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Rochallor posted:The biggest aspect of Thrawn's genius here is that he's a) soft-spoken and b) thoroughly explains his bad plans and when they fail, he smiles knowingly. Even in the original books, it's plausible that a fair chunk of Thrawn's "I understand their art and therefor understand their thought processes" schtick was purely a cover for having New Republic HQ bugged.
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That DICK! posted:luckily reason would win in the end and luke skywalker, the plucky little farmboy who never said never, died alone having never hosed, suffering a heart attack after yodas ghost showed up to tell him he was wrong about loving  so this isnt lost due to a new page
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1st AD posted:Andor ain't coming out in 2024. Skeleton Crew was meant to be in 2023 (with principal photography wrapping well before the strikes) but it got delayed too.
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Oct 7, 2023 09:27
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Importantly, "imperial remnants" aren't shown onscreen in the show, aside from like three dudes in a junkyard. Going strictly by what's shown in Ashoka, one star destroyer could take out the entire New Republic - which consists of a borough council and one space cop with an x-wing. Recurring characters from other media ends up having that effect: We keep seeing the same dozen faces. It feels like a crowded supermarket instead of a massive populated galaxy. The scale is way off. Hera stole a "fleet," but it was a handful of ships. Thrawn is a "brilliant warlord," but unable to defeat an unarmed caravan. Are Jedi rare? More than half the cast uses the force.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Skeleton Crew was meant to be in 2023 (with principal photography wrapping well before the strikes) but it got delayed too. Yeah, as far as I’m aware the Ahsoka finale is the last Star Wars thing we’re getting this year (as far as shows go that is, not sure if there’s any upcoming comics or books)
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Larryb posted:Yeah, as far as I’m aware the Ahsoka finale is the last Star Wars thing we’re getting this year (as far as shows go that is, not sure if there’s any upcoming comics or books) Comics are still going strong The main series (and Darth Vader, Bounty Hunters, and Doctor Aphra) is in the middle of another mega-arc called Dark Droids, where a droid named Scourge, born of a fusion between the Spark Eternal and an old droid locked away by the Sith, is hijacking droids/androids across the galaxy and wrecking havoc in an attempt to gain control of the Force High Republic just started its Shadows of Starlight, where the Jedi have recalled its members and enacted Guardian Protocols to combat the Nihil and the Nameless/Eaters of the Force, which involves things like accelerating combat training for younglings, Padawans of any age can undergo the Knight trials, and seeking opportunities for targeted strikes against the Nihil
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Vinylshadow posted:Comics are still going strong That sounds like some EU poo poo, i stopped reading the comics around the time they crossed to ESB territory
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Gin_Rummy posted:Does anyone else think Disney lightsabers look like poo poo? Every time they show up in a TV show, you can clearly tell it’s a plastic stick with like an LED in it or something and it bugs the poo poo out of me. Yeah, they look like big glow sticks. I think a big part of the problem is also how they sound. When someone fires up a lightsaber in one of the movies, it audibly snaps to life, the blade crackles and hums, and clashes with other lightsabers sound huge. The Disney+ show versions are kinda like when you play an FPS with lovely sound design and all the guns sound like staplers.
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Oct 7, 2023 14:55
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I remember Luke's in ROTJ being really loud and harsh when he turned it on. All of the OT sabers had slightly different sounds and that's not as obvious either.
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Sash! posted:I remember Luke's in ROTJ being really loud and harsh when he turned it on. All of the OT sabers had slightly different sounds and that's not as obvious either. That was just poorly tuned garbage line Kylo's coal rolling poo poo stick If Huyang had been around they'd barely hum
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Oct 7, 2023 18:26
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I love how meaty the lightsabers in Battlefront II and Fallen Order/Survivor are Dark Side gets some good sabers too Dooku Sidious Vader
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maybealabia posted:That was just poorly tuned garbage line Kylo's coal rolling poo poo stick I don't care if it's intentional or not, Kylo having the lightsaber equivalent of a fart-can Honda is canon to me now
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Cage Kicker posted:I don't care if it's intentional or not, Kylo having the lightsaber equivalent of a fart-can Honda is canon to me now Well it even looks janky with its exposed wiring and whatnot.
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I always assumed Kylo’s lightsaber had a crossguard for the purpose of dispersing energy so his tuner lightsaber doesn’t explode in his hand.
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I think Ezra and Kanan found an old jedi lightsaber with a Kylo crossguard in a temple.
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why can't they do shapes that aren't rods why don't we have light shields why can't ezra make a lightsaber that has the cross section of a pool noodle to bap people with
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I didn't watch clone wars or star wars rebels but I liked Andor. Would I be able to follow what is going on in Ahsoka?
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Zoeb posted:I didn't watch clone wars or star wars rebels but I liked Andor. Would I be able to follow what is going on in Ahsoka? Maybe? It's not that it's hard to follow so much as some stuff works (a lot) better if you are invested in the characters.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Maybe? Just watch the show. When the main characters say something is a threat, believe them. The animated series are really good and well worth the time of a Star Wars fan, but you can get by.
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Zoeb posted:I didn't watch clone wars or star wars rebels but I liked Andor. Would I be able to follow what is going on in Ahsoka? Honestly? As someone who watched and loved Clone Wars, Rebels and Andor: Wait until (if) a second season is finished. Hopefully the story will have cleared up more mysteries by then. The writing and characterization is miles below that of Andor. The characters' introduction also isn't done very well - if you haven't seen Rebels, you may be left wondering why characters are acting a certain way or why they find certain things important more than just once. And even as someone who has seen Rebels, the fact that there's a ten year gap between Rebels and Ahsoka left a lot of things open for me that the show wasn't clear about - or cleared up only in the last episode, at which point the information I got was near-irrelevant and would have been useful to have in the first episode.
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Zoeb posted:I didn't watch clone wars or star wars rebels but I liked Andor. Would I be able to follow what is going on in Ahsoka? Nope.
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I've never watched any of those and was able to follow what's going on. It isn't complicated, just a bit thin. I have some knowledge of who Thrawn is and who nightsisters are through cultural osmosis and a couple video games but I've never actually read any of those books or watched the animated shows.
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Zoeb posted:I didn't watch clone wars or star wars rebels but I liked Andor. Would I be able to follow what is going on in Ahsoka? You could probably put together the rough outline of the character relationships and backgrounds, but they don't bother making them matter really. Andor is the high water mark for writing and characterization in Star Wars. No qualifications. The best writing it's ever gotten. Just a sincere lived-in universe treated with utter sincerity and written to the nines-- no cynicism or jangly keys cameos. This is a sequel to a cartoon and frankly comes out worse than the cartoon with mostly unemotive performance choices, underdeveloped characters, undermotivated plot developments. It's got a few moments (space whale megafauna graveyard as a planetary ring! all the imagery of episode 5! basically every moment Ray Stephenson is onscreen) but you could fit them in the runtime of an episode. I can't possibly recommend it in juxtaposition with Andor.
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If you like looking at Star Wars things like costumes, ships, props, creatures it's fine without knowing who anyone is If you liked Andor in spite of it being Star Wars poo poo then in no way should you watch Ahsoka
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maybealabia posted:If you like looking at Star Wars things like costumes, ships, props, creatures it's fine without knowing who anyone is What if you gots to know what Mon Mothma is up to
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John Wick of Dogs posted:What if you gots to know what Mon Mothma is up to It's kind of funny, Andor, the OT, and Ahsoka so far kind of imply a full circle arc where she's dragged reluctantly from liberal ally in an impotent governing body kicking and screaming into a revolutionary but figuring out how to play the game on the way, to a figurehead of revolution, back to a do-nothing liberal head of state of an impotent governing body. Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Oct 8, 2023 |
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Even in Rebels Mon Mothma is shown to be naïve and unwilling to make the necessary decisions to win. Saw Gerrera alt spotted
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Oct 8, 2023 17:44
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Owlbear Camus posted:
Yeah, Ahsoka isn't the worst, most infuriating, laziest, or crappiest looking star wars thing I've ever seen, but is the least engaging. Even the action scenes feel dull and pointless. It would really benefit from tighter editing.
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