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Through an implausible but entertaining series of events, Threepio ends up riding the bomb down into the exhaust port Major Kong-style.
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HootTheOwl posted:Force Smug, Force S-Mug FlamingLiberal posted:I enjoyed the whole WW2 dogfighting sequences, but boy the show really wants me to hate the New Republic, huh?
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Aug 30, 2023 18:50
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One of the several things I like about Baylan Skoll is the economy with which he deflects blaster shots. No waving his lightsabre around, only snapping it precisely into place with a minimum of motion. 
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Sep 6, 2023 07:20
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Looks like they blew past the 17k backers requirement for the final unlock after all, huh. If nothing else it's a cool $10 million or so in revenue for them. Wonder how much it all costs to manufacture and what not.
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Sep 7, 2023 00:51
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Galaga Galaxian posted:So when the New Republic scrapped the fleet, do you think they bothered to put Home One in a museum, or did they just send her straight to the Brearker's Yard with nary a thought? 
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Sep 7, 2023 20:57
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Cartoon Man posted:Wasn’t she slicing and dicing good guys in the very first sequence of the show? At least with Baylan, one gets the impression that he is a fundamentally honourable man who finds no joy in what he does.
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Sep 7, 2023 23:47
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I've come to believe that the New Republic is depicted in such an unfavourable light simply because it has to be an inept institution for the First Order to be virtually unopposed by the time the sequel trilogy takes place. There is no particular need for any particular agenda behind its being written the way it is when the unfortunate, creatively bankrupt narrative needs imposed by the ST exist.
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Sep 13, 2023 18:48
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Barriss's fate has been left unstated because Filoni supposedly had/has plans for the character. Honestly though, I've never been able to buy into her whole arc. It's one thing to be disillusioned with the Jedi Order, even thoroughly fed up with the entire state of the Republic, but having her resort straight away to committing a terrorist bombing and framing her friend for it? Outside of "the Dark Side made her do it", which feels eminently unsatisfying in its own right to me, Barriss's actions just seemed to come too far out of left field.
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Sep 14, 2023 02:39
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maybealabia posted:I mean you could say the same for Anakin 
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Sombrerotron posted:As for the difference between pre- and post-flashback Ahsoka, I don't mean to be pedantic, but all we've seen her do since donning a white poncho is wake up, hug a kid and telepathically communicate with a titanic space whale in the span of maybe 10 minutes of screentime. I think it's a little early to draw any conclusions here.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I know this is an episode ago but I just finished it and have to ask why doesn't she just take the sphere and run. Possibility #2: She knows that running away is not going to work on account of Baylan being a Force-user, and perhaps would prefer not to find out how reasonable he actually is by pissing him off like that. (Due to Reasons she does not even have her jetpack. )I don't know, in terms of dumb things happening because the plot requires it, I was much more frustrated by Hera completely failing to gain any support from the senators for her investigation of Seatos. You would think she'd simply lead with the fact that a goddamn SSD hyperdrive core was stolen right off Corellia, but that she managed to put a tracker on it and had better go pursue the matter right now before the tracker is discovered – but no, despite this appearing to be infinitely more actionable than her suspicions regarding Thrawn, she never even brings it up. Saying that she believes Thrawn's allies are working on a way to find him is as close as Hera ever gets, and needless to say that is nowhere near enough. Feh. It annoyed me then, it annoys me now.
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Mental Hospitality posted:I'm going toss my hat into the ring and say I've been enjoying the show as someone who didn't watch the cartoons. Actually, I just started watching Clone Wars because of this show. As someone who's watched all of Star Trek Discovery and Picard, I grade my Star Shows on a curve and in that regard I think most of the live action Star Wars stuff has ranged from mediocre at worst, to something I'm actually excited to watch. I loved the tension building in Andor and it was full of great performances. The last two episodes of Ahsoka have started grab me as well.
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Having a planetary ring system be made of star whale bones is pretty metal. I am not sure the things hinted at in this episode can be resolved satisfactorily with just two more episodes to go, though. Then again perhaps Filoni will manage to deliver after all.
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Sep 20, 2023 03:01
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The absolute cowards.
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While we are vaguely on the subject, the video game Star Wars Jedi: Survivor included a pretty bangin' selection of ostensibly in-universe music performed by various real life artists, including The HU who'd already had a song of theirs featured in the first game, Fallen Order. No idea what the genres here might be, though.
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Sep 25, 2023 02:55
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Nanigans posted:I figured this is as good a place as any to ask.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:The His Dark Materials series has pretty good child performances, unfortunately let down by Lin Manuel Miranda.
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Oct 25, 2023 01:01
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John Wick of Dogs posted:stole a giant engine And sure, you'd think the briefly mentioned off-screen investigations into the whole affair would uncover the sudden absence of an entire SSD hyperdrive core. But as the New Republic never is seen coming round to taking Hera's suspicions more seriously… 
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Dec 3, 2023 03:54
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Eiba posted:Of course, the real reason is the writers didn't think it through or care to show us the situation being treated with the gravity it should. But in an ongoing saga that still leaves us with the question of how to think of the characters.
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HootTheOwl posted:There's a scene where they do a training mission in a canyon 
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Honestly, nothing was going to make Resistance worth watching while Kaz remained so annoying a protagonist. I get that it was a kids' show and that the leads in these tend to be flawed in particular, irritating ways, but as far as I am concerned Resistance simply failed to give him enough redeeming/ameliorating features.
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Dec 24, 2023 02:35
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Dave Syndrome posted:Keep in mind that the actor would need to be really really thin to convincingly pull off the additional layer of Weequay latex makeup on top of his normal face. Any thicker than that and you wind up with a look like RotS butterball Sidious.
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Oh, yes, I blanked on the theme park context there; that would probably be an issue. 
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Try not to miss out on episode 5 either unless you are allergic to fan service; it arguably contains the season's best Ahsoka performances and they do not even involve Rosario Dawson.
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Arc Light posted:Auralnauts did not miss
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The actual, boring answer: Wookieepedia posted:The name "Ventress" was suggested by Samuel C. Spitale, naming her after the town of Ventress in the state of Louisiana because it reminded him of "the voodoo queen" Marie Laveau. Her first name, "Asajj," was proposed by Leland Chee after the character Asaji (浅茅) from Akira Kurosawa's 1957 film Throne of Blood, in turn based on William Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth from the seventeenth-century play Macbeth.
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Inquisitor Barriss is probably the least interesting direction they could be taking her, so that's a big  as far as I am concerned. The Elspeth episodes could maybe turn out interesting depending on how Nightsister-y things get, but in general none of it looks especially exciting to me. It's a pity too, because the other recent animated Star Wars stuff has been passable at worst.
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thrawn527 posted:Again, though, maybe I'm just spoiled by this week's X-Men episode.
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The tie-in novels have to be written by Dean Koontz.
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Turns out Tales of the Empire is already available on D+ in my part of the world. After watching the whole thing I have to say that, while it looked really good, I'm not too crazy about it as far as the story and characters were concerned. For a former Nightsister Morgan Elspeth is surprising bland, though that is pretty much in keeping with Ahsoka (which this anthology does little more than set her up for). As for Barriss: to be honest, I never was keen on what TCW did with her character to begin with, and the three 15-minute-long episodes TotE had to offer did not feel nearly sufficient to explore her fraught past and present. Never mind that she probably dies at the end… unless she doesn't! You never know with lightsabre wounds these days.
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Both characters' episodes generally play out as you'd probably expect in that regard. (Morgan does not use any magick/Force abilities from what I remember, but then she rarely did so during her previous appearances either.)
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I suppose the simplest and possibly intended answer is that the person who'd have cared about her crimes and her betrayal of Ahsoka (Anakin Skywalker) is gone, while Darth Vader has no particular reason to feel strongly about Barriss either way. Which is not to say that doing nothing more with Vader than having him ominously enter the room and sit on a grim throne was a good choice, but then again her TotE arc as a whole felt fragmentary like that.
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