|
Gosh why would anyone ever want to retcon the EU away
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 15:09
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 18:14 |
|
|
Just remember that every time someone bitches that Disney got rid of the EU, the EU had yet another stupid superweapon every other novel/trilogy. Like the Suncrusher, a fighter-sized indestructible ship that fired torpedoes that caused suns to go nova. Or the Galaxy Gun, a giant gun that fired rounds through hyperspace that could blow up planets. You know, the same thing that people bitched about being "unrealistic" about Starkiller Base in TFA! gently caress the EU and gently caress everyone who cried about how terrible it was that Disney is just picking the better bits out and discarding the rest. The Old Republic comics were pretty cool though.
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 15:10
|
|
|
IIRC the twist was that the darksaber didn't actually work, the hutt who commissioned it was getting scammed by his contractors, but since the point of a superweapon is to threaten people it didn't matter at the start. The stuff people liked from the EU was mostly the early (Zahn) stuff, and how the main cast's arcs continued immediately after the films, with the rest of it being a mixed bag.
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 15:15
|
|
|
I quite liked the Dark saber novel as a kid, and I can remember being sad when Crix Madine died. Lot of the EU novels that people slate were perfectly fine, tbh. Most not on the level as the Zahn books but they were just what kid me wanted. On another note I've started watching Andor again with my fiancee and goddamn does it highlight how bad the vast majority of the rest of Star Wars media is.
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 16:01
|
|
|
I really liked Mara Jade e: has Mara Jade ever appeared outside novels?
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 16:10
|
|
|
credburn posted:I really liked Mara Jade Do video games count? I think she's in one of the confusingly titled Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games.
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 16:25
|
|
|
Randalor posted:
I don’t think Disney is doing this.
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 16:32
|
|
|
Disney managed to steal bits from The Glove Of Darth Vader and still make them boring
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 16:35
|
|
|
DrBouvenstein posted:Do video games count? I think she's in one of the confusingly titled Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games. Yeah, there's an expansion to Jedi Knight where you play as her.
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 16:36
|
|
|
DrBouvenstein posted:Do video games count? I think she's in one of the confusingly titled Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games. I think she's in Masters of Teras Kashi
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 16:54
|
|
|
Sally posted:ahhh that's sad. newborns really shouldnt have any screentime let alone garbage content Agreed about the screen time but Ms Rachel is probably one of the best things you could choose if you are having youtube raise your kid.
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 18:37
|
|
|
I re-watched Robocop and my only nitpick in this otherwise perfect movie is that those Cobra rifles (the big guns the bad guys use at the end) had inconsistent results when fired. sometimes they had gigantic fiery explosions, other times they created some sparks and little damage. you can explain this by them being crappy prototypes, much like other products created by OCP
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 20:13
|
|
|
Tunicate posted:Disney managed to steal bits from The Glove Of Darth Vader and still make them boring I think that's the one I read back in HS? Some evil guy finds Darth's glove and it gives him evil force powers or something idiotic - but also decays his hand or something. Woo spooky haunted glove. Literally can't remember anything else.
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 22:13
|
|
|
DarkDobe posted:Literally can't remember anything else. Can't believe you forgot "I bid you Dark Greetings" and the Mofference on the Moffship
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 22:16
|
|
|
Len posted:I think she's in Masters of Teras Kashi Yeah, she's a secret character. Nearly identical move set to Luke, I think. She had a purple saber in it too, well before there was Mace Windu.
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 22:32
|
|
|
cptn_dr posted:Can't believe you forgot "I bid you Dark Greetings" and the Mofference on the Moffship Is that also the one with palpatine's three eyed son trioculus
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 22:37
|
|
|
Armacham posted:Is that also the one with palpatine's three eyed son trioculus Yes, and not his other three eyed son Triclops. Neither had any proof of their parentage though.
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 22:39
|
|
|
DarkDobe posted:I think that's the one I read back in HS? Nah it's better than that. Trioculus is pretending to be palpatine's son, but isn't, has no idea how the force works and assumes that vader's glove is how he force choked people. After several books of hunting it down, recovering the sith artifact from the waterlogged ruins of the second death star, it doesn't work. So he has a surgeon implant wiring up and down his arms so he can shoot electricity from his hands, and then uses 'force lightning' on people. And then some ultrasonic weapons so he can gesture and make someone fall over. This successfully convinces everyone that he's palpatine's heir, but also causes serious internal burns and a whole book's plot is just him trying to find a cure for all the damage he's doing to his own body. Triclops is the pacifist real son of Palpatine (who may or may not have been some sort of experimental mutant clone), who is the absent father of the new jedi protagonist Tunicate has a new favorite as of 22:47 on Aug 29, 2023 |
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 22:41
|
|
|
I think the plot to that book was dictated to the author by his seven year old.
|
|
#
?
Aug 29, 2023 23:18
|
|
|
I like the Yuuzhan Vong.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 00:06
|
|
|
Leave posted:I like the Yuuzhan Vong. Where they Space Cenobites before or after the 40k Dark Eldar?
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 00:13
|
|
|
Naruto Shippuden Episode 77: You don't have to take your mask off if you are just going to shake your head no.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 00:28
|
|
|
FreudianSlippers posted:Where they Space Cenobites before or after the 40k Dark Eldar? Dunno, I just think they're neat. Do people regularly poo poo on them?
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 00:30
|
|
|
I'm just genuinely curious which franchise first invented BDSM pain Aliens.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 00:32
|
|
|
I mean, they're both just space Cenobites, so...
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 00:52
|
|
|
Hellraiser IV (1996) was already set in space, though Event Horizon was 1997 Dark Eldar came out in 1998 Vector Prime (first YV book) was published 1999 stringless has a new favorite as of 01:15 on Aug 30, 2023 |
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 01:12
|
|
cowboy
|
FFT posted:Hellraiser IV (1996) was already set in space, though hellraiser IV isn't the first '90s series to feature a bunch of guys on a space station getting tortured in increasingly inventive ways
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 01:33
|
|
|
Sure, just saying if we're talking "cenobites in space" the cenobites did it first
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 01:42
|
|
|
cptn_dr posted:Can't believe you forgot "I bid you Dark Greetings" and the Mofference on the Moffship I watched through Rebels recently and was very disappointed that none of the Imperial scenes had anyone bid Dark Greetings.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 01:56
|
|
|
I don't think all the Vong were supposed to be pain worshippers, just those first guys we see, but something didn't get communicated right, and they all became BDSM fanatics
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 02:05
|
|
|
Leave posted:I don't think all the Vong were supposed to be pain worshippers, just those first guys we see, but something didn't get communicated right, and they all became BDSM fanatics Yeah, literally that. Originally the pain guys were supposed to be an outlier group called Domain Shai that were way into pain poo poo. As far as I can tell, it took like zero seconds for the misunderstanding to happen though, since like the first Yuuzhan Vong the books spend any time on, Yomin Carr, is not a member of that group and is aggressively into self-scarification.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 02:46
|
|
|
muscles like this! posted:I watched through Rebels recently and was very disappointed that none of the Imperial scenes had anyone bid Dark Greetings. "I bid you dark greetings" is a pretty badass way to greet someone, you have to admit. I could see someone used to being the bearer of bad news using that as their way of saying hello.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 02:59
|
|
|
Leave posted:I like the Yuuzhan Vong. Some of their other tech I liked was the gravity well generators that would slam moons and planets together and their singularity mines that created mini, instantaneous black holes then collapsed (like the ones the Dark Elves use in Thor 2, if anybody remembers those).
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 04:05
|
|
|
Randalor posted:Just remember that every time someone bitches that Disney got rid of the EU, the EU had yet another stupid superweapon every other novel/trilogy. Like the Suncrusher, a fighter-sized indestructible ship that fired torpedoes that caused suns to go nova. Or the Galaxy Gun, a giant gun that fired rounds through hyperspace that could blow up planets. You know, the same thing that people bitched about being "unrealistic" about Starkiller Base in TFA!
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 04:11
|
|
|
Darthemed posted:OK but what are some bad parts of the EU? Luuke.
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 04:12
|
|
|
Phanatic posted:Luuke. How dare youu
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 04:17
|
|
|
if you clone the clone are they Luuuke?
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 04:19
|
|
|
also was that the book with the jedi called Jorus (Joruus?) C'Boath? how do you even pronounce that? kuh-bow-ath?
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 04:21
|
|
|
Sally posted:if you clone the clone are they Luuuke? 
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 04:22
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 18:14 |
|
|
Funny! Fuunny!! Fuuunny!!! Fuuuunny!!!!
|
|
#
?
Aug 30, 2023 04:24
|
|