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MTV did a special with girls from Sixteen and Pregnant. One couple, James and Markai share their pain after their abortion.
Please visit Fr. Frank's article and read about this situation. The TV shows are saying that abortion might not be an easy choice, but they are trying to make it okay. In the new series 16 and loved, they are telling the girls that society is trying to make them feel bad, but that the abortions are okay. Well, it's the aboritons that are making them feel bad, not society. Thank God for healing programs like Rachel's Vinyard and Silent No More Awareness!

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Re: Empedocles (05/07/17 04:13:55)
gravity, the strong nuclear force, the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force are what make up everything.
I've thought that love could be quantum entanglement, sharing merging and mingling wavefronts of unity, then even ever after at a distance forever connected.
we're all just vibrations within vibrations - all that ever was all that will ever be.
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He was the eunuch slave apprentice of the great sorcerer Mandible Silvio. But one day, a raven stood by his bed, cocked his head and spoke; "Volomain, thou hast been trough a lot. therefore I free you from your masters evil grasp of your once so pure soul. You must travel to the secret tower of bones and become the new master of the bones." The bird flew out the window.
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Dear Abby: As a clinical psychologist, I think your advice to "Protective Mom in the Midwest" (Oct. 26) was oversimplified. You told her she was right in not permitting her husband's brother, a registered sex offender, to visit the family during the holidays. She didn't want her 10-year-old daughter around him.
You have made the common mistake of seeing everyone who carries the "registered sex offender" label as alike. Some sex offenders act like Ted Bundy, but most do not.
Many do not directly injure anyone because they only download illegal sexual images. Some do not use force, threats or physical violence. I do not minimize what they do. They all need treatment.
Mom and her husband should talk to the brother about what he did and what kind of rehabilitation occurred. They can then make a better decision about a visit. - Dr. William S. in Miami
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Dear Abby: Stand your ground, "Protective Mom!" As a victim of abuse, I can tell you the abuser is sick. She should not leave it up to her daughter to find out if the uncle could still be a predator.
My stepfather's abuse 30 years ago was never reported to the police. He supposedly got "counseling" and was "a changed man." Well, he's serving prison time for molesting his granddaughter a year and a half ago. - Knows the Score in Anaheim, Calif.
Dear Abby: If Mom allows Jake in the house, local child protective authorities will consider it failure to protect the child, putting the girl at risk of being removed from the home. I am a former child protective worker who went to homes to inform parents of this. I also had to keep my own daughter away from my former in-laws because they allowed a sex offender to visit while she was there. It was difficult being the only one willing to stand up for her safety, but I will never regret knowing I did everything I could to keep my daughter safe. - Another Protective Mom in New England
Dear Abby: All children should be educated as early as they can understand about issues of trust. Mom will have to watch her daughter when Jake is around, but she shouldn't deny her husband the right to have his family for the holidays. Perhaps he could arrange for his brother to stay at a hotel. Mom can't be with her child 24/7, so kids need to know how to handle adults who are dangerous. - Gloria in Cleveland
Dear Abby: I am a sex offender and have learned through therapy why I did what I did and how to not go where "it" may happen again. Would Jake even accept an offer to stay over? If he's like me, he'd say, "Thanks, but no thanks," and not put himself in a situation where someone could cry rape. - Moving On
Dear Abby: We have a registered sex offender living in our neighborhood. Despite the fact that I have young children, I am not concerned that he presents a threat. When he was 19, he had sex with a 17-year-old girl. He was tried and served his time, but he now gets to spend the rest of his life on "the list." If he had been 40, or the girl 12, I'd be concerned. Without knowing the particulars of the crime, it seems rash to sentence Uncle Jake to family purgatory.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - -- Pedro Guerra-Ruiz, 34, of Rio Grande City, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for possession with intent to distribute approximately 1.51 kilograms of methamphetamine, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Guerra pleaded guilty April 29, 2013.
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The retirement of U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl will likely set off a chain reaction, as Republicans and Democrats position themselves to run for the open seat.
"This is a political earthquake on multiple levels," said political strategist Kurt Davis. "Open Senate seats are rare. There will obviously be a lot of political jockeying, and that will have a ripple effect on other political offices."
Kyl, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, announced Feb. 10 that he will not seek re-election to a fourth term in 2012.
"I think it's better to leave when people have a very good attitude about you, rather than be hounded out of office like so many," he told reporters at a hastily organized press conference in a Phoenix hotel meeting room.
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Well, I enjoyed that third episode most of the three, for the emotion. Right at this moment, just having finished watching it, I think it one of the classics of the entire three series. The various moments between Yumi and Sachiko were just full of feeling, especially at the end. Tears to my eyes. And the evolution of the characters continues to be so interesting.
I thought Koshimizu Ami was also outstanding as Kanako. Creepy and sympathetic and full of feeling. Just great. Tears to my eyes there, too. I haven't read the novels, but I had no trouble figuring out what was going on.
The plot involving Hanadera seemed a bit forced, but it was interesting, and the emotional outcome was totally worth it. I was scared, too. The flashback to Kanako worked. And the evolution of Yuki and of Kashiwagi was good, too.
As for the new ending animation, what more can I say? I noted in the credits that it was given only one credit: to Nakajima Atsuko 中嶋敦子 , who has done a lot of anime and was in overall charge of animating Ranma 1/2, Urusei Yatsura、Getbackers, and You're Under Arrest, and did character design for Trinity Blood. Here is her page on Japanese Wikipedia, and here is a page about an exhibition of her work.
By the way, I enjoyed the first episode of the new show Hitohira, about which I did a blog post. And I look forward to hearing Itou Miki (Sachiko) as a character in the new show Touka Gettan, which starts next week. There are some details about it on my blog and on Random Curiosity.
|2007-03-29, 17:26
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I am only guessing but at the time Shimako was not Sei petite souer. Yoshino may had health problem or her present was not need for the Hanadera event. It maybe that they only request that Rose help and the bouton and bouton petite souer are not invite. I am sure if the Rose request them to be there to help I am sure Hanadera will not say not to it but I again I am only guessing.
|2007-03-30, 03:27
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Location: DisneyLand Paris
Tsutako's always looked pretty to me, but she looks even prettier without her glasses, a bit softer
Something I didn't like in this ova and in the previous one is the adding of the "romantic filter" as I call it, the soft white layer put on the screen when the scene is emotionnal... that always cuts off all emotions for me, and if there is something I'm enjoying while watching Marimite, it IS to get emotional
So it spoiled my fun when Sachiko was heading toward the panda... I couldn't get moved
It's like they put out a panel with "now! get moved!" on the screen and I'm a bit surprised then can't get moved at all.... I wonder if it bothers somebody else too?
The effect is similar to the big red roses blooming at the end of he Haru season, it troubled me a little but that scene was already so full of emotions that the adding only cooled down the intensity for me. This one, I remember, did surprise many of us when the ep was out.
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|2007-03-30, 09:54
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Location: Hamburg
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Oh wow. That was VERY impressive work by Koshimizu Ami. Awesome. It's rare that I look up seiyuus after an anime, but I just had to. What a performance
I mean, I knew right from the start that I was most certainly going to like Kanako (as opposed to Touko), but this voice makes it very easy.
While I was looking on her casting list, I was astonished. THAT was Megumi from Kanban Musume??? THAT was Nina from Mai Otome??? How very impressive, because all voices had a very distinct ring to them, even though they were very consistent.
Anyway, she's definitely on my watch list now. Kudos!
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Koshimizu Ami (Kanako) won the 2006 Seiyuu Award as best supporting actress for her role of Karen in Code Geass. She is definitely one of the up and coming stars. And she is a tall, strong, beautiful person, too, which helps her career even more. She has a good blog (in Japanese), with frequent pictures. She turned 21 in February.
Amisuke (her nickname) was the subject of a blog post I made about a radio stunt she pulled with her (female) friend Sanpei Yuuko (Renton in Eureka 7, etc.), where they pretended they had gotten married. I probably overestimated the possibility that they really were gay, but she has has talked about Pe (Sanpei Yuuko's nickname) as her "wife" before in her blog, and said in a post Wednesday that she has known her for seven years and hopes they can always be together. In any case, they have been good friends for a long time, and Pe is an excellent seiyuu, too. Judging from her own blog and others', Amisuke seems like a warm, natural, gregarious person with many good friends.
Amisuke began her career when she was 16-17, as Nadja in Ashita no Nadja, and she has played very diverse roles, as Mentar said, from Claes in Gunslinger Girl to Tenma in School Rumble to Tenko in Kamisama Kazoku to Paraietta in Simoun. Here is more info about her. And here are some photos: (1) from the cover of her CD (with video DVD included) Natural; (2) with the great seiyuu Nabatame Hitomi draped all over her; (3) with someone cosplaying her role of Ritsuko Kubel Kettenkrad from Kujibiki Unbalance:
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|2007-03-30, 14:23
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Anyway, back to the episode. As someone who read the novel beforehand, I have to admit I am biased.
Spoiler for for Kanako:
All and all, great episode. Especially Sachiko-Yumi bonding. You can just feel how much they care for each other, it just warms you up. Sei-fied Yumi is also a plus!
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no i havent, but maybe ill try it :] thx for the idea!!! yaaaaaa
|2007-04-04, 09:42
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Ueda Kana's (Seiyuu for Yumi) interview in japanese:
|2007-04-06, 12:01
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Thanks to all of your reviews I am very excited about the third OVA. It's been nothing but good words about it... I've seen the credits (which isn't much, yes I know but I'm marimite junkie) and they only made me want to see what came before it. Mannnnnn do I wish I would have learned japanese instead of english.
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|2007-04-14, 17:46
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i thought the ending was kawaii!!!! omg it was awesome. it was so cute. i myself am a YumiXSachico person. im interested also in the development of the relationship between Yumi and Touko. its going to suprise me i think, seeing as i havent read the novels.
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Well...it is summertime/vacation time and all that. So I can't really excuse myself here.
Anyway, I'll be taking a short trip to vienna with my brother and a friend next month from the 15.08. to the 18.08.
And also a longer vacation from the 25.08. to the 05.09. where my brother and I will visit Japan a second time.
I'll probably be able to get online at the evenings, but just in case I forget my english over the stay in Japan I'll just note it down here ;P
Looking forward to both trips
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Fossils are the direct records of ancient life, and as a paleontologist, it's always a thrill everyday to hold and study these messengers from the geologic past. At the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, we house 42 million specimens in the Department of Paleobiology from every continent in the world, spanning every geologic time period from the last Ice Age (~18,000 years ago) to first squiggles of microbial life (~3.5 billion years ago). Our mission is to study, preserve and continue building these unique collections.
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Monday, May 14, 2007
What I did at work today
Today, Monday, May 14
8:30 -- Welcome new staff at new employee orientation and provide background on the hospital's mission and values.
9:00 -- Meet a candidate for the hospital's Board of Overseers, one of our governing bodies.
10:00 -- Review aspects of the hospital's pastoral care program.
11:00 -- Meet with a physician about a possible recruitment of another physician.
12:00 -- Meet with senior vice president for health care quality for an update of our safety and quality programs.
1:00 -- Meet with senior vice president for human resources for an update on a variety of topics.
1:30 -- Visit a patient.
2:00 -- Meet with senior vice president for development, CFO, and senior vice president for facilities to ensure there is an integration of our capital investment programs with our fund-raising efforts.
3:00 -- Meet with COO for an update on a variety of topics.
4:30 -- Meet with representatives of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra (which comprises area doctors and others) to get a progress report and receive requests for assistance.
5:30 -- Short update from senior vice president for network integration regarding a relationship with a group of referring doctors.
5:40 -- Write this post.
6:00 to 8:00 -- Attend Board of Overseers meeting.
21 comments:
- Fernando said...
I'm just curious, but at how many of those meetings did you make a decision or design a plan of action? I am convinced that 90% of meetings held in a corporate/semi-corporate environment are a 'keeping up appearances' waste of time.
- May 14, 2007 8:35 PM
Excellent question. Some sessions are just for updates or check-ons on previously agreed upon plans; sometimes for decisions; sometimes to brainstorm ideas. I think my VPs would tell you that our meetings are very efficient and purposeful. None of us really wants to spend time in meetings. We'd rather be out actually getting things done. That being said, if you don't stay in touch, things can go awry. We do a lot with emails, as the asynchronicity is very powerful, but face-to-face is important from time to time.
- May 14, 2007 9:13 PM
I think it's fairly obvious that your meetings are efficient. You say you were doing something important at 2:00 but by 2:29 you were already done and able to put the chart below up on the blog. Just thought I'd let you know I'm keeping you honest, given that I have apparently spawned some degree of navel-gazing on your part.
All in good humor,
- May 15, 2007 6:46 AM
I was wondering if someone would notice....
- May 15, 2007 7:18 AM
Do you visit patients regularly?
- May 15, 2007 8:30 AM
- May 15, 2007 9:58 AM
I'm impressed by your 1:30 time slot. No doubt one of the most important activities of your day!
- May 15, 2007 10:07 AM
- Tom said...
Very interesting -- I think this should be a reoccurring post, maybe once every two weeks...that way readers can get a feel for different days, b/c I doubt many days are "typical"...
- May 15, 2007 10:23 AM
- Margaret said...
How do you decide which patient to visit? What do you talk about with a patient? Doing those visits is very wise I think.
- May 15, 2007 11:16 AM
Man...looking at your calendar is giving me horrible, horrible flashbacks to my time trying to manage it.
- May 15, 2007 11:53 AM
- EB said...
I find this extremely interesting and would like to see this as a recurring post every 2 weeks or so. Very interesting. When do you find time to eat?
- May 15, 2007 1:03 PM
- Mike said...
I have found a way to eliminate some waste in your schedule.. replace the patient visit at 1:30 PM with another meeting.
To schedule MORE meetings.
And then, you can talk about "quality initiatives" and "interdigitation".
- May 15, 2007 10:57 PM
How did you know that "interdigitation" is one of the words I hate the most?
Please don't assume one day is representative of my whole schedule.
By the way, are you angry or joking? Hard to tell from your note and from your own blog.
- May 15, 2007 11:01 PM
My sked (dedicated to the ROUs--rest of us)
6:00 Lie in bed deciding which socks to wear
6:10 Open sock drawer
6:15 Paw through socks
6:20 Still pawing through socks
6:22 Choose blue socks
6:23 Return blue socks to drawer
6:24 Choose tie-dyed socks
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- May 16, 2007 5:41 AM
Very good!!!!
- May 16, 2007 5:47 AM
Good question from Margaret. Will answer that fully some day soon.
- May 16, 2007 10:19 AM
- Rob said...
A good manager or executive knows how to balance face-time with formalized discussion forums.
Problem is, for those of us, say, in IT, good managers and/or executives can be rather rare. Instead we tend toward blame-avoiding turf-defenders. That's when meetings are dumb.
As a manager, I go out and see what's going on, in person, so I know what to ask my people about what's going on. I also listen to my people on how they're feeling they relate to the rest of the organization. My job is to figure out what we need them to do, get the right resources, and work problems out of the way of progress.
In other words, I work for the employees. I am accountable to them.
The upshot of which is that this is what I'm seeing in this schedule.
I could be completely wrong, on account of, yeah, I'm not there. :)
- May 16, 2007 1:26 PM
- Steve Pashley said...
Great idea for a post.
I'm curious to know what percentage of your meetings are initiated by others, (presumably because they want your perspective on an issue they are responsible for progressing) vs what percentage you initiate (presumably because you want to know what's going on or have a view about what needs to be done that you want to get that view across). Coaching and validating vs directing and controlling i guess would be the crude distinction.
- May 19, 2007 2:13 AM
Hi Steve,
With VPs, these are regularly scheduled updates on mutually established objectives. I usually don't have a view as to what specifically needs to be done. After all, I am not the expert in each area. Sometimes they find my perspective helpful, though. Also, it is a chance for me to make sure there is good cross-connection between VPs on overlapping issues.
I'm not big on directing and controlling. Thoughtful and reliable people are in their positions because they are thoughtful and reliable!
- May 19, 2007 5:56 AM
Dear anonymous May 21 2:28 AM. I received your message about the salary issue, and it is under review already.
In the future, for messages of this sort, you can email me directly.
- May 21, 2007 4:03 AM
If you think "interdigitation" is bad, here's a list of the Worst Words: www.vocabula.com/VRworstwords.asp
To counter the bad taste of the Worst Words, here's a list of the Best Words: www.vocabula.com/VRbestwords.asp
Perhaps you would like to add to these lists.
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"The Movie Was Too Long, So, I Made The First Third"
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Does anyone buy that line, Lucas has been spouting this for years now but there is no way in hell that he knew the whole story arc from ANH to ROTJ. No way...no how
The biggest two things I don't think he had planned were Vader being Luke's father and Luke and Leia being siblings...Thoughts?
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He might have because he really seemed to want rights to make the sequels. Who knows? He seems to have been a pretty quirky guy back in that day. So, I can see him writing something up.
Yeah, I would not think he had a total ANH to ROTJ story arc going. He probably knew there was enough material or ideas for him to start another movie or two if he wanted.
I do think that Vader being the hero's father was an idea that he was kicking around though. Not necessarily Luke's dad. I'm sure it was not spelled out in the final form that we see now.
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September 13, 2004, 03:16 PM »
Broem he already said it much more succinctly than me, but I've looked at this for a long time, so I have to type, dammit!
If you read through the various drafts of Star Wars prior to the shooting script, it's obvious that a lot of the ideas that ended up in Ep 5-6, and even 1-2, come and go as concepts in different incarnations regularly. Star Wars is a pretty lean condensation of all the best stuff, but it evidences that there was a larger canvas than what one movie could accomplish.
So, I believe he's had a story outline that had enough material and events to or ginally span three or more films, but through smart rewriting, was compacted into one great script.
When then faced with actually doing more movies, the ideas that didn't quite cut if for SW were pulled out of the drawer. Ideas, themes; not complete scripts. So, when developing ESB and ROTJ, good material came back in that made for good elaboration on existing character arcs, but ideas that were flimsy (even in the pre-76 SW drafts) also came back when momentum ran out - like the old sibling idea coming back to ROTJ. And some events that played out well in ESB eliminated themes once under consideration for ROTJ. For example again, the siblings:
I strongly believe that the sibling idea did not exist as an option post-76 until Kasdan wrote himself into a corner with Luke refusing to fight Vader. The character needed strong motivation to push him into an emotional urge to fight. Lucas and Kasdan have said as much in the past. I'm convinced that the Leia/Luke relationship was intended (in ESB dev time) to evolve into a spiritual "love" while the Leia/Han relationship was to head toward a physical "love". There's plenty of action on-screen that support that direction. That idea is kinda-sorta in ROTJ, as Luke (knowing Leia is his sister or not) chooses the solitary path of spiritual wisdom over physical needs. So while basic ideas have been there since the beginning, things change during the creative process.
It's normal really, and I don't see why this topic is such a sore point for some, are so quick to jump into conspiracy theories or think he has reason to lie about the development of the movie's storyline. You write a script that's too big to shoot. You rewrite it with the best parts. It's a big hit, and you make sequels. You revisit what you originally had, fill in the holes left by your rewrites for the original, and alter tones and themes after actors take hold of the personality of your characters and the story drives itself toward conclusion, sometimes not in the direction you originally intended.
So from the start, I say Lucas had an outline with material enough for 3 movies. He realized it before ever going before cameras on the first one, and wrote a great script that is both self-contained and open for expansion. The sequels use the ideas and themes that fell away and new ideas and themes developed from the creation of the first script.
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Well, this thread hasn't been visited in a while. Let's dust it off...ok, there is no way that I buy that Lucas had everything worked out nicely in his head. I can't imagine he even had planned that Vader was Luke's father. It's just wrapped up to neatly, and there are too many flaws to indicate this is fact. If you read articles from the late 70's, Lucas never seems to indicate that this was part of his ultimate plan. Fans under age 25 probably think this is true, but I highly doubt it. Thank goodness it worked out in the end!
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June 1, 2005, 04:12 PM »
Read those first drafts of what became Star Wars. His earliest ideas are lightyears away from what it became.
Yes, very basically it is all a bit the same story, but that is the very groundlayer.
Beyond that, many ideas are different, very different from what they have eventually become.
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June 3, 2005, 08:27 AM »
Where does one get these early drafts from to read? Is there a book out there? I have heard of several ideas and stuff over the years from different sources. Is there an actual draft of these someplace to purchase?
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June 3, 2005, 10:38 AM »
I think you have to have access to the Lucas archives for some of this stuff. At least, that is what I keep hearing on the Star Wars message boards. I don't believe it has been published for public consumption. Heck, we don't have the original, unaltered movie at our disposal (on DVD), so I doubt we'll get a script!
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I think some of this stuff is in
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June 6, 2005, 11:33 AM »
This is something I was talking about with the Mrs. while we watched ANH and ESB this past weekend. Although I do think he probably had enough material and ideas to make all three movies, there are a few things that I don't buy that "were the plan from the beginning". I can accept the Vader as Luke's father idea, because no matter what, that really is a cool twist...and one of the biggest in movie history. Every time I see that scene I think back to how cool that probably was to see in 1980 for the first time. I was a little too young (3) at the time, but I bet fans were blown away. Something like that likely couldn't happen in these days of internet spoiling and spying. The Luke-Leia sibling thing, I don't know. I just don't think after watching them smootch it up through ANH and ESB that Lucas had that in mind at that point. I mean, I don't mind them being brother-sister, that's fine, but seeing them kiss numerous times prior to figuring it out is a little creepy at times. Kiss on the cheek "for luck" is one thing, but the liplocks to spite Han are another
. Overall, I do think he probably had enough ideas and material from his brainstorming and writing to make all three movies...but a lot of that stuff came after the fact. Just while watching ANH, it really is a nice, self contained movie...meaning, if for some reason it didn't spawn sequels (which I am quite happy it did), it really does stand alone quite well.
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Re: "The Movie Was Too Long, So, I Made The First Third"
Reply #9 on:
June 6, 2005, 11:56 AM »
I do remember him being interviewed by 60 minutes I believe. Back in the summer of 99. He did say he had a basic outline. He always envisioned Anakin being a slave on but stuff like his owner being a blue 2 foot tall flying bumblebee he had not. Basically he admits that stuff is made up along the way.
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Re: "The Movie Was Too Long, So, I Made The First Third"
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June 7, 2005, 08:59 PM »
I think there were some ideas that he had in mind all along and some he didn't.
Vader being Luke's Father? Definitely. I think there were clues in ANH about this....the exchange between Owen and Beru about Luke.
Luke and Leia being brother and sister. Maybe I'm reading a little too much into it, but I think there are subtle hints in ANH for this as well. Just the way Ben looks at Luke after viewing the message from Leia. I think it was one of those ideas GL was toying with, and when he made the sequels, he decided to expound on it. (afterall, Luke needed someone to train post ROTJ.)
Some things he made up along the way: Qui-Gon Jinn (not originally part of the grand scheme but he fits quite well), Jar-Jar Binks (probably best kept out of the whole thing), Watto (another idea that popped into his head) and stuff along those lines in the prequels.
Good writers always have some over-arcing plot, but they leave room to add things. Hell, GL even substituted wookies in ROTJ for Ewoks because he made Wookies far less primitive than he needed for the script.
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