The odd thing about the canonical Count Dooku is that, going from only his on-screen appearances, one never actually gets much sense of what a tragic character his Sith Lord persona really is. Oh, it's obvious that Palpatine is just dicking him over in order to get to Anakin, but there's little sense of just how far he's fallen, or how good his intentions were. For that you have to go to outside sources (like his writeup in the Star Wars D20 RPG materials), which is a shame. Without that context he just comes off as... well, Christopher Lee's Dracula with a lightsaber. Count-ah DooOOooOooOoOooku, as it were.

That said, he's in UF mostly because of my massive admiration for Christopher Lee - which I have in spite of the fact that I don't even really like most of the 100 zillion movies he's been in. I admire the hell out of the volume and breadth of his body of work, though, even if I'm not so fond of most of the individual bits.

Now, if I can only manage to give his real-life best friend the screen time he deserves...

--G.
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Not necessarily. All I meant was that the way his character arc was designed in the prequel trilogy seemed kind of wasteful; he appeared to be a throwaway character like Darth Maul before him, if you just went by what was actually presented about him on screen.

--G.
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>That said, he's in UF mostly because of my massive admiration for
>Christopher Lee - which I have in spite of the fact that I don't even
>really like most of the 100 zillion movies he's been in. I admire the
>hell out of the volume and breadth of his body of work, though, even
>if I'm not so fond of most of the individual bits.
>
I'm not a huge fan of his work either, but I agree that he's an amazing actor. Nice to see him getting a little screen time, even if I must say that I too have a bit of foreboding about him...

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Or I could be astoundingly, amazingly, WAY off target.
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"It's difficult keeping up with the cross-continuity, but I think Cosmouse just gave The Saturnian Scraphunter his Ultimate Pacifier to use against Galactapuss..."

I said in the announcement of the title that I thought it would be four, like Road Movie to Naboo, and it's still looking like that's probably the case.

>we haven't yet had
>the dialogue where Poirot is talking about taking on Granger as his
>Padawan!

Er, if that scene wasn't in Part I, something has gone terribly, terribly wrong. It's supposed to be immediately after Len and Zaerdra look in on Vert's "Advanced Topics in Force Duality" class.

--G.
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I'm a Moron.

I can't believe I missed that.
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"It's difficult keeping up with the cross-continuity, but I think Cosmouse just gave The Saturnian Scraphunter his Ultimate Pacifier to use against Galactapuss..."

*checks something*

And that's approximately when UF #1 was first posted...

Possibly a coincidence, tho. The earliest reference I can find is 11/14/91.

In the UF universe, 10,191 Before Standard Calendar is generally accepted in Jedi lore as the year Duke Paul Atreides of Caladan founded the Fremen, direct predecessors of the Order of Jedi Knights.

--G.
"A beginning is a very delicate time... "
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...cookies?

-KridEngaged

The location of the world known in Padishah times as Arrakis has been lost to history. Modern glitterstim, widely known in the galactic drug trade as "spice", is not melange.

--G.
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*Blinks at this as he is also a fan of Dune.*
Good gravey, man! How much of this do you have all sussed out!?

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There's a BPGD file on the Jedi Order somewhere in the Forum archives that mentions the Fremen connection. It's based on indirect historical evidence and is accepted as an article of faith as much as anything else by modern Jedi, but it's in there.

--G.
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Allow me to chime in here. I thought first Len was pulling a Neo, but then he was acting all spidermanish. Were the comments and the jumping about and such a conscious or unconscious reflection of Peter Parker's character?

Anyway, M. Hutchins has proven to have more depths than I orginally thought. Cheers. Character development in a subtle way is to be applauded.

yours,
t.

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Manon, Maccadon, Orado, etc.
Denton, never leave home without it.

"If we are marked to die, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater the share of honour
God's will I pray thee wish not one man more" - Henry V, Act, IV Scene III

The Chief rarely sleeps in his office any more. He's not allowed.

>Utena. She is quite
>possibly the One, and we can see the impact of her on the
>organizaiton. But no one mentions her to Len, Obi-wan, or Emmu...why?

Well, it didn't really come up, did it? I mean, it's not as if Obi-Wan looked around and said, "Gosh, what happened to this place? If I didn't know better, I'd say that about three years ago someone forced the Jedi Council to re-evaluate the process by which members of the order are trained for their roles in society." :)

Anyway, Utena's not a member of the Jedi Order, so there is no particular reason why she'd have been around the Aldera Temple or a subject of everyday conversation there. Vert and Morpheus didn't exactly take out full-page ads in The New York Times announcing, "Hey, we found the One."

>My last question...did Obi-wan undergo some sort of Salusian process
>to turn into an Ewan McGregor clone? Not that I'm complaining...

Something like that. Cosmetic biosculpting (of which the Salusian "humanization" process is the most widely known example) is a fairly well-established technology, especially on well-to-do, up-to-date worlds like Naboo. It's usually used for artistic/expressionistic purposes there (people fooling around with their hair color and whatnot), but making a Hyelian look human is well within the bounds of possibility. The only really tricky part is the extra fingers. :)

--G.
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..good point. I assumed, perhaps wrongly, that Emmy & Len had some knowledge of Jedi organization and affairs from their contacts with Yoda. Or perhaps the master is being tight-mouthed as usual?

> Vert and Morpheus didn't
>exactly take out full-page ads in The New York Times
>announcing, "Hey, we found the One."

Pity that. <grin>

I also guess this means Harry isn't going to be her padawan. Please tell me you're not sticking him with yet another Albus Dumbledore disaster...it sounds like he's a trouble magnet. Ah well, something to look forward to seeing.

...and I noticed no comments on the Slarti angle - hush, hush, or waiting for Mr. Collier to comment? Btw, loved the Scudco movie...

cheers,
t.

Trigger Argee
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Manon, Maccadon, Orado, etc.
Denton, never leave home without it.

"If we are marked to die, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater the share of honour
God's will I pray thee wish not one man more" - Henry V, Act, IV Scene III

No explanation has appeared on screen yet. I'll probably get into it at least a little whenever I manage to resume work on Symphony No. 5. For the most part, her friends suspect it has something to do with her increased intake of Vitamin J, as it were.

>what the hell did Vader actually -do- to the shade of Quevas
>anyway?

Since that scene was mostly from Emmy's perspective, and she has no idea what he did, that'll have to stay deliberately ambiguous for now.

--G.
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Nice. I think we could all do with a little more Vitamin J, as it were. =P Great story. =)