The Official Episode III spoiler thread

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » 2005-03-29 10:11am

It also looks like the wrist manacles on Vader's operating table can move up and down. Too bad the lowered position isn't how he appears when the table tilts upward. Arms-up looks terrible, in my opinion.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2005-03-29 10:14am

Sadly the one showing ol Palp's next to him, is better picture then the teaser one. Don't why they had the two positions.

The arms up just does not convey the right look...especially since it really makes him looking like he had tiny girlie wrists.

Post by **Vympel** » 2005-03-29 11:31am

I get the distinct impression that they monitored the unfavourable fan reaction to Vader's pose and quickly changed it.

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » 2005-03-29 11:38am

I'd wondered if it was some last-minute postproduction change, although as I said, the table does look like the manacles can shift position.

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2005-03-29 12:34pm

Very nice, very nice indeed.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2005-03-29 12:48pm

Vympel wrote:A shitload of awesome new screen shots, including Anakin burning

[Makes obvious reference to "Disco Inferno".]

He looks like The Nameless One, from Planescape: Torment. Cool!

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2005-03-29 01:52pm

Nice "Sith-eyes" on crispy Vader/Anakin, there.

Gorefiend · Post by **Gorefiend** » 2005-03-29 02:04pm

He looks like The Nameless One, from Planescape: Torment. Cool!

No he does not o.O "The Nameless One" is far cooler then "Anikan the Roasted" ever could be.

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2005-03-29 03:53pm

*looks at image slowly burning in the Ash Pile*

Daaamn, thats F***ed up! I mean, damn, he looks so, creepy, just sitting, slooowwwly being roasted alive... No wonder Vader turned into such a Bastard!

EDIT: just caught something else... in the pic of Vader next to the Empier, anyone catch the fact hes wearing his Cape? I mean, He's JUST off the table and he has the cape on? That means the droids, while remaking him, had to have added the cape During the operation! Was it that big a deal? Could his cape actually have some mysterious LifeSaving properties that he had to have it instaled so soon?

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2005-03-29 03:58pm

In the photo where Anakin and Obi Wan are clashing lightsabers, doesn't Anakin look a bit overweight?

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2005-03-29 03:58pm

Haven´t you heard? Capes are a hot item in trauma wards!

doesn't Anakin look a bit overweight?

People want Hayden to put on some weight to match Vader, he puts on some weight. Done deal.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-03-29 04:09pm

Good lord...

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2005-03-29 04:22pm

I have to retract my statement re: Vader´s injuries, didn´t see where the biological limbs ended and the robotic limbs began. Now I see that he´s missing one arm and both legs (though he seems to be intact down to the knees).

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2005-03-30 08:49am

MF.com has a thread showing the new ROTS RPG cards.

New vehicles include: Republic Assault Gunboat (bigger, sleeker gunship with a big cannon), Republic Military Airspeeder, Acclamator Mk. II Assault Ship (can´t tell any real difference between it an the Mk. I)

And there´s plenty of new quotes and pictures of other vehicles and people as well.

EDIT: Here they are:

Gorefiend · Post by **Gorefiend** » 2005-03-30 09:10am

How can the ARC be the precursor of the Headhunter?

The Headhunter is already around by the Battle of Naboo.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2005-03-30 09:37am

That would make the ARC an even older design. No real continuity error there, since we know so little about it anyways.

Gorefiend · Post by **Gorefiend** » 2005-03-30 09:45am

So the “new” republic strike fighter is in fact a ship that was build more then 13 years in the past.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2005-03-30 09:52am

Who cares? A new weapon can always be modernized and refitted or recommissioned if its design and scale and sophistication permits it. Especially in a civilization without appreciable scientific or technological progress.

Gorefiend · Post by **Gorefiend** » 2005-03-30 10:12am

Just strikes me as odd that after having huge flying hangar decks build, they get some more then a decade old star fighter as their main strike craft. Sure, it might be the best thing they could find, still odd though, that they did not build something new.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2005-03-30 10:23am

And you presume they selected their strike fighter after designing the Venator why?

Gorefiend · Post by **Gorefiend** » 2005-03-30 10:36am

They properly did it at the same time, though in fact they might have build the Venator, because they took the ARC Fighter as main strike craft. After all the ARC has a wingspan of 22.85 meters and they properly needed the “flying space hangar” design just to fit them right.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2005-03-30 11:13am

Just because the ARC is an older design, doesn´t necessarily mean it´s worse than newer designs. Just look at the EA-6B Prowler, which has served since the early 70's. I read somewhere it was being phased out in 1999, but then they decided to keep it and just upgrade it. (Next big upgrade should be finished by 2010!)

Not to mention the Harrier (the 60's) or the B-52 (In service since the late 50's and estimated to last beyond 2040!)

Gorefiend · Post by **Gorefiend** » 2005-03-30 11:39am

Where did I say the ship was bad, because it is old? It is just strange that they should pick up a 13+ year old strike craft, when the rest of their ships seem all new.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2005-03-30 11:46am

It´s implied, since you think it´s strange that they keep a ship that´s old. Why does everything need to be new if it won´t make any difference?

Gorefiend · Post by **Gorefiend** » 2005-03-30 11:54am

does everything need to be new if it won´t make any difference?

No of course not, the Headhunter can kill TIE Fighters better then some modern star fighters and it is some 30+ years old by the battle of Yavin, for example. But, I am certain someone will soon screw over how old Headhunters are, when they say ARCs were designed one years after the clone wars began, or something like it.