As a way to organize your music, I assume. I THINK I started using it before there was an iPod. I'd assume though that non-Mac users would be using a different program if they don't have an iPod though.

As for the RSS feed, are you saying there's a special iTunes one? I assumed podcasts just had one feed that any RSS software could use (I've subscribed to podcasts by just copying the link into iTunes).

Actually a good test would be to go to a site like http://www.podcastalley.com/ and see if the address for a podcast you already subscribe to is the same as the one you got from iTunes.

Hmm, you guys aren't listed there. Maybe someone should go around to these sites and submit your podcast

/it's easier to think outside the box if you've never seen a box

I download epi's from the website (Namely because I still can't find DiF in the apple store search), I don't have an Ipod, I do use Itunes because it works damn well as a way to play and organize music, and it's free, and I haven't found a better one that isn't related to apple tech, not that I really give a royal rats ass about such things.

Any other questions?

Maybe you could have 2 versions of the podcast, mp3 and enhanced.

Can we please move this oh so fascinating discussion to the Enhanced thread in off topic?

I keep seeing "New Posts" for the Empire topic and getting excited about the prospect of someone actually talking about the commentary.

He goes into a bit of detail about un-made trilogies here.

I find it amazing how after the total make-shit-up-as-he-went clusterfuck that was the prequel trilogy, there's somehow this lasting conviction that when it came to the sequel trilogy, Lucas totally had a definitive, coherent "plan."

The Secret History of Star Wars book has a chapter (rather, an appendix) on the Sequel Trilogy. It goes into great detail about how completely in flux the ST was. Basically, depending on when you asked Lucas between 1977 and 1983, the "plan" was always something different.

The "Other" mentioned by Yoda in ESB was going to essentially take over as protagonist in the ST and it was going to be essentially unrelated to the OT as we know it. When Lucas decided to just stop at ROTJ, he tied up the loose end by making Luke and Leia siblings and making her the Other, which was not at all the original plan, though he did not appear to have any plan other than to have a new trilogy, new adventures, with wholly new characters. Later, he began to claim that it would be a continuation with Luke, Leia, and Han, but much later in their lives.

For a long time he resisted doing any SW books to continue the story, but ultimately gave in and the Zahn trilogy revitalized SW in popular culture, paving the way for the prequels.

For all intents and purposes, the Zahn trilogy (and to an extent, the graphic novel DARK EMPIRE) are what the sequels were going to be, as far as Lucas ever articulated -- set against the rebuilding of the Republic, they explored the heroes' internal struggles between good and evil, and how, especially when you are given the keys to power (whether it be political, or magical), the line suddenly becomes much less clear.

The prequels, formerly only loosely related to the OT with Obi-Wan as protagonist, became about Anakin instead, and with Episodes 1-6 now charting the life story of this specific character, 7-9 were rendered superfluous and George "Orwell" Lucas began flatly denying that they had ever even been part of the equation.

Over the past several weeks, I've worked my way through all six movies on various lazy Sunday afternoons. And I've come to a conclusion.

The only real problem I have with the prequels — the only thing that, in my mind, was just never, ever going to work no matter what — is the fact that Anakin was just appallingly miscast. Twice.

If we had it to do over again, there are plenty of ways to improve the story in major and minor ways. But seriously, those prequels could have had the best scripts ever in the history of scripts, and they still would have suffered because the lead character was played by the wrong actors.

From the front page of this very site

Those movies needed someone who could write a script and someone who could direct it, that's what they needed. Better casting and/or better performances would have followed naturally.