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Just started the audiobook for allies at work. They just caught Dion after he went crazy, which sucks cause I was really starting to like him. I'm trying to wade through this ben/vestara love crap, just tell me something awesome happens in this book to offset it. EDIT: Lobot snype 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Cad Bane is a poo poo character. But he gets a pass because of his sweet hat.
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Sep 24, 2010 02:20
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Kingtheninja posted:They just caught Dion after he went crazy, which sucks cause I was really starting to like him. I'm trying to wade through this ben/vestara love crap, just tell me something awesome happens in this book to offset it. Uhhhhhhhhhh. I haven't gotten past the third book yet, but Vestara is the sith youngin' that they let go, right?  Then again I guess Luke married someone who wanted to kill him at first...like father like son? 
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Sep 24, 2010 03:40
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Crowetron posted:But he gets a pass because of his sweet hat. Exactly! There's a reason that the badass man in the long coat is a cliche. EDIT: But I still can't help but have a special place in my heart for Ventress, if only because of how she was introduced in the Tartarovsky cartoon. If she were real (and if I had a reasonable guarantee that she wouldn't kill me) I'd go gay for her. 
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Sep 24, 2010 03:49
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Captain von Trapp posted:Although some daytime Cartoon Network shows are pretty demented. That Flapjack show has more than a couple of horrifying moments by kids show standards. The most recent episode of Adventure Time had the moral that violence is the answer to problems.
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Sep 24, 2010 03:53
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Torael_7 posted:Uhhhhhhhhhh. I haven't gotten past the third book yet, but Vestara is the sith youngin' that they let go, right? Yeah. I'm a little preemptive on this, as right now it isn't full blown or anything. I'm just predicting where this seemingly obvious plot line is headed, but without giving away too much to you it could really still go in any direction.
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Sep 24, 2010 04:23
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Kingtheninja posted:Yeah. I'm a little preemptive on this, as right now it isn't full blown or anything. I'm just predicting where this seemingly obvious plot line is headed, but without giving away too much to you it could really still go in any direction.
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Sep 24, 2010 06:17
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Clemen posted:I assume most of the characters have a mandalorian ancestor Palpatine Mandalorian Pandalorian Darth Pandalorius
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Sep 24, 2010 06:55
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http://www.karentraviss.com/html/mando.htm Holy poo poo. I had no idea she put so much effort into this.
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Sep 24, 2010 18:03
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So I was reading random pedia articles, and at the end of lowbacca's it mentions that Lucas stated there were to be no more wookiee jedi. Any ideas why? Wookiee jedi were like, the coolest notion to me when I was growing up.
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Sep 24, 2010 18:45
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Diacritical Mark posted:http://www.karentraviss.com/html/mando.htm In spite of what she claims, it isn't a real language (not the way something like Klingon is).
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Diacritical Mark posted:http://www.karentraviss.com/html/mando.htm http://www.karentraviss.com/html/Movingon.htm Karen Traviss posted:The bottom line is that 501st was my last Star Wars novel, period, not just my last Commando book. I pulled out of the book in December 2009 because of disagreements with the publisher over payments and contracts. If you want to read more of my stuff, you'll have to venture beyond the SW wire. Try it. You might be surprised how much you like what else is out there. Karen Traviss posted:Please also be aware of one basic fact - all writers for a franchise have to follow official canon. You can't go off and do your own thing, or else the book won't get approved and printed. It's that simple. So please don't keep asking me to carry on in the old canon, because I'm just not allowed to. So isn't she just outright lying here? Wasn't she kicked off the books because of NOT following canon? Also, if you state that you quit because of money and contract issues, posting 3 months of blog entries bitching about canon doesn't really make me want to believe you. Also I'd like to take the time to inform Ms. Traviss that I stopped reading LOTF because of her. I got 1/4 way into Betrayal, saw all that Boba Fett family emo poo poo again, and just quit.
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Bonzo posted:Also I'd like to take the time to inform Ms. Traviss that I stopped reading LOTF because of her. I got 1/4 way into Betrayal, saw all that Boba Fett family emo poo poo again, and just quit. 
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Bonzo posted:Also I'd like to take the time to inform Ms. Traviss that I stopped reading LOTF because of her. I got 1/4 way into Betrayal, saw all that Boba Fett family emo poo poo again, and just quit. I did the same thing, except I read the whole book, and then stopped. I haven't even moved on and cracked into FotJ yet, and I probably never will. I suppose I could at least give Invincible a chance, but I don't know...
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:I did the same thing, except I read the whole book, and then stopped. I haven't even moved on and cracked into FotJ yet, and I probably never will. I suppose I could at least give Invincible a chance, but I don't know... Last year I started with FotJ because I saw it in the library and I remembered that I had not read an EU book in years. After reading the first book I decided it would be fun to go back and read everything since I kinda new what happened. I decided to start with NJO and just read the big three of four hard covers of that series. ( I skipped Dark Nest thanks to you guys!) After struggling through one book and Boba's daughter I just couldn't do it anymore. I read each book of the EU as it came out in the 90s. I spend all my energy reading the Crystal Star and Black Fleet Crisis. I just can't do it anymore.
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It takes a real man to admit that survivng Lando and Lobots Nude Adventure to give up reading what Traviss did.
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Sep 24, 2010 20:56
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Big Mean Jerk posted:You're just another talifan. You should be garroted in your sleep. Took me a minute to remember that's what she calls the people that disagree with her. Too much time reading the Mass Effect 2 thread made me think "What's that got to do with Tali?"
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Sep 24, 2010 20:57
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The best way to watch Episode I is drunk (or stoned, for you  people). Also, set the language to Spanish.
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Epi Lepi posted:Took me a minute to remember that's what she calls the people that disagree with her. Too much time reading the Mass Effect 2 thread made me think "What's that got to do with Tali?" Same here but in reverse for me
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Pope Mobile posted:The best way to watch Episode I is drunk (or stoned, for you I watched Revenge of the Sith in French (I don't speak a word of French). It absolutely improved the movie.
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Sep 25, 2010 00:01
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Who was the comedian with the horny French Yoda bit?
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Diacritical Mark posted:http://www.karentraviss.com/html/mando.htm That led me to this: http://www.karentraviss.com/html/jedi.htm Where she outright says that if you like Jedi then you are guilty of: Crazy Lady posted:It's slave-owner-think: it's Nazi-think. And yes, I bloody well hate it. So yes, if you like Jedi then you have the same thought processes as slaveowners and Nazis and Karen Traviss hates you personally.
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Hey, I'm glad this thread is still page one as I have Geeky questions that need answering. Now, this may have cropped up already but I was wondering. Who is Anakin's father? I know in episode one Shmi (such a terrible, terrible name) claims that he has no father but we all know that's bullshit, classic single mother regret. Some quick googling hasn't really provided any solid leads but there was some interesting speculation about Darth Plaugus organizing the whole thing. Has there been any hints in the EU?
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Chairman Capone posted:That led me to this: Why the gently caress did they even hire her to write for them in the first place?
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Nucleic Acids posted:Why the gently caress did they even hire her to write for them in the first place? They saw JK Rowling and thought middle aged middle class British women could write big hits.
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I guess it's all part of her being proud of not paying attention to what anyone else wrote, but wasn't it established that the Jedi were some of the only ones who viewed clones as something more than droids made out of meat?
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Bonzo posted:Last year I started with FotJ because I saw it in the library and I remembered that I had not read an EU book in years. After reading the first book I decided it would be fun to go back and read everything since I kinda new what happened. I'm almost done with allies, and was considering the same thing. The Vong war really interests me, but isn't it a lot of books for that series? Although I did see a volume one to what looks like a comic adaptation of the series.
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You guys aren't gonna like this: http://www.starwars.com/fans/events/startours_droids/index.html
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Kart Barfunkel posted:You guys aren't gonna like this:
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What I fear the most is that we won't have a physical PeeWee-Bot anymore. I say this as it is my greatest fear in life.
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Kart Barfunkel posted:You guys aren't gonna like this:  The one on the right is gayer than C-3PO, which I would have thought impossible.
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that awful man posted:
It's the Dex's Diner waitress droid from AotC, don't recognize the other one from anything though
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Silver Brushes posted:It's the Dex's Diner waitress droid from AotC, don't recognize the other one from anything though The one on the left is an update of the droid pilot from the original Star Tours, RX-24. He didn't have legs though. 
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Oh man I don't know if this has been brought up yet but: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCTfMlAMn5M "This is Jedi Mind Trick, it's a brand new Force power, and just like all of our other Force powers, we've completely re-envisioned it from the films... ... and on higher levels, they'll (mind tricked enemies) actually explode, they'll turn into like roaming smart bombs and they'll run into packs and explode"
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Minorkos posted:Oh man And you guys thought TFU2 was gonna suck
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Minorkos posted:"This is Jedi Mind Trick, it's a brand new Force power, and just like all of our other Force powers, we've completely re-envisioned it from the films... ...and then I read this.
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So, Hans vs Greedo. For some reason I remembered the debate over who shot first. I watched the scene and Greedo shot first. He managed to miss with his lovely aim at close range and then Hans spanked him good like the filthy whore he is. How the gently caress is there a debate? Unless you're blind, it's simple. What's the general consensus on this?
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Noi Albinoi posted:So, Hans vs Greedo. Greedo never shot in the original. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1YbFnkZwZk I think it somehow works better without the subtitles Raccoon Leaf fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Sep 26, 2010 |
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Noi Albinoi posted:So, Hans vs Greedo. Assuming you're actually serious they changed it with the special editions that came out in the late 90s. The reason people hate it is because when Han shot first it said something about the character. It showed that he was a ruthless smuggler that did whatever he felt was necessary to survive. When they made it so Greedo shot first it turns Han into a regular good guy that was just defending himself. Besides, the whole set up before the shots were fired shows you that Han intends to shoot Greedo. It's just stupid that Greedo's all "PEW!!!! OH poo poo I MISSED!!!" and then gets blasted.
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