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Chiang Kai-shek said:
To be fair, in the commentary for Episode III one of the crew members jokingly said they did throw in a kitchen sink. I haven’t watched the commentary for episode III in ages so I’m not sure if he was being facetious or literal.
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The actual star wars website
used to claim that this was true.
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Found cited on eeggs.com.
They claim there that this
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is it.

I assume it's supposed to be one of these
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But it's so blurry to be impossible to tell if it's even really a sink or just random scifi garbage.
 
I could see a kitchen sink being used for modeling/props in that scene but how do we know that particular shot contains the sink as opposed to any other shot?
 
Save the Loli said:
I could see a kitchen sink being used for modeling/props in that scene but how do we know that particular shot contains the sink as opposed to any other shot?
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I believe the claim is, based on the details of the old star wars website archive and what eeggs said in 2005, this shot
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starting from 2:57 and ending at 3:01.

The star wars website claims it's this chunk that slams into the "republic vessel"
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(looks a bit more like the claimed sink here to me)

but they actually select one of the flares that you can't make out any detail of. (Likely this one that splits into two in the center lower left here)
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So who knows. I'm guessing they do mean the one that crashes into the ship because that's what they specifically said.
 
Toolbox said:
And does it not gatekeep against the colorblind and totally blind? 🤔 Seems a bit exclusionary.
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How does a blind person know if they're gay or straight...

Now I'm really curious if anybody has done studies on the matter.
 
Some more minor Tv Tropes autism this time on a funny cat and a show for dweebs.

The Twisted Tails of Felix the Cat was a 90s cartoon reboot of the classic cartoon character. The 7 minute short "Star Trash" is a light parody of Star Trek where Felix must stop a legally distinct version of the Star Trek crew from dumping trash on earth. At one point the Kirk look alike says "We are on a three-year mission to spawn sequels and spin-offs to exploit legions of social outcasts". This line was apparently enough to trigger a troper to the point of writing this:

  • Shallow Parody: A lot of "Star Trash" basically consists of cheap and mean-spirited potshots at the original Star Trek series, with the implications being that the show (and its successor) are hokey and pretentious TV garbage that only appeals to nerds. It even makes broadsides at it that aren't even true, such as depicting the ersatz-Kirk as being a reckless Cowboy Cop with an unusual way of emphasizing words (in the actual show, Kirk was usually a rational, level-headed and by-the-books Captain, and Shatner's unique way of delivering dialogue wasnt nearly as over the top as parodies make it out to be) and the joke of the Spock expy, Mr. Gleep, claiming that he's not unemotive, just "a bad actor" in particular is rather petty considering that in reality, Leonard Nimoy had much more versatile acting chops than his role as the rigid and unemotive Spock implied (including both in the show itself and the six movies following up on it), but he rarely got to show them off due to the inescapable typecasting he got from the role). While the jabs at nerds might have been relevant in the mid 90's (and admittedly can still apply to the more elitist or out of touch sections of certain fanbases), in light of nerd culture growing in the years after and eventually becoming a mainstream culture unto itself (with Star Trek itself eventually breaking into the mainstream and becoming a billion dollar franchise around the 2000s and still running to this day with shows like Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard) its safe to say that this episode has not aged all that well, especially in comparison to other Star Trek parodies like Galaxy Quest.
 
Cool kitties club said:
Some more minor Tv Tropes autism this time on a funny cat and a show for dweebs.

The Twisted Tails of Felix the Cat was a 90s cartoon reboot of the classic cartoon character. The 7 minute short "Star Trash" is a light parody of Star Trek where Felix must stop a legally distinct version of the Star Trek crew from dumping trash on earth. At one point the Kirk look alike says "We are on a three-year mission to spawn sequels and spin-offs to exploit legions of social outcasts". This line was apparently enough to trigger a troper to the point of writing this:

  • Shallow Parody: A lot of "Star Trash" basically consists of cheap and mean-spirited potshots at the original Star Trek series, with the implications being that the show (and its successor) are hokey and pretentious TV garbage that only appeals to nerds. It even makes broadsides at it that aren't even true, such as depicting the ersatz-Kirk as being a reckless Cowboy Cop with an unusual way of emphasizing words (in the actual show, Kirk was usually a rational, level-headed and by-the-books Captain, and Shatner's unique way of delivering dialogue wasnt nearly as over the top as parodies make it out to be) and the joke of the Spock expy, Mr. Gleep, claiming that he's not unemotive, just "a bad actor" in particular is rather petty considering that in reality, Leonard Nimoy had much more versatile acting chops than his role as the rigid and unemotive Spock implied (including both in the show itself and the six movies following up on it), but he rarely got to show them off due to the inescapable typecasting he got from the role). While the jabs at nerds might have been relevant in the mid 90's (and admittedly can still apply to the more elitist or out of touch sections of certain fanbases), in light of nerd culture growing in the years after and eventually becoming a mainstream culture unto itself (with Star Trek itself eventually breaking into the mainstream and becoming a billion dollar franchise around the 2000s and still running to this day with shows like Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard) its safe to say that this episode has not aged all that well, especially in comparison to other Star Trek parodies like Galaxy Quest.
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You can just feel the asshurt coming from the guy writing this. Not even Captain Kirk could convince this guy to develop a sense of humor.
 
The entire "Shallow Parody" page is basically nothing but REEEEING. The Family Guy entries are the most autistic.
 
Cool kitties club said:
with Star Trek itself eventually breaking into the mainstream and becoming a billion dollar franchise around the 2000s and still running to this day with shows like Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard
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Ah yes, both universally despised, with the franchise basically becoming a "shallow parody" of itself at this point. Meanwhile, Felix the Cat is remembered as a cute clock. Checkmate, Tropers.
 
Chin of Campbell said:
Ah yes, both universally despised, with the franchise basically becoming a "shallow parody" of itself at this point. Meanwhile, Felix the Cat is remembered as a cute clock. Checkmate, Tropers.
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There's even a youtube channel that just juxtaposes things people said in the original about society and the rules of various cultures and how they act in the new series.
 
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