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Appeasement
Topic Started: Feb 29 2008, 07:58 PM (358 Views)
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From the desk of Steven Silver:

"According to Dr. Turtledove, he has no idea what Appeasement is and has
never written or contracted for a book with that title.

Steven"




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Well, then. That most emphatically settled that.
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Now I'm really intrigued.
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Please elaborate. What is Appeasement and why doesn't it exist anymore?
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"Appeasement" was mentioned on a few British bookseller sites to be a Harry Turtledove novel coming out in October 2008. No mention of it was ever made on Silver's site, Videssos (until earlier this week when TR brought it to the community's attention), Uchronia, or any US bookseller site, but it had popped up on a few British places.

However, this book was never meant to be. Not only that, it also was never even conceived and planned.
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Strange. Well, I'll take credit for it.
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This October, Jake Featherston's long awaited second book: "Appeasement"!
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Neville Chamberlain beat you to it.

Apologies.
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Feb 29 2008, 10:29 PM
Neville Chamberlain beat you to it.

Apologies.

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Poor James Earl Jones. Such crap material he had to work with in that last movie.
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I would say more poor Natalie Portman, her lines (all five of them) sounded like the people writing the romantic dialog were up for three days and nights straight eating chocolate icecream, watching soap operas, and reading trashy romance novels.
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Mar 18 2008, 08:33 PM
I would say more poor Natalie Portman, her lines (all five of them) sounded like the people writing the romantic dialog were up for three days and nights straight eating chocolate icecream, watching soap operas, and reading trashy romance novels.

Indeed. That was my biggest problem with Episodes I-III: really basic dialogue. And all this bothered me only slightly more than Boy Anakin and Jar-Jar Binks.
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Mar 18 2008, 07:41 PM
Indeed. That was my biggest problem with Episodes I-III: really basic dialogue. And all this bothered me only slightly more than Boy Anakin and Jar-Jar Binks.

Basic dialog gives those movies more credit than they deserve, the problem there was that the director and scriptwriters had some great people to work with and kind of left them hanging in mid-air stuck with utter crap, with of course the exception of Hayden Christiansen. I bet Natalie Portman and Liam Nielson are both regretting that they signed on with that mess.
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Mar 18 2008, 07:41 PM
Indeed. That was my biggest problem with Episodes I-III: really basic dialogue. And all this bothered me only slightly more than Boy Anakin and Jar-Jar Binks.

Basic dialog gives those movies more credit than they deserve, the problem there was that the director and scriptwriters had some great people to work with and kind of left them hanging in mid-air stuck with utter crap, with of course the exception of Hayden Christiansen. I bet Natalie Portman and Liam Nielson are both regretting that they signed on with that mess.

Maybe some of the budget that went into special effects should have gone into the script-writing instead.
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I think Lucas should have let other people direct. ESB is the best of the franchise. A big part of that is obviously Lucas wasn't directly at the helm.
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