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Wheat Loaf posted:Cf. reaction to portrayal of Mandalorians in Clone Wars cartoon. That was mostly the Karen Traviss fanboys. And Karen Traviss. gently caress Karen Traviss.
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Threepio book is awesome 
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Apr 15, 2016 23:27
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Best Droid is evil 3P0 aka 000 and a close second is evil R2D2 aka BT-1. The 3P0 book raises some points like how looms droids last and how often they are wiped and reinstalled with the latest DroidOS. But it does a neat job to explain how a minor character across the prequels is useless for background info in the original trilogy.
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Nystral posted:Best Droid is evil 3P0 aka 000 and a close second is evil R2D2 aka BT-1. That's been a thing in Star Wars since the original movie; Owen wants Luke to wipe Artoo because he's (she? It?) too uppity. It's good that they spelled it out here again for those who didn't know.
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Nystral posted:Best Droid is evil 3P0 aka 000 and a close second is evil R2D2 aka BT-1. 000 is indeed fun but let's face it, it's hard not to shake the feeling it's just because Gillen was a big KotoR fan back in his games journo days and wanted to a way to write HK47.
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Sentinel Red posted:000 is indeed fun but let's face it, it's hard not to shake the feeling it's just because Gillen was a big KotoR fan back in his games journo days and wanted to a way to write HK47. Nothing wrong with well done homages.
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Norns posted:Nothing wrong with well done homages. Indeed not.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:That's been a thing in Star Wars since the original movie; Owen wants Luke to wipe Artoo because he's (she? It?) too uppity. In the Clone Wars cartoon there's one episode where another pilot mentions that Anakin never wipes R2 and that's not normal. Anakin presumably doesn't because they've been through some poo poo and it would be like killing a friend. He only starts killing friends later.
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Apr 16, 2016 19:41
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R2 is complicit in keeping the truth about anakin from Luke.
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Apr 16, 2016 19:48
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site posted:R2 is complicit in keeping the truth about anakin from Luke. I am pretty sure they mention wiping them at the end of revenge of the sith.
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Apr 16, 2016 22:11
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They didn't wipe R2, only C3PO.
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Apr 16, 2016 22:16
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Sentinel Red posted:000 is indeed fun but let's face it, it's hard not to shake the feeling it's just because Gillen was a big KotoR fan back in his games journo days and wanted to a way to write HK47. 000 always strikes me as more of an homage to Creepio from Jedi Party than to HK47.
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cargohills posted:They didn't wipe R2, only C3PO. Or, hear me out, they did and r2-d2 isn't a bag of dicks that withholds important info. gently caress the "R2-D2 is the only droid to never have been wiped." EU bullshit.
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"Have the protocol droid's mind wiped" - Bail Organa, to Captain Antilles, in Revenge of the Sith Here, I found this clip by searching "memory wipe star wars" on Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73E9WD5gi_I cargohills fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Apr 16, 2016 |
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Apr 16, 2016 22:23
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See? R2 is totally a bag of dicks, he laughs at his buddy being effectively killed.
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cargohills posted:"Have the protocol droid's mind wiped" - Bail Organa, to Captain Antilles, in Revenge of the Sith I can't read that beeping by R2 as anything but gloating. Of course, he's nowhere near the most rear end in a top hat droid.
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Chopper is the straight rear end in a top hat R2 is the "friendly" guy who actually relishes being a dick
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Apr 16, 2016 23:40
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At least Chopper doesn't pretend to be anything but an rear end in a top hat. 
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Apr 16, 2016 23:43
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Yeah tbh I was kinda upset that they brought that other droid onto the show at the end cuz I'm worried they're gonna change chopper's character from being just a straight jerk to everybody to only clowning on the other droid like r2 does, which will be much less fun.
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So I just read the C-3PO one-shot...and I liked the story in general, it really struck me as odd that he decided to keep the red arm as a memorial or tribute to the fallen droid friends...but then one of the first things he says about it in Episode VII was "I need to get a proper arm reattached..."
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proper, as in one meant for him? That other one wasn't an exact fit.
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jivjov posted:So I just read the C-3PO one-shot...and I liked the story in general, it really struck me as odd that he decided to keep the red arm as a memorial or tribute to the fallen droid friends...but then one of the first things he says about it in Episode VII was "I need to get a proper arm reattached..." The evil of memory wipes continues.
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rear end Catchcum posted:proper, as in one meant for him? That other one wasn't an exact fit. Yeah, if you notice at the big wide shot at the end of the movie as the falcon takes off, he's got a gold arm reattached that matches his body.
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McSpanky posted:The evil of memory wipes continues.
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Apr 17, 2016 17:20
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The evil robot could live on, though that arm.
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We've all seen Idle Hands, right? We don't need Zombie Seth Green haunting Threepio.
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C-3PO's story being titled The Phantom Limb is just too much. Red left arms, Kojima and Abrams being buddies, now this? I love it.
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I feel like a comic devoted to answering the question "Why does C-3PO have one red arm?" is something that would've invited a bit of a  if Dark Horse had published it.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I feel like a comic devoted to answering the question "Why does C-3PO have one red arm?" is something that would've invited a bit of a Well it was a good story, which helps.
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I think you greatly underestimated how many people did roll their eyes.
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Apr 19, 2016 17:31
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I haven't seen any bad reactions to it before this very internet page.
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To be fair, I bet the reaction to the first EU comics/books were the same considering we are just repeating exactly what happened thirty years ago. People will sour once the honeymoon period is over. Personally I can't wait till we get out of the boring as poo poo early period.
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It's not happened in this thread that I've seen, but one thing I have noticed regarding the new stuff is how focused readers seem to be on the fact that "It's canon now" as an intrinsically positive recommendation of the material. It's a weird obverse of the reaction we saw from hardcore EU fans whinging about how the old stuff was no longer canon and that apparently meant they couldn't enjoy it as much. It's weird. It's like people trying to push AoS as being a somehow crucial component of the MCU because they don't want to feel like they've wasted time on something that doesn't "matter". Why isn't it enough to enjoy it for what it is?
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Wheat Loaf posted:It's not happened in this thread that I've seen, but one thing I have noticed regarding the new stuff is how focused readers seem to be on the fact that "It's canon now" as an intrinsically positive recommendation of the material. It's a weird obverse of the reaction we saw from hardcore EU fans whinging about how the old stuff was no longer canon and that apparently meant they couldn't enjoy it as much. It's weird. It's like people trying to push AoS as being a somehow crucial component of the MCU because they don't want to feel like they've wasted time on something that doesn't "matter". Why isn't it enough to enjoy it for what it is? The same company that makes the movies makes the comics now, I guess it feels a bit more authentic that way?
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Aphrodite posted:The same company that makes the movies makes the comics now, I guess it feels a bit more authentic that way? The old stuff was always rubber stamped by Lucas Licensing, so it's not like having an overarching authority is new.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I feel like a comic devoted to answering the question "Why does C-3PO have one red arm?" is something that would've invited a bit of a I thought it was pretty But I've always found C-3P0 to be boring and irritating
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Wheat Loaf posted:It's not happened in this thread that I've seen, but one thing I have noticed regarding the new stuff is how focused readers seem to be on the fact that "It's canon now" as an intrinsically positive recommendation of the material. It's a weird obverse of the reaction we saw from hardcore EU fans whinging about how the old stuff was no longer canon and that apparently meant they couldn't enjoy it as much. It's weird. It's like people trying to push AoS as being a somehow crucial component of the MCU because they don't want to feel like they've wasted time on something that doesn't "matter". Why isn't it enough to enjoy it for what it is? I enjoy it for what it is.
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Wheat Loaf posted:It's not happened in this thread that I've seen, but one thing I have noticed regarding the new stuff is how focused readers seem to be on the fact that "It's canon now" as an intrinsically positive recommendation of the material. It's a weird obverse of the reaction we saw from hardcore EU fans whinging about how the old stuff was no longer canon and that apparently meant they couldn't enjoy it as much. It's weird. It's like people trying to push AoS as being a somehow crucial component of the MCU because they don't want to feel like they've wasted time on something that doesn't "matter". Why isn't it enough to enjoy it for what it is? http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2016/04/19/star-wars-fans-plead-with-lucasfilm-for-more-expanded-universe-with-sanfran-billboard/
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Picklepuss posted:Oh, you're going to love this: I am, I am! 
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I at least appreciate that that billboard calls for a continuation of Legends, not a cessation of Canon or reinstating Legends as Canon. They're at least realistic in their goals.
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