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I believe Mark Hamill has admitted recently that on reading the script for TLJ, he told Johnson that he fundamentally disagrees with the direction he's taking the Luke Skywalker character, but he's resolved to do his best with it.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I believe Mark Hamill has admitted recently that on reading the script for TLJ, he told Johnson that he fundamentally disagrees with the direction he's taking the Luke Skywalker character, but he's resolved to do his best with it. Yeah, that was in one of the TLJ articles in the newest Vanity Fair. The funny thing is, the main Vanity Fair also talked about how Hamill did not like how Luke and Leia were (un)used in TFA, also. I think one of those articles also mentioned that Daisy Ridley wasn't happy with Rey's story in TLJ, also. If this was with Abrams in TFA or Colin Treverrow in IX, I would be worried, but I have enough faith in Rian Johnson to give him the benefit of the doubt for now.
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Stolen from the RedLetterMedia thread. Because of course it will. There's also a Star Destroyer set that comes with a Supreme Leader Snoke figure as a regular but scarred dude wearing a tan shirt. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 00:55 on May 27, 2017 |
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May 27, 2017 00:51
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May 27, 2017 01:11
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https://twitter.com/pablohidalgo/status/868303903611396096 Some insight into how the Story Group works. A later replay confirms that this is how the novels work too, with JJM chiming in with his experiences on writing New Dawn
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Arcsquad12 posted:Stolen from the RedLetterMedia thread. not surprised unfortunately. I am sure it will be ok, but god i hope it doesn't just rip off empire BUT DIFFERENT.
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May 28, 2017 20:49
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The middle chapter of each trilogy gets big walkers. It's not like the PT didn't do it too.
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jivjov posted:The middle chapter of each trilogy gets big walkers. It's not like the PT didn't do it too. And people made fun of the poetry back then as well.
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jivjov posted:The middle chapter of each trilogy gets big walkers. It's not like the PT didn't do it too.  Also, incidentally, one of my favorite vehicle designs. I'll wait until I see a non-Lego version of the new walker, but it doesn't look at the moment like they tried that hard on it. Lord Hydronium fucked around with this message at 00:59 on May 29, 2017 |
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Isn't the whole point of the first order that someone was hoarding assets in the unknown regions? So it would make complete sense that they would have access to the same type of weapons as the empire. I mean, I get the vitriol or whatever, but it makes sense.
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jivjov posted:The middle chapter of each trilogy gets big walkers. It's not like the PT didn't do it too. Those were just kinda in the background of a much bigger battle. They weren't the focus like in Empire. Hopefully this movie is more like Clones(did I really just say that?) in that regard.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z0S0Z8lUTg I don't have two hours to spare at the moment, but this guy did a feature length video discussing Kreia's philosophy.
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sportsgenius86 posted:Isn't the whole point of the first order that someone was hoarding assets in the unknown regions? So it would make complete sense that they would have access to the same type of weapons as the empire. No one cares if it makes sense, as the it's a story the writer can do whatever and make it makes sense. There is just a reason why it's there, because it plays towards the nostalgia.
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z0S0Z8lUTg awesome i'll give it a shot. the best summation of the dark side is surprisingly from the revenge of the sith novel. quote:It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith—
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CharlestheHammer posted:No one cares if it makes sense, as the it's a story the writer can do whatever and make it makes sense. There is just a reason why it's there, because it plays towards the nostalgia. In another universe: "Where is the First Order getting the research and technology budgets for all this new poo poo? They're not the Empire, it doesn't make sense." This isn't even a hypothetical, this same two-sided argument happens in the Gundam fandom. If they reuse designs or ideas it's catering to nostalgia and if they invent new ideas it doesn't make any sense, where are they getting the development for these robots?
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The clear answer is that the Zabis need AT-ATs and the Empire needs Zaku 2s
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Dapper_Swindler posted:awesome i'll give it a shot. the best summation of the dark side is surprisingly from the revenge of the sith novel. ROTS novel had that little epigraph right at the end which is the most maudlin thing ever but which I really liked when I was 13 and still think really works for Star Wars: quote:The dark is generous and it is patient and it always wins – but in the heart of its strength lies its weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back.
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ImpAtom posted:In another universe: Gundam is garbage tho. Gundam also does seem to hung on its past so it is a good comparison, I guess.
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Lord Hydronium posted:The AT-TE looks really different from the AT-AT, though (the feet and general walker concept are about all that's similar): The funny thing is that even TFA had AT-TE looking walkers on Starkiller Base that were never clearly depicted, even in any kind of toy release. And I guess we won't now that we have the second movie in a row with AT-AT Reduxes. Dapper_Swindler posted:the best summation of the dark side is surprisingly from the revenge of the sith novel. Not surprising at all given who wrote the ROTS novelization.
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So I was at the mall today and decided to poke my head into the Lego store, and apparently there's a fairly large set of a TIE Phantom. Like, really? Wasn't it in all of one not-very-good rail shooter from 20 years ago? (which I nonetheless played a lot because it was one of the few video games my computer could run decently)
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It also cameo'd in Empire at War Forces of Corruption.
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Tumblr of scotch posted:So I was at the mall today and decided to poke my head into the Lego store, and apparently there's a fairly large set of a TIE Phantom. Like, really? Wasn't it in all of one not-very-good rail shooter from 20 years ago? Are you sure it wasn't the defender or striker? Those would make a lot more sense especially because they just made the defender canon in rebels. Also Rebel Assault 2 was at least kinda cool the same way Dark Forces II was cool because of the cheesy fmvs.
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Pops Mgee posted:Are you sure it wasn't the defender or striker? Those would make a lot more sense especially because they just made the defender canon in rebels. Also Rebel Assault 2 was at least kinda cool the same way Dark Forces II was cool because of the cheesy fmvs.
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Tumblr of scotch posted:It could've been a Striker I guess but it definitely wasn't a Defender, it had the straight-out panels. Three panels or two? https://www.lego.com/en-us/starwars/products/tie-striker-75154
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I think that was it and I just assumed I couldn't see the third panel because of the angle/laser. I'm kind of weirdly disappointed now. Lego needs to do an actual TIE Phantom. And TIE Hunter and K-Wing and all those other obscure one-off things.
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The TIE Interceptor is forever the most beautiful TIE and all subsequent wannabe TIE multi-panel abortions can just gently caress right off back to the hole they buried the EU in. 
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Thankfully the TIE Defender is still canonical
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Preechr posted:The TIE Interceptor is forever the most beautiful TIE and all subsequent wannabe TIE multi-panel abortions can just gently caress right off back to the hole they buried the EU in.
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Squints: for the psychopaths of the Imperial Navy who didn't want a Bright. Of course only the best pilots get inside a Starwing Assault Gunboat. That ship does not get enough love. Take the beautiful design of a lambda class shuttle and then make it into a gunship.
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Tumblr of scotch posted:I miss the Squint that I had back when SWG was a thing. It wasn't even that stupid red RGI variant with the high mass either, it was a proper no-shields-no-armor zoombox. I miss my X-Wing and my weird mustard coloured Y-Wing too.
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Arcsquad12 posted:So here's a fun thing I found. Going back to this for a second, if that star destroyer kept falling through the planet, would it eventually come out the other side or would it be crushed the further in it got?
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Preechr posted:The TIE Interceptor is forever the most beautiful TIE and all subsequent wannabe TIE multi-panel abortions can just gently caress right off back to the hole they buried the EU in. You take that back! I've always had a soft spot for the TIE "hey,-the-Empire-maybe-thinks-Y-Wings-are-cool-too" Scimitar bomber.
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tribbledirigible posted:You take that back! I've always had a soft spot for the TIE "hey,-the-Empire-maybe-thinks-Y-Wings-are-cool-too" Scimitar bomber. The Interceptor came after the bomber, the bomber is legit. I'm talking about goofy poo poo like the TIE Cyclone, the TIE tanks, that horrible new bomber that I can't remember the name of that had a TIE cockpit hanging under a giant TIE solar panel, etc.
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I seem to recall one book featuring an Imperial squadron flying x-wings themselves and completely wrecking the Rebels' poo poo because the Rebels have no experience flying against enemy x-wings.
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Cythereal posted:I seem to recall one book featuring an Imperial squadron flying x-wings themselves and completely wrecking the Rebels' poo poo because the Rebels have no experience flying against enemy x-wings. But the rebel pilots simmed in and against most/all fighters in rebel and imperial service?
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Preechr posted:The Interceptor came after the bomber, the bomber is legit. I'm talking about goofy poo poo like the TIE Cyclone, the TIE tanks, that horrible new bomber that I can't remember the name of that had a TIE cockpit hanging under a giant TIE solar panel, etc.
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:But the rebel pilots simmed in and against most/all fighters in rebel and imperial service? When does that ever come up, though? This is Star Wars, bad guys (i.e. everyone not the Rebels) fly TIEs, hybrids, and old relics like Headhunters. That book's the only one I can think of where the Imperials ever went "So, x-wings are better than our TIEs in every way? gently caress it, let's get us some x-wings then."
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I think it shows up in the first rogue squadron book when they run the Redemption mission from X-Wing. Tycho starts using X-Wing tactics while flying a Tie Fighter and he throws off Corran's expectations
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Also it's a Thing that Rebels took their recruits from wherever possible and that means majority defectors from Imperial pilot programs.
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Sure, that's what Biggs and Luke were planning to do - they'd get into the Rebellion via the Imperial academy.
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