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Posted 13 January 2006 - 12:55 PM

So after many years of avoiding it I have just finished listening to the first part of the Star Wars Radio Drama (all of Episode IV). Pretty interesting if slowly paced.

Most interesting to me is the intense interrogation sequence where Vader tortures and drugs Leia. I'm sure this has been mentioned elsewhere but it's pretty interesting particularly when Vader "pretends" to be Leia's father and tell her that she wants to please her father.

Just an observation one makes while on jury duty with an ipod filled with the radio drama. On to "The Empire Strikes Back"!
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Posted 13 January 2006 - 01:11 PM

THat sounds interesting.
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Posted 13 January 2006 - 04:36 PM

On jury duty? Doh!

I listened to all three radio dramas. Interesting, but once was enough! Vader was kind of cheesily done in all three, but especially three.
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Posted 13 January 2006 - 06:37 PM

Yeah, Vader wasn't that great. You kinda get used to it after a while.

Han Solo was kind of annoying too. Princess Leia wasn't too bad.
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Posted 15 January 2006 - 01:59 AM

Hey Cheffy...where did you get/download the Radio Drama from?

I have heard the bits from the Episode IV part wher Luke is looking up at the space battle (the Tantive) and talking to his gay little droid....but thats all I heard.

Where's you find it?
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Posted 20 March 2006 - 02:07 AM

I torrented the trilogy of radio dramas and I am just about to finish listening to STAR WARS.

Chefelf isnt kidding...episode 4 alone is 4 and a half min shor of 6 hours.

Vader is annoying to listen to...but in the end, this thing is pretty interesting.
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Posted 13 April 2006 - 01:43 PM

One may need to double check this, but weren't the first two episodes done just prior to or contemporaneously with the movies themselves? Because the ROTJ one was actually done many years after ROTJ and contains (I don't recall exactly) lots of EU references and things.

Honestly most of it was forgettable except for some of Han's smooth talk to Leia in ESB, Luke chatting with his friends on Tatooine in ANH and Vader's cheesy speeches (No Sword! No Sword-hand! Luuke I'm a melodramatic actor!)

I mean, I know this is Radio Theater and they (mostly) don't have the orginal actors, but still. wink.gif

I guess it's entertainment and that's the important thing. But imagine listening to the torture scene on a family sunday car trip... zoiks!
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Posted 07 May 2006 - 04:14 PM

I've been away from the forum for nearly a year - but seeing this thread about the SW Radio Drama, I decided to comment:

I happened to learn of and buy the FULL Radio Drama Box Set on CD right when TPM came out, and it was a HUGE relief for me, in light of the bitter disappointment I felt for TPM.

I loved hearing the scenes from ANH that were cut from the film and/or cut from the screenplay, it was great to hear about how the Death Star plans were stolen; what Luke's life was like before we "met" him in the movie. There were definitely some things in the radio drama script that were written in such a way that they were [kind of] foreshadowing things to come in ESB & ROTJ. I wish I had known of their existence when they were actually broadcast on NPR just about 25 years ago. I think it would've been wonderful to experience a radio drama like my parents and grandparents listened to.

I'm probably older than the median age of those on this board, which is to say I'm not all that far removed from radio/audio stories. Now, I was born after color television, thank you tongue.gif , but I remember having LPs (yes, vinyl) recordings of movies like The Wizard of Oz, and yes, The Story of Star Wars, so HEARING Star Wars is not new to me, I just hadn't "listened" to it in many years.

And the SWRD was interesting on many levels, even to hear what actors were cast in what roles - some I agreed with, others... not so much. But it was listening to all the episodes that made me realize just how deep my love is for what we now call The OT. wub.gif Even with "completely different" actors on ROTJ, by the time [the radio drama] was finished playing, I knew that nothing GL produced in Eps I - III would be as good as IV - VI.

The SWRD sealed that for me back in 1999... wink.gif
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