gohuskies posted:

Luke and Leia kill the first Emperor clone together:

Appearing in his Eclipse-class dreadnought Eclipse above Pinnacle Base, Palpatine demanded the return of his stolen holocron and the presence of Leia, who complied, in exchange for a possible truce with the New Republic. When Leia arrived aboard Eclipse, she implored Luke for help—as foretold by Bodo Baas's Master a thousand years earlier. Skywalker managed to cast off the veil of the dark side that cloaked his mind and turned on Palpatine. Enraged at this latest development, Palpatine brandished a blue-bladed lightsaber and struck at Luke. Despite Palpatine's viciousness, Luke managed to defeat the Sith Lord in a brief but intense lightsaber duel, slicing off his hand.

Palpatine was hardly finished, summoning a Force storm against the New Republic fleet. However, the siblings banded together and, with the aid of the unborn Anakin Solo, were able to use the light side of the Force to temporarily sever Palpatine's connection to the Force. The Force storm, no longer under Palpatine's control, destroyed Eclipse, killing Palpatine again while the pair fled, ending the Battle of Pinnacle Base. His spirit survived and found its way into another clone body.

paranoid randroid posted:

i remember there was some guy who was Han Solo but not really named Talon Karrde and his ship was the Wild Karrde and he was from Correllia because naturally

kingcom posted:

Mr.Pibbleton posted:

Wasn't the whole human supremacy thing made up to lower the costume budget?

Lincoln posted:

What exactly did Karen Traviss write that gets people so up in arms? I'm almost completely unfamiliar with EU novels.

effectual posted:

Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless.

Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Luke: I don't think so. I'm looking for a great warrior.
Yoda: Ohhh. Great warrior.
[laughs and shakes his head]
Yoda: Wars not make one great.

TOILETLORD posted:

they need to make a jedi in the new trilogy a duelist that fights with a blaster and a saber at the same time. I really never under stood why they didn't have a blaster on hand how else are they going to easily kill a dude 100 meters away. Also you would think jedi's would pack a ton of grenades since they can use the force to make them go exactly where they want to.

Neurosis posted:

jms' writing is really inconsistent, and it's not just a problem for b5

his comics are also wildly variable. he made it so gwen stacy and norman osborne had two kids lol. thank god that's been ignored

on the other hand supreme power was brilliant until marvel cancelled it, first replacing it with the inferior squadron supreme, written with more editorial oversight, then squashed completely and rolled into the main universe, and the first 1/3 of rising stars was really good, and overall the series was still pretty cool

SunAndSpring posted:

I wonder if Porkins's actor knew that his character was named Porkins and he just needed the money back then, or if he just got a role listed for "Space pilot" and then learned after the fact that George Lucas was making fun of him.

ThePutty posted:

at least the second death star makes sense, you wouldn't have just one death star when you could build 10 and scare everyone in the galaxy into submission

george lucas was still lazy though and just wanted to recapture a new hope

Otisburg posted:

It sure is a good thing we raised all these children to a life as disposable soldiers so no people would ever have to die in these star wars, eh?

oohhboy posted:

There are de-specialized cuts if you go look for them. They are as close to a original theatrical cuts as they come with all the original GFX flaws. Not only does Han shoots first but Greedo doesn't get a shot off before slamming head first into the table in a smoking heap.

babypolis posted:

they said nixon lost agaisnt kennedy because he looked bad in tv, but in that picture nixon looks dignified and respectable while kennedy looks like he just came off a cocaine bender (not unlikely) so what the gently caress

burritolingus posted:

versus Emperor Chewed Gum Head.

Chill la Chill posted:

Which movie is this I want to see some Princess Leia titties

The Monkey Man posted:

I think he couldn't appear in Episode III because he had a back injury.

beanieson posted:

The blu ray releases added more retarded poo poo? I haven't seen the OT since the first dvd release

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

That's totally not right. He's a Disney's Aladdin knock off.

ElGroucho posted:

Young Freud posted:

I've already made the jokes that they should change the subtitle to "Lightsaber Stab-And-Drag" and "Force Pushed Into Hard Corners".

Hingehead posted:

He didnt say DARTH Tyrannus.

Nckdictator posted:

Kandak Sayaqa posted:

I would swear I read a book as a child that said a Jedi could plot lightspeed jumps by using the force, but a cursory google search doesn't turn up anything substantial.

This thread inspired me to replay KOTOR 2 (fully patched), so I guess the EU isn't completely without merit.

freethought posted:

I figure he is a racist and when he finished Red Tails, what he said to himself was "This oughtta shut those uppity negroes up". Bear in mind his least favourite Star Wars movie is the one which introduces a black character as a good guy.

Fetus Tree posted:

Years after the Battle of Endor, Bossk retired from professional hunting. He later ran into Han Solo on a space stationorbiting Ord Mantell during the Yuuzhan Vong War. When he heard of Chewbacca's death, Bossk rubbed it in Solo's face, receiving a broken snout in return. The encounter escalated into a fight, and both Bossk and Solo were put into arrest cells. Solo was allowed to leave shortly before the invasion of the space station, but Bossk had to stay. The station was later destroyed, but just before the explosion, an escape pod jettisoned.

lol

Bossk also fought in the clone wars, because of course he did

OneThousandMonkeys posted:

Forced Unleashed 1's plot is hilariously bad but entertaining. 2 is just bad, with some pointless and unnecessary cameos and really nothing creative going on under the hood in any aspect of the game, it's a total cash-in. Letting you be Force Goku in Star Wars was a really good idea and having a plot where Vader and Sheev have to job is also OK, because at the end of the day, they are the iconic villains of Star Wars and most of the successive villains in the EU have been ripoffs of them.

Force Unleashed was playable all the way through but the game's only solution to increase the difficulty in any way was to prevent you from doing all the cool things you could do in the demo. Which is to say, the game was not difficult at all and fairly repetitive at that. Also a bit buggy. It's been way too long since an actual good Star Wars game came out.

oohhboy posted:

They didn't make anymore X-Wing Vs Tie Fighters because it would require them to make a good game.

Cyberball 2072 posted:

This is the best force unleashed thing. The one about "how did Bob die?" Is pretty good too.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/02/01

I really wish more games paid for euphoria engine. Watching computer dudes cling to things for dear life is great.