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  • bbqturtle, on 09/15/2008, -111/+10they messed up the plot a bit... for both...

    it's still :-D's though! yay anything to do with star wars!
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    • GawtMilk, on 09/16/2008, -6/+2SNAPE KILLS OBI-WAN!

      Oh, and - spoiler alert.
    • picturestorm, on 09/16/2008, -6/+1Someone told me a joke the other day, it involved Superman, Superman's not real so it wasnt funny.
  • blueandgreen24, on 09/15/2008, -7/+1015Worth it for the last line
    • lil666jrkatz, on 09/16/2008, -2/+16guess you beat me to it
    • Slackluster, on 09/16/2008, -16/+54Spoiler: Voldemort is Harry's father!
      • georgemason01, on 09/16/2008, -2/+20When giving away Harry Potter spoilers you're supposed to do it the other way around. Example: "Voldemore is Harry's father! (spoiler)"
      • kellybp1, on 09/16/2008, -0/+18Thats not true.... thats IMPOSSIBLE!!!
      • dashdingo, on 09/16/2008, -0/+14That's... Improbable.
      • timmyrich, on 09/16/2008, -0/+8your tatse buds can't repel flavor of this magnitude!
      • 8bitflu, on 09/16/2008, -2/+3::in whiny no hand having voice:: NoooooooOoOoOoooooOOoooo!
      • ak4444, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4I hate when people give away SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE endings
      • nepidae, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3ak4444, please add a spoiler tag to the end of that.
    • AnOMNOMymous, on 09/16/2008, -1/+2Definitely.
    • mannyfreshh, on 09/16/2008, -1/+2i love it.
    • shadowkin, on 09/16/2008, -3/+8Aww crap, now we have to the rest of this with Danny Elfman!
    • esssential, on 09/16/2008, -1/+2spot on
  • JoyntHeir, on 09/16/2008, -48/+4Who would have thunk it! No wonder I like both series!
  • transeth, on 09/16/2008, -90/+14They left out a feeeeeew things about Harry Potter... like the main plot.
  • BA88, on 09/16/2008, -36/+7Dugg for waffles
  • Dev23, on 09/16/2008, -74/+16This is old. Does anyone check things before posting?
    • blogosphear, on 09/16/2008, -2/+37You gotta know that there are people that are just now getting internets

      • IllBeBack, on 09/16/2008, -2/+10Yes, because as soon as anyone gets an Internet connection, they are immediately magically presented with all content that everyone else that already has Internet access has seen, going back to 1995.

        And from that point on, they continuously see all content that everyone else is seeing, forever.
      • mrgermy, on 09/16/2008, -1/+1Whoa...
    • RSS14, on 09/16/2008, -1/+57Well it was new for me. If this wasn't submitted again, I would have missed it.

      • merreborn, on 09/16/2008, -12/+4You know there's more to digg than just the front page, right?

        I you want to see all the cool stuff that got FP'd before you found out about digg, it's all still there.

        This is a good place to start:
        http://digg.com/all/popular/365days

        Or, yeah... I guess we could do things your way, and just resubmit all the same ***** over again every few months. But it'd get kinda boring to keep visiting digg after a while, wouldn't it?
      • EvilCan, on 09/16/2008, -3/+22No, you could just ignore the stuff that you've already seen. The whole "I've already seen it that means everyone has" attitude is *****.
      • TheSprunk, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2Agreed, I visit the site almost everyday and while there's many things I've come across that I've already seen its A) interesting to read the comments and B) a small minority.

        The fact that everyone is digging it shows that, hey, so what if it's old, it's ***** interesting.
    • Asvetic, on 09/16/2008, -12/+5Digg needs a new section: "Time Machine" and a bury reason: "Old As *****".
      • blahtastic, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2Actually putting a Time Machine section (er, archives would sound nicer, i suppose) under the recommendation section would probably be a good idea.

        Regular recommendation, click the tab, archived recommendations. Shows you popular stories from a certain amount of time in the past that match stuff you already like.
    • switchmullet, on 09/16/2008, -4/+5why dugg down so much this is definitely in the above mentioned "old as *****" category
  • castevens, on 09/16/2008, -10/+1124Does that make Yoda gay?
    • creativetfh, on 09/16/2008, -2/+529Shop for accessories, he must.
      • flashdrivecoup, on 09/16/2008, -0/+53Hm. I've never had coffee shoot out my nose from laughing before. Thank you.
      • fivex, on 09/16/2008, -20/+3So that's why he likes to train them young.......
      • toonworld, on 09/16/2008, -0/+18@flashdrivecoup

        you actually enjoyed th sensation of coffee shooting out of your nose?
      • MediaCrisis, on 09/16/2008, -1/+5Bravo good sir, bravo.
      • souljaboytellem, on 09/16/2008, -0/+7@flashdrivecoup...was it hot? If so.....ow
    • Calcularius, on 09/16/2008, -27/+179Suck dick I will.
      • BoneheadFarker, on 09/16/2008, -0/+90$10 dollars you pay.
      • ExoBit, on 09/16/2008, -4/+121Break Combo, we must
      • Iwantawii, on 09/16/2008, -0/+44What you did there, I see.
      • mrspurs16, on 09/16/2008, -11/+4***** you! Died two of my friends did while...

        Naa, Not worth it, it isn't.
    • empraptor, on 09/16/2008, -28/+5Yoda has always been gay. He's the Captain Sulu of Star Wars universe. When has he ever hankered after a female... whatever he is? But he's always watching that Luke.
      • Minxiloni, on 09/16/2008, -0/+8I bet he enjoyed riding on his back
      • Sepeteus, on 09/16/2008, -3/+7Luke: "What's that poking my back?"
        Yoda: "My wand that is"
    • Nitesmoke, on 09/16/2008, -2/+90Fabuloooous that is.
    • dafragsta, on 09/16/2008, -5/+35I'd say that Darth Vader is more than likely Snape, since he's "redeemed in the end."

      Yeah I'm sayin' it. Yoda touches little boys.
      • sleepwalkers, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4He's not allowed within 50km of any school on Dagobah.
    • Berkana, on 09/16/2008, -1/+41Gay Yoda is not. Hrrmm. <(~.~)>
    • broevol, on 09/16/2008, -15/+6stick it in my pooper, you can.
    • uselesstosser, on 09/16/2008, -2/+38After 800 years, sick of screwing girls you will be.
    • daridave, on 09/16/2008, -10/+2He's a green thing with pointy hears and fur. I'm not sure exactly what he's supposed to screw, so.. guy ... girl... I can't really figure out how to call him *****.
    • TwineHornet, on 09/16/2008, -7/+2Of course Yoda was gay, did you see how creepy he was during his quality time with Luke in the forest? I think Dumbledore was pretty fond of Harry too, they spent a lot of quality time locked in his office.
    • sm1er, on 09/16/2008, -7/+0Wow that like the cleverest relation ever. Dugged!
    • lilhelper, on 09/16/2008, -0/+22Size Matters Not....
    • simonjs, on 09/16/2008, -1/+4^^ Funniest SW based thread on digg ever!
    • toetagger, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p201/dogsrule_0 ...
  • TheCatsProxy, on 09/16/2008, -26/+5...maybe this is why I loved both of them so much
  • ArvinJA, on 09/16/2008, -49/+31Harry Potter is better when you replace "wand" with "wang"... just saying...
  • redsoxmb545, on 09/16/2008, -27/+698...And they both have fan bases who take the works of fiction way too seriously.
    • xyzunit, on 09/16/2008, -5/+286The force is weak with this one.
    • merreborn, on 09/16/2008, -21/+8Taking works of fiction to seriously?

      Are you *trying* to start another religion flame war?
    • staplemonger, on 09/16/2008, -3/+22Says "redsoxmb545"...
      anyone see the man in the box "star wars vs. sports nerds?"
      • karakh101, on 09/16/2008, -6/+9Gotta agree with you there, why is it considered perfectly normal for someone to paint their face and wear a football costume? Seriously, if I saw a guy dressed as a stormtrooper, I would take the piss out of him, but why dont we do this when sports geeks play dress up?
      • Dacos, on 09/16/2008, -13/+3cuz being a fan of sports is manly and making fun of sports geeks might get your ass kicked, while star wars fans are pussies and wear gay outfits :D
      • itsthebrod, on 09/16/2008, -9/+2It's quite simple really: sports fans still get pussy. Star Wars fans do not.
    • kauthon, on 09/16/2008, -8/+3Yeah instead of reading, its so much better to watch 9 guys play ball on TV. Well here are two words you can take seriously - faaaa aaaag.
    • phanfromcheese, on 09/16/2008, -0/+5Obviously your schwartz isn't as big as mine.
  • SkeletalBias, on 09/16/2008, -7/+114You can do the same thing with Eragon
    • completerobot, on 09/16/2008, -3/+256But who would want to?
    • WileyK, on 09/16/2008, -1/+37If you hadn't pointed that out I would have. It's even closer than Harry Potter is.
    • Lukesed, on 09/16/2008, -1/+46Eragon does it even better. Harry Potter omits the essential "villain is dramatically revealed to be family member of hero".
      • ThatGeek, on 09/16/2008, -1/+31well, they do share a soul, that is kinda family member like
      • Shadic, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6No, Harry just has a bit of Voldemort inside of him.

        Kinky.
    • mKuenzel, on 09/16/2008, -3/+5You can do the same with anything if you change the subject and object object of a sentence.

      • rblancarte, on 09/16/2008, -14/+1Yea, but you can also make Barack and Michelle Obama hate the US if you change 10-20 words in their speeches.

      • ldjarmin, on 09/16/2008, -17/+2Oh, it's not necessary to change Michelle Obama's words to make her hate the US; she already says so herself:

        "And let me tell you something -- for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country."
        --Michelle Obama, only proud of her country when she thinks it might give her a bed in the White House
      • sleepwalkers, on 09/16/2008, -0/+5@ldjarmin: Wrong place, wrong time. Take it somewhere else.
      • TheNik, on 09/16/2008, -1/+3I know this is heavily off topic, but how is not being proud of something the same thing as hating it?

        I'm not proud of this country. The apparently ignorant people of this nation voted for the worst possible candidate two terms in a row and are contemplating voting for a candidate that will bring no change whatsoever (who also has a ***** insane running mate). But do I hate this country? No, I just wish it could become the great country it once was and the one it always thinks it is.
    • ZeroFive1, on 09/16/2008, -0/+38These are all pure interpretations of the "Hero's path."

      And are all archetypal representations of the action adventure genre.
      • RudeTurnip, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6Extra diggs for the Joseph Campbell student!
    • s3rgi0, on 09/16/2008, -8/+3Eragon is a near perfect mix of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars.
      • repmekevets, on 09/16/2008, -0/+17and by "near perfect", you mean "atrocious."
      • TheAuditor, on 09/16/2008, -0/+7Paolini subscribes to the theory - 'If you steal from one, it's plagarism. If you steal from many, it's research.'
    • scoottie, on 09/16/2008, -0/+14no you couldnt because that movie sucked ass
      • KFblade, on 09/16/2008, -2/+16The movie sucked major ass but the books were a lot better.

        *Never judge a book by it's movie*
      • ParanoydAndroid, on 09/16/2008, -2/+13ITS.

        It's = it is.
      • Bic823, on 09/16/2008, -2/+3no, the books were terrible too.

        "You can't make a decent movie out of ***** source material"
      • Juice7, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1 The books are readable, but the quality of writing is rather low.
    • drspanklebum, on 09/16/2008, -3/+15
      The movie opens with Princess Arya/Princess Leia smuggling a dragon egg/message or Death Star plans from the evil kingdom/Empire. She manages to hide it successfully but is captured by Durza/Darth Vader and interrogated about it’s location. A simple orphan farm boy named Eragon/Luke acquires the egg/message/plans but doesn’t really know what to do with it. One day/night he returns home to find his uncle and aunt murdered by ra’zak/storm troopers who were trying to recover the egg/plans. With his surrogate parental figure(s) dead he decides to leave home forever to ultimately get revenge. He journeys with an old man named Brom/Obi-Wan who actually knows a thing or two about the dragon/message. (Yes, the egg is now a dragon.) Since he was a former Dragon Rider/Jedi Knight he begins to teach Eragon/Luke how to use a sword/lightsaber and how to master magic/the force. While on their journey, the evil kingdom/Empire draws them to their fortress/Death Star. Once there, they are able to rescue the princess but Brom/Obi-Wan ends up being killed by Durza/Vader. After escaping the fortress/Death Star they meet up with Murtagh/Han Solo who says he can take them to the hideout of the Varden/Rebel resistance movement. (O.K. so this is a chronological discrepancy with the two events occurring at opposite ends of their respective movies but it still doesn’t change the fact that it’s the same crap.) The ever-present evil kingdom/Empire tracks them to the hideout and initializes an attack to wipe out the entire resistance movement. At the climax of the battle is an aerial confrontation between Eragon/Luke with his dragon/X-wing and Durza/Vader with his dragon/Tie bomber. Durza/Vader is defeated and Eragon/Luke blows up the fortress/Death Star. Oh wait, no he doesn’t. Well there you go, Eragon is legally distinct from Star Wars Episode IV because Eragon didn’t blow up the evil fortress. What an original idea.

      tl;dr
      • KarthVader, on 09/16/2008, -0/+8Vader piloted an Advanced TIE Fighter, not a TIE Bomber.

        Nerd moment over.
      • Tbyrd073, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4Was just gonna say it was a TIE Advanced but you obviously beat me to it.
      • MagnusG87, on 09/16/2008, -0/+10Well to be precise, it was a TIE Advanced proto-type.

        Ahh the good ol' days of the TIE Fighter PC game!
      • RudeTurnip, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2So what you're saying is that I might actually enjoy Eragon?
    • aaronoog, on 09/16/2008, -3/+2You could do the same thing with Naruto.
  • Blurker, on 09/16/2008, -3/+91Someone'll try and tell you that this is old... Mark my words.
    • SpankkBankk, on 09/16/2008, -0/+29Looks like you are a bit late.. Dev23 already claimed this is old..
    • completerobot, on 09/16/2008, -0/+170Hey, cool. You can predict the past.
      • Blurker, on 09/16/2008, -0/+122It's a gift I've had since birth.
      • Vich, on 09/16/2008, -3/+12You realised you were born?

        lol, I just got a "The force is strong with you. Please wait a few minutes before commenting again." message.
      • apena89, on 09/16/2008, -1/+1roflmao. you guys are great!
    • dafragsta, on 09/16/2008, -2/+24Old comment is old.
    • whitey9, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3This comparison to an 11 year old book is fresh, what are you talking about?
    • diskit, on 09/16/2008, -2/+1saw it years ago on ytmnd
  • loggedout, on 09/16/2008, -11/+64Not as funny as I had hoped it would be.
  • PrinceMissile, on 09/16/2008, -10/+5Oh shi-
  • mmoaddict, on 09/16/2008, -5/+170I knew that JK Rowling looked a lot like George Lucas with a wig...

    That explains a lot.
    • omenmedia, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4Needs more flannel.
    • Aitese, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3JK Rowling should apologise only if and when Lucas apologises for ripping Willow from the guts of LOTR.
    • andy2005, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3Yeah, the beard gives her away.
    • pajothadragon, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1fail
  • Kromel, on 09/16/2008, -8/+56Dumbledore dies on ..... screw it! I can't do this anymore...
    • sarixe, on 09/16/2008, -7/+2not another one of thes... nevermind, go ahead.
    • NexusV2, on 09/16/2008, -1/+2Spoi.... nevermind everyone knows anyway.
    • hawk3210, on 09/16/2008, -1/+2It's over... never mind, that one doesn't even make sense here...
    • betheturtle, on 09/16/2008, -1/+1Trust Fai... oh, never mind.
  • MarcieB4, on 09/16/2008, -45/+36The difference is that Star Wars is good and Harry Potter.......well really isn't
  • Chirp08, on 09/16/2008, -5/+87You can trace almost every great story/movie/etc. today back to Greek plays and even earlier works. There are only so many "formats" you can follow. What makes a great book is when you manage to not follow one of these "outlines" but that is extremely difficult to do.
    • Acglaphotis, on 09/16/2008, -2/+18Not true. Even though stories can be similar, the only measure of how good the work is, is by how it is written.
    • OneLess, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3A lot of similarities are shown on Raglan's hero scale as well: http://missy.reimer.com/library/scale.html
    • hitokiri808, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6My creative writing teacher said originality is in the details. Like you said, they're only so many formats to follow.
    • GorfTron, on 09/16/2008, -0/+7I believe it was Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces that details the elements of the heroic story. It is heavily used in modern movies.
      • Nuhaus, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2Rowling and Lucas have both admitted using this in their writing. You can take almost any heroic tale and slot it into the various stages of the heroic quest that Campbell outlines, from Spiderman to The Princess Bride to the Bible. Structuralism for beginners. It's also a wonderful template for coming up with a heroic tale of your own.
    • Abomonog, on 09/16/2008, -1/+3Err. Star Wars is based on a Japanese Movie. A movie called "The Hidden Fortress".
      • sexybobo, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3Was influenced by. They are to very different movies if you watch both of them. The main thing that came from that movie is the idea to tell the story from the point of view of r2d2 and c3p0
      • rearlgrant, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1sexybobo is correct. Watch the movie. And then watch Lucas' commentary on it. IF Star Wars is a remade Hidden Fortress, then Star Wars would be one of those rare American films that was better than the foreign original. The only part of the plot that is the same is the fact the good guys have to infiltrate further into enemy territory to escape.
    • Bloodboiler, on 09/16/2008, -1/+3I think Aristotle's Poetics had the first description of hero's journey "format".

      There's no point in trying to avoid classic outlines. We repeat them for millenniums because they make the best stories.
    • BuddingMonkey, on 09/16/2008, -0/+7The plot to Hamlet is just a simple revenge tale, but nobody claims Shakespeare was a hack.

      The brilliance is that the plot is just the surface.
  • jackmaht, on 09/16/2008, -10/+102Dugg for spelling lightsaber as "light sabre"
  • kalvinb, on 09/16/2008, -0/+257 There is an important distinction between the two. Harry never even came close to dating his sister.
  • AlphaNeonic, on 09/16/2008, -1/+389Young orphaned boy goes on quest to save universe with help from wise old master and his two best friends.

    That fits hundreds of stories... and tons of SNES Rpgs too :)
    • Cwolf267, on 09/16/2008, -25/+3"That fits hundreds of stories... and tons of Japanese Rpgs too :)"

      Fixed that for you
      • Micgee, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6"That fits hundreds of stories... and all Japanese Rpgs too :)"

        Fixed that for you
    • rl41, on 09/16/2008, -0/+17Yup, pointed out by Joseph Campbell. Hero with a thousand faces.
      • MutatedNantuko, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4You get a thousand points in my book for understanding the hero saga.
      • elizabethb221, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3I am obsessed with Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth.
    • nofx1510, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1They all happen to have musical scores composed by John Williams....
    • kelmaster1, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1Family guy said it best "People don't wan't something original and new, they want the same damn thing over and over again." ex. Movies, Sitcoms, fast food, etc... People take comfort in something they know they're going to get.
  • RobotKeaton, on 09/16/2008, -15/+137They forgot that both fanbases are made of virgins.
    • DforSpiD, on 09/16/2008, -4/+9Hmmm... and I just so happen to be made of virgins...
      • KFblade, on 09/16/2008, -0/+28...are you sir, perhaps, a fanbase?
    • BothBarsOn, on 09/16/2008, -1/+4So you've had sex, eh? Well done.
    • jfulls, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2Yeah, congrats. :)
    • sircomix, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1I like stuff that's made of virgins. It's cleaner than stuff that's made of sluts.
  • electrikyle, on 09/16/2008, -4/+224John Williams FTW
    • regression, on 09/16/2008, -1/+3i'm just curious as to who burried you..
      • BossKey, on 09/16/2008, -7/+2I didn't bury it, but I do know that some people are totally tired of 30 years worth of John Williams scores that sound the same.
      • stepfresh, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6Mrs. Williams
      • nick1000, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1@BossKey: And I really want to know who buried you?
    • omenmedia, on 09/16/2008, -1/+2So true. That bit not long after the start of A New Hope when Darth Vader first appears on Leia's ship, you know the music: bah baah bahmmmmm, DAH DA DAHHH! Gives me goose bumps every single time, and I've watched the originals many, many times!
    • breezytrees, on 09/16/2008, -6/+1John Williams is so terrible...

      So you liked the soundtrack to Indiana Jones and the temple of doom as well? Didn't john do that one too?

      I guess it doesn't surprise me why you were dugg up. Digg is more full of more nerds than audiophiles.
      • breezytrees, on 09/16/2008, -4/+1^just digg me down already. I know its coming. still doesn't change my opinion though. John Williams, and the genre of movie music he created just doesn't appeal to me. Too much cheese.
      • RobotLeAwesome, on 09/16/2008, -0/+8Maybe there's some cheese in his scores – but it's what he does, and he does it well – many of his scores are some the most memorable scores ever created, you have to give some credit where credit is due.

        I mean come on who can't almost instantly recognize the main themes for;

        Jaws
        Superman
        Star Wars
        Close Encounters
        Indiana Jones
        Home Alone
        Jurassic Park

      • BigCheezy, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1The best score in my opinion John Williams wrote was for Schindler's List in which he collaborated with violinist Itzhak Perlman. The others are fun and good as well, but for pure depth, Schindler's List ftw.
      • electrikyle, on 09/17/2008, -0/+1The main reason he was chosen for Star Wars was because of his work on the show Lost In Space...

        Cheese expected, and enjoyed.
  • GenghisRon, on 09/16/2008, -2/+35Most movies follow a formula similar to both Harry Potter and Star Wars. Back to the Future, Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure, Lord of the Rings etc. Look up "monomyth" on Wikipedia.
    • xyzunit, on 09/16/2008, -0/+15dugg for Bill & Ted
    • rahamm, on 09/16/2008, -0/+21Take that back, NOTHING COMPARES TO THE AWESOME that is Back the the Future. NOTHING!!!
    • BoneheadFarker, on 09/16/2008, -0/+17Yeah right...next thing you'll tell me is that a bunch of people have ripped off Romeo and Juliet and I just haven't noticed. Or that I hear Pachelbel's Canon everyday...
    • jmccgod, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4A Night at the Roxbury too. I wrote a paper on it.
    • fordistumley, on 09/16/2008, -2/+2Lord of the Rings? Come on man, that was an epic and amazingly complex trilogy written more than forty years ago, and is in no way comparable to Bill and Ted or Back to the Future.
    • lyonzy90, on 09/16/2008, -0/+0Good point. Don't remember the dude from Back to the Future being an orphan though.
  • rollerboy, on 09/16/2008, -2/+313Wow, this is like finding out that the clouds and the grass are the same in Super Mario.
  • zomgwaffles, on 09/16/2008, -16/+4Hagrid is not a wizard . . . .
  • InYourHonor, on 09/16/2008, -1/+2well....when you put it that way
  • Crath, on 09/16/2008, -3/+32dugg for "SayNoToCrack.com"
  • H0tKarl, on 09/16/2008, -7/+503I hope the next movie has Hermione chained up wearing a hot bikini.
  • ChocChunkOaties, on 09/16/2008, -1/+49So by these rules i guess this makes Hermione his sister, & Ron gets to bone her.
    • ZeMoose, on 09/16/2008, -0/+33Well...you're 50% right.
      • Goblin, on 09/16/2008, -0/+11And since Harry and Ginny get married and Ron and Hermione get married, they're pretty close to brother-and-sister-in-law.
    • Stavrosian, on 09/16/2008, -0/+11Well, Harry gives Ron the go-ahead to bone her after telling him "she's like my sister, I thought you knew."

      Pretty familiar territory.
    • bsolidgold, on 09/16/2008, -1/+1Read the books.
    • veesofnaught, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6Hermoine: I love you!
      Ron: I know...
  • shakabrah, on 09/16/2008, -9/+3wait, darth vader murdered luke's aunt and uncle???
    • ExSlashdotter, on 09/16/2008, -0/+14For those of us not paying attention:

      In the opening scene of star wars, vader takes leia's ship by force looking for the stolen death star plans. vader sends forces to the surface to look for the escape pod that was jettisoned, and the trail leads them to luke's aunt and uncle's house.

      stormtroopers killed his aunt and uncle, but only because vader sent them there to find the death star plans at any cost.
    • travisharju, on 09/16/2008, -0/+44Didn't you know? There's this deleted scene where Vader is invited to their house for coffee and when aunt Beru puts sugar in his coffee Vader starts whining and beats her to death with her own husband. Of course Vader takes his coffee black. What was she thinking?
    • littled, on 09/16/2008, -1/+0Vader didn't like aunt beru's cooking and uncle owen smoked all the time which clogged up vaders intake valve making him cough a whole bunch. so vader was sick and tired of having to take his alergy medicine and decided to just off the two
  • Hrodrik, on 09/16/2008, -8/+2This is just dumb.
  • lil666jrkatz, on 09/16/2008, -5/+36dugg for "Philosopher's Stone"
    • alexkball, on 09/16/2008, -2/+1limeys....
      • drlha, on 09/16/2008, -0/+5....who wrote the book.
      • TheAuditor, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2Excerpt from wikipedia:

        The book was retitled to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for publication in the United States. The main reason for this retitle was that the U.S. publishers thought that a child would not want to read a book that sounded as though it was associated with philosophy.

        JK Rowling gives this explanation:

        Arthur Levine, my American editor, and I decided that words should be altered only where we felt they would be incomprehensible, even in context, to an American reader... The title change was Arthur's idea initially, because he felt that the British title gave a misleading idea of the subject matter. In England, we discussed several alternative titles and Sorcerer's Stone was my idea.

        Apparantly, philosphy is a very very bad thing in America
    • Hoogs, on 09/16/2008, -3/+1Why?
    • lukegravitt, on 09/16/2008, -2/+4The book was published (and made into a movie) under the name Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US, but Philosopher's Stone is the original title.
      • Hoogs, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2Yes, I know that, I was just wondering why he dugg it based on which title they referred to the book by.
  • Moonlitnight, on 09/16/2008, -1/+19Dugg for every fictional hero being an orphan living with their aunt and uncle
  • im2emo4myshrt, on 09/16/2008, -9/+216The real difference is that Rowling actually wrote a decent story after the first three books came out.
    • Zaneris, on 09/16/2008, -4/+40Technically, so did Lucas, hence why the ones after the 3rd were made into film first.
      • Scaryclouds, on 09/16/2008, -5/+2I think he wrote four first and the wrote the other five.
      • skyroket, on 09/16/2008, -6/+2@Scaryclouds
        Umm, so George Lucas wrote nine books? Or you're saying he wrote episode IV, then the rest? I think essentially that's what Zaneris is saying. He's just talking about episode numbering instead of order written.

        (Yes, the internet is serious business, people... let us do this!)
    • Naskin, on 09/16/2008, -11/+6Are you kidding? Each book was the same thing repeated.
      • AirRaven, on 09/16/2008, -2/+7Only as far as "Harry goes to school, uncovers plot, foils evil plot" goes.
        That could describe just about every novel under the sun. There's a *lot* of scope to work within that framework.
    • levitron, on 09/16/2008, -6/+1Have you read those books? Good plots, but in desperate need of editing. Way too bloated and long.
  • ImBarryScott, on 09/16/2008, -3/+18"All of this was set to an orchestral score composed by John Williams."

    Lol'd.
  • selesse, on 09/16/2008, -17/+1***** you my 2 friends died to darth vader/lord voldemort
    • Canonet, on 09/16/2008, -1/+16A couple of points if i may?....

      1. These '***** you...' comments aren't funny any longer, maybe you should just start typing 'Why so serious?' instead.

      2. 'my 2 friends'. Surely you mean '2 of my friends'? I feel sad that you only had 2 friends in the whole world, this is compounded by the fact that they died trying to defeat evil.
    • selesse, on 09/16/2008, -8/+3***** you my only two friends died from having a digg comment criticized by an internet hero
    • noonions, on 09/16/2008, -1/+1***** you, two of my friends died 10 years ago, along with that meme.
  • Blademan88, on 09/16/2008, -20/+12A picture of text is text, not a pic!!!
    • crazyhorse13, on 09/16/2008, -0/+14...except for the handwriting.
    • Goblin, on 09/16/2008, -1/+10Hey, we should send pictures of food to Africa then, solve all the problems.
    • karakh101, on 09/16/2008, -1/+6Does that mean a picture of a person is actualy a human being?
  • thestranger, on 09/16/2008, -1/+46yea....because Lucas followed "the hero quest" ideas almost line from line from joseph campbell.

    Its a common outline for a story.
    • OnlyShawn, on 09/16/2008, -0/+3...i remember it as 'hero schema'...but, yes. :) man...the number of times I had to analyze stories using that circular diagram in english...

      pretty much all i remember is "miracle birth"..."illumination"..."route of pretenders"..."law giving/city founding"..."tragic death on hillside".
    • Peter89, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2Yeah, I just took "Literature, Myth, and Culture" and had to read all of Campbell's book. You can take the "Hero Quest" and apply it to almost anything.
  • OffPiste, on 09/16/2008, -45/+4I haven't seen either of the series. I can't comment.

    But I'm sure McBush will ruin the country if elected. Plus the idiot can't even send an e-mail and his VP choice believes dinosaurs died off only 5000 years ago.

    Vote change
    Vote Obama
    • H0tKarl, on 09/16/2008, -2/+28You haven't seen two of the most popular movie franchises of all time and you expect us to take voting advice from you?
    • crazyhorse13, on 09/16/2008, -0/+11You know it's bad when your pro-Obama comment is buried on digg.
    • eclipse007, on 09/16/2008, -1/+5Read his other comments, he is a neocon troll.
      • jitterbits, on 09/16/2008, -2/+2Well, that's a pathetic turn of events.
  • wiihuck, on 09/16/2008, -7/+1What does it say about me that I don't get it.
  • nolemonplease, on 09/16/2008, -8/+5Ancient.
  • nonokiaboy, on 09/16/2008, -12/+1Reddit.com anyone? =P
  • singingsox, on 09/16/2008, -9/+4So old.

    But, still a good one.
  • Fabbyfubz, on 09/16/2008, -9/+4In other news, the Union wins the ongoing Civil War against the Confederates.
    • nick1000, on 09/16/2008, -0/+2Yeah, but did Lincoln's sis wear a gold bikini?
  • trotskyist, on 09/16/2008, -0/+51http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth
    • enantiodromia, on 09/16/2008, -0/+4I came here to talk about Joeseph Campbell, but you beat me to it. nice!
    • aflaks, on 09/16/2008, -0/+5ah, the blue print to just about all of the world's greatest fiction novels and movies; from the bible to starwars to batman and spiderman, this has the formula for success
  • estee0703, on 09/16/2008, -9/+4Lucas did it first
    • dhughes, on 09/16/2008, -3/+4*cough* Dune *cough*

      ...*cough*by Frank Herbert *cough*

      *cough*...written in 1965 *cough*
      • skippy562, on 09/16/2008, -1/+4heres some cough drops...i think you need them.
    • KFblade, on 09/16/2008, -0/+14*cough* The Odyssey *cough*

      *cough* Ancient Greece *cough*

      *cough* The hero's journey *cough*
    • Amazetbm, on 09/16/2008, -0/+6Read Greek Mythology and get back to us kiddo.
  • sLeeT08, on 09/16/2008, -0/+11Damn you innate human archetypes!
  • PirateEyes, on 09/16/2008, -0/+16Archetype?
    • Siskoraban, on 09/16/2008, -4/+0Exactly.

      Also, this is old as *****.
    • jfulls, on 09/16/2008, -0/+0There's always one..

      No one gives a ***** if it's old!
  • haydukeqc, on 09/16/2008, -0/+21Jung'd
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