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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:It's not his hand, some crazy scientist got a hold of it and made Luuke with that. I've always thought it was a piece of ripped cloth from his clothing.
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Angry Midwesterner posted:It might have been little kid logic, but I always figured it was his blaster falling out of its holster because he landed upside down. Val Helmethead posted:And lets not forget the SECOND Imperial Ore Extractor that was attacked by Rebels hoping to seize it during it's construction, while the Emperor was on board to oversee this important wacky posted:Also, if I'm not mistaken, X-Wing and Tie Fighter had live action scenes in them randomly as well.
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2010 12:28 |
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hunkofsoup posted:said, yesterday I received a package in the mail containing this: Stackpole should win some sort of literary award. He wrote a series of books based on two of the greatest computer games of all time, which were in turn based on three of the greatest movies of all time, and the result was a pile of pulpy fun. The chances of that happening ever again in history are minute. Big Mean Jerk posted:How can you post that and skip over the part that said Aaron Allston is writing a new Wraith Squadron novel? T-1000 fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Aug 16, 2010 |
# ¿ Aug 16, 2010 11:41 |
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sniper4625 posted:Starfighters of Adumar was the best book in that series hands down. hunkofsoup posted:They're arriving later this week from Amazon, along with I, Jedi and Vector Prime. (My library has the Thrawn duology, which I'll read before tackling NJO.) Then you'll just read it and Chewbacca will die and a cold breeze will carry to you the sound of George Lucas' laughter from atop his throne of skulls and money.
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# ¿ Aug 16, 2010 15:22 |
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Slantedfloors posted:Adumar had the capability to (and eventually did) become one of the galaxy's foremost producers of missle ammunition.
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# ¿ Aug 16, 2010 15:49 |
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WhyteRyce posted:There is no reason why he can't have Wraith Squadron still fighting in the pre-NJO era. This was some behind-the-scenes commando squad anyway and the SW universe is huge, there is no reason they have to be involve in some huge galaxy spanning conflict that the Big 3 are a part of. Hell you can just have them fighting space pirates and it would be still great. - at the end of the current EU history - just before/during/after whatever film just came out There's no reason they couldn't write books about people other than the big 3 set in any time period, with no great impact on galactic history. It doesn't matter if the stakes are low for the galaxy so long as they're high for the characters. Hell, they could set it during the Thrawn war. There's enough things going on everywhere that there's room for any number of stories so long as the authors have some minimum of imagination and care about the characters (which means there's only about three authors who could pull it off). If Allston went all broken arrow and slipped the yoke of his Lucasarts masters...but I doubt that will happen. DougieC posted:You could easily sit them in a post-LOTF era. Or any era. The point of Wraith Squadron is they stir poo poo up with whacky schemes to destabalise enemies. Pirate gangs, warlords etc. can be set pretty much anywhere from 6ABY onwards. They could stick it in Legacy era if they wanted. WhyteRyce posted:I would be kind of amusing to have Wraith Squadron giving running commentary to the poo poo going on in the post-NJO era.
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# ¿ Aug 16, 2010 22:50 |
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Throb Robinson posted:This gem hasn't been posted in ages. Scroll down til you see a poster named Yodakenobi, This is fantastic review of sacrifice. I still laugh hard when I give it a reread now and then.
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# ¿ Aug 17, 2010 02:49 |
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I don't get why any of you would complain about the show since I'd assume you're all outside the target demographic. I've never seen a single episode. At my age there's no way I'm watching any children's show that doesn't feature Batman. Pththya-lyi posted:Cad Bane. He's kind of a cheesy character, I admit it, but I like him for his Western gun-slinger look. His appearance was based on unused concept art from the OT, which only makes him even cooler:
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# ¿ Aug 17, 2010 06:51 |
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Someone over in CD posted this link that I think everyone in this thread would enjoy Bene Elim posted:Actual question: What is the benefit, if any, to holding a lightsaber in a reverse-grip, as Starkiller, Ashoka and apparently now Revan do? The thing I can't stand about the Clone Wars cartoon was when Anakin killed the gundark and used the pommel of his lightsaber to play its skeleton like a xylophone. He strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
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# ¿ Aug 17, 2010 16:16 |
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AcridWhistle posted:Don't befriend her either because nearly everyone who knows her and is important enough to be referenced dies (Luke, Han Solo, and Lando are exempt). Same goes for Starships, it is going to crash or be boarded, even the Millinium Falcon isn't exempt. - Padmé Amidala: died 20 seconds after giving birth to him - Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru: dead - Obi-Wan: dead - The jawas he bought R2 and C-3PO from: dead - Those guys in the cantina: if not dead then pretty messed up - Biggs Darklighter (best friend): dead - All of rogue squadron except him and Wedge: dead - All of gold squadron except one guy: dead - Everyone on the Death Star: dead - The original R2-D2: dead, replaced by replica - His tauntaun: dead - The pilot that found him and Han on Hoth: dead - The AT-AT that came near him: dead - The Gamorrean nearest to him in Jabba's palace: eaten - The rancor: dead - Everyone on Jabba's skiff: dead - Yoda: dead - the Ewoks: many, many dead - the stormtroopers he surrendered to: dead - Anakin Skywalker: dead - The Emperor: dead - Everyone on the Death Star, again: dead - 95% of his jedi students: dead - Both nephews: dead - Wife: dead WhyteRyce posted:What Star Wars needs is an edgy new character to appeal to a younger generation...ah poo poo.
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# ¿ Aug 17, 2010 17:19 |
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Duckman2008 posted:So I'm curiuos what everyone's thoughts are on Thrawn (in my opinion, the only real amazing EU character)? Is he to be considered an evil dude since he is with the Empire, or was he similar to Robert E Lee where he was a good guy who fought for his home cause? WampaLord posted:Well, he inherited that Noghri slavery thing from Vader. It's kind of like the two wars with Obama, I can't really blame him for them. Also I'm pretty sure he wiped all life off the surface of some planet. Caamas maybe. I recall him mentioning it to some underling, showing him a vase and saying he destroyed the world it came from. But hey he's a more interesting character than 99.9% of the rest, we can forgive him a few genocides and enslavement and tyranny.
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# ¿ Aug 18, 2010 01:37 |
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WampaLord posted:But imagine Vader coming up to you like "Hey, I got this race of super loyal assassins who actually love serving us. You want in, or should I just let them go free?" Passing up ownership of people, some moral viewpoints might find that easier than others. These moral viewpoints are held by people who aren't complete monsters. arioch posted:Aside from that, Thrawn is one of the few Star Wars villains who kills more enemies than he gets his own side killed. Think about it. T-1000 fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Aug 18, 2010 |
# ¿ Aug 18, 2010 01:53 |
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WampaLord posted:To these people, it isn't viewed as slavery, but fair trade. They are actually happy to serve the Empire (or were until Leia exposed the con for what it was). So as an Imperial Officer who needs a super awesome assassin squad (or twenty), I'm saying he's really not in a place to argue moralilty over the decision. Does this make him extra evil or something? I think it just makes him pragmatic. If he could power a superweapon by abducting and abusing children, it would be pragmatic. And evil. To those children it wouldn't be abuse, it'd be their life.
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# ¿ Aug 18, 2010 02:13 |
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Kemper Boyd posted:Thrawn, Zsinj and Isard? Isard actually ruled the entire empire for what, a few years at least? And created a supervirus that killed a crapton of aliens. If her biotechs had been better she could have pulled that plan off. She ultimately fell because her top agent double-crossed her (because she was such a bitch) and because someone escaped her inescapable prison. Otherwise she could have stayed put a while longer, sending out more sleepers to do various acts of nastiness. As opposed to Daala who - if I recall KJA's abomination of a series - pushed papers and twiddled her thumbs at some secret base for a decade, not bothering to wonder why they'd had no contact with the outside world at all. Then she proceeded to lose a star destroyer every battle, then lost some more ships, then ran off and sulked. I can't remember. Did she ever win a battle? And then she came back later in some craptacular books? Zsinj was fun because he had a million schemes running at once, and schemes within his schemes - tracking robots and ion minefields and evil alien experiments and cloaking devices and stealing star destroyers. Little touches like only showing visitors a fake bridge, full of squabbling officers, dueling stormies and guys playing TIE Fighter. Or luring enemies to an asteroid field and blowing up the asteroids. He's the closest thing star wars has to Lex Luthor. Bene Elim posted:^^ I'd have said Kreia or Darth Revan were pretty competant. Hell, even Mandalore the Ultimate. Ok, so they were all eventually defeated, but not by their own stupidity. Bene Elim posted:Stop. Now. The idea that there are different forms using different movements that Jedi practice and that you can see which ones they're using in the films is one of my biggest gripes at the moment. There's more than enough Sperging about them done on various forums, so suffice to say drop them, never talk much about them and never take them seriously. The 'Forms' have grown purely out of the choreographed crap that filled the prequels. edit: Bene Elim posted:Any Jedi with the slightest amount of skill should be able to block a blaster shot with the Force. Trigger happy idiots. T-1000 fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Aug 18, 2010 |
# ¿ Aug 18, 2010 08:57 |
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SubHorror posted:Well, they are able to block lightsabers with their hands in ToR, so what Vader does on Cloud City should be the easiest trick in the book for any Jedi.
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# ¿ Aug 18, 2010 10:08 |
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Biplane posted:how did she even get 200 star destroyers? Although killing the leader the first time made the empire fragment, killing the sub-leaders forged them all back together. And even though Pellaeon had actual combat experience compared to the desk admiral, he just went along with it. The best excuse I can think of is as soon as Thrawn went down, Pellaeon kind of ran his life into the gutter and became a bit of a nihilist. Those were the lost years, where he just went along with whatever crazy plan sounded entertaining. Every night he'd sit alone on the darkened bridge, drinking heavily and screaming obscenities at the TV screen like Hervé Villechaize did.
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# ¿ Aug 18, 2010 10:33 |
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Wouldn't the reason you use ray guns instead of bullet guns be the fact that bullets punch holes in your body, injure your internal organs and cause blood loss, while ray guns disintegrate you? I just assumed armour and shielding on spaceships and stormtroopers rendered conventional weapons ineffective.
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# ¿ Aug 19, 2010 00:52 |
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Slantedfloors posted:Didn't SOE fling hundreds of players into space one time for questioning them? I never played it, but from what I heard they took one game and slowly transformed it into another that nobody liked. Why did you have to link to TvTropes? I'd broken the habit. T-1000 fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Aug 20, 2010 |
# ¿ Aug 20, 2010 00:58 |
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Kazy posted:- The original R2-D2: dead, replaced by replica Also, they blew up the Death Star but the Imperials knew where the rebel base was. Rather than repairing him, it'd be a lot faster to just scrap the original R2, reformat another astromech you had lying around, and then start packing your stuff.
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# ¿ Aug 20, 2010 03:27 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:R2 gives Luke video recordings of Anakin and Padme in the Dark Nest trilogy.
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# ¿ Aug 20, 2010 04:33 |
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WhyteRyce posted:Yeah I thought the combo system, with the exception of a couple of moves, was annoying and didn't do much other than add some more "wow, acrobatics!" moves to the game. 90% of everything I did involved force pushing some enemy into another enemy or over a rail, usually after I charged them with lightning. I killed so many rebels and traitorous Imperials, it's a wonder the Empire didn't win.
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# ¿ Aug 22, 2010 13:56 |
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From reading the blurb, now there's sith again? Somebody did a really crappy job of wiping out the jedi. You turn over a rock and a couple of jedi/sith scurry out.
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# ¿ Aug 25, 2010 05:24 |
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Are you guys certain Mon Cal was in open revolt? I thought they built a whole bunch of ships, the Imperials came along and said "nice ships, we'll take them" and the Mon Cals got enslaved, then escaped with their ships leaving their planet behind and joining the rebels. I thought the Imperials just occupied the planet ie: a few ships and space stations in orbit, send in the stormies if anyone makes trouble, leave the natives to their stinking wet mess. A planet being in open revolt makes no sense. Any Imperial admiral who wants a promotion would be coming up with plans to boil the oceans and burn the ashes. That's why the rebels were always building bases in the middle of nowhere. As soon as someone says "we be rebels, yo" they get completely annihilated. I didn't think Bothawui was in open revolt either. At least from what I remember in Shadows of the Empire, they had to be sneaky because there were stormtroopers around who could (and did) bust down doors and kill everyone. I also remember an epic X-Wing Alliance mission where you're at Bothawui running cover from some awesome space platform in a B-wing against the local Imperial traffic, and the Executor shows up and unloads fighters everywhere. I need to reinstall that game. Sullust too: openly cooperating with the Empire, but a few pro-rebel cells. The Empire happened to be fairly aware of them so they kept the boot firmly on the Sullustan neck. Karandras posted:How many TIE defenders were roughly made? The wiki source says at least 10,000 were unaccounted for, which indicates there were a lot made post Endor.
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# ¿ Aug 26, 2010 01:26 |
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sniper4625 posted:Stormtroopers are intended as elite shock troopers. Special training, special armor, etc.
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# ¿ Aug 26, 2010 13:58 |
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There should have been no jedi and no sith. Luke Skywalker, last jedi. Oh wait, his sister too. That's it. Finito. Vader killed everyone but those two as well as Yoda and Obi-wan. And if he didn't kill someone, whats-his-face in The Force Unleashed did before being eventually killed by Vader or whoever. By the time of A New Hope, every single jedi should have been dead. Because he's Darth Vader, his midichlorians are OFF THE CHARTS, he'd use his awesome powers of evil to detect the location of any surviving jedi/sith, and he's got a spaceship several kilometres long and if he wants to he can just burn the atmosphere off any planet he suspects has a jedi/sith on it. Maybe even if they don't have a jedi but they give him attitude. No other secret apprentices, no jedi who escaped, no lurking sith, no illegitimate lovechildren of the Emperor or Vader or Obi-Wan or whoever. Every other force-powered freak was pushing up daisies. Vader found them and killed them because that's what he does. It's all he does. The only exceptions allowed are anyone you fight in Dark Forces 2.
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# ¿ Aug 27, 2010 05:26 |
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Archr5 posted:and Filoni thought for a minute and said (paraphrasing) "Ok so let me start here, Anakin isn't a "Bad guy" necessarily, He's been led to believe that the Republic is being attacked by the Jedi and that his allegiances need to switch to protect the greater good... so just because he ultimately chooses the dark side, he doesn't "become evil" all at once." The second thing Anakin does is slaughter a large group of children. Even if you're paraphrasing inaccurately, the idea is idiotic.
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2010 01:11 |
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The second ewok movie is pretty freaking brutal for a kids' movie. The girl's entire family is murdered by zombie-looking dudes in the first five minutes. And you know they're dead for sure because the wristband says so. Deathtek Wristbands: breaking hearts since 10392 BBY.
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# ¿ Aug 30, 2010 16:26 |
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end of the world posted:Is the AT-AT the most inefficient war machine of all time? Also, I direct you to My Tank Is Fight.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2010 16:18 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Moment of silence for Porkins, please. I'm amazed by how they created distinct personalities for a lot of pilots despite having less than a minute of screen time and maybe three or four lines each. Porkins, Biggs, Wedge, Red Leader, Gold Leader, I don't know if it's the casting, script or acting. Watching them all get blown out of the sky, you really feel for them. Watching clones fight robots you don't feel anything. Even when you're watching the jedi all get slaughtered, other than the dude with the conical head (Ki Adi Mundi I think?) you don't know anything about any of them. He had maybe three lines in all three movies but the look of betrayal on his face is worth more than millions of dollars of special effects.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2010 06:32 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I'll have you know that Wedge not only survived, but blew up the second Death Star and succeeded Luke as leader of Rogue Squadron.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2010 06:58 |
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Dave Syndrome posted:So apparently some chucklehead decided that good ol' Max Rebo was really named "Siiruulian Phantele" (get it? GET IT?).
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2010 16:08 |
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Kingtheninja posted:Rebel Assault 1 and 2 I really need to finish X-Wing Alliance.
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2010 05:54 |
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Not A Bear posted:So who made the T-47's? Are they the same bunch that made Luke's T-16 skyhopper? Also, did we ever see what that looked like? Because, as far as I recall we only see a part of it in ANH in the garage scene and it uh looked sorta trianglar I guess?
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# ¿ Sep 13, 2010 02:44 |
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EG posted:I know people don't talk poo poo on Michael Stackpole's XWing books in this thread, BUT I just read them all and the one thing that really bothered me was how in every book at least 1 character dies, but then NOPE they're actually alive the whole time, everyone just thought they were dead. It gets to the point where you know anyone who dies is coming back. In Isard's Revenge basically every single character thinks the other characters are dead, AND the bad guy they killed in a previous book is back with her clone... One dude's fighter gets hit by a planet-defence ion and disintegrates. The shistavenen gets annihilated by a star destroyer jumping in right beside him. I think the rodian pilot bites it somewhere. But yeah, Stackpole liked his characters too much to kill them all off. Allston is better at killing people.
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2010 02:32 |
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SeanBeansShako posted:Didn't Biggs cowardly brother die horribly in one too? Closest he comes to dying is the star destroyer jumping right beside him and his wingman while they're pirating a freighter. The freighter shields him from the SD so he blind-jumps while everyone else gets liquefied. Miraculously managing to not-die, he ends up at a small colony on a freezing, inhospitable world. They give him fuel and food and he sends them free bacta that they're stealing. Isard tracks the freighters and kills everyone in the colony via bombardment. T-1000 fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Sep 14, 2010 |
# ¿ Sep 14, 2010 02:48 |
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Chairman Capone posted:Watching that Han Solo animation reminds me of this fan-made "trailer" that came out a few years ago just prior to Celebration IV and had a lot of people wondering if it was a leaked official trailer:
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# ¿ Sep 20, 2010 09:04 |
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Minorkos posted:"This is Jedi Mind Trick, it's a brand new Force power, and just like all of our other Force powers, we've completely re-envisioned it from the films... ...and then I read this.
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# ¿ Sep 26, 2010 01:24 |
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How could you miss at that range? They were probably close enough to touch.
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# ¿ Sep 26, 2010 02:09 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:So, prior to the prequels (or at least AoTC) what did you all believe The Clone Wars were? I didn't imagine any backstory for Boba Fett let alone the droids, though I thought Chewbacca might have had a role somewhere. I didn't imagine moron war droids at any point. I didn't picture clones being maori dudes. I didn't think the clones would turn into stormtroopers. That totally ruins the moment in ANH where you realise the stormies are just dumb recruits in armour - "What do you think's going on?" "Probably just another drill?" "So, have you seen the new <random technical thing>?". I didn't imagine that the Republic cleanly turned into the Empire, but I sort of like that to be honest. From what I looked at on various wikis, one of the admirals in the Clone Wars cartoon later becomes head of the Imperial secret police and has a seat at the Death Star round table in ANH. I thought that and the shot of Tarkin at the end of ROTS were pretty neat. I was expecting a trilogy about the gradual corruption of good people due to the pervasive evil of the dark side. T-1000 fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Oct 8, 2010 |
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 14:34 |
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Kenshirou posted:Watched AOTC in its entirety (it's been a few years) and I'm gonna have to say I hate it more than TPM. I forgot how loving awful that last battle is, especially the stuff leading up to it with the factory and the creature fight. I watch the OT maybe once every month or two, but the PT I rarely ever re-watch so I forget just how bad they are. Also why the gently caress did Kit Fisto force push C3PO and then smile at the camera? For some reason that really bothered me.
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# ¿ Oct 10, 2010 01:39 |