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Big Mean Jerk posted:I enjoy it far more on rewatch, but the cast as a whole is fairly forgettable. Aside from Krennic and the final space battle I'm not sure anyone will remember it 5 years from now. I suppose if you have brain damage you can forget about Donnie loving Yen.
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Or Darth Vader carving a bloody swath through people on-screen for the first time ever.
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Feb 26, 2018 16:10
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Krennic going to Anakin's Nostalgia Hellzone Castle and getting owned because he woke Lord Vader from his afternoon nap will never not be awesome.
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There’s a lot to like in Rogue One. The whole third act is really tight. The Empire being the Empire is pretty great. K2-SO4 is a delight as is Donny Yen. However, it’s second act along with characterization for most of the main characters is awful. Plotting and pacing are a real issue too throughout the first two thirds.
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Feb 26, 2018 21:21
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A friend of mine suggested that if either of us were big enough nerds to make a fan edit (spoiler: neither of us are), a lot of Rogue One's problems could be fixed by having the entire film take place on Scarif, and developing characters and relationships through flashbacks. I'm not sure whether I agree or not, but it was at least an interesting thought.
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I heard Marc Bernardin say that there is no technically good Star Wars movie, but rather they are strings of moments, and how fondly we remember them is based on how many good moments they had compared to how many bad moments. Rogue One has a lot of good moments for me.
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cptn_dr posted:A friend of mine suggested that if either of us were big enough nerds to make a fan edit (spoiler: neither of us are), a lot of Rogue One's problems could be fixed by having the entire film take place on Scarif, and developing characters and relationships through flashbacks. That's...that's pretty cool, actually. Boondock Saints style, except, y'know, actually good 
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NTRabbit posted:I heard Marc Bernardin say that there is no technically good Star Wars movie, but rather they are strings of moments, and how fondly we remember them is based on how many good moments they had compared to how many bad moments. Rogue One has a lot of good moments for me. I mean quality is obviously subjective, but the original movie is technically good by just about any criteria a reasonable person could come up with.
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DancinBrud posted:I mean quality is obviously subjective, but the original movie is technically good by just about any criteria a reasonable person could come up with. "No technically good movie wanders in the desert for half an hour before introducing the protagonist" is the specific criticism of ANH, but he does think it's the best one e: Quote is on youtube, Kevin Smith warning NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Feb 26, 2018 |
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Feb 26, 2018 22:05
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NTRabbit posted:"No technically good movie wanders in the desert for half an hour before introducing the protagonist" is the specific criticism of ANH, but he does think it's the best one Not a big Lawrence of Arabia fan, I’m guessing yes, I’m aware LoA introduces Lawrence in the very first scene, there’s still plenty of desert wandering
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Feb 26, 2018 22:51
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Personally Bor Gullet was my favorite character.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Not a big Lawrence of Arabia fan, I’m guessing The desert wandering that comes after the protagonist is introduced
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And it's the most gorgeous desert wandering ever filmed, to boot.
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Feb 26, 2018 23:27
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Not sure if anyone else is watching live but this is some weird stuff. Also some major game changing poo poo not just for Rebels, but for the rest of the canon as a whole.
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Malcolm McDowell! Liam Neeson! Alec Guiness!
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Feb 27, 2018 04:05
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Ahsoka lives.
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Oh poo poo, Carrie Fisher and Daisy Ridley, too. This episode is nuts.
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Feb 27, 2018 04:08
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From 2016 https://imgur.com/a/UHehe
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Holy poo poo, that was Malcolm McDowell? Voice sounded familiar, but I couldn't place it. Cool villain, too. edit: And yeah, all of those Topps cards probably deserve some reexamination. Filoni, you tricky son of a gun. Cross-Section fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Feb 27, 2018 |
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Feb 27, 2018 04:57
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Did anyone else get similar vibes to the Twin Peaks finale when Ezra saved Ahsoka That place with the portals was clearly a black/white lodge. The Mortis gods are going to throw Ezra into an alternate timeline/universe for the finale. Obviously this cartoon show for children would draw heavily from the works of Lynch.
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I really hate how Filoni a) couldn't resist bringing back his pet character, excising all the emotional and narrative weight from her original "death" in the process, and b) reintroduced time travel (a plot device so ill-fitting and lazy for Star Wars that even the old EU rarely flirted with it) into canon to do it. What a self-indulgent episode.
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Feb 27, 2018 05:28
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Those episodes were loving awesome. Add hellfire to the list of the Emperor's set of tricks. We never saw Ahsoka die and even saw what looked like her coming out of the Sith Temple at Malachor. Of course she's gonna live. Guess the Ahsoka that (presumably) survived the fight with Vader and everything she's done till then has effectively been written out of existence.
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Anyone else notice that like, the FPS went up in the second half? The animation seemed radically better.
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Yeah, they clearly save budget on certain episodes to pour it into others. Love that Sabine’s art history degree finally came in handy in the real world. Ian McDiarmid isn’t afraid to go for it with his vocals. Also endearing: that he said “Ashoka” and Filoni didn’t correct him. This got pretty weird, but Clone Wars made me realize that I like my Star Wars weird.
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I am so loving happy right now. Holy. poo poo. Tonight's episodes were amazing. This new mysticism introduced into the Force lore is loving sweet, I love it. But god drat, seeing Ahsoka come back was one of the most " is going on?!" moments I've experienced watching a show, and it was overwhelmingly awesome. My heart was racing.And yeah, the production value for sure has a been turned up a notch for these last few episodes. The score too, has been really really good. The rising tension in the soundtrack towards the end of the second episode as the temple to collapsing was riveting as gently caress. [edit] I just realized next week is the finale... 
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Feb 27, 2018 06:31
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Time travel has no place in Star Wars
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Chickenwalker posted:Time travel has no place in Star Wars Rey has already done this in a way 
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Chickenwalker posted:Time travel has no place in Star Wars Rebels Recon is a must-watch this week, by the way. Lots of great insight into the Mortis gods and the world between worlds.
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This was cool.
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teagone posted:Rey has already done this in a way Oh right I forgot how Poochie did that in beloved cultural touchstone The Force Awakens. Forget I said anything.
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Feb 27, 2018 07:47
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I forgot, what happened to the Ghost? Why are they shipless?
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 Trailer for the finale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi9-oGOgd_M
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banned from Starbucks posted:I forgot, what happened to the Ghost? Why are they shipless? I haven't watched the newest ones because they aren't available for download yet, but in the first half of the season they handed the Ghost over to Rex and Kallus before getting Vizago to smuggle them on to Lothal.
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I’m gonna miss the hell out of this show.
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I just watched the second episode again, and inside the temple, I also heard Jyn Erso and Kylo Ren’s voices, too.
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Gonz posted:I just watched the second episode again, and inside the temple, I also heard Jyn Erso and Kylo Ren’s voices, too. Yoda, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Kanan, Maz, Jyn, Rey, Kylo, Chirrut, Poe, Darth, Hera and The Son & Daughter from the Mortis trilogy in clone wars
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I really hate how Filoni a) couldn't resist bringing back his pet character, excising all the emotional and narrative weight from her original "death" in the process, and b) reintroduced time travel (a plot device so ill-fitting and lazy for Star Wars that even the old EU rarely flirted with it) into canon to do it. What a self-indulgent episode. Except she never actually died, and was actually pictured at the end of the episode walking through the sith temple rubble, and I really never got why people were so insistent that she'd died when actual onscreen evidence demonstrated she hadn't
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What's with the tags, the shits aired already.
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Here's my prediction: Ahsoka knew she had been pulled into the future and that she was "dead" for for the intervening time, so she's been laying low but comes back for the final battle. Then her and Ezra fly off into the Unknown Regions to search for and protect other temples like Lothal's.
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They're also fine to survive, because neither of them really count as Jedi when Yoda is playing cute with his words to Luke, whereas Kanan/Caleb still was by the proper temple Jedi definition.
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