{"id":1693,"date":"2009-04-04T10:24:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T10:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2009-04-04T10:24:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T10:24:02","slug":"saturday_morning_star_wars_net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/04\/saturday_morning_star_wars_net\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Morning Star Wars Net Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever wonder what it might’ve been like if, instead of a hugely successful feature film, Star Wars<\/i> had been a late-70s television series with a disco-flavored theme song? Sure you have:<\/p>\n

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For you younglings in the audience, the music and visual stylings of this piece are derived from the opening of Dallas<\/i><\/a>, a primetime soap opera about rich, conniving, nasty people with better sex lives than you. Dallas<\/i> led to the pinnacle (or nadir, depending on how you look at it) of ’80s television, Dynasty<\/i>, which in turn begat Falcon Crest<\/i> and god only knows how many lesser rip-offs.<\/p>\n

I’m impressed at how well the Dallas<\/i> theme and style works with Star Wars<\/i> footage, and also amused that the creator of this mash-up included “the men in the masks” in the credits. Of course, in my<\/i> world, the Death Star explosion doesn’t result in one of those lame “Praxis-effect” plasma rings<\/a>, but that’s my grumpy-old-fanboy side speaking up again and we won’t indulge him today.<\/p>\n

More fun stuff below the fold…<\/p>\n


\nFrom the guy who made the Star Wars<\/i>\/Dallas<\/i> mash-up, here’s the same idea using Airwolf<\/i> as inspiration:<\/p>\n

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(For comparison, here<\/a> is the entry where I included Airwolf<\/i> in my TV Title Sequences<\/a> category.)<\/p>\n

And here are a couple of other items I’ve been intending to post forever and a day, both courtesy<\/a> of SamuraiFrog<\/a>. The first is Star Wars<\/i> presented as a silent movie:<\/p>\n

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And here’s a funny little piece called “How Star Wars<\/i> Should Have Ended”:<\/p>\n

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I have to admit, this makes a good point about Leia’s, ahem, “plan.” But I’ve never had a problem with the Death Star having to make its way around Yavin to reach the rebel base; I guess I’ve always just assumed that “enough power to destroy an entire planet” referred only to small, Earth-type planets (what they called M-class in Star Trek<\/i>), not gas giants, which would require significantly more juice.<\/p>\n

God, I’m a nerd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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