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According to the NuCanon, the Imperial Office of Criminal Investigation authorises the Bounty Hunter's Guild to issue Imperial Peace-Keeping certificates, one of which was stolen from Bossk by Ezra in a young adult novel Granted I lift this stuff from wookiepedia NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Nov 12, 2016 |
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Nov 12, 2016 22:41
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Covok posted:So, what I'm getting from all this is that Bobba Fett's costume looked so cool that Legends made an entire culture of badasses who all wore the armor and were badasses together. And that is okay when you're 13, but, when you get older, you realize its kind of Mary Sue and gets boring and now we're glad that, while still a warrior culture, they're not "so awesomez, so OP." Mandalorians as a concept peaked early in Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina, which has a short story about Boba Fett taking on an entire Imperial Garrison, complete with loads of Stormtroopers, a few AT-AT's, AT-ST's, big ol' walls and security measures, etc. He pulls off all kinds of crazy trickery, and even then he's barely able to beat the garrison. It's basically Fett as Batman and I don't think it suffered from a Mary Sue situation myself, but that's generally a subjective thing unless it's really in your face Traviss style. Something cool to check out, if you want, it's way early in the EU so there's no big continuity or late-game EU problems.
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ive been reading that tarkin book and its solid but i think i should re-read scoundrels
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Tarkin and scoundrels both get a thumbs up by me, I actually stumbled on Scoundrels at my library and was like oh wow, new Zahn? Set between New Hope and Empire and it's Ocean's Eleven with Han and Lando? Let's go.
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NowonSA posted:Mandalorians as a concept peaked early in Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina, which has a short story about Boba Fett taking on an entire Imperial Garrison, complete with loads of Stormtroopers, a few AT-AT's, AT-ST's, big ol' walls and security measures, etc. He pulls off all kinds of crazy trickery, and even then he's barely able to beat the garrison. It's basically Fett as Batman and I don't think it suffered from a Mary Sue situation myself, but that's generally a subjective thing unless it's really in your face Traviss style. Something cool to check out, if you want, it's way early in the EU so there's no big continuity or late-game EU problems. Pretty sure that's Tales of the Bounty Hunters. It sticks out as being the only cool story in the collection. Tales from the Cantina was a lot of really weird stuff as I remember it. The Greedo story is super cyberpunk. Then the bartender makes Greedo into cider? The only thing I remember being kinda good from the Cantina collection is the one with Pig Nose and Walrus Face guy.
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NowonSA posted:Tarkin and scoundrels both get a thumbs up by me, I actually stumbled on Scoundrels at my library and was like oh wow, new Zahn? Set between New Hope and Empire and it's Ocean's Eleven with Han and Lando? Let's go. yeah i remember it being refreshing that it was a star wars story that could have taken place in any other setting and worked fine too
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PlisskensEyePatch posted:Pretty sure that's Tales of the Bounty Hunters. It sticks out as being the only cool story in the collection. Tales from the Cantina was a lot of really weird stuff as I remember it. The Greedo story is super cyberpunk. Then the bartender makes Greedo into cider? The only thing I remember being kinda good from the Cantina collection is the one with Pig Nose and Walrus Face guy. uhm pardon me thats dr. evazan and ponda baba which also apparently have cameos in rogue one ffs.
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EVIL NOONER posted:uhm pardon me thats dr. evazan and ponda baba I honestly tried to think of the names. Then I realized, like actually fully realized, that was 20 years ago and now I'm old. Hadn't heard of cameos for them. Wonder if we'll see what happened to the dudes face? I never really thought of them needing a backstory. To me they were basically just what Han and Chewie would be like if they were Chaotic Evil.
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PlisskensEyePatch posted:I honestly tried to think of the names. Then I realized, like actually fully realized, that was 20 years ago and now I'm old. every single thing you see in chalmun's cantina has a back story. every. single. thing. including the droid detector.
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EVIL NOONER posted:every single thing you see in chalmun's cantina has a back story. A Drink Too Many: The Story of Luke's Edited for accuracy.
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I remember a really weird comic that I think ran in Star Wars Insider where this guy agreed to take care of a lighthouse for the Imperials, and at night these beautiful women show up but they're actually horrible monsters that turn dudes to stone. Anyway the guy survives somehow and ends up telling his friend the wolfman about it back at the cantina.
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PlisskensEyePatch posted:Pretty sure that's Tales of the Bounty Hunters. It sticks out as being the only cool story in the collection. Tales from the Cantina was a lot of really weird stuff as I remember it. The Greedo story is super cyberpunk. Then the bartender makes Greedo into cider? The only thing I remember being kinda good from the Cantina collection is the one with Pig Nose and Walrus Face guy. Ah dammit you're right it's Tales of the Bounty Hunters, been forever since I read it. The Fett one is obviously the coolest there, of course, but I remember liking the others just fine too. EVIL NOONER posted:yeah i remember it being refreshing that it was a star wars story that could have taken place in any other setting and worked fine too Yep, it basically applied the method used in many Marvel movies of include superheroes (or Star Wars stuff in the case of Scoundrels) but make it have lots of elements from X genre. Spy movies in Winter Soldier, the same heist genre in Ant Man, etc.
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NowonSA posted:Ah dammit you're right it's Tales of the Bounty Hunters, been forever since I read it. The Fett one is obviously the coolest there, of course, but I remember liking the others just fine too. I have all these books still, i actually have probably every eu book written up until like 2009, plus a few random ones. I might check out some bounty hunter tales, since they're short.
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I remember a short story about a force-sensitive Sabacc player with a fancy modded ship and an Obi-Wan style force voice in his head that was cool in Tales from the New Republic, might need to dig around the book box and re-read that as well. Oh, and looking it up the Fett story I was thinking of is totally in Tales from the New Republic too, it's not the one from Bounty Hunters. Despite the book's name, the stories are set all over the timeline, it's not all set after the New Republic's been properly formed after Coruscant's captured by the Rebellion.
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What's with these back-to-back 2 week gaps
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Weird Disney scheduling. After the new episode next week will be a multi-week break. 
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Week off for Halloween and then another weekend off for Remembrance day. I think there is a solid run of episodes from now until the end of December for a Christmas/new year break and I think that last episode airs the week Rogue One comes out.
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Anybody else hear a bit of a Raiders of the Lost Ark homage in the music for this week's episode?
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Admiral Konstantine got dangerously close to pissing off Thrawn I think with that blatant lie. [edit] Its amazing the number of people bitching about Thrawn letting the heroes go again. Thrawn doesn't care about the Ghost except for how it can lead him to crushing the entire rebellion in one swoop. If he had blasted the Ghost and Sato in this episode all he'd do is cause the Rebellion a modest setback and lose his best lead to seeing how deep the rabbit hole goes. Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Nov 20, 2016 |
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Chopper "repairing" that hyperdrive unit by banging on it with a hammer made me laugh a lot.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Admiral Konstantine got dangerously close to pissing off Thrawn I think with that blatant lie. I think it was in one of the Rebels Recon videos, but Filoni or one of the top writers said that Thrawn pokes and prods and considers learning a new piece of information about his enemy to be a victory, no matter what else happened. This episode was a pretty clear example of him doing just that.
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Moon Slayer posted:I think it was in one of the Rebels Recon videos, but Filoni or one of the top writers said that Thrawn pokes and prods and considers learning a new piece of information about his enemy to be a victory, no matter what else happened. This episode was a pretty clear example of him doing just that. Not to mention he's testing his own assets. Wouldn't be surprised if Konstantine punched a ticket to becoming an expendable part of Thrawn's inevitable master plan.
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The new Dash Rendar is alright too.
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They've improved the detail on the Light Cruiser model, it looked really good in the side on shots, I think they might've even done the same for the Gozanti too. And Ghost still makes the raddest hyper space exit sound. Chills when Thrawn's ISD drops out of hyperspace on top of them, love the way they do it rather tha just making it appear. Also the Liberator shredding that Gozantil, and then speeding past the Cruiser and slamming its rear arc with broadsides, the supposed tactical advantage vs disadvantage the Rebels have over the Imperials but they never quite manage to show, until now at least howe_sam posted:Chopper "repairing" that hyperdrive unit by banging on it with a hammer made me laugh a lot. In my head Chopper's droid speak uses the word "motherfucker" at least once every sentence. Also that headbutt right at the last second, classic chopper. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 12:47 on Nov 20, 2016 |
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Beyond the terrible droid-centric episode, this season has been really good. It finally picked up speed and even, dare I say it, killed stuff off on-screen properly. Even if it was via things like a pigman being launched into a canyon by a laser.
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NTRabbit posted:In my head Chopper's droid speak uses the word "motherfucker" at least once every sentence. Also that headbutt right at the last second, classic chopper. Voiced by Samuel L Jackson.
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Episode was alright, the kid was annoying as hell. Worth it for that shot of the light cruiser emerging from the smoke though, god drat that was cool.
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Is it just me or has the animation been really slow and sluggish this season? It's especially egregious in space battles, and I can't quite put my finger on why. Maybe it's that fighters are too slow, maybe it's that blaster fire is too slow, or maybe both. Was it always like this and I just didn't realize until now? Also, the Ghost's blasters make the most disappointing sound.
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I think the kid was intentionally as annoying as possible to show how much growth Ezra's been through. I guess?
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:I think the kid was intentionally as annoying as possible to show how much growth Ezra's been through. I guess? I sure loving hope so. Kids in Star Wars are the absolute worst every single time but because of the era this is taking place in they have to have them to prep for Episode 4.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:I think the kid was intentionally as annoying as possible to show how much growth Ezra's been through. I guess? I assumed that was the case with Zeb's line "a ship full of Ezras", and that it was Ezra trying to talk them around rather than Hera.
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Woebin posted:Is it just me or has the animation been really slow and sluggish this season? It's especially egregious in space battles, and I can't quite put my finger on why. Maybe it's that fighters are too slow, maybe it's that blaster fire is too slow, or maybe both. Was it always like this and I just didn't realize until now? Yep, it's always been like this. I think it's a deliberate decision to make it feel like Episode 4, just like the skinny lightsabers. If you go back and watch the movie, the ships move at the same speed as in Rebels. It's a little jarring at first, but I've come to appreciate the change of pace.
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DancinBrud posted:Yep, it's always been like this. I think it's a deliberate decision to make it feel like Episode 4, just like the skinny lightsabers. If you go back and watch the movie, the ships move at the same speed as in Rebels. It's a little jarring at first, but I've come to appreciate the change of pace. Also, tying back to my comment about the Ghost's blasters, both the X-Wings and Tie Fighters in ANH sound great.
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DancinBrud posted:Yep, it's always been like this. I think it's a deliberate decision to make it feel like Episode 4, just like the skinny lightsabers. If you go back and watch the movie, the ships move at the same speed as in Rebels. It's a little jarring at first, but I've come to appreciate the change of pace. I never noticed this, but I wonder if this is why I can stomach Rebels and I can't stand Clone Wars. I really tried to watch a bunch of Clone Wars episodes and while there were some interesting characters, I just couldn't get into the show as a whole. I can sit through a marathon of Rebels, though. Maybe it's because it's more in line character-wise with the trilogy I grew up with, what with having the Empire around and stuff. BTW, is Hondo from Clone Wars? I love him because I just imagine him as Don Karnage.
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MichiganCubbie posted:BTW, is Hondo from Clone Wars? I love him because I just imagine him as Don Karnage. Yes,he is. He's great. 
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Woebin posted:Maybe it's because the camera work is better I've found that the Rebels spaceship camera work shits all over whatever they thought they were doing in TFA, and is certainly the best in any Star Wars since they went CG.
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Ya that last episode was garbage and actually made me consider how I'm outside the intended age group they're trying to appeal to with Rebels. I might as well be watching the Freemaker Adventures.
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NTRabbit posted:I've found that the Rebels spaceship camera work shits all over whatever they thought they were doing in TFA, and is certainly the best in any Star Wars since they went CG.
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MichiganCubbie posted:I never noticed this, but I wonder if this is why I can stomach Rebels and I can't stand Clone Wars. I really tried to watch a bunch of Clone Wars episodes and while there were some interesting characters, I just couldn't get into the show as a whole. I'd recommend giving it a second chance The link is a little spoilery, but if you've watched Rebels the spoiler is moot.
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