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IT BURNS posted:It seems that Boba's "origin/rescue" story is mostly done, which probably means less Tusken flashbacks, which sucks because it's a more interesting plot than the crime lord bit, IMO. Unless we get some very groany Tusken sex scenes with Ninja Tusken. Well they were setting him up as an orphan in search of home/family with the geonosis/Kamino flashbacks and a man without the strength of numbers to hold his ambitious claim to Jabba's throne so I'm thinking when push comes to shove with Evil Chewie and the twins he's gonna leverage.... *extremely Duke atredes voice* desert power.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:The possibility of Dr. Aphra showing up also means there is also a possibility of BT-1 and 0-0-0 showing up. If they don't get Craven from Auralnauts to voice trip zero I'm gonna be cross.
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Jan 6, 2022 22:20
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Flash forward 15 years and the Tusken are no better off but every Toschi Station Dance Revue show starts off with a land acknowledgement at the insistence of Daimyo Fett.
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Jan 7, 2022 17:03
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Why doesn't the chairman of the joint cheifs usurp Biden? He wouldn't even have to use the military; he could probably just beat him to death barehanded. "Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick. A shadow on the wall. And a very fat slug can cast a very large shadow.”
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Jan 7, 2022 18:17
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The Force isn't even confirmed to offer telekinesis as one of your spell slots till ESB: Everything that happens Force-wise in ANH could be explained by telepathy/clairvoyance. Vader just making Moti THINK he's choking, Luke just reaching out to perceive the perfect time to launch etc.
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Jan 7, 2022 21:09
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Nah. You merely have to assume the character is not speaking with robotic literality and is instead invoking a stereotype. Lest we fall into the pit of thinking because Leia said Tarkin stunk when mouthing off he must literally have a Space Illness that makes him smell bad-- a real thing from the old EU.
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Jan 7, 2022 21:52
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Arc Hammer posted:Seems like the kind of question that George would answer sarcastically and then the canon minions would treat his joke as gospel. Coming to Disney+ 2023: Darth Icky
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Jan 7, 2022 21:53
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site posted:this is wild. the idea that he was making the admiral think he was being choked has never occured to me, even when i was first seeing it as a kid. tarkin's "release him" always felt pretty definitive that vader was actually doing it I don't disagree, but I think you could have the alternate read of it until TK is confirmed in the Wampa den. If reddit existed in 81 imagine the dorks mad that they're just inventing new force powers that the protagonist automagically learns with no training. 
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Jan 7, 2022 22:02
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thrawn527 posted:Though, when I was a little kid, I thought Vader had installed something in all of his officer's collars that connected with his glove that let him choke them. I didn't really *get* the Force when I was a little kid. I am probably not the only kid who thought for a while that stormtroopers were robots. Even though the heroes steal and wear their armor.
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Jan 7, 2022 22:04
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:When the first tv teaser for Star Wars came out I thought Chewbacca was a space werewolf That tracks because it's always a full moon... in space
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Jan 7, 2022 22:17
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mdemone posted:You guys are all wrong by the way. Obi-Wan demonstrates TK in ANH when he makes an audible *thunk* that both the stormtroopers and the audience hear. He makes the Stormtroopers hear something but just because the audience heard it too, doesn't mean it's diagetic sound anymore than last week Boba was literally fighting a tentacle tree while his armor dematerialiEd and remarieralized. 
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Jan 8, 2022 20:43
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nine-gear crow posted:Also Vader is a massive awkward chump who was put in armor that purposefully chafes him in all the worst places by Emperor Palpatine and his life is a constant earthly hell. Anyone could waste his rear end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVzc20Bm8Xo
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rivetz posted:Also I'll stick it out I guess but at this point I'd be way more into a series about the little train spider robot teaming up with the evil Wookiee and going on adventures together because this poo poo is a rough watch. The reality is the coolest thing about Boba Fett is his armor and taking that away has left me w a boring actor playing a boring part. They better do something to make him more badass/fearful because he seems like a total Mandalorian ripoff more than anything else. What's with Boba fuckin Fett letting everybody live? It's like the only thing clearly defined about this character is that he's one of the most feared people in the galaxy, and they've built on that by having him do exactly nothing fearful besides wrecking a bar full of drunks in non-lethal combat. We've already seen two season of this, and they were great. I expected this to be different. I'm going to tell you a secret: The reason Boba Fett, ruthless bounty hunter, was so cool and worked as a laconic amoral murderer is because he had like four minutes of screen time. When you make a long form TV show centering them, you have to turn them into a character instead of just a cool helmet and one-liners. Also it's kind of funny that in your kinder, gentler fett thesis you forgot the time he absolutely exploded a fleeing guy into chunky gibs with a missile.
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I think it was more respectful of the fake indigenous alien monsters than most stories in that wheelhouse are of real human cultures.  CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Someone should tell the showrunners That's actually a pitfall of deciding to protagonize a minor character who's defining live action characterization so far is "dad died, turned badass bounty hunter with a cool hat, fell into a giant sand pussy." They're trying. I am enjoying the world building going on around everyone and the train sequence was genuinely decent action. Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Jan 10, 2022 |
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gold leader was just straight up Dutch. not even a coded stand in just a Dutch guy named Vander that's kind of weird
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thrawn527 posted:So anyway, we're not getting any of the Tusken Raiders taking off their masks, are we? I have a bad feeling we are, and I hope we're not. I have a really bad feeling the tusken ninja lady is gonna doff her mask and be a sexy human being who makes out with boba then dies tragically to further his story. I hope they're not that big of hacks but IDK.
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in a flashback bib fortuna goes on a monologue that starts "we live in a galaxy"
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BrianWilly posted:Oh...I'm the only one who liked the Vespa gang, then. That's fine, that's fine... I thought they were great and a reminder not everything in Star Wars has to take itself too seriously or be black on black with a covering of grime. The cyborg kids on colorful bikes they obviously take great pride in immaculately maintaining was kind of fun, to me. I even liked the chase TBH.
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I was not expecting them to fridge the whole TRIBE and definitely had my money on it coming to a head with the pikes and the klatuu biker gang and the mayor all ready to carve him up and him relying on his old tusken pals to help. Of course they conspicuously did NOT show dead ninja lady tusken, so maybe we'll still get that on a much smaller scale.
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RE: The condition of the bikes. The kids obviously take exceptional pride in maintaining them in cherry shape as a form of self-expression. We can take that as read from their appearance and it's an easier and more plausible conclusion than thinking the production design team forgot how weathering works for exactly one set of props out of thousands.
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https://twitter.com/TheGr8Aspie/status/1481279138426146818
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:I did and do think that their aesthetic really clashes with Tattooine, I'm probably not going to change your mind, but imagine you're a disaffected space mod culture youth trying to express yourself on a planet where everything is tan drab and sandblasted to poo poo. The clash is the point.
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Mega Comrade posted:So everyone else just has broken rusted poo poo cos they don't care? I mean, mostly, yeah? The guy who's hauling plumbus roots in his space honda that's been running since Yoda was smooth just needs his shitbox to get from the labor district to the city center and doesn't care about doing it in style. The Space Akira Bike Gang probably has like micro-force-fields so their banana yellow paint stays safe from the sands.
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feedmyleg posted:If you're bummed now, just wait til you see Return of the Jedi!! "Boba Fett? The feared and infamous bounty hunter?" *scoff* "you're paying for the name."
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VagueRant posted:The Jabba throneroom scenes. The scene approaching the teens. The scenes with the Hutts. The scenes across the Mayor's reception desk. The scene of the speeder approach. https://youtu.be/Y7EB4ZYWKYI
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fartknocker posted:Filoni finally gonna will Plo Koon back to life and live action Isn't he the one who died in one of the most unambiguous ways of the whole montage, his starfighter exploding with him in it? Second only to the twilekk who got shot up worse than the kid in the boardroom in RoboCop.
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chitoryu12 posted:This is completely accurate to real life in poverty-stricken areas. People cling to whatever color they can and try to keep it bright and creative. In addition to the mod scene it kind of reminded me of how in Cuba they have 60+ year old cars that they take pride in keeping both mechanically serviceable and physically beautiful.
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it must be asked when we're talking about star war grognards with strong opinions: is he objecting to the color of the bikes or the color of the actors?
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I truly don't understand "this is incongrouous with what we know of the character" complaints. His whole live action appearance is defined by like 3 lines and three and a half scenes in the films. From that we learn that he is a bounty hunter, kind of clever, has a cool hat, and fell into giant evil space pussy. Honestly we don't learn a ton about his "character" as such until Mandolorian, where we learn he is also a Mandolorian, values getting his armor back when he learns where it is, and feels honor-bound to see a deal through and help Din. I could see that character casting about for what to do next and deciding to depose a gross goblin man and struggle to deal with weilding that power trying to be a more stand up man of action and genuine "theives honor." The character is very bland and I'm mostly enjoying the setpieces and world building happening around him. But not really inconsistent if for no other reason than there's hitherto little to be inconsistent with. Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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Xelkelvos posted:The chase was definitely bad and needed to be at least 1.5x faster. The Mod gang isn't bad in theory but seem just so utterly out of place in the setting and story. If this was set on a more cosmopolitan world, they'd definitely fit in a lot butter, but here it feels like taking a bunch of models from Cyberpunk and dropping them into RDR2. The design aesthetic of the scooter also feel extremely off compared to the vehicles normally seen. Stuff like them having a more metallic paint instead of something more matte or textured as is more typical. They're also too curvy with panels that don't have the typical stuff (there's a term for it that I can't think of) that also tends to adorn stuff in universe I think "greebles" is the word you're looking for? I figure they're just imported from Naboo or Couscant or one of the other Art Deco Planets.
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Yeah you don't necessarily put a lift kit, flood lights, and a trailer hitch on a lambo because it belongs to a rich kid in Kentucky who's trying to flex cosmopolitan.
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:I thought it was night? It does strain credulity that they don't set a watch. Hell, they have robots.
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Jerkface posted:the approximately 8 employees of boba walk the perimeter in set patterns, use your map to view their routes, Krrsantan "Who's there?! I'll find you!" *BK crouches behind a standing vase too small to possibly conceal him for several seconds* Cyborg eye dude: "Huh. Must have just been the wind."
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If I were going to fall down the trap of Tactical Realism might as well ask why he didn't just blast him in his waterbed and peace out instead of throwing him around a little and then getting teamstomped once the alert was up.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:
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They spent three movies showing sleek, chromed out art deco city planet and planet Venice's chromed up shuttles and squadrons of candy yellow gloss Mercedes-Benz 710 SSK Trossi Roadster starfighters. I think the better surmise when you see a prop or vehicle in that wheelhouse is to assume the characters sourced it from one of those worlds/cultures rather than that the production designers forgot how to do a star war. Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Jan 13, 2022 |
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:What in the actual gently caress did I just watch? That was probably the worst chase scene I've ever seen in TV/film history. Who greenlit bright-colored hover motorcycles zooming through city streets on bland-rear end Tatooine? Crashing through 2 people holding a painting? That was the worst poo poo I've seen in a long time. I think it may say more about you than the pretend spaceman that you take a display of affection towards a pet as a sexual thing, IDK.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:tbh I think the show should be portraying Boba as more badass than it is, and it is making him seem like a chump. I'm okay with him getting kicked around and loving up, but the dude was a bounty hunter with enough cred to be hired by Vader Vader also hired a lizard, toilet paper head, insect c3po, and the cantina drink machine.
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Farm Frenzy posted:the teen vespa gang wouldve worked better if they werent all dressed in brand new clothes from uniqlo. or if they were hosed up looking aliens This does seem like a legit criticism one or two of them should have been Greedos or Prunefaces or some poo poo. Though I do have a headcanon that they're core world dilettantes living rough on the rim for the thrill of it. so it would map to that.
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