Just hanging out at the local space diner having a space burger with space fries, washing it all down with a space shake.
Who the fuck eats space food while planetside?
>>215645752Why does this scene bother people so much? Obi Wan knows a guy at a diner and this is a problem why?
>>215645809It’s too familiar. Star Wars is supposed to feel otherworldly. This feels like American Graffiti or Happy Days in space
>>215645825The cantina from ANH was just 'the saloon' with aliens, Anon...
>>215645849Yeah but there weren’t fucking barn doors on the cantina.
>>215645752That diner is a waste of space on a planet that's completely urbanized. There could be a 200 story building there.
do you think he ever wiped his shit in anyones food?
>>215645881How do you know it's not?
>>215645910You can see taller buildings all around it.
>>215645949This is on the 16th floor rooftop in Tyson's, VA. It's called the Perch.
>>215645910There's a street, sidewalk, street signs, etc
>>215646015There could be entire city streets and avenues constructed on superstructures is all I'm saying. It's not unheard of in scifi.
>>215645996Really? Is Tyson's Virginia on the surface of a planet where every square inch has been paved over and built up? Also the perch looks like it's for cunts.
>>215646038Not yet but there's always another datacenter cropping up.
Are deathsticks just cigarettes or something worse?
>>215646066Dunno. Disney + probably has a 6 episode series about them.
>>215645881Coruscant is a massive hive city planet with miles of buildings and millions of people underneath every event that takes place there. The Jedi and Senators are patricians that live above trillions of plebes and depth-grovellers>>215646066They're explicitly a narcotic but it isn't clear what the effects are in canon. They're made chemicals distilled from alien mushrooms so probably hallucinogens
>>215646066 I want to go home and rethink my life
>ah just having my modern mead with my modern turkey leg i mean what the fuck were they thinking? real life is supposed to feel like 2025 and nothing else, at all times.
>>215645809Because the city shit felt like Blade Runner and not Star Wars. The diner specifically felt un-Star Wars. Just something else to make AotC suck.
>>215645825really, its supposed to? they failed then, from the first movie. it seems to me like they went out of their way to create a naturalistic and familiar setting that happens to have weird aliens in it.
>>215646612>Un-Star WarsIt's extremely Star Wars. The whole series is "Place + Biome"
Can any Dexter's Diner Defenders think of any other examples of tonally bizarre settings that resemble the real world too much to justify its existence? It really sticks out like a sore thumb to me
>>215645752I've watched auralnauts so many times i cant even remember what the alien sounds like in the original
>>215645886he definitely rubbed his dirty wop hands through his lice-infested scalp before touching the food
>>215645809Watch the Plinkett AoTC review.
>>215646564Star Wars takes place way before the middle ages
>>215645849But the architecture of a derelict clay building in Muslim North Africa is so alien to my Western sensibilities that it looks like a space bar on a desert planet to me.
>>215645809I didnt have a problem with it. I saw this movie 7 times in the cinema
>>215645752Say what you want but it has SOUL. Meanwhile Disney puts in Droid gay bars
>>215646066I remember from the visual dictionary that each use shortens your life a little. It was basically George's anti smoking bit.
>>215645849Shh don’t remind them
>>215646564Why is that armour child size?
>>215647210People were a lot shorter in the middle ages.
>>215645825It plays really well in the movie
>>215646066They're cigarettes. People try to cope about it but George was always very anti-smoking. A shop in my local town was selling Star Wars lighters and he somehow found it within like a week and had his lawyers strong arm the guy into destroying them all. I think I even caught recall seeing the scene get a call out on Good Morning America where they said the new Star Wars movie had an anti smoking message
>>215645752>Just hanging out at the local mudbrick diner having a mudbrick burger with mudbrick fries, washing it all down with a mudbrick shake.
>>215646652DS9 had a weird 50s cabaret lounge that only like two people ever went to, don't know how it stayed open
>>215645809It bugged me because those 1950 style throwback dinners were getting popular in the late 90s/early 00s so it felt trendy. if you didn’t like TPM and were sitting through clones, scenes like this were just another reminder of how bad Star Wars had gotten. Remember the generational divide. Millenials enjoyed the prequils a fuck lot more than genx and above did.
>>215645752Why obi wan not tried death sticks?
>>215649507Because the death sticks dealer was literally named Elan Sleazebaggano.
>>215645752It happened in Spaceballs.
>>215649749>meta's meta
>>215647039>RLMNo thanks, I'd rather Chris Stuckmann.
>>215645825there's nothing otherworldly about deserts or bars or stuck-up military guys in uniform or pilots on a bombing run. it's literally all familiar shit but in space. if anything star wars was relatively grounded and mundane.
>>215646038the point is that the diner is not on the literal "surface" of coruscant. the only place on the whole planet where the "surface" is visible is the peak of the tallest mountain, which barely pokes above street level. there's literal miles of bullshit packed underneath the diner, as if it was on the rooftop of a mountain-tall gigaskyscraper. therefore the difference in surface area usage efficiency between the diner and the taller buildings around it is actually miniscule because they're all just pimples on a megastructure.
>>215646612the "city planet" was originally invented for the first movie but was replaced with the death star. it was also supposed to be in rotj but was cut. it's is an extremely star wars idea that was part of the universe from literally before the first movie came out.
>>215650460I remember the old canon had corsecunts planet surface being akin to the worst ghetto slums of the19th century.
>>215645849It's nothing like how saloons are usually depicted
>>215646652did blue milk really do a number on you? its just milk but coloured blue. must have blown your mind. its like real life!
>>215645752>there has never been a star wars movie, tv show or even video game set in the lower levels of Coruscantwhat a fucking waste
>>215651405I think the original Dark Forces did something like that but on a different planet.
>>215645809it doesn't bother people, people are just mocking it and making jokes
>>215650498>canon in muh toy commercialgo back
>>215645752Do the lower levels have space diners too?
Zero space tip? Yeah, I'm thinking we're back
>>215645809Because Star Wars fans like to put fanon arbitrary limits on things such as the setting and the force (Yes, they thought Palpatine's force lightning was too much). You can find old forum archives on this stuff since 1983.
>>215645825>Star Wars is supposed to feel otherworldlyyeah but they eatso they might eat outso what are acceptable sci-fi eating out locations then?- tv dinner comes out of a slot- western style space cantina- meal appears after your selection- meal is a paste in a tube- buy a meal at a diner- nightclub with painstick dealers
>>215651470KOTOR actually. The game that was better than the prequils
>>215652136The Jetson pills. The Jetsons did it better in so many ways
>>215652167oh yeah they were cool
>>215646038>for cuntswait til you get a load of the rest of Northern VA
Fucking retards nit picking basically.Everyone remembers the Spanish conquistador trails through tattooine converting sand people to Christianity with blood and starvation.Why wouldn’t there be a fast food service that played loud music and had teens and hot rod speeders? And then you remember that Lucas crafted kino aesthetics that defied physics and reality but told a complete story. And relied on others to weave together a story from his visuals.
>>215652167They were also based on an old premise of people no longer eating food, and just taking their vitamins and minerals and caloric intake being non existent. Then nutritionists realize calories mattered for shit.
>>215646652Yavin IV Aztec pyramids
>>215645795Star warriors
>>215649116>suddenly a dog walks in
>>215645752It’s like Lucas saw a Johnny Rockets at LAX and thought it would fit in his fantasy world
>>215645752This has aged well.
>>215645752Star Wars has 40s style naval battles and dog fighing, subsistence farming. Why is a 50s diner so outlandish and out of place?
>>215645825Darth Vader at a Thanksgiving dinner table is hard scifi
>>215653414made me lol at the truth of it
>>215646612That was just the nightlife district. Coruscant is every take on THE CITY OF THE FUTURE TODAY mashed up in one.
>>215646652The Mos Eisley Cantina is a cowboy bar full of aliens and "Just normal guys in normal spacesuits" with Big Band Jazz music playing in it.
>>215645809Somewhere along the line people forgot that Star Wars is just a collection of random shit that George Lucas likes crammed into a semi-original movie saga
>>215645809Because Obi Wan is trying to solve a galactic military conspiracy and it turns out his waiter just randomly knows a secret clone army is being built on a secluded planet
>>215645752we could have had a real life star wars themed diner franchise all across the country but the fucking gen xers had to go and hate the prequels
>>215653888>sherlock holmes is trying to solve a mystery and it turns out this homeless guy just happens to know things that the police and academics were missingthis is the oldest detective story trope in the book
>>215653459Yes, but it doesn't look like a cowboy bar. It has its own architecture and style. It's inspired by real life Middle Eastern desert architecture but the combination of ideas makes it unique. The diner is literally a parody of 1950s diners, like in Spaceballs. Star Wars isn't that kind of movie. Just like the galactic senate is inspired by U.S. Senate, Roman Senate, etc. but it looks different. It has a futuristic space look.
>>215645752It's a classic space American space diner. They probably play space Elvis on the space radio
>>215645752I want to eat at that diner. The food is probably great.
star war tards are autistic as shit
>>215647039Imma y'all on game rn. I don't watch redditors. Full stop.
>>215645849>>215646633>>215650286>>215652281>>215653371>>215653459So, you want a realistic, down-to-earth show... that's completely off-the-wall and swarming with magic robots?
>>215654657Where’s Poochie?
>>215645752Must be a cheap area of Coruscant if a single story train car diner can have 50’ setbacks on all sides.
>>215651405SWTOR
>>215654078Nothing like that ever happened in any of the Sherlock Holmes novels or short-stories.
>>215655019>multiplayerew
>>215655031Baker Street irregulars were street urchins that Holmes got information from
>>215645752Early 2000's look so fucking embarrassing
>>215655203Sometimes Holmes would pay them a shilling to tail some guy, that was all. There was never a scenario where they possessed obscure knowledge that had evaded the police and the academic community as stated.
>>215645752Just driving my 1950's style flying hotrod around this Tunisian desert in space full of contemporary mud huts. About to go purchase a WWII Nazi pistol with a funny attachment that shoots lasers.
>>215653888He owns a restaurant on the TOP layer of a planet sized megacity, Dexter is obviously connected.
>>215645752Are there any diners left in the land of america?
ROLL OUT BOYS WERE GOING TO CORUSCANT
>>215655471>can't afford water because of le evil business man>can afford chrome scooters with matching paint jobsFavreau deserves to get raped in prison for making this.
>>215655260What you broccolis and browns fail to see is that they're in deep focus imagining the size, figure of the alien obi-wan is hugging. I know mental focus and inner thoughts are hard for you types, but it was necessary for these sorts of films.
>>215655471>have this thread and the power rangers thread open>had to do a double take to see what thread I was in
>>215651470>Posting in a toy commercial threadYikes
>>215655594Why didn’t Jengo kill the fucking bitch herself? And why didn’t the shape shifter use a more reliable technique?You’re really telling someone to think about these movies? James Rolfe already blew these things out with his Plinkett reviews.
>>215645752>>215645809The last 4 or 5 however many star wars movies there were at that point, certainly the original trilogy, had spent years building up a retro-futuristic minimalist universe. A mix of the star trek socialist aesthetic with space wizards.All of tattooine is people living in caves and underground shelters and domed huts. Endor is a British Columbia forest with stone-age monkey midgets. Jabba's palace looks like a medieval castle. The bar where Luke meets Han and there's also MACLUNKEY feels like a hole in the wall of a primitive culture. There was no bowling alley or shopping mart inside the cloud city, even in the 90s remake version.The music that they listen to is played on strange instruments that is called jizz instead of jazz.Even the gay planet of Naboo with its trade dispute is just ancient-future cities that looks like ancient Rome. Gungans live in a weird underground hive that has biological technology.You didn't have space cola vending machines or ads for space cigarettes all up and down the hallways of the Death Star or imperial cruisers.but then out of nowhere, burgers and fries and a 5 dollar shake.>>215645849It looked nothing like a saloon. This looks exactly like a 50s diner.and at least a frontier-era cowboy saloon would've been more in line with the rest of its retro-futuristic aesthetic.
>>215655657Because using a poisonous animal as an assassination weapon is an old James Bond and cowboy movie trope.
>>215649603Maybe he should have been less concerned about unfortunate names no child has control over, and more about his apprentice's lapses into infanticide and regular flirtation with tyranny and genocide, you ever think about that?
>>215645996>>215646038>tack, soulless cookie cutter glass midrise and highrises>overpaid, pudgy white guys who secretly hate every minority but hypocritically live amongst and tolerate them for the promise of big bucks>indians>middle class blacks who think they’re accepted by the whites>korean mega whore roasties who work as “business analysts” or “project managers” for the “digital services” companies the white guys in the back own>single old white kamala voter roastie who works in HR, for the same white guysHELL YEAH TYSONS LETSSS GOOOOOOOO
>>215655471>this is what disnoids worshiphow embarrassing
>>215655684So is blowing someone’s head off with a gun. Shapeshifter could have posed as the royal guard or a toilet
>>215646564this is super cozy would love to take a girl there
>>215655793>a toiletThe poster's barely disguised fetish...
Are diners still a thing? All the ones around me that were around 20 years ago are gone now. Only thing left is a diner themed gastropub.
>>215655933Yes, I have several near me, some of which have been around for 40/50 years. I didn’t go today, but I have breakfast at this one that’s down the street from me at least 3 times per monthhttps://share.google/NbZPX51yGAurVWBkU
>>215655933Checked. Yes, but the market has definitely changed. The Northeast has a strong tradition of large diners which have mostly survived. Many are/were owned by Greek families and have a little Greek flair on the menu. The menus are huge. The food is mid at best, although you will never leave hungry. During the day, they serve as convenient, relaxed dining for families on vacation. At night, they're havens for drunks and degenerates.What I miss is the smaller roadside diners, on little two-lane highways or maybe a couple miles off the interstate. Peak /comfy/, peak hospitality (although in some cases I suspect you could get your ass beat by locals under the wrong circumstances). The waitress has probably worked there for 50 years and you can see every second of it in the lines on her face as she refills your coffee and calls you "hon" or "sugar". The line cook is probably her husband or nephew or maybe he teaches social studies at the local high school. It's the closest you'll get to home cooking on the road and you savor every bite, no matter how basic the cuisine. I think a lot of them went under during Le Pandemic lockdowns, combined with a lack of interest in carrying on a family business. But I don't rightly know, because I don't take many road trips myself anymore. One of my favorite diner memories is from a tiny place in upper state NY and I'm not sure I could find it again if I spent a year on Google Maps. Those were the best places, the hidden treasures, American gems.
>>215655285AND WHAT WOULD THEY FIND OUT ONCE THEY TAILED THAT GUYINFORMATION THAT OFFICIALS WERE NOT PRIVY TO/WERE RELUCTANT TO SHARE WITH THE HERO
>>215655933wtf is a gastropub? That some pretentious shitbag way of saying 'bar with food'?
>>215647039>I don't have an opinion I just parrot what I hear others say
>>215655337Of course
>>215656328Correct. In America it's doubly pretentious because we don't have pubs, we have bars, the difference is quite significant, and a bar advertising itself as a "pub" is already putting on foreign airs. (I'll give an honorable exception to the "brewpubs" of yesteryear, before "craft brewing" became the purview of hipster faggots.) A "gastropub" is even worse, bringing to mind exposed brick, black gloves, smash burgers, and Gay Ukrainian flags on the door, where the chef reheats $20 "small plates" of Sysco buffalo wings with an artisanal squirt of Sriracha to complement your $15 Lord Faggington's Quadruple Imperial Chocolate Cheesecake Stout.
>>215656328Exactly. They figured out a way to give you a beer and a shitty burger and fries and charge you $40. Big 2010s thing, seems to have died the past few years.
>>215656450It's triple pretentious because even the shittiest dive bar I've ever been to has food of some kind.
>>215645825>This feels like American GraffitiYes, for obvious reasons.
>>215655679Reddit post.
>>215647039How does this work every time
>>215645795>Who the fuck eats space food while planetside?All food comes from planets.
>>215656481Define "food." My old local had a few bags of expired Lay's potato chips behind the bar and that was it.
>>215645752Make sure you leave space for space desert
>>215645881Its implied that the owner has connections, which is why he can set up his hobby diner on the top level of Coruscant, and not some hole in the lower levels. You simply don't understand Lucas' genius.
>>215656560Anything frozen that could be turned into edible with whatever the hell heating element they had on hand. So ya know, mozz sticks that kinda shit. It's not a $40 burger 'experience' but they always had sharknado or some bullshit movie on the tv .
>>215655752I love korean chicks but hate the traffic.
If diners want to survive then add ordering kiosks, I'm not interacting with a fucking normalnigger so I can buy overpriced burgers.
>>215655933They're a big thing still in NJ and NY
>>215645809as a Britbong i associate diners with 20th-century Americana. everything else in the prequels felt like well-crafted fantasy world-building.
>>215656590You were obviously going to some kind of upscale bougie "dive bar" then. My place didn't even have a microwave.But the funny thing was, at one point this internet-connected digital jukebox thing appeared out of nowhere. I can only imagine it was bequeathed by some former patron, and I don't think any of the regulars knew what to make of it, but the kids immediately started using it to force their terrible music tastes on other patrons. Good times.
>>215656539reddit punctuation
>>215656319Have you even read any of those stories? There's an obvious difference between: "Holmes paid me to follow some guy around all day and I eventually saw him go into that building" and this kind of Batman comics style: "It's a ceremonial sword used only by a single cult located in Arabia" stuff.As for these vaguely defined "officials": Holmes never consulted with academics, he didn't even really consult with the Met Police. And there was never information the Police were "not privy to" or "reluctant to share", they were just idiots. They'd go Holmes and tell him something idiotic like: "a murder was committed and there's no possible way out of the building"; then Holmes would examine the crime scene for 10 seconds and see something blatantly obvious, like some deep scratches in the floor and deduce that there was a back-door hidden behind some heavy furniture. I don't even dislike the scene from AOTC, but there's no comparison at all between that plot-line and anything in Victorian Detective Fiction, it's pure Film Noir, going to some diner and asking the guy behind the counter for advice is Sam Spade, not Mister 'olmes.
why does pre-Special Edition Star Wars have the Latin alphabet? how did that come about?
>>215656775Same reason why some of the rebels have checkerboard patterns on their helmets.
>>215656775Exactly the way you'd think it came about; ask a prop guy to create a prop and he'll put English writing on it so it's purpose is clear to the audience, happened all the time in old sci-fi. They didn't invent the fake alien writing until later on and, as they were already re-mastering the film, they decided to replace all the text.
>>215656775The Latin alphabet is called High Galactic. Aurebesh was WEG trying to do something with those glyphs you see on the X-Wing computer when Luke is talking to R2-D2.
>>215656775Why does everyone in the galaxy speak English? Why did almost every alien species evolve into human-adjacent bodies with two legs and two arms? Why did the illegitimate terrorist state of Isra*l get away with the USS Liberty incident? Why did George Lucas cut the infamous Gungan Orgy Scene? It's a live-action cartoon for children anon, stop asking so many questions.
>>215645809i think the star wars movies as a whole would have been stronger if the force lightning and other overly "magical" force powers never came into play. However the other parts of the franchise such as the games would have suffered.
>>215645752Dexters Dinner....Home>>215645809Boomers being boomers
>>215656916I blame the video games for this mostly. Also Yoda should have stayed sagely, not had a lightsaber. The midget wrestling scene with Christopher Lee was silly. Yoda should have been so good with the force he was beyond that sort of thing and simply froze his blade mid swing. But ya know, movies.
>>215656916In ANH, no force user ever uses the force to affect the physical world in any way. It's just a feeling, that's all.
>>215657027Luke literally guides the torpedos with it.
>>215657039You are a retard. The force tells him when to pull the trigger.
>>215657097>It was the force committing genocide, I was just following orders!
>>215657097And the torpedos suddenly turn 90 degrees and they cut to Luke concentrating and exhaling because....
>>215657039he also zoops his lightsaber with it while stuck in the ice
>>215657147>the torpedos suddenly turn 90 degreesThe torpedoes are obviously designed to do that. Otherwise, none of the other rebels would have been able to hit the target, and they would have had no way of knowing Luke could.
>>215657178He specifically said ANH Also Obi Wan uses the force to knock some shit over on the death star to distract some storm troopers and he mind tricks the other ones. It was never 'just a feeling'
>>215656856>those glyphs you see on the X-Wing computer when Luke is talking to R2-D2.huh, always thought this was English originally.VHS -> DVD was an insane upgrade in quality.
>>215657206Except none of the rebels hit the target.
>>215657251Why would the rebels attack from an angle that their torpedoes are physically incapable of striking from? They missed because the timing margins were impossibly small.
The diner doesn't bother meEpisode 2 has a lot to criticize but this part stands out to me the most>"It's Dooku, shoot him down!">We're out of rockets, sir!"The LAAT has two forward laser cannons and four ball turretsAre all of those out of ammo too? Is this the first case in all of the Star Wars movies where a blaster runs out of gas?
>>215657027wrong pretentious and retardedproper 4chan post that
In The Phantom Menace, why do Qui-gon and Obi-wan, rich priests from the central metropolis, dress like dirt farmers from Tatooine?
>>215657237They got that effect by using deliberately weird fonts and just putting random letters and numbers down. Obviously, this was the 70's - 80's, so they were using Letraset kits rather then anything electronic, but pic related shows one of the fonts they used for the TIE-fighters' targeting computers. You can see how it's almost illegible, even though it's technically the Latin alphabet.
>>215657292Because the scene was originally written to be a bombing run (YWings were two seaters) and there was a lot of last minute changes and stuff, to the point where dialog doesn't even make sense in some scenes ("Stay on target!/"We're too close!" was supposed to be a pilot and a bombardier arguing in a single YWing for example)Luke using the force to yank the torpedoes into the shaft is very much canon but also likely a 'fuck how do we do this we made the model with the shaft on the floor not the wall?" and that's how they bullshitted through it.
>>215657389Same reason so many politicians insist on wearing cowboy boots even though they went to Harvard
>>215645809>>215645752At the time I didn't think much of it but it is out of place for a dinner to exist in the star wars world. Diners were created out of necessity as Americans were on the roads and able to drive to work in further places
>>215645752Are you allowed to sexually harass the robot waitresses?
>>215658181she's cute.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYwVValJeWUwish they finished this robot.
>>215655471Damn! The Spy Kids reboot looks awesome!
