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jivjov posted:Oh, I'm glad the comics adaptation of Episode VIII came out a few decades ago. That's one hell of a stache.
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jivjov posted:Oh, I'm glad the comics adaptation of Episode VIII came out a few decades ago. It looks like the person on the ground next to Luke is melting. I can't even tell if that's supposed to be male or female.
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Jan 23, 2017 19:28
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Gammatron 64 posted:It looks like the person on the ground next to Luke is melting. I can't even tell if that's supposed to be male or female. According to the plot summary on Wookipedia, I think that's supposed to be Leia. 
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Jan 23, 2017 19:50
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jng2058 posted:According to the plot summary on Wookipedia, I think that's supposed to be Leia. For a second, I thought it was Han in a stormtrooper disguise. Whatever it is, his\her leg is super hosed up
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Jan 23, 2017 19:53
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Gammatron 64 posted:For a second, I thought it was Han in a stormtrooper disguise. This makes me think of some terrible Force power that turns people into hosed up blobs a la Tetsuo in Akira.
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Jan 23, 2017 22:17
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The Marvel artwork always looks so low effort and foreign that I don't think I could get into it.
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Casimir Radon posted:The Marvel artwork always looks so low effort and foreign that I don't think I could get into it. Their ANH comic has Vader drinking coffee, but there's no good way to make it into an AV thanks to all the text bubble lines. 
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Jan 23, 2017 23:33
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So it looks like KOTOR might be official canon again. Or at least most of it. http://tvweb.com/star-wars-rebels-canon-knights-old-republic-mandalorian-wars/
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pubic works project posted:So it looks like KOTOR might be official canon again. Or at least most of it. The mention of "There was a war between Jedi and Mandos" doesn't retroactively canon-ize KotOR.
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I assume, like everything else, parts of the old EU will be gradually canonized (if just by nerds trying to force parts of it in) but it won't even be Exactly The Same. Like I bet Mara Jade shows up in Rebels or something eventually.
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ImpAtom posted:Like I bet Mara Jade shows up in Rebels or something eventually. That's one thing I don't believe they will step on, if only because so much of Mara Jade's story was bound up in her relationship with Luke. I was definitely one of the people who thought they'd do an ersatz Mara Jade in the character of Jyn Erso, but obviously that didn't happen.
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Casimir Radon posted:The Marvel artwork always looks so low effort and foreign that I don't think I could get into it. It was all we had back in the Eighties, aside from the Han Solo novels and Splinter of The Mind's Eye. I loved the series back then. And Walter Simonson was the man! He turned Thor into a frog! A frog!
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Zoran posted:That's one thing I don't believe they will step on, if only because so much of Mara Jade's story was bound up in her relationship with Luke. I was definitely one of the people who thought they'd do an ersatz Mara Jade in the character of Jyn Erso, but obviously that didn't happen. The original Mara Jade story basically just has her hating Luke and wanting to kill him followed by moving on and Actual funniest answer: reveal that Kylo Ren murdered her, thus keeping it all semi-canonical.
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pubic works project posted:So it looks like KOTOR might be official canon again. Or at least most of it. It's not like they've already canonized a Sith Academy on Malachor or anything...
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Well, if the Mandalorian Wars are being mentioned, perhaps they will somehow unfuck everything that happened to Revan's character between his novel and the MMO. What a bunch of dogshit that turned out to be.
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ImpAtom posted:she ended up marrying Luke and frankly it's probably the part people care least about Nah, it was originally meant to cap off the entire era of the EU and give the main characters a happy ending and was a Very Big Deal. Instead we got the massive turds that came right after which I'd normally be just as glad to flush except they're excavating plot arcs out of those for the sequel trilogy. 
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Jan 24, 2017 03:27
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Hand of Thrawn was a really big deal.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Well, if the Mandalorian Wars are being mentioned, perhaps they will somehow unfuck everything that happened to Revan's character between his novel and the MMO. What a bunch of dogshit that turned out to be. From someone who only really knows Revan from KOTOR, what happened to them?
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Milky Moor posted:From someone who only really knows Revan from KOTOR, what happened to them? if i remember, he became space jesus, then died, then got resurrected and split into a good half and an evil half.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:if i remember, he became space jesus, then died, then got resurrected and split into a good half and an evil half. Then the evil ghost and the good ghost fight, and you have to help the good ghost eat the evil ghost.
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Like... it's pretty likely Luke had a wife, one that is now probably dead and murdered by Kylo Ren so you might as well just say she was Mara Jade because she won't be appearing in the movies anyway.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:if i remember, he became space jesus, then died, then got resurrected and split into a good half and an evil half.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Like... it's pretty likely Luke had a wife, one that is now probably dead and murdered by Kylo Ren so you might as well just say she was Mara Jade because she won't be appearing in the movies anyway. I'm unsure if that would thrill EU diehards or simply make them angrier.
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The answer is always "angrier".
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I'm unsure if that would thrill EU diehards or simply make them angrier. Having Jacen kill Mara Jade (and how) was loving dumb anyway. I'd be angrier.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Well, if the Mandalorian Wars are being mentioned, perhaps they will somehow unfuck everything that happened to Revan's character between his novel and the MMO. What a bunch of dogshit that turned out to be. Hopefully. I noticed that the article only mentioned thing from KOTOR 1 and 2 and not any of the retcons from the MMO. Milky Moor posted:From someone who only really knows Revan from KOTOR, what happened to them? Turns out Revan was mind controlled the whole time by the Sith Emperor who is basically super saiyan Palpatine. He then gets put in jail for 300 years, the main character from Kotor 2 is offed in half a sentence by a bit character in the MMO. Then Revan goes crazy in the MMO, gets killed, comes back, goes crazy again, and is killed again.
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Canemacar posted:Hopefully. I noticed that the article only mentioned thing from KOTOR 1 and 2 and not any of the retcons from the MMO. Wouldn't be the dumbest thing to happen in star wars, or a video game, or a star wars video game.
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Pablo Hidalgo has explained that Leia was at the Battle of Scarif because she was on her way to pick up Obi-Wan from Tatooine with Admiral Raddus as an escort but they got sidetracked on the way. Haven't really thought about it to see whether that fits or not. Presumably it does.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Pablo Hidalgo has explained that Leia was at the Battle of Scarif because she was on her way to pick up Obi-Wan from Tatooine with Admiral Raddus as an escort but they got sidetracked on the way. Haven't really thought about it to see whether that fits or not. Presumably it does. I guess this is as good an explanation as there is, but still is kind of sticky given that Bail says he's going to send someone to get Obi-Wan after Raddus is already said to be leaving, and then after that we get R2 and Threepio watching the rest of the rebel fleet leave to join the others, or why since Bail was there at the exact time, why he didn't join in. Not that this is something I get hung up on, but this part of the R1 ending sequence stuck out as not quite fitting together. I suppose a result of the edits/reshoots shuffling things around.
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Chairman Capone posted:I guess this is as good an explanation as there is, but still is kind of sticky given that Bail says he's going to send someone to get Obi-Wan after Raddus is already said to be leaving, and then after that we get R2 and Threepio watching the rest of the rebel fleet leave to join the others, or why since Bail was there at the exact time, why he didn't join in. The newbie pilot forgot to fill the Tantive IV up, so they had only enough gas to get to Scarif and beg a lift from Raddus to get them there. It was really embarrassing.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Re: making of Star Wars, I was recently told that Lucas offered the director's chair for ROTJ to Frank Oz who turned him down because he was already directing The Muppets Take Manhattan. That doesn't seem especially likely to me but is there any possibility it might be true? Yeah, He wanted the third one to be way less dramatic than the second, and he knew it would be a guaranteed cash cow so also he didn't want to spend any money on it.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Pablo Hidalgo has explained that Leia was at the Battle of Scarif because she was on her way to pick up Obi-Wan from Tatooine with Admiral Raddus as an escort but they got sidetracked on the way. Haven't really thought about it to see whether that fits or not. Presumably it does. Everytime Pablo Hidalgo "explains" something it just seems like he come up with the answer on the spot.
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KIM JONG TRILL posted:Everytime Pablo Hidalgo "explains" something it just seems like he come up with the answer on the spot. That's basically his job. He's the poor bastard who has to explain things to canon grognards and appease them on twitter.
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Arcsquad12 posted:That's basically his job. He's the poor bastard who has to explain things to canon grognards and appease them on twitter. I appreciate that he also tells them their bullshit theories are stupid.
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Two new Rogue One books aimed at the youth market coming in a few months. One on Jyn, the other on Chirrut and Baze. https://twitter.com/starwars/status/824719825247371266
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Speaking of the youth market, Ben Acker and Ben Blacker are writing a series about 'child soldiers' in the Resistance. https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Join-Resistance-Book/dp/1484704843 I'm a big fan of their work, so I'm actually pretty excited about this. Not going to expect anything mind blowing, but hey, it should be fun.
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I like these news. But I think I need to get the drat things on a dead tree, Finnish iTunes doesn't seem to carry any of the YA novels. 
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Teek posted:Two new Rogue One books aimed at the youth market coming in a few months. One on Jyn, the other on Chirrut and Baze. Triumph of the Whills
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I think I've figured out why I dislike the animation in Rebels so much. It's not enough that the character design lacks depth, but they move way, way too much. Everything is always with wildly exaggerated gestures and heads that look like they're trying to reach escape velocity from their necks. It's the same issue that made CGI Tarkin look so weird, too many pieces moving at once when actual people's faces don't do that while talking.
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