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roguerebels · 5 years ago

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Sal’s Personal Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Here we are.

The zero hour.

The last stand.

The beginning of a new era of Star Wars.

Everywhere you look Star Wars, Star Wars, and Star Wars. For someone like me it’s the stuff of dreams. For old and new fans alike the excitement is building. Some people have been waiting for this moment since the announcement of Star Wars: Episode VII on October 30th, 2012.

But then there’s me.

One of the people who have been waiting for this since May 25th, 1983.

I’m of that first generation who grew up not remembering the first time they saw Star Wars. It just always was. I’m the generation that was left at the end of the story without knowing if there would ever be more. I was there when the Expanded Universe began to fill the void in our world with new Star Wars. From Heir to the Empire and Dark Empire to Crucible and Star Wars Legacy, I was there.

I was there on May 19th, 1999, when I was able to go back to the beginning and experience the untold stories of the saga. I brought my daughter to see Revenge of the Sith when she was too young to remember. It was the only Star Wars movie I thought she’d ever see in a theater (although I was able to bring both kids to see The Phantom Menace in 3D.) I was there through The Clone Wars and our family even now watches Star Wars Rebels.

Such a drastic change from the late ’80s of having nothing but three wonderful movies. Now, when even if you only count canon stories, we have six movies, six seasons of The Clone Wars, one-and-a-half seasons of Star Wars Rebels, ongoing comics series, new novels, and lots of short fiction from insider and various other ebooks.

On my journey here I’ve tried to stay spoiler-free but I’ve consumed every story thrown at me.

I keep up with the comics,

I read all the novels, and I love all-new stories, new characters, new adventures. All in my favorite galaxy.

With the Internet and social media being what they are it’s tough (but not impossible) to duck spoilers. If I see a link that looks fishy I don’t click it. I take part in a podcast where spoilers are discussed and I jump off when it’s that time. Not for anyone else but for myself. I want to sit in a theater for the first time since 1983 and not know where the story is going.

Finally, we are going into uncharted territory. I watched the prequels but we all knew where it was ending. Same with The Clone Wars and while the Rebels characters are new, their setting is in a familiar place. But now we finally journey forward. After anything we’ve ever seen. I can’t wait to step into this new age with fresh eyes and see it for the first time.

It’s so soon it’s scary.

I’m not scared of it being bad or anything like that. From the pieces and glimpses we’ve been afforded it feels right. I’m so happy to see my old friends and meet some new ones. I want to see the looks on my kids’ faces when they see the power of a new Star Wars film in a theater now that they’re old enough to appreciate it. I’m looking forward to it just like everyone else.

And it’s happening tonight.

I’m ready.

-Sal P. 12/14/15

So how did I get here…

To tell you the truth I don’t really know where to start. I was a lifelong Star Wars fan? I won the Star Wars lottery? Simple tricks and nonsense?

I certainly was only afforded this opportunity through being an official member of the Star Wars costuming charity groups. My wife decided to join the Rebel Legion group specifically for Resistance Pilots and was given the honor of representing the Rebel Legion as one of the costumed pilots on the red carpet. Me? As a dedicated trainer, performer, and show creator for Saber Guild I was lucky enough to score a seat. But it was only through our hard work on costumes, many charity troops, and representing the best of what Star Wars means to us that we somehow had this opportunity to be a part of history.

Unfortunately, we weren’t able to share this experience with our younglings. As you can imagine the space is very limited. We told them the news. They took it as well as someone can I suppose.

After quite a bit of hard work and sleepless nights we finished Liz’s Resistance pilot (modeled after Jessika Pava so we can’t wait to work on a helmet)

Then we were there. Everything started happening. We saw things. Familiar faces. Friends. It was freezing. I can’t even properly describe what happened (kinda like Shmi.) Suffice to say the experience was unforgettable, full of wonder, and nothing less than magical. I have a few pics that may help piece together this experience…..

And then we went in.

We walked up the red carpet ourselves and ascended towards what we’ve been waiting for. We found our seats and got comfortable.

Well, mostly.

I was pretty much on the edge of mine.

Then Iger walked out. There were introductions and speeches.

J.J. thanked both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg (who were a mere 5 or 6 rows back.)

We saw the entire cast and the people who helped put this together.

They exited the stage off a small set of stairs that led them straight down our aisle.

Well…

Liz’s aisle, as she was right on the edge and shook everyone’s hand as they walked by.

Then the theater went dark and it happened.

After the Awakening Review?

Well.

I saw it.

I saw The Force Awakens.

What can I say?

What did I think?

I’m not sure I’m quite fully functional again but I’ll try to say something.

I loved it.

Without being horribly descriptive it had humor, action, tension, and heart.

And hope.

The film MOVED.

I mean it really moved. I never had time to catch my breath. I was careening off the walls I moved so fast.

The familiar faces?

It felt like seeing a friend I’ve missed for so long. The kind of friend who you can see again and pick up right where you left off.

The new generation?

Spectacular. Endearing. Fascinating. The kind of people who you spend time with and leave just wanting to know more about them.

… and waiting for the next time you’ll see them again.

The story?

It was driving and unrelenting. The journey takes you to places you’ve never been and brings you back to places you’ve seen before.

It felt like Star Wars. The intangible something that’s so hard to catch. It’s here. The magic that started this whole journey way back on May 25th, 1977 is liberally sprinkled throughout.

I can’t wait to see it again. With the whole family this time. I’m still reeling from the experience. I don’t know if it was the film itself or the magic of the night but I do know that I left the theater both feeling satisfied AND wanting more. I feel like there’s so much more I want to analyze after a few more (probably less mind-blowing circumstance surrounded) viewings.

I have questions.

And I have answers.

It definitely feels like the start of something new while still having unbreakable bonds to the previous legacy of saga films.

It feels right.

And that’s really the best thing I can say about it right now.

All good things must have an ending…

We walked out of the theater still not quite put together. More things happened.

Like, unreal things that you never could imagine happening.

Like, I went to the Men’s room and ended up next to John Williams.

Yeah… that’s not a thing that anyone could make up.

We walked down to the reception and ate some fancy food. That was pretty awesome. I joked that if anyone asked me if I liked The Force Awakens I was going to tell them the food was AWESOME!!

We enjoyed the reception for a bit before having to finally call it a night. Everything was such a blur of friends, hugs, and memories. It feels kinda like a really intense Force vision. You can remember things vividly but can’t quite put them into context. I have a few pics that might help us put things together.

Well, I guess not but I can’t wait to see this movie again.

-Sal P. 12/15/15

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horrorlollis · 5 years ago

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The CGI used for Yoda in The Phantom Menace's 3D re-release in 2012 still looks absolutely gorgeous. The details on his Jedi robe look incredible

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sleeepwalker-mfr · 5 years ago

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The CGI used for Yoda in The Phantom Menace's 3D re-release in 2012 still looks absolutely gorgeous. The details on his Jedi robe look incredible

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popwrapped · 8 years ago

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What Happened To The Star Wars And Disney 3D Re-Releases?

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Back in 2010, it was announced that all six original Star Wars films would be re-released in theatres…in 3D. Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) began this planned slate in early 2012, but since then, we have not seen the remaining five films follow suit. “Oh, yeah! I remember them announcing that!” Fans can’t really complain, since we’ve definitely gotten our fair share of Star Warsin…

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pokefan531 · 5 years ago

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Star Wars Retrospective 2 - Prequel Trilogy

This time, I will do my retrospective on the Prequel Trilogy. Merry Christmas and may the holidays be with you. DISCLAIMER: This post will contain my opinions of the prequels. I am gonna be fair to the goods and bads on each three films. If you respect my opinion and understand my reasons about my retrospective and current thoughts of the films, I will appreciate it. No pure hate will be done on anyone involved in those films, and will be honest about the people and what I think they should've done. This is mainly about retrospective. To recap from my Original Trilogy posts, I played the games first before seeing the films in full length. Just to remind you, I did see Episode 2 in theatres first, before seeing any other Star Wars films. In late July 2002, I was in Peru for a trip. One day, I went to the mall in Lima. The mall looked nice, and it was mostly outdoors. The hallway and the eating area are all outdoors. I enjoyed looking around the mall with my family. Later, we said we're gonna see a movie. I didn't know at the time that I'm gonna see Star Wars, but when I sit on the seat in theater, I was waiting to see what movie it was. I didn't even ask, and the fact I have very basic Spanish skills. When I saw Star Wars logo on screen, that's when I realized we're watching it. Granted, this is my first time seeing a Star Wars movie in theater, but in the US, it's The Clone Wars movie, and The Force Awakens as a main film. The entire movie was in spanish, and I didn't understand much of it. Episode 2 came to Peru in July 2002 instead of May. I thought all the action scenes were interesting. I mainly focused on those scenes. I remember seeing the chase on Zam Wesell, The Kamino battle and negociations, Anakin fighting Tuskin Raiders, and the entire Battle of Geneosis. Also including the rest of the movie. I didn't realize the romance scenes because I watched it on unfamilar language, and filler dialogue. I would admit that they have a lot of them, but I still liked the action parts as a kid. My most memorable scene was Anakin vs Count Dooku because he cuts Anakin's arm off. I didn't notice much of CGI. I was a kid, but as of now, a lot of the CGIs don't really look terrible. Noticable, but not awful. There are exceptions like Dexter Diner scene and the hallway with Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Mace Windu. I know there's more, but the CGIs, admittedly, didn't age well. It's more like PS3 and X360 graphics than PS2 graphics. PS2 graphics would be like Food Fight or Sharkboy and Lava Girl. As a kid, after seeing it, I had fun seeing it. It's common that you had fun after seeing a Star Wars movie in theaters, but it was new to me. I remember having Galactic Battlegrounds, and so I tried to recreate the battle arena of Geneosis. I think we had a good time at the mall. I don't know if any of my family didn't like it, but I know I did. By the way, I don't remember hearing people gasping for Yoda grabing his lightsaber. Fast forward to December, we brought Episode 2 to see it in English. I understand some of them, but still enough to know a lot about the movie. I saw it with my other family members who didn't came to Peru with us. I remember some dialogues like I HATE THEM!!!. I enjoyed seeing the action scenes again, especially Geneosis. Even as a kid, I knew they had filler dialogues. I still didn't notice the romance scenes being bad though, at the time. I do think a great scene that everyone mentioned is Anakin's anger on Tuskin Raiders, and as a kid, I thought it made sense. After seeing it in English, I decide to see the Geneosis segments again few days later. I'd admit, the lightsaber duel looks pretty cool, even now. It was the only Star Wars movie I have at the time, but I mostly play the video games like Star Wars Racer, Galactic Battlegrounds, and Rogue Squadron 3D. Fast Forward to Late 2007, I already mentioned about me playing Lego Star Wars 2, and seeing the OT. My cousin decides to show us all the movie on the visit. We saw the OT first, and then we saw Episode 2. We didn't go to Episode 1 yet. When I saw the movie again, I'm like, I remember the movie. I kinda had the same opinion as I has when I was younger, but I know much more about the movie, and I liked Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan and Count Dooku was well casted. I wouldn't want to fill my retrospective on Episode 2 more, so I'll move on to Episode 1 and 3. I saw Episode 1 last, so I'll move to Episode 3. My cousin played it. The first several minutes were pretty amazing. We get to see Anakin and Obi-Wan in more action. I thought General Grevious was just a villain. I knew he wasn't written as good as Count Dooku or Anakin, but his battle with Obi-Wan was satisfied enough to me back then. Even before all the memes, I quickly regonized the dialogues from the movie. The dialogues aren't as great as Original Trilogy, it was still better than the first two prequels. Seeing Anakin vs Dooku again made me feel like I really waited this long to see a sequel. I know it's random, but I used to remember enjoying their first duel. I find it interesting that we question ourselves during the movie about what happened. We do that a lot during our childhood. My favorite duel in the movie is Anakin vs Obi-Wan. In my first glance, we do see their acutal connections, and Anakin's perspective on the Jedis. We used to play with lightsabers to fight. I remembered the birth of Vader's suit, and even the Nooo. Back then, I thought it was fine, but I get that already it's not really good. I don't mind it, and I see it as a meme. I thought my first time seeing Episode 3 was exciting. I liked a lot of parts of the movie, and to an extent, I still do. It's funny how I think about the connections back then about the events from the prequels. I never felt there was any huge disconnections on continuity. Even to this day and during the backlash on the prequels, I never was against Episode 3. I thought it was tolerable and satisfying, but I'll discuss this later. Now let's go to The Phantom Menace and how I first saw it. My cousin's next visit brought Episode 1, and we saw it together. To be honest, we over-fun the visit because he brought his lightsaber and PSP with Lego Star Wars 2. I knew about the Pod race because of the video game. We played the movie, and we were having fun in our own terms. Wow, what a memory. We do see Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan slicing off the droids and stuff, and it was a pretty good start for action. I never knew about force speed that they used to escape from droidekas until six years later. Seeing Jar-Jar the first time, I thought he was little funny back then, but I never see him as my favorite thing nor really smart. I notice the political discussions, but in this visit, we somehow just talk over it, saying how the astestics looks cool. Later, we realized Jake Lloyd was playing as Anakin, and it's because our favorite movies back then was Jingle All The Way. We thought it was cool when we first watched it. Pod Racing was pretty exciting. It reminds me a bit about the video game. Let's get to the part where Battle of Naboo started. The three of us decides to play Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Darth Maul and take turns, so we saw Duels of the Fate four times! Second one is when we start reenacting the characters. On our second to fourth time, we fast forward whenever it cuts to Jar Jar, Padme, or Anakin. It was very fun! It was. It was our favorite thing from the movie. We thought Darth Maul was a cool character and so as Duels of the Fate soundtrack. Back then, we never thought about Anakin surviving the space battle nor how unhelpful Jar Jar was in the battle because of this. After we saw the movie, we thought it was pretty good. Granted, it was actually not the best film, and even back then, we found the Original Trilogy even better. While we enjoyed all the movies back then, it was pretty fun to enjoy Star Wars. I did play the first Lego Star Wars a month after I got the second game. Since I went all through the prequel trilogy retrospective, let's discuss about the flaws and backlash that it went before. I discovered the backlash of it in 2012. I did see the 3D version of the Phantom Menace, which was almost as pointless as Solo, and I started to realize how the movie has problems with pacing and stuff. It wasn't really 3D, so it wasn't worth seeing. At first, I thought it was okay or not great. A year later, I do find more backlashes of the prequel trilogy, and some of the things made sense. Episode 1 was pretty monotone and didn't handle the politics discussions correctly. It has fillers that they could've trimmed out. I do see Jake Lloyd become a joke, and I do think he wasn't well acted, I knew it was the problem with the directing and choices. Jar-Jar was pretty dumb, and at that time, I never thought he's the worst character that anyone would say outside the fandom. Mine was Iris from Pokemon anime, and I used to proof she was worse than Jar Jar. I never blamed Ahmed Best for playing him. There was medi-chlorians thing, but I never did analysis on it. Episode 2 has the CGI and bad romance. CGI was used in most of the film, but many parts didn't look too bad. I get the Dexter's Diner scene and Green Screen with Obi-Wan, Yoda with hover, and Mace Windu, but the rest didn't seem that bad to be honest. In the last couple of years, I think the written romance made connections between Anakin and Padme really awful. I know the lines and directing made Anakin a cringe of a character, but I never blamed Hayden Christiansen. I thought he was a good actor, but I knew the production handled him poorly. I feel sorry for him for getting the hate. He was never mean or anything. He's done decent or good on other movies. I think he does a bit better in Episode 3 though. Episode 3, I honestly never understand how people see this movie as bad as the first two. I thought it did a lot better. I think it's not up there with the OT, but at least good enough for me to enjoy. I get the flaws of the movie, but I never understand it being really a terrible film. The flaws I can point out are the romance balcony scene, the pacing of Anakin becoming a sith, the Nooo Vader scene, or Padme's death explanation. I know people find General Grevious a weak villain, but I find him pretty okay. He's better in Clone Wars 2003 and 2008 one, but he's really best in the first one. The dialogues are somewhat monotone, but it wasn't as appearant, and many of them are memeable. Hello There. Your move. I got the High Ground! Not a happy landing. Ewan Mcgregor is my favorite protagonist actor of the trilogy. Obi-Wan seems pretty enjoyable. The CGIs in the film got better, but few places looks fake, but not really bad. Mustafar was a prop if you look at behind the scene stuff. Back to Hayden Christiansen, I thought he was pretty fine in this film and did better than episode 2, and I don't think the bad acting or directing are enough for him to win Worst Supporting Actor. Ian McDirmid was pretty good. The Yoda vs Emperor, I know many people find it pretty silly and I do understand, I don't really mind to be honest. I know Episode 3 is not as great as the Original Trilogy films, but I find it pretty satisfying. The things I found wrong in the backlash are few thing. First big one is George Lucas. Well, he got full control to make the trilogy, and did a lot on his own. While I do think some of his decisions are questionable, I never see him as a bad guy. Many people hate him for the prequels and Special Editions. I get it he doesn't do well on those. It goes out of hand on the hate. Many people hate on him so much that they made a song about him ruining their childhood. If you know the song and the lyrics, you know what I mean. I couldn't believe they made a song against him. That's where I found the backlash pretty brutal. The People vs George Lucas, I never seen it, but Mark Hamill did an interview in early 2017, saying how they were hating on him. Yeah, the backlash on George Lucas was pretty brutal especially since he's a creator who made the greatest franchise. I know not all creators are good people, but he had helped several people in the business. See Pixar and Lucasarts, and guys like Steven Spielberg. He had done decisions that isn't right, like special editions, but I don't think he really did anything harmful or insulting. My second thing that I find wrong with the backlash is taking it on actors. Jake Lloyd is a good example. I know you can critize the actors all you want, but don't see them as they purposely ruin the movies due to their acting or what they were told to act and say. Jake Lloyd got really bullied after Episode 1, and he ended up destroying his memorabilia and later committed DUI, and ends up in Mental Institution later on. Ahmed Best seems like a nice guy. I didn't know that even a voice actor can still get blamed even if not seen directly in the movie. He tweeted once about his suicide thoughts, but he decides not to. Thankfully, he attended Celebration 2019 in The Phantom Menace panel. Hayden Christiansen, I already mentioned him. Natalie Portman, I get that she's not really a good actress, but I don't think she's that bad of an actress. My third problem with the backlash is going against fans who enjoys the prequels. I met someone who likes Episode 1. He tells me why, and I never went against him for liking it. I never see those movies as really bad movies. I know this is a problem with the fandom since the hate on the prequels went strong in late 2000s (correct me). My former reviewer, Nostalgia critic, made 11 good things about the prequels. While his review was likable, he gives it a sense that people will go rage on him if he defends the prequels or say Hayden Christiansen is well casted. I don't watch his videos anymore, but that used to be accurate of how the hatedom was. The backlash declined somewhere in 2016 before Rogue One. I know they aren't perfect movies, but I can point out some things of what I liked about them. McGregor, McDirmaid, Christopher Lee, and Ray Park were pretty great playing their characters. My favorite protagonist is Obi-Wan. Soundtrack is amazing and it's really memorable. Lightsaber duels are really enjoyable. Some lines are memorable that they became memes. I know recently, people see this trilogy differently. I don't think the trilogy are generally a masterpiece, but it does vary by person who finds them enjoyable in any way. I'm just doing my retrospective and what I think about the criticism of the prequel trilogy. I do realize some of them are pretty fair. Episode 3 is enjoyable for me for its lore and story on multiple characters. I'm gonna include the fan edits. I recommend Hal 9000 fan edit of the prequel trilogy as a way to rewatch with several problems greatly reduced. I find his episode 2 fanedit pretty great. It did make it look like a substantial improvement that makes it watchable than the actual movie by cutting away fillers or bad scenes away as much as it can. Granted, with the cuts, few scenes that are cut can be questionable, like trimming away Qui-Gon's sense of Anakin or shortning Yoda vs Dooku to only using the force, but the fanedit is worth seeing. It add deleted scenes that made sense. I made a review of it last year, and it's pretty positive. I haven't seen his Episode 3 yet, but what I can say is that I would watch his fanedits to rewatch the prequels at the best way possible. Here's the question I'm gonna get asked since I post about the criticism. What about the sequel trilogy, especially The Last Jedi? I will cover the sequel trilogy once I see The Rise of Skywalker. It comes out this weekend, but I'm not sure when I could see it. I'll cover the history about those three movies. I am only covering the main films, not Rogue One or Solo. Once I'm done with the retrospective, I'll finally post my rank on all the movies made by Lucasfilm production.

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zhumeimv · 5 years ago

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The Real Reason The Han Solo Scene With Greedo Is Different On Disney+

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The original Star Wars trilogy is constantly evolving — and that’s not necessarily a good thing. Now, with the arrival of Disney+ [“Disney Plus”], we’ve been given yet another version of Star Wars: A New Hope, the very first film in the franchise. And this version includes a head-scratching change to…

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darth-ivan · 7 years ago

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im sorry but im literally gonna be that bitch whos like....you youngins dont really understand blah blah because i was there! because i literally havent been able to stop talking about phantom menace in 3D since 2012 :/

#like #i loooove being able to say oh yeah...saw itnin thraters HEH #immmmmmmm tirex

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yodaarchives · 2 years ago

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Clone Wars: Darth Maul Returns, But how?

With the new Kenobi series airing lets have a look back at some Clone Wars content. Here is a blog post from 2012, when Darth Maul return was announced. We ran a series predicting what the new Darth Maul might look like. This weekend The Phantom Menace returns to the big screen but this time in 3D. Lucasfilm is promoting the re-release with packaging and advertising featuring Darth Maul. Darth…

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#cartoon network #Clone Wars #Darth Maul #kenobi #LEGO #Phantom Menace

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watchingthesuperbowl · 7 years ago

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Notes taken during Super Bowl XLVI

PREGAME

This is an NBC broadcast. Recording starts with the coin toss.

Coin toss. 2012 Hall of Fame inductees. Curtis Martin will do the honors.

As the visiting team, Giants call the toss. They call tails. It's heads. Patriots will defer.

That ends the NFC's streak of 14 consecutive coin toss wins.

Giants were 7-7 at one point, haven't lost since.

Eli Manning: We're all playing for each other. Love and respect each other, ready for a big night.

Michele Tafoya: Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski suffered a high ankle sprain in the AFC Championship game.

Commercial: Hyundai doing some sort of Rocky theme song thing.

FIRST QUARTER

Giants receive. Decent return from Jerrel Jernigan to the 23.

First play: Ahmad Bradshaw up the middle for no gain. Michaels says the Giants have the worst rushing offense in the NFL.

Manning converts a third down. Hits Victor Cruz for 8-9 yards.

Fans seem pro-Giants. It's not surprising that people in Indianapolis don't want the Patriots to win.

Michaels: In three of the last four Super Bowls, the team with the worst rushing offense in the NFL has taken part.

Nice drive here for the Giants. A couple completions to the tight ends, that catch by Victor Cruz, now Hakeem Nicks for 19 into New England territory.

Drive stalls. Two sacks and a stuffed running play knock the Giants out of any semblance of field goal range. Steve Weatherford pins the Patriots at the 5 on a punt.

Commercials: Bud Light Platinum. (Gross.) Audi commercial featuring an Echo and the Bunnymen song. (Awesome.) Audi headlights are so bright they kill vampires, it seems.

Obligatory cutaway: Gisele Bundchen.

Patriots' first play, Brady is under pressure in the end zone. Throws it deep down the middle to nobody. The officials confer....yep, that's intentional grounding and a safety. 2-0 Giants.

Commercials: Pepsi featuring Elton John as a king of some sort of singing contest. He's dropped into a dungeon. Flava Flav greets him. The only good part of the ad. Hyundai Veloster. Promo for "Smash", tomorrow on NBC.

FLAVA FLAV!

Michaels: That's the first safety in a Super Bowl since XXV, 21 years ago.

Replay shows it was the right call. Brady was in the tackle box, under pressure, and nobody within at least 15 yards of where the ball landed.

Manning is 6-for-6 early. I'm pretty sure all six are to different receivers. Giants approaching midfield.

BIG run from Ahmad Bradshaw. Makes a couple tacklers miss and gets 24 yards down the left sideline. First and 10 from the New England 33.

Now a completion to Bear Pascoe inside the 20. First down. Giants on their second dangerous drive before the Patriots run their second play.

Patriots were 31st in the NFL in yards allowed.

Confusion in the Patriots' secondary. Completion to Cruz, maybe a fumble, maybe not. They say it's a fumble but it doesn't matter. New England had 12 defenders on the field.

First and goal from the 6. Bradshaw to the 2. Clock ticks under 4:00 left in the first, Patriots still only have that one offensive play.

Oh, man, crazy-dangerous throw. Manning throws a slant to Cruz for a score. 9-0 New York. Linebacker Jerrod Mayo dropped back to cover a slant but never looked back for the ball. He could have picked it like James Harrison did three years ago against the Cardinals.

No, Mayo!

Commercials: Bud Light Platinum. Still gross. M&Ms. Best Buy - "any phone, any carrier". Celebrity Apprentice. Even more gross than Bud Light Platinum.

Commercials: Coke ad featuring CGI polar bears hanging out. Chevy trucks - they'll still exist after the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse, but Ford trucks won't. Halftime show promo. Madonna. Promo for "Rock Center" with Brian Williams.

Offensive plays: Giants 19, Patriots 1.

Collinsworth: I've never seen the Patriots look this unsettled to start a game.

Brady converts a third and 4. Over the middle to Deion Branch at midfield.

Now a quick pass to Welker. Giants trying to cover him underneath with a linebacker. Goodness. 19 yard gain.

2nd and 6, Welker on an end around for 10 or so. Patriots inside the New York 20 as the first quarter ends. New York 9, New England 0.

Commercials: Bridgestone. They made a football out of Bridgestone tires. It's easy to control, just like Bridgestone tires. GoDaddy commercial featuring Danica Patrick, Jillian Michaels, and a scantily clad woman. Lexus. "Battleship" film. It looks awful.

SECOND QUARTER

Oh, hey, it's Aaron Hernandez. Catches a pass on the first play of the quarter. Gain of 2. Becomes the leading receiver in Super Bowl history among murderers.

3rd and 4 from the 11, Brady pass knocked down by Jason Pierre-Paul. That forces a field goal attempt from Gostkowski. 29 yarder. Got it. 9-3 Giants.

Commercials: Budweiser. Prohibition is over! Hooray, but your beer is still awful. Doritos. A dog bribes a guy with Doritos to not tell on him for killing their cat. Camaro.

NBC runs a song about Jason Pierre-Paul. "JPP", set to the tune of Naughty By Nature's OPP.

Commercials: GE. We make turbines that keep your Budweiser cold. Gross. Commercial for John Carter, which somehow may have been a worse film than Battleship. TaxAct dot com decides it's a good idea to have a kid peeing in a swimming pool as its Super Bowl ad. Promo for The Voice, premiering tonight after the Super Bowl.

Manning is 9-for-9 to start the game, a Super Bowl record. They jinxed him. He's 9 for 10 now after throwing it away on first down.

Brandon Jacobs up the middle for 11. Patriots not doing much to stop the Giants early.

Manning hits Bradshaw in the face with a pass. Incompletion.

Michaels: People wondered why the Giants weren't favored heading into the game.

Commercials: The Lorax, A dog loses weight so he can fit out the doggie door and chase a Volkswagen. Darth Vader chokes a guy in a bar for laughing at that. Promo for America's Got Talent featuring Howard Stern, coming this summer.

Third and 6, great catch from Hakeem Nicks downfield. Pass looked high, but he went up and got it at the New England 48. First down.

3rd and 15, Manning completes a pass to Bradshaw at the 40. It's short of a first down and Weatherford will punt it into the end zone. Welp.

Commercials: David Beckham in his underwear for H&M. The CGI Coke polar bears again.

Another Brady pass knocked down by Jason Pierre-Paul.

Chad Ochocinco comes into the game on third and 7. It's a six yard pass to Welker and the Patriots will punt.

Tafoya: Giants TE Travis Beckham is out with a torn ACL.

3rd and 11, Manning deep to Manningham, but incomplete. Weatherford will punt with around 4:00 left in the half. Kicks it out of bounds at the 4.

Commercials: Chevy Sonic doing stunts. Star Wars Phantom Menace 3D. Gross. Promo for a Madonna halftime show.

Gronk! His first catch of the game is down the seam for 20. Out to the New England 35, 2:30 to go in the half.

After a running play, it'll be 2nd and 6 when they return from the two minute warning.

Commercials: The Avengers, Teleflora dot com, Skechers, NFL Play 60 promo sponsored by Kinect for X Box 360, Cars dot com.

Brady to Hernandez to the Patriots' 49. First down. 1:40 and counting.

Now Brady to Hernandez again. Ruled a catch and down by contact. Probably the right call. Yep, replay shows his elbow was down before the ball came out.

Brady to Woodhead to the New York 37. Flag on the play. Holding, offense. Big penalty.

Brady keeps going to Hernandez. Moves the chains again. Out at the 34 with 1:01 left on the clock.

Brady to Welker at the 23. First down. 0:28 left, Patriots timeout.

Commercials: Doritos - grandmother uses a bungee slingshot to fire a toddler at a kid with a bag of Doritos. Talking baby for Etrade. G.I. Joe Retaliation.

Brady to Woodhead. Out at the 12. First down. Clock stopped at 0:24

Brady to Woodhead at the 3. Flag down. Giants offside. Declined. 0:18 left, 2nd and 1 at the 3.

Draw play! Woodhead chopped down in the backfield by Pierre Paul. Timeout, New England.0:15 left in the half.

Third down, Brady looking, looking, looking, touchdown. Threads a needle to Danny Woodhead in the end zone. 10-9 Patriots with less than 10 seconds left in the half. Presumably, they'll squib the kickoff, the Giants will take a knee on first down, and it'll be 10-9 at halftime.

Touchdown.

Collinsworth: That tied a record for longest drive in Super Bowl history.

Yep. Squib kick, Giants take a knee. At the half: New England 10, New York 9.

Commercial: NFL Fantasy Football

HALFTIME

Rodney Harrison: Belichick will tell his players we haven't played our best and if we cut out the mistakes, we'll win this game.

Tony Dungy: If I'm Tom Coughlin, I'm telling my players that we're moving the football, we just have to finish drives. We can move the ball on these guys.

Dungy: With the injury, Gronkowski can be covered one-on-one with a linebacker. He's a decoy. They have to stop Welker and Hernandez.

Harrison: Hernandez is a matchup nightmare for the Giants. Tough to bring down in space.

Harrison: Giants need to run at Brady, not go around the offensive line. They need to get in his face or it will be a long day.

Commercials: Toyota Camry, Will Arnett for Hulu Plus, LMFAO playing the halftime show in a bar instead of at the game - commercial for Bud Light, Tonight Show promo with Madonna in an elevator with Jay Leno.

Halftime show. Madonna! She's being brought to the stage by some sort of legion. Vogue. She's lip synching to obvious samples of herself. This is about eleven million times better than last year's Black Eyed Peas debacle, and I'm by no means a Madonna fan. Music. LMFAO. It's a mashup of Music and Party Rock. Everybody's gonna have a good time. Sexy And I Know It. I work out! Okay, now it's a Madonna song that I've genuinely never heard in my life. She seems to want all the love today. Nicki Minaj cameo. Now MIA. Nice. MIA flips the bird to the camera. The NFL is having a collective freakout about that, I'm sure. Open Your Heart featuring a drum line and Cee-Lo Green. Like A Prayer after an extremely quick wardrobe change. Cee-Lo joins in on backing vocals. Show ends with a "World Peace" message on the field. Madonna crushed it out there.

Commercial: Promo for The Voice with a cameo from Betty White

Costas: Last three times these teams have met, they've been decided by three, three, and four points. Every Super Bowl that Tom Brady has played in has been decided by three points. Kickers could play a key role in the second half.

Commercials: "It's haltime in America" featuring Clint Eastwood not screaming at an empty chair. I guess this is a Chrysler commercial. Cool, guys, maybe don't make dogshit cars if you want to be successful. NFL Fantasy Football.

Michaels: Brady finished first half with eleven consecutive completions.

When these two teams played in the regular season, it was scoreless at the half.

THIRD QUARTER

Patriots receive. Julian Edelman to the 21.

Tafoya: Belichick says they have to do better in the red zone and stay out of third and long.

First play of the drive. Brady to Ochocinco for 20 or so.

Brady on final drive of first half: 10-10, 98 yards, TD.

The law firm gets going. BenJarvis Green-Ellis for around 15. Giants on their heels, observes Collinsworth.

Brady's 14th consecutive completion. Super Bowl record.

Third and inches, Green-Ellis for three. First down at the New York 20.

"Second and a deuce", says Michaels. Aaron Hernandez one-on-one against a linebacker. No chance for the Giants. Touchdown. 17-9 New England. That's Hernandez's sixth catch of the game.

Patriots have back-to-back drives of 96 and 79 yards.

Commercials: Promo for Smash - series premiere tomorrow

Giants convert on third and four, get out to midfield with a pass to Nicks. Collinsworth says Patriots are trying to shut down Victor Cruz and the Giants have responded by using other receivers.

Another first down to the New England 36. Bradshaw blasts through the middle of the line.

Manning to Nicks again. First down to the 25.

Collinsworth: Patriots' gameplan is to allow short, quick passes but not big plays. Manning needs to stay patient.

Nicks gets blasted by Patrick Chung, going up for a catch. Comes out of the game injured. He's back in after a play. Would have been big if he had been knocked out.

Third and 10, short pass to Manningham. Lawrence Tynes will come on to try a 38 yard field goal. Just sneaks it inside the left upright. 17-12 Patriots midway through the third quarter.

Commercials: Fiat Abarth. Pepsi Max - a Coke delivery guy wins free Pepsi Max for life after trying and failing to buy one without anyone noticing.

Cutaway: Eli Manning's wife and mom.

Commercials; Toyota Camry - reinvented everything else after reinventing the Camry. Coke polar bears. John Stamos for Dannon Oikos yogurt. Century 21 commercial featuring Donald Trump, Deion Sanders, and Apollo Ohno.

First play of the next Patriots drive, Jason Pierre Paul is injured on a tackle in the backfield. NBC goes to commercial.

Commercials: Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno for Acura, General Electric.

Pierre Paul is up. Looks like he took a shot to the head making a tackle, which as we know is no big deal as far as the NFL is concerned. He'll be back. Brains are overrated.

Patriots go three and out. Justin Tuck sacks Brady on third down. Patriots will punt. Blackmon returns it to the Patriots' 48.

Commercials: Budweiser. For people who like to celebrate big events with garbage beer. Bridgestone. They made a basketball out of Bridgestone tires. They're quiet. NFL Fantasy Football.

Replay shows Brady may have injured his left shoulder on the sack. That's his non-throwing arm.

Completion to Nicks at the 30. He's stripped, but fullback Henry Hynoski falls on it. Lucky.

Jacobs finds a seam up the middle, runs to the 23. First down. 3:00 and counting in the third. Giants down 5 but threatening to score.

Completion to Bear Pascoe inside the 12. Another first down.

Tafoya: Patriots medical staff isn't paying attention to Brady, but he's occasionally rotating his left arm to check the shoulder.

Third and 8, Manning sacked at the 15. Giants will settle for a field goal attempt. Tynes from 33 yards. Got it. 17-15 Patriots with 0:35 left in the third quarter.

Second play of the Patriots drive, nobody covers Deion Branch so Brady immediately throws it to him. Gain of 13.

Patriots just barely get a play off before the end of the quarter. Green-Ellis up the middle for a few. After three quarters, it's 17-15 New England.

Commercials: Canton Bulldogs, representin'! It's a commercial for the NFL.

FOURTH QUARTER

Brady makes a crazy escape from the pass rush a la Eli Manning in the last Super Bowl. Chucks it deep and is picked off by...a middle linebacker?!? Chase Blackburn, who was substitute teaching a couple of months ago, makes the play. He beat Rob Gronkowski on a jump ball.

Oh, huge break for the Giants. Brandon Spikes forces Bradshaw to fumble, but the Giants recover. Chris Snee, coach Tom Coughlin's son-in-law, made the recovery.

Commercials: Matthew Broderick for Honda CRV - a parody of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Wow - a bold move to have a car commercial featuring a guy who killed two people while driving a car. "Act of Valor" film. Cartoon characters for Met Life. Another promo for Smash.

Third and 7. Incomplete pass, but there's a flag down. Offside, defense? Yep. The Patriots give New York another chance, this time on third and 2.

This time they convert. Manning steps up and throws a rope to Nicks. Threw it right over a linebacker.

NBC graphic: Eli Manning threw 15 TD passes in the fourth quarter this season, the most of any QB in NFL history.

Now Giants tight end Jake Ballard is hurt. Commercial time. He's grabbing his left knee. Giants are down to one tight end, Pascoe.

Commercials: Hyundai. Driver doing CPR on a passenger by starting and stopping. Bud Light. A dog named Wego who brings people beer when they say "Here, Wego!"

Oh, man. Dangerous throw. Manning in traffic to Victor Cruz on third and 1. That worked, but it was a crazy idea.

Now a completion to Manningham for 12. Into Patriots territory at the 43. 10:00 or so left.

Tafoya: Ballard has a knee sprain but will try to play.

Replay: Ballard testing the knee on the sideline and wiping out badly. He's not okay. It's gutsy of him to try to play, but that looks bad.

That’s...not good.

Third and 10, Manning goes downfield to Manningham. Collinsworth immediately: "That's interference." No flag. Giants flipping out. Bad non-call. Weatherford to punt. Welker fair catch at the 8.

Cutaway: Ballard being helped to the locker room, putting no weight on the leg.

Commercials: Motley Crue for Kia. Kick Start My Heart. CareerBuilder dot com. Monkeys annoying a guy. NBC promos. Thursday night comedies. None of the shows is Community, which, yeah. NBC did that a lot.

Collinsworth on the non-call: Everybody's going to have their own opinion on that. That's exactly how opinions work, Cris.

Big third down conversion on the first set of downs for the Patriots. Danny Woodhead in the flat, gains around 25. Patriots up 2, less than 8:00 left.

Giants DB Antrel Rolle down, injured.

Commercials: Samsung Galaxy Note featuring the Darkness. They believe in a thing called love. Promo for The Voice.

Second and 7, Patriots run a reverse to Welker. Gains 11 yards for a first down. Patriots out to their 45. Clock under 7:00.

Clock rolling, under 5:45, Patriots have a third and 3 at midfield. Giants only have one timeout - they need to get a stop fairly urgently.

They don't get the stop here. Brady to Hernandez. First down. Clock under 5:00 now.

Green-Ellis stuffed on first down. Clock rolling near 4:00.

Second down, Giants defense confused, Welker wide open and he just drops it. Huge drop. It's third down with 4:00. Clock stopped.

Welker doesn’t ever drop this ball. But he dropped this ball.

Incomplete pass on third down. Patriots will punt with 3:53 left in regulation. Fair catch at the 12.

The Giants only need a field goal here. 3:46 left, one timeout. Plenty of time, but it has to happen on this drive.

Collinsworth: Wow. We should just have these two teams play all the time. Everyone in the country who isn't from New York or New England: Gross. Yuck. No.

First play of the drive, Manning deep to Mario Manningham down the sideline. Great catch at midfield. Replay shows he caught it and got both feet down. What a play.

Collinsworth: That catch isn't quite David Tyree, but it's pretty close.

Patriots have challenged this, but it's pretty obvious that it's a catch. Yep. Call is "confirmed".

Cutaway: David Tyree on the Giants sideline.

Second and 10, complete pass to Manningham again, this time to the 34. They're in fringe field goal range. This game is indoors, which will help Tynes. Less than 3:00 left.

Collinsworth drops a Scott Norwood bomb. Thanks, Cris. Thanks for that. 2:10 and counting.

Quick pass to Nicks, complete to the Patriots' 18 as we reach the two minute warning.

Commercials: Cadillac. Testing at the Nurburgring. Swamp People on the History Channel. GoDaddy dot com. Danica Patrick and scantily clad models. She won as many races during this commercial as she did in her NASCAR career. Promo for Awake. That was such a great friggin' show and I'm still upset it got cancelled.

Run to Ahmad Bradshaw to the 11. 1:45 and counting. Patriots unsure whether to use timeouts.

Snap at 1:15, quick pass to Nicks. Goes out of bounds inside the 10. 1:09 left, clock stopped. First down.

First down, Bradshaw up the middle, stuffed. New England timeout at 1:04.

Second and goal, the seas part and it freaks Bradshaw out. He tries to fall over at the 1 but slips into the end zone. One of the few times in the sport it can be a mistake to score a touchdown. Giants going for 2, up 21-17 with 0:57 left. They don't get it.

Replay shows Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes appears to have been ready to knock Bradshaw into the end zone to force him to score, so New England could get the ball back.

Patriots have 0:57 and a timeout. They need a touchdown. Michaels says Belichick had to choose between giving Brady 0:20 to get in field goal range and stop the clock,. or a minute to score a touchdown.

Kickoff downed in the end zone. They need 80 yards in 0:57.

Collinsworth: In an interview, Brady said he'd rather have the ball, trailing, than have a lead but the other guys have the ball.

First down, Branch drops what would have easily been a 20-25 yard completion. 0:52 left.

Second down, dropped by Hernandez. 0:48 left.

Third down, Brady sacked by Tuck. Patriots burn their last timeout. 0:36 left on the clock. It's fourth and long.

I dig this facemask.

They convert on 4th and 16! Brady buys time, moves in the pocket, and finds Deion Branch for 20.What a play. 0:32. Branch got out of bounds.

Completion for 11 to Hernandez. Down the middle, though. No timeouts. They get up to the line and spike it at 0:17.

Next play, the Giants have 12 men on the field. Patriots gain five yards on the penalty, but the clock is down to 0:09.

Brady to Branch down the sideline, barely out of bounds. 0:05 left. They'll have to chuck it into the end zone on the next play. Patriots at their own 49.

Tipped in the end zone - Gronkowski maybe could have gotten to it, but does not. Giants win! 21-17 final.

POSTGAME

Cutaway: Archie Manning, apparently crying tears of joy.

Commercial: Promo for NBC Sports Network

Michaels and Collinsworth vamp for a while, then they go back to commercial.

Commercials: Chevy Sonic and OK Go. Act of Valor film. L'Oreal makeup. DiGiorno frozen pizza. Geico. NFLShop dot com has Giants Super Bowl Champions stuff.

Lombardi Trophy presented by Raymond Berry, Colts legend. He's a Baltimore Colts legend, my dudes. This game was in Indianapolis.

Berry looks extremely frail as he walks through the Giants to get to the podium. It kind of bums me out to see.

Roger Goodell: It's been an extraordinary season for the fans. Thanks for the support. An extraordinary game to end an extraordinary season. Congratulations to the Mara and Tisch families.

John Mara, Giants President and CEO: Giant fans are the most loyal in the league and this is for you!

Mara: There's not one coach in the league I'd trade Tom Coughlin for. Proud to have him.

Steve Tisch, Giants chairman: Never been around a bunch of guys with more love for each other and for the game of football. This team played their hearts out for the fans.

Tisch: I thought four years ago was great. That was just a dress rehearsal for this.

Coughlin: Everybody did a tremendous job to get us here, playing against a great team like the Patriots.

Coughlin: At halftime, I said we can play better than this, guys. We're better than this. They agreed.

Eli Manning named MVP.

Manning: Wild game, wild season. Great, tough bunch of guys who never quit and have great faith in each other.

Dan Patrick: Any point in the game where you thought We're In Trouble? Manning: Nope. Stay positive.

Patrick: How's it feel to win a Super Bowl in the stadium your brother built? Manning: It's great to win a Super Bowl anywhere, but Indianapolis is great, happy to be here.

Manning wins a Corvette for being named MVP.

Mario Manningham: Just trying to be patient, gotta be patient in this game. We knew big plays would come and we had to take advantage.

Hakeem Nicks: Feels great, happy to be a part of this team.

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