Tarkin's brilliantly - obvious - plan!

Tarkin realises that the Falcon is headed to the rebel base! So - if the Empire want to find the rebel base then they should follow the Falcon to it. That's a good plan isn't it? I bet Vader's thinking:

"Hold on, didn't I think of that first? Didn't I put the tracking device on their ship? Why doesn't he remember me telling him this? Is he senile? I thought I was the one going senile! Maybe Kenobi really did just disappear. No one listens to me anymore. Tarkin won't even let me force-choke my colleagues... "Release him Vader". What am I? His Rottweiler? Maybe I'll force choke him... Ohhhh... that would be soooo good."

Before and after the blue pen was added. So, Randy Quaid's in it now?

Oh - 1977

This was the first bit of the film I ever saw. Probably on Clapperboard I think it was. A BBC or ITV weekly show about upcoming movies. I was in my auntie Pauline's house in Bessbrook village, Northern Ireland while my mum was staying there in preparation for my baby sister's arrival, and this awesome - mind blasting - unbelievably exciting segment was broadcast. I sat there stunned. I'm sure the music was key to its impact on me. A few months later in the South of Ireland, at Christmas time I must have pleaded with dad to take me to see it. It would be the first time I ever went to a film on my own. A big event!

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+1 # RE: TIE Fighters! (02) — T. Gatto 2011-09-30 22:01

Lave Tarkin alone, somebody has to have Vader's leash!

I think he looks likd Dolf Lundgren in panel #1

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+1 # RE: RE: TIE Fighters! (02) — john i white 2011-09-30 22:20

It wouldn't surprise me if he looked like ANYONE but Peter Cushing!

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+1 # RE: TIE Fighters! (02) — Neil 2011-09-30 22:23

I remember when they showed the escape from Mos Eisley on Screen Test and I practically shat my pants.
For the record, the doors do indeed go up, Michael Rod.

Oh, and somebody ate all the ham... Solo.

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0 # RE: RE: TIE Fighters! (02) — john i white 2011-09-30 22:28

AGHH! Why the hell did we have to grow up?

I bet after you saw that you thought of nothing else for a week!

Chubby in't he?

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+1 # RE: RE: RE: TIE Fighters! (02) — Neil 2011-09-30 23:18

Quoting john i white:

I bet after you saw that you thought of nothing else for a week!

The fact that I can remember one of the questions from a 1977 edition of Screen Test, and not my own phone number, speaks volumes.

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0 # RE: RE: RE: RE: TIE Fighters! (02) — john i white 2011-09-30 23:27

You're so right!

I still remember my fascist teacher Mr.Casan in Ireland, 1978, trying to 'bond' with me and Niall by mentioning "Obi Kenobi". Typical kids: we found this worthy of ridicule.

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