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[longtimespentinagalaxyfaraway]

Jedi Council Forums Help

This is probably a shout into an empty void, but might as well try.

I used to have an account on the Jedi Council/The Force dot net forums, but wasn't active since like 2018 or something. Recently I logged in for the first time in several years, and seeing that my old email was the email associated with my account, changed it in account settings.

This was apparently a huge mistake.

It said I'd have to reconfirm my new email, so I had it send it. Waited. Waited some more. Waited over 24 hours. Checked spam. Checked to make sure the email it comes from was whitelisted. Nothing. Had the forum resend the confirmation email. Rinse and repeat above steps. Nothing.

I'm not able to contact any of the forum mods/admins/staff because my account is frozen while it waits for me to reconfirm the email. I reached out via the "contact us" function explaining the issue, but it's been over a month and haven't heard back. Social media for the boards haven't been posted on since 2017/2018, and I see on an announcement banner on the forum that the main tech admin has passed away. Are the boards dead-dead now? I can see there are users still active on the bits of the forum it will let me view, but I can't contact anyone. I just wanted to poke around and maybe make some new Star Wars friends because I miss forums x'D

Is there anyone here who might hear this desperate plea into the void that has a still active account that might be able to message an admin on my behalf and see if we can figure this out? x'D

edit to add: My username there is Jade Kenobi as that is perhaps helpful information lol

[baraste-legacy]

Return of the Jedi: Battle of Endor: The Lost Rebels

The various cut scenes from the space battle high above Endor. The cut scenes of various Rebels from Star Wars Episode VI. Turn on Annotations for the intro ...

Interesting bit of Star Wars history, and also a chance to see the female pilots reciting all the battle sequence’s fighter pilots’ lines. For context, please read this thread at TheForce.net about all the footage that was dropped out of “The Return of the Jedi”’s final space battle’s edit: https://boards.theforce.net/threads/the-lost-pilots-and-scenes-from-the-endor-space-battle-in-return-of-the-jedi.50041047/

“…Ken Ralston: “George made a drastic cut on the film - a horrible, horrible drastic cut - and threw out about 40 (36 according to his Cinefex interview) shots of mine and somewhere around 30 or 40 of Richard's [Edlund]. It all added up to about 250 ships we'd shot from scenes we’d been working on, all this stuff, all this material, was just tossed out and we couldn’t even use them on other shots. … and in some shots we're pulling stuff out because we were confusing the story point with overkill…”

[anoray]

April 19, 2018: In the latest episode of the Forcecast, Freddie Prinze Jr drops by for maybe his last time to provide some new insight into the death of Kanan Jarrus.

I happened to stumble across this--haven’t listened to this episode yet, just sharing some of the highlights from the article concerning what FPJr. says about DUME and the cave paintings:

<<It’s his closing comments however that I really want to discuss. Just before he left Freddie dropped some very intriguing insight into the fate of Kanan Jarrus and what exactly his connection was to the Loth-Wolf… “The spirit of Kanan at one point is the wolf in the sense that the Force is driving that moment because that’s what’s necessary but when that moment is no longer necessary that spirit is then free, and that wolf is free. There is a time when Dume and the Wolf are sort of one but it’s not the new form that Kanan is gonna take, Kanan is most certainly gone.”

As for wrapping up Kanan’s story Freddie ended with this gem for as he put it, “the hard-core Rebels fans” …

  “If you wanted to know more about his history or his origin…go back a few episodes and go into the cave and look at the hieroglyphs and just know that those hieroglyphs aren’t as old as you might think.” The episode(s) he’s referring to is “Kindred” and a little bit of “Crawler Commandeers” where the Loth-Wolves lead them into the caves around the Jedi Temple. When they enter they are surrounded by cave drawings or “hieroglyphs” that appear to tell the history of the Jedi and the Jedi Temple on Lothal.

The inference is that these drawings go back millennia, certainly well before Ezra and Kanan’s time, and if they could decipher them they could learn the secrets held within the temple. Turns out the answer was right in front of them the whole time if what Freddie says is correct. One section of the drawing in particular depicts what clearly is a child being led by adults (and wolves) to the Temple and that those beings are clearly Force sensitive. What Freddie is implying is that the child represents or is the physical embodiment of Kanan Jarrus and that his roots can be traced back to Lothal and the Temple. This makes sense for many reasons not least of which is we don’t yet know the origins of Kanan Jarrus aka Caleb Dume. All we know is that he was born in 33 BBY, never knew his parents and was taken to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant at a very young age, which he considered his home world. So, there’s creative space there that is most certainly open to interpretation as far as his very early few years is concerned. And Star Wars is so often wonderfully symmetrical that it would be a beautiful concept that Kanan’s life and relationship with the Force would end where it started, on Lothal.>>

Still scratching my head about how ambiguously most of this was handled in the series, but maybe there’s a long play Filoni has up his sleeve we don’t know about? Anyway, that’s what FPJr. has to share of late!

[jorgzs]

Theforce.net

Leave @theforcenet It corrupt one admin is corrupt and power hungry i was  banned for point out a thread wasn't there join this better site https://thecantina.starwarsnewsnet.com/index.php

[starwars-tidbits]

Never go on an online forum and say anything, everyone is mean and they will be mean to you

[aardwolfpack]

I hate that a movie series about self-reflection, emotional balance, questioning the old ways of authority figures, and paving your own path in life has turned into a collection of simple memes for people who want to clutch onto the past and never grow up.  Talk about the ultimate misaimed fandom.

Jim Raynor

[clubjade]

TheForce.Net shuts down flagship ForceCast podcast

TheForce.net shut down their flagship podcast, the ForceCast, yesterday. The actual announcement from TFN content manager Dustin Roberts is brief, but almost all the background on what led up to it has played out on Twitter and Facebook, with the relevant bits helpfully gathered up by Brian over at Tosche Station.

The whole situation is pretty odd, to say the least. The ForceCast had long since ceased to be the podcast for the fandom, but it is certainly the end of an era.

[lesbianhanguangjunji]

sometimes i think about the old star wars fanfic i used to love and i wonder where the authors are now and if they’re doing okay

remember Trickster_Jaina_Fel’s dark!zekk saga? because i do

i’m going to need to reread this

if anyone from theforce.net fanfic boards is out there, i was jedi_of_ennth, hit me up if you want to, we can sit and reminisce like old men on porch swings

(and wasn’t there a fic about dark!luke called “your eyes aren’t blue anymore” by ... knight_aragorn, i think? ... because i remember being floored by how amazing that one was)