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1st AD posted:The show is clearly doing an analogy for white Christian colonizers doing cultural genocide on native peoples and does it throughout the show. I think it's actually okay for a white liberal to write a story about kids being taken away from their loving Queer parents and having religion forced on them; I'm pretty sure that happens to some white people.
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I love Luke and Mara's initial dynamic so much that tbh if we aren't getting Mara having a crisis over this rear end in a top hat who ruined her life being so nice, I don't want it. And seeing as the only way Dave and Disney are gonna give me that is with homonculus Luke I double don't want it.
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I hope that more shows and films swing for the fences in the future or at least focus on being genre pieces rather than "Star Wars" Star Wars shows. I have high hopes for the Ninth Jedi anime we're getting and I remain optimistic about Starfighter.
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Shoehead posted:I love Luke and Mara's initial dynamic so much that tbh if we aren't getting Mara having a crisis over this rear end in a top hat who ruined her life being so nice, I don't want it. And seeing as the only way Dave and Disney are gonna give me that is with homonculus Luke I double don't want it. It's a shame they won't pull the trigger on Sebastian Shaw as younger Luke as he could be fun for it.
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Reminder that in The Acolyte, the Jedi group was only on that planet to study "vergences" in the Force, and it was all very boring and tedious. Sol just happened to stroll away and stumble upon the Twins, and then the Force Witches... which, clearly, is the Will of the Force that this all happens. Now, the idea of Sol feeling obligated to take the kids, or his duty, is a separate matter.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Star Wars writers really do need to watch some other cinema though. No they don't
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redshirt posted:Reminder that in The Acolyte, the Jedi group was only on that planet to study "vergences" in the Force, and it was all very boring and tedious. Sol just happened to stroll away and stumble upon the Twins, and then the Force Witches... which, clearly, is the Will of the Force that this all happens. Columbus was just looking for a Western route to the East Indies.
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skasion posted:The Acolyte was ok with one really good bit (big rear end lightsaber melee where Manny kills everyone). Mostly just too slow. It was 8 episodes long lmfao, could easily have been half the length. Most unnecessary Rashomoning Darth Bottles is my perfect idea of what a sith lord should be. Creepy, sinister, and his arguments are persuasive and seductive, but he's still full of poo poo. Like the conversation that's pretty much Sol: "she was a child, you murdered her" Bottles: "you brought her here" And I'm nodding along sagely, you're right Mr Sith Lord, it is messed up that the jedi put a young padawan into harms way and....wait a second youre still the dude who murdered her. It's so good.
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redshirt posted:Reminder that in The Acolyte, the Jedi group was only on that planet to study "vergences" in the Force, and it was all very boring and tedious. NoneMoreNegative posted:lmao this guy thinking Sol was a proper wrong 'un
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Darth Bottles Well, I suppose you do need a bottle to make a Molotov Cocktail.
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https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1978139201787789669 drat.
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He'd been ill for a while, drat shame.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Darth Bottles is my perfect idea of what a sith lord should be. Creepy, sinister, and his arguments are persuasive and seductive, but he's still full of poo poo. Yeah, he murdered her, but what is he supposed to do in that situation? He's there to fight (and kill) jedis. They bring out a child and he's supposed to just give up and be like "Welp, you have a child, I have to claim the moral high ground and surrender" The jedi are the ones who collect children and then put them into combat. You can't air drop a child into a battlefield and then say that the separatists are monstrous child murderers.
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redshirt posted:Reminder that in The Acolyte, the Jedi group was only on that planet to study "vergences" in the Force, and it was all very boring and tedious. Sol just happened to stroll away and stumble upon the Twins, and then the Force Witches... which, clearly, is the Will of the Force that this all happens.  The fact that they look for "vergence" using metal detectors still crack me up
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Some idiot battle droid out there has personally slain more younglings than Anakin with random unaimed blaster bolts and they don't even know it.
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A battle droid that somehow survived from Geonosis to the end of the Clone Wars would be a fantastic NPC to give to a team of SWRPG players. It somehow has a thousand-yard stare.
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Marsupial Ape posted:A battle droid that somehow survived from Geonosis to the end of the Clone Wars would be a fantastic NPC to give to a team of SWRPG players. It somehow has a thousand-yard stare. It’s not canon but we kind of got that in Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures as a main character (which is a good show in its own right though for some reason Disney took everything off D+ except the shorts that made up the first episode of the second season) Larryb fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Oct 15, 2025 |
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Marsupial Ape posted:A battle droid that somehow survived from Geonosis to the end of the Clone Wars would be a fantastic NPC to give to a team of SWRPG players. It somehow has a thousand-yard stare. That one B1 from Skeleton Crew: "Did we win?"
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The goon-designed Patrol RPG has an expansion that lets you play a squad of battle droids. If I ever run a game at a con again it'll probably be that.
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Someone better versed in Shakespeare than I am please write up a treatise about the way that Luthen and Kleya are inspired by Lear and Cordelia, based solely around the fact that Luthen's last name Rael is just a reversal of his real name Lear.
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Marsupial Ape posted:A battle droid that somehow survived from Geonosis to the end of the Clone Wars would be a fantastic NPC to give to a team of SWRPG players. It somehow has a thousand-yard stare. One of the PCs in Renegade Scum is exactly that.
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https://x.com/CobaltGreen1138/status/1978493505568690543?t=qiMqtaRHgt_mfCndotdUpg&s=19 That Bail Organa is our last hope. No, there is another...
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Arc Hammer posted:https://x.com/CobaltGreen1138/status/1978493505568690543?t=qiMqtaRHgt_mfCndotdUpg&s=19 This is getting out of hand. Now there are three of him!
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I'm left imagining how the Rebel Base personnel felt in the days following Scarif but before the Falcon arrived. Most of the fleet is either destroyed or missing, Admiral Raddus and Captain Andor are both dead, and you've just received word that Alderaan has been destroyed. All you know is that the plans were transmitted from the surface, but if they haven't been recaptured by the Empire they're currently MIA. Kleya and Vel and Mon all having a very, very bad week of waiting.
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Arc Hammer posted:I'm left imagining how the Rebel Base personnel felt in the days following Scarif but before the Falcon arrived. Most of the fleet is either destroyed or missing, Admiral Raddus and Captain Andor are both dead, and you've just received word that Alderaan has been destroyed. All you know is that the plans were transmitted from the surface, but if they haven't been recaptured by the Empire they're currently MIA. They're all very busy pre-loading for the evacuation.
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Madurai posted:They're all very busy pre-loading for the evacuation. My ideal star wars fan film is the opening montage of Top Gun, except instead of carrier flight ops it's the Yavin base being evacuated and instead of F-14 cat shots it builds to the last 4-ship of Y-wings using the launch tubes before they're shut down forever. Imagine golden hour with the DS debris ring hanging over the jungle, the whine of the engines... Prolonged Panorama fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Oct 17, 2025 |
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Madurai posted:They're all very busy pre-loading for the evacuation. Yeah, after Star Wars they're not really better off. The fleet is still destroyed, and on top of that they've also lost most of their fighters in the Death Star attack. Blowing up the Death Star is nice, but for the rebel base all that means is that they've bought themselves a few hours or a few days: instead of getting blown up in a ceremonial show of force, they can expect to get overwhelmed by a Star Destroyer or two jumping into the system at any moment.
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I recall the EU having a theme of the Empire being really unsure what exactly happened at Yavin and being slow to respond. The Death Star was still a black project when it exploded. The Fleet didn't know they could or should respond. Saying "hey some lovely hot rod fighter just exploded our gigantic battlestation" wasn't exactly something to advertise.
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It's kinda funny how Yavin stayed secret for years when the Rebels are only just unpacking on Hoth and setting up a perimeter and they instantly get caught by a probe droid. Jungles - good for hiding. Snowy deserts - less so.
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Arc Hammer posted:I'm left imagining how the Rebel Base personnel felt in the days following Scarif but before the Falcon arrived. Most of the fleet is either destroyed or missing, Admiral Raddus and Captain Andor are both dead, and you've just received word that Alderaan has been destroyed. All you know is that the plans were transmitted from the surface, but if they haven't been recaptured by the Empire they're currently MIA. Andor S2 should have had Andor’s death halfway in, and then this for the finale.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Andor S2 should have had Andor’s death halfway in, and then this for the finale. *Fade to black* ROGUE ONE HAPPENS *Fade back in*
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thrawn527 posted:*Fade to black* Could have taken a page from Alien: Earth and had a made-for-TV remake of Rogue One halfway through the season.
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Alchenar posted:It's kinda funny how Yavin stayed secret for years when the Rebels are only just unpacking on Hoth and setting up a perimeter and they instantly get caught by a probe droid. I mean the Rebellion went literally over night from a joke no one really cared about because the ISB was on top of that poo poo to a top-level threat that Palpatine was probably throwing things and people around the room in a fit of rage over going "I WANT A PROBE DROID ON EVERY loving PLANET LOOKING FOR THESE ASSHOLES!" and Vader was like "Yeah, cool. Done." once he poured himself out of his TIE fighter. So yeah, the obscurity they had to hide in was out the window after the Death Star blew up.
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Pinterest Mom posted:Could have taken a page from Alien: Earth and had a made-for-TV remake of Rogue One halfway through the season. As much as I enjoy Rogue One, I'm not convinced the "made-for-TV remake" wouldn't have been better, given how good Andor was. nine-gear crow posted:I mean the Rebellion went literally over night from a joke no one really cared about because the ISB was on top of that poo poo to a top-level threat that Palpatine was probably throwing things and people around the room in a fit of rage over going "I WANT A PROBE DROID ON EVERY loving PLANET LOOKING FOR THESE ASSHOLES!" and Vader was like "Yeah, cool. Done." once he poured himself out of his TIE fighter. To be fair, three years pass between ANH and ESB. We have no idea exactly when the Empire goes into full blown "find the Rebels" mode. And the story, as shown in ESB, is that it's Vader, not Palpatine, who is obsessed with the search, because he's looking for his son, not the Rebels. Vader is a bored middle manager in ANH. He's using the full might of the Imperial Navy in ESB in order to find Luke. (If you haven't read the first Vader comic in the new canon where Vader finds out who destroyed the Death Star, I'd recommend it, it's great.) I've always been a little confused about why the old EU didn't explore the time between ANH and ESB more. There's some stories, but not a ton. Three years should have been a gold mine for the Bantam era. There was only one year between ESB and ROTJ, and they mined the poo poo out of that for Shadows of the Empire.
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Shadows of the Empire is one of those projects that shouldn't be possible, a corporate project hitting every vertical across all media channels that happened to be good and well received in every iteration.
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1st AD posted:Shadows of the Empire is one of those projects that shouldn't be possible, a corporate project hitting every vertical across all media channels that happened to be good and well received in every iteration. Well received? Yes. Good? Sus. 
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thrawn527 posted:I've always been a little confused about why the old EU didn't explore the time between ANH and ESB more. There's some stories, but not a ton. Three years should have been a gold mine for the Bantam era. There was only one year between ESB and ROTJ, and they mined the poo poo out of that for Shadows of the Empire. Yeah, it's not a ton, but I think it's a fair bit more than what's between ESB and RotJ. IIRC, in terms of books between ANH and ESB, you've got some parts of the Tales Of anthologies (Notably from Empire and the misleadingly titled New Republic ones) and other short stories, and three later Zahn books (Scoundrels, Allegiance, and Choices of One), maybe one or two others I'm forgetting, plus I think a few video games are set in that span too (I know the first Rogue Squadron game mostly is, and parts of Rogue Leader which had Hoth kinda in the middle). IIRC, one of the duel narratives in everybody's beloved Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy is also set during that timeframe too. Between ESB and RotJ has everything related to the Shadows of the Empire project (Book, game, comic, whatever else I'm forgetting), I think a smaller amount of Tales Of stories and bit more video game stuff (Chunks of Rouge Leader), but that's it. They definitely could have put more in that span, but I think in general the old EU during the Bantam-era was sticking in the post-RotJ era for full length novels. nine-gear crow posted:Well received? Yes. It's better than the sequel trilogy 
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