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mllaneza posted:Filoni needs to lay off the bringing characters back from the dead schtick before he screws one up. He hasn't yet, and Crime Queen Fennec is just more proof, but he's going to blow one if he keeps it up. I mean, that one was pretty telegraphed. Casting a fairly big-name actor with an elaborate distinctive costume design, a big in-universe reputation, given a sudden undignified death on her first appearance and then the "corpse" walked up on by someone mysterious at the credits?
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galenanorth posted:It felt like Anakin was so angry the entire Attack of the Clones movie that it's like most of his character development in the entire trilogy happened between the first two movies. He's 100% "Obi-Wan doesn't think I'm ready, but I'll show him!!!" besides the scenes on Tattooine and the love scenes with Padme. His descent being like someone who is fine most of the time, but who struggles and increasingly slips into something like alcoholism, makes more sense. The opening chase and the Obi-Wan/Kamino scenes were the best parts of that movie The prequel trilogy works better when you realize Anakin's story is not about a good man and virtuous Jedi who falls to the dark side. He is a troubled boy brought into the Jedi order despite Yoda's warnings. Then he grows up into an angry young man who is unable to defeat his demons or overcome grief; instead he is taught how to turn that anger into a great force of destruction.
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Mar 26, 2021 07:52
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jivjov posted:We got an entire trilogy of Luke being one of the lead protagonists. The ST needed to not focus so much on those characters and instead give the new generation the focus. I totally agree with this but also think it could use an addendum. quote:We got two entire trilogies of Palpatine being the real protagonist. The ST needed to keep him in the loving ground and instead give his legacy the focus. I mean, it's particularly sad that being a long-con plot by Palpatine gave the First Order more character than it got in the first two movies. It was just there because hey you have to have stormtroopers and Star Destroyers, right?
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Jun 1, 2021 03:43
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Larryb posted:To be fair, how do we know he wasn’t (as someone else said he’s basically HK-47: Astromech Edition)? That’s why I love the little bastard: I like how this episode helped set up the crushing of his youthful optimism and transformation into the murderdroid we know and love.
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Jul 9, 2021 21:11
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SlothfulCobra posted:It's worse with Clone Troopers, since they're all CT-####, so there's an upper limit of 11,000 when they're ordered in batches of millions. And there's multiple scenes of somebody just putting in a Clone's 4 digit number into a database and getting all that clone's information with no need for extra address information. When you put it that way, now it's just a 555 number to me.
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Aug 12, 2021 06:04
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Tattooine Rhapsody was great, I don't know why people find it so lacking anyway. I mean sure I'd like a longer treatment of it, but it's hard to get more self-contained and self-explanatory than music loving dude takes in people with nowhere to go to, puts the band of his dreams together, then they rescue him when his mob family tries to execute him for desertion. It was accessible, upbeat, and about people wanting to find fame and adventure in a big galaxy. Also the  of
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Sash! posted:Hell, look at Star Trek. Everyone loves watching Ricardo Montalban's pecs devour scenery and declare it to be the best Star Trek movie. I understand that before they pulled him from Star Trek 2 planning, Roddenberry planned to make a plot where Klingons go back in time to prevent the JFK assassination and the crew of the Enterprise have to stop them.
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Oct 17, 2021 17:37
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PantsOptional posted:Naw, go full-on and just have him play Machete, no explanation. If it’s really necessary he can have some Star Wars name tacked on or something. Machete Antilles. 
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Nov 2, 2021 18:21
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It all started when Ross, the largest Friend, simply ate the other five.
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I'm just bummed Boba never called himself a "legitimate businessman" in a cliche Mafia accent, since then we'd have people really angry that we have a series about Boba Fett reinventing himself as an ordinary small business owner instead a cool crime lord or something.
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Owlbear Camus posted:gold leader was just straight up Dutch. He was a former stormtrooper though. 
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ccubed posted:Ep 3 of Boba was hilarious. This was 100% a 13 year old DM's mid to late 80's adventure for their buddies. So many mini-quests. The cyberpunk cyborg street gangers on colorful vespas. The incredibly low speed chase. The sensitive rancor bonding on Boba like a baby duckling. Emotionally complex creatures who can become very loving. So many laugh out loud moments. I was just thinking of  But really "tabletop RPG adventure" is a great mode for a Star Wars TV show, I won't complain.
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Jan 13, 2022 06:16
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Farm Frenzy posted:they should look like science fiction rich kids and not 2022 rich kids. I am not interested in the mos espa hype house. this show needs to fully commit to how stupid it obviously wants to look The ones with mishmashed multicultural Star Wars clothing styles and flashy cyborg parts? I haven't been out to many upclass bars since the pandemic hit, but what do rich kids look like in 2022? I mean, they could have included some aliens or something, but the only things that made them look less sci-fi than the other humans around was them not wearing headgear.
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Neon Knight posted:Speaking of Jizz. Having just learned about mod culture, does this gang love Jizz? Or is Jizz too mainstream in this universe? Either way, Boba needs to recruit a house band next episode to keep the crews morale up after sparing the teddy bear that tossed them around, They liked Jizz before it was cool.
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Jan 15, 2022 06:12
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My biggest memory of the prequel era was when a bunch of toxic nerds realized seeing new Star Wars didn't literally turn back the clock and make them kids again, concluded that the problem must be that these were kids movies while original Star Wars was serious science fiction for grownups, and then slowly convince themselves RotJ was a bad movie just to piece together the new theory in their head. Though the best knot of Star Wars fandom I saw today was someone complain that BoB violated years of Star Wars worldbuilding by having zippers, then someone else pointed out that ESB had zippers.
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Captain Splendid posted:You fool! I've been trained in your Jedi arts by Chef Dooku! Fixed that for you
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Cross-Section posted:This show would be so much more interesting if they even just teased a relationship between them It's just subtly different than a romantic one. https://twitter.com/_thememerman_/status/1483744877569531905
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Lister posted:Also had to just laugh at the stealth droid sneaking in to map the place with bright red LEDs all over it. A lot of robots need glowy eyes to see. Don't shame them.
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I don't see the lie here.
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eke out posted:i love these hairless bulldogs 
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Hazo posted:Rancor has to show up, it's been pushed to the background for too long. Everyone watching:  They nailed the look though.
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Xelkelvos posted:I hope they have a way to have less Luke or figure out a better workaround because the audio isn't well synced up with the deepfake and ends up looking like bad ADR Smaller Luke confirmed.
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Just Chamber posted:Yea I expected Din to question that a lot more and really challenge the whole Jedi idea about letting go of attachments considering he's all about the Mando way being the best with its focus on loyalty and bond to those close to you. Once he's told Grogu has to forgo all of that for his whole life I'd figure he'd be like nope I'm getting him the gently caress outta this mad cult. Yes and no? I mean, he's deep into the mindset of being in tight with "your people" and maintaining strict cultural restrictions that separate you from everyone else in the galaxy,. The Way he follows is one where even a slight departure makes you an outcast. Where you will never in your life be able to enjoy a meal with outsiders, for example, no matter how much you consider them friends. The level of arbitrary cultish bullshit he's willing to put up with is very high and it doesn't even have the "Trying to keep power from turning kids into monsters out of material attachments" justification. I mean, he was confused by the specifics of the Jedi way, but it felt specifically more at how they'd forgo attachments even within the order.
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Barry Foster posted:Honestly I find the original better. I've not watched much Clone Wars and have no real attachment to the character, but I find the pale, scrunched up, hosed-up monster-looking original version a lot creepier and more threatening (maybe because of the more human proportions?) I mostly agree on that. The quick and dirty "move the mouth lower to match the rubber-suit Duros we've seen in live action" was good, but matching him up to cartoon proportions and palette is both unnecessary and less menacing.
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Darko posted:Yeah, and Rebels purposely gave them a bunch of gimmicks that would make them a little more formidable than the average Padawan. They weren't that good with sabers, so they had Grevious nonsense going on where the sabers spin. Or one had a bunch of modified Imperial droids helping her out, etc. By the end of the show, Ezra would have no problem taking the average one out - they sucked. One of the keys of maintaining a successful dictatorship is making sure no one really has the power and interest to take you down. Dictatorship by space wizard implies ensuring that other space wizards are limited either in power or ambition.
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my cat is norris posted:it is very possible to describe something as "anime as gently caress" and to know exactly what that means, however It's like calling something "Hollywood." It's not a genre in the tediously literal sense that superheroes or high fantasy are but it's something with a clear meaning, and a story can be more or less" Hollywood" regardless of where it was literally produced. Though "It's only anime/Hollywood if I don't like it" is definitely a thing too.
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LividLiquid posted:Okay, again, I really can't stress this enough: I feel for you there. Plenty of cool good people cosplay Stormtroopers, love video games where they get to play TIE fighters, and generally enjoy fictional bad guys without actually excusing them, partly since the fantasy nature of the setting distances it from real-world consequences. On the other hand ironic-not-ironic "When you think about it, the Empire is a legitimate government fighting a terrorist insurgency" takes got big with a pretty bad crowd, and it's hardly rare for people to identify with fictional villains and bullies because they identify with those properties. There's a person a block over from me with an Imperial sticker on their car. It's probably as revealing about the real person as a sticker of the Decepticon logo or Freddy Kreuger or something. It's probably less worrisome than a Punisher logo. But if the owner turned out to be some right-authoritarian type I'd be "yeah, that tracks."
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Marsupial Ape posted:IG-11’s went full Cop Droid I just remembered one of my favorite NV quest resolutions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM53D2Xo_oY&t=105s
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