Re: Star Wars: Episode VII (2015)
Posted: Thu April 16, 2015 8:41 pm
I don't think that's true. I believe ESB was always Ep. 5. ANH got the episode# long before the prequels.durdencommatyler wrote:Oh, it so isn't. It's fantastic. The numerals appeared nowhere in the original trilogy marketing. It wasn't until the prequels that they became a thing.Kaius wrote:That's dumb.
Getting rid of them is actually a masterful part of the nostalgia of it all and kind of a finger to GL. Which, good for JJ.
did anyone else notice luke says his father HAS the force, present tense?Chris_H_2 wrote:$100 he's talking to that black stormtrooperStrat wrote:That wasn't lukes line from Rotj right? That is new and expanded. I wonder who he is talking to....and if it is a member of his family...? Leis Daughter probably.
Nope.CopperTom wrote:I don't think that's true. I believe ESB was always Ep. 5. ANH got the episode# long before the prequels.durdencommatyler wrote:Oh, it so isn't. It's fantastic. The numerals appeared nowhere in the original trilogy marketing. It wasn't until the prequels that they became a thing.Kaius wrote:That's dumb.
Getting rid of them is actually a masterful part of the nostalgia of it all and kind of a finger to GL. Which, good for JJ.

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:This looks fucking awesome.
Right, it'll be there in the opening like it's always been. But not in the advertising. Which is a good thing.Self wrote:Guys, it's the NFL that got rid of the Roman numerals. I'm sure they'll be there in the opening scrawl.
In the marketing and in the movie are seperate things. I'm 99% sure that my SW VHS tapes all had episode #.durdencommatyler wrote:Nope.CopperTom wrote:I don't think that's true. I believe ESB was always Ep. 5. ANH got the episode# long before the prequels.durdencommatyler wrote:Oh, it so isn't. It's fantastic. The numerals appeared nowhere in the original trilogy marketing. It wasn't until the prequels that they became a thing.Kaius wrote:That's dumb.
Getting rid of them is actually a masterful part of the nostalgia of it all and kind of a finger to GL. Which, good for JJ.
Here's the original poster for ESB. No roman numerals
Original tapes or George Lucas anal fucked ones?CopperTom wrote:In the marketing and in the movie are seperate things. I'm 99% sure that my SW VHS tapes all had episode #.durdencommatyler wrote:Nope.CopperTom wrote:I don't think that's true. I believe ESB was always Ep. 5. ANH got the episode# long before the prequels.durdencommatyler wrote:Oh, it so isn't. It's fantastic. The numerals appeared nowhere in the original trilogy marketing. It wasn't until the prequels that they became a thing.Kaius wrote:That's dumb.
Getting rid of them is actually a masterful part of the nostalgia of it all and kind of a finger to GL. Which, good for JJ.
Here's the original poster for ESB. No roman numerals
Original. I think we are saying different things anyway. He is saying marketing. I am saying movie.Sgt. Crackpot wrote:Original tapes or George Lucas anal fucked ones?CopperTom wrote:In the marketing and in the movie are seperate things. I'm 99% sure that my SW VHS tapes all had episode #.durdencommatyler wrote:Nope.CopperTom wrote:I don't think that's true. I believe ESB was always Ep. 5. ANH got the episode# long before the prequels.durdencommatyler wrote:Oh, it so isn't. It's fantastic. The numerals appeared nowhere in the original trilogy marketing. It wasn't until the prequels that they became a thing.Kaius wrote:That's dumb.
Getting rid of them is actually a masterful part of the nostalgia of it all and kind of a finger to GL. Which, good for JJ.
Here's the original poster for ESB. No roman numerals
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6679425.stmCopperTom wrote:Original. I think we are saying different things anyway. He is saying marketing. I am saying movie.Sgt. Crackpot wrote:Original tapes or George Lucas anal fucked ones?CopperTom wrote:In the marketing and in the movie are seperate things. I'm 99% sure that my SW VHS tapes all had episode #.durdencommatyler wrote:Nope.CopperTom wrote:I don't think that's true. I believe ESB was always Ep. 5. ANH got the episode# long before the prequels.durdencommatyler wrote:Oh, it so isn't. It's fantastic. The numerals appeared nowhere in the original trilogy marketing. It wasn't until the prequels that they became a thing.Kaius wrote:That's dumb.
Getting rid of them is actually a masterful part of the nostalgia of it all and kind of a finger to GL. Which, good for JJ.
Here's the original poster for ESB. No roman numerals
4. The full title Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope first appeared when the film was re-released in 1981.