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Arquinsiel posted:"kink in her cervical mount" just means "pain in her neck". Yeah, that's what it literally means, but you know what you're doing when you're describing a sadist fondly remembering a droid she tortured.
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Can't believe they didn't let me do one about the Executor crashing. Would've been the perfect sequel
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General Battuta posted:Can't believe they didn't let me do one about the Executor crashing. Would've been the perfect sequel Would you have written it from the perspective of the Executor itself as if it were a sentient being? If not, why not? 
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General Battuta posted:Can't believe they didn't let me do one about the Executor crashing. Would've been the perfect sequel i just pictures its just the space balls ending but with more suicide via blaster.
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Rochallor posted:Yeah, that's what it literally means, but you know what you're doing when you're describing a sadist fondly remembering a droid she tortured.
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https://twitter.com/btpanko/status/1714862122809585682?t=Oyk4j3ij-7XyPJQzHjwOZw&s=19 Lol whose skull was it?
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Arc Hammer posted:Lol whose skull was it? The rancor's first victim, Bidlo Kwerve Recanonized thanks to a 2016 release of Star Wars: Complete Locations
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drat I thought that the Rancor trainer cared for his pet but could he really not be bothered to clean up his pen area for years? Just leaving bones all over the place like that, so irresponsible.
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It's enrichment. Put some peanut butter in there and it's just like a kong
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Arc Hammer posted:drat I thought that the Rancor trainer cared for his pet but could he really not be bothered to clean up his pen area for years? Just leaving bones all over the place like that, so irresponsible. he was to busy posting on the star wars version Something awful and let the poor things care go to poo poo. Jabba never cared either way so he didnt mind that the bones and rancor poo poo piled up over the years.
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Need a book finished the new Thrawns other week….and I’m not finishing Bounty Hunter wars. Which ones are when Jacen goes Sith?
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Dapper_Swindler posted:he was to busy posting on the star wars version Something awful and let the poor things care go to poo poo. Jabba never cared either way so he didnt mind that the bones and rancor poo poo piled up over the years. 50footrancor
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a sexual elk posted:Need a book finished the new Thrawns other week….and I’m not finishing Bounty Hunter wars. Which ones are when Jacen goes Sith? That would be the Legacy of the Force series, starting with Betrayal by Aaron Allston The rest are Bloodlines (Traviss) Tempest (Denning) Exile (Allston) Sacrifice (Traviss) Inferno (Denning) Fury (Allston) Revelation (Traviss) Invincible (Denning) Prepare for a lot of "this happened"/"nun-uh" between Karen and Aaron and Troy, to an almost comical degree Vinylshadow fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Oct 23, 2023 |
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a sexual elk posted:Need a book finished the new Thrawns other week….and I’m not finishing Bounty Hunter wars. Which ones are when Jacen goes Sith?
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What are some the better new ones? Read Thrawn and Alphabet already.
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a sexual elk posted:What are some the better new ones? Read Thrawn and Alphabet already. I'm really out of the loop on current canon, but I have enjoyed the FACPOV collections. By their very nature they're hit or miss, and too many of the stories fall back on the subjects somehow saving the OT characters in some way, but there are a lot of great stories in there. There's a story from the ANH collection from the point of view of the dianoga (!) that is genuinely creative and trying to do something new.
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Rochallor posted:I'm really out of the loop on current canon, but I have enjoyed the FACPOV collections. By their very nature they're hit or miss, and too many of the stories fall back on the subjects somehow saving the OT characters in some way, but there are a lot of great stories in there. There's a story from the ANH collection from the point of view of the dianoga (!) that is genuinely creative and trying to do something new. Written by Nnedi Okorafor, which was a pretty big get for a story about the dianoga.
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a sexual elk posted:What are some the better new ones? Read Thrawn and Alphabet already.
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Arquinsiel posted:If you enjoyed Alphabet Squadron then Battlefront: Twilight Company is by the same author and is a more military sci-fi take on the Rebellion than the normal space opera. I love imperial naval based stuff (was debating Star Wars or starting the Master and Commander books) and this seems right up my alley a sexual elk fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Oct 23, 2023 |
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Twilight Company is about some rebel infantry who show up in Alphabet Squadron at some point. If you want Imperial Navy then Lost Stars is pretty good, and Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad is alright low-stakes stuff. Like most of the direct prequels you know there's only so much danger they can put the characters in, so it's pretty obvious who you should and shouldn't get attached to.
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It's honestly kind of crazy how little actual wars in the stars there have been since the Disney acquisition. I'd love for a book, game or show about a New Republic carrier battlegroup.
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a sexual elk posted:What are some the better new ones? Read Thrawn and Alphabet already. Check the OP.
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Having the galaxy be completely at peace between Jedi and Force Awakens might have made a lot of sense in the TFA writer's room, but man did it handicap basically the entire post-OT EU.
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It's one of the reasons I really liked Twilight Company. It's just a bunch of random aliens in a trench getting shot at by Stormtroopers. It's WWII in space, but during the Battle of the Bulge.
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On the contrary, I think there are a lot of interesting stories that could be done with a peaceful post-ROTJ galaxy, but we definitely aren't getting them. It is funny that they decided to make the Battle of Jakku the end of the civil war, and since then we've had the strange quantum state of multiple live-action sources explicitly stating that the Civil War ended at Endor, while also showing basically continued Imperial warfare for years after Jakku but the New Republic somehow not being aware. Though I do think the decisions made by the TFA writers really did take a hammer to a lot of the wide-open storytelling potential there was with the continuity reset. I remember back in early 2014, the very first story leak for Episode VII was that the backstory was going to be that immediately after ROTJ, Jedi hunters took control of the Empire and captured Luke, so the Rebels could never actually consolidated their rule and the Empire continued its reign for decades. Obviously that wasn't anywhere close to what TFA ended up being (though you can see glimpses of the actual plot in there) but if there was going to be a movie that both took a dump on ROTJ's ending and tried to stay away from the old EU, I thought that would have been more original than what we got.
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ninjahedgehog posted:Having the galaxy be completely at peace between Jedi and Force Awakens might have made a lot of sense in the TFA writer's room, but man did it handicap basically the entire post-OT EU. The galaxy is so enormously loving huge that even in times of peace I'm sure there are many kilo-Passchendaeles of violent laser death every second.
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Arquinsiel posted:Twilight Company is about some rebel infantry who show up in Alphabet Squadron at some point. If you want Imperial Navy then Lost Stars is pretty good, and Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad is alright low-stakes stuff. Like most of the direct prequels you know there's only so much danger they can put the characters in, so it's pretty obvious who you should and shouldn't get attached to. inferno squadron is kinda boring as gently caress because like a bunch of more interesting stuff happens off screen and most of it is loving around in a cave with no real stakes. idk. i kinda want a book that just follows imps who never defect. not out of some "ra ra ra empire" stuff, but just because monsters are more interesting then "look i switched sides to the obvious good guys" or etc. its why i like the imp squadron more then new republic one because the imps are all utterly broken people and various grade of monsters and the rebels are all happy go lucky happy happy joy joy types. its why i like tie fighter too and alot of the small imp stories in the anthologt books.
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Chairman Capone posted:I remember back in early 2014, the very first story leak for Episode VII was that the backstory was going to be that immediately after ROTJ, Jedi hunters took control of the Empire and captured Luke, so the Rebels could never actually consolidated their rule and the Empire continued its reign for decades. Say what you will about the sequels we got, but holy bejeesus we dodged a bullet on this one.
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ninjahedgehog posted:Say what you will about the sequels we got, but holy bejeesus we dodged a bullet on this one. There were a few very out-there plot 'leaks' in early 2014 that were all obviously BS in retrospect, but almost all of them included Luke vanishing or being captured somehow, which makes me wonder if someone did actually see some script draft at Lucasfilm. Or probably more likely Bad Robot given all the major leaks were from both TFA and TROS.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:inferno squadron is kinda boring as gently caress because like a bunch of more interesting stuff happens off screen and most of it is loving around in a cave with no real stakes.
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Chairman Capone posted:There were a few very out-there plot 'leaks' in early 2014 that were all obviously BS in retrospect, but almost all of them included Luke vanishing or being captured somehow, which makes me wonder if someone did actually see some script draft at Lucasfilm. Or probably more likely Bad Robot given all the major leaks were from both TFA and TROS. Some rumors might have leaked about the script discussions they were having. I remember (after the movie came out) someone said the problem they had was that anytime Luke Skywalker showed up in any version of the script they were working on, he took over the movie. So they realized pretty early on that they needed to write him out of the first movie somehow to let the new characters be front and center, and they'd work Luke into the sequel once they were established.
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thrawn527 posted:Some rumors might have leaked about the script discussions they were having. I remember (after the movie came out) someone said the problem they had was that anytime Luke Skywalker showed up in any version of the script they were working on, he took over the movie. So they realized pretty early on that they needed to write him out of the first movie somehow to let the new characters be front and center, and they'd work Luke into the sequel once they were established. As middling as TFA is, that probably ended up being a good idea. Chairman Capone posted:I remember back in early 2014, the very first story leak for Episode VII was that the backstory was going to be that immediately after ROTJ, Jedi hunters took control of the Empire and captured Luke, so the Rebels could never actually consolidated their rule and the Empire continued its reign for decades. Obviously that wasn't anywhere close to what TFA ended up being (though you can see glimpses of the actual plot in there) but if there was going to be a movie that both took a dump on ROTJ's ending and tried to stay away from the old EU, I thought that would have been more original than what we got. Jedi hunters sounds loving stupid, but I do like the idea of the Empire still being around in some form as an indictment of making the New Republic just the Old Republic again. Maybe their power is greatly diminished, but they still hold a couple planets, most importantly Coruscant because how the hell are you going to conquer Coruscant absent a couple of skyscraper-making GBS threads robots and a lightning storm? A couple years after Endor there's a plot to take over the planet from the inside, it goes wrong Operation Eagle Claw-style, and terminal lib Mon Mothma signs some terms with what's left of the Empire, ending the war in exchange for letting them hold Coruscant. The cold war eventually goes hot and that's your trigger for the sequel trilogy.
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Luke going MIA after his academy was destroyed was something inherited from Lucas' outlines, which Disney gradually strayed away from as they brought new creatives onto the project.
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Robot Style posted:Luke going MIA after his academy was destroyed was something inherited from Lucas' outlines, which Disney gradually strayed away from as they brought new creatives onto the project. Yeah, Lucas' original ideas had Luke vanished, but he was going to be discovered and train "Rey" (not yet her name) halfway through Episode VII. Arndt was the one who pushed Luke training "Rey" back to Episode VIII. Also I know in very early story outlines, the proto-Poe Dameron character was a Jedi.
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Rochallor posted:As middling as TFA is, that probably ended up being a good idea. yeah, like i kinda like how much of a utter shithshow the republic is in both canons. old canon its full of allies of convience who hate each other and a bunch of factions hate each other for various justified and/or stupid reasons. eventually after like 200 min wars and like 10 years of war with the empire, they sorta win a truce and then implode when the space IJA bioborg show up. new canon. end up like the old republic but they move the capital around, let a loving ton of ex imperials in and basicaly let them keep their storm trooper armor in their closet. the empire dies but their are tons of rememnant factions loving around with a bunch loving off into the unknown regions where sheev is on his cheery picker building star destroyers for like 20-30 years or so. eventually the first order shows up and blows its brains out.
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For all the many faults of the Star Wars TV shows I do like the way that they've set up the New Republic and the old guard "restore the Republic" types as these horribly ineffective political bodies who'd gladly trade one Empire for another if it just added a veneer of decorum. You could separate the Dr. Pershing episode of Mando season 3 from the rest of the show and use it as a standalone case study in the way revolutions can fail the moment that they lose a clear enemy to revolt against. It won't fix the frustrating lack of context within the sequel films themselves but it goes a long way towards rationalizing why the New Republic just keels over and dies in a single scene. It had been dead for twenty years already and the destruction of Hosnian Prime was more symbolic than anything.
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Arc Hammer posted:For all the many faults of the Star Wars TV shows I do like the way that they've set up the New Republic and the old guard "restore the Republic" types as these horribly ineffective political bodies who'd gladly trade one Empire for another if it just added a veneer of decorum. You could separate the Dr. Pershing episode of Mando season 3 from the rest of the show and use it as a standalone case study in the way revolutions can fail the moment that they lose a clear enemy to revolt against. yeah, i like that alot of them just want to go back to "the good old days but with some fixes" and most of the old issues just come right back again because all the hardcore imps either faked contrition and worked to erode poo poo, fought on but in the rim where no one care or they hosed off to sheevs sith club or elsewhere. like i miss parts of the old canon but i very much like various pieces of the new, i like that the empire is honestly written better in some ways, its not just cackling sadists from top to bottom, its just a hosed up hell system that for most of its life pretends to have some vague democratic legitimacy until they get their wonder weapon and thats no longer needed. its alot more evils of the british empire and colonialism type with lots of banality and assholes doing their 9 to 5 doing awful poo poo then "then admiral Qurego nuked another planet again" its why i love the imps in squadrons, they are all broken people who are trapped willingly or sunk cost in dehumanzing hell system but keep doing it for various broken reasons. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Oct 24, 2023 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:like i miss parts of the old canon but i very much like various pieces of the new, i like that the empire is honestly written better in some ways, its not just cackling sadists from top to bottom, its just a hosed up hell system that for most of its life pretends to have some vague democratic legitimacy until they get their wonder weapon and thats no longer needed. its alot more evils of the british empire and colonialism type with lots of banality and assholes doing their 9 to 5 doing awful poo poo then "then admiral Qurego nuked another planet again" its why i love the imps in squadrons, they are all broken people who are trapped willingly or sunk cost in dehumanzing hell system but keep doing it for various broken reasons. I still laugh sometimes about that one squadmate who's just like "yeah all we need to do is reinstate the Imperial Senate and there won't be any reason for a rebellion!  "
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Cross-Section posted:I still laugh sometimes about that one squadmate who's just like "yeah all we need to do is reinstate the Imperial Senate and there won't be any reason for a rebellion! I like shen because he is basically monster mash who can’t even take his helmet off but he still licks the boot that hosed him up and all he does is cope out slogans and he can’t actually accutaulize a world post war. I just find that more interesting than the rebel good guys who are all the friendliest golly gee goodie goods who use the power of friendship and the force to fight evil.
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