Yeah.. it looks like his main beef is that he was never paid what he should have been paid for Jedi, thanks to Hollywood Accounting.
Seriously, someone needs to put a stop to this, it's getting silly to say some of the most blockbuster movies ever made don't show any 'profit'. I bet movie prices would drop to five bucks again if they did.
Word is on the grapevine that the guy is an ENORMOUS TOOL. They had to give him the wrong lines for Return of the Jedi. (He still said the lines as placeholders, until the real voice could dub them in.) Why? Because he would blab any plot point to absolutely anyone in earshot. There's a comment in there that notes his moderately dickish behavior to fans as well.
All I can say from personal experience is he gladly signed my box of Darth Vader "Cheez-Its" which sits proudly on a shelf in my office (though I mostly just found Darth Vader endorsing a faux-cheese snack rather humorous, especially when I imagine him trying to eat the things).
And I figured that even if he is a royal pain, he's not going to be one for that much longer, given his age/health, so why not just put up with him the same way fans/cons have put up with crazy uncle Alan Moore and Harlan Ellison? :)
I am going off second-hand info here, of course. For all I know, he's awesome. I just know I'd be pretty annoyed if I had to lie to one of my actors about plot points to keep them from being spread all over. Seems like it would be a good seed for grudge fuel.
Re: Speaking of photo IDsword_geekJuly 14 2010, 10:38:01 UTC
Indeed you did. That was in the episode "Vampires of Venice," in which the Doctor intends to flourish the psychic paper, as he often does, but he's given it to his companions, and instead he shows his library card. Said card does indeed have a photo of William Hartnell on it, and gives his address as "76 Totters Lane, Shoreditch, London," which is the address of the junkyard where the Tardis was parked in "An Unearthly Child."
Re: Speaking of photo IDsps238principalJuly 14 2010, 16:24:56 UTC
Now I'm altering my list of "wishes should I meet a genie" list to include taking a CostCo shopping trolly on one of those dash-n-grab style gameshow trips through the Doctor Who prop department.
Seen the thing on how WWII is so implossible before on a forum. To be honest, it got me more twitching how it's more a case of people not knowing the larger area of history and concentrating on such a smallpart. Makes an ammusing read though otherwise.
Of course they know. The point was twofold. Firstly, presented in narrative, 45 minute bursts, history sounds improbably silly. Secondly, contemporary Americans have gotten so jaded in our media consumption that we would scoff at stories which (yeah, thanks to the larger arena of the setting) are actually plausible.
It's like everyone's a walking Pitchfork review. We wish our hot dogs were more or less artfully smothered; we painstakingly muse that our little sisters could, for once make a sweater without dropping a stitch; we watch the sun rise with critical disappointment. Your 'twitching' (and my knee-jerk need to respond) is actually a case in favor of this point. We fear we're somehow passively blank and idiotic if we simply sit back and absorb what's happening around us.
Yeah, it's one of those "well, of course it sounds crazy when you say it like that" things.
It reminds me of an interview I heard with an author soon after 9/11. He'd written a thriller where terrorists were going to do something similar to what happened at the WTC and his editors rejected it as being implausible.
It's also kind of like those things we accept in real life (i.e. major military blunders that even a 5th grader wouldn't create in a game of RISK) that we never accept in fiction.
Well, in either case in that thread on a forum, I played along but just kept talking about how they missed so much out of the books for the series.
I can also understand the diffrence between real and fiction as well. Same subject, the more I learn about WWII in the pacific the more I wonder if the Japanese attacking America wasn't a bad plot. It happened, but knowing the situation it seems bizarre that it really did.
The 'OGL Basic D&D' thing was very misleading. It's someone attampting to copy the older D&D systems and putting them under the OGL license, *not* a case of the older systems actually *being* under OGL. I'm not sure how legal what they're doing is, to be honest...(granted, the places I know that have actual scanned PDFs of things like Star Frontiers are probably *less* legal, but still...and I'm still looking for one of the Master supplement from the FASA Dr. Who RPG. *grump* Can find the core books and the Dalek supplement, but not the Master one I used to own. :-/ )
I've still got the Doctor Who boxed set, but I think I snagged it when it was just going out of print, so I didn't get the supplements.
And people wonder why so many RPGs wind up on Bittorrent. :(
I did wonder what legal hazards they were skirting with the OGL stuff when they all referred to "the world's most popular role-playing game" and so on. And while new systems can have their pleasures over old, the one thing I'd probably alter with the older systems is having so many "no saving throw" statements in a lot of the early modules... except for "The Tomb of Horrors." If the players are dumb enough to go to that place in its original form, they deserve what they get. :)
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Seriously, someone needs to put a stop to this, it's getting silly to say some of the most blockbuster movies ever made don't show any 'profit'. I bet movie prices would drop to five bucks again if they did.
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Word is on the grapevine that the guy is an ENORMOUS TOOL. They had to give him the wrong lines for Return of the Jedi. (He still said the lines as placeholders, until the real voice could dub them in.) Why? Because he would blab any plot point to absolutely anyone in earshot. There's a comment in there that notes his moderately dickish behavior to fans as well.
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And I figured that even if he is a royal pain, he's not going to be one for that much longer, given his age/health, so why not just put up with him the same way fans/cons have put up with crazy uncle Alan Moore and Harlan Ellison? :)
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But the shot was only for a few seconds.
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Thought 2: So how many times did you pause the image to get all that detail? I tried it once, but everything was still too fuzzy for me.
Thought 3: A library card with a photo and address?! There's a library that keeps close track of its items!
Thought 4: Today
(I couldn't resist the gag)
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It's like everyone's a walking Pitchfork review. We wish our hot dogs were more or less artfully smothered; we painstakingly muse that our little sisters could, for once make a sweater without dropping a stitch; we watch the sun rise with critical disappointment. Your 'twitching' (and my knee-jerk need to respond) is actually a case in favor of this point. We fear we're somehow passively blank and idiotic if we simply sit back and absorb what's happening around us.
-JT/Sihaya
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It reminds me of an interview I heard with an author soon after 9/11. He'd written a thriller where terrorists were going to do something similar to what happened at the WTC and his editors rejected it as being implausible.
It's also kind of like those things we accept in real life (i.e. major military blunders that even a 5th grader wouldn't create in a game of RISK) that we never accept in fiction.
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I can also understand the diffrence between real and fiction as well. Same subject, the more I learn about WWII in the pacific the more I wonder if the Japanese attacking America wasn't a bad plot. It happened, but knowing the situation it seems bizarre that it really did.
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-L. ;)
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There needs to be a Zod-off!
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I do not think that word means what you think it means.
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And people wonder why so many RPGs wind up on Bittorrent. :(
I did wonder what legal hazards they were skirting with the OGL stuff when they all referred to "the world's most popular role-playing game" and so on. And while new systems can have their pleasures over old, the one thing I'd probably alter with the older systems is having so many "no saving throw" statements in a lot of the early modules... except for "The Tomb of Horrors." If the players are dumb enough to go to that place in its original form, they deserve what they get. :)
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