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Yeah, I was replying to this:quote:Qui Gon himself is presented as a heroic figure throughout
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Stop posting while I'm posting!!!
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Apr 22, 2021 01:48
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Grendels Dad posted:She knows her way around the palace. That knowledge is instrumental in capturing Gunray when they are alone in the throne room. The body double is also used as a decoy to separate Gunray from his guards
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Apr 22, 2021 11:39
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My appreciation of attack of the clones increased massively when my son watched it and gasped in delight at yoda showing up at the end
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Apr 23, 2021 18:48
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TheLoquid posted:Well typically people point to Leia describing her mother to Luke. Or Obi Wan not knowing that there's another Skywalker. Obi Wan did know there was another Skywalker. It was him who told Luke about her
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Apr 26, 2021 11:39
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My favourite is the red letter media videos showing a bunch of clips specifically contrasting prequel Yoda's wise mystic sayings against Obi-Wan saying "this weapon is your life" and such, with the point being that the prequels are bad for getting it wrong. I think at one point they literally show Mace Windu saying "we're keepers of the peace not soldiers" and then cut to the Jedi fighting in a war at the end, as if to point out a plot hole. And these guys love movies!! I once saw a dude talking about TLJ say "did you notice how at the start Luke scoffs at the idea of facing down the First Order with his laser sword, then at the end that's exactly what he does" in a smug sort of "Rian Johnson is an idiot" way. Like uh, yeah I did, that was on purpose E: also The Editing Room said that Luke being born before Leia introduced a continuity error in the original movies, and I never understood what that meant at all
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May 4, 2021 12:43
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Timeless Appeal posted:Leia finds out that her father was the man who brutally tortured and was complicit in murdering her whole planet is her father but also I don't know if she even knows that? oh crap, I never noticed that. I don't think Luke would tell anyone?? Leia found out Darth Vader was her father offscreen after the movie was done!?
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May 4, 2021 21:29
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Snoke wasn't 100% clear on what the Republic even was, Hux eventually had to say "OK, the Resistance is supported by the government. The government is called the Republic. We are going to blow the Republic up. That is to say, we are going to blow up the government." and then Snoke was like "excellent, and then the Resistance will be easy pickings"
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May 7, 2021 13:29
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:
You say this at the end of a post thoughtfully critiquing the ideology of the Jedi based on textual evidence... the movies may be better thought through than you're giving them credit for!
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May 8, 2021 13:56
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I think a bigger issue was that the first movie was loaded with implication. Who's this Snoke guy who just appears and gets mad? He doesn't do anything so something about him must be a mystery that'll be answered later. What's with Rey's parents, why did they abandon her in a slave pen? Ooh I bet there'll be a cool answer to that in the next movie. What's Luke been up to all this time? Can't wait for the next movie to explain that.
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May 27, 2021 15:08
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The Jedi would refer to him as Darth Sidious, because to them his Sith title is his true identity
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May 29, 2021 23:55
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If I only had the photoshop chops, I'd make a version of that poster that's just "thing you said you like" in those 10 fonts
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Jun 20, 2021 03:41
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Vintersorg posted:You see these big bombers? They are slow. In space. How fast you are in space is important in the setting, see episode 4: OBI-WAN: is your ship fast enough to outrun a star destroyer? HAN: [rubbing neck, laughing nervously, sweating, not making eye contact] Yes.
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Jun 25, 2021 17:47
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Well, it was "hope our allies save our rear end" until their allies pussied out
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Jun 25, 2021 19:21
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If the First Order stripmined the planet to finance its military, i guess that means a part of the First Order other than the military was doing it? Like they have civilian laborers or something as well
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Jun 27, 2021 02:26
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Horizon Burning posted:i'm reasonably certain that a military organization could strip a planet of anything of value yes but "the military stripmined the planet to fund its military" is an unintuitive way to say it, unless the First Order isn't just a military organization
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Jun 27, 2021 13:13
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Man, wouldn't the Republic main planet being Hosnia instead of Coruscant be so much cooler if it was because Coruscant joined the First Order and was now their main planet
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Jun 27, 2021 22:39
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Hell, he only says 70% of those words
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Jun 29, 2021 03:27
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Episode 3 introduces the power to create life and prevent death
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Aug 18, 2021 14:46
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Clones is cool. I probably like Phantom Menace/Return Of The Jedi least, out of the pre-Disney ones
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Aug 29, 2021 15:12
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it actually looks like War Of The Worlds
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Aug 29, 2021 19:51
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Alchenar posted:I like the bit in The Phantom Menace right before the opening scrawl tells you the film is about tax disputes The film isn't about tax disputes. It's about a planet being invaded by an army of robots with laser guns and deadly battleships.
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Aug 29, 2021 20:52
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Robot Style posted:The music in AOTC also definitely suffered from John Williams scoring four different movies in 2002 - The speeder chase in Star Wars and the Quidditch match in Harry Potter even used nearly identical music. He pulled off a classic for the climax of episode 3, that's the main thing
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Aug 31, 2021 02:46
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Guardians Of The Galaxy is a charming movie about a gang of plucky underdogs on a quest to provide the military with a weapon of mass destruction. It's like if Luke's mission in Star Wars was to give the Death Star plans to the Empire
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Sep 3, 2021 02:10
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CelticPredator posted:YouTube killed my video of all of them lmao There was one of Independence Day where instead of the alien mothership blowing up it's the twin towers collapsing, cut to the president going "he did it! The son of a bitch did it!" nowhere to be found now 
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Sep 12, 2021 14:06
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Robot Style posted:Harrison Ford in Episode 9 is the same thing as whatever Kevin Costner was supposed to be in BvS, because I guess if you have 3 months to write the script, you just start reusing scenes from other movies. Totally forgot Chris Terrio wrote episode 9! I wonder if he was going through wookiepedia trying to figure out if any two extant characters' parents had the same name
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Sep 22, 2021 18:08
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I'm not certain about Kylo, but Adam Driver is great
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Sep 22, 2021 21:36
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I listened to some of it while pottering about, it's mostly about the cartoon. Seems ok, but hasn't said anything special. It might have said something special about the cartoon but I skimmed that because I didn't watch it E: lmao BIG liberal weepy tears at the end. Palpatine is a warning about both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Never mind! 2house2fly fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Oct 4, 2021 |
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Oct 4, 2021 21:19
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The Holdo thing is just a suicide attack. There have already been suicide attacks in Star Wars
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Oct 13, 2021 15:12
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You just need the film itself to know why it wouldn't be common. It takes like 30 seconds to power up (it's actually a minute of onscreen time, but a lot of different scenes are shown that are happening simultaneously) and this is a life or death situation where every second counts. The ship might only survive long enough to jump because they thought it was empty and didn't bother firing on it until the last moment. The blast on impact is about the size of the attacking ship, and that impact releases a bunch of destructive energy but so does a regular missile or a laser beam. Anyway, Star Wars broke space combat in the very first movie with the existence of tractor beams. Why are you sending out fighters against the X-wings, Tarkin? Just shoot them with the tractor beam!
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Oct 13, 2021 17:38
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Nodoze posted:This video is wrong and just grasping at straws. Jesus.
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Oct 13, 2021 22:51
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The rules of the low-speed chase are "we can hyperjump one more time but if we hyperjump the baddies will know where we've gone and chase us" they don't preclude hyperjumping at the baddies
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Oct 13, 2021 23:38
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Automatic Slim posted:Why can't the First Order jump ahead of them and trap them? They have enough ships. If they did that the rebels would simply turn slightly in a different direction
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Oct 14, 2021 01:47
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That could have ruled actually. Skip the spaceflight and get the rebels safely to the fortress on Crait. At some point reveal that the "fortress" is actually a hyperspace-capable capital ship, and at the end Holdo activates the engines, takes off and rams the empire. "Oh no! She's entering hyperspace within a planetary atmosphere! [Explodes]". Now the rebels are just stuck alone in the snow to be hunted down like dogs, cue Luke
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Oct 14, 2021 02:02
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I watched Rise Of Skywalker, and I'm sure the first time I watched it someone said something like "red 5 is transmitting" when Rey is flying Luke's X-wing but I didn't hear it this time. Possibly I just missed it (God knows the drat thing goes a mile a minute) but I wonder if they updated it for streaming to remove "red 5" (possibly confusing to new viewers) and replace it with "Luke's old x-wing" (everyone knows who Luke is!)
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Oct 14, 2021 05:04
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Nodoze posted:
For the same reason they didn't already just have a load of tractor beams to trap enemy ships helplessly in space, used photon torpedoes instead of nuclear weapons, and clustered up close together instead of shooting lasers at each other from hundreds or thousands of miles away. It's established that a regular-rear end ship can reach the speed of light or close to it (there's no way the Falcon could have gotten to Bespin from Hoth otherwise) so why didn't they blow up the death star by just accelerating some missiles to relativistic speed?
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Oct 14, 2021 13:27
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It would make sense for them to not have shields because they're clearly incredibly expensive to produce (the entire death star only has like a dozen TIE fighters available to defend it at the end of episode 4) so they'd want to cut corners anywhere they can
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Oct 14, 2021 13:52
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The rebels fire an ion cannon at a star destroyer and it goes down instantly. So why aren't all their ships equipped with ion cannons? Why didn't they just fire ion cannons at the death star to stop it firing?
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Oct 14, 2021 13:59
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Horizon Burning posted:this is absurdly tedious but you think it's really clever lmao Strap some engines to it and now it's a space-based installation. Anyway yes it is tedious, picking holes in the logistics of space opera technology always is.
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They did that in I think Babylon 5? Just orbital-bombarded a whole civilisation into submission by using mass drivers to throw asteroids at them
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