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Radio Dramas: Worth the bother?
Matt:
I've got an opportunity to hear the radio dramas, but they're pretty long, and would take up quite a bit of room on my hard drive "bookshelf," so I'm wondering if they'd be worth the download "purchase."
I'm not much for EU, but I've always heard that these were really well-done and I've always been a little curious about them.
Any of you guys heard them? Good? Bad? Neither? All opinions welcomed.
Jesse James:
Hmmm, I'm maybe biased but I actually enjoyed the Radio Dramas (and novels) because they include material that basically was planned for the films but edited out. Like the ROTS comic (and novel?) included scenes of Vos getting blown away during Order 66 I guess and stuff like that, the Radio Dramas covered a lot of ground I personally found neat...
Now... What I find neat, and what you find neat, are probably different things. Like some opening stuff to The Empire Strikes Back Radio Drama is REALLY neat to me because it covers some military stuff and Luke's rise to leading Rogue Squadron and things...
I think the infamous Veers sequence excised from ESB is in the Radio Drama... Stuff like that's cool to me.
They're neat I think, but yeah they're definitely long. If you've got time to kill some weekend, I personally think you should check them out (and burn them lend them to me because I don't own them all :-X ). I think I listened to them one Summer between semesters just killing time... It's been a while.
They're cool though I think, but like I said they're cool to me because of very nerdish reasons and not because they are things that'll knock you off your feet. They're just different from the films enough, and add to them in a weird way, that I have an interest in them.
Oh, and it's weird but lots of recognizable names did voices, even just supporting crap or bit stuff, throughout the 3 shows... Including:
Yeardley Smith
David Allen Grier
Ed Asner
And lots of others too... Brock Peters, Jon Lithgow, Ed Begley Jr., and I was looking through and there's an assload of people that after you look them up you realize who they are (Mothma's voice is played by a lady that had a recurring role in ST: The Next Generation, a Federation Admiral. That's geekishly interesting).
Anyway, yeah, they're weird and I liked them. Oh and the whole Luke/Anchorhead thing (and then some) is included... It's interesting to hear it even if you can't see it. It covers a lot of ground on Luke that the films don't cover and sort of build up his character a lot in a positive way I think.
Matt:
What, no love for Hollywood?
(Yes, that's as good as it gets for any pics involving Meshach Taylor and Mannequin on the internet, apparently. He's in there, too, if Wikipedia is to be believed.)
What's even more bizarre is that, evidently, they were directed by this guy:
Now this is where Luke hacks Vader's hand off! Boom!
No, I don't much care for the EU, and the military aspect of SW doesn't interest me like it does you. I've always been curious as to how the characters and scenes are fleshed out, and from what I understand, the radio dramas do a pretty good job of that. So that's what I'm mostly interested in. . . mostly.
I guess the best way to do it would be to "buy" ANH, and see what I think of that before "buying" the others.
Jesse James:
Consider this then... Are the edited out things "EU" to you? If you look at them as pretty much a part of the movie, you'll like the Radio Dramas. I believe every known edited sequence, and some unknown ones, are mixed into the dramas... I might be wrong on that though as it has been a long time since I listened to all 3, but I believe everything from Luke's T-16 race to Jerjerrod's attempted heroism at the end of Jedi are all there... Just hearing how they were intended to be shot/slipped into the storyline is kickass to me.
The military stuff is really just an aside... It's just more cut stuff from the films I guess.
Matt:
--- Quote from: Jesse James on March 26, 2007, 03:35 PM ---Consider this then... Are the edited out things "EU" to you?
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That's a good question, to which I'll give a crappy answer:
Kinda.
If it's stuff that Lucas or the screenwriter came up with, then I guess not. If it's stuff some other hack came up with, and put in as filler, then yeah. It's been over fifteen years since I read the novelization for the first and only time, and I've forgotten what all was in there and what wasn't.
--- Quote ---If you look at them as pretty much a part of the movie, you'll like the Radio Dramas.
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Yeah, you're probably right. I think I'll give the first one a shot, and see how I like it.
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