Musical accompaniment (PLB theme nominee)
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If I ever ran into the flanneled one - despite my liking to think otherwise - I'd likely stutter out some incoherant babblings and then pass out. I'd like to think I'd either thank him for the grand ol' Galaxy Far Far Away or if I was in a bad mood I'd attempt to logically convince him that Han should shoot first again... But nah. I'd probably pass out.

This is why George Lucas never visits StarWars.com

I'm not good at wide sweeping thank you's anyway. I'll target something very direct in this case.

Thanks for not letting FOX have the rights to the characters, storyline, plot, licensing, etc. etc. etc.

Because if that happened you can be almost sure that The Pink Five Trilogy, Revelations, IMPS - The Relentless, and countless others would be met with "cease and desist your activities" legal notices. Or in the very least they wouldn't have official sanction.

Are most of them not worth watching at all? Absolutely. They're amaturish, badly cut, and overly geeky.... Every once in a while you get a gem though. That's beside the point though. The point is that they're out there and they even have official backing from the big GL himself. I think it says a lot that if you type in "Fan Film" or "Fanfilm" on google... theforce.net and atomfilms top the list.

It can sort of be summed up with this nice CGI fan film released just a few months back.

The Empire vs. Battlestar Galactica

On one side you have the mighty Star Wars, which certainly has the legal pull and funding to shut down fan films if it wanted... But doesn't. On the other side you have the 1978 Battlestar Galactica which is, for all intents and purposes, dead. Fan films can be made there because the studio doesn't really care what happens to the old Battlestar Galactica... They might get a bit more uppity about someone making a major fan film based on the 2003+ version of BSG. Fan films can be made about Star Wars because they always and consistantly look the other way and in the case of the fan film awards: They suport it.

So in all. Just a simple thank you for Lucas Co. not using their awesome power to shut people down from playing in their galaxy far far away... Actually, they encourage it.

Thank you

*Pops in his Revelations DVD with TROOPS as an added feature*
Mmm... TIE Fighter CGI goodness and Jawas getting shot.
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