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ninjahedgehog posted:I kinda wish at that point they had moved the timeline up a millennium or so -- Without Vima there's nothing really connecting KOTOR to TOTJ, and so you've got the TOTJ ancient-looking ships and technology giving way to prequel-era Star Wars aesthetics in just about 20 years.
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ScottyJSno posted:I am sitting with my 9 year old Japanese son in Japan building Lego Star Wars like you do, and he out of the blue asks me in Japanese... one of us, one of us, one of us
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Sep 26, 2021 03:09
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ScottyJSno posted:I am sitting with my 9 year old Japanese son in Japan building Lego Star Wars like you do, and he out of the blue asks me in Japanese... Palpatine: “Good. Good.”
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Sep 26, 2021 03:25
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Let's be real: they absolutely should’ve given Palpatine's son a third eye in TROS with no explanation
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Sep 26, 2021 03:29
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Snoke should have had three eyes.
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Sep 26, 2021 03:44
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snoke is a clone of plagueis, why would he have three eyes
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Sep 26, 2021 03:46
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Jazerus posted:snoke is a clone of plagueis, why would he have three eyes Because he was a hosed-up clone, because Sheevy and Plagueis had hosed up genetics from freebasing ULTIMATE POWAH for decades. Same reason Triclops would have.
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Sep 26, 2021 05:10
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One of the few things I liked about ROS was them showing Snoke growing in a vat. Just a distraction from the real threat. Of course the real threat was lame as gently caress, but I’ll take what little that’s good about it.
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Sep 26, 2021 05:15
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Snokeclones is a joke that nobody in the movie made.
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Sep 26, 2021 05:23
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ScottyJSno posted:So school age children in Japan have access to Bantam era Star Wars character encyclopedias that have been translated in Japanese. Look, if kids don't learn about the Glove of Darth Vader in school, they're just going to pick it up from the street.
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Sep 26, 2021 05:40
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“Dad, tell me about Han and Chewie’s gay floating house?”
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Sep 26, 2021 05:45
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Casimir Radon posted:“Dad, tell me about Han and Chewie’s gay floating house?” Well sport, it all starts with this kid that lived underneath Yavin 4 named Ken... Come to think of it RIP Ken and The Lost City of the Jedi when the Vong went to Yavin 4, they were pretty through when they took over there.
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Sep 26, 2021 06:01
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Arquinsiel posted:That was a stylistic choice to have them all "dressed old" as if they would actually be flying space sailboats while wearing sandals. They did a similar thing with one of the Darth Bane comics where everyone used swords and bows instead of lightsabers and blasters. I liked the JJM KotOR comic series' take on it, which tried for a blend of the games and TotJ, where technology was Prequel-era like in the games, but fashion, architecture and vehicle-design amongst those of wealth evoked some of the sword-and-sandals feel of TotJ
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Sep 26, 2021 10:35
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Arc Hammer posted:Snokeclones is a joke that nobody in the movie made. I go to the corner store and I order a snow cone. A muffled voice jeers "and you're just a child in a mask"
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Sep 26, 2021 15:22
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The Shame Boy posted:Well sport, it all starts with this kid that lived underneath Yavin 4 named Ken... Think about it: Kylo Ren....
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Sep 26, 2021 20:36
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Arc Hammer posted:The Essential Guide to Characters? he wasnt in that. maybe there was a japanese print of the book and he came across it? Jazerus posted:snoke is a clone of plagueis, why would he have three eyes i always assumed he was like a lovely sheev based homunculus or some poo poo. i am still weirdly anoyed by that. id have been fine with snoke being some dark side adept who hosed off to the outer rim and then just played imperial remenant shitheads like a fiddle. hell i dont even really hate snoke being a sith homunculus but like just leave it with "boy, i made snoke" or some poo poo.
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Sep 27, 2021 01:25
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yeah i guess he's technically a weird palpatine clone but he looks more like a weird muun clone and it'd be an extremely sheev move to clone plagueis to be his lovely puppet sith
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Sep 27, 2021 01:54
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The idea of giving a clone a megalomaniacal personality but then also making multiple copies of them also seems like an opportunity for comedy. Palpatine keeps sending new Snokes to meet with the one running the first order. "I'm the supreme commander!" "No, I'm the supreme commander!" ... "You're both wrong, I'm-"
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Sep 27, 2021 03:46
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Animal Friend posted:The idea of giving a clone a megalomaniacal personality but then also making multiple copies of them also seems like an opportunity for comedy. As proven by the Mauler Twins in Invincible.
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Sep 27, 2021 05:06
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ScottyJSno posted:I am sitting with my 9 year old Japanese son in Japan building Lego Star Wars like you do, and he out of the blue asks me in Japanese... The universe is trying to recreate the experiences we had as children. Get him reading the Thrawn trilogy next to continue his training. Also, god help him.
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Sep 27, 2021 13:57
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*Drops Darksaber on the floor in front of him. “Oh wow, how did that get there?”
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Sep 27, 2021 17:36
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Casimir Radon posted:*Drops Darksaber on the floor in front of him. If you’re trying to make a kid miserable, go with Planet of Twilight or The Crystal Star.
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Sep 27, 2021 17:40
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fartknocker posted:If you’re trying to make a kid miserable, go with Planet of Twilight or The Crystal Star. “WHAT’S A CALLISTA?!” “We’ll, you see there was this lady who was a ghost in a planet destroying ship computer or something like that, and then she got her ghost put in the body of some other lady who didn’t want to live anymore, but then she couldn’t use the force anymore…”
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Sep 27, 2021 17:46
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Casimir Radon posted:Now now, none of them are good. But of course the comedy potential of giving a kid Planet of Twilight without reading Children of the Jedi first might be the most fun, for you anyway. "Hang on, I should start over. How do you feel about Gamorreans?"
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Sep 27, 2021 17:51
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thrawn527 posted:"Hang on, I should start over. How do you feel about Gamorreans?"
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Sep 27, 2021 17:53
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Planet of Twilight also has Admiral Daala's long-lost boyfriend, the guy who makes porn for the Hutts. Edit: And now I'm recalling that Karen Traviss killed Daala's porn boyfriend off-screen so that Daala could gently caress Boba Fett. Chairman Capone fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Sep 27, 2021 |
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Sep 27, 2021 17:54
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Still a better ending for her than being elected president of the New New Republic, because reasons.
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Sep 27, 2021 17:56
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Casimir Radon posted:“Specifically Gamorreans who got brainwashed by this planet killing ship into thinking they’re stormtroopers…..are you writing this down?” 
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Casimir Radon posted:“Specifically Gamorreans who got brainwashed by this planet killing ship into thinking they’re stormtroopers…..are you writing this down?”
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Sep 27, 2021 18:06
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I’m honestly hoping that they eventually get around to making unabridged audiobooks of the crappier EU novels. That way I can experience them again with no real effort on my part.
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Sep 27, 2021 18:52
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I'm going through Knight Errant right now and it's a solid read imo It's structurally a travelogue of various Sith fiefdoms in a post-war galaxy with the cherry of a reveal that oops they're all related and competing for Grandma Sith's trust fund money. Kerra and Rusher are fun (if pulpy) characters too. I wish we got a Legends book about the Jedi Chancellor 
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I read the Knight Errant comic and remember liking it, especially given it came out around when the Dark Horse comic output kind of went into decline IMO. I had completely forgotten that Miller wrote a novel tie-in, too. Actually, speaking of Miller novels, I'm curious if Kenobi will tie into the Kenobi TV series at all, given it's being re-released as part of the Essential Legends line around when the show is supposed to release. I feel like the novel was pretty much the essential "Kenobi on Tatooine" story, it's really hard to think of something that could top that. I really hope the show doesn't go into the territory of "Kenobi actually left Tatooine and had a bunch of galactic adventures and then returns to sit around his hut" but kind of suspect that's what it will do.
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Sep 28, 2021 00:29
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It's too bad (but also good because it would've inevitably been awful) that Legends never really got around to exploring the period of time where the whole galaxy just became Warhammer 40k for a while.
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Sep 28, 2021 01:46
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Both the Knight Errant comics and novel were great. Definitely one of the highlights of the late Legends EU, and outside of the Bane era the only real look we got into the New Sith Wars.
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Sep 28, 2021 01:51
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Chairman Capone posted:I read the Knight Errant comic and remember liking it, especially given it came out around when the Dark Horse comic output kind of went into decline IMO. I had completely forgotten that Miller wrote a novel tie-in, too.
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Lord Hydronium posted:Both the Knight Errant comics and novel were great. Definitely one of the highlights of the late Legends EU, and outside of the Bane era the only real look we got into the New Sith Wars. Never got around to reading Knight Errant but it sounds like it's right up my alley -- I loved the glimpses of that era in the Essential Guides, and the concept of the Republic failing to such a degree that various Jedi set up hereditary fiefdoms in the periphery of Republic space is really interesting. Prime material for mining some more Kurosawa-influenced stories if Legends had lasted a little longer
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Sep 28, 2021 18:04
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Speaking of Knight Errant and Kenobi, I'm contributing a chapter to an academic volume on Star Trek and I just saw that John Jackson Miller is also contributing a chapter, which was cool to see!
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Sep 28, 2021 22:25
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They released the first five chapters of the Star Wars: Ronin as a preview.
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ScottyJSno posted:I am sitting with my 9 year old Japanese son in Japan building Lego Star Wars like you do, and he out of the blue asks me in Japanese... Speaking of everyone's favorite three-eyed prisoner, I was recently reading Death Troopers and came across the following passage: quote:Being cautious became harder; soon you needed eyes in the back of your head -- which some of them actually possessed. Two weeks earlier in the mess hall, Trig had noticed a tall, silent inmate sitting with its back to him but watching him nonetheless with a single raw-red eye in the back of its skull. What do you think? Coincidence, or well-hidden cameo?
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Chronosynclast posted:What do you think? Coincidence, or well-hidden cameo? This is truly perfection.
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