When Star Wars still could have been great.

[zdover]

In 1999, the people at Skywalker Ranch made six short films called "tone poems" to advertise the upcoming release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Each tone poem featured a major Star Wars character reading a monologue introducing and developing his or her character. Three of the six of them are truly great, and show that if the

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Wow

[whooper]

Thanks for sharing - I somehow had missed these the first time around. My enjoyment is tempered only, as you mention, by the brief additional knife-twist this gives the whole rotten experience of the prequels

What if dreams came true?

[zdover]

I'm glad you got to see them, and that this post brought them to your attention. That vindicates it.

Tell the others!

Re: tone poems?

[circumgoy]

Some "tone poems" anagrams, off my head's top (I'll attempt to make them all "meaningful" anagrams; I will avoid things like "Tom pee son" or "Me sot? Nope" or "smote peon" or "me on pesto" or "ten peso mo'!" or "pesto omen" or "eon tempos" or "teem spoon"):

Mope on Set (Or: "Onset, Mope!")
Open Tomes
Seem on Pot
Meet No Ops
Steep Moon
Spot Me One
Pet Me Soon
Pent Moose

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I'm getting bored with this. (Also: I realize even the "meaningful" ones aren't quite meaningful.) I realize by stopping here I run the risk of making it seem as though I couldn't come up with any more, but I'm willing to take that risk.

Temp Noose
Semen Poot
Pet 'Em Soon

Feel free to add your own.

[circumgoy]

I have said too much about these movies. I'm not sure I have the energy to say more.