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View Poll Results: Who is your favorite Star Wars character from the original trilogy?
Luke Skywalker
14
13.73%
Han Solo
36
35.29%
Darth Vader
14
13.73%
Princess Leia
2
1.96%
R2-D2
4
3.92%
C-3PO
4
3.92%
Chewbacca
5
4.90%
Obi Wan Kenobi
6
5.88%
Yoda
8
7.84%
Boba Fett
9
8.82%
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Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Old 12-10-12, 08:00 PM
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Solo
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Originally Posted by Terminal
I thought Boba Fett was the coolest in the past, but I've really grown to appreciate Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Apparently you don't appreciate him very much ... he is the only character with NO votes currently. Or perhaps people were confused as to whether they should vote for Obi-Wan or Ben?
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Had to think about this for a long time, but went with Yoda. Even today when I watch Empire, I don't see Luke talking to a puppet. I see Yoda, the Jedi Master. Frank Oz's best work.
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Boba Fett went out like a bitch. Never understood his following.

I chose Luke Skywalker. He's the one with all the responsibility.
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Growing up it was always Obi Wan Kenobi. Unfortunately how they handled him in the prequels ruined the character for me and that does affect my vote in this poll, so I switched to Luke.

I still find Boba Fett's popularity mystifying. How does a character that barely got any screen time and gets offed in a ridiculous way become the Trilogy's most famous bit character? I do admit he had the coolest spaceship in the original Trilogy.
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Han Solo.

He's what truly separated the Original Trilogy from the Prequel Trilogy. He's so down to earth and his sarcastic dialog deflated a lot of tension to made sure the OT didn't take itself too seriously.
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
I still find Boba Fett's popularity mystifying. How does a character that barely got any screen time and gets offed in a ridiculous way become the Trilogy's most famous bit character? I do admit he had the coolest spaceship in the original Trilogy.
He has a cool costume and a jetpack. That's it really. And he gets the badass scene where Vader is lecturing the bounty hunters and Vader looks directly at him and says "no disintegrations", and he replies "As You Wish" (which was ruined by overdubbing him with Temura Morrison).

Not my favorite character, but I can see why people lacthed onto him as kids.
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
I still find Boba Fett's popularity mystifying. How does a character that barely got any screen time and gets offed in a ridiculous way become the Trilogy's most famous bit character? I do admit he had the coolest spaceship in the original Trilogy.
Except he wasn't "offed" in the original trilogy.
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Originally Posted by jjcool
Except he wasn't "offed" in the original trilogy.
Oh geez, not this shit again.
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Originally Posted by jjcool
Except he wasn't "offed" in the original trilogy.
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No option for Lando? Racist!
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

When we say Vader...it's just meant ONCE he becomes Vader, right? Not the whole Anakin Skywalker part BEFORE he became Vader? Right?

Also...Han Fuckin' Leia In the Closet Solo.

The little kid in me is still polarized by seeing a crusty old white fuck beneath the Vader suit when I knew it was James Earl Jones from the voice. Most traumatic event for me in SW.
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC
When we say Vader...it's just meant ONCE he becomes Vader, right? Not the whole Anakin Skywalker part BEFORE he became Vader? Right?
Yep, since Vader is the only one who appears in the original trilogy. I'm not voting and waiting for the favorite character in the prequel trilogy thread. There's going to be so many options, they're going to have to add more options to the maximum amount you can put in polls. Can't wait!
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
Growing up it was always Obi Wan Kenobi. Unfortunately how they handled him in the prequels ruined the character for me and that does affect my vote in this poll, so I switched to Luke.
Obi-Wan was the only thing handled well in the PT.

Originally Posted by jjcool
Except he wasn't "offed" in the original trilogy.
Huh?
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
I still find Boba Fett's popularity mystifying. How does a character that barely got any screen time and gets offed in a ridiculous way become the Trilogy's most famous bit character? I do admit he had the coolest spaceship in the original Trilogy.
He was the very first "new" character introduced as a teaser to TESB. The action figure was a big deal. Too bad Boba Fett himself never was.
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Originally Posted by Supermallet
Obi-Wan was the only thing handled well in the PT.
Ewan McGregor should not have been cast. He's no replacement for Alec Guinness.
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

IG-88.

Nah. I picked Luke. Solo was cool in the first two movies. In ROTJ he went from cool mercenary/scoundrel to goofball comic relief. That's what happens, kids, when you get frozen in carbonite for a spell...
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Vader for me. Not for simple badassery, but for finally doing what needed to be done in ROTJ.
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Originally Posted by Numanoid
Oh geez, not this shit again.
Originally Posted by Jules Winfield
I'm assuming from these responses, that the fact that Boba Fett did not die in the Sarlacc has been previously discussed here.
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Originally Posted by PhantomStranger
Ewan McGregor should not have been cast. He's no replacement for Alec Guinness.
No one is a replacement for Alec Guinness. But I think McGregor did a great job both channelling Guinness and also making the role his own.
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Originally Posted by jjcool
I'm assuming from these responses, that the fact that Boba Fett did not die in the Sarlacc has been previously discussed here.
Not just here but in every conversation about Boba Fett ever.
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Originally Posted by Jules Winfield
Not just here but in every conversation about Boba Fett ever.
Yet people still mistakenly claim that he died in the pit. Weird.
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

Originally Posted by jjcool
Yet people still mistakenly claim that he died in the pit. Weird.
Your original statement was that he wasn't offed in the original trilogy which he was. There's not a shot of Boba Fett coming out of the Sarlacc Pit in Return of the Jedi, right? That shit was in the expanded universe stuff, right? I think your original statement was meant to correct those complaining about Boba Fett and to prove that you read but I just think we didn't care because Boba Fett's a little bitch.
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Wait, is jjcool citing Dark Empire, one of the shittiest, most awful and unoriginal titles in the EU?
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Re: Favorite Star Wars Character from original trilogy

I was just having this discussion with some Star Wars Fanboys.

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