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Instant Sunrise posted:Who wouldn't want to see some three eyed dude pretending to be Palpatine's illegitimate three eyed son marry a robot clone of Princess Leia with laser eyes? Given how batshit insane the EU was, I legit can't tell if this is satire or not.
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He did have a three-eyed son, not sure about the robot Leia. One of the son's eyes was on the back of his head. It's dumb.
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Sep 7, 2017 19:13
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None of that post was made up.
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Sep 7, 2017 20:14
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No but seriously, I started listening to the Star Wars radio drama and it's good. I'd pay as much as 5 bucks to listen to a TFA one to see if it's better than the movie.
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well why not posted:He did have a three-eyed son, not sure about the robot Leia.  (To be clear, this is all from a kids' book series that was weird and ridiculous even by the standards of the EU.)
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Honestly if someone was like "yeah my favorite Star Wars EU book was the one that follows IG-88 through the difficult process of adopting Greedo's orphaned children" I'd be like bold direction for the franchise to take, by ok.
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Penpal posted:I'm usually up on Star Wars poo poo, but I can't recall, have there been any named lightsabres in the vein of Excalibur, Oathkeeper, Anduril? I guess Samurai weren't really known for that That's definitely the way the new movies are treating Anakin's saber so far. Complete with a drawing the sword from the
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Canemacar posted:That's definitely the way the new movies are treating Anakin's saber so far. Complete with a drawing the sword from the I mean, Obi-Wan thought the sword was important enough to take it from Anakids corpse and pass it on to his son. "This weapon is your life"
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UmOk posted:I mean, Obi-Wan thought the sword was important enough to take it from Anakids corpse and pass it on to his son. Eh. That was more to establish a link between the young Luke and the absent father he adored in ANH, than any reverence for the weapon itself. Once he loses the saber and learns who his father really is, he doesn't mourn it's loss.
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As a huge fan of of the PT and the OT it is incredibly fun when talking to other people about these damned Star Wars to call lightsabres "laser swords" (like my boy Lucas) and watch them squirm or give me a confused "uhhh?" I'm surprised with his popularity Disney aren't making a solo Thrawn movie, but using him for the rebels show. I've never been compelled to watch rebels aside from the mcquarrie designs being used and I liked the look of the thin laser swords but watching a kid's show sounds boring and mind killing
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MonsieurChoc posted:No but seriously, I started listening to the Star Wars radio drama and it's good. I'd pay as much as 5 bucks to listen to a TFA one to see if it's better than the movie. Only if they bring Perry King back as Han. I had the ROTJ radio drama on CD when I was a kid, which had a hilarious cast: Ed Asner was Jabba, John Lithgow as Yoda, and I believe Ed Begley Jr. was Boba Fett.
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JazzFlight posted:Also, it retconned in that the weakness of the Death Star was an intentional design flaw (for better or worse impact on the story). People get really hung up on this. I've seen R1 twice and it struck me that the flaw wasn't the exhaust port but the fact that the reactor would violently chain-react if it was disrupted. Her dad mentions sneaking a team onto the Death Star to blow it up from the inside out, by attaching a charge directly to the reactor. It's more like a best of both worlds situation. Someone put a weakness in the DS, but the Rebels still had to figure out a strategy to actually make use of it with the resources they had.
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The flaw in the Death Star reflects the flaw in the system that built it: they could not imagine that someone serving them under duress would turn against them. I like it.
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Agreed, it is way better to associate the flaw in the autocratic superpower (no consideration for individuals) directly with the flaw in their superweapon. Also it makes Vader clowning on the Moff in charge of the Death Star even better, because when he's all "insignificant compared to the power of the Force" he knows the design team was compromised and got a message to the Rebels.
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They shouldn't have built the second one with the same flaw tbh
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El Burbo posted:They shouldn't have built the second one with the same flaw tbh Well, they only had that one set of plans lying around.
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Instant Sunrise posted:None of that post was made up. Get out of my office.
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El Burbo posted:They shouldn't have built the second one with the same flaw tbh Wedge has to blow up some kind of regulator unit before Lando hits the core so that was presumably the fix.
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Krennic was/is my favorite Star Wars.
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Milky Moor posted:Krennic was/is my favorite Star Wars. Between Krennic and Kylo Ren the new movies have done a good job with new entertainingly pathetic villains, while the heroes are all rather bland.
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Grendels Dad posted:Between Krennic and Kylo Ren the new movies have done a good job with new entertainingly pathetic villains, while the heroes are all rather bland. I thought Cassian had a bit of depth, but that came down to how well Diego Luna portrayed him, not so much the script. Jyn might've been interesting in the original cut of the film but, well, she's a bit uneven in it as is. I'm really not set on Rey, Finn or Poe at all. All three of them feel like blank ciphers that we're supposed to imprint ourselves onto (and I still don't like their names, I think TFA was just abominable at names).
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Milky Moor posted:Krennic was/is my favorite Star Wars. I love Director Krennic.
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I liked it when he said "The POWAH we are dealing with is immeasurable" Too bad he never said it
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"I have lost nothing but time" is a rather chilling look into his psyche.
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El Burbo posted:I liked it when he said "The POWAH we are dealing with is immeasurable" What are the odds Luke never talks about ending the Jedi in TLJ
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Krennic and the Mephistophelean, playful Vader kick rear end.
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Cat Machine posted:There's a lot of good lines in the Disney Star Wars trailers that never seem to show up in the films like Finn's "I was raised to do one thing" from the final TFA trailer That line was in the film though, when Finn briefly abandons Rey on Takodana.
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Cat Machine posted:There's a lot of good lines in the Disney Star Wars trailers that never seem to show up in the films like Finn's "I was raised to do one thing" from the final TFA trailer Well, TFA the film couldn't quite decide what Finn was doing in the First Order either. On one hand, he serves under Phasma and helps kill people. On the other, he's apparently a mere sanitation worker who was never, ever, ever responsible for anything bad the FO did because he just worked the trash compactors. Finn is the one good Stormtrooper, you see. Unless Phasma led the sanitation brigade or something. But then why would the janitors be the people sent to burn down villages? Finn's line that he worked in sanitation always struck me as a lie to obfuscate his past and get him on to Starkiller Base. But apparently it's true -- which loops back to... Anyway, apparently the novels explain it all but that seems to be a recurring issue with TFA.
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Milky Moor posted:Well, TFA the film couldn't quite decide what Finn was doing in the First Order either. On one hand, he serves under Phasma and helps kill people. On the other, he's apparently a mere sanitation worker who was never, ever, ever responsible for anything bad the FO did because he just worked the trash compactors. Finn is the one good Stormtrooper, you see. Technically what they did to that village was sanitation. 
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Milky Moor posted:Well, TFA the film couldn't quite decide what Finn was doing in the First Order either. On one hand, he serves under Phasma and helps kill people. On the other, he's apparently a mere sanitation worker who was never, ever, ever responsible for anything bad the FO did because he just worked the trash compactors. Finn is the one good Stormtrooper, you see. The best I can figure is that "sanitation work" was a euphemism. The janitors were there to dispose of the trash.
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He just had latrine duty while he was posted at Starkiller Base. Just like an awful lot of soldiers do.
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Speaking of Phasma, I'm really interested to see what her role in VIII and IX is. She was all over the marketing for VII, but ended up basically being the Boba Fett, a bit of badassery followed by a rather ignominious downfall. But then they quickly confirm "yes", she's coming back for VIII", and just now we're getting an origin story novel and a VII-to-VIII linking comic miniseries. Clearly there are plans for the character.
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jivjov posted:Speaking of Phasma...a bit of badassery... When did this happen
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Shes visually cool before she gets thrown in the trash
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feedmyleg posted:When did this happen More her demeanor and status, more than the actions she personally commits. Like Fett in ESB.
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Being an officer in the nazi cosplayers brigade isn't as cool as a give no fucks buckethead man who Vader warns shouldn't be as xtreme as normal when hunting down rebel scum.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I love Director Krennic. He should direct Episode IX.
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jivjov posted:Speaking of Phasma, I'm really interested to see what her role in VIII and IX is. She was all over the marketing for VII, but ended up basically being the Boba Fett, a bit of badassery followed by a rather ignominious downfall. But then they quickly confirm "yes", she's coming back for VIII", and just now we're getting an origin story novel and a VII-to-VIII linking comic miniseries. Clearly there are plans for the character. Phasma a baffling and cynical choice to recreate another Boba Fett. Except that nothing at all about the marketing tallied up with anything in the movie. She hilariously caves in immediately and then we're supposed to think that this is some new badass character? gently caress that.
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Her novel and comic series are really helping flesh out what she's all about. She's smart enough to know there's not a whole lot she can do with a literal gun to her head. And after the events of VII, she's smart enough to cover her tracks and pin the lowering of the shields on someone else jivjov fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Sep 8, 2017 |
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