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Yeah, there's no way that Snoke is anything other than a new character. Though I guess they could go the Darth Krayt route and make him an Old Republic Jedi who got twisted by [whatever]. Even if they do though, I'd still be surprised if he was a named character from any of the previous material, EU or otherwise.
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"Outside the known galaxy is an unexplored infinity, Palpatine explained, one closed off by a labyrinth of solar storms, rogue magnetospheres, black holes, gravity wells, and things far stranger. Any who tried to conquer that maze did not survive. The ships were obliterated, or returned to the galaxy devoid of travelers. Communications from those explorers were incomprehensible, either shot through with such static as to make the content useless, or filled with enough inane babble to serve as a perfectly clear sign that the explorer had gone utterly mad out there in isolation." "The Emperor was convinced that something waited for him out there — some origin of the Force, some dark presence formed of malevolent substance. He said he could feel the waves of it radiating out now that the way was clear. The Emperor called it a signal — conveniently one that only he could hear. Even his greatest enforcer, Vader, seemed oblivious to it, and Vader also claimed mastery over the dark Force, did he not? Rax believed Palpatine had gone mad."
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I might not have been the biggest fan of Wendig's prose, but I did think that was a pretty effective bit of writing. Star Wars needs to be weirder, and horror playing on the vastness and strangeness of space always gets me.
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Lake Jucas posted:Snoke is probably a new character, but if he isn't new he's definitely not Plagueis. If anything, he'd be The Son from the Clone Wars' Mortis Arc. How pissed are people going to be if it's revealed he's a failed Palpatine clone?
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Sep 18, 2017 00:46
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Dark side via Event Horizon is something I can dig.
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Red posted:How pissed are people going to be if it's revealed he's a failed Palpatine clone? It would not surprise me in the least if they pulled that. It worked for Dark Empire, but then again I enjoyed Dark Empire.
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:Dark side via Event Horizon is something I can dig. Luke Skywalker: But with the blast shield down, I can't even see! How am I supposed to fight? Ben Kenobi: Where we're going, we don't need eyes.
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Canemacar posted:Luke Skywalker: But with the blast shield down, I can't even see! How am I supposed to fight? 
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Sep 18, 2017 01:32
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Red posted:How pissed are people going to be if it's revealed he's a failed Palpatine clone? don't be silly, then he'd be named sheeev
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cptn_dr posted:I might not have been the biggest fan of Wendig's prose, but I did think that was a pretty effective bit of writing. Star Wars needs to be weirder, and horror playing on the vastness and strangeness of space always gets me. agreed. Milky Moor posted:"Outside the known galaxy is an unexplored infinity, Palpatine explained, one closed off by a labyrinth of solar storms, rogue magnetospheres, black holes, gravity wells, and things far stranger. Any who tried to conquer that maze did not survive. The ships were obliterated, or returned to the galaxy devoid of travelers. so basicaly its gonna be, the original sith(maybe sith empire) is waiting in the unknown regions/dark space/reapers. sounds ok enough to me.
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Sep 19, 2017 01:57
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Snoke is totally Ezra.
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Was reading about the "Alden Ehrenreich needs acting lessons!" brouhaha around the Han Solo movie and thought it seemed a bit weird for it to happen so late into the production. They're meant to be about three-quarters done, right? Was he acting badly the whole way through and nobody realised it until now? Or is it more likely (given the conflict between Lucasfilm and the directors which are apparently what prompted them to leave) a case of him acting the way Miller and Lord wanted but not the way Lucasfilm wanted?
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Sep 19, 2017 13:27
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Maybe they should have just made a Lando movie since Donald Glover is as good as they are ever going to find.
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Sep 19, 2017 13:50
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The acting lessons were probably for Emily Clarke.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Was reading about the "Alden Ehrenreich needs acting lessons!" brouhaha around the Han Solo movie and thought it seemed a bit weird for it to happen so late into the production. Everything I read was that he wasn't acting the way Miller and Lord wanted. Apparently it was a step taken to try to ease tensions between Lord & Miller and Ehrenreich/Kasdan. Scuttlebutt is Lucasfilm tried to do everything they could to make the Lord & Miller situation work and they eventually had to pull the plug on them when it was clear the duo was mismanaging the whole thing.
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I've heard that Miller and Lord were going for a sort of Ace Ventura-style thing whereas Kasdan (and Lucasfilm, I imagine) wanted a different tone. It's fast becoming one of those movies where the story around it is almost more interesting than the movie itself probably will be. 
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Sep 19, 2017 14:48
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Scuttlebutt was that Ehrenreich wasn't exactly comfortable with the zany acting style, so an acting coach was brought in to try and help him make the Lord and Miller approach work. It didn't really help, which just added to the list of things angering Kasdan and Kennedy.
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Sep 19, 2017 15:13
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I'm basically picturing Ehrenreich as literally his character from Hail Caesar right now
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Teek posted:Scuttlebutt was that Ehrenreich wasn't exactly comfortable with the zany acting style, so an acting coach was brought in to try and help him make the Lord and Miller approach work. It didn't really help, which just added to the list of things angering Kasdan and Kennedy. I see. So that's what's now given rise to the "EHRENREICH CAN'T ACT AND NEEDS ACTING COACHES!!!" internet narrative?
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Yes, the first articles which came out about the acting coach were about that very thing. The internet picked up on one aspect of it and ran with it, even though that wasn't exactly the point being made.
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StashAugustine posted:I'm basically picturing Ehrenreich as literally his character from Hail Caesar right now Would that be a bad thing?
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Sep 19, 2017 18:00
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Skoll posted:Would that be a bad thing? Not at all Aren't Michael K Williams and Thandie Newton in that? Those three actors are basically the only reason I wanted to see it
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Sep 19, 2017 18:04
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StashAugustine posted:Not at all Michael K Williams was dropped from the movie after Ron Howard took over. He wasn't available for reshoots so they deleted the scenes he'd already done from the final version.
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Sep 19, 2017 18:17
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: There is no way Snoke is a new (as in unconnected to something) character or someone from the EU. He will be like Phasma (new but really a stormtrooper) or Rey (new but really a pre training luke), I WILL DIE ON THIS drat HILL.
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Sep 19, 2017 20:16
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He'll be like Kylo. New but really Jacen Solo.
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He'll be one of Palpatine's vast army of illegitimate children. Just you wait; in the climactic fight scene in Episode IX he'll whip off his robe to reveal that he has lightsaber knees.
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Sep 19, 2017 20:40
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Snoke is Lobot
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Snoke is Willrow Hood, cept he tripped during the evacuation of Cloud City and hosed up his face.
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Skoll posted:Snoke is Willrow Hood, cept he tripped during the evacuation of Cloud City and hosed up his face. His ice cream stand was the foundation of the First Order!
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I wish there was some way to objectively measure how often fan theories turn out to be correct without going insane, or having idiots explain that once X comes out they'll be vindicated.
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Casimir Radon posted:I wish there was some way to objectively measure how often fan theories turn out to be correct without going insane, or having idiots explain that once X comes out they'll be vindicated. The last season of Game of Thrones was apparently taken from fanfiction, I've heard from several nerds who swear the books are high art.
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Casimir Radon posted:I wish there was some way to objectively measure how often fan theories turn out to be correct without going insane, or having idiots explain that once X comes out they'll be vindicated. I suspect even if there was there would be only one check in the "was right" box, the time they got a fan to tell them how to end Lost. 504 fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Sep 19, 2017 |
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Was rereading some of the older Brian Daley books and I forgot how much fun they were.quote:Chewbacca was in the portion of the spa reserved for its more hirsute clientele. Following the light-strip directory system helpfully placed along the floors, Han found his friend's treatment room. Checking the room's monitoring screen, he saw the Wookiee floating in a zero-gee field, arms and legs splayed. He was near the end of his session; every individual hair had been given a light mutual-repulsion charge to separate it while dirt, particulate matter, and old oils were removed. Now new oils and conditioners were being gently applied. Chewbacca wore a toothy grin, luxuriating in the treatment as he floated like a tremendous stuffed toy, his billowing pelt making him seem twice his normal girth.
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Casimir Radon posted:I wish there was some way to objectively measure how often fan theories turn out to be correct without going insane, or having idiots explain that once X comes out they'll be vindicated. I still love that the diehard rumor mongers took the fact that "Luke's severed hand tumbling through space is the opening shot of Episode VII" was not in the film as IRREFUTABLE PROOF that that scene was in the film originally, but because it leaked out, it was removed. Its absence was confirmation of its existence to them.
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jivjov posted:I still love that the diehard rumor mongers took the fact that "Luke's severed hand tumbling through space is the opening shot of Episode VII" was not in the film as IRREFUTABLE PROOF that that scene was in the film originally, but because it leaked out, it was removed.
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jivjov posted:I still love that the diehard rumor mongers took the fact that "Luke's severed hand tumbling through space is the opening shot of Episode VII" was not in the film as IRREFUTABLE PROOF that that scene was in the film originally, but because it leaked out, it was removed. Really? That's a thing? The nerds didn't think the hand would fall to Bespin?
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504 posted:Really? That's a thing?
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Casimir Radon posted:It was supposed to be his fake hand that got lost sometime after ROTJ. nerds are the worst.. Christ I saw Empire at the movies when it was first released and grew up as an absolute fan but I never got this stupid even when I was 8
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504 posted:Really? That's a thing? That's a good question....for another time.
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