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Darth TNT posted:
Skippy rules actually.
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May 2, 2018 22:54
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Arcsquad12 posted:Paging JivJov. Hi, what can I do for ya?
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May 2, 2018 23:05
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jivjov posted:Hi, what can I do for ya? Defend the Story Group's decision to make the dianoga's force sensitivity canon.
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May 2, 2018 23:10
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Arcsquad12 posted:Defend the Story Group's decision to make the dianoga's force sensitivity canon. From A Certain Point of View occupies an interesting space...what with the whole "40 short stories from random minor characters" thing. Yeah, the dianoga being force sensitive is silly...but its one short story, it doesn't fundamentally alter perceptions of the events of the films, and almost certainly won't come up again. Its silly...but on the whole, inoffensive.
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May 2, 2018 23:16
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Lol you don’t think in 3 years that doesn’t come up. It will.
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May 3, 2018 00:07
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jivjov posted:From A Certain Point of View occupies an interesting space...what with the whole "40 short stories from random minor characters" thing. Yeah, the dianoga being force sensitive is silly...but its one short story, it doesn't fundamentally alter perceptions of the events of the films, and almost certainly won't come up again. Its silly...but on the whole, inoffensive. I thought from now on all elements of Star Wars canon would be harmonized to tell a single story??? After all, the Story Group blocked out a six-year arc for the new sequel trilogy, giving them plenty of room to,
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May 3, 2018 04:31
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jivjov posted:Hi, what can I do for ya? Arcsquad12 posted:Defend the Story Group's decision to make the dianoga's force sensitivity canon. jivjov posted:From A Certain Point of View occupies an interesting space...what with the whole "40 short stories from random minor characters" thing. Yeah, the dianoga being force sensitive is silly...but its one short story, it doesn't fundamentally alter perceptions of the events of the films, and almost certainly won't come up again. Its silly...but on the whole, inoffensive. this exchange is better than anything in the new movies
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May 3, 2018 04:49
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General Battuta posted:I thought from now on all elements of Star Wars canon would be harmonized to tell a single story??? After all, the Story Group blocked out a six-year arc for the new sequel trilogy, giving them plenty of room to, I mean...nothing about the dianoga being force sensitive contradicts or conflicts with anything.
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May 3, 2018 04:54
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I’m starting to genuinely wonder if some of you folks might be misunderstanding the intent of a Star Wars book titled From a Certain Point of View
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May 3, 2018 05:56
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To....to make money?
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May 3, 2018 05:58
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CharlestheHammer posted:To....to make money? I think it's to tell stories people who want to read. Like how force sensitive tentacle monsters didn't really do anything and didn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things. jivjov posted:I mean...nothing about the dianoga being force sensitive contradicts or conflicts with anything. Indeed, it even makes punching Dianoga in Dark Forces a better experience.  It's a win for the Starwars Universe.
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May 3, 2018 07:44
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Oh it’s definitely not that
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May 3, 2018 08:24
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Despite my trepidation for Solo, I scooped up my tickets tonight anyway. Damned if I’m going to not see a Star Wars movie the instant it comes out.
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May 4, 2018 06:25
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Wheat Loaf posted:Did Zahn write any stories that didn't relate to Thrawn and/or Mara Jade in some way? I know this is from a while ago, but yeah, he wrote Hammertong: the Tale of the "Tonnika Sisters" for Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina. It's pretty bog standard for him, just badass soldier types doing badass soldier things, but the Hammertong itself was just one of the eight Death Star lasers and had nothing to do with Thrawn or Jade.
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May 4, 2018 06:35
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He co-wrote Interlude at Darkknell. That "only" dealt with Garm Bel Iblis.
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May 4, 2018 06:41
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I was thinking recently about how the Bantam era felt a lot less integrated than Del Rey - was it a big deal when you got stuff like Pellaeon showing up in Darksaber? I feel like that must have been his first appearance since the Thrawn trilogy ended. Conversely, it's interesting how Mara seemed like the only Zahn character that other authors really took to. She's briefly in the Jedi Academy trilogy, she's in New Rebellion and I'm fairly sure she's in the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy and possibly the Corellia trilogy (though I don't remember those quite so well). At the same time, I don't think any of them were really sure what to do with her, so Zahn ended up retconning a lot of it (her being romantically involved with Lando turning into cover for a job they were doing etc.) in the Hand of Thrawn books.
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May 4, 2018 11:26
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Wheat Loaf posted:I was thinking recently about how the Bantam era felt a lot less integrated than Del Rey - was it a big deal when you got stuff like Pellaeon showing up in Darksaber? I feel like that must have been his first appearance since the Thrawn trilogy ended.
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May 4, 2018 12:04
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Zahn also wrote Scoundrels, which is not only one of my favorite books of his, but one where not only do Mara and Thrawn not appear, I don't think Grand Admirals and Emperor's Hands are even mentioned. Plus it's a completely different genre from his usual stuff. Since it features Han and Lando teaming up for a heist pre-ESB, I'm curious how it would read again after seeing Solo. Wheat Loaf posted:I was thinking recently about how the Bantam era felt a lot less integrated than Del Rey - was it a big deal when you got stuff like Pellaeon showing up in Darksaber? I feel like that must have been his first appearance since the Thrawn trilogy ended. I vaguely do remember it being a big deal, because it was the "big bads" of the last two series (Thrawn Trilogy and JAT) teaming up. Of course, the results didn't quite live up to that. That being said, this was before I had internet, so the group it was a "big deal" to was my small circle of sci-fi friends I'd meet up with every week or two to play games with and talk Star Wars over. No relation to this, but I was listening through some old Full of Sith episodes because for once I'm actually low on stored-up podcasts, and there's an episode from mid 2014 when they started to hear TFA spoilers that in retrospect we know were true. Their reactions are funny. "Luke just vanished? That doesn't make any sense! Well, I guess the plot must be all his Jedi students go looking for him... if the rumor about him vanishing is even true! And the villains have a superweapon that blows up a whole solar system? Some is just copying the Sun Crusher, that's not even trying to be a real rumor, it's just a joke! And Luke's lightsaber from ESB is going to be featured? That thing got lost on Bespin, it's just sour grapes from EU fans because the lightsaber was picked up in the Thrawn books!" They actually seriously discussed those rumored plot points all being deliberate fakes spread by Abrams to obscure his actual storyline. Young fools....
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May 4, 2018 15:28
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I don't see the big deal about the Dianoga. I mean, the way the Force works, there's bound to be several random creatures and people that are strong in it just out of chance. That doesn't make them secretly super important to the narrative.
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May 4, 2018 15:40
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Chairman Capone posted:They actually seriously discussed those rumored plot points all being deliberate fakes spread by Abrams to obscure his actual storyline. Young fools.... While at the same time earnestly debating the possibility that TFA would tie into Rebels and discussing what role the Rebels characters would play in the new movies.
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May 4, 2018 16:21
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thrawn527 posted:From a Certain Point of View really ended up being incredibly stupid, and I wish they hadn't bothered. There was, like, one good story in the whole thing. a few of the stories were alright i liked taggs and moti's poo poo. mos eisley stories went on for way way to long.
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May 4, 2018 16:24
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Nodosaur posted:I don't see the big deal about the Dianoga. I mean, the way the Force works, there's bound to be several random creatures and people that are strong in it just out of chance. That doesn't make them secretly super important to the narrative. It's not really a big deal. Thing is, it's such a small deal it makes you wonder, why bother with such a minute detail that has absolutely no value to the narrative and from a certain point of view even undermines the "tension" of the compactor scene.
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May 4, 2018 22:19
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I wouldn't have known about it at all if I hadn't read it here and am content to ignore it going forward.
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May 4, 2018 23:10
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Darth TNT posted:It's not really a big deal. Thing is, it's such a small deal it makes you wonder, why bother with such a minute detail that has absolutely no value to the narrative and from a certain point of view even undermines the "tension" of the compactor scene. Wasn't the point of the book though to be a somewhat tongue in cheek look at A New Hope from a bunch of minor character's PoV? I don't think it was ever intended to matter in the grand scheme of things, it was just supposed to be a fun anniversary anthology
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May 5, 2018 04:19
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Nodosaur posted:I don't see the big deal about the Dianoga. I mean, the way the Force works, there's bound to be several random creatures and people that are strong in it just out of chance. That doesn't make them secretly super important to the narrative. It’s not a big deal, but people thought that this was gonna be different from the old extended universe, and it won’t be. Plus like the old EU it isn’t how relevant something was, but how dumb it was. There are a lot of stories people laugh at that aren’t really relevant to anything but still dumb.
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May 5, 2018 05:36
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I will say that the woman who wrote the dianoga story, Nnedi Okorafor, is a really good author of her own stuff. Who Fears Death and Binti are great.
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May 5, 2018 14:47
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Certain Point of View just seems like a modern take on the 90s Tales of/from books which were all goofy little stories where you could tell the usual stable of EU writers were just enjoying flexing for 20 pages
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May 5, 2018 17:36
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Corran's son took the continuity reboot kind of hard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjOuoT15djM
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May 8, 2018 15:15
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Initial reception of Solo is good?
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May 11, 2018 21:31
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i have heard basically that its alright, lando is great and han is passable and chewie is fun. the 1st third is eh but the rest is fun heist movie. if its fun and set piecey i may enjoy it. who knows.
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May 11, 2018 21:49
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"Good, not great", "passable" or "not completely awful" is probably the best they can hope for.
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May 11, 2018 23:33
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Did anyone think it would be anything but bland. Disney doesn’t really do bad movies outside the last Jedi. Ok Age of Ultron as well.
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May 12, 2018 00:19
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CharlestheHammer posted:Disney doesn’t really do bad movies outside the last Jedi. Wait what
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May 12, 2018 00:37
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jivjov posted:Wait what I edited in Age of Ultron it’s okay.
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May 12, 2018 01:41
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Once again showing that no one hates Star Wars like Star Wars fans do.
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May 12, 2018 01:56
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Did you guys even click on the link because most of the responses certainly don’t conjure bland.
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May 12, 2018 03:26
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I personally don’t care what they think.
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May 12, 2018 03:58
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CharlestheHammer posted:I personally don’t care what they think. So you haven't seen the movie...and you don't care about the thoughts of people who have seen the movie....you've just decided it's bland and you're running with that?
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May 12, 2018 13:25
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jivjov posted:So you haven't seen the movie...and you don't care about the thoughts of people who have seen the movie....you've just decided it's bland and you're running with that?
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It's the premier, of course people will say they enjoyed it, it's standard PR stuff Though I do like the shade of the one lady who was like "there was fun to be had" 
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