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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The Neo-Manderlorians cultists are just completely moronic and dysfunctional. I mean they’re very clearly looking at the persecutions. Things like the helmet no helmet gap, that’s very similar to made sacrifices to the emperor vs who didn’t and how those groups reconciled. They are showing comprehensible social dynamics they just aren’t the ones you looking for. That isn’t an absence. Bar Ran Dun fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Apr 13, 2025 |
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Bar Ran Dun posted:I mean they’re very clearly looking at the persecutions. Things like the helmet no helmet gap, that’s very similar to made sacrifices to the emperor vs who didn’t and how those groups reconciled. I’m not talking about the helmets; those are just analogous to a burqa or whatever. I’m talking about, like, who’s making all their food and medicine? They’ve ‘retaken Mandalore’ but the entire surface of the planet is glass. They’ve got 25 bounty hunters and a blacksmith.
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Apr 13, 2025 18:00
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They’re in a setting where travel is basically instantaneous and power generation is effectively infinite. Where the answer to the question what is the mode of production is… whatever the gently caress any given planet decides it to be. It’s like asking about the economics after they blow the trumpets and the walls come down in Jericho. It’s a different type of story, it’s a new myth of origin. Those aren’t about economics.
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Apr 13, 2025 18:21
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Bar Ran Dun posted:They’re in a setting where travel is basically instantaneous and power generation is effectively infinite. Where the answer to the question what is the mode of production is… whatever the gently caress any given planet decides it to be. Speaking of i really hate how travel seems instantaneous now. I got the sense in ANH that it was at least long enough to settle in for a few hours if not closer to a day or two at least, plus a lot of the EU stuff at least made travel take some time.
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Apr 13, 2025 18:44
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Bar Ran Dun posted:They’re in a setting where travel is basically instantaneous and power generation is effectively infinite. Where the answer to the question what is the mode of production is… whatever the gently caress any given planet decides it to be. Eh I mean…they could still come out and say the equivalent of “and all the believers lived in wonderful harmony, holding everything in common”. You don’t need to go into all the detail for your story to allude to a material basis.
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Apr 13, 2025 19:17
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feedmyleg posted:One Boba Fett is in a room is cool. Multiple Boba Fetts in a room are deeply uncool. This was the problem with Book of Boba Fett. They made having even one Boba Fett in the room uncool.  They made THIS GUY uncool, somehow 
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Apr 13, 2025 19:47
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BoBF feels like it was cut down from the original plan when Mando was a huge success
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Apr 13, 2025 19:50
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Marsupial Ape posted:At this point, if they really wanted to flog Mandalorians for content, I'd pitch that Mandalorians are spread all over the galaxy due to constant fighting and migration and (just like the Greeks) you get different populations of Mandos all over with their own schticks and flavors. Maybe you have a diaspora Mandos that don't have access to beskar, so they lean hard into the non-material aspects of their culture, like art, dance, and constantly screaming "Oya, ner vod!" at each other. Show me the Mandos that own farms and only do mercenary work during the winter months. poo poo like that. Unironically, the Traviss novels do touch on that "farm in summer, war in winter" dichotomy, and the majority of all Mando stories do deal with the fact that no two Mando clans can agree on who they actually are as a people. That goes back as far as Fenn Shysa's appearance in the old Star Wars comics, and it's a central point of the Jango Fett: Open Seasons storyline as well.
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Apr 13, 2025 20:21
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skasion posted:Eh I mean…they could still come out and say the equivalent of “and all the believers lived in wonderful harmony, holding everything in common”. You don’t need to go into all the detail for your story to allude to a material basis. They also did pretty come pretty drat close to that, between the unified chanting at the forge and baptism explicitly attended by everybody.
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Apr 13, 2025 20:54
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Arc Hammer posted:Unironically, the Traviss novels do touch on that "farm in summer, war in winter" dichotomy, and the majority of all Mando stories do deal with the fact that no two Mando clans can agree on who they actually are as a people. That goes back as far as Fenn Shysa's appearance in the old Star Wars comics, and it's a central point of the Jango Fett: Open Seasons storyline as well. Correct. I love all that poo poo. Also, I'm never gonna give up on these guys getting somehow re-added to canon. The Jensaari would pair really well with the Crossguard Stance as presented in Jedi Survivor.
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Apr 13, 2025 21:34
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Jensaari. Speaking of Janissaries...
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Apr 13, 2025 21:44
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Brain ping pong: the abducted child soldier army of the First Order is not unlike the Janissarry system. That whole plot point is ripe for storytelling but Disney is so gun shy of the sequel era we’ll never get to explore it.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:They’re in a setting where travel is basically instantaneous and power generation is effectively infinite. Where the answer to the question what is the mode of production is… whatever the gently caress any given planet decides it to be. That's true but the good Star wars movies still clearly have a materialist element about them that makes those concerns important. In a New Hope, Luke's family appear to be running a small farm where Luke's labour is an important part of their ability to produce. Han his concerned enough about money that he is willing to undertake a risky operation to help a rich person. Material reality is important to a good Star War.
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Apr 13, 2025 22:07
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FlamingLiberal posted:BoBF feels like it was cut down from the original plan when Mando was a huge success Imagine if they purposely made boba fett a massive dumbass, so he wouldn't seem as cool as the marketable new guy
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Apr 13, 2025 22:13
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I'll be the rear end in a top hat that waves his hand and assumes they send their least weird guy to the grocery story every week two, just like real life cults. Seriously, I would assume that somebody would fly from the hidden compound to an outpost on the fringe of society to buy a bunch of big barrels and crates marked "FOOD" and "MEDICINE" on them.
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Seldom Posts posted:Material reality is important to a good Star War. This is why the Resistance running out of space gas fleeing towards the only planet in a star system while everyone wonders where they're going is so impactful.
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Apr 13, 2025 22:22
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Butterfly Valley posted:Bobas Fett I still giggle like an idiot at "Babus Frik."
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Apr 13, 2025 22:23
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Seldom Posts posted:Material reality is important to a good Star War. Yes! Myths of origin are used to get material support. Material support isn’t about just physical stuff. It’s also about which doors are open. That’s the origin of the phrase “material conditions” it’s actually older than Marx. Material conditions are the actual state of readiness of a ship, especially for damage control, literally which doors are open and shut in the vessel at a given moment. Myths of origin, are used by groups to support the material conditions for the group in societies.
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Apr 13, 2025 22:28
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I think it would be cool to introduce a swoop gang/Hell's Angels-esque faction into Star Wars, but I also feel like the Mod Gang from BoBF ruined speeder bike gangs forever.
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Apr 13, 2025 23:09
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Boba Fett killed all the swoop gang dudes with Slave 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urYMjk88FbU
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Apr 13, 2025 23:21
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Chronojam posted:Imagine if they purposely made boba fett a massive dumbass, so he wouldn't seem as cool as the marketable new guy Even in the original trilogy, Fett's only accomplishment is tracking the Falcon to Bespin. The Empire captures Han and gives him to Fett. Fett then gets clowned on by a blind Han, bounces off a wall, and gets eaten by a giant mouth in the ground. The coolest thing about Boba Fett was his armor, because the man inside it was a chump.
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Apr 13, 2025 23:26
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Arc Hammer posted:Boba Fett killed all the swoop gang dudes with Slave 1. So…you’re telling me there is room for more swoop gangs? I’m going to monkey’s paw Star Wars: Sons of Anarchy into reality, aren’t I?
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Marsupial Ape posted:So…you’re telling me there is room for more swoop gangs? I’m going to monkey’s paw Star Wars: Sons of Anarchy into reality, aren’t I? No I'm saying that the inevitable outcome of any swoop gang related story should end with Slave 1 flying out of the sun to blow them up.
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Arc Hammer posted:No I'm saying that the inevitable outcome of any swoop gang related story should end with Slave 1 flying out of the sun to blow them up. You're upselling me pretty hard on swoop gangs.
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Apr 14, 2025 00:05
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That would be amazing. End every season with 100% wipe of all the bikers. Don’t even connect it to the season’s story or particular planet setting.
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Apr 14, 2025 00:17
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In the final season, Boba tracks down and blows up the last swoop factory in the galaxy.
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Dave Filoni, we all know you lurk here and I give you permission to steal all these gold star ideas.
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Arc Hammer posted:Boba Fett killed all the swoop gang dudes with Slave 1. I thought this was a cool scene in a poo poo series but watching it back it's like why the gently caress does the swoop gang not immediately bug out in different directions when they're being shot like fish in a barrel rather than just being like 'welp guess we die now'
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My favorite part is every actor doing their best 90s Beat Em Up enemy grunt
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FlamingLiberal posted:BoBF feels like it was cut down from the original plan when Mando was a huge success I think someone sold Disney on letting Robert Rodriguez make an El Mariachi miniseries where Boba Fett was El Mariachi, and then after the ink was dry on the contract, Disney panicked, as Disney is want to always do, and just studio noted Rodriguez to death to get him to defang Boba Fett and make him a family friendly hero, so he just threw his hands up and said gently caress it and made a Spy Kids miniseries starring Boba Fett instead.
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Iirc it was greenlit midway through Mando Season 2 production. They'd always wanted to bring Bob back since Season 1 had that stinger at the end of the tattooing episode but the full Boba Fett show was meant to capitalize off of Mando's success.
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nine-gear crow posted:I think someone sold Disney on letting Robert Rodriguez make an El Mariachi miniseries where Boba Fett was El Mariachi, and then after the ink was dry on the contract, Disney panicked, as Disney is want to always do, and just studio noted Rodriguez to death to get him to defang Boba Fett and make him a family friendly hero, so he just threw his hands up and said gently caress it and made a Spy Kids miniseries starring Boba Fett instead. I would've wanted El Mariachi in Space, but Rodriguez these days is only capable of doing Once Upon a Time in Mexico in Space.
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1st AD posted:I would've wanted El Mariachi in Space, but Rodriguez these days is only capable of doing Once Upon a Time in Mexico in Space. I would have gladly taken that.
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Arc Hammer posted:Boba Fett killed all the swoop gang dudes with Slave 1. Never forget he almost lost a fight to the Sarlacc in that ship Ya know, a creature that doesn't move At least we got to hear BWAAAAAANG again
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https://bsky.app/profile/evanschultheis.bsky.social/post/3lmmvhq6hqk2q So it is indeed officially the TIE Avenger 
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Even though he helped out the Alliance, I still have to say "gently caress you, Admiral Harkov" for denying us more time with the objectively best tie fighter ever built.
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I don't really love the look of that but I didn't play whatever game people apparently love it from Thrawn's triple wing design is the coolest one I think
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Rubber Chicken posted:I don't really love the look of that but I didn't play whatever game people apparently love it from Both designs are from the same game
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The Tie Defender is compensating for something. The Missile Boat is straight up overpowered. Gimme a pair of Avengers flying cover for a Squadron of Assault Gunboats to just obliterate a Rebel convoy.
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1st AD posted:Both designs are from the same game That's fine but I know it from Rebels
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