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I am unreasonably annoyed by the term "deathsticks". That's just terrible marketing, you don't see drug dealers calling their heroine "murder powder" do you Get it together George
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McCloud posted:I am unreasonably annoyed by the term "deathsticks". That's just terrible marketing, you don't see drug dealers calling their heroine "murder powder" do you Seems fine for a setting where no one's ever really gone.
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Jan 25, 2023 01:36
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It's a great name I would smoke them
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MacheteZombie posted:Do u just not tell people star wars sucks? That's what I do I go into a long sad diatribe about my life and Star Wars fandoms and it makes them stop talking to me about Star Wars and that’s all I want them to doooo
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McCloud posted:I am unreasonably annoyed by the term "deathsticks". That's just terrible marketing, you don't see drug dealers calling their heroine "murder powder" do you it's a legal thing, like the cancer pics on cigarette packs
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McCloud posted:I am unreasonably annoyed by the term "deathsticks". That's just terrible marketing, you don't see drug dealers calling their heroine "murder powder" do you Drugs in Star Wars are called "spice" because they're literally spicy. Different blends are marketed under the same logic as novelty hot sauce.
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Jan 25, 2023 20:51
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Drugs in Star Wars are called "spice" because they're literally spicy. Potential clients are badly burned when they unwisely accepts a dealer's offer to try DA BOMB INSANITY STICKS.
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Jan 25, 2023 21:46
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Well well well https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-mov...nce-1234665342/ 
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Jan 26, 2023 02:56
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the highlighted part is extremely hard to believe, but who knows
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Glottis posted:the highlighted part is extremely hard to believe, but who knows
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McCloud posted:I am unreasonably annoyed by the term "deathsticks". That's just terrible marketing, you don't see drug dealers calling their heroine "murder powder" do you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOHkrZECnfs
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F.D. Signifier posted:Why is that? It requires JJ to actually have come up with an answer to a mystery box be created instead of throwing up his hands and going "you tell me" But that quote can also mean what I just said so maybe he was just being nice about it
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Jan 26, 2023 23:08
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F.D. Signifier posted:Why is that? Just really doesn't seem like a JJ style move to hype up someone having super interesting family then completely go the other direction, yet seems extremely like a Rian move. Maybe it was more like JJ threw the idea out and Rian ran with it?
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 my son has apparently convinced some of his friends that they want to watch Starwars.  Maybe I'll get to rewatch everything again. rise of skywalker  Though unfortunately, one of them probably isn't allowed to (yet), due to religion.  My son also has the best teacher, as he was lent a Starwars background book from his own collection (his teacher is also a fan and they have regular discussions about the movies) and is now learning about the Filoniverse before ever watching anything from Filoni.
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Glottis posted:Just really doesn't seem like a JJ style move to hype up someone having super interesting family then completely go the other direction, yet seems extremely like a Rian move. Maybe it was more like JJ threw the idea out and Rian ran with it? “REY MIGHT HAVE FAMOUS PARENTS” isn’t actually in the Force Awakens. It’s never raised as a possibility; we’re neither told nor shown anything at all. What you’re referring to are insane fan theories based on a misinterpretation of the TFA teaser trailer, where Luke talks about a powerful new member of his family. That’s his nephew, Ben Solo.
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Jan 27, 2023 15:45
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IIRC it's just her saying she was dumped on the planet and waiting for them to come back / go in search? I don't know. TFA was fine.
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TFA has a lot "Whose this chick?" (maz to Han) "A GIRL took the DROID?" (kylo) which some people look at as signifying some secret significance to Rey - but I personally always felt the nobody angle made the most sense which is why TLJ's reveal made immediate sense and TROS was so loving bad
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My biggest problem with the TFA, and I remember thinking this at the time, is the first half is interesting because new characters, new setup, new background, etc. A lot of it isn't really explained or confusing (Why is there a resistance when the New Republic is right there? Where did The New Order come from? Who or what the gently caress is Snoke? etc) but whatever it was the first in a trilogy, maybe more, so plenty of time for the mystery to unravel! The second half of TFA is store-brand A New Hope though and was far less interesting. The sequel trilogy never really recovered from there.
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Jan 27, 2023 17:25
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Like the prequels I’m okay with the sequel trilogy
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CelticPredator posted:Like the prequels I’m okay with the sequel trilogy My hot take is the Prequels are better than the ST. Because as terrible as the Prequels can be they at least attempted to tell a different story and had over-arching themes (the Jedi have lost their way, the decadence and corruption of the Republic and it’s fall, the fall of Anakin) that was then better fleshed out in works like The Clone Wars. And the consequences of the Clone Wars are constantly referenced in Star Wars media even today. As for the Sequels, outside of Galaxy’s Edge it feels like Disney is trying to memory hole the whole thing as much as possible.
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That’s a cold take. Here’s my hot take. I like the last Jedi better than the clone wars
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My understanding is even galaxy’s edge kinda shitcanned being set in the sequel era and is now canonically unstuck in time so darth vader and the mandalorian can walk around. I guess it’s really only the hotel that is still committed to that idea?
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Honestly they could change that too. As someone who likes a lot of the sequel stuff it never sat well for me that Galaxys edge was stuck in one specific trilogy. I’m glad they’re changing it.
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No Mods No Masters posted:My understanding is even galaxy’s edge kinda shitcanned being set in the sequel era and is now canonically unstuck in time so darth vader and the mandalorian can walk around. I guess it’s really only the hotel that is still committed to that idea? Last time I went, which was sometime last year, this wasn't true. Darth Vader and the Mandalorian walk around the rest of Hollywood Studios, but when you go into the part of the park that is Galaxy's Edge proper, it's all First Order and Rey. That may have changed in the last 6 months or so.
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CelticPredator posted:Mando and Boba Fett patrol Galaxys edge now. Interesting. Does Boba look at all like he did in Mando and Book of Boba Fett? Like, can you tell? If so, I guess they're going with post-OT? If not, then I've got nothing. I still don't think they have Vader in there. There's a whole section on the other side of the park where you can meet him.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6NSEN0NQZg No Vader no, not yet anyways.
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CelticPredator posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6NSEN0NQZg Okay, that looks like Old Man Fett to me, where the armor isn't totally filled out (but the man sure is, hey-oh!). So they're going with fuzzy post-OT timeline only? Weird, but alright.
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Soon Ahsoka will walk around. Then I'll finally go.
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Galaxy's edge was unstuck from time from the day it opened. When the park was being designed, Colin Trevorrow's version of Episode 9 was the one they were working towards, so stuff like the model of TIE parked in the middle of town and the fully operating Resistance base were designed to lead to a movie that doesn't exist. Selling "artifacts" from the future and having characters from the past warp in for an afternoon isn't really that weird if you think of the place as this weird temporal tourist trap that exists in a dead universe and is just hawking the wares of the next timeline over.
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Jerkface posted:"A GIRL took the DROID?" (kylo) which some people look at as signifying some secret significance to Rey You'll have to forgive Kylo - Luke's academy was a boys-only club for some reason
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:“REY MIGHT HAVE FAMOUS PARENTS” isn’t actually in the Force Awakens. It’s never raised as a possibility; we’re neither told nor shown anything at all. You're right that they don't explicitly say it, but they do show little glimpses of her parents and she makes it clear that she wants to have them return / know more about them. Then she's great at force poo poo and it's Star Wars, so of course it's some family twist, right? Just doesn't seem like the sort of fakeout I've seen in anything else JJ has done. He goes for the "yes they're even more special than you thought!" type of development. I mean, look at TROS. Fan theories for sure, but c'mon, I wouldn't call them insane fan theories based on the rest of Star Wars. I thought her parents being randos was a great story development so kudos to JJ if it actually was his plan, but it cheapens it if it was somehow also his plan to immediately retcon that idea.
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"The force created a child who is outta nowhere super powerful but lives as a slave on a remote desert planet": amazing Christ reference, compelling origin to the Skywalker dynasty "Something caused the birth of a child who is outta nowhere super powerful in the force but lives as a junk scavenger on a remote desert planet": intolerable mystery box, must to be explained, generates millions if not billions of outraged youtube views, hastily retconned in disastrous trilogy closer
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General Battuta posted:"The force created a child who is outta nowhere super powerful but lives as a slave on a remote desert planet": amazing Christ reference, compelling origin to the Skywalker dynasty Well to be fair, anakin's origin was also retconned, with george's blessing, to be caused by sheev
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thrawn527 posted:Okay, that looks like Old Man Fett to me, where the armor isn't totally filled out (but the man sure is, hey-oh!). So they're going with fuzzy post-OT timeline only? Weird, but alright. At Disneyland, it's only post-ROTJ era (Mando through RotS), but at least they're able to mix it up a bit in that era. Unless Bob Iger intends to force through OT or PT characters, it'll be a long time before we ever see Vader in the parks again. That said, the Disney World Orlando version of Galaxy's Edge is time-locked exclusively within the era between TLJ and RotS because of the drat Galatic Starcruiser hotel. Since guests are paying north of $5k to stay there and have an "excursion" to Batuu on their second day that's supposed to be immersive, that park isn't allowed to have the Mando, Fett or Fennec characters you can see/meet in California since they presumably weren't around by then. Which has pretty unfortunate implications now that I think about it. The last time you could actually meet and greet OT or PT era characters at all was on the Disney Cruise Line "Star Wars Day at Sea" sailings, but those have been discontinued as of very early 2022 and replaced by Pixar and Marvel Day at Sea.
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General Battuta posted:"The force created a child who is outta nowhere super powerful but lives as a slave on a remote desert planet": amazing Christ reference, compelling origin to the Skywalker dynasty Anakin's origin was left as a mystery but not one that anyone cared about. It was not relevant to Anakin's character arc. In comparison the sequels were preoccupied with Rey's parentage and TFA set it up as a question without enough information to answer. Like JJ said she had a last name but that he'd left it out of TFA deliberately. IIRC A lot of people at the time thought the virgin birth thing was dumb, but noone really cared; those who disliked the film had far bigger axes to grind. TheDeadlyShoe fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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I think a ton of people cared about it along with the other axes to grind. Wasn't the big rumour that it was Palpatine somehow made Shmi pregnant? E:  E2: Story group says please look away from behind the curtain. https://screenrant.com/star-wars-emperor-palpatine-not-create-anakin-skywalker/
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It was outright stated in the legends novel about darth plageuieiseus, but that was thrown out and in disney it's only implied by that stupid comic
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