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galagazombie posted:For all their many faults this technically isn’t the sequels fault. The movie itself was very forthright on Palpatine’s need to breed. It was only later “damage control” by the Disney social media pr brigade and later EU works that told everyone that terms like “son” and “granddaughter” totally don’t mean anything about family relations. Instead inventing some BS about clones. Someone high up the corporate ladder had very strong opinions about Palpatine’s sex life. The idea that a super corrupt space traveling senator and later high chancellor/whatever wasn't routinely blasting his seed into anything that movies across the entire galaxy is the dumbest thing ever.
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Waiting for one of the SW TV series to drop one of these babies   
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I always assumed Palpatine never got involved with anyone romantically because attachments are forbidden. Also, a big old complication, and the master schemer doesn't need that.
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Jul 7, 2025 13:08
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That's a Jedi thing, he's a Sith. Dude was laying more pipe than the Death Star construction, you can bet on it.
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Jul 7, 2025 13:17
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Sheev is so attached to the material world he refuses to give up corporeal form, as opposed to the Jedi who are so alienated from the sensible world that they what to become holograms.
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Jul 7, 2025 13:36
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Peanut Butler posted:once again the core of what Star Wars is all about is: the Viet Minh loving up the United States still kinda curious about an alternate star wars universe where the rebellion is getting all their armaments from a space soviet union
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Jul 7, 2025 16:07
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Probably somewhere in the notes from Revenge of the Sith. The Soviet "successor" state and the non Republican side of the Clone Wars had the same name: CIS.
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redshirt posted:I always assumed Palpatine never got involved with anyone romantically because attachments are forbidden. Literally one of the pitches George tried to get made into a TV show as a story about a woman who hosed Palpatine and dumped him to become a crime lord and he was so salty over it, it actually broke his little evil Sith heart because usually HE'S the one who does the dumping. They should still make that TV show, only the woman should be Eedy Karn 
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Jul 7, 2025 18:29
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Uncle Harlo is her alter ego
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:still kinda curious about an alternate star wars universe where the rebellion is getting all their armaments from a space soviet union Ваши световые мечи станут прекрасным дополнением к моей коллекции.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Waiting for one of the SW TV series to drop one of these babies What would even be the point of this?
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Cojawfee posted:What would even be the point of this? A powerful lack of imagination in the minds of those asking "What kind of vehicles would Imperial ground forces have?" before ESB came out.
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Cojawfee posted:What would even be the point of this? Sounds like you have Madurai posted:A powerful lack of imagination
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Cojawfee posted:What would even be the point of this? To run over protesters.
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Madurai posted:A powerful lack of imagination in the minds of those asking "What kind of vehicles would Imperial ground forces have?" before ESB came out. Does the TIE Crawler predate Empire? I thought it came from the Dark Empire comic or Cracken's Threat Dossier?
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I like how they made it a more practical tank than the AT-AT with a much lower center of mass, but then put the drat turret on the bottom ensuring it has a field of fire that's like maybe 30 degrees.
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Arc Hammer posted:Does the TIE Crawler predate Empire? I thought it came from the Dark Empire comic or Cracken's Threat Dossier? Yeah, it made its debut in Dark Empire #1, in 1991. 1st AD posted:I like how they made it a more practical tank than the AT-AT with a much lower center of mass, but then put the drat turret on the bottom ensuring it has a field of fire that's like maybe 30 degrees. Also because it follows the design lineage of the TIE Fighter, it literally does not matter where they put the turret because the treads also ensure that it has a 30 degree field of fire unless a desperate gunner tried to shoot through the outriggers.
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nine-gear crow posted:Literally one of the pitches George tried to get made into a TV show as a story about a woman who hosed Palpatine and dumped him to become a crime lord and he was so salty over it, it actually broke his little evil Sith heart because usually HE'S the one who does the dumping. lol no wayyyyy i want to see the rest of these pitches Arc Hammer posted:Does the TIE Crawler predate Empire? I thought it came from the Dark Empire comic or Cracken's Threat Dossier? I remember seeing it in some Star Wars tech manual one of my friends had back in the 90s
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:lol no wayyyyy https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Underworld quote:Former LucasArts developer Cory Barlog revealed he read Underworld scripts at Skywalker Ranch for episodes featuring Palpatine, where "They made the Emperor a sympathetic figure who was wronged by this […] heartless woman. She's this hardcore gangster, and she just totally destroyed him as a person. I almost cried while reading this. This is the Emperor, the lightning out of the fingers Emperor. That's something magical".[28]
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"I almost cried while reading this"  divorced dad/fascist incel spotted
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1st AD posted:"I almost cried while reading this" Pictured: What this dude probably looked like crying over Emperor Palpatine's divorce
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Remember, Underworld was being developed around the time Clone Wars was in full production. So George was really gonna have the evil Sith Lord be a divorced guy
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So now I’m trying to make sense of the narrative structure of the filioniverse in the context of Rebels. It’s still the case that neither the release order nor a fully chronological order actually work, but it’s now fully apparent that Rebels is the glue holding together the whole dang post-Lucas Disney project. What I’ve got so far is like: -Rebels: Season 1 -The first half of Tartakovsky Clone Wars -The Clone Wars: The Motion Picture -The Clone Wars: Seasons 1-6 (which are themselves a jumble) The Clone Wars: “The Siege Of Mandalore” -Tales Of The Jedi -Rebels: Season 2 -The Clone Wars: (the rest of) Season 7 -The Bad Batch -Rebels: Season 3 -Rebels: Season 4 -Tales Of The Empire -Ashoka Show -The Manderlorian/Boba Show (another mess) What a clusterfuck!
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The early seasons of The Clone Wars just jumping all over the timeline was confusing as hell.
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1st AD posted:Remember, Underworld was being developed around the time Clone Wars was in full production. So George was really gonna have the evil Sith Lord be a divorced guy Just like with an entire film about boring trade war poo poo, George Lucas accidentally predicted the future by envisioning a story where the most fascist guy ever and the most divorced guy ever were actually the same person.
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Just finished watching all the “Tales of” series, and I thought they were a bit of alright! I liked the Empire ones best, but got at least some enjoyment out of all of them. I was kind of surprised how well and how quickly I was able to figure out what timeframe we were in, and who many of the characters were, before they were named. Fourteen years in the various SA Star Wars threads has made me a knowledgeable nerd, a Nerd Knight if you will. And for that, I owe all of you a life-debt.
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1st AD posted:Remember, Underworld was being developed around the time Clone Wars was in full production. So George was really gonna have the evil Sith Lord be a divorced guy Always half they take. No more, no less...
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1st AD posted:"I almost cried while reading this" lol you reminded me of this post https://www.tumblr.com/pukicho/184047669745/every-post-on-reddit-is-like-my-wife-left-me-so Andor S2E1 should have opened with him stealing a TIE Crawler instead, leading to a thrilling low-speed chase scene. NoneMoreNegative fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Jul 7, 2025 |
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The tie fighters chasing him crash because they can't go slow enough to shoot at him.
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Cojawfee posted:The tie fighters chasing him crash because they can't go slow enough to shoot at him. Didn't that basically happen in Ahsoka, but dumber? Or am I hallucinating memories? I only have dim memories because it was such a bad setpiece, but I recall there was a scene where Ahsoka's ship was completely helpless and yet attacking fighters managed to miss every shot on multiple strafing runs because the plot demanded it.
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Arc Light posted:Didn't that basically happen in Ahsoka, but dumber? Or am I hallucinating memories? That's the Aldhani escape sequence in Andor. The TIEs are too fast and the hauler is just slow enough that they get hosed up by the Eye of Aldhani while the hauler times it perfectly and escapes.
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nine-gear crow posted:That's the Aldhani escape sequence in Andor. The TIEs are too fast and the hauler is just slow enough that they get hosed up by the Eye of Aldhani while the hauler times it perfectly and escapes. Aldhani has the excuse that there's a major flight hazard to distract from the target. I had to google it to make sure I remembered correctly, but the scene I'm thinking of is in the Ahsoka finale. Her ship is damaged and literally just standing still while TIE fighters strafe from above and miss every shot. Sabine then uses the last bit of juice in the engine to ram both TIEs, which fly straight into the wing of Ahsoka's ship without making any attempt to change course. They then ditch Ahsoka's wrecked ship and head over to Thrawn's Star Destroyer by land. It just felt so lazy, and made the enemy pilots so incompetent that there was absolutely no tension whatsoever.
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Something I just noticed. The show briefly references the italian invasion of Ethiopia when the ghorman senator says "it was my people today and yours tomorrow".
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nine-gear crow posted:
George really is the most divorced man ever.
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Burns posted:George really is the most divorced man ever. Marcia Lucas sends her regards.
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George Lucas has been married for over a decade now.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:George Lucas has been married for over a decade now. Some men are just born inherently divorced, like how some insects are born pregnant.
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While George Lucas does have some heavy divorced dad energy and is subsequently petty as hell, I appreciate him being petty in ways I can get behind. He tried to expand Lucasfilm facilities a while back on his ranch when he still owned it and a bunch of NIMBY's got it shut down, so now that he's a billionaire he's developing a low income housing project on the same grounds.
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Did he actually do that? RLM joked about that like 15 years ago.
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I don't know if he actually did it, but I do know he was talking about it a lot because all the rich people near him were really loving annoying him.
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