Vashanti

And the DBZ references! Midichlorians: Gotta check 'em allllllllllllllllllllllll!!!11one Vash shakes his walker at the whippersnappers.

I've used it as a means to educate myself on topics, sure. I don't know if I would feel comfortable citing it as a reference for any papers I write when I go back to work on my Masters in the Fall, though. "

:D But, good monkey sir, that IS part of my soul! I am indeed an "old school" SW nerd. I saw the first movie, Ep.4, at age 6, and was completely blown away. My little brother and I had (still have) a record (album, for you whippernsappers) with most of the dialogue from that movie, which we learned by heart after playing it so often. We would dance around the house to the Star Wars 8-track soundtrack. OLD SCHOOL BABY!

Ack, there's math... I hate math... Let's see... 510 452-652 Level 3 geek (true geek)

I slamdunked the topic. "

Danke

Nah, I don't think Lucas had any intention of having a laugh at the fans' expense -- on the contrary, he's always saying that he ultimately sticks to his own vision and doesn't really listen to what fans think. The only thing that seemed to ever irk him about fans was when plot details would be leaked all over the internet, heh. If he didn't want to be know as Mr. Star Wars, I don't think he would have named his private movie and music compound "Skywalker Ranch," or whatever it's called. Now that he's (supposedly) done with the Star Wars movies (but still working on a TV series!), I am looking forward to what he's going to do with the new Indiana Jones movie. :D

If you really want to understand your questions: Rent a copy of the ORIGINAL, unedited, no-1990s & on re-works, ORIGINAL trilogy (episodes IV, V, and VI). Then remember that for 20 years, that was the authoritative Star Wars. And no one had any reason to expect otherwise. Han shot first. It defined who he was -- willing to kill rather than risk being killed or robbed. It also showed just how far he changed, from being the ruthless mercenary to the redeemed love interest of Leia. The Force was a mystical energy field, which could only be truly understood by those like Luke & Ben who were tapped into it (thus Han's skepticism in Ep. IV, at first). There were no simple pseudo-scientific descriptions which would allow a Force Potential to be measured like a lab rat. Then, keep all that stuff in mind when you watch the later stuff -- Ep. 1, 2, 3. There's a reason why "midichlorians" were never mentioned beyond that one scene in Episode 1. They were a bad idea and Lucas ditched it, just like the over-excessive Jar Jar stuff. He's stated in interviews that he did indeed want Ep. 1 to be more "kid-friendly," wanting to usher in a new generation of potential fans to the Star Wars universe. He thus threw in the silly midichlorian idea and the Jar Jar goofy scenes to make new kids laugh. But, really, he should have remembered that kids are smarter than that, and that the same tone of the first, Episode IV, of heroism and epic storytelling, work very well. There was no need to pander to the "kids" for Ep. 1; they're smarter than that, and it made both the Star Wars genre and the "kids" he was targeting seem dumber than they actually are.

Kelly Hu

Vash waves his hand. These aren't the explanations you're looking for...

Maybe the Exile wants to play Pazaak for his/her old lightsaber?

"More where that came from" -- vernacular jargon meaning "I am ready to dispense more pain and damage upon you," meant as a threat. "Time to kick you down to size" -- vernacular jargon meaning "I am prepared to reduce your self-image from 'formidable' to 'weakling,'" or meaning something along the lines of "I am prepared to humiliate you into not seeming very tough." Similar to the vernacular phrases "take the wind out of your sails" or "knock you down a peg or two."

Charlie Brown can understand it too.

ROCKY VS. ALZHEIMERS

ROCKY VS. OSTEOPOROSIS

Yah, it's a classic internet urban legend: http://www.snopes.com/risque/mistaken/jen.htm

Yah, but is Bastila in it?

Oedipus Rex!

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Not much in the way of South America, huh?

I think the only people who know "for sure" are the developers, and they've not posted on the boards in a good long time. You could try to track down one of their emails from the main site and contact them with the question, but I'm inclined to believe what Hades stated. The game was built up from Neverwinter Nights' engine, which does indeed support multiplayer mode, but this game & K1 were both intended solely as single-player (as stated in all the developer journals and such I read while waiting for the games to come out).

Although I'm inclined to think there's some nano business going on, the people at The Fuselage messageboards (the official Lost ones for JJ Abrams or whatever), the writers state there is no nano stuff going on. Dunno, though, as I've not read the articles from which they have seen them state that ... so it's all 2nd hand to me!