Rebelscum Halloween Costume Contest Winners

Rebelscum has picked its winners for its annual Halloween contest. To be honest, I thought the kids had the most creative and interesting costumes (all PT and CW themed of course).

Cool Dioramas

Hasbro has posted finalists for its diorama contest, where fans can create their own Star Wars scenes with their action figures. There are two PT-themed entries but my favorite is the Sith Reunion one. “We Almost Did It,” heh heh.

In Memory Of Season One’s Casualties

TFN has put together a tribute to those Clone Wars characters who passed over the course of Season One:

AAHA’s New Layout

Long-time Anakin/Padmé site Anakin And His Angel has gone through a remodel. Go check it out!

Quote of the Day

From mozzer0906 on Twitter:

watching the Star Wars Episode 1 battle between ObiWan and Darth Maul and it is “awwweesomme” as my son would say

Quote of the Day

From spiffykt on Twitter:

Gave up studying in favor of Star Wars, Episode II, which features my favorite battle scene in any movie ever. Yay, aggressive negotiations!

Quote of the Day

From drg4 on TFN’s Jedi Council forum:

Just compare TPM with the majority of top-grossers from that dismal era, and you’ll appreciate Lucas’s beautiful, bizarre, and bold vision all the more.

Seriously, was there anything worse than a ’90s blockbuster?

Something Of Value On Twitter

Usually, most of the Star Wars-related tweets on Twitter are well, garbage. But every now and then some gem surfaces. Here’s “geerfear” on the prequels:

Why is it that most of the CG FX in The Phantom Menace STILL look better than some of the stuff in brand new films, 10 years later?

Ian McDiarmid is fantastic in the ballet scene in Revenge of the Sith. (typos corrected)

That concludes my Week of Star Wars. Still great films all should see. Prequels get a way worse rep than they deserve. Watch em all.

You Gotta Love This Post

From Cryogenic on TFN’s Jedi Council message boards (I’ll post the relevant parts so you don’t have to suffer through the usual):

It’s Time To Think Of Ourselves As Cool

For too long, those of us who appreciate the Prequel trilogy (or at least open about it) have been on the defensive, feeling like we’re marginalized because we love something others don’t seem to understand. People who believe they’re the arbiters of geek culture have tried to give us an inferiority complex by bashing the films and its stars at every opportunity. When they’re not busy bashing “Twilight” or something anyway.

On my LiveJournal, I’ve noted that some stores have retro SW t-shirts as part of their fall offerings (I guess retro/nostalgia is in). The shirts are cool enough…I bought two at Old Navy…but I thought there’s one way we, as Prequel fans can fool good about themselves. Anybody can pose being a SW fan, at least in regard to the first three flicks. But wearing a clonetrooper or Darth Maul t-shirt, heck even a Jar Jar one, tells the world you’re the real deal. You know the Saga inside and out and have a deeper appreciation for it than just the surface stuff anybody can fake. You’re like the person who has all of the iTunes Deep Cuts tracks on your iPod already.

It also shows you can make up your own mind and you don’t need the poseurs at i09 or whatever to tell you what to think. The people who post comments on these sites are such sheep and tools it’s not even funny. There’s rarely an original thought among them. They just go along with what everyone else thinks.

Well, not us. Back in the late ’80s, a few of us diehards still stuck with SW even though it seemed as though at times the world had moved on from it. Within 10 years, the world caught up with us. So we’re on the real cutting edge now. See when the world catches up again.