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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:It’s basically a Larry King cameo. lol this got me good
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Sash! posted:The Empire, apparently, does not believe in direct deposit and hands out little bags of coins Reading between the lines, the infrastructure for full FTL communications/banking is somewhat hinkier than FTL physical travel.
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Oct 6, 2022 18:11
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Madurai posted:I'd say the Imperial officer is the most obvious wind-up-dead candidate, if only because dramatically, his role would have ended (they aren't going to "climb the same fence twice" as Ms. ISB put it) Now what are the odds that it's one of the rebels that offs him in order to clean things up.
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Oct 6, 2022 18:13
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It does seem like he's trying to set things up so pretty he can go right back to work there, which is a dangerously dangly loose end. The ISB isn't just going to Nathan Fielder voice "oh ok" all the little understaffing coincidences he lined up.
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Oct 6, 2022 18:15
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The way the heist has to play out with the ship leaving the cargo bay it feels like someone will have to stay behind when something goes wrong to keep the door open or block anyone from following.
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Sash! posted:The Empire, apparently, does not believe in direct deposit and hands out little bags of coins Fascists love physical money.
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Oct 6, 2022 18:37
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twistedmentat posted:Fascists love physical money. I thought bullion was a libertarian thing
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i say swears online posted:I thought bullion was a libertarian thing As i said, Fascists love physical money. A Libertarian is just a fascist who wants to smoke weed.
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Oct 6, 2022 18:39
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Sash! posted:The Empire, apparently, does not believe in direct deposit and hands out little bags of coins Rebels don't either. Han Solo was literally loading up crates of money onto a dolly after he delivered Luke and Leia to Yavin.
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Oct 6, 2022 18:42
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Sash! posted:The Empire, apparently, does not believe in direct deposit and hands out little bags of coins Star Wars has always operated on the assumptions of the 1930s.
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Oct 6, 2022 19:10
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Halloween Jack posted:One of the problems with Disney Star Wars is that it's a franchise about violent revolution but none of the good guys are allowed to be the kind of people who would ever take part in a violent revolution
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Owlbear Camus posted:Reading between the lines, the infrastructure for full FTL communications/banking is somewhat hinkier than FTL physical travel. The empire must have amazing internet though. When the Falcon shows up at the Death Star having traveled thru hyperspace for a considerable amount of time it's immediately identified as "a freighter that blasted out of Tatoonie".
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Oct 6, 2022 19:18
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Jinnigan posted:imo its quite a big difference between a guy whos willing to crack a few eggs to make an omelette and a guy who advocates violent rebellion as a large scale political strategy Specifically, Saw has little consideration for collateral damage and using murder as a first resort. The EU content and Rebels has more than Rogue One but he's violent and paranoid enough to torture or kill his own members on flimsy pretexts and assassinate potential double agents without permission. By the time he died on Jedha, he had basically destroyed his own cell through responding to every reprisal against his violence by trying to increase the violence.
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Oct 6, 2022 19:19
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Sash! posted:The Empire, apparently, does not believe in direct deposit and hands out little bags of coins  These look like containers of credit chips, which are digital cash cards.
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Oct 6, 2022 19:24
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5 episodes in, and most of the time I don't feel like I'm actually watching a Star War. And that's not a bad thing. The bigger surprise is that I hadn't realized just how much I wasn't used to such a competently written show with internal continuity and characters acting logically.
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Madurai posted:Star Wars has always operated on the assumptions of the 1930s. Yeah, and at best it’s the imagined future of the 1970s, very little wireless computing, large “automated” machines are operated by a man-sized droid working regular controls, their phones suck compare to ours, etc etc
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Yeah, and at best it’s the imagined future of the 1970s, very little wireless computing, large “automated” machines are operated by a man-sized droid working regular controls, their phones suck compare to ours, etc etc it all rules. the aesthetic is fantastic. starships should be manual, not fly by wire. someone should be on a bicycle in the engine room to make sure the warp drive gets the RPMs it needs to kick off
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My  : only Andor and the Idealist will survive. But the Idealist will have to do something hella cold to get away with it.
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Squidster posted:My accepts a sponsorship to promote the empire, thinking he can use the massive salary to do more good than bad
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Oct 6, 2022 20:15
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He'll invest in Fascism Offsets, where he matches his new Imperial salary with donations to licensed charities
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FlamingLiberal posted:So what is the over/under for how many of the rebels die during the heist? I would say it’s 2. The trailers show Cassian (fine), Vel (fine), and Nemik (injured) in to-be-aired shots that clearly aren't part of the heist, but anyone else is fair game.
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Doronin posted:5 episodes in, and most of the time I don't feel like I'm actually watching a Star War. And that's not a bad thing. The bigger surprise is that I hadn't realized just how much I wasn't used to such a competently written show with internal continuity and characters acting logically. It's also that despite this being a 'prequel' we really have no idea how things are going to play out. Only two of the characters are safe, and Mon Mothma's backstory leading up to her giving the RotJ briefing is a completely blank canvas. There's actual tension and danger and stakes and mystery.
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Alchenar posted:It's also that despite this being a 'prequel' we really have no idea how things are going to play out. Only two of the characters are safe, and Mon Mothma's backstory leading up to her giving the RotJ briefing is a completely blank canvas. There's actual tension and danger and stakes and mystery. Before, I never thought "Hey, I wonder if Mon Mothma had a family," and even if they're jerks, I am experiencing tension on what's going to happen to them.
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Alchenar posted:It's also that despite this being a 'prequel' we really have no idea how things are going to play out. Only two of the characters are safe, and Mon Mothma's backstory leading up to her giving the RotJ briefing is a completely blank canvas. There's actual tension and danger and stakes and mystery. We do know from Rebels that sometime before Yavin something happens that encourages/forces her to throw her senate career in the trash and publicly announce the rebel alliance, so we might get to see what it is exactly that pushes her over the edge.
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3 posted:We do know from Rebels that sometime before Yavin something happens that encourages/forces her to throw her senate career in the trash and publicly announce the rebel alliance, so we might get to see what it is exactly that pushes her over the edge. The Ghorman Massacre, which Tony Gilroy immediately corrected a questioner off the top of his head about. In 2 BBY (which should be in the timeframe of the second season) the Empire slaughters a mass of protesters, leading to her resigning and publicly denouncing Palpatine. Hera Syndulla and the rest of the Ghost crew rescue her from the ISB trying to capture her and the Alliance to Restore the Republic officially becomes a thing.
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Jerkface posted:"I already hated the empire, now i don't know the word for how I feel" is a line thats too good to be in star wars That was really good. I was also a fan of “Any civilized person knows that an open invitation is no invitation at all.”
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twistedmentat posted:A Libertarian is just a fascist who wants to smoke weed. Lmao this is one of the most ridiculous things I have heard on this here something awful forums.
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"Everyone is fighting their own Rebellion" seems to be the tagline of the show and every scene with the rebel characters oozes that sentiment. I'm loving the scenes, but absolutely no sense where they are going with the ex-corpo character.
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Madurai posted:Before, I never thought "Hey, I wonder if Mon Mothma had a family," and even if they're jerks, I am experiencing tension on what's going to happen to them.
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I don’t think I’ve noticed Ebon Moss-Bachrach until he was on The Bear, but with that show and the job he’s doing in Andor he must be really feeling himself right now.
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Madurai posted:Before, I never thought "Hey, I wonder if Mon Mothma had a family," and even if they're jerks, I am experiencing tension on what's going to happen to them. I really like Mothma as the coffeehouse intellectual/discontented liberal member of the regime sort of revolutionary to contrast with the on-the-ground terrorist streetfighters. Not sure if that characterization was already present in older EU stuff, but it's a good idea to use here.
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the politics are excellent so far. i love that contrast, as well as that between deputy and inspector in ep 1
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DJ_Mindboggler posted:I really like Mothma as the coffeehouse intellectual/discontented liberal member of the regime sort of revolutionary to contrast with the on-the-ground terrorist streetfighters. Not sure if that characterization was already present in older EU stuff, but it's a good idea to use here.
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DJ_Mindboggler posted:I really like Mothma as the coffeehouse intellectual/discontented liberal member of the regime sort of revolutionary to contrast with the on-the-ground terrorist streetfighters. Not sure if that characterization was already present in older EU stuff, but it's a good idea to use here. Not just Mothma - her entire planet is full of coffehouse intellectuals: Chandrila on Wookieepedia posted:Chandrilans acquired a reputation throughout the galaxy as arrogant and argumentative, due partly to their emphasis on political education and debate. Since Chandrila was a world with perfect climate and docile animal life, native Chandrilans were unfamiliar with the everyday struggles of life in less comfortable environments. Eager to share their paradisiacal way of life, they found resistance to their ideas baffling.
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Anita Dickinme posted:Lmao this is one of the most ridiculous things I have heard on this here something awful forums. All right. Let's try this again. A libertarian is just a fascist who wants to gently caress underage kids.
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Robot Style posted:Not just Mothma - her entire planet is full of coffehouse intellectuals: Isn't her planet Coruscant? She's living in the heights, so it's probably the Star Wars equivalent of a swanky DC suburb in Virginia. Edit: didn't see the Wookiepedia entry (lol)
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DJ_Mindboggler posted:Isn't her planet Coruscant? She's living in the heights, so it's probably the Star Wars equivalent of a swanky DC suburb in Virginia. She lives on Coruscant but shes the senator from space lib planet
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