No Star Wars fan films are closer to my heart than Pink Five, a fan film project following the adventures of Stacy, a less than attentive X-Wing pilot, as she navigates her way through the events of the original trilogy. So when I recently managed to obtain a copy of the Kickstarter DVD of the complete Pink Five saga, I did what any typical person would do in such a situation: liveblog it on Twitter.
The results are what follows.
Please note that I have previously seen all of Pink Five except for the very last installment, Return of Pink Five, Volume III.
And be warned: here be spoilers.
The time has come. #PinkFive pic.twitter.com/cLLWCmOVmh
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
"So, like, the bad guys live in that basketball, right?"
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
They really do a good job pointing out silly things in this.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Oh lord, Stacy must have the best luck to survive the first Death Star while having zero idea what she's doing.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Poor little robot guy. His ill-fated head shall be missed.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
"Just…don't…fly in front of them." Stacy should have been the head strategist of Echo Base.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Huh. There's always a big hairstyle reveal, isn't there?
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Note to self: never follow Luke to the rendezvous.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Note to self the second: lightsabers make awful hairdryers.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
"I thought you had to have those midichlorians in your blood to be a Jedi?"
"That's just something we used to tell people."
Best line.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Aaaaand it's Return of Pink Five! 😀
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
I love how they worked the "Han shot first" thing in. Just Stacy arguing with the Rodian dancer.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
And she tears the curtain down in Jsbba's palace. This really does work as an in-the-background thing.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
"You're making this up as you go along, aren't you."
New best line.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
They did a good job with the special effects.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
I wonder how much time Stacy's X-Wing took to create.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
And can we talk about how badass Stacy has gotten since the first installment?
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
"I'm programmed to go." Oh, D-D, the only droid who can keep up with Stacy.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Stacy's really grown as a pilot.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Stacy: shadowy puppet master behind the Ewok assault.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Han is SO dumped.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
"You must let go of your boyfriend, for a jerk he is!" -Yoda's wisest wirds.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
"It appears the Bothans have rooked us again."
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Taking a quick break before moving on to Return of Pink Five Volume III, the final part of the saga!
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Return of Pink Five Volume III was never posted online as far as I'm aware so, again, spoiler warning. Proceed with caution.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Let's do this. pic.twitter.com/oD5RgFSBSR
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
They put a trademark symbol next to the word "gslaxy" in the crawl.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
(Please note: I made a typo and the word the trademark symbol was next to was, in fact, “galaxy.”)
SPACE BATTLE!! 😀
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
And Lando is totally flirting with Stacy.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Time to poke fun at the ridiculous locayion of the tractor beam controls in ANH.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
(It was also time to poke fun at its ridiculous location.)
Man, you guys, D-D is programmed to go.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
"Use the Force, Stacy."
"Yeah, I'm kind if doing it already."— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Stacy just took up the fallen lightsaber of Darth Vader. Hand still attached.
I did not see that coming.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Oh hi, falling Sheev, how's it hangin'?
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
SHEEV GRABBED ONTO STACY'S LEDGE.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
RIP Sheev Palpatine, done in by moisturizer.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
They did a really great job recreating the celebration scene at the end.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
And hairstyle number four!
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Obi-Wan is The Worst at telling stories.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Stacy's moved on from Han, finally…and is now totally dating Luke.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
THE END. Except there's also special features! 😀
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
And, as a bonus, a few tweets about some of the special features:
THERE ARE DELETED SCENES.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
Boba Fett had a scene and got completely cut out. Beautiful.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
The scene was Stacy beating Boba up. Now I'm sad it was cut.
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
"It's not that she's dumb, she's just kind of oblivious to the fact that there's other stuff happening." There are documentaries!
— shoshoctopus 💀🐙 (@shoshoctopus) October 19, 2014
That’s it for the liveblog! You can learn more about Pink Five at the project’s official site.
