Transcript of my Return of the Jedi live-tweet session. Just like on Twitter, the latest post is on top...
- I remember the first time, when Vader asks Luke to take his mask off, I thought "OMG this is happening!"
- Vader lifts up the Emperor - with only ONE hand - and tosses him over the side!
- "Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design." The Emperor is powerful, or is a control freak, or both?
- Luke tells Leia "Vader's here, on this moon, now" but Vader actually arrives from the Death Star in the next scene. Some Jedi!
- Of course the Ewoks agree to support the landing party. THEIR GOD ASKED THEM TO
- Isn't this Alliance landing party breaking the Prime Directive?
- I think the Ewok King just told Threepio "sorry, we're gonna cook your friends anyway. We've got the fire built already..."
- ...and then the Ewoks speared them all to death, and there was a great feast. END OF MOVIE
- What exactly is the point of the Stormtroopers' armor if Leia can hit a guy in the arm with a big stick, and he's done for?
- Luke's a real back seat driver.
- When I hit the Powerball, I'm buying one of those ginormous Millennium Falcon #lego kits on #ebay
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| Where do you put the camera to get Leia and Chewbacca's faces in frame at the same time? It's nearly impossible! |
- I love the hologram briefing scene. It's the only scene in the movie where everyone looks fresh from a shower + change of clothes.
- Ugh, General Madine has a really phony-looking blonde beard. Looks like crumbled-up graham crackers?
- Alec Guinness looks really old (for a dead guy), and seems to wish he was anywhere but Dagobah
- Ghost Kenobi just outlined Anakin's prequel trilogy character arc. Sometimes it's hard to believe those prequels really happened
- Yoda's falling asleep fast, like Final Jeopardy just ended.
- Look, Yoda, before you die, I have a few questions...
- He doesn't look a day over 850!
- That big establishing shot of the Emperor's arrival at the Death Star? A matte painting. A very good matte painting!
- The only time Artoo can communicate directly with any human is when he's plugged into the X-wing sending Luke texts in the cockpit
- The sail barge model blowing up still looks great
- When Leia climbs on the big gun on the sail barge...you pretty much see EVERYTHING
- Boba Fett's pathetic wail, and tumble into the Sarlacc pit is the least cool thing ever.
- "Threepio, you tell that slimy piece of worm-ridden...filth he'll get no such pleasure from us!...right?"
- I love the aftermarket cocktail rig Artoo's wearing on the sail barge
- I really like the herds of wooly mammoths Lucas added to the Tattoine desertscape for the Special Edition.
- "A Jedi Knight? I'm out of it for a little while, everybody gets delusions of grandeur!"
- Just Leia's luck that the only things Jabba has in common with humans are lust for power, money, and petite young women #blerg
- Make sure you stir Solo while defrosting, or he's going to reheat unevenly!
- The slow nod Boba Fett gives Leia-as-bounty-hunter is the coolest thing anyone's ever done
- If George Lucas had a sense of humor, there'd be a DVD subtitle track for R2D2's dialog. Chewbacca too.
- "Oooh, a free movie. And in 3-D too!" Jabba upon seeing Artoo's holovideo
- "No Jabba no badda."...Albino Rat Tail Head
- @GeekyNerdChick: Bib Fortuna! Poor guy. Just trying to do his job in that crazypants place. What's a Twilek gotta do to earn some scratch?
- @GeekyNerdChick, there are SO MANY #StarWars characters whose names are never mentioned in the movies...only on the toy packages! #ewok
- @GeekyNerdChick: And in novels & BTS docs that I may or may not have read/watched so many times I got banned from SW Trivial Pursuit in college...
- @GeekyNerdChick, that sounds familiar. I have several #StarWars novels, and two Lando adventures too!
- Threepio really is a world class coward. Galaxy-class!
- The sad, resigned Commander after Vader walks away: "I'm gonna get Force-strangled, I just *know* it."
- "I hope so Commander, for your sake. The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am." Vader humor live tweet!
- I thought I was over it, but the Star Wars fanfare still gives me chills.
