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So it's pre-Disney material reprinted. It's not quite the same thing as the older licences continuing after the purchase, it's somehow even lazier.
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I put on the Disney+ Making-of The Book of Boba Fett documentary last night, and appreciated that it opened with both Favreau and Filoni talking about how respecting Star Wars means respecting the Expanded Universe as well as the movies, as they show the cover of Tales from Jabba's Palace on screen. Later on they show a Young Jedi Knights cover as Filoni (indirectly) talks about Lowbacca. Funnily enough, when they cover Krrsantan, they not only don't mention his comics origin at all, but make it sound like they designed the character from scratch.
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# ? May 17, 2022 15:50 |
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Rey's parents are named in the upcoming Shadow of the Sith book. An excerpt released gives their names as: Dathan and Miramir. Unfortunately he was not named Triclops. Miramir seems like she might also have some type of mysterious family thing with the mention of her grandmother.
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# ? May 19, 2022 19:57 |
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Teek posted:Rey's parents are named in the upcoming Shadow of the Sith book. An excerpt released gives their names as: Dathan and Miramir. Plot twist: Rey is her grandmother by way of Force time travel or something, I dunno, you figure it out, I just work here
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# ? May 19, 2022 20:08 |
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Xenomrph posted:Plot twist: Rey is her grandmother by way of Force time travel or something, I dunno, you figure it out, I just work here I mean, I think we all know it's going to be something like Rey's mom's grandmother was the captain of the Disney Hotel Starship
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# ? May 19, 2022 21:58 |
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Sounds suspiciously like Dathan and Miriam from the Exodus story in the BibleChairman Capone posted:I mean, I think we all know it's going to be something like Rey's mom's grandmother was the captain of the Disney Hotel Starship
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# ? May 19, 2022 22:43 |
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Casimir Radon posted:Sounds suspiciously like Dathan and Miriam from the Exodus story in the Bible For $10K Adam Driver will record a line of dialogue in a closet saying that Rey's parent is you--yes, you!
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# ? May 19, 2022 23:06 |
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Chairman Capone posted:I mean, I think we all know it's going to be something like Rey's mom's grandmother was the captain of the Disney Hotel Starship Uuuuuurrrrgh, the worst part is they've done similar things with the comics before, using them to lead into upcoming books, or to build on plot points introduced in movies (a lot of comics suddenly started caring about fuel around the time TLJ came out, for example, and after Solo, the comics were kind enough to also show off a giant fuel explosion)
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# ? May 20, 2022 03:28 |
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I've been reading Brotherhood by Mike Chen. It focuses on Obi-Wan and Anakin shortly after Geonosis. I'm not sure if it's meant to tie into the Obi-Wan series or not. I've still got a long ways to go, so the jury is still out, but Chen seems like one of the better writers they've hired.
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# ? May 20, 2022 05:33 |
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He had me when he started dipping heavily into the ROTS novelization references with the sun-dragon myth and such
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# ? May 20, 2022 20:41 |
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I’ve heard the ROTS novelization is good but I only read a couple of chapters and decided to see the movie first. Then never got back to it in the last 17 years.
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# ? May 20, 2022 21:51 |
Casimir Radon posted:I’ve heard the ROTS novelization is good but I only read a couple of chapters and decided to see the movie first. Then never got back to it in the last 17 years. It's better than the movie. And I don't really mean that as a knock against the movie. But it adds a lot of flavor in the way only a book can. The Anakin vs. Dooku fight, for example, is amazing in the book. Because it's told from Dooku's POV. (At least the end, I can't remember if any part of it is told from Anakin's POV, too. It's been a while.) I'll always remember Dooku's final thoughts in the book. I'm not gonna lie, they haunt me. quote:And he knows, then, that all has indeed been going according to plan. Sidious’s plan, not his own. This had been a Jedi trap indeed, but Jedi were not the quarry. They were the bait
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# ? May 20, 2022 22:51 |
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And of course, there is this:quote:Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
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# ? May 22, 2022 06:00 |
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Anshu posted:And of course, there is this: This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker, forever.
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Anshu posted:And of course, there is this: Yeah, that's the good stuff.
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# ? May 22, 2022 19:15 |
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"We were promised a handsome reward." "I am your reward. Do you not find me handsome?" "He said we would be left in peace." "The transmission was garbled. He said "in pieces."
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# ? May 22, 2022 19:26 |
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There's also some subtle edits in the book that makes everything come together more solidly. One example is the scene after Obi-wan tells Anakin that the Jedi want him to spy on Palpatine, where Obi-wan and Mace are riding with Yoda before he departs for Kashyyk. In the movie, Mace is wondering whether asking Anakin to spy on Palpatine is a good idea, and Obi-wan assures him that it'll be fine. In the book, their roles are reversed. I've always felt that the book's telling made more sense.
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# ? May 23, 2022 17:25 |
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And to top it off, I'm pretty sure all the changes made in the book were approved by George Lucas himself.
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# ? May 23, 2022 18:38 |
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SirPhoebos posted:There's also some subtle edits in the book that makes everything come together more solidly. The film version plays up the distrust Mace has for Anakin a bit more. I think both ways have merits.
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# ? May 23, 2022 18:56 |
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These two links are apparently unrelated. Wild. https://www.starwars.com/news/the-mandalorian-comic https://www.panini.co.uk/shp_gbr_en/blog/star-wars-the-mandalorian-the-graphic-novel-of-season-one/
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# ? May 23, 2022 19:33 |
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There's something kind of sad to read about a writer talk about how excited he is to have been chosen by a megacompany to be the figurehead for the recycled script of a TV show.
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# ? May 23, 2022 19:42 |
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Now you can read the novels, the comic, and the manga for a TV show When does the Broadway adaptation drop?
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# ? May 23, 2022 19:50 |
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Two comics. And the manga.
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# ? May 23, 2022 20:00 |
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thrawn527 posted:It's better than the movie. And I don't really mean that as a knock against the movie. But it adds a lot of flavor in the way only a book can. i also like that dooku basicaly thinks over his future role in the empire and how he will enjoy being like lord high executioner and etc and then the second he is disarmed and realizes he was never part of the plan, he starts begging. i love christopher lee, but i will always disagree with him saying "dooku wouldn't beg", to me dooku is the prime example of uber royal ghoul who starts begging when the peasants kick in the door/etc. Vinylshadow posted:"We were promised a handsome reward." i like catty hosed up dad joke vader drat it and i always will. Anshu posted:And of course, there is this: Honestly, after watching clone wars, it works. i like that novel.
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# ? May 23, 2022 20:18 |
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chaosrefined posted:And to top it off, I'm pretty sure all the changes made in the book were approved by George Lucas himself. to me. i think lucas is a very good big ideas man, but he needs others to put it into words and craft it. like he can scupt the general shape really well but others need to do the details because he isnt bernini.
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# ? May 23, 2022 20:20 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:to me. i think lucas is a very good big ideas man, but he needs others to put it into words and craft it. like he can scupt the general shape really well but others need to do the details because he isnt bernini. Oh I absolutely agree. I think it was his wife basically saved the script of A New Hope. That's why (imo) the prequels writing is utter dogshit, cause he did the script himself (not even Carrie Fisher doing some ghost editing could save it)
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# ? May 23, 2022 20:29 |
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Kinda the opposite of JJ Abrams, now that I think about it -- the minute-to-minute dialogue and action of TFA is honestly pretty good, but the worldbuilding and overall plot is *staggeringly* derivative, even without his infamy at setting up big mysteries without any plan at all on how to resolve them
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# ? May 23, 2022 21:54 |
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SirPhoebos posted:There's also some subtle edits in the book that makes everything come together more solidly. Another Obi-wan thing from the book: Palpatine's manipulation of Anakin includes planting the suspicion that there's something going on behind his back between Padme and Obi-wan. So when Padme shows up on Mustafar at the end, with Obi-wan, it's just a punch to the gut of a betrayal for Anakin. That book is so good.
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# ? May 23, 2022 22:29 |
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JJ’s mystery poo poo is probably the worst thing about him by a wide rear end margin. I never got into Lost because I figured there was no way he would be able to resolve all that poo poo and from what I’ve heard I was right.
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# ? May 23, 2022 22:31 |
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The nerd narrative about Lost is pretty wrong. They settled on an outline and stuck to it. They painstakingly answered every question and even released a 10th or 15th or whatever anniversary video to answer all the questions that hadn't been answered to fans' satisfaction. Some of the answers just weren't very good. Damon Lindelof's post-Lost output on TV (Leftovers, Watchmen) has been universally excellent and I think he deserves most of the credit and or blame for Lost. Abrams was barely involved after the pilot afaik.
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# ? May 23, 2022 22:39 |
General Battuta posted:The nerd narrative about Lost is pretty wrong. They settled on an outline and stuck to it. They painstakingly answered every question and even released a 10th or 15th or whatever anniversary video to answer all the questions that hadn't been answered to fans' satisfaction. This is all very true. And I really hate when Abrams gets the credit/blame for Lost. He helped them establish the pilot, because that’s what he did at that point. He was shepherding tons of pilots that weren’t really his shows. I like Abrams a lot, and I like Lost a lot, but I don’t give him credit for it. And, btw, neither does he. I do give him credit for the first two seasons of Alias. Which he totally ran. And which totally rule.
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# ? May 23, 2022 23:23 |
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Everything matthew stover wrote for star wars was basically the licensed fiction version of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UYgORr5Qhg
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# ? May 23, 2022 23:32 |
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ninjahedgehog posted:Kinda the opposite of JJ Abrams, now that I think about it -- the minute-to-minute dialogue and action of TFA is honestly pretty good, but the worldbuilding and overall plot is *staggeringly* derivative, even without his infamy at setting up big mysteries without any plan at all on how to resolve them Did they ever resolve how Maz Kanata got Luke’s old saber? For that matter, I can’t remember how the Thrawn Trilogy addressed that other than Luuke having it somehow. Also did Luke still have his green saber in the sequel trilogy? I really don’t have anything against JJ, I like Super 8 a lot, his Star Trek movies are fun, The Force Awakens is fun even if it’s derivative, and I was at least entertained by RoS even if it was a sloppy, rushed mess (Threepio is the best thing about that movie by a country mile), which is more than I can say about TLJ. I understand what TLJ was trying to do, it just fell incredibly flat for me and I have no interest in re-watching that movie, and I think that was the case with a LOT of people which is why RoS spent half its run time trying to course correct. If RoS was going to course correct that hard, they absolutely should have split it into two movies in order to give the course correction and the overall plot room to breathe. I don’t hate RoS, it’s just a disappointment. The whole sequel trilogy is a case of missed opportunity - it squandered its legacy cast and made them all failures and then killed off two of them (although Han’s “return” in RoS caught me totally off guard and I loved it). Overall I was left saying “we threw away the Legends continuity for this?”
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# ? May 23, 2022 23:59 |
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Luuke had it because after the Cloud City incident the hand and lightsaber were collected and brought to Mount Tantiss at some point. They cloned Luke using the hand.
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Xenomrph posted:Also did Luke still have his green saber in the sequel trilogy? Why wouldn’t he have it? He only threw it down in ROTJ to make a point to the Emperor. He wasn’t saying he would never use it again. Presumably, he picked it up again when he picked up Vader.
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# ? May 24, 2022 00:11 |
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thrawn527 posted:Why wouldn’t he have it? He only threw it down in ROTJ to make a point to the Emperor. He wasn’t saying he would never use it again. Presumably, he picked it up again when he picked up Vader. Well sure, and we know he has it because we see him use it in The Mandalorian, I’m just wondering if it’s brought up in the sequel era at all or if he got rid of it. Rey apparently doesn’t take it because she doesn’t bury it with Luke’s other saber or Leia’s saber at the end of RoS. Just trying to gauge how little thought they gave to the end of RoS, i guess. I’m not even bothered by them being buried on Tatooine - Luke’s “journey” comes full circle to where he started in ANH and his sister is metaphorically buried with him. I get the argument that Leia’s should have maybe been buried on Naboo (since Alderaan is off the table) but I think it works better with the two of them buried together, and given the choice, Tatooine makes more sense than Naboo IMO. Is there any plan for another sequel series of movies following Rey and co. doing more stuff, or are there plans to continue her adventures in EU form like Legends did with the OT crew, or what?
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# ? May 24, 2022 00:21 |
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Luke has his saber in the flashback(s) in TLJ, but he uses Anakin's in his force projection at the end of the movie (to gently caress with Kylo). I swear it's in that little hidey hole next to Leia's when he gives that to Rey in TRoS but I've only seen it once so I can't be 100% sure.
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# ? May 24, 2022 00:30 |
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Xenomrph posted:I don’t hate RoS, it’s just a disappointment. The whole sequel trilogy is a case of missed opportunity - it squandered its legacy cast and made them all failures and then killed off two of them (although Han’s “return” in RoS caught me totally off guard and I loved it). Overall I was left saying “we threw away the Legends continuity for this?”
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Arquinsiel posted:TRoS is real bad and it's still better than what Legends was in 2014. But everyone knows the Legends timeline ended in 2003 with ‘New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force’?
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Xenomrph posted:But everyone knows the Legends timeline ended in 2003 with ‘New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force’? False. Mercy Kill exists
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