* The slave-girl costume worn by Laureline in World Without Stars and the costume worn by the character Leia Organa in the scenes where she is enslaved by Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi * A scene in Empire of a Thousand Planets (L'Empire des Mille Planètes) where Valérian is encased in a liquid plastic and a scene in The Empire Strikes Back where the character Han Solo is encased in a substance called carbonite. * A scene in Empire of a Thousand Planets where one of the Authorities removes his helmet to reveal his burned and scarred face underneath and a scene in Return of the Jedi where the character Darth Vader removes his helmet to reveal the burned face of Anakin Skywalker. * The alien Shingouz and the character Watto seen in The Phantom Menace. Mézières' response upon seeing Star Wars was that he was “dazzled, jealous. “Oh, we've been hanging around here for a long time!” retorts Laureline.Īs a riposte, Mézières produced an illustration for Pilote magazine in 1983 depicting the Star Wars characters Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa meeting Valérian and Laureline in a bar surrounded by a bestiary of alien creatures typical of that seen in both series. Mézières has since been informed that Doug Chiang, design director on The Phantom Menace, kept a set of Valérian albums in his library. Monte Williams has a nice write-up about the Star Wars series in popmatters. He makes a good point for the Phantom Menace actually being the best of the prequels, and points out flaws in the remaining two that show just how much Lucas mangled the overarching mythology. Palpatine is a cunning conniver, and some of his speeches to the malleable Anakin Skywalker are creepy in their cold persuasiveness. But while the first stirrings of Anakin‘s turn to the dark side are convincing, things escalate too quickly he essentially kills “younglings” as his opening chore for Palpatine.Īdmittedly, it’s a powerful scene. Lets hope that the rest of the series keeps up the high standard set by this one.When the young child Jedi asks Anakin, “What are we going to do?” and then steps backward, eyes widening in horrible understanding, it‘s easily the most chilling and terrible moment in the six-film saga. The musican cues are well used, and the scene with the crew sneaking out of the Millenium Falcon to the sounds of Minnie the Moocher was simply inspired, as was the elevator music version of the Empire theme. There are plenty of cameo appearances and digs at other sci-fi series which gives the episode some replay value (especially in the Cantana scene). On the other hand some characters, like Joe Swanson and Meg are under-used (in fact I don't think Joe even appears). The plot follows the original very closely with plenty of shot-for-shot remakes and some excellent casting, such as Adam West as Grand Moff Tarkin, Cleveland and Quagmire as R2D2 and C3PO, Stewie as Darth Vader. That isn't to say that every joke is comedy gold (do we really need another Herbert musical number?) but overall it is certainly well worth watching - if only to see Darth Stewie. Luke: Then stay here and rot, you stuck up bitch! Leia: Aren't you a little fat to be a storm trooper? In fact you can see the amount of effort that has gone into getting this episode to be just right rather simply presenting a selection of Star Wars jokes. The animation is excellent (and that is something that you can't usually say about Family Guy) as were the music and sound effects. I've got to admit that I had some concerns as to how well this would work, but they have managed to tread that fine line between parody and homage without going too far into either. The new season of Family Guy kicked off on Sunday with a double-length special parody of Star Wars episode 4. Thank *insert deity of choice* it's Friday!Ī long time ago, yet somehow in the future.Darl McBride interview with Wired magazine.New series of Family Guy starts on Sunday.It's the end of the World as we know it.Trials and tribulations of "a certain lawyer".When "Sorry" is the hardest word to say.
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