The Old Hack

Yes they could. Get into a cargo aircraft with a big enough hold, and voilá. You can't tell me that a Hercules couldn't easily carry them.

Nonsense. The fake laser microphone wasn't invented until years later.

And how would they have used all that marvelous technology without the invention of microphones?

Don't be ridiculous. They used real microphones. Without them, Star Wars would have been a silent movie.

Don't be silly. They didn't have laser microphones in 1977 when the first Star Wars movie was made. Not on that budget, anyway.

Their schedule is kinda vague, though. Precisely when are the stars right? Your astronomers got any idea of that, Pharaoh?

Actually, Star Wars borrows from a LOT of genres. It has Wild West elements (gunfights, harrowing chase scenes, greedy gunslinger hero (Han Solo) and bounty hunters), classical martial arts (Betrayal of the Old Masters, Loss/Retraining/Confrontation, a lone avenger against those who pulled the Shaolin Monastery/Jedi Council down, the purity of spirit against the corruption of the heart), space opera (spaceships, big battles, superweapons), fantasy (old wizard mentors young apprentice, magical swords, swordfights, rescued princess). The one thing I would say is hardest to justify is science fiction since even soft sci fi usually tries to maintain some of the tropes (sound does not travel in vacuum, for example.) Still, space opera is occasionally close to soft science fiction, so maybe.

Darn it, JML, I've warned you about that! Elder Gods aren't good for you! Or any of us!

Precisely. Parsecs have nothing to do with time. They are purely a measure of distance.

Yeah! And the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in just twelve parsec! ... ...what?

May you rest in peace, Muhammad Ali. Thank you for the inspiration you gave.

GAH! I would never live it down.

Yes they have. Ellen was clearly speaking of Fallout: New Vegas.

I am personally utterly against being referred to by a neutral pronoun. It has to be either an evil pronoun or not at all.

He KNOWS when you've been bad!

Apologies! I misremembered.

Clearly, you need batteries that are manatee-proof.

MJL, I swear to God, if you start losing entire municipalities to nightmare realms or elder horrors, I am raising your warning level!

Whether 'tis nobler in mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous capsaicin, or to take arms against a sea of tabasco and by opposing end it!

Eh. Back in the Pharaoh's day, CDs were made of clay, inscribed in Coptic cursive and they played them on alligator drives. (You made the alligator open its mouth, inserted the CD (clay disc) and then forced the jaws closed again. Then you used a watermill for the power to spin the disc. (This drive system resulted in alligator dentists making a lot of money.))

We have that much in common, then. This is really all about being considerate, and for me at least that often involves a certain amount of trial and error. :/

I had expectations of it not being UTTER GARBAGE that totally ignored the original characters and their relationships and more resembled an F-level superhero movie than a steampunk masterpiece that stayed true to the spirit of Jules Verne, Stoker and Rider Haggard. In the original, Mina was an amazing (normal) woman who shaped the entire team around her force of personality and iron will. In the movie, she was utterly bland and had been turned into a bollocking VAMPIRE to give her superpowers she did not need in the comic just to justify her presence. Moriarty -- yes, that Moriarty -- had just one defining trait: frantically fleeing as soon as the 'heroes' discovered his hiding place. This happened at least four times. I could eat the waste basket of a paper shredder and PUKE a better screenplay.

My wife did, but given that she can be rather temperamental she expended her stockpile years back.

LXG was utter garbage. Somehow the movie makers managed to take everything good from the comic and replace it with complete codswallop. It was agonising to watch.

When I gave my wife a PSP I nicknamed it the Game Girl. She loved that name and we have stuck with it. As to CDs, what is wrong with LPs? *muttermuttergrumble*