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• Ask Old-Wizard: Star Trek Part 2

  

  Written by Sage 13 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 20, 2009

  This week we answer some more of our reader’s Star Trek related questions. If you haven’t already, check out the first AOW Star Trek.

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• Star Wars Gripe

  

  Written by Zeromage No Comments
  Last Updated:: May 19, 2009

  R2-D2 is in fact an android whore. Let’s look at the facts, in ROTJ, Bib Fortuna strokes R2’s dome. Now, I don’t speak droid, but he seemed to be pretty excited from all that touching.  I think Bib Fortuna got off on the whole interlude too. There was a lot of rubbing and sweet talking going on in that scene and they “forgot” to translate what R2 was beeping about. C-3P0 also puts his hand on R2’s dome quite a bit. 3P0 isn’t the most masculine of robots either. That leads me to wonder, is R2 gay or is he really a she? No one knows that answer either.

  The questions are is R2 a male, female, both, or neither? Does R2 feel pleasure? Does R2’s prong stick out when Luke says nice things to him? Is R2 a submissive, always obeying when someone tells him to stick his data stick into a foreign terminal?

• Ask Old-Wizard: Star Trek Edition

  

  Written by Zeromage 17 Comments
  Last Updated:: May 8, 2009

  With the new Star Trek movie coming out today we decided to gather up all the Star Trek related questions that we’ve received for the past year that we’ve been running “Ask Old-Wizard” and answer them all at once. What we realized as we were answering them was just how nerdy our fan base really is. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Hope you enjoy!

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• Top 10 Science Fiction Movies of All Time

  

  Written by Zeromage 27 Comments
  Last Updated:: October 30, 2008

  Are you tired of the same old Top Ten Sci-Fi movie lists that have 2001: Space Odyssey listed at number 1, and then leave off all of the Star Trek movies? Well so are we. We think 2001 sucks and decided to make our own list of the best science fiction movies ever, other critics opinions be damned. What’s so great about 2001 anyway? It puts me to sleep every time I try to watch it.  The movie had some cool special effects for its time, but only if you could keep your eyes open long enough to actually see them. They’re spaced out between a long meandering story where the most exciting thing that happens is a some monkeys going wild and a strange acid trip in outer space. And what the hell is going on during the last half hour of that movie anyway? Needless to say you won’t find any artsy movies like that on our list. Just the greats. Anyway, here’s our list. If you don’t like it, go check out Ebert’s.

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• Ask Old-Wizard: Lord of The Rings Edition

  

  Written by Zeromage 3 Comments
  Last Updated:: July 30, 2008

  This week we answer some of our readers’ Lord of the Rings related questions:

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• Top 20 Star Wars Characters

  

  Written by Zeromage 38 Comments
  Last Updated:: June 12, 2008

  Anyone visiting Old-Wizard.com must know that the three original Star Wars movies are some of our favorite movies of all time. Our appreciation does not always end in satisfied acquiescence though, as debate quickly occurs about what the best movie in the series is. Another debate that manifests itself in our nerdy Star Wars discussions is who our favorite characters are in the series. You’ll know if someone is a true Star Wars nerd by the fact that they immediately choose a minor character as their favorite. Wedge and Lando are typically immediate responses from the authentic Star Wars nerd. No one would be caught dead actually saying that Luke was their favorite character for fear of being ostracized from the Star Wars community. It’s as if you weren’t aware of all the discrete information in the Star Wars series by picking someone so obvious. With this in mind, we thought it important to not write just a “Top 10 Star Wars characters” list, but a “Top 20″ list so we could do justice to the not so obvious choices that are often ironically overlooked. Without further ado, here is our Star Wars list for nerds and faux-nerds alike.

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• Ask Old-Wizard: Star Wars Edition

  

  Written by Zeromage 8 Comments
  Last Updated:: June 7, 2008

  Next week we will be releasing our Top 20 Star Wars Characters List, and with that in mind, I decided to answer only Star Wars related questions this week. I’ve received quite a few since we released our Top 5 Worst Star Wars Characters List a while back, and I’m sure I’ll be answering more in the future, so keep sending them.

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• Top 5 Worst Star Wars Characters

  

  Written by Zeromage 44 Comments
  Last Updated:: May 2, 2008

  The Star Wars series was full of some of our favorite movie characters of all time. In the near future, we will be releasing our favorite characters of all time from the series, but for now our focus will be on the worst ones. During the original trilogy it was rare for George Lucas to ever make a mistake in production, storyline, and character development. But since then he certainly HAS made his mistakes, mostly in the newly released episodes 1-3 which had more things wrong with them than great about them. To start with, there were characters in these episodes who were not only forgettable, but stultifyingly annoying. That Lucas ever thought these next characters could pass for the greatness of Star Wars lore makes no sense for the diehard fan of the series. That episodes 1-3 would become forgotten because of Lucas’s interpolations in these movies was a fate that would become certain after one watched episode 3. The superfluous nature of these next characters will be recognizable signifiers of a movie series gone wrong. The diehard Star Wars fan though will always have the crass demeanor of Han Solo to bring back memories of all the characters from the old series that they had come to love. Just look at all the action figures collected from the original series compared to those collected from the new series to understand the different degrees of affectation that the characters in each had. With this in mind, the difference between the character development in both was obvious and will be addressed in this list.

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