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Cythereal posted:And the Bothan annoyed at how her species are all spies and saboteurs who do poo poo AT ALL COSTS NO MATTER HOW MANY BOTHANS DIE TO BRING YOU THIS INFORMATION! Let's be fair here, Fey'yla was a slimy politician
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I am curious at this transition from slightly furry faced goat people to crossing the line to space dogmans. Must have been around 2000/2001 because Star Wars Galaxies was like the first large scale version of bowow Bothans.
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Dec 30, 2016 01:13
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SeanBeansShako posted:I am curious at this transition from slightly furry faced goat people to crossing the line to space dogmans. They were cat-like in the X-Wing series, explaining Gavin (a human) falling in love with one - Stackpole describes Asyr Sei'lar as being a basically a catgirl and well within human standards of attractiveness if you don't mind fur.
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Dec 30, 2016 01:45
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I always imagined them like how they looked like in the Shadows Of The Empire comic book.
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Dec 30, 2016 01:53
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Cythereal posted:They were cat-like in the X-Wing series, explaining Gavin (a human) falling in love with one - Stackpole describes Asyr Sei'lar as being a basically a catgirl and well within human standards of attractiveness if you don't mind fur. Presumably it's a similar situation with Corran and that Selonian lady. Written before they were portrayed as just giant otters. Well, that, or there's something Stackpole isn't telling us... cptn_dr fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Dec 30, 2016 |
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Dec 30, 2016 02:04
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Toplowtech posted:Yeah and all the hutts are dangerous criminals, all the humans are power mad sorcerors who throw lightning from their hands. And all little green trolls are Jedi Masters?
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Dec 30, 2016 02:37
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StashAugustine posted:Let's be fair here, Fey'yla was a slimy politician Yeah but in his day, I bet he sliced the gently caress out of some turbolifts on his way to the top.
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Dec 30, 2016 03:04
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Canemacar posted:And all little green trolls are Jedi Masters? Actually yes, there's Yaddle in episode I on the Jedi council and Vandar Tokare from KOTOR. Also in Star Wars, there's a humongous amount of characters that are either Smugglers, Bounty Hunters, Jedi, Sith, Senators and Soldiers to the point where I wonder if there are any other occupations in the Star Wars universe Like seriously, there's a lot of fuckin' Bounty Hunters, they didn't even that have many in the actual Wild West
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Dec 30, 2016 03:51
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Gammatron 64 posted:
Space is a lot bigger than the Wild West.
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Dec 30, 2016 03:53
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Also, the Empire wasn't big on Holo-debt collectors.
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Dec 30, 2016 04:18
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We're also rapidly approaching the point there are exactly three kinds of Droid: Snarky beep-beep R2-style unit Prissy C3-style unit. Snarky cynical murder-bot Occasionally mixes of two of the above, like in the Vader comic.
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Dec 30, 2016 04:25
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Also goofy killbots and jerky killbots Oh and the just doin their job droids
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Dec 30, 2016 04:33
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We need more B4-D4 droids who start off as prissy, and then decide they need to get a murderbot buddy from T1-N1 to become a fully emancipated droid. And then there is G0-T0 who is just the best droid ever.
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Dec 30, 2016 04:43
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ImpAtom posted:We're also rapidly approaching the point there are exactly three kinds of Droid: Gonk. GONK!
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Dec 30, 2016 06:41
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Canemacar posted:And all little green trolls are Jedi Masters?
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Dec 30, 2016 06:58
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ImpAtom posted:We're also rapidly approaching the point there are exactly three kinds of Droid: One thing the old EU had going for it was that there was droid variety. Not always good droid variety, but variety nonetheless!
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Jazerus posted:One thing the old EU had going for it was that there was droid variety. Not always good droid variety, but variety nonetheless! 
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Dec 30, 2016 07:44
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Vuffi raa. Only starfish robot to have a built in flip lighter
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StashAugustine posted:Let's be fair here, Fey'yla was a slimy politician Say what you will about Fey'yla, the man knew how to die. 
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Preechr posted:Say what you will about Fey'yla, the man knew how to die. The fact that he got a heroic death after being a horrible human being (figuratively speaking) for like two decades of published stuff was the worst. As for Bothans in general, Asyr was always described like a cat-person, mostly human-ish with fur and claws. I think it was Galaxies that established Bothans as goat people. I think Asyr got a colour picture in one of the recent RPG books that kind of demonstrated what Gavin might have seen in her (as opposed to the terrible art done in one of the magazines years ago).
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Fun fact: the New Essential Guide to Droids revealed that the Great Heep and Vuffi Raa both came from the Yuuzhan Vong galaxy, and the war between caused the Vong to hate technology.
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Dec 30, 2016 12:18
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Milky Moor posted:The fact that he got a heroic death after being a horrible human being (figuratively speaking) for like two decades of published stuff was the worst.
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Dec 30, 2016 12:28
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StashAugustine posted:Let's be fair here, Fey'yla was a slimy politician
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Dec 30, 2016 12:30
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Siivola posted:It's sort of endearing how by the end, even other characters were getting sick of him riding on death Bothans. He's the Rudy Giuliani of Star Wars.
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Dec 30, 2016 12:49
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Does anyone else remember his profile in the New Essential Guide to Characters where his picture showed him with the tail of his coat stuck between the pages?
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Canemacar posted:He's the Rudy Giuliani of Star Wars. Noun, verb, many Bothans died.
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Dec 30, 2016 16:29
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SeanBeansShako posted:I am curious at this transition from slightly furry faced goat people to crossing the line to space dogmans. Official answer time! http://www.starwars.com/news/a-tale-of-two-bothans-interpreting-star-wars-aliens And they're not even the species with the widest evolution gap, check the Mrlssi. Wheat Loaf posted:Does anyone else remember his profile in the New Essential Guide to Characters where his picture showed him with the tail of his coat stuck between the pages? *checks* ...Well Sith me that's right.
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I got the Rogue One Visual Guide for Hannukah. There are interesting tidbits, but also some stuff that's bizarrely missing (like no Tarkin page, wtf?) Also Mon Mothma was clearly talking about a single beloved spy, "Manny" Manuel Bothans. 
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ecureuilmatrix posted:*checks* Wookieepedia even has a picture of it for anyone who doesn't have the book to hand. The picture I have in my mind of the Bothans has always been Borsk Fey'lya's profile picture from the original Essential Guide to Characters, where he looked sort of like a Tellarite:  Side note: When I ran a Google search for that picture, I also got a comic panel of Wedge and co. watching a Bothan striptease.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Fun fact: the New Essential Guide to Droids revealed that the Great Heep and Vuffi Raa both came from the Yuuzhan Vong galaxy, and the war between caused the Vong to hate technology. i love all the poo poo in the essental guide that tries to tie EVERYTHING to EVERYTHING. like desan and the reborn are part of the heither empire reborn and stuff like the great heep being part of an alien robot super race at war with another super race and that thrawn knew about the vong. Milky Moor posted:The fact that he got a heroic death after being a horrible human being (figuratively speaking) for like two decades of published stuff was the worst. yeah. i wanted him to die bargining with the vong or something. like he was behind the quisling legue or whatever. and they kill him after he severed his usefulness.
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Are the novelization's worth reading? I've always skipped them because it seems tedious but I'm running out of stuff to read so I'm curious.
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sportsgenius86 posted:Are the novelization's worth reading? I've always skipped them because it seems tedious but I'm running out of stuff to read so I'm curious. Eh. The original ones are kinda interesting for historical value, especially since they contain some clear bits of before-poo poo-got-solidified info. (The Emperor being a useless figurehead, Owen being Ben Kenobi's brother.) Otherwise the only one maybe vaguely worth it is RotS and only because it kinda helps the film out.
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Yeah, the RotS novelization is likely one of the best Star Wars novels written. Go for it.
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sportsgenius86 posted:Are the novelization's worth reading? I've always skipped them because it seems tedious but I'm running out of stuff to read so I'm curious. The RotS novel is really quite good. This is because it cuts out the bad parts of the film and then also rewrites every piece of dialogue.
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I haven't quite gotten around to reading it yet, but I've been hearing good buzz about Alexander Freed's Rogue One novelization; sounds to be very much in the "extra scenes and added characterization" wheelhouse.
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I finished Ahsoka recently. I sorta liked it (because I'm a sucker for the Jedi on the run genre) but it was missing something. I feel like Ahsoka spends a lot of the book moping by herself, which doesn't suit the character at all. Or maybe I just really like dialogue-heavy books, I dunno. I think I'mma pick up the Episode III novel next, since everybody seems to like it so much and I'm all about them Jedi right now.
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Siivola posted:I finished Ahsoka recently. I sorta liked it (because I'm a sucker for the Jedi on the run genre) but it was missing something. I feel like Ahsoka spends a lot of the book moping by herself, which doesn't suit the character at all. Or maybe I just really like dialogue-heavy books, I dunno. She had her whole life, everyone she liked, admired and called friend torn away from her, with the additional rose on top that it was done by the one thing she devoted her live to (the Jedi Order and the Republic). Aditionally she isn't supposed to use the gifts she got, that defined her whole being, any more. It would feel wrong if she wasn't somewhat moping, even if moping rarely is entertaining to read if it isn't done by some really good author.
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Yeah, it's entirely appropriate, and it's not like she's really wallowing in it either. It's just, Ahsoka without anyone to talk to just doesn't feel right. I mean, her whole point in the cartoon was to talk back to Anakin!  The bad guys are also really forgettable. On the other hand, the damsel of the book is 100% gay for Ahsoka and it's amazing.  All in all it's an okay book, but Miller's Kenobi was better.
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Cross-Section posted:I haven't quite gotten around to reading it yet, but I've been hearing good buzz about Alexander Freed's Rogue One novelization; sounds to be very much in the "extra scenes and added characterization" wheelhouse. I started reading the R1 novel because it is written by Freed and Twilight Company really worked for me (gritty war story, but still very Star Wars, Vader is a horror movie monster; actually, it hits some similar areas as R1). R1 novel is very stilted, moves weird, has no focus. Clearly he is writing from the script and wasn't allowed any room to breath. Have yet to finish because I lost interest, but, to be fair, I started it the day after I saw the movie.
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PlisskensEyePatch posted:R1 novel is very stilted, moves weird, has no focus. So it's exactly like the movie.
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