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breaking news: The Acolyte had an actually pretty sweet lightsaber fight in ep 5. The writing and a few obnoxious cuts, not so much, but it's the first one that really entertained me in a while. edit: movies included Glottis fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Jun 27, 2024 |
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Glottis posted:breaking news: The Acolyte had an actually pretty sweet lightsaber fight in ep 5. The writing and a few obnoxious cuts, not so much, but it's the first one that really entertained me in a while. yeah, it's really fun and the choreography is excellent. you can probably skip the previous 4 episodes and not miss anything, the plot is insanely shallow and nothing really happened.
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Jun 26, 2024 23:17
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We're getting into goofball villain is impossible to fight with any amount of help territory
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Jun 27, 2024 13:21
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Upsidads posted:We're getting into goofball villain is impossible to fight with any amount of help territory Just like Snoke and Palpatine; so proud of them carrying on the tradition So when does The Stranger drop a meteor on the Jedi 
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Jun 27, 2024 13:38
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I feel silly saying I like more grounded stories, but then I remember Andor exists and it's somewhat doable. Counterpoint:rest of Star Wars
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Jun 27, 2024 15:36
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Upsidads posted:I feel silly saying I like more grounded stories, but then I remember Andor exists and it's somewhat doable. 
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Upsidads posted:We're getting into goofball villain is impossible to fight with any amount of help territory sith: i can 1vs8 you and win, the dark side rules jedi: yeah we'll all die full of lightsaber holes but our fundraising network is unparalleled
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Jun 27, 2024 16:22
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Ammanas posted:sith: i can 1vs8 you and win, the dark side rules This is a metaphor for the DNC I'm just not sure how yet
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Upsidads posted:We're getting into goofball villain is impossible to fight with any amount of help territory Uh he gets subdued multiple times in the very episode we're talking about.
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Jun 27, 2024 16:43
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udeQ7dSixJY
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Jun 27, 2024 17:09
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Uh he gets subdued multiple times in the very episode we're talking about. Can't be effective subduing if he gets out and about to get subdued again.
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Jun 27, 2024 17:50
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Ends unscathed with a high kill count gonna give him the W
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The explanation the Legends continuity came up with for why the Jedi aren't very good in combat unless they're protagonists is that most of them use a form of lightsaber combat that's just really lovely on purpose. Since the Sith haven't been seen in centuries, there's not really anyone to actually fight. Getting really into lightsaber combat was seen as unnecessary during peacetime, so the vast majority of Jedi opted into learning a lightsaber form that covered some basic techniques from every other style, but was intentionally truncated to give them more time to focus on other Jedi stuff. The Sith on the other hand were specifically training to fight Jedi, so tended to be able to handle themselves better, even against multiple opponents.
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Jun 27, 2024 19:14
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I like the explanation in the episode when Sol complains about Qimir not following the rules.
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Jun 27, 2024 19:47
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The children's sword class in acolyte has older kids with bostaffs compared to episode 2's very young kids w laser swords. seems like a choice to show they aren't prepared, although the alien padawan did alright against the stranger
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Jun 27, 2024 19:49
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Wolfsheim posted:This is a metaphor for the DNC I'm just not sure how yet yeah i wasnt being very subtle :p
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Jun 27, 2024 19:58
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You know I really should have seen the reveal of the villain's identity coming when he shouted "BORTLES!" just before attacking. In all seriousness I'm embarrassed I didn't recognize Manny Jacinto.
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Maxwell Lord posted:You know I really should have seen the reveal of the villain's identity coming when he shouted "BORTLES!" just before attacking. I thought that actor did an awesome job. The several moments leading up to that reveal were A+, too.
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The republic would have had constant border skirmishes and relatively low key insurrections. The Jedi would have been fighting all the time
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uQa51olDDU another pro click from Robot Style and friends
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I wonder if you'll still get bonuses for finding and returning escaped slaves.
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euphronius posted:The republic would have had constant border skirmishes and relatively low key insurrections. The Jedi would have been fighting all the time who were they having border skirmishes with? and what is a space border
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To hear Lucas tell it, the Republic wasn't having conflicts with any external forces that would require Jedi intervention, and the Jedi were basically just there to make sure everyone within the Republic was playing nice with each other, under penalty of death.George Lucas posted:They are just— the mafia. Or, as Teddy Roosevelt would say, y'know, they negotiate disputes between planets, between things— they aren’t like policemen or anything—But they negotiate with a big stick, with a big lightsaber. So ‘if you don’t sort of come to a conclusion with your dispute with each other, I will settle it for you’.” George Lucas posted:The idea was to establish Jedi as what they were, which is sort of peacekeepers who moved through the galaxy to settle disputes. They aren’t policemen, they aren’t soldiers; they’re mafia dons. They come in and sit down with the two different sides and say, “Okay, now we’re going to settle this.” George Lucas posted:They’re monks first, and they try to convince people to get along. And if you don’t comply, your hands come off.
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Not gonna lie, that last quote goes hard as gently caress
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Robot Style posted:To hear Lucas tell it, the Republic wasn't having conflicts with any external forces that would require Jedi intervention, and the Jedi were basically just there to make sure everyone within the Republic was playing nice with each other, under penalty of death. lucas making a movie set in the old republic would have owned
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Did someone interview him recently on Twitter or in some kind of written format? I watched his interview at cannes which bummed me out because he has begun to display the unfocus of aging.
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Wtf are sith then
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They're grey jedi
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Sith like to cause problems on purpose
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Upsidads posted:Wtf are sith then With the caveat that we see all of two of them in the films, I think the closest bet is a religious/political order that used their force powers to help maintain their control, with (maybe?) the distinction of ruling directly and openly rather than being more hands off (so to speak) like the Jedi.
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Upsidads posted:Wtf are sith then Sith are poo poo
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Grendels Dad posted:Sith yodas bumper sticker with a little yoda guy peeing on the word sith
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In the same way that Jedi are heavily implied to derive from some Space Buddhist monastic order, the Sith's past seems like it's come from Way of the Alpha self-improvement dominance politics.
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FunkyAl posted:Did someone interview him recently on Twitter or in some kind of written format? I watched his interview at cannes which bummed me out because he has begun to display the unfocus of aging. Dude has always been a bit out there, bummer if it's become even more pronounced.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:In the same way that Jedi are heavily implied to derive from some Space Buddhist monastic order, the Sith's past seems like it's come from Way of the Alpha self-improvement dominance politics. If you're going to lean on the Jedi as Buddhists, clearly Sith should be Wu-tang.
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lazer welding alpha dawgs fits
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Sith are just cokeheads. To be more serious, I've said a buncha times for a reason that the Sith have repeated motifs of the cycle of abuse (see every depiction of sith apprenticeship) and drug abuse, with physical and mental deterioration resulting from both, and they inflict it on everyone around them. Back to Darth Vader being a broken man imprisoned in a walking iron lung, who can't breathe without mechanical intervention, and his signature use of his power is to choke others. And he serving a shrivelled, cackling dark wizard sitting on a throne at the heart of a mighty empire, every moment gleefully wallowing in his crapulence, and who tempts the hero like the Devil taking Jesus up atop the mountain, to give in to his inhibitions and be freed from doubt and hesitation. If the Jedi are 'religion's greatest hits' as has been put, based on a mishmash of pop understandings of Christianity and vaguely Buddhist spirituality, then the Sith are everything abhorrent to both ideas; the embrace of worldly temptation and power, the dismissal of consequences and the feelings of others, in favour of exclusively indulging one's ego and base desires- including of course running terrified from death, because there's nothing in the world more important than your own career. Megaman's Jockstrap posted:In the same way that Jedi are heavily implied to derive from some Space Buddhist monastic order, the Sith's past seems like it's come from Way of the Alpha self-improvement dominance politics. Also yeah pretty much this. There's a reason those are always synonymous with heavy drug abuse, too. Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Jul 2, 2024 |
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Grendels Dad posted:Sith *taps on post*
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Ghost Leviathan posted:If the Jedi are 'religion's greatest hits' as has been put, based on a mishmash of pop understandings of Christianity and vaguely Buddhist spirituality, then the Sith are everything abhorrent to both ideas; the embrace of worldly temptation and power, the dismissal of consequences and the feelings of others, in favour of exclusively indulging one's ego and base desires- including of course running terrified from death, because there's nothing in the world more important than your own career. Apropos of nothing, in the EU, it seems the most consistent features of Sith are talking about overcoming fear, prizing "survival of the fittest," and then indiscriminately exterminating entire populations with super-WMDs.
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