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Leviathan Song posted:I can't believe no one has mentioned Splinter of the Mind's Eye. Luke and Leia go to a swamp planet looking for a ruby that amplifies force powers to infinity. They bang in the cockpit of a Y-Wing. Then they kill Darth Vader by pushing him down a well. It's actually worse than it sounds. Splinter of the Mind's Eye was also intended to be the low-budget sequel to Star Wars.
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Nov 24, 2014 17:20
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shiksa posted:should have been how the movie went imo Almost was.
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Nov 24, 2014 17:22
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Mae posted:Can someone find the wookiepedia article for that guy who was in frame running with a ice cream machine for exactly 1 second? That's my favourite http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Willrow_Hood
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Nov 24, 2014 17:25
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gohuskies posted:Third and a half: Plus the Darksaber. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darksaber
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Nov 25, 2014 08:10
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You know, Star Wars Rebels isn't all that bad. I didn't care for the cgi Clone Wars but Rebels is alright. It'd be a lot better if it weren't for the kid character. He should be a bit older, like more Luke's age in the original film, and less annoying. Or scrap him altogether, because it isn't like there aren't other characters on that show that couldn't be interesting if they were given the spotlight. And those are all the words I have right now for a children's television cartoon.
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Nov 25, 2014 08:17
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effectual posted:Have you seen some of the other Darth names? They're really stupid. The whole concept of Darth as a title is dumb as gently caress. Same with every bar in the goddamn galaxy being a "cantina." burritolingus fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Nov 26, 2014 |
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Nov 26, 2014 07:37
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:My party befriended a Hutt professional wrestler named Hulka the Hutt. During the climatic battle for the end of the campaign he performed a hurricanrana an a large war droid by jumping out of a clone transport onto it. This should be in the next movie.
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Nov 28, 2014 08:52
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Hahaha holy poo poo. I think the whole thing is there's no EU, everything they do now is just canon on par with the movies, so no, that's just Star Wars. At least that's not the laser slingshot the kid character has to use.
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Nov 28, 2014 18:16
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ManMythLegend posted:For those of you hating on the light-claymore, I'm sorry you are lame and/or hate fun. Yep.
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Nov 29, 2014 14:00
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Young Freud posted:Yeah, Guardians Of The Galaxy was popular because it was grungy Star Wars that focused more on a group of mercenary ne'er do wells instead of the honorable galactic elite like the Nova Corps. There was an element of mysticism in Guardians of the Galaxy which they wisely left mostly unexplored, like how the Force was treated in Star Wars '77. That's one of the faults of Star Wars: focusing way too hard on Jedi stuff, particularly glowstick fights. Empire got it just right. It gave us just enough Jedi stuff with Yoda training Luke (which never involved either of them dancefighting with glowsticks) while cutting back to Han doing scoundrel stuff to keep it fresh. The prequels are almost 100% Jedi business, and it's weird because you wind up learning more about the Force in Empire because almost all the prequel Jedi business is glowstick dancefighting. Glowstick dancefighting is only cool when you only use it sparingly and has some kind of emotion behind it, but man, in the prequels, those Jedis whip it out at the drop of a hat. There's a loud startling sound in the first scene of Phantom and boom they're lit up. Wouldn't a Jedi, like, try to feel with the Force to figure out what's going on first? burritolingus fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Dec 1, 2014 |
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Dec 1, 2014 04:55
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Also, the Jedi of the prequels (and its EU) are pretty hosed up. They're an organization that kidnaps babies and then forces their religious doctrines on these kids without their consent (including a vow of celibacy) and also trains these little kids in using a lightsaber at a very early age (some of those kids in Attack look like they're six), which is basically the most lethal weapon in the galaxy, and they don't have to answer to the Senate. Who thought any of this was a good idea? burritolingus fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Dec 1, 2014 |
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Dec 1, 2014 05:02
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kingcom posted:Palpatine did nothing wrong. I've heard, according to the EU, Palpatine did it all because he was trying to prepare for the Yuuzhan Vong invasion by uniting the inefficient Republic under a strong leadership. If that's true, yeah, he really isn't the bad guy here.
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Dec 1, 2014 05:25
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kingcom posted:I like it when they get in gunfights repeatedly and nobody gives the kid a gun so he uses his lovely slingshot thing. Also how multiple crewmembers nearly murder him. To be fair, he's totally annoying, so it makes sense.
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Dec 1, 2014 05:42
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:A reminder that they're sitting on 39 completed episodes of that awful Star Wars Detours comedy series with another 62 finished scripts ready to be animated, they've just held them back from release until Ep 7 comes out. The worst is yet to come! So they got some of the guys who did that Robot Chicken Star Wars thing and got them to do a G-rated version of that?
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Dec 2, 2014 12:57
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Chomp8645 posted:Hey it could be worse... If it gets a kid involved in reading, that's great.
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Dec 2, 2014 15:58
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Yolomon Wayne posted:Im calling it first, gonna get rich with Dwarf Fortress novels. You'd be better off writing about one of those popular phone games. Flappy Bird, the Novelization (actually I don't know what phone games are popular with kids).
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Dec 3, 2014 01:45
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Bonzo posted:Who has the comic panel of Vader holding C3POs head and crying?  Best part is they had the nerve to insert this into Empire's storyline. david... posted:its minecraft Yeah, that's what I thought.
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Dec 3, 2014 04:11
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Sunshine Mix posted:So I was wondering this last night...if the clone army was made in secret, how did they keep the construction of the blasters, dropships, spaceships, armor, etc secret? IIRC these were made by "established" EU companies like BlasTech, KDY etc and weren't made by the Kaminoans or Kaminoan clients building them in secret. Was there ever an EU explanation for that? Did Sifo-Diyas contact the equivalent of Lockheed Martin and ask them to develop new shiny spaceships on his lonesome and they we like, "Uh. Okay sure we'll forgo the deposit this time." The official, canon explanation for this is that Lucas wrote episode 2 over the course of an afternoon and they never went beyond a first draft.
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Dec 3, 2014 06:22
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...of SCIENCE! posted:and yet they still manage to have Tatooine be a major player in the plot, have a guy who looks and talks exactly like Yoda act as your character's master, have two protocol droids serve as your bumbling comic relief, give you a palette swap of the Millenium Falcon as your personal ship, and have the villain be a deformed sith with a facial prosthesis and modulated voice KOTOR II is better about this kind of stuff. TOR isn't, though. I remember a prison full of carbonited convicts.
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Dec 3, 2014 07:06
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Otisburg posted:wasn't the carbonite freezing in ep V which takes place literally thousands of years later presented as this dangerous experimental thing that might not have worked? Yeah, but because they constantly have to scrape through the original films for references and material, carbonite freezing is a normal process in TOR. There's even a cosmetic item you can buy that lets you carbonite freeze yourself so you can regain health and force mana. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un_zuPd0Odk
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Dec 3, 2014 07:58
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Doctor Schnabel posted:Huh? What's wrong with that? I looked at it and it got me in the feels Dumb that Darth built C3P0 and dumb that he recognizes a droid that looks like just about every other droid in the universe because apparently Darth was an unoriginal as a kid and just built droid recolors like he's some kind of Sonic fan (ORIGINAL CHARACTER DO NOT STEAL). Also dumb that he's having a cry over a robot and then feels nothing for his real son and even chops his son's hand off.
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Dec 3, 2014 08:18
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Wolfsheim posted:I've always wondered what's the deal with those three random alien guys palpatine is hanging out with in every scene in the prequel. Are they other senators? Do they work for him? Why did he invite them to the space opera? Are they all friends? Is there an EU comic book where they all hang out? They're his crew.
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Dec 3, 2014 09:20
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Woolie Wool posted:If you want to single out one of the space furries, this is the one: Pull a Kreia.  Of the opinion that not every Jedi needs a lightsaber, like Yoda didn't need a little baby lightsaber.
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Dec 3, 2014 15:28
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Professor Shark posted:This is actually not terrible compared to a lot of the dumb poo poo that has been brought up in here Kreia was another one of those things KOTOR II did right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzLEBtObYxU
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Dec 3, 2014 15:43
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david... posted:if that was from a dc comics person batman would have won because he prepared and had a shield of anti force materials or some dumb poo poo batman always has Pretty sure there is a lizard you can carry around that cancels out Force powers, plus that metal that shorts out lightsabers for a period of time depending on who is writing it. But yeah it always boils down to "how much prep time does Batman need to beat that guy" and not can he.
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Dec 6, 2014 02:26
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Star Wars also has the Cathar. And werecats: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Felacatian Meanwhile, Star Trek has Caitians. burritolingus fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Dec 6, 2014 |
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Dec 6, 2014 14:25
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shiksa posted:ahahaha oh my god you arent kidding No. Like everything in this thread, it's true.
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Dec 7, 2014 08:21
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Dangit Ronpaul posted:tbf aren't most planets/moons that we know of pretty homogeneous in terms of climate/geology? earth is kinda the exception there Yep.
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Dec 7, 2014 18:35
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If I remember right, their technology was all created eons ago by a long dead race of smart people. Humans and other aliens found this old technology and got it to work, but don't fully understand how it works. Like, they don't know what makes a hyperdrive jump really, just that it does. So they can replicate the stuff and even make improvements and tweaks, but they can't really innovate. But the real answer is they want Star Wars to feel like Star Wars regardless of what era it's in.
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Dec 9, 2014 04:44
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OMG BYZANTIUM posted:Wait, so was Anakin really supposed to be a virgin birth? I remember going to watch the first prequel with my dad (who was super excited, having seen the originals in the theater) and when Anakin's stupid mom announces that he was born without a man or whatever, my dad said "Oh for gently caress's sake!" Yeah, he's legit Jedi Jesus. There's also a part in the third one where it's kind of implied Palpatine (or his master, Darth Baddude) manipulated the Force to create Anakin.
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Dec 9, 2014 05:34
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redshirt posted:Plagueius, Sidious's Master. Darth names are bad but which is worse: Darth Tyranus or Count Dooku?
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Dec 9, 2014 05:39
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Darth Try anus. Also Sheev Palpatine.
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Dec 9, 2014 05:47
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No Vader no hope. Know Vader know hope.
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Dec 9, 2014 06:25
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So they apparently got "Dooku" from "doku," the Japanese word for poison. Should have just stayed with Doku. Also supposedly Dooku means "from the rear end" in Portuguese, so he's called "Dookan" in the Brazilian version. Also a better name.Ivor Biggun posted:Darth Dooku Perfect.
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Dec 9, 2014 07:47
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Like that Goku doesn't even need a handle for a lightsaber.
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Dec 9, 2014 07:50
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:p sure the early jedi used lightsabers that were hooked up to backpack batteries in order to beat the early sith that used alchemically hardened samurai swords to fight them with Yeah, that's a thing they did. If I remember right, though, that's ridiculously far back.
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Dec 9, 2014 11:08
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Woolie Wool posted:But in Episode IV the Force was perfectly balanced. Two Jedi, two Sith. This gets brought up a bunch and the answer is Lucas said Sith are imbalance in the Force, so by getting rid of the Sith, Vader did his prophecy.
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Dec 9, 2014 17:13
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SaltLick posted:http://time.com/3630886/star-wars-vii-the-force-awakens-trailer-names/ I like the names and I'm glad the guy isn't Darth Claymore or something. The way they revealed them is also neat.
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Dec 12, 2014 06:09
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ThePutty posted:speaking of the battle of yavin, what happened to the enormous imperial fleet that was attacking the rebels They all died of broken hearts.
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Dec 15, 2014 05:32
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