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I take the Nebulon B frigate because there’s no way to get a good movie accurate model of one. Even the Mon Cal cruisers eventually got really good movie accurate models from the Armada tabletop game. But despite being so iconic the only Nebulon models out there are either inaccurate goofy toys or teeny tiny low detail game pieces.
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IIRC it was pretty obvious Boba Fett got hosed around by the c-suite descending. Like the whole barely-a-joke is that you get good Star Wars when Disney is barely aware that it's being made, and you get bad Star Wars when Disney is paying attention. And I also still wonder if after long enough Disney might full on Dragon Ball GT the sequels and come out with their real sequel trilogy or whatever. Bonus lols if they do exactly the same dumb poo poo anyway.
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“Design by committee” is the axiom and its proven more and more true every time one of these monstrous franchise golems is reanimated by studio chicanery.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:And I also still wonder if after long enough Disney might full on Dragon Ball GT the sequels and come out with their real sequel trilogy or whatever. Bonus lols if they do exactly the same dumb poo poo anyway.
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Rey is going to head back to Mos Eisley to get a drink, seeing that the bar is currently manned by none other than Commander William T. Riker. He'll then say, "Arch" and exit the Holodeck having finished another session of "playing a bartender in a rough and tumble space opera cantina."
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That's right. Disney is gonna buy Star Trek next.
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2house2fly posted:Mr Lucas, sir, I'll take the biggest star destroyer you got No, that's too big.
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F.D. Signifier posted:Boba was basically an adult convert to space mormonism who hated drugs, hated the rebellion, and hated premarital sex, if anything BoBF is much more laid back than the old RotJ era Boba. Everything Boba Fett related that was released after ESB has only made the character less cool.
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Been watching the big ILM doc and drat, that must have been a cool loving place to be at during the start. Just a bunch of geeks making cool stuff and partying. I loved when George comes back after a year of shooting and they were like, oh poo poo -- we only filmed the escape hatch and some Death Star turret.  I just finished the part where they are almost done RoTJ and it seems to be getting more and more corporate now. I could see why a lot were burnt out.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Everything Boba Fett related that was released after ESB has only made the character less cool. RotJ was at least funny because he's a joke. Then it gets worse.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Everything Boba Fett related that was released after ESB has only made the character less cool. There’s a Dark Horse comic series drawn by the same guy who did Dark Empire that I like called Death Lies and Treachery. It’s peak 90’s blood and gore edge but in a fun way. It’s just Boba being a completely amoral jackass killing pirates for money. Since it was written before the whole “Mandalorian Warrior Code” and such had been invented. What’s really cool about it is it doesn’t just do the “no Jedi around or even mentioned” thing a lot of people ask for, it outright doesn’t have any Empire or Rebellion stuff at all. Not a single Stormtrooper, Xwing, Star Destroyer, Moff, or Freedom Fighter exists even in mention. Boba and 3 Hutts are the only part of the Star Wars IP there.
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Imagine if Boba Fett just hadn't even been in ROTJ because why would a bounty hunter keep hanging around one guy forever? DJ and Boba united as guys who just did their thing, got paid and peaced out of the Star War
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Shiroc posted:Imagine if Boba Fett just hadn't even been in ROTJ because why would a bounty hunter keep hanging around one guy forever? DJ and Boba united as guys who just did their thing, got paid and peaced out of the Star War Jabba seems to keep him on retainer, plus he was crushing on one of the dancers?
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galagazombie posted:There’s a Dark Horse comic series drawn by the same guy who did Dark Empire that I like called Death Lies and Treachery. It’s peak 90’s blood and gore edge but in a fun way. It’s just Boba being a completely amoral jackass killing pirates for money. Since it was written before the whole “Mandalorian Warrior Code” and such had been invented. What’s really cool about it is it doesn’t just do the “no Jedi around or even mentioned” thing a lot of people ask for, it outright doesn’t have any Empire or Rebellion stuff at all. Not a single Stormtrooper, Xwing, Star Destroyer, Moff, or Freedom Fighter exists even in mention. Boba and 3 Hutts are the only part of the Star Wars IP there. Cam Kennedy also drew a story about an alien dude who was the last survivor of his species paying Boba Fett 10 space bucks to kill space Eichmann and space Mengele. I liked that one.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Everything Boba Fett related that was released after ESB has only made the character less cool. to be faaaair, people had an overly high opinion of how cool he was, given he does very little in ESB. He just seemed like he might be cool and we all filled in the backstory in our heads, so of course the actual content that came later didn't live up to it.
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Honestly everything they did with Boba in Mando was pretty perfect. He had his edge but you can tell his priorities changed. That’s fine. But that was not the character in book of boba and I have no earthly idea why.
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Star Wars characters should just be cool-looking spacemen you never learn anything substantial about
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When he takes off the helmet there should just be a smaller helmet underneath
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YaketySass posted:Star Wars characters should just be cool-looking spacemen you never learn anything substantial about Hello, I am Bob Afett and I have no defining qualities!
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Star Wars Tiger Milk no Boba
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CelticPredator posted:Honestly everything they did with Boba in Mando was pretty perfect. He had his edge but you can tell his priorities changed. That’s fine. the c-suite descended onto it and wanted to Make It Better
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Martman posted:When he takes off the helmet there should just be a smaller helmet underneath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yAp2F3nNdk&t=35s
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Cam Kennedy also drew a story about an alien dude who was the last survivor of his species paying Boba Fett 10 space bucks to kill space Eichmann and space Mengele. I liked that one. I’m worried about the idea of space Jews.
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CelticPredator posted:Honestly everything they did with Boba in Mando was pretty perfect. He had his edge but you can tell his priorities changed. That’s fine. If they hadn't hosed with Boba too much after that, you'd still have people screaming for more, but you're absolutely right. They absolutely nailed it with him on Mando s2. I still don't understand why a version of the character exists that's like, "I wanna be crime boss... but crime is illegal here now." Reminds me of the Patton Oswalt bit about "oh you like Boba Fett? Well here he is as a little kid." In other words, here is a version that literally nobody ever wanted or asked for. F.D. Signifier posted:Rebels introduced Time Travel and a Timeline Split so that's exactly what we're going to get Time travel, yeah, the world between worlds. But what "time split"? I don't remember that.
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Doronin posted:Time travel, yeah, the world between worlds. But what "time split"? I don't remember that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WfIranZeUg So when Ezra traveled back in time to save Ashoka he created a new timeline where she survived.
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She always survived. There's a scene with her walking away in the original episode.
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The problem with Bob is that any typical characterisation to make him an an effective protagonist, i.e. badass amoral bounty hunter who becomes 'good' thorough exposure to a companion / and / or a 'warrior code' to follow, was already done with Mando. Hell, they're basically the same character - they even have the same helmet. To avoid re-treading Mandalorian they had to give him some new motivations and those just didn't ring true. He cares for the people of Tat'ween? Ok, why? Perhaps we can understand his relationships with the Tuskens, but they end up dead and that's stopped altogether. Why does he want to take over Jabba's Palace and become a crime lord anyway? He seems against drug smuggling, which is a weird position for someone who straight up murdered the last guy in charge to take over. It just feels like they had that great image in mind of him taking over the throne, but didn't really know where it could go from there.
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If anyone should be given their own trilogy at this point it's robert rodriguez. For indeed who is a better embodiment of the disney wars ethos than he
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Doctor Spaceman posted:She always survived. There's a scene with her walking away in the original episode. "Somehow, Ashoka survived." Isometric Bacon posted:The problem with Bob is that any typical characterisation to make him an an effective protagonist, i.e. badass amoral bounty hunter who becomes 'good' thorough exposure to a companion / and / or a 'warrior code' to follow, was already done with Mando. I wish they had just let him be mostly a villain. Basically, just do Maul again except Boba and without cyborg spider legs. You get a (derivative) better story and a merchandising money printing machine with at least 70% less bitching from fans online. It's like poetry...
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Doctor Spaceman posted:She always survived. There's a scene with her walking away in the original episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejt84-uJXa4 Isometric Bacon posted:The problem with Bob is that any typical characterisation to make him an an effective protagonist, i.e. badass amoral bounty hunter who becomes 'good' thorough exposure to a companion / and / or a 'warrior code' to follow, was already done with Mando.
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Boba Fett motivation was super clear to me: all being the best bounty hunter got him was getting owned by a blind man, but it is the only life he knew. His story in booka boba is trying to square the only life he's ever known (doing jobs for criminals) with the life that he learned from the tuskens (community but still doing poo poo), and it results in him being a weird "I am claiming to be a criminal leader, but really I'm just the leader and protector of this town/planet."
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Try blowing yourself up - that's a good trick!!
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F.D. Signifier posted:The last thing we see is her trapping herself in the sith pyramid with vader, and the world between worlds episode picks up exactly where that leaves off, and shows Ezra yanking her out right before she is struck down by Vader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXiwr25OU_w&t=161s
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Twilight of the Apprentice ends with Vader limping away while being watched by Morai, which transitions into a shot of Ahsoka walking down stairs (and then there's a shot of the Ghost crew). This finale still gives me goosebumps. God drat, that music.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Twilight of the Apprentice ends with Vader limping away while being watched by Morai, which transitions into a shot of Ahsoka walking down stairs (and then there's a shot of the Ghost crew).  and I'm not sure how much viewers were expected to notice it either, but the whole point of the world between worlds segment is indeed that Ezra is changing things, it's not how things happened before, and yanking Ashoka out into the wbw is indeed a big change
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Isometric Bacon posted:The problem with Bob is that... Typo of the week right here.
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mllaneza posted:Typo of the week right here. Bob O'Fett.
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