Wheat Loaf posted:Oh, man, I remember Simpsons Wrestling, but I'm not sure if I want to. It was okay. I was wise and rented it.
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So Andy Serkis's character is revealed to be named... Supreme Leader Snoke. And is a mocap character, of course.
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May 28, 2015 20:46
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Chairman Capone posted:So Andy Serkis's character is revealed to be named... Supreme Leader Snoke. And is a mocap character, of course. So my only question is Supreme Leader of what?
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May 28, 2015 20:57
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Chairman Capone posted:So Andy Serkis's character is revealed to be named... Supreme Leader Snoke. And is a mocap character, of course. No doubt because of a clause that George Lucas hid in the fine print of the contract when he sold the company.
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May 28, 2015 21:02
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"You can do whatever you want with the franchise but every new character name has to come from this list <hands construction paper scrawled with crayons>"
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May 28, 2015 21:06
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Chairman Capone posted:So Andy Serkis's character is revealed to be named... Supreme Leader Snoke. And is a mocap character, of course. Sounds Gungan to me. And we thought we were free....
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May 29, 2015 02:12
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Per directive from George Lucas, all new Star Wars character names are to be onamatopoetically offputting. Like Sheev. Or Snoke.
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May 29, 2015 15:20
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Darth Bahd Ky.
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May 29, 2015 19:03
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So I'm climbing back into the EU since the reboot and I'm gonna give it a shot. I bought the first official book "A New Dawn" on amazon and I noticed a few more are out, or for preorder. My question is how long does it take for a hardcover new release to make it to paperback? I couldn't find a paperback release date for "Heir to the Jedi"
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Jun 8, 2015 23:46
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Paperbacks generally come out 8 to 12 months later unless its a terrible romance novel or some indy publisher. You might get lucky and they push it up to 6 months, but that is rare. Edit: it was 6 months to the day for a new dawn to hit paperback. Carteret fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Jun 9, 2015 |
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Jun 9, 2015 00:20
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Carteret posted:Paperbacks generally come out 8 to 12 months later unless its a terrible romance novel or some indy publisher. Oh wow I never realized it took that long, I always figured they took about 3 months to catch the diehards with, then dropped to paperback for the rest of the population. Thanks for the heads up, maybe I'll cave and get the hardcovers.
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Jun 9, 2015 01:39
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Finally forced myself through that Young Jedi Knights book. KJA dumbs the language down so much that they're just a slog.
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Jun 9, 2015 15:10
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Casimir Radon posted:Finally forced myself through that Young Jedi Knights book. KJA dumbs the language down so much that they're just a slog. That was my favorite series as a kid...but I haven't gone back to revisit them because I'm afraid I'll have precisely this reaction.
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Jun 9, 2015 16:36
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jivjov posted:That was my favorite series as a kid...but I haven't gone back to revisit them because I'm afraid I'll have precisely this reaction.
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Jun 9, 2015 18:44
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To be fair it's not like his other stuff is at a much higher reading level
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StashAugustine posted:To be fair it's not like his other stuff is at a much higher reading level
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Jun 9, 2015 19:07
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Remember the Galaxy of Fear series? It was like Goosebumps, but in Star Wars! 
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Jun 9, 2015 19:20
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I was into Jedi Apprentice while everyone else I knew was into Animorphs.
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Pththya-lyi posted:Remember the Galaxy of Fear series? It was like Goosebumps, but in Star Wars!
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Pththya-lyi posted:Remember the Galaxy of Fear series? It was like Goosebumps, but in Star Wars! One of them even has Admiral Thrawn!
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SirPhoebos posted:One of them even has Admiral Thrawn! I believe we instituted a rule to never speak of this. I was never there. Now get out of my office.
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It also had the villain from Jedi Knight, the blindfold dude. (Animorphs was way better.)
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Jun 9, 2015 21:50
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And Dash Rendar, vacationing on the Star of Empire.
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I feel like each Galaxy of Fear and YJK book tied into a specific "adult" story. From YJK I remembered there's one book where they go to Hapes, one book where they go to Mon Calamari, one book where they go to the space station from Dark Empire, another where they go to Vader's castle from DE, etc. And most of the new characters tie into earlier books, too (Tenel Ka and the evil Nightsister derive from Courtship, the drug addict bounty hunter who Jacen gets a boner for derives from the Brian Daley books, Brakiss was in a few of the Bantam novels, Black Sun is the villain again, etc).
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I only ever read the first YJK book. My mother bought it for me once when I was incredibly sick, so all my memories of it are pretty hazy and feverish. I'm not sure if that would have improved it or not...
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I'm always amused by the fact that the YJK series takes place after Luke and Mara are married...but she never appears or is even mentioned.
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jivjov posted:I'm always amused by the fact that the YJK series takes place after Luke and Mara are married...but she never appears or is even mentioned. That's because they were actually published prior to the Hand of Thrawn books, among others, so they didn't want to spoil the wedding (plus for a while I think there was back and forth behind the scenes over whether Luke would marry Mara or Callista). It's also why they never mention whether the Empire is still around or not, and why Leia is still the president despite no longer being so in Hand of Thrawn (which they then retconned as her taking an extended vacation from the presidency or something, which sounds like it would be political suicide, but I guess this is Star Wars). I actually looked it up now out of curiosity and the first YJK book came out in 1995, so that's really pretty early in the EU. And the very last YJK was the only one which came out after Luke and Mara's engagement was revealed in Vision of the Future.
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Chairman Capone posted:That's because they were actually published prior to the Hand of Thrawn books, among others, so they didn't want to spoil the wedding (plus for a while I think there was back and forth behind the scenes over whether Luke would marry Mara or Callista). It's also why they never mention whether the Empire is still around or not, and why Leia is still the president despite no longer being so in Hand of Thrawn (which they then retconned as her taking an extended vacation from the presidency or something, which sounds like it would be political suicide, but I guess this is Star Wars). Oh I know the behind the scenes reason. It's honestly why I'm so optimistic about the new Story Group-driven canon...hopefully an overall guiding hand will prevent the need for retcons/slip ups like that.
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One major disappointment from graduating to the adult novels is that Brackiss doesn't have poo poo for a backstory. I figured they'd go into whatever his deal was. But like many things all it gets is some handwaving in Star Wars Insider or a sourcebook.
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Jun 10, 2015 00:05
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jivjov posted:Oh I know the behind the scenes reason. It's honestly why I'm so optimistic about the new Story Group-driven canon...hopefully an overall guiding hand will prevent the need for retcons/slip ups like that. I don't know. My personal view is that I think this is going to last right up until the first director for a future movie decides he doesn't care what comic issue #237 said twelve years ago, he's going to do something this way. And if Ant-Man actually is dire I bet it will also make Disney executives more likely to give directors leeway over forcing them to adhere to rigid spinoff canon.
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Chairman Capone posted:I don't know. My personal view is that I think this is going to last right up until the first director for a future movie decides he doesn't care what comic issue #237 said twelve years ago, he's going to do something this way. And if Ant-Man actually is dire I bet it will also make Disney executives more likely to give directors leeway over forcing them to adhere to rigid spinoff canon. Ideally the Story Group exists to step in to tell the director "sorry, by signing up to work on Star Wars, you agreed that these are the things that are canon to the universe". I'm a bit worried about the same thing, but time will tell...
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I just hope the Story Group is thinking in terms of plotlines extending over years, long term character development, and actual narrative weight and not just amping up interest in whatever new movie comes out that Christmas. I like to dream.
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It's all good until Troy Denning gets to write another book and they're too scared to tell him no.
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jivjov posted:Ideally the Story Group exists to step in to tell the director "sorry, by signing up to work on Star Wars, you agreed that these are the things that are canon to the universe". I'm a bit worried about the same thing, but time will tell... Yeah, but the story group consists of a handful of mid-tier Lucasbooks editors who are the exact same people who let the continuity and canon over the last few years of the EU go completely to poo poo because they themselves didn't give a poo poo. If some red-hot Oscar-winning director came in and had a different idea I really doubt Disney is going to say, "Sorry, but we're going to side with Pablo Hidalgo over you!"
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Chairman Capone posted:Yeah, but the story group consists of a handful of mid-tier Lucasbooks editors who are the exact same people who let the continuity and canon over the last few years of the EU go completely to poo poo because they themselves didn't give a poo poo. If some red-hot Oscar-winning director came in and had a different idea I really doubt Disney is going to say, "Sorry, but we're going to side with Pablo Hidalgo over you!" Other than Clone Wars continuity, I don't think anything from the EU ever really 'went to poo poo'. They tried SO hard to do minimal retcons to make everything fit, and for the most part succeeded.
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jivjov posted:Other than Clone Wars continuity, I don't think anything from the EU ever really 'went to poo poo'. They tried SO hard to do minimal retcons to make everything fit, and for the most part succeeded. The stuff about Luke's mom from the Black Fleet Crisis is slightly problematic. I mean, I guess Padme could have been up to some crazy poo poo we didn't know about, but...probably that doesn't work. Though that's hardly the fault of the canon people. Lucas is as Lucas does. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Jun 10, 2015 |
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^At the end it turns out they were lying to Luke. They let Dark Nest, LOTF, and FOTJ happen. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Jun 10, 2015 |
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Jun 10, 2015 02:16
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jivjov posted:Ideally the Story Group exists to step in to tell the director "sorry, by signing up to work on Star Wars, you agreed that these are the things that are canon to the universe". I'm a bit worried about the same thing, but time will tell... If we're lucky the Story Group will be powerless to do that and just end up managing spinoff products for nerds.
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jivjov posted:Ideally the Story Group exists to step in to tell the director "sorry, by signing up to work on Star Wars, you agreed that these are the things that are canon to the universe". I'm a bit worried about the same thing, but time will tell... That'd be completely awful in every way.
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Casimir Radon posted:^At the end it turns out they were lying to Luke. Well. poo poo. That's what I get for commenting on something I read 15 years ago.
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