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The sequels state of the universe kind of sucks and it's you know it's that way because JJ and crew just wanted to rehash the original trilogy story beats rather than do something new. I'm a firm believer you could improve on what the prequels tried to do with its overarching political look at the universe and tell an interesting story with themes that aren't just a repeat of the previous movies with new paint.
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jivjov posted:The Republic also had virtually no military. One small fleet, and that got destroyed with the Hosnian system. Why, and also did none of the individual planets have a military either?
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Jul 31, 2018 22:14
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Madurai posted:The New Republic managed to recreate all the flaws of the old one with the added handicap of no Jedi Order. That sounds like one less flaw to me
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Jul 31, 2018 22:16
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General Dog posted:Why, and also did none of the individual planets have a military either? I'm sure they did; but not under the command of the Republic
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IRQ posted:That's dumb as hell and completely implausible but if that's what they're going with then everyone in the star wars universe is so oblivious it means the zerg could be literally right next door without anyone noticing and I guess that would breathe some new life into things. Sounds like the Yuuzhan Vong really. An earlier EU writer tried to introduce some invaders from a neighbouring star system before that in Truce at Bakura too. General Dog posted:That sounds like one less flaw to me Is that you Karen Traviss?
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IRQ posted:That's dumb as hell and completely implausible but if that's what they're going with then everyone in the star wars universe is so oblivious it means the zerg could be literally right next door without anyone noticing and I guess that would breathe some new life into things. It's literally taken right from history, the Nazis built up and trained in Russia.
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Colonial Air Force posted:It's literally taken right from history, the Nazis built up and trained in Russia. What version of history did you learn?
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Zoran posted:What version of history did you learn? Actual history.
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That wasn't the Nazis.
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I'm sure none of them fought for Nazi Germany, using all that training they gained in those days. Nope! And at any rate, it doesn't change the fact that the First Order training in the fringes despite being barred from doing so by treaty is straight from history.
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The military co-operation between the German Republic and The Soviet Union certainly helped the later German war machine.
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Colonial Air Force posted:I'm sure none of them fought for Nazi Germany, using all that training they gained in those days. Nope! That's still not the same as the Soviets helping the Nazis build their military illegally. Be fair.
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Making Star Wars (more or less the gold standard in leak sites) is saying that the new Favreau streaming series may be about the Mandalorians rebuilding after the fall of the Empire:quote:Rumors on Jon Favreau’s live action Star Wars television series have been circulating lately. It is still pretty early to firmly confirm much of this with 100% accurate faith. So please consider this a rumor for now that we have heard from sources who have panned out in the past. For the last few months, we keep hearing the same rumors and the rumors consist of the same general information and the same general beliefs. This is a cool bit: quote:Another consistent rumor I have heard is that the effects will be seen in monitor, thanks to technology provided by ILMxLAB, so they can save money by knowing if they got what they needed right away. I don’t believe a shot has been used in a Star Wars film using the newer tech, only pre-visual work. As a side note, shortly before Resistance starts airing, I'm going to start up a consolidated long-term Star Wars TV thread where we can discuss that, the Favreau show, and TCW S7 as they start airing (well, streaming). Less fuss than making separate, probably-less-trafficked threads for all of those. So feel free to start working on them silly thread titles
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Aug 6, 2018 19:58
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Man, I could not care less about a Mando-centric show. 
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Aug 6, 2018 20:05
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It could be nice if they actually do use Mandalore to explore the post-Jakku setting in a meaningful way. The little glimpse we got of it in the Last Shot book (New Republic facing off against pirate fleets!) was cool.
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There's also been rumblings about the budget for the show being around $100million, spread over ten episodes. So we're looking at Game of Thrones level money being spent on this.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Man, I could not care less about a Mando-centric show.  I know there is a very stupid hours watched metric for streaming services but if you're throwing down $100M anyway just make a drat 2h15 movie. Maybe they can at least nail the pilot so it works out that way.
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Basically Hux's summary of the state of the galaxy in TFA is pretty much 100% accurate.
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If its a post RTJ Mandolorian show, that means we'd probably see a live action Bo Katan and Fenn Rau, who both could be played in live action by their voice actors.
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twistedmentat posted:If its a post RTJ Mandolorian show, that means we'd probably see a live action Bo Katan and Fenn Rau, who both could be played in live action by their voice actors. Stop it I cannot get any harder.
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Aug 7, 2018 14:38
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I can't wait to see what new stupid poo poo the Mandos have gotten themselves into.
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Funky Valentine posted:I can't wait to see what new stupid poo poo the Mandos have gotten themselves into. From the sound of the leaks, they went and based their entire economy on supporting the Empire, so there you go. Mandos are the Klingons of SW, except somehow infinitely more incompetent.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:From the sound of the leaks, they went and based their entire economy on supporting the Empire, so there you go.
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twistedmentat posted:If its a post RTJ Mandolorian show, that means we'd probably see a live action Bo Katan and Fenn Rau, who both could be played in live action by their voice actors. I'm reading this like  because I don't recall the voices and I google and find out it's Katee Sackoff and Kevin McKidd 
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Risky Bisquick posted:I'm reading this like Did you not notice Vorenus and Pullo when you watched the episodes? 
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Kevin Kiner has submitted a reel of the rebels music for the emmys: https://vimeo.com/280587607
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He deserves some recognition. The Lasat black hole theme and Sabine’s theme are the big standouts for me. Plus Thrawn’s organ music!
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It was barely 10 seconds long, but I really liked Maul's twisted version of Satine's theme
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Gonna have to go back and check that out, I’m not sure I ever caught it! Meanwhile, in a recent interview, Filoni said “it would be a shame not to use” the work that had already been done for Clone Wars, so I’m pretty certain that we’ll be seeing the two story reel arcs (Bad Batch and Crystal Crisis) in addition to Siege of Mandalore when CW comes back next year. And, speculating further, if Favreau’s live-action series does turn out to be Mandalore-centered, I wonder if CW will lay down some story hooks for that.
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Every time I hear someone go "I didn't watch Clone Wars, it looked stupid" because the only exposure they had to it was that horrible movie they released. They honestly missed out on one of the best things with the name Star Wars on it.
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DancinBrud posted:Gonna have to go back and check that out, I’m not sure I ever caught it! It plays when Ezra first sees the Dark Saber on Dathomir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOhjZXbBjdE
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twistedmentat posted:Every time I hear someone go "I didn't watch Clone Wars, it looked stupid" because the only exposure they had to it was that horrible movie they released. They honestly missed out on one of the best things with the name Star Wars on it. Going back and watching it after watching episodes like Carnage of Krell, the Clone episodes from Season Six, or The Lawless makes it look like an unfinished story reel
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Vinylshadow posted:Going back and watching it after watching episodes like Carnage of Krell, the Clone episodes from Season Six, or The Lawless makes it look like an unfinished story reel Yea, its too bad they lead with that, because it is so much unlike the rest of the serious. Its 10 year ago so its being talked about and people say about like Ashoka "They added a spunky sassy teen girl, wtf?" And i'm pretty sure its purely dislike of that character being added than some "GIRLS? In MY star wars??".
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There is a lot of stuff about that movie that reeks of teething trouble. It's like a pilot pitch reel that somehow got Sam Jackson and a theatrical release. There's the cutesy nickname stuff, the swiftly abandoned attempt to give Anakin a pseudo-Falcon ship, and the cringey attempts at broad comedy.
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Had the nickname "Sky Guy" and Ahsoka Tano been created during the Disney era, can you imagine the deluge of liquid poo poo that would be coming from the loudest percentage of obnoxious star wars nerds out there? Goddamn.
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I think most or all of that left by season two right?
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Kingtheninja posted:I think most or all of that left by season two right? Yep; the creative team heard the complaints about the cutesy nicknames and juvenile humor and course corrected almost immediately....but due to production lead times, the movie, all of season 1, and half of season 2 was already done and ready for broadcast by the time audience feedback reached the production offices So a lot of people bailed on the show after a "kiddy" first season and didn't come back when the show got better
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MonsterEnvy posted:The first season honestly was not even that bad. Yeah, other than the cutesy nicknames and such, Season 1 still has solid stories
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jivjov posted:Yeah, other than the cutesy nicknames and such, Season 1 still has solid stories The early multi-parter about the Separatist ship with the big-rear end ion cannon was legitimately bad. Skip those episodes and CW is a solid show from day one. Not counting the movie of course, which was first-draft awful.
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