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Penpal posted:Lapti Nek is not jizz, they sound nothing alike, jesus. Well well well the arbiter of what is and isn’t jizz has graced us with their presence
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Penpal posted:Wake me up when a droid uses the force in a star wars movie UNLIMITED POWER! 
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Apr 17, 2018 09:47
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Robot Style posted:It's there as kind of a jokey subtext, but yeah it's not what the movies are "about". Artoo and Threepio are based on the peasants from The Hidden Fortress because Lucas thought it would be fun to tell the story from the perspective of the lowest characters, Threepio is elevated to the level of a god by the Ewoks as a gag, and Obi-Wan quips about droids killing everyone if they could ever think for themselves. The joke is paid off later in the move when hundreds of droids (including C-3PO) start blowing away Jedi en masse. Different movies can be "about" different things. Shifting focus towards an element of Star Wars that has been there from almost the first scene is entirely in the wheelhouse of cashgrab sidestory projects that would otherwise have nothing of value to contribute.
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Apr 17, 2018 13:43
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The goofy sidekick droid's liberation schtick in the young han solo movie is going to be played for laughs. Just like mindwiping C3PO or brainwashing K2 to murder his former comrades.
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Apr 17, 2018 14:01
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L3-37 eh.
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Apr 17, 2018 14:29
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L3-37 gets blown up with only a small piece of her surviving, which a bald man volunteers to have wired into his shiny head. Calling it.
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Apr 17, 2018 14:47
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What am I missing with the name "L3-37"?
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Apr 17, 2018 14:49
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Davros1 posted:What am I missing with the name "L3-37"? I envy you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
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Apr 17, 2018 14:59
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Davros1 posted:What am I missing with the name "L3-37"? Gonna frame this.
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Apr 17, 2018 15:08
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Her brain is going to go into the Falcon or Cloud City. Probably the Falcon so there's a line about "a little bit of personality is going to be in the ship's computer now...good luck". This also allows them to add the infamous "Lando air-humps the Falcon" seen that they filmed but cut from Empire
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Apr 17, 2018 15:13
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I want to say that the Falcon actually has three different computer core brains(?). Maybe L3 is one or more of those.
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Apr 17, 2018 15:51
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Another is IG-88.
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Apr 17, 2018 15:56
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You see when Han is saying “Come on baby don’t let me down” he is actually talking to the resident 1337 inside the falcon
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Apr 17, 2018 16:04
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Teek posted:I want to say that the Falcon actually has three different computer core brains(?). Maybe L3 is one or more of those. Probably. I remember reading something in the old EU that the brains connected to the Falcon were always bickering with each other too.
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Apr 17, 2018 16:09
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AndyElusive posted:I remember reading something in the old EU that the brains connected to the Falcon were always bickering with each other too. Every time I learn something new about the old EU, I thank Disney for coming in and gassing the thing.
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Apr 17, 2018 16:24
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l337 is 100% gonna be a folcon brain because c3po said the falcun had a very peculiar dialect and didnt know where it learned to communicate
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Apr 17, 2018 17:46
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGGyTO-VlUs
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Apr 17, 2018 17:49
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Looks like I'm the target audience for this poo poo because every trailer I see just gets me more and more hyped.
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Apr 17, 2018 19:33
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These past couple tv spots have moved the needle more than the trailers for sure
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Apr 17, 2018 20:08
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I'm not at all sold on Ehrenreich but in general it looks decent. Woody is clearly just cashing paychecks, though.
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Apr 17, 2018 20:27
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Maarak posted:C3P0 is a functional immortal who speaks millions of languages and forged a critical alliance with the Ewoks. That he's treated as an annoying toaster by most of the "good guys" should be very telling as to why the New Republic fell. Lukes and Leia are the ones who forged the Ewok alliance. Leia by befriending Wickett and Luke by using his powers. Threepio even explicitly says he can't command the Ewoks because his programming prohibits impersonating a god. Edgar Allen Ho posted:or brainwashing K2 to murder his former comrades. "Brainwashing" implies K2 is being forced to do something that goes against his beliefs through violence/abuse. Reprogramming just means that K2 is a Rebel AI put into a deceased Imperial AI's corpse. More Hannibal Lectors skin disguise than Manchurian Candidate. sassassin posted:Different movies can be "about" different things. Shifting focus towards an element of Star Wars that has been there from almost the first scene is entirely in the wheelhouse of cashgrab sidestory projects that would otherwise have nothing of value to contribute. Rogue One had a different focus but was faithful to the universe's themes and workings. Droid rights/liberation doesn't. and really makes the setting not work. It goes against it's themes and makes the narrative trite. Dr.Radical posted:Also it suggests they can feel pain. The droids being tortured by burning the bottom of their feet for example. Which goes straight into the jizz classic Lapti Nek! That's to show how petty and petulant Jabba is. Like people who hurt their dogs or smash their Roomba's. No one's arguing that Droids don't deserve respect and kindness. In fact how they treat their droids is one of the most used ways the movies tell us who's good or bad. It's just that Star Wars robots work on the principle that they have a programming to do whatever they're built for and that's what they want to do. C3PO is programmed to be a subservient doddering Robutler and that's what he will do. The Battle Droids are programmed to be incompetent killbots and that's what they want to do.
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Apr 17, 2018 21:41
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Timby posted:I'm not at all sold on Ehrenreich but in general it looks decent. Woody is clearly just cashing paychecks, though. Well yeah. He was hired to do the same thing again but uh...just in two takes.
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Apr 17, 2018 21:57
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Woody is gonna die in some kind of disaster instead of walking onto the Falcon a la Saw Gerrara. SAVE THE SPICE...SAVE THE DREAM
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Apr 17, 2018 22:08
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Has Lucas or the Movies ever even said what Spice actually is? Is it just supposed to be a callback to Dune? I know the old EU essentially made it a drug that made you so high you thought you had psychic powers and could see the future. But I actually don't recall any canon source saying what it does or why it's worth risking your life to sell.
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Apr 17, 2018 23:31
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It's gonna be dumb, pretty, and probably worth 10 bucks
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Apr 17, 2018 23:51
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Jonathan Fisk posted:It's gonna be dumb, pretty, and probably worth 10 bucks turn on your monitor
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Apr 17, 2018 23:56
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galagazombie posted:Has Lucas or the Movies ever even said what Spice actually is? Is it just supposed to be a callback to Dune? I know the old EU essentially made it a drug that made you so high you thought you had psychic powers and could see the future. But I actually don't recall any canon source saying what it does or why it's worth risking your life to sell. It's spices. Jabba eats a lot, so he needs constant shipments of spices and other ingredients to maintain his gourmand lifestyle. Why do you think he was so pissed? It wasn't a drug shipment he was going to sell, Han ruined one of his lavish dinner parties by dumping that spice instead of delivering it.
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Apr 18, 2018 07:40
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what are kids today crazy about? is it still the leet speak and the tony hawks? yeah thats it kids love that stuff. throw it in the hans solo movie ~Kathleen Kennedy
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Apr 18, 2018 09:06
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Kids don't have money. But the age group you are referencing is now grown up and (doesn't) have money to spend seeing a movie at the theater (to distract them from their hellscape).
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Apr 18, 2018 09:12
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I'd love if they went the colonialist route with spice, showing The Empire exploiting the native peoples of planets rich in it. Pitting the people against each other, bringing foreign disease, and/or enslaving them to mine it. But, uh, I'm guessing that won't be happening. Would make it more interesting than a drug metaphor or a Dune ripoff, and would deepen the concept of The Empire just being The British Space Empire.
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Apr 18, 2018 11:25
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galagazombie posted:Has Lucas or the Movies ever even said what Spice actually is? Is it just supposed to be a callback to Dune? I know the old EU essentially made it a drug that made you so high you thought you had psychic powers and could see the future. But I actually don't recall any canon source saying what it does or why it's worth risking your life to sell. This was the only EU book I ever read.
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Apr 18, 2018 14:16
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Smugglers probably exaggerate the difficulty of obtaining spice to inflate the price.
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I seem to remember a book on tape where Han Solo fell in love with some spice miner named Bria. I don’t remember what spice did but that the owners of the mine were some species whose mating display caused those nearby to experience euphoria, so they would use it to keep the miners working because they were addicted to it. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
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Dr.Radical posted:I seem to remember a book on tape where Han Solo fell in love with some spice miner named Bria. I don’t remember what spice did but that the owners of the mine were some species whose mating display caused those nearby to experience euphoria, so they would use it to keep the miners working because they were addicted to it. Does this ring a bell for anyone? I think she originated in A.C. Crispin's Han Solo trilogy then reappeared in the early Han Solo comics from Dark Horse. She eventually became a Rebel officer and helped to end Han and Lando's friendship by double-crossing Han after he went to her for help and making it look like he'd betrayed all his fellow smugglers. I won't be surprised if Emilia Clarke's character ends up being a thinly-disguised version of her in the movie.
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I like that they're keeping Lando always pronouncing 'Han' like the word 'Hand' where everyone else [including Han] says it 'Hahn.'
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Apr 18, 2018 17:56
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SolarFire2 posted:I like that they're keeping Lando always pronouncing 'Han' like the word 'Hand' where everyone else [including Han] says it 'Hahn.' I imagine DongLover refused to have it any other way.
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Apr 18, 2018 17:58
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Halloween Jack posted:Kevin J Anderson wrote a book where spice was this stuff deposited by giant spider creatures in huge underground tunnel networks. It's a stimulant that gives you a little bit of psychic awareness and is basically used like ecstasy. So yeah, it's a ripoff of Herbert's melange, with enough change to allow for "spice mines." The book where an upside down traffic cone is the most powerful and indestructible ship in the galaxy.
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Apr 18, 2018 22:04
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banned from Starbucks posted:The book where an upside down traffic cone is the most powerful and indestructible ship in the galaxy. Control the space traffic, you control the galaxy.
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Apr 18, 2018 22:11
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A Coruscant cop movie featuring high speed hovercar chase scenes would be good. But it would definitely need to show a Coruscant traffic stop.
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then you'll be happy to know that just such a thing happens in attack of the clones jedi are star wars cops, after all
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