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Alternatively, it goes in the opposite extreme direction and Sabine accidentally doesn’t realize her own power and she uses the Force to accidentally rip someone’s face clean off their head and everybody goes “Oh poo poo!” as she apologizes for going overboard with said antagonist.
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Gonz posted:Alternatively, it goes in the opposite extreme direction and Sabine accidentally doesn’t realize her own power and she uses the Force to accidentally rip someone’s face clean off their head and everybody goes “Oh poo poo!” as she apologizes for going overboard with said antagonist. Isn't that just this with even fewer consequences 
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I'm not terribly into Star Wars youtubers, let alone recommending them, but this one sounded interesting for:
Posted as a link because maybe there are spoilers in the thumbnail.
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Aug 30, 2023 18:49
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Most Star Wars “lasers” are actually more similar to plasma bolts* so they probably can just adjust the energy so it destabilizes and explodes at a set distance. * Slower than light, uses exotic gasses as ammo/medium, explodes and/or leaves burns on targets, etc.
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trevorreznik posted:Isn't that just this Precisely. Just on a smaller, more body horror-esque scale.
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HootTheOwl posted:Force Smug, Force S-Mug FlamingLiberal posted:I enjoyed the whole WW2 dogfighting sequences, but boy the show really wants me to hate the New Republic, huh?
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Gonz posted:Alternatively, it goes in the opposite extreme direction and Sabine accidentally doesn’t realize her own power and she uses the Force to accidentally rip someone’s face clean off their head and everybody goes “Oh poo poo!” as she apologizes for going overboard with said antagonist. This also tracks with her history of underestimating her power and tendency to be highly destructive. I'm feeling the weak lovely jedi angle though, forever not good enough for Huyang.
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Aug 30, 2023 18:52
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Gonz posted:Precisely. Just on a smaller, more body horror-esque scale. The Force Torsion Twist. I apologize to everyone with testicles, yes I winced too writing that one.
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Aug 30, 2023 18:55
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So she could be like Corran Horn from the EU. He really struggled with force powers at first because his militant background made him subconsciously think of the force as basically a “weapon”, something to be pulled out only when you seriously intended to use it in situations of life or death. I guess that would be ok. I kinda liked that angle with Corran, but I think I’d prefer her to just remain weak with force powers but learn the philosophical and mental training.
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Aug 30, 2023 18:56
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Mon Mothma being an utterly terrible leader could be played up on in Andor 2. I like that Andor is kind of its own thing, but there is an opportunity there to show why the New Republic was doomed from the start = if they correctly plant the political seeds from the old Rebellion. It's also kind of funny that Hera is the entire reason Mon was able to give that speech and unite the Rebellion and was standing right next to her when she did it. Hera should really have the pull to get whatever she needs, whenever.
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Aug 30, 2023 18:57
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Ideally Sabine finds some happy medium between Mandalorian and Jedi (especially since she has a lot more experience with the former and I’m not entirely sure why she decided to study the ways of the latter in the first place aside from her having some prior experience using a lightsaber)
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Aug 30, 2023 18:58
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I definitely have some complaints about the pacing, certain actions shots, and some of the characterization, but I have to say that that pounding cello credits theme fucks
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Megillah Gorilla posted:And in Resistance, his whole thing is downplaying the threat the First Order play. Sharks with frickin death star laser beams. MMAgCh posted:"All right, you primitive screwheads, listen up. This is my Sounds like you're trying to sell rebranded death sticks. With all the puzzle/map stuff this season maybe 'Ash'oka will have to remember to say the magic words.
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Don’t worry, I’m sure in an episode or two Hera will show up in the Ghost with her two unruly kids and maybe even Zeb and his husband Kallus in tow. Maybe even a geriatric Rex in a wheel chair or weaponized mobility walker. 
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Aug 30, 2023 19:00
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MMAgCh posted:Thank the sequel trilogy (or even just TFA, really) for requiring the New Republic to be utterly ineffective so as to explain away the rise of the First Order. At least that's my take. At least now I don't feel bad that they got their poo poo hosed in TFA
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it's no secret mon mothma and subsequently the new republic are democratsGonz posted:Alternatively, it goes in the opposite extreme direction and Sabine accidentally doesn’t realize her own power and she uses the Force to accidentally rip someone’s face clean off their head and everybody goes “Oh poo poo!” as she apologizes for going overboard with said antagonist. hopefully it's very colorful because it's sabine
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I find myself hoping that there won't be some big dramatic moment where Sabine finally figures out how to actually use the Force, but that the show settles on keeping her merely Force sensitive, with her training and technology making up the difference. Almost like a Mandalorian version of Chirrut. Hell, just call it a variant of battle meditation on a much smaller scale.
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Larryb posted:Ideally Sabine finds some happy medium between Mandalorian and Jedi (especially since she has a lot more experience with the former and I’m not entirely sure why she decided to study the ways of the latter in the first place aside from her having some prior experience using a lightsaber) Something tells me she misses her dorky little jedi bro. Feels natural for her to try to connect with the weird thing that he did, the force. And Ahsoka was around to give it a shot I guess.
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site posted:hopefully it's very colorful because it's sabine She should get the party saber from Jedi Survivor. Or a paintsaber so she can temporarily blind Shin with a shot to the eyes and scrawl a quick gang tag on her 404notfound posted:I definitely have some complaints about the pacing, certain actions shots, and some of the characterization, but I have to say that that pounding cello credits theme fucks Yeah this is where I’m at, especially the credits music I think the pacing kinda works and kinda not. It’s obviously going for something a bit more deliberate and stately than Clone Wars/Rebels. You could see this kind of thing in Tales of the Jedi as well. I think it’s probably Filoni trying to learn to make stuff that isn’t exclusively marketed to children by drawing on the kind of Kurosawa or Leone stuff that influenced Lucas in the first place. Does it work? Here and there. But I don’t hate it. skasion fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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Jehde posted:Something tells me she misses her dorky little jedi bro. Feels natural for her to try to connect with the weird thing that he did, the force. And Ahsoka was around to give it a shot I guess. Makes sense. Though like I said, I hope we also see her get to use her Mando gear a bit in this series too (at the very least let her graffiti something) Also I forget, how much interaction did Sabine and Ahsoka really have with each other back in Rebels?
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Larryb posted:Makes sense. Though like I said, I hope we also see her get to use her Mando gear a bit in this series too (at the very least let her graffiti something) Almost none; she specifically hung out with the Jedis and briefly talked to Hera, etc.
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Good episode, but I would have preferred shaving off five minutes of the action and have more Ahsoka/Sabine banter, or maybe flesh out the main antagonists Baylan and his apprentice more, who am finding to be interesting characters.
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site posted:I was a bit confused why Ahsoka and Sabine both seemed to forget Sabine trained with Kanan and Ezra with the darksaber I feel like Kanan should have come up during the whole blind-fighting sequence, too.
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I always like how Jedi can dodge them lasers in a huge crossfire and hit them accurately enough to ricochet them back with their lightsaber, but dodging some slow firing turbo lasers in a spaceship is a doozy. In past content, they dodged droid fire just fine, so... --edit: added words. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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thrawn527 posted:Oh, I have no clue how the tech on lasers like that would actually work. Much like all tech in Star Wars. something something plasma contained blaster bolt explodes the smoke is actually steam from the air cooling enviuronment blah blah blah blah or whatever such technobabble
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Sabine did train with Kanen, so what if she hasn't kept up with the exercises and got stabbed. Ahsoka shouldn't take that as reason to put her at square one. Saber fighting and the force are not perishable skill sets.
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They seemed pretty-up-front with acknowledging she'd had training on lightsaber handling, she just hadn't done any of the using-the-Force parts of Jedi training.
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Also like she was never as good as an actual Jedi/padawan force user with the Saber. Both Kanan and Ezra were capable of beating her pretty handily. She's decent with the Lightsaber for a non force user(Better than Din and Bo for example), but right now since she hasn't been fighting constantly she's gotten rusty, and was going up against a real deal force user in a non training environment.
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Jehde posted:The space F4U corsairs are great. fartknocker posted:The space P-47s were cool. Neddy Seagoon posted:I loved the P-51 Mustang starfighters DJ_Mindboggler posted:The useless fighters...reminded me of Mitsubishi Zeros Somewhere, a Wookiepedia editor is sobbing.
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The show is merely fun old fashioned Star Wars so far, and that's fine. Ahsoka herself remains kinda eh but Sabine and the Tennantbot more than make up for it. I really like the scene with the bastard mug (been waging a similar one myself for decades, with similarly meagre results), and the WWII style fighters were great apart from their appallingly wimpy blaster FX. The scene with Mon was kinda depressing, got major Valorum vibes from her surrounded by those dicks.Darko posted:Depending on where Cal is now, it's basically those 4 Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
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I like the slow shots, they're great. What are you in such a hurry for? Beautiful meandering shots "using up" runtime sounds even sillier than smash characters using up "slots". They have as much runtime as they want to.
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Thordain posted:I love the WW2 dogfighting aesthetics but it is real silly to have turbolaser produce little explosions like flak cannons. As someone who played countless hours of the old X-wing/TIE Fighter flight sims, that bothered me too.
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Xenomrph posted:As someone who played countless hours of the old X-wing/TIE Fighter flight sims, that bothered me too. The turbo lasers in ANH and ROTJ already did this  maybealabia posted:I like the slow shots, they're great. What are you in such a hurry for? Eh there are limits to this. Pacing is something which contributes to the overall quality of a product. Something can be slow paced and good because it fits, and even something overindulgently slow can work. I tend to think things which are more meaningfully edited and paced tend to get more praise though. When you're just lingering to linger it feels more like baby's first auteur thinking slower is better by default than having any reason for it.
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maybealabia posted:I like the slow shots, they're great. What are you in such a hurry for? I was told earlier that this is basically a live action cartoon and the sooner I accept that the better. Fine, but then I'm going to hold it to the standards of a cartoon (needs to have exciting pacing that can keep the attention of a child)
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I liked the latest episode. I got a real nerd boner over that wide shot of the NR fleet with the A-wings and so forth. I also really enjoyed Ahsoka and Sabine doing their best to defend their ship against that small group of fighters. I don't know what those ships are called yet, but I love the design and the sound they make. I hope that ending means we're about to get a proper demonstration of what Baylon can do next week.
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I feel there's been some Mon Mothma slander in this thread. The rest of the senators were useless dicks, but Mon was clearly saying "let me speak to these fuckers, I'll deal with it" to Hera. Mon knows the rest are a bunch of seatwarming do-nothings, but she's got to play the politics game still, same as she always did.
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Parkingtigers posted:I feel there's been some Mon Mothma slander in this thread. The rest of the senators were useless dicks, but Mon was clearly saying "let me speak to these fuckers, I'll deal with it" to Hera. Mon knows the rest are a bunch of seatwarming do-nothings, but she's got to play the politics game still, same as she always did. Except that she does not, in fact, deal with it. The do-nothings win.
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ShowTime posted:My predictions for Ep4 and Ep5 are that in Ep4 we'll see exploration of the planet and an eventual conflict between all the force users there, then end on an escape and travel to the hyperring to try and stop that 6th drive from being put into place. Surely the show would spend some time in the NEIGHBOURING GALAXY, surely they need to fetch him/find him in where ever he is This episode was very videogame-y but I had fun. Sure it's WW2/ANH callbacks but the enemy fighters appearing felt very KOTOR-y down to the music cue I feel like whoever decided the scene with Ahsoka doing a cartwheel to slice a starfighter very much played Jedi Academy, that move is just straight the jump+saber+strafe left/right move in the game. I know a number of moves were adapted from films in the game but I don't remember that one shown in films edit: Also lmao I didn't realize that was Mon Mothma, she's that young-looking still? (talking of goon face blindness)
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