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josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"

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Zoran posted:

ah I suppose they forgot to clone his mcDNA (midichlorial DNA)

They left a hole in the foot and the midichlorians all drained out.

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Elfgames
Sep 11, 2011

Fun Shoe

garycoleisgod posted:

I'm gonna ignore that revelation because the thought of Sheev laying pipe like he's a plumber is much more entertaining that saying he made a clone.

Palpatines Fucks is Canon :colbert:

episode 1 palps is not a bad lookin dude rey's like 30 at the start of ep 7 so his son had to be born around that time if he wasn't a clone (loving lame) right?

Horizon Burning
Oct 23, 2019
:discourse:

Gonz posted:

Unlimited Powah

unlimited puawer

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Elfgames posted:

rey's like 30 at the start of ep 7

Daisy Ridley was early 20s when she filmed it and Rey is supposedly a few years younger than that.

Gonz
Dec 22, 2009

"Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"
Ten doll hairs says Baby Yoda and his mega-midichlorians ties into the Imperial remnant cloning program and Crusty Subpar Palpatine in season 2 of the Mandalorian.

Beelzebufo
Mar 5, 2015

Frog puns are toadally awesome


Elfgames posted:

episode 1 palps is not a bad lookin dude rey's like 30 at the start of ep 7 so his son had to be born around that time if he wasn't a clone (loving lame) right?

Sheev in the prequels is definitely gay though

Like seriously that dude is gay. He is an old queen.

DrVenkman
Dec 28, 2005

I think he can hear you, Ray.
Who would've thought when people were riding high on THE FORCE AWAKENS that this is where things would end up? A mess of a production with tons of re-shoots, a finished film where the most glowing praise seems to be 'well it wasn't that bad' and ancillary material that is desperately trying to make sense of it all but keeps making things worse.

Worst of all the most enduring question after three movies seems to be Yo, is Palpatine loving?

Barudak
May 7, 2007

The Little Death posted:

Sheev in the prequels is definitely gay though

Like seriously that dude is gay. He is an old queen.

I dunno, he succesfully plays both sides.

Astrochicken
Aug 13, 2007

So you better go back to your bars, your temples
Your massage parlors!

The Star Wars Spoiler Thread: Yo, is Palpatine loving?

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth
Did this politician have sex?!? I ask, incredulous at the idea that wealthy and powerful old men get laid on the reg. Sometimes even with adult women.

GATOS Y VATOS
Aug 22, 2002


Say I was wondering if any of you can help me; in December or possibly early January there was an online article about the SW prop crew making the Sith Trooper costumes and within the article was a shot of the workshop with a person talking about something and a bunch of dissasembled sith troopers hanging up in the background and parts on a workbench. This is a long shot but does anybody remember and have a link to this article? It was from an official sourse iirc but there is something in the photo I'm trying to identify and I completely forgot to save it when I read it. Yes, I'm an idiot and I know this is a long shot.

Edit: I found what I was looking for; a particular spray polish seen in the photo that is made in Australia.

GATOS Y VATOS fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Mar 5, 2020

Guy A. Person
May 23, 2003

Astrochicken posted:

The Star Wars Spoiler Thread: Yo, is Palpatine loving?

Anytime Palpatine isn't on screen he is loving, this is canon

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
Palpatine should be louder, angrier, and have access to a Sun Crusher.

Asgerd
May 6, 2012

I worked up a powerful loneliness in my massive bed, in the massive dark.
Grimey Drawer

DrVenkman posted:

Who would've thought when people were riding high on THE FORCE AWAKENS that this is where things would end up? A mess of a production with tons of re-shoots, a finished film where the most glowing praise seems to be 'well it wasn't that bad' and ancillary material that is desperately trying to make sense of it all but keeps making things worse.


Rise of Skywalker is definitely the worst overall movie, but I maintain that Rogue One is where the cracks started to show, and Last Jedi is where the damage became irreparable. Solo is a movie that exists, presumably.

OctoberCountry
Oct 9, 2012

DrVenkman posted:

A mess of a production with tons of re-shoots, a finished film where the most glowing praise seems to be 'well it wasn't that bad' and ancillary material that is desperately trying to make sense of it all but keeps making things worse.

I mean you're describing Force Awakens perfectly here

DrVenkman
Dec 28, 2005

I think he can hear you, Ray.

Asgerd posted:

Rise of Skywalker is definitely the worst overall movie, but I maintain that Rogue One is where the cracks started to show, and Last Jedi is where the damage became irreparable. Solo is a movie that exists, presumably.

Disagree on TLJ because at the very least, Trevorrow's script shows that you can follow on from what TLJ did in a way that's not just walking back every decision you don't like. Not that I'm saying that script is great or even a satisfying end necessarily, but it certainly had better ideas and at the very least attempted to acknowledge the movie that came before it.

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

Acebuckeye13 posted:

look here disney you of all people can't just turn around and say that palpatine does not, in fact, gently caress

Don't worry, since it was never stated in the movie, that means it's not canon that Palpatine doesn't gently caress

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend

Acebuckeye13 posted:

look here disney you of all people can't just turn around and say that palpatine does not, in fact, gently caress

You heard it here first folks

General Dog posted:

I don't think it's much of a stretch believe someone would want to have sex with an old ugly dude like Palpatine when he's the most powerful man in the galaxy.

That said, I'm 100% certain that some novel or comic book will clarify that no, Palpatine actually had no interest in conventional coitus as he considered it a form of weakness and actually he just wanted an heir he could mold into the perfect apprentice so he had a high ranking female Imperial officer artificially inseminated or something. And that will really be too bad.

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
I think it's a totally reasonable, even preferable, interpretation that Palpatine is such a supreme egotist that he can't even countenance reproducing except by cloning himself. Palpatine only fucks on his private planet, Darth James Minoris.

Ingmar terdman
Jul 24, 2006

Nah his hog just shoots lightning

well why not
Feb 10, 2009




Halloween Jack posted:

I think it's a totally reasonable, even preferable, interpretation that Palpatine is such a supreme egotist that he can't even countenance reproducing except by cloning himself. Palpatine only fucks on his private planet, Darth James Minoris.

It’s actually a fully operational space station. that hosed up little shrine is the astromech. he has a wookie assistant named ghis lann maxveil

End of Shoelace
Apr 5, 2016
I was re-reading the Star Wars threads, and ran into the "droid personhood" arguments. There's a point that I surprisingly never saw anyone make: simply the creation of the droids as they exist in the Star Wars universe is an unethical act.
This is in relation to Slavoj Zizek's notion of the traditional authoritarian father vs. the permissive father:

Slavoj Zizek, "How to Read Lacan" posted:

Think of the situation known to most of us from our youth: the unfortunate child who, on Sunday afternoon, has to visit his grandmother instead of being allowed to play with friends. The old-fashioned authoritarian father’s message to the reluctant boy would have been: “I don’t care how you feel. Just do your duty, go to grandmother and behave there properly!” In this case, the child’s predicament is not bad at all: although forced to do something he clearly doesn’t want to, he will retain his inner freedom and the ability to (later) rebel against the paternal authority. Much more tricky would have been the message of a “postmodern” non-authoritarian father: “You know how much your grandmother loves you! But, nonetheless, I do not want to force you to visit her – go there only if you really want to!”

Every child who is not stupid (and as a rule they are definitely not stupid) will immediately recognize the trap of this permissive attitude: beneath the appearance of a free choice there is an even more oppressive demand than the one formulated by the traditional authoritarian father, namely an implicit injunction not only to visit the grandmother, but to do it voluntarily, out of the child’s own free will. Such a false free choice is the obscene superego injunction: it deprives the child even of his inner freedom, ordering him not only what to do, but what to want to do.

This is why it is immediately easy to dismiss the arguments that C-3PO doesn't have it that bad, since he was created to like his job as a protocol droid. In a strange paradox, his free will has been pre-determined.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

What's Palp's porn name?

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


Sheev

Jewmanji
Dec 28, 2003

End of Shoelace posted:

I was re-reading the Star Wars threads, and ran into the "droid personhood" arguments. There's a point that I surprisingly never saw anyone make: simply the creation of the droids as they exist in the Star Wars universe is an unethical act.
This is in relation to Slavoj Zizek's notion of the traditional authoritarian father vs. the permissive father:


This is why it is immediately easy to dismiss the arguments that C-3PO doesn't have it that bad, since he was created to like his job as a protocol droid. In a strange paradox, his free will has been pre-determined.

Yeah there are no droids in Star Wars that aren’t built for a specific purpose. It would be interesting to see a class of droids that wasn’t a “protocol droid” or a “battle droid” or an “astromech” droid from birth, but was simply created to exist and be afforded the same protections and freedoms as a regular person.

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

Colostomy Bag posted:

What's Palp's porn name?

The Senate

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


UNLIMITED ANAL!!!

josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"

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Cartoon Man posted:

UNLIMITED ANAL!!!

That is a power only one has achieved... but if we work together, I know we can discover the secret.

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
God-tier post.

End of Shoelace
Apr 5, 2016

Jewmanji posted:

Yeah there are no droids in Star Wars that aren’t built for a specific purpose. It would be interesting to see a class of droids that wasn’t a “protocol droid” or a “battle droid” or an “astromech” droid from birth, but was simply created to exist and be afforded the same protections and freedoms as a regular person.

The droids are the best part of Star Wars, no joke.

Lucas draws interesting parallels between human existence and droid existence. In that one episode of the Clone Wars, Yoda finds a planet at the center of the universe serving as THE source of the Force, and a disembodied voice explains to him that this planet is the root of all life everywhere. If it were to stop existing, all life would stop and humans would become zombies or die or something. It works the same way as the Trade Federation droid mothership in Phantom Menace, but for biological life.

R2-D2 is on the planet as well with Yoda, and he cannot sense the Force at all at its very source. This is taken by some critics as proof of the inherent spirituality of the human condition and how droids mirror this as soulless pieces of machinery or whatever. What is never brought up, but easy to deduce from the implications, is that if this one singular Force planet were to be destroyed, droids would be the only sapient life left in existence.

Asgerd
May 6, 2012

I worked up a powerful loneliness in my massive bed, in the massive dark.
Grimey Drawer

Colostomy Bag posted:

What's Palp's porn name?

Cos Dashit

Jewmanji
Dec 28, 2003

End of Shoelace posted:

The droids are the best part of Star Wars, no joke.

Lucas draws interesting parallels between human existence and droid existence. In that one episode of the Clone Wars, Yoda finds a planet at the center of the universe serving as THE source of the Force, and a disembodied voice explains to him that this planet is the root of all life everywhere. If it were to stop existing, all life would stop and humans would become zombies or die or something. It works the same way as the Trade Federation droid mothership in Phantom Menace, but for biological life.

R2-D2 is on the planet as well with Yoda, and he cannot sense the Force at all at its very source. This is taken by some critics as proof of the inherent spirituality of the human condition and how droids mirror this as soulless pieces of machinery or whatever. What is never brought up, but easy to deduce from the implications, is that if this one singular Force planet were to be destroyed, droids would be the only sapient life left in existence.

If you’re interested in this theme, check out Ted Chiang’s novella, The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


Jewmanji posted:

If you’re interested in this theme, check out Ted Chiang’s novella, The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Is there Palpatine porn in it?

ruddiger
Jun 3, 2004

Cartoon Man posted:

UNLIMITED ANAL!!!

UNLIMITED POWER BOTTOM!

Calaveron
Aug 7, 2006
:negative:

Colostomy Bag posted:

What's Palp's porn name?

Pumpaton

Marin Karin
Jul 29, 2011

What are you, compared to my magnificence?
this poo poo sucks

well why not
Feb 10, 2009




lol at goons immediately linking “having sex” to porn. telling on yourself much?

GATOS Y VATOS
Aug 22, 2002


Cartoon Man posted:

UNLIMITED ANAL!!!

new thread title imo

Gonz
Dec 22, 2009

"Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"
Had myself a time at Popeyes this afternoon.

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Detective No. 27
Jun 7, 2006

I love the story arc of Clone Wars where that frog man takes some droids on a secret mission behind enemy lines. He goes from using them as tools to validating their personhood.

It's also hilarious when he's going insane from dehydration. Whoever his voice actor was must have been having the time of his life.

Gonz posted:

Had myself a time at Popeyes this afternoon.



It's gonna be an Order 99 when you poo poo it out.

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