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Ursine Asylum posted:But yeah that and another jedi managed to kill a ship by himself by inverting the black hole bug as well, although I think those are the only 2 times they do that in the series.
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Flagrant Abuse posted:That was also Luke and I'm pretty sure it was by Troy Denning both times. I actually think it was Kyp in an Allston book, unless it happened 3 times. 
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Ursine Asylum posted:I actually think it was Kyp in an Allston book, unless it happened 3 times.
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Ursine Asylum posted:I actually think it was Kyp in an Allston book, unless it happened 3 times. Kyp did it in either Rebel Dream or Rebel Stand.
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Metal Loaf posted:I was going to mention, I've been thinking a lot lately about what shape the prequel trilogy could have taken if Lucas had stuck with the idea of the Jedi as samurai in space rather than the Knights Templar in space. If they were Knights Templar in space they would be crushed by their own religious order. Honestly the clones aren't exactly a peasant army but they fit the samurai template better...
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For anyone who cares, SWGemu is pretty much more or less done and active now. We're populating their main server right now.
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Haha. Check out the quote of the day on Wookieepedia:Leland Chee posted:In the end, my ongoing vision is that as long as there's the Holocron, Star Wars will not reboot.
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Soooooooo.... Disney is going to do a few stand alone films beyond the next trilogy.
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Disney is diving right into  territory already. I firmly believe that this whole thing is going to end up being worse for the franchise than the prequels ever were. (and the prequels loving sucked)gently caress why do I even care anymore, I stopped giving a poo poo about the franchise after The Unifying Force. Shimrra Jamaane fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Feb 6, 2013 |
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SeanBeansShako posted:For anyone who cares, SWGemu is pretty much more or less done and active now. We're populating their main server right now.
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Calax posted:Soooooooo.... This was announced way back when they bought LFL, though. Not really new news. However what is new is that Lawrence Kasdan of all people is going to be writing one of them, which I am definitely fine with.
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What are the recommended, if any, books/stories about Boba Fett? I want to read some bad rear end bounty hunting.
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Suran37 posted:What are the recommended, if any, books/stories about Boba Fett? I want to read some bad rear end bounty hunting. The one from Tales Of The Bounty Hunters that was pre-retcon is ok from what I remember. I also remember really enjoying The Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy by K.W. Jeter, but I've heard so little of it in this thread, that I wonder if I'm suffering from rose-colored glasses. All in all, I think even good stories might be suffering from Boba Fett-backlash. One particular culprit comes to mind, but there are many, and it's unfortunate.
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Longbaugh01 posted:The one from Tales Of The Bounty Hunters that was pre-retcon is ok from what I remember. I also remember really enjoying The Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy by K.W. Jeter, but I've heard so little of it in this thread, that I wonder if I'm suffering from rose-colored glasses. You are. They did it for the Old Let's Read thread. In general Boba doesn't get many badass scenes (and I think he dies in Tales of the Empire... from Han shooting him at 60).
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Calax posted:You are. They did it for the Old Let's Read thread. He definitely doesn't; he's a recurring supporting character in LOTF and beyond.
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Ursine Asylum posted:He definitely doesn't; he's a recurring supporting character in LOTF and beyond. You mean like the main character, right?
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Suran37 posted:What are the recommended, if any, books/stories about Boba Fett? I want to read some bad rear end bounty hunting. His stories in Tales of the Bounty Hunters and Tales of the Empire are pretty great. The Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy can be enjoyable but only if you take it completely at face value and don't try to think about it at all, because then you will realize that the whole book makes no goddamn sense. The old Let's Read thread had amazing infographics trying to show who was stabbing who in the back at any one time and it ended up being almost Gordian knot levels of goofy. I can't really think of any of other standalone stories about him, except for one graphic novel where he fights Darth Vader but I don't remember if that was good or terrible.
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Epi Lepi posted:I can't really think of any of other standalone stories about him, except for one graphic novel where he fights Darth Vader but I don't remember if that was good or terrible. That was probably Enemy Of the Empire, which is collected in Dark Horse's Omnibus: Boba Fett collection alongside Death, Lies and Treachery and Twin Engines Of Destruction. Most of it was published before Episode II came out, so if you're interested in Boba Fett as a bounty hunter without any of his MANDOS baggage, it probably your best option.
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When I heard about the spinoff movies I went on a rollercoaster of a thought process: * Spinoffs can only detract from the quality of the existing films * Actually, no, Star Wars has a huge body of spinoffs already, and they don't make the good any worse, you can take them or leave them * In fact, some of the Star Wars EU is pretty good, and a lot of care would be put into spinoff films * Then again, bug orgies * Still, only focusing on one character could be a safe approach * I don't think any one character is strong enough to carry a whole film, though * Bug orgies
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Longbaugh01 posted:I also remember really enjoying The Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy by K.W. Jeter I enjoyed that trilogy, parts of it were probably stupid but overall I think it is worth reading if for no reason than it doesn't focus solely on Han Solo and Luke saving the galaxy. E: That being said, anybody else read Scoundrels yet? Just finished it, overall I found it to be pretty enjoyable. E2: Except for the twist. I forgot about that and think that is stupid.
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Casimir Radon posted:I'm kind of tempted to check it out. Not having to play a subscription fee not only keeps you from losing money, I also wouldn't feel the need to play so much to "get my money's worth". Go for it, the people we've got are really chill and will try and help you get on your feet much quicker so you can relive your Moisture Farming MMO dreams.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Go for it, the people we've got are really chill and will try and help you get on your feet much quicker so you can relive your Moisture Farming MMO dreams. Really, I'd rather relive my dream of purchasing power converters from a reputable Tosche Station vendor.
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If you're interested in the other Fett, I'd highly recommend the comic "Jango Fett: Open Seasons". It covers his life from childhood, to joining the Mandalorians, and his life up until he gets hired by Dooku to be used as a template for the clone army. As someone who really has no interest in (either) Fett, or Mandalorians, or bounty hunters, or any of that, I still thought it was a really great read.
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(Spoilers for the new book Scoundrels) Boba Fett is in Scoundrels. It's only revealed in the very last paragraph of the book that he was one of the main characters in disguise the whole time. It's incredibly stupid and ruined an otherwise decent book for me. The needless circlejerking of famous characters is why I stopped reading Star Wars books in the first place. I shouldn't have come back. Looking at wookieepedia, it turns out that Fett had tried and failed multiple times to capture or kill Solo, so I guess he's just as incompetent as he was portrayed in RotJ and not the cool dude in ESB.
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Boba Fett is the Wolverine of Star Wars.
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taco_fox posted:(Spoilers for the new book Scoundrels) Boba Fett is in Scoundrels. It's only revealed in the very last paragraph of the book that he was one of the main characters in disguise the whole time. It's incredibly stupid and ruined an otherwise decent book for me. The needless circlejerking of famous characters is why I stopped reading Star Wars books in the first place. I shouldn't have come back. Looking at wookieepedia, it turns out that Fett had tried and failed multiple times to capture or kill Solo, so I guess he's just as incompetent as he was portrayed in RotJ and not the cool dude in ESB. Honestly, if you want to enjoy this book don't read that spoiler. I think it will literally ruin the book for you. The book is 99% decent and you will enjoy it a lot more if you don't know whats in that spoiler.
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Calax posted:Fett and Solo get their own prequels apparently. Who the gently caress even cares about Boba Fett anymore after AoTC? Literally every single cool thing about him was pretty much retroactively destroyed.
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Comics Boba Fett still kicks rear end. Book Boba Fett is dead to me.
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All this news about new Star Wars movies is really making me reflect on just how disappointing and flawed the prequels were. Every now and then I like to imagine what could have been if the movies had been competently made and envision my own detailed storyline for the prequels. Suffice to say it had absolutely no similarity to the prequels we actually got. Has anyone else done that?
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The most obvious issue, as being talked about in the CD thread, is the re-casting of Han Solo.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Who the gently caress even cares about Boba Fett anymore after AoTC? Literally every single cool thing about him was pretty much retroactively destroyed. Here's a thought that can maybe save some of the Star Wars stuff for you, though: Just imagine the entire Star Wars films series isn't what 'really' happened long ago in a galaxy far, far away, but what is pieced together from legends and poorly kept historical materials from the era. Obviously, the Empire probably scoured a lot of the pre-Empire historical records clean and put a lot of revisionist history out there to reflect their own version of events so that even after the fall of the Empire a lot of this doctored material was either so well-accepted or the only stuff left that it became considered the real history. Since the events of the Original Trilogy is based more on the winning Rebels, we can assume what happened there might be more to their perspective and perhaps more honest to what actually happened. Since Palpatine won the events of the Prequels, though, he made sure to rewrite history to showcase the Jedi as a bunch of jerks, everyone else as idiots, keeping his role in the fall of the Republic completely secret, etc. At a loss, future historians, students and writers trying to uncover and speculate on the true events of the time are also forced to work from the surviving Palpatine lies and half-truth propaganda as a partial basis to describe the otherwise unknown events behind the lead-up to the Clone Wars, the fall of the Republic and the Jedi and the rise of the Empire. In reality, the Jedi, the Clone Wars, Boba Fett, the Mandolorians, and the Rise of the Empire is a lot more interesting, but Palpy made sure all that stuff went into the recycle bin.
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JediTalentAgent posted:Here's a thought that can maybe save some of the Star Wars stuff for you, though: Just imagine the entire Star Wars films series isn't what 'really' happened long ago in a galaxy far, far away, but what is pieced together from legends and poorly kept historical materials from the era. That's what I've been doing for years, and as such I really don't have much problems with continuity issues like "are the Mandalorians all warriors, or were they pacifists for a time?" or "when exactly did Even Piell die?". Maybe Anakin did have a padawan named Ahsoka, maybe he didn't. I can juggle both versions in my head. I tend to see it more like when you've been reading comic books for a long time. There's no feasible way Batman can have been around since the 1940s and still be 35 years old today, so it makes more sense to look at his stories like an extended mythology: All of them are true on some level. The best example in Star Wars for me remains this clip from the first Clone Wars miniseries: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A07WNupEXk I like to think this is exactly how the little kid described the battle to his friends later that day.
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Suran37 posted:What are the recommended, if any, books/stories about Boba Fett? I want to read some bad rear end bounty hunting. His story in Tales of the New Republic is awesome in a mindless, action movie way. It's called No Disintegrations, Please. He takes on a whole Imperial garrison by himself.
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Hello Towel posted:His story in Tales of the New Republic is awesome in a mindless, action movie way. It's called No Disintegrations, Please. He takes on a whole Imperial garrison by himself. I thought that was in Tales of the Empire, but I think you're right. I'm not sure now if there was a Boba Fett story in Tales of the Empire.
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