I've cancelled my Disney+ prescription. I only had it for Star Wars, which they screwed up pretty well.
But I still love the Star Wars that I remembered, and it turns out so do others. Look on YouTube for Star Wars fan films. There are a ton of them. Somber, funny, sad, poignant, dramatic - all the flavors that you could hope for.
I'll be posting them here as I have time and run across them.
We'll start off with a few by SkyForge.....
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This is just to whet your appetites, more to come!
We love the "For the Empire" series.
They are hilarious, the creator works very hard on these.
See also the fan made "Cad Bane" short. The fan made costume was 10x better than the disney one.
Very cool. This giuves me similar vibes to the Astartes animation a while back, though not quite to the same level.
This is definitely the way of Star Wars and other such properties going forward. The mouse may own the name, but they don't make Star Wars, DisneyWars is depleted husk of a franchise, not even lifelike enough to be called a skinsuit.
You can see his technical progress from film to film. He should really start using AI-voice to add dialog to his shorts to create more of a story.
However, it is a shame that he's wasting all his time on Star Wars and should really branch out into his own, original, sci-fi setting. Or at least switch from the Rebel (Feminine) POV to the Empire (Masculine) POV.
OK, time for some more fan films....
oops.....double post
Quote from: orbitalair on June 03, 2024, 09:56:24 AMWe love the "For the Empire" series.
They are hilarious, the creator works very hard on these.
See also the fan made "Cad Bane" short. The fan made costume was 10x better than the disney one.
The "For The Empire" series is a gem!
Even more fan films.....
I really like EC Henry's work because he has an absolutely unabashed love for Star Wars and is unafraid to do deep dives into the lore and even creating his own when he wants to. The added bonus is that his lore makes sense, unlike the Disney+ shit.
These are some ships from the original trilogy that are expanded upon.
A bit longer than normal, but pretty good.
Disney doesn't own the idea of space wizard knights with light and dark sides. You can make your own original universe. You'll be able to sell it and get money to reinvest in your work.
Quote from: jeff37923 on June 22, 2024, 09:32:47 AMI really like EC Henry's work because he has an absolutely unabashed love for Star Wars and is unafraid to do deep dives into the lore and even creating his own when he wants to. The added bonus is that his lore makes sense, unlike the Disney+ shit.
These are some ships from the original trilogy that are expanded upon.
Love EC Henry's stuff. His biggest flex, IMO, was turning a vague smudge on the screen into a Klingon starship.
Quote from: Ratman_tf on June 23, 2024, 10:31:10 PMQuote from: jeff37923 on June 22, 2024, 09:32:47 AMI really like EC Henry's work because he has an absolutely unabashed love for Star Wars and is unafraid to do deep dives into the lore and even creating his own when he wants to. The added bonus is that his lore makes sense, unlike the Disney+ shit.
These are some ships from the original trilogy that are expanded upon.
Love EC Henry's stuff. His biggest flex, IMO, was turning a vague smudge on the screen into a Klingon starship.
That's actually my favorite Klingon ship design.
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on June 23, 2024, 08:20:30 PMDisney doesn't own the idea of space wizard knights with light and dark sides. You can make your own original universe. You'll be able to sell it and get money to reinvest in your work.
A couple of things....
1) "Space wizard knights with a light and a dark side" didn't exist before Star Wars came out.
2) The attitude that it will be the same, no matter what, is the attitude that has led the franchise to the woke written poorly received pile of shit we have now. To put it simply, the Star Wars Fan Films are the Old School Gaming approach to Star Wars without all of the DEI masturbation.
Quote from: jeff37923 on June 24, 2024, 09:57:03 AMQuote from: BoxCrayonTales on June 23, 2024, 08:20:30 PMDisney doesn't own the idea of space wizard knights with light and dark sides. You can make your own original universe. You'll be able to sell it and get money to reinvest in your work.
A couple of things....
1) "Space wizard knights with a light and a dark side" didn't exist before Star Wars came out.
2) The attitude that it will be the same, no matter what, is the attitude that has led the franchise to the woke written poorly received pile of shit we have now. To put it simply, the Star Wars Fan Films are the Old School Gaming approach to Star Wars without all of the DEI masturbation.
I don't give a shit. This is a cult behavior now. Let Star Wars die, kill it if you have to. Build new things elsewhere.
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on June 24, 2024, 10:57:35 AMQuote from: jeff37923 on June 24, 2024, 09:57:03 AMQuote from: BoxCrayonTales on June 23, 2024, 08:20:30 PMDisney doesn't own the idea of space wizard knights with light and dark sides. You can make your own original universe. You'll be able to sell it and get money to reinvest in your work.
A couple of things....
1) "Space wizard knights with a light and a dark side" didn't exist before Star Wars came out.
2) The attitude that it will be the same, no matter what, is the attitude that has led the franchise to the woke written poorly received pile of shit we have now. To put it simply, the Star Wars Fan Films are the Old School Gaming approach to Star Wars without all of the DEI masturbation.
I don't give a shit. This is a cult behavior now. Let Star Wars die, kill it if you have to. Build new things elsewhere.
Thank you for your opinion. It will be filed where it is most useful.
I get the frustration, I really do. But investing your personality into a franchise owned by people who hate you is textbook battered wife behavior. Shoot your abusive husband in the face with a shotgun and find a new one who doesn't hate you.
Star Wars is dead, never coming back, and Disney will send C&Ds if you try to fix it.
We live in a capitalist society. Disney isn't making product people want. It's time for someone else to step and sell products people want to buy.
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on June 24, 2024, 11:43:50 AMI get the frustration, I really do. But investing your personality into a franchise owned by people who hate you is textbook battered wife behavior. Shoot your abusive husband in the face with a shotgun and find a new one who doesn't hate you.
Star Wars is dead, never coming back, and Disney will send C&Ds if you try to fix it.
We live in a capitalist society. Disney isn't making product people want. It's time for someone else to step and sell products people want to buy.
Just to make this clear to you since you insist on being a clueless fuck, I DO NOT SUPPORT DISNEY+ OR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO THE STAR WARS FRANCHISE. If I did, then why am I promoting Fan Films and not The Acolyte? I support what Star Wars was and used to represent, before Disney+ woke bullshit wrecked it.
If you think that is cult behavior and that I am a battered wife and that I am woke, you can shove that degenerate misconception right up your ass.
I'm putting you on ignore. There is no value in what you post.
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on June 24, 2024, 11:43:50 AMI get the frustration, I really do. But investing your personality into a franchise owned by people who hate you is textbook battered wife behavior. Shoot your abusive husband in the face with a shotgun and find a new one who doesn't hate you.
Star Wars is dead, never coming back, and Disney will send C&Ds if you try to fix it.
We live in a capitalist society. Disney isn't making product people want. It's time for someone else to step and sell products people want to buy.
Quote from: jeff37923 on June 24, 2024, 01:51:40 PMQuote from: BoxCrayonTales on June 24, 2024, 11:43:50 AMI get the frustration, I really do. But investing your personality into a franchise owned by people who hate you is textbook battered wife behavior. Shoot your abusive husband in the face with a shotgun and find a new one who doesn't hate you.
Star Wars is dead, never coming back, and Disney will send C&Ds if you try to fix it.
We live in a capitalist society. Disney isn't making product people want. It's time for someone else to step and sell products people want to buy.
Just to make this clear to you since you insist on being a clueless fuck, I DO NOT SUPPORT DISNEY+ OR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO THE STAR WARS FRANCHISE. If I did, then why am I promoting Fan Films and not The Acolyte? I support what Star Wars was and used to represent, before Disney+ woke bullshit wrecked it.
If you think that is cult behavior and that I am a battered wife and that I am woke, you can shove that degenerate misconception right up your ass.
I'm putting you on ignore. There is no value in what you post.
Gentlemen, please. You both have your points.
It is true that mainline Star Wars products have little-to-no-hope so long as Disney controls the IP, and I seriously doubt that's about to change. People need to stop wasting their time holding their breath, waiting for a messianic figure to rise and reboot the franchise; above that, people definitely need to stop giving these franchise-ruining corporate entities money. I have not given Disney, as a whole, a single cent in nearly three years. That's not about to change, either. Time and money is indeed better invested in new properties that aren't demeaning to one personally. If you need "more" Star Wars, buy used products from third parties.
That said, fanbases are certainly capable of generating high-quality content all on their own. I have seen numerous knock-off Star Wars tabletop RPG supplements, novel-length fan fiction, fan films, fan comics, you name it. Star Wars doesn't have to die just because a Mouse stole its face.
Another Star Wars Fan Films that is better than Disney+
Quote from: SmallMountaineer on June 26, 2024, 12:43:44 PMThat said, fanbases are certainly capable of generating high-quality content all on their own. I have seen numerous knock-off Star Wars tabletop RPG supplements, novel-length fan fiction, fan films, fan comics, you name it. Star Wars doesn't have to die just because a Mouse stole its face.
Is that sustainable? Can the fans actually sustain the IP without being able to monetize the brand name? I keep hearing people say they can just make fanfic to keep the brand alive, but I've yet to see any successful examples of this with any dead brand. Can you name any?
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on June 26, 2024, 01:26:17 PMQuote from: SmallMountaineer on June 26, 2024, 12:43:44 PMThat said, fanbases are certainly capable of generating high-quality content all on their own. I have seen numerous knock-off Star Wars tabletop RPG supplements, novel-length fan fiction, fan films, fan comics, you name it. Star Wars doesn't have to die just because a Mouse stole its face.
Is that sustainable? Can the fans actually sustain the IP without being able to monetize the brand name? I keep hearing people say they can just make fanfic to keep the brand alive, but I've yet to see any successful examples of this with any dead brand. Can you name any?
Well Star Wars is by no means dead yet. Its pre-owned books still cycle through stores like nothing else, you still see its t-shirts in public, related content and commentary still surges on Youtube, it still dominates fan fiction comparable only to Harry Potter, everyone still talks about KOTOR like a hallow relic. Off-brand RPG's like Black Star (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/437327/Black-Star) and Interstellar Rebels (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/480327/interstellar-rebels-swade-micro-setting-and-solo-rules) sell as well as any off-brand product can with negligible visibility, Rebel Moon's entire hype train was over it being alt-Star Wars.
Quote from: SmallMountaineer on June 26, 2024, 01:33:07 PMWell Star Wars is by no means dead yet.
That's exactly it. It's not dead, so we can't really say whether fans can sustain a dead franchise by themselves. I think that's something important to keep in mind, once the current corporate landscape finishes imploding.
Long running franchises are, in the grand scheme of things, a very young concept and complicated by the messiness of ridiculously extended copyright law. Fandoms are likewise a very young phenomenon.
For those still playing the incredible d6 Star Wars RPG, here is a nifty free adventure Operation: Bantha Fodder. You can have a lot of fun with this one!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SyB089SCN1HJk4imAmxDDYMA3lmNbs7H/view?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1O-zufCYboCvg7DEig1pQ--mjESRkAvjuPTEgHkCUAkObyDWx1ypp7oDc_aem_tzfSE2apMRDLx1PxUXxZDQ
Another fun adventure from the same creator, come on and enjoy Secrets of the Golden Monkey Lizard.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xHlf7gwynSMceLIO7FZBaXtezc9WnD8j/view?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0urlq0xvN-AzItRBlCDXJZKj6SA4RTgrIf0qLDNX312Xp23X3xPpPitRw_aem_J6nbvyHsMEi2JDKr5cl_4A
A couple of more fan films.
A poignant vignette for viewing.....
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on June 26, 2024, 02:38:45 PMThat's exactly it. It's not dead, so we can't really say whether fans can sustain a dead franchise by themselves. I think that's something important to keep in mind, once the current corporate landscape finishes imploding.
I don't even know what a successful fandom-run franchise would even look like. Say, for example, that a massive community of fans started making content for Hawk the Slayer. Since the fans don't own the IP, whoever does will see all this interest and crank out a cash-grab Hawk the Slayer reboot, which would only ruin the franchise. We've see this exact thing happen recently with He-Man and D&D (and other, lesser properties).
Which is why I think that making and promoting fan-made material for any corporate owned IP is just funneling money into the pockets of whatever entity owns the trademarks. So, all these fan-made Star Wars videos are helping Disney just as much as subscribing to Disney+.
Quote from: hedgehobbit on July 11, 2024, 09:00:41 PMQuote from: BoxCrayonTales on June 26, 2024, 02:38:45 PMThat's exactly it. It's not dead, so we can't really say whether fans can sustain a dead franchise by themselves. I think that's something important to keep in mind, once the current corporate landscape finishes imploding.
I don't even know what a successful fandom-run franchise would even look like. Say, for example, that a massive community of fans started making content for Hawk the Slayer. Since the fans don't own the IP, whoever does will see all this interest and crank out a cash-grab Hawk the Slayer reboot, which would only ruin the franchise. We've see this exact thing happen recently with He-Man and D&D (and other, lesser properties).
Which is why I think that making and promoting fan-made material for any corporate owned IP is just funneling money into the pockets of whatever entity owns the trademarks. So, all these fan-made Star Wars videos are helping Disney just as much as subscribing to Disney+.
Yeah. The promotion angle is one reason why I don't write fanfiction. I believe in copyright reform so that companies don't own these IPs anymore. Trademark law is already sufficient for what they use copyright for.
Quote from: hedgehobbit on July 11, 2024, 09:00:41 PMQuote from: BoxCrayonTales on June 26, 2024, 02:38:45 PMThat's exactly it. It's not dead, so we can't really say whether fans can sustain a dead franchise by themselves. I think that's something important to keep in mind, once the current corporate landscape finishes imploding.
I don't even know what a successful fandom-run franchise would even look like. Say, for example, that a massive community of fans started making content for Hawk the Slayer. Since the fans don't own the IP, whoever does will see all this interest and crank out a cash-grab Hawk the Slayer reboot, which would only ruin the franchise. We've see this exact thing happen recently with He-Man and D&D (and other, lesser properties).
Which is why I think that making and promoting fan-made material for any corporate owned IP is just funneling money into the pockets of whatever entity owns the trademarks. So, all these fan-made Star Wars videos are helping Disney just as much as subscribing to Disney+.
OK, this sounds like your own personal failure of imagination.
Now, explain to me how fan made material for the same franchise that a big corporation is fucking up, helps that big corporation. Does it help by showing them how to treat the material right? Does the contrast where a no budget fan product is more popular than a multi-million dollar pile of shit that fans dunk on may cause the big corporation to maybe rethink their ways?
The fans are not the property of the corporation. The fans will only pay attention to the media as long as it stays true to its roots. Disney is making the same mistake that Hasbro/WotC has made with D&D. Does that mean you stop playing a game that has brought you enjoyment for years or does it mean you stop playing the woke corporate bullshit they expect you to buy?
And as far as "we don't know because it's not dead", you myopic motherfuckers need to read what is posted in this thread and remember that the WEG d6 Star Wars RPG line ended back before 2000 AND THE FANS ARE STILL KEEPING IT ALIVE.
A handful of fans clinging to an officially unsupported game is hardly an indicator of success. There's numerous tiny communities like that and they're, well, tiny.
As I've said before, you're better off making original IPs. For one thing, you can monetize it and invest that money back into it. As a hobby, you're working a second job that costs you money.
As One Page Rules has shown, you can create a very similar product without worrying about getting a C&D. They're even making their own lore and short stories.
Quote from: jeff37923 on June 22, 2024, 08:55:54 AMOK, time for some more fan films....
Wish the creator of that would stop taking down his vids. Had a rather nice Doctor Who one too. And some useful tutorials.
Thanks for all the links. A new hope !
Thanks for the vids. I've seen several of them before, but there were plenty I haven't seen.
From Skywalker Stories which is an AI generated bunch of fan films. In spite of how much I loathe AI art, this one really impresses me.
i'll just leave this here
Quote from: Klava on February 22, 2025, 06:20:02 PMi'll just leave this here
Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful!
Quote from: jeff37923 on February 22, 2025, 07:20:12 PMBeautiful! Absolutely beautiful!
i know, right? i almost peed my pants when that canister blew up and set vader on fire - and he continued to berserk as if nothing fucking happened. and when they used those voice lines from #3 - i just sat there with tears in my eyes like a schoolgirl. damn...
imagine having ip like that and fans like that posting videos like that - and releasing the motherfucking acolyte.
I'll just leave this here and say, I definitely appreciate the use of actual people to do the voices rather than AI voice clones. The slight change at the end of the episode from the novels is interesting; I'll need to see how they follow it up before I decide if its a good, bad or neutral one (my hunch is "neutral").
Quote from: Chris24601 on February 24, 2025, 06:20:41 PMI'll just leave this here and say, I definitely appreciate the use of actual people to do the voices rather than AI voice clones. The slight change at the end of the episode from the novels is interesting; I'll need to see how they follow it up before I decide if its a good, bad or neutral one (my hunch is "neutral").
I'm seeing some of the potential with AI for the fan film visuals, but the key is still the writing.
This one I found below has mediocre AI visuals, but the script for it is incredible. Just a debate between a Jedi Master and a Sith Lord on the doctrine of their philosophies.....
EDIT: Fixed quote attribution. Sorry for the original mistake attributing this to Chris24601.
Quote from: jeff37923 on March 02, 2025, 09:29:45 PMI'm seeing some of the potential with AI for the fan film visuals, but the key is still the writing.
This one I found below has mediocre AI visuals, but the script for it is incredible. Just a debate between a Jedi Master and a Sith Lord on the doctrine of their philosophies.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av7G29HHMio
Interesting. This explicitly makes Luke out as a Grey Jedi. That's been a controversial take. I generally like it because I despise the prequel Jedi, but few have been willing to commit to the Grey Jedi, instead waffling over the prequel Jedi flaws.
The prequel Jedi are horrible. They're sanctimonious jackasses who have no problem using cloned child slave soldiers and telling clearly troubled individuals to ignore their feelings rather than going to therapy. The silly thing is that Lucas himself thought they were completely in the right.
The most ridiculous part was Anakin killing the children rather than abducting them and sending them to Palpatine's inquisitor school. They're young and easy to manipulate, that's why the jedi recruit children in the first place!
Quote from: jhkim on March 07, 2025, 05:58:41 PMInteresting. This explicitly makes Luke out as a Grey Jedi. That's been a controversial take. I generally like it because I despise the prequel Jedi, but few have been willing to commit to the Grey Jedi, instead waffling over the prequel Jedi flaws.
Not really.
"Heir to the Empire" was written a decade BEFORE there even were prequels. Without the prequels, authors could only go off the information the original trilogy gave us.
Luke being the son of Jedi meant in 1990 that Jedi could obviously be married and have romance.
There was no nonsense about no attachments in the OT; indeed, Vader was saved by his love for/attachment to his son so obviously Jedi felt emotions like normal people.
It was presumed that Obi-wan and Yoda's descriptions of Jedi as noble and good warriors using the Force only for knowledge and defense was completely factual.
Obi-wan was wearing the same sort of attire as other desert dwellers so there was no presumption he was wearing a Jedi uniform (indeed I recall an interview with Lucas from around the time of RotJ that Luke's black outfit was meant to be his reconstruction of a Jedi uniform).
You call it Grey Jedi, but at the time it was written Luke was being presented as the ideal Jedi as Jedi were understood at the time.
Quote from: Chris24601 on March 07, 2025, 06:49:48 PMQuote from: jhkim on March 07, 2025, 05:58:41 PMInteresting. This explicitly makes Luke out as a Grey Jedi. That's been a controversial take. I generally like it because I despise the prequel Jedi, but few have been willing to commit to the Grey Jedi, instead waffling over the prequel Jedi flaws.
Not really.
"Heir to the Empire" was written a decade BEFORE there even were prequels. Without the prequels, authors could only go off the information the original trilogy gave us.
I think you've mixed references here. I wasn't talking about "Star Wars: Heir to the Empire - The Anime" that Chris24601 posted.
I was referring to the video that jeff37923 posted, entitled "Luke Skywalker encounters Darth Malgus on Korriban". Here's the dialog:
QuoteLuke: Learning often requires stepping into the unknown R2, even when it's uncomfortable.
(Luke lands and enters temple)
Luke: There's something else here, something cold.
Malgus: You feel it don't you? The echoes of power, the desperation of those who refuse to be bound by your Jedi chains.
Luke: I didn't come here to fight.
Malgus: Yet your blade says otherwise. Says the Jedi clinging to weapons while pretending to seek peace.
Luke: Peace doesn't come without vigilance, but violence is not my purpose here.
Malgus: You're not like the Jedi I remember. They hid their fears behind doctrine. You carry yours openly.
Luke: Fear isn't something to hide from. It's something to confront and to understand. That's why I'm here.
Malgus: To understand fear. How quaint. The Jedi have always been too timid to grasp the depth of what fear truly is. Fear is not merely an emotion. It is a catalyst.
Luke: A catalyst for what? Pain? Despair? You use fear to dominate -- to control. That isn't strength. It's dependency.
Malgus: No, Skywalker. It is freedom. To embrace fear is to master it -- to wield it as a tool. The Jedi would have you suppress it, lock it away, and in doing so deny yourself its power...
Luke: Power that burns everything it touches. The Sith see fear as a weapon, but you forget that weapons cut both ways. Unchecked, it consumes. It turns strength into desperation; clarity into chaos.
Malgus: It was fear that led your father to his greatest strength. Do not deny it. Fear for his wife, his children. It unlocked power the Jedi would have forced him to suppress.
Luke: My father's fear didn't save him. It destroyed him. It twisted everything he loved into something he couldn't recognize, and in the end it was love, not fear, that brought him back.
Malgus: Love... a fleeting weakness. It blinds. It binds. It chains. Fear on the other hand liberates.
Luke: Does it? Or does it trap you in an endless cycle of conflict and pain? You speak of liberation but look at what fear has built for you -- a galaxy in ruins, a legacy of ashes.
Malgus: Ashes can be fertile ground for rebirth. Earth. Perhaps you and I see the same truth, Skywalker, but from opposite ends. You see the potential for healing; I see the necessity of breaking.
Luke: Breaking without rebuilding is just destruction. The Jedi failed because they feared the truth of emotions; the
Sith fail because they let those emotions consume them. There has to be something more -- a balance.
Malgus: The Jedi preach of balance, of peace, yet they deny the very emotions that make us whole. Anger, fear, passion -- these are not weaknesses. They are truths.
Luke: The Jedi of old suppressed their emotions, and yes, they were blind because of it. But the Sith, you let your emotions consume you. Anger becomes hatred; passion becomes obsession; and that leads to destruction.
Malgus: You speak with a wisdom I didn't expect from a Jedi. The ones I knew were blind, clinging to a broken code but you... You question; you adapt. That is admirable.
Luke: Questioning is the first step to understanding, but understanding without action means nothing.
Malgus: You are a curious one, Skywalker. A Jedi who does not blindly follow the code. Perhaps there is hope for your kind after all.
Luke: There's always hope... even here. You find peace.
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on March 07, 2025, 06:05:30 PMThe most ridiculous part was Anakin killing the children rather than abducting them and sending them to Palpatine's inquisitor school. They're young and easy to manipulate, that's why the jedi recruit children in the first place!
Hey, to be fair, the last time Anakin murdered (Tusken) children, it got Padme to spread her legs for him.
Quote from: jhkim on March 07, 2025, 08:04:35 PMQuote from: Chris24601 on March 07, 2025, 06:49:48 PMQuote from: jhkim on March 07, 2025, 05:58:41 PMInteresting. This explicitly makes Luke out as a Grey Jedi. That's been a controversial take. I generally like it because I despise the prequel Jedi, but few have been willing to commit to the Grey Jedi, instead waffling over the prequel Jedi flaws.
Not really.
"Heir to the Empire" was written a decade BEFORE there even were prequels. Without the prequels, authors could only go off the information the original trilogy gave us.
I think you've mixed references here. I wasn't talking about "Star Wars: Heir to the Empire - The Anime" that Chris24601 posted.
You misattributed the quote to me (Chris24601)... I only posted one comment about Heir to The Empire so I didn't bother to reread the quoted text to notice it wasn't mine until you said this.
Quote from: Chris24601 on March 09, 2025, 08:35:03 AMQuote from: jhkim on March 07, 2025, 08:04:35 PMI think you've mixed references here. I wasn't talking about "Star Wars: Heir to the Empire - The Anime" that Chris24601 posted.
You misattributed the quote to me (Chris24601)... I only posted one comment about Heir to The Empire so I didn't bother to reread the quoted text to notice it wasn't mine until you said this.
Whoops. Sorry about that - obviously it was an accidental slip-up in editing. I've edited to correct (and put an apology) in my post.