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Chupe Raho Aurat posted:Great, its been a good five minutes since we had a lovely animated SW product that everyone says is great in the ten minutes before its cancelled. From a link in the OP quote:However, I’m not sure that the footage selected to promote the REBELS across the past few month has done the fledging series a great deal of service, or justice. The punky ‘attitude’ evident in early clips - which has put many fans on-edge and raised a few dubious eyebrows - all but dissipates roughly half way through the 40-something minute opening installment, replaced by the kind of inter-personal dysfunction and snarky one-liners for which the ‘classic’ STAR WARS trilogy is so well known. REBELS stops feeling crass, and starts feeling very agreeably familiar. Of course, it's AICN so who knows, but at least it gives me a glimmer of hope that there wont be, as you say, just a bunch of sassy street smart kids being cool and giving a bunch of over the top 'tude.
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Thom12255 posted:I hope they characterise most Imperials as people that truly believe they are making a better galaxy through their acts instead of just being huge pricks. ...in Star Wars? The biggest Good vs. Evil property out there? An animated Star Wars for kids? Good loving luck. It's mustache twirling villains all the way down.
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Oct 12, 2014 20:31
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I think it sounds so off because the dialogue is so clunky, but it sounds like JEJ to me. But it doesn't sound like Darth Vader.
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Oct 28, 2014 18:06
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Baron Bifford posted:Imperial Stormtroopers never look through their scopes when aiming at the enemy. What exactly do they teach cadets during the marksmanship courses? The Stormtroopers that we see in the films are just the dumb chumps they send to rot in the Outer Rim, and the undertrained dudes they put on their indestructible superweapon that doesn't need protecting and hasn't even been demonstrated yet. 90% of the Stormtroopers out there are eagle shots, they're just off doing more important things obviously.
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Nov 3, 2014 18:32
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I thought the "obviously" would make it clear that I was making fun of that very idea. They shoot poorly because the plot requires them not to hit the heroes, not because Stormtroopers are bad at firing their weapons. Also because blasters are by their very nature "clumsy and random". Except when Han Solo uses one, because the plot requires him to hit the villains.
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Nov 3, 2014 19:41
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Hakkesshu posted:The simplest in-universe explanation is that storm troopers are just that - an army that's based on sheer size and firepower rather than excellent training. I always assumed most of them were conscripted or just walked in off the street and were handed a blaster. Like Luke was just some kid who wanted to join the academy, which implies there's training involved, but probably just really basic military poo poo. Like WW1/2 they'd just take anyone who would be even remotely able. No, the simplest in-universe explanation is exactly what Obi-Wan said in IV: blasters are clumsy and random. You're trying to add a whole bunch of unnecessary poo poo onto that - unless I missed something from Clone Wars that explains the training or the setup of the academy. e: Also, if characters named Starkiller and the Keeper of the Whills show up I'll be legitimately pumped. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Nov 3, 2014 |
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Nov 3, 2014 20:01
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BizarroAzrael posted:Whilst we're at it, Han just didn't know a parsec was a measurement of distance, he's just a blowhard. Since the film never defines what the Kessel Run is, it doesn't matter. If you need an in-world explanation, then it would be that the Run is a task you need to complete while traveling the minimum distance possible. If you don't need an in-world explanation, George Lucas didn't know what a parsec was.
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Nov 3, 2014 20:48
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Fetus Tree posted:In universe Solo went closer to a black hole cluster than other pilots were able/willing because the Falcon is a beast. It shaved distance off because most people have to fly around them, basically No, that's just some made up EU bullshit that's all in Legacy now. Personally I like the Traveling Salesman idea, but the fact is that it isn't defined, and unless some new canon piece of material decides to establish it it'll remain that way.
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Nov 3, 2014 21:26
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I believe it was MakingStarWars that pointed out what seems to be a minor character inconsistency in that Lando seems very dismissive of droids and treats them as objects in the OT, and behaves differently toward Chopper and treats him as a conscious being in this episode.
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Jan 12, 2015 23:50
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I haven't seen it yet - I've always assumed "sah-bock", no?
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Jan 20, 2015 16:03
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Hakkesshu posted:I think I've posted it in this thread before but I read the first Thrawn book in like 2013 for the first time and no that book is total garbage and I didn't want to read the others. This is how I feel about 99% of EU material, even the "good" stuff.
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Jan 25, 2015 19:34
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Yeah, this episode is what I want the show to be. This plus the Lando episode give me way too high hopes for Season 2. My biggest problem so far is that the group is so small that I can't take them seriously as a threat to the Empire. They're just TOO scrappy. I guess that's the point, but I hope Season 2 speeds it up a little so we have a larger cast of characters to work with and we can actually see the Alliance starting to form piece-by-piece. If that stuff doesn't happen until next season it'll start feeling like it's just spinning its wheels. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Feb 4, 2015 |
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Feb 4, 2015 06:46
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meristem posted:I can't help but laugh that we're essentially watching the adventures of a terrorist group. Watching the last episode definitely made me think through the OT through the lens of a modern terrorist group. The family of a young orphan from a desert region is killed by armed soldiers, he joins up with a former war hero who defected from the current administration, they meet up with desperate criminals and rescue a foreign terrorist from prison, then join in a plot to bomb a government base. Could easily see that story taking place in current-day Middle East. e: Also, that guy does a great Peter Cushing impression, if a little over the top on the Rs.
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Feb 4, 2015 16:27
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I thought the line was that the Underworld show was just waiting until CGI became cheap enough that it could be pulled off on TV? Either way, I just assume that show is being folded into the first spinoff movie, which has been rumored to include Boba Fett, space pirates, and Han Solo. I.e. the exact same territory.
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Feb 19, 2015 09:00
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Only things I really didn't dig were Sabine jumping around like a Jedi with dozens of wildly missing shots, as well as how simple the plan was for the crew to pull off. The whole show still feels a little too much like Original Trilogy Remix to me, but I have hope that next season it can become its own thing a little more. But more than anything I just want then to shave Kanan's goatee and cut off his ponytail. He looks like a skeezy 90s porn director, and the look hasn't grown on me any.
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Mar 3, 2015 05:09
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Ugh. I just tried watching Clone Wars again after getting some more distance from the prequels. God dammit this show is great. Is there a handy guide for all the kiddy/silly episodes, or the bottom rung ones to skip? I just remember from my first time around thinking that when it got bad it was real bad, but that was all in season 1 when Ashoka was unbearable. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Jun 13, 2015 |
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Goddamn that is depressing. Getting old blows  Also, looking at all the horror icons throughout the years, the only one who could have been in Star Wars at some point but wasn't is Vincent Price, but he was already a joke by the 70s TheBigBad posted:Without contrast the whole world is vanilla. Ahsoka won't be such a badass at the end if you don't suffer the snips. So you're saying that Stockholm Syndrome is the way to go? She's one of my favorite characters in season 2/3 because she's the voice of reason against the stupidity of the Jedi. e: but seriously, it'll be another 15 years before we bet an animated show as impressive or ambitious as Clone Wars. Goddamn you see the budget on every episode. Also, Ahsoka rules hard. After watching this I can't loving wait for her in Rebels. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Jun 15, 2015 |
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