[5:08] Brian Leahy: "Welcome to G4's Liveblog from the Lucasfilm: Star Wars Spectacular!"
[5:10] Brian Leahy: "This unprecedented event, moderated by G4's own Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn will be starting soon."
[5:13] Brian Leahy: "Tomorrow at 2PM ET, tune to G4 to witness this 2-hour Star Wars Spectacular event, followed by our 3-hour Comic-Con '09 Live show."
[5:26] Brian Leahy: "Stand by...we're getting close to starting."
[5:29] Poll: Sexiest Leia costume?
Slave Leia: ( 90% )
Bun-in-hair-Leia: ( 4% )
Leia in plate-mail armor: ( 6% )
[5:29] Stephen Johnson: "Hey, all! We're getting ready for the Star Wars Panel! Here in Hall H, I'm passing the time until it starts by checking out all the slave Leia's walking by. Ladies, you should all dress as slave Leia, every day. Why limit yourself to Comic-Con:? Am I right?"
[5:30] Stephen Johnson: "Hopefully I'll be dropping plasma bombs of news from the Star Wars universe. "
[5:31] Stephen Johnson: "Star Wars should be enough, but this panel will be hosted by G4's own cable-TV darlings Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn! And, even awesomer, you'll be able to see this panel, along with other Star Wars greatness, tomorrow at 2PM."
[5:32] Stephen Johnson: "My poll above indicates that G4 readers prefer Slave-Leia to all other Leias by an overwhelming margin. Who could have predicted?"
[5:35] Stephen Johnson: "The hall is filling up, but isn't full yet. It's like, maybe 80%. But there was a crowd outside of maybe 5 or 6 thousand folks. Like every panel here, it's going to be filled to capacity, I promise."
[5:36] Stephen Johnson: "If you havne't been to Comic-Con before, you can't even understand the madness. The rush of people. The costumes. The nerds. The stench. It's really overwhelming. There's so much going on at any given moment that it's quite impossible to see more than like 10% of the show. Just deciding what to do is the main challenge."
[5:38] Stephen Johnson: "There are costume contests, video games, comic-book artists, film panels, screenings, and more, and that's just the official stuff. Unofficially, there scads of wild parties, bands playing every night (last night's big ticket was GWAR) and madness. A zombie parade started outside my hotel room last night: Dozens (hundreds?) of undead shambling through the crowded streets of San Diego."
[5:42] Stephen Johnson: "I'm sorry for the suspense, folks. The panel is, obviously, running a tad behind schedule!"
[5:45] Stephen Johnson: "Ooh. Panel starting with a clip!"
[5:46] Stephen Johnson: "It's a montage of great Star Wars moments!"
[5:47] Stephen Johnson: "To celebrate "Star Wars In Concert" a tour of an orchestra playing music while Star Wars clips screen."
[5:48] Stephen Johnson: "Star Wars In Concert seems pretty cool: laser show, orchestra, Star Wars... that's good night, in my book."
[5:49] Stephen Johnson: "Star Wars in Concert will also feature props from the films traveling with the show."
[5:50] Poll: Best Star Wars Trilogy?
The older one: ( 80% )
The newer one: ( 20% )
[5:50] Poll: Best Star Wars Trilogy?
The older one: ( 81% )
The newer one: ( 19% )
[5:51] Stephen Johnson: "Star Wars in Concert host Anthony Daniels takes the stage and discusses the importance of music to the Star Wars films."
[5:56] Stephen Johnson: "LucasArts rep mentions the fact that this is the first comic-con panel to ever be broadcast... tomorrow on G4."
[5:56] Stephen Johnson: "The next Star Wars Celebration will be held in...."
[5:57] Stephen Johnson: "oops. there is no exact time or place, but Star Wars Celebration 5 will be held next summer."
[5:58] Stephen Johnson: "Lots of love for Olivia Munn and Kevin Pereira taking the stage. They have light sabers and are battling it out."
[5:59] Stephen Johnson: "Leia is wearing the 2009 version of the white Leia robe and it's seeeexxxxxy!"
[5:59] Stephen Johnson: "She's got the buns and all. Kevin is dressed as "Doug Skywalker.""
[6:00] Stephen Johnson: "Doug has a mullet, and Kevin says Doug is Luke's brother. Doug says he's making an iPhone app called the 'Fart-Saber.""
[6:01] Stephen Johnson: "It's been 10 years since The Phantom Menace... time flies, eh, folks?"
[6:04] Stephen Johnson: "Kevin and Olivia introduce fan video testimonials. It's really amazing how Star Wars has touched so many lives. This vid, where fans talk about what the movies mean to them, is evidence of the Saga's amazing cultural pull."
[6:05] Stephen Johnson: "If you stop by the Lucasfilm pavillion here at Comic-Con, you can share your own stories and be part of the Lucasfilm cultural record."
[6:06] Stephen Johnson: "Olivia and Kevin have mentioned Star Wars video games. Matt Shell, from the video game side of LucasArts takes the stage."
[6:07] Stephen Johnson: "Star Wars The Clone Wars Republic Heroes... October 6th release date."
[6:08] Stephen Johnson: "It's multiplatform, available on "all consoles""
[6:10] Stephen Johnson: "Star Wars: the Old Republic: It's a story-based MMO. There are over 1000 characters in the game. There are more voice lines in the first third of the Old Republic than in the entire run of The Sopranos."
[6:12] Stephen Johnson: "Star Wars The Force Unleashed announcement: There's a new DLC level for both 360 and PS3. It's set on Tatooine and features Boba Fett!"
[6:14] Stephen Johnson: "Brand new compliation pack for The Force Unleashed: The Ultimate Sith edition. With all the DLC and an exclusive add-on: A level set on Hoth, where The Secret Apprentice will be at Darth Vader's side."
[6:14] Stephen Johnson: "It will be available on Mac or PC, for the first time ever."
[6:17] Stephen Johnson: "The trailer for The Force Unleashed askes "What if the Dark Side won?' Sith edition is going to rock! Includes a battle with Luke, and Obi Wan."
[6:18] Stephen Johnson: "That's the video game news, folks. And now we're going to hear about Star Wars: The Clone Wars."
[6:19] Stephen Johnson: "Everyone asking about Battlefront 3: No mention at this panel."
[6:21] Stephen Johnson: "Expanded episodes of the Clone Wars cartoon on the DVD. The box set comes with a booklet of concept art."
[6:23] Stephen Johnson: "The complete season 1 box of The Clone wars will be out on DVD and Blu-Ray. All 22 episodes, and 7 director's cuts, as well as a raft of extra features. The Blu-Ray version will feature "access to the temple Jedi archives" which is all kinds of concept art and other Star Wars goodies."
[6:24] Stephen Johnson: "It's out November 3."
[6:25] Stephen Johnson: "Season 2 of the Clone Wars is coming to the Cartoon Network, and will be more mature than season 1. It's "more intense.""
[6:26] Stephen Johnson: "The new season will appear on Cartoon Network "Later this fall.""
[6:28] Stephen Johnson: "We're checking out a bunch of Cad Bane artwork. Including earlier drafts of his character."
[6:30] Stephen Johnson: "We're checking out a bunch of concept art from the The Clone wars, actually. Including a new bounty hunter, and a new character called "Embo" I believe... and see some concept art of the young Boba Fett. Will we see him in season 2? Looks that way!"
[6:32] Stephen Johnson: "In season 2 we find out more backstory about Obi Wan, including a romantic interest: Sateen. Season 2 involves a lot of backstory for familliar Star Wars characters."
[6:33] Stephen Johnson: "We see a shot of the planet Mandalore... teasing!"
[6:35] Stephen Johnson: "We get a video featuring George Lucas himself... in the video, Seth Green asks Lucas what his favorite shampoo is. Lucas: "I don't use shampoo. It's plastic. Professionally molded by special effects people.""
[6:37] Stephen Johnson: "Some of the voice actors from Clone Wars take the stage."
[6:42] Stephen Johnson: "Anthony Daniels is talking. The voice of C-3PO himself. We're in the prescence of greatness! Daniels says C3PO is an exageration of his actual voice. And you can hear it."
[6:45] Stephen Johnson: "Daniels says he played Legolas in Ralph Baski's 1970s version on Lord of the Rings."
[6:46] Stephen Johnson: "The voice cast is doing a live table read from an upcoming episode of The Clone Wars!"
[6:46] Stephen Johnson: "This scene is a re-cap that hooks up to the end of Season one."
[6:48] Stephen Johnson: "Anakin and Obi Wan are discussing whether to/how-to go after Bane for the hostages he took."
[6:50] Stephen Johnson: "(Everyone keeps asking about Mandalore: here's a little more details. A slide of the planet was shown, but nothing was really said about it... the implication was that the new season of Clone Wars will involve that planet somehow, although no one said that or anything.)"
[6:51] Stephen Johnson: "Judging from the table read: Anakin and Obi-wan will pursue Bane, while Luke deals with other Clone War business. So next season is set up."
[7:02] Stephen Johnson: "And so ends the Star Wars Panel. Don't miss the highlights on G4, tomorrow at 2PM ET... and don't miss my live blog of Entertainment Weekly's visionaries panel, with Peter Jackson and James Cameron, starting in moments at www.g4tv.com/comiccon"
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IvyNYC
This panel--and show-- was so awful, I hope people lost their job(s) over this.
It was amateurish, UN-FUNNY, tedious, embarrassing (Doug Skywalker? WTF??? And the joke doesn't get any funnier the more you beat it into the ground), sloppy, and pretty insulting to the average SW fan. This is why Lucas has lost all my respect-- he thinks he can basically fart into a mike and the fans will eat it up with canon-chocked goodness.
Lucas is NOT a SW fan. GIVE IT TO KEVIN SMITH ALREADY AND RETIRE!!!!
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