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Aphrodite posted:Concealing them doesn't help being crushed, might as well let those puppies breathe. But he didn't die from the crushing, he died from a blaster burning them to a crisp.
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Tunicate posted:should have gone in on the darth jar jar for the last movie, if nothing matters anyway at least go out with something memorable Grendels Dad posted:Sheev is memorable! Somehow, Sheev has returned!!
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DrBouvenstein posted:"Well...I COULD cover all my organs in metal, maybe even implement some of that Droid-Deka shield technology...that seems drat near impervious, and as a General, surely I'd qualify for that upgrade to my cyborg body. A problem with the shielded battle droids is you have to wonder why they didn't put shields on all of them.
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maybealabia posted:Actually the prequels are thought of pretty positively nowadays overall I just watched the prequel trilogy this week and there's no way this is true. They are insanely, objectively awful. This is just zoomers trolling millenials/genXers. It has to be. I refuse to believe anything else.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:I just watched the prequel trilogy this week and there's no way this is true. They are insanely, objectively awful. This is just zoomers trolling millenials/genXers. It has to be. I refuse to believe anything else. People like what they saw as kids Also lots of people are pretty uncritical generally. Did you hear that failed steak salesman Donald Trump got elected to some important job that one time?
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800peepee51doodoo posted:I just watched the prequel trilogy this week and there's no way this is true. They are insanely, objectively awful. This is just zoomers trolling millenials/genXers. It has to be. I refuse to believe anything else. Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
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5TonsOfFlax posted:Search your feelings. You know it to be true. No. No! That's not true! It's impossible!
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Yeah this was the clone wars I was talking about, and it's not the first time the super generic title caused confusion
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800peepee51doodoo posted:I just watched the prequel trilogy this week and there's no way this is true. They are insanely, objectively awful. This is just zoomers trolling millenials/genXers. It has to be. I refuse to believe anything else. The prequels do have a handful of cool visuals and sequences buried in a whole load of forgettable-to-terrible stuff, so it's not surprising that people might remember those fondly while disregarding the rest. The Darth Maul fight still absolutely owns to this day.
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Len posted:I know it's from a prequel but im pretty sure episode 3 referenced the clone wars cartoons that were on a channel my backwoods small Ohio town didn't get The biggest reference is the ending of the cartoon leading straight into the opening battle scene in Revenge of the Sith... but if that's a problem, then so is the beginning of A New Hope, which features a cyborg with respiratory issues attacking a ship and we only have the opening crawl of the movie to tell us why.
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DrBouvenstein posted:"Well...I COULD cover all my organs in metal, maybe even implement some of that Droid-Deka shield technology...that seems drat near impervious, and as a General, surely I'd qualify for that upgrade to my cyborg body. FTFY Gutsack is the official term. https://twitter.com/kershed/status/1454877811408265216
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Tunicate posted:Shields are expensive Pretty much everything about the droid armies is made with expense, resources and capitalism in mind. Droidekas are explicitly the special forces killteams designed to fight hard targets, complex and expensive, while the roger-roger battle droids are as cheaply made as possible, mass-produced and expendable. The heavy droids are somewhere in between as basically the same as the beige droids but slapped in a bigger chassis with more armour and built in guns. And of course the series goes into all kinds of different hardware the diverse and high-tech Separatists field, including horrific slave-soldier bioweapon projects and rarely seen special ops droids that can actually use disguises and sometimes wear clone armour to infiltrate them.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Pretty much everything about the droid armies is made with expense, resources and capitalism in mind. Droidekas are explicitly the special forces killteams designed to fight hard targets, complex and expensive, while the roger-roger battle droids are as cheaply made as possible, mass-produced and expendable. The heavy droids are somewhere in between as basically the same as the beige droids but slapped in a bigger chassis with more armour and built in guns. And of course the series goes into all kinds of different hardware the diverse and high-tech Separatists field, including horrific slave-soldier bioweapon projects and rarely seen special ops droids that can actually use disguises and sometimes wear clone armour to infiltrate them. Wait, did I miss the part where Star Wars just casually introduces a T800?
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Facebook Aunt posted:FTFY Every design in Star Wars except the plot, characters, motivations, sequence of events…
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Sobatchja Morda posted:Wait, did I miss the part where Star Wars just casually introduces a T800? 
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No one in that image can believe what the gently caress they are seeing and neither can I. And I've seen Leia kick a groping lizard man in the balls in these comics. This (rationally?) makes me want to get back into these, it's like pro wrestling.
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Sobatchja Morda posted:Wait, did I miss the part where Star Wars just casually introduces a T800? They literally just put the clone helmets on over their heads, and sometimes are given away by reflexively going 'Roger, roger'.
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Facebook Aunt posted:FTFY I'm the amount of thought and detail signified by the label "Misc."
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Ghost Leviathan posted:They literally just put the clone helmets on over their heads, and sometimes are given away by reflexively going 'Roger, roger'. That's perfect.
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Phanatic posted:Every design in Star Wars except the plot, characters, motivations, sequence of events… In the making-of videos you can see George Lucas come into a room with a lineup of designs the artists have come up with and pick out the ones he likes so they should be... Something that's in the movie. And that seemed to be about it for his input on the designs. Maybe he should have taken the same approach with the writing. But what do I know, all the "just use any creative process that's different from what made the prequels" jokes ring hollow since the Disney movies.
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ynohtna posted:I'm the amount of thought and detail signified by the label "Misc."
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credburn posted:Didn't Lucas's vision of the sequel trilogy, if he had control of it, involve entering like a microcosmic subatomic world where the force was controlled by tiny bugs or.... That was just ripping off the sequel to Wrinkle in Time
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ynohtna posted:I'm the amount of thought and detail signified by the label "Misc." They weren't allowed to say "his balls".
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Dr Christmas posted:Am I misremembering, or was it EU consensus for a long time that TIE fighters were only meant to function in space? Obviously it was changed sometime before Rogue Squadron in 1988. I don't remember if TIEs were stated to be space only in the early EU books - in the X-Wing books, however, definitely there were fights in atmosphere. It was said that TIEs are rear end at flying in air, though, and one fight is won by the main character doing such sharp turns that when the TIE tries to keep up, its wings simply snap off due to air resistance.
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Heh, seems like a cute nod to how the Rebel ships are loosely based on real world aircraft at least in silhouette while TIEs are clearly more alien. Would make a lot of sense that TIEs are optimised for space operations with minimal concern for adaptability, given how narrowly focused and barebones every other aspect of their design is.
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IIRC the original rationalization for darth vader's and stormtrooper armors was that they were space suits for the boarding party in the first scenes of ANH, but since they were so obviously great designs (and probably to save costume budget), they immediately became the standard outfits.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:General Grievous has only one ball Agreed, every time he's on screen, General Grievous seems to have a ball.
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Tunicate posted:IIRC the original rationalization for darth vader's and stormtrooper armors was that they were space suits for the boarding party in the first scenes of ANH, but since they were so obviously great designs (and probably to save costume budget), they immediately became the standard outfits. Was that the same time that lightsabers were just going to be the standard close-combat weapon before makinf it a Jedi-only thing (that's what the little pod on the back of the Storm Trooper armor was for, apparently) or did that decision come later on?
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