume that's what he meant. I learned a long time ago never to assume what other people might have meant, especially on the internet. fuzzhammer: Sure, SWHS was a train wreck. It's also non-canonical, which Eps 1 and 2 can't claim. Bea Arthur dancing with Greedo never happened in the "real" Star Wars universe (for whatever that's worth), but Jar-Jar and all his *ssh*lery did, as did midichlorians and Emo Anakin. Not that it's at all important, mind you.
the Holiday special is horrible, but doesn't count. Episode 1 may not be my favorite of the saga, but it isn't sh*tty. 'White Chicks' was a sh*tty movie. TPM had its problems, granted, but all movies have some flaw.......except Empire.
JarJar was annoying, yes; but I hear people complain about how Anakin was emo as if it's against the character. Think about it; that's exactly what a villain like Darth VAder would've been like as a teenager.
Two words would have redeemed Episode One for me. As Boss Nass congratulates Jar-Jar, ending his exile and welcoming him back, his final sentence should have ended with, "... my son." Turning Jar-Jar from "The Fool" to "The Royal Fool", a much more dramatic archetype. Oh yeah, and IF THE ACTORS HAD ACTUALLY ACTED.
^ It is like you crawled in my brain and read my thoughts in the future which is now that I have read your comments and had this great epiphany that that would have really helped having Jar-Jar even exist. Oh yeah. and this ytmnd is great. I can't tell if it is supposed to be blurry or if that is just the alcohol thou.
No, young Anakin should have been like a c*ckier Luke, but even more prone to be ruled by his emotions (and thus, susceptible to the dark side). People like Anakin as he was portrayed in the first three movies don't end up being criminal masterminds, they end up being the sniveling, bitter little peons who work for criminal masterminds.
As for Ep 1's flaws (beyond the terrible acting and poor dialogue): the whole, unnecessary midichlorian thing, the godawful, tacked-on pod race scene (complete with dumpy, improbable two-headed NASCAR announcer), luck being touted over skill in solving problems (both Jar-Jar and Anakin luck into their implausible victories), Darth Maul being killed off instead of doing something interesting with him, Lucas being more concerned with having a "diverse" cast than a cast that worked well together, etc. ...
Darth Maul was killed off so that Darth Sidious could learn his lesson with his apprentice. He realized that he had trained Maul to simply be a tool. A weapon of the dark side; not a Sith Lord. He taught him to hate too much, which is where we see the difference in Darth Tyrannus; his problem being that he was already in his 80's, far too old.
"People like Anakin as he was portrayed in the first three movies don't end up being criminal masterminds, they end up being the sniveling, bitter little peons who work for criminal masterminds." You mean like Darth Vader to his master Emperor Palpatine?? lol That's what he was; or what he became. Because of his injuries, Anakin was only the equal in power to Palpatine, but because of becoming more machine than flesh, many of the powers of the dark side that Palpatine had were forever out of his reach.
"You mean like Darth Vader to his master Emperor Palpatine?? lol " NO LIKE UR MOM OLOLLOLOLOLOL Seriously, though, you're off-base. Is Vader a sniveling toadie? Not at all. He's the quintessential Lieutenant or "under-boss". He stays in his place because he knows his Master has the advantage... for now (note his offer to Luke in Ep 6). The kind of pathetic loser Anakin was in 1 - 3 is so whipped by life that he can only take orders, while the Vader of 4 - 6 is a formidable leader in his own right.
Whatever dubious plot advancement Lucas gained from killing off Maul so quickly (is negated by what could have been done if Lucas had been interested in writing a coherent plot. Sidious should have learned his "lesson" and attempted to do away with Maul himself, in favor of installing Tyrannus. Maul could have been set up as a para-antagonist (a Phantom Menace, if you will) who discovered and attempted to turn Anakin before Sidious could. Palpatine could have leveraged Maul's (failed) bid to...
...turn Anakin to his advantage, underscoring the severity of the Sith threat while setting himself up as Anakin's mentor. By passing himself off as the last of a "secret order of Sith hunters," he could surreptitiously introduce Sith concepts to Anakin's thinking ("to stop a Sith, you have to think like a Sith..."), and set up a "moment of crisis" where Anakin would choose the dark side over the light. Much better, in my mind, than the whole contrived "you have to turn evil to save your love!" schtick.
That could work, except for the fact that the Prequels make up ANAKIN'S story, not Maul's. And the plot of Anakin choosing the dark side to save the life of the one he loves, only to kill her with the power he took is like something right out of a Greek tragedy; dramatic irony, like Oedipus the King.
Yes, yes, it's Anakin's story. Doesn't mean that Anakin is on the screen every second. My rough plot wouldn't give Anakin any less screentime than the existing films. And "Anakin killing Padme with the power he wanted to use to save her" is something out of O. Henry (see "Gift of the Magi"), not out of Greek tragedy. Becoming the monster he sought to destroy and finding that the power he strove for wasn't worth what he lost to attain it is tragic enough without the soap opera histrionic bs.
Can't believe I'm doing this on ytmnd.....lol. The definition of a tradedy is one where the hero's fortune goes from good to bad. According to Aristotle's definition: the change to bad fortune which he undergoes is not due to any moral defect or flaw, but a mistake of some kind. If from the outside, it's a misadventure. The story of Anakin's downfall is the definition of a Greek tragedy.
Aristotle isn't the final word on tragedy, though; he claimed that tragedy doesn't derive from external circumstances or a moral flaw, but what of characters who cannot cope in the face of overwhelming events? What of mistakes made due to hybris, derelection of duty, or unruled passions? His definition of tragedy was obsolete before he died. On a side note, I compared Ep 3's ending to O Henry because like that author's work it was schmaltzy and undignified (which does not fit the mold of Greek tragedy).
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