Star Wars TV Megathread: Lights Out.

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Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

teagone posted:

Someone quote the SMG thing with Mace Windu.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2022 20:37

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# ¿ Jan 19, 2026 08:27

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

BIG HEADLINE posted:

I'll still never forgive them for not continuing with the "more people are connected to the Force than just the ~speshul chozin wunz~" idea.

You mean the prequels

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Like, the throughline of TLJ is that the Jedi Code leads directly to child murder somehow but I'm pretty sure the Jedi had some pretty strong beliefs against doing that sooooo what are we supposed to do here

Luke worshipping and hating the sacred Jedi texts is all on Rian. For all we know, his Jedi academy could have been more like Yoda's training in Dagobah, since he has no reason to worship the Jedi pre-empire.

Spermando fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Feb 3, 2022

# ¿ Feb 3, 2022 08:44

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

Dave Syndrome posted:

I may be completely alone in this, but everytime a Star Wars character uses "O.K." or "okay", I die a little inside. It's a complete pet peeve, but it sounds so modern and American in the Galaxy Far Far Away that for me it sticks out like a sore thumb.
Why not use "all right" instead? It even has the same number of syllables, so it doesn't change the flow of the dialogue.

Sorry, I just had to get this out somewhere. I don't know why it's bothering me so much.

I remember people getting up in arms about Luke dusting himself off in The Last Jedi because it was too modern, but why would that not be an in-universe thing, especially for someone who grew up in a desert planet.

# ¿ May 22, 2022 15:33

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

Captain Splendid posted:

You kid but....

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Portug

They Jewish-Wizard'ed this poo poo.

# ¿ May 22, 2022 20:15

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

banned from Starbucks posted:

Why did bad actor lady parkour for 10min across the city when they can just fly with their helicopter lightsabers?

I like that the way the scene is edited makes it look like she's going to get to Obi in a matter of seconds, but she's not even close.

# ¿ May 27, 2022 13:59

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

Apparently the tweaker is Ewan McGregor's daughter. :aaa:

# ¿ May 27, 2022 18:33

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

OldSenileGuy posted:

Of course, that opens up a bit of a plot hole in that why didn�t Vader do that to Leia in ANH to find the secret rebel base�.but we�ll let that slide

Or Reva to Owen, for that matter.

# ¿ May 27, 2022 20:45

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

Big Mean Jerk posted:

https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1531519656254590976?s=21&t=_CvCSaVUzQVTPh1MyiYukQ

This fandom is so vile online that the official twitter account for the franchise had to tell people to stop being racist shitheads.

loving Star Wars fans

This the same company that shrank John Boyega for the Chinese posters?

# ¿ May 31, 2022 07:51

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

Dave Syndrome posted:

The sad thing is that I can't tell if you're exaggerating any more. Do you have any links to support this?

No, but don't you just hate those bastards I just made up?

# ¿ May 31, 2022 11:49

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

BIG HEADLINE posted:

Honestly the thing that still burns my rear end the most about the sequels is that it was much better storytelling that Rey wasn't "sired" from a canonical bloodline and was simply gifted in the Force because ~fate~.

Is that such a novel concept? Sometimes it seems people forget we had an entire trilogy based on one character like that.
I think Rey's parents being nobody would have been cool to explore, but TFA is the only one that does something with that. What TLJ does with the concept (the infinite mirror thing and stuff) is one out of many instances of wheel spinning in that film. Honestly, after TFA that whole trilogy is like watching one of those minimalist plays where the actors only have two or three props that they use in different ways.

# ¿ May 31, 2022 22:28

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

Quick and dirty. I can't be the only one who thought of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHV5Df7QndY
(spoilers)

# ¿ Jun 1, 2022 07:58

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

I think setting the fight in a filler level from a mid-2000s third person shooter is what killed it for me more than the choreography or the non-resolution.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2022 11:23

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

Owlbear Camus posted:

Oh, speaking of, did the Sabers look a little off to anyone else? It looked to me almost like they were LEDs with very little post work done on them. Like it's cool that they have the tech to bake-in colored lighting emitted from them now, but it feels like they maybe leaned into that practical aspect too much and they look a bit like toys? Am I off base here?

If you compare them to that bit in AOTC where Dooku and Anakin are fighting in a dark place, it seems they cranked up the brightness by an insane amount. I'm guessing they didn't light the surroundings better because they're just featureless piles of dirt, so the sabers look extra bright.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2022 21:15

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

They could have had her twin brother Mark Hamill play her.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2022 21:59

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

As Nero Danced posted:

I know Kevin Feige gets a lot of credit for the MCU working, but is there something else to the structure of marvel that the star wars side hasn't been able to put together?

The heroes in the MCU might as well exist in separate universes--you have a god that fights other gods, a wizard with time powers, a Batman with a robot suit that fights disgruntled ex-employees who steal his tech... With Star Wars it's World War II and telekinesis. That's all you get. I can't believe people are excited about Andor, it's the same loving conflict we've seen every significant part of and a lot of insignificant ones, too.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2022 22:36

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

When the rumors started that they were dredging up Paul Saltines and that Kylo would visit his world I thought it would be a cool opportunity to do something like an inverse Dagobah, with a culture of creepy wizards, but so much for that

# ¿ Jun 3, 2022 22:57

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

pik_d posted:

I already said it, but they hastily cut out all her parkour over rocks and through mining sites because it wasn't well received in the previous week.

Maybe that's why the Vader fight is so short and choppy. They had to remove all the shots with Reva doing backflips and cartwheels in circles in the background.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2022 13:33

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

Everyone posted:

The Force is no longer the exclusive province of people from super-duper-ooper-pooper special families. Now the Force is awake. So potentially anyone can manifest it. Even some desert rat girl or a kid working in a stable.

I'm honestly baffled by the sheer number of people who forgot that both the central character of the series and his master are random children taken from poor families and that the Jedi go around looking for said random children and think this concept was introduced in TLJ.

Re: Snoke. Killing him in the second film without explaining him at all was a complete waste of an actually threatening villain and the last possibility for any world building beyond "the First Order is a thing that exists". Now the only villain is an inconsistently written character who the main character has already beaten physically and emotionally.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2022 01:05

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

Rochallor posted:

Snoke was never a threatening villain, he was just some generic schemer that TFA did nothing to make interesting. Killing him off is one of the best ideas TLJ has, right up there with having our last look at him be his stupid dead face with his tongue poking out. It's the ending he deserved.

He's threatening in that he's the only person who can beat Rey in a fight. Every single other character is helpless against her. I think it's another example of people thinking unexpected equals good in a vacuum, but what you actually got is a rehash of the climax of ROTJ, only it's one movie too early and now there's no credible threat to the protagonist.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2022 02:19

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

I would have been fine with Kyle travelling to a Sith planet or Vader's palace and finding a force ghost of Palpatine that will act as a devil on his shoulder, but then they were trying to market this to China.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2022 13:48

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

Anita Dickinme posted:

I don�t know if this is common knowledge but I wanted to see if Ice Cube was still in the cast list for Kenobi (he�s not) but I must have missed it in the past because now I see Zach Braff. Totally gonna be Obi-Wan�s brother.

Zach Braff was the mole man in this week's episode.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2022 18:29

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

Karloff posted:

It's not just any force user. It's that the MOST powerful person in the universe is not a chosen one, is not from some sacred lineage. It's just a nobody. Sub textually, it's that the spark for revolution can come from anywhere, communicated in that final shot.

Aside from what Nodoze said, the most literal reading of that scene is that people are inspired to manifest the force thanks to Luke (a member of that sacred lineage) becoming Jesus at the end. JJ didn't follow up on this, and I don't know where Rian would have taken that plot thread, but it seems likely that those people would join together and create a new Jedi school (and if that's not the intention, they shouldn't have made broom kid look like a padawan holding a lightsaber). It's not that different from what the prequels were doing and it definitely doesn't solve the problem of only a handful of people being important; worse yet, now they have a martyr that doesn't look like a robot samurai.

Spermando fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Jun 5, 2022

# ¿ Jun 5, 2022 22:21

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

They had either recorded an alternate ending in case season 2 got greenlit or the most they can do at this stage is have a voiceover where they type "Send in my most loyal subordinate... Glup Shitto" into their Darth Hatsune synthesizer over some unused footage of Mustafar.

Spermando fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Jun 6, 2022

# ¿ Jun 6, 2022 20:47

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

I think I would have enjoyed Rey being OP more if her enemies weren't Three Stooges levels of incompetent.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2022 07:20

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

So which one caused the most limitations to any possible sequels or prequels--the rule of two or the prophecy.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2022 21:43

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

So it's almost confirmed that they'll have to mind-wipe Leia at the end of the season. Also, if Reva had just gone offscreen, she would have caught up with them easily.

Spermando fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Jun 8, 2022

# ¿ Jun 8, 2022 08:25

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

He'll be back in the next episode with a properly proportioned head and they'll say it's because they had to squeeze him in a really narrow Bacta tank.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2022 14:04

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

TheBuilder posted:

If the actor was Hispanic would you say it looked like a sombrero?

It's clearly meant to evoke one of these.

Just like Vader's helmet is very samurai-ish.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2022 15:19

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

If they have ghost Hayden again, I wonder if they'll shoot him with a telephoto lens again or they'll use some of the show's four-digit budget to deage him.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2022 22:03

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

Arc Hammer posted:

The respeacher tech is giving me uncanny valley vibes. Like it sounds like James Earl Jones but then the inflection sounds wrong like it got pitched too high or it emphasized the wrong syllable.

What killed it for me is how the transition between "I'm gonna murder you" and "neat idea" was too jarring and quick.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2022 07:13

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

Valve Steam Deck posted:

She's a rich hollywood executive yeah but there are a whole sea of rich Disney execs with their hands in the pot too and yet you can't name a single one, I wonder why that is?

Nah, chuds mention Kevin Feige just as much as Kennedy nowadays.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2022 06:47

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

You put those goalposts back.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2022 07:15

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

I'm having a lot of fun with these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od_YDko2w2Y

# ¿ Jun 11, 2022 10:34

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

That video was very eye-opening, and a lot of things fall into place when you realize they cut the first half hour. It makes it clearer that they were doing the "Star Trek: Into Darkness" thing of moving from plot point to plot point so fast you can't stop to think how nonsensical everything is.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2022 07:50

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

Their analysis of stunt work in films is worthless because I suppose they vote for a different party than I do.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2022 10:36

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

So far this is a lot more interesting. Guess they blew their load in the last two episodes.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2022 07:11

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

BrianWilly posted:

But then that begs the question of...why haven't people done that before? Why are the Jedi and Sith swinging laser swords at each other all the time instead of breaking their enemies' arms with the Force or even just yanking away their lightsabers or whatever?

This has been a problem since 1977. Why isn't every Jedi battle a race to see who can choke the other first?

# ¿ Jun 15, 2022 09:19

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

I hope that in episode 6 when ghost Qui Gon shows up, his only words are him complaining about being the only person in this universe to die from being shot/stabbed in the gut and he hangs up before even acknowledging Obi Wan.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2022 15:19

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

thrawn527 posted:

So who was flying the decoy ship?

Poe Dameron. They knew he'd live

# ¿ Jun 15, 2022 16:13

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# ¿ Jan 19, 2026 08:27

Spermando: Jun 13, 2009

Here, have your Canadian rubber simulacra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL-N2ywWhOw

# ¿ Jun 15, 2022 21:13

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