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Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Kind of funny to me that essentially the first Storm Troopers are getting trained by an expert marksman

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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I feel like we are going to really get the emotional beat of having to kill an ally whenever it's time to have a real showdown with Crosshair

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Fun episode I got to see a baby Rancor

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Cheesus posted:

Well, he is running the Crimson Dawn syndicate in Solo, so there's that.

Loved Maul destroying the ship from the inside and backstabbing (given who he is, can it even be called that?) Ahsoka at the end.

Maul: Ey whaddya want I'm a fuckin scorpion

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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*looks it up* Oh woah I guess I just somehow managed to miss this one major EU character so far oops

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Megillah Gorilla posted:

I wonder, for those who never watched Rebels, how would the last episode have come across?

I really enjoyed watching young Hera and everything (read: Chopper), but to someone casually watching it and only seeing the Bad Batch for about a minute, it must have seemed weird as hell.

I haven't seen Rebels, partially because I didn't like the first few episodes the first time around but also because I was working my way towards them from Clone Wars and I managed to finish season 7 right as this started and it kind of naturally flowed into it. For me I enjoyed it as a check in on Ryloth after not hearing about them for a while, but it was kind of obvious maybe I was looking at already established characters. Kind of like how a kid with a grown rear end man's voice showed up in ep 1.


I think it was Rebels I watched, I might have somehow seen like 4 episodes of Resistance instead?

E: oh it was Rebels, I know I didnt like the art but I also know it didn't look as bad as Resistance eughhk

Shoehead fucked around with this message at 12:04 on Jul 10, 2021

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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My dream EU show or cartoon would be about a broken Mace Windu living in the bowels of the Corusant underworld, so part of me would hope he's not in a Ben Kenobi show

E: Like basically Mace ends up as Yojimbo

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Bismuth posted:

*slide whistle noise*


Look it was cold that day ok??

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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This has been the only episode of both Clone Wars and Bad Batch I've seen on my regular TV and not a pc monitor and it was the right one to watch, the lighting in this episode was amazing

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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twistedmentat posted:



BTW did anyone else expect the nest to be filled with spiders, the ones from that Mandolorian episode?

I was getting ready to hide tbh

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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This episode was really good

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Robot Style posted:

They kind of discussed it when talking about the costume - stuff like his robe in the movie actually being brown but people remember it as black. They specifically wanted to hit people's nostalgia to help sell the effect of the character, so deliberately went with a "this is what you remember" version of Luke rather than strictly depicting the reality.

It's also kind of cheeky that it happened to line up with the Expanded Universe version of Luke, where they could only legally use promo stills from the movies rather than current photos of the characters, so EU Luke kind of eternally looked like ROTJ anyway.

Yeah to me he looked like they'd ripped him from the cover of some New Republic era EU book from the 90s. It hit that nostalgia point for me hard.

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Man this first episode is engineered solely to make me emotional

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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No Luck Needed posted:

Kenobi is irredeemable after letting the first Jedi he meets die and get strung up cartel style. How am I suppose to care about sad-sack Kenobi who let an honest-to-good jedi die? Nothing Kenobi does going forward is going to wash the blood from his hands of not helping that first jedi but the show will never mention it again, it was a plot point to show how down in the dumps Kenobi is and how he is not acting like a jedi. But how am I suppose to watch a show about a sad-sack that just let a dude die?

You're right, go watch Selling Sunset instead, friend

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Enjoyed that second one a lot, lots of little nice touches like

Leia wearing a green poncho like on Endor
Leia, mother of Ben Solo saying "Ben" doesn't sound like a Jedi's name
The toy Y-Wing being a model Luke has in ANH

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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omg nerrdsss

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Oh my boy Sinube

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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"The easiest way to keep a knife sharp is tae use it, sar"

Fuckin psycho.

Every single Corpo Cop in the show so far has been a brilliant Night Watch character, including that very Vimes like "I think, maybe, these two officers died in an accident"

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Sad for Mon Mothma marrying some rear end in a top hat richboy hedonist who thinks she's woke and boring.

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Isn't Jarjar in the circus by now in 5BBY?

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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I think it's comic Canon currently.

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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I like that the comm officer (??) was out for a quick smoke. Puffin on a deathstick

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Dave Syndrome posted:

I was listening to Rebel Force Radio today for the first time again in a long while, and the two hosts were speculating "which of the guys" Cinta was "sharing her blanket" with. Vel was mentioned as an afterthought with a laugh, after the option "maybe all of the guys, LOL". :rolleyes:
Glad to see goons aren't the only ones bad at watching shows.

Lmao I figured it was her and then her later saying "She didn't even tell me" was proof enough for me.

I like that even though, or perhaps maybe BECAUSE he was told Cinta was taken he like almost absent mindedly started trying to charm her. I can see how he gets in so much trouble.

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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I'm kind of hoping for there not to be a redemption arc for Karn, or at least not one we as viewers are sympathetic to, so we can have a moment where he finally confronts Cassian and berates him for ruining his life and Cassian doesn't even remember him because he saw his face for less than a minute once.

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Cant wait to see Harlow Ohnaka next week

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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chitoryu12 posted:

Mon Mothma's entire deal with Saw Gerrera is that she doesn't like stochastic terrorism. His random violence isn't particularly effective most of the time at actually fighting the Empire and tends to result in harsher crackdowns or the loss of valuable Rebel assets. She, Bail, and Luthen are trying to build an organized rebellion that can enact good plans instead of just car bombing poo poo and hoping it makes Palpatine give up.

Car bombing poo poo and hoping the [insert ruler] gives up has historically worked very well irl though. From what I've seen of Saw though, he does go off the deep end

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Live
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Love

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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I wonder how useful a space port is at the exact spot in the sacred valley that gets blasted with particles and shuts down space flight for a day every 3 years is. I assume whatever makes this the key point for the eye also makes it a great spot for the port.


Also great episode, great show. I don't think I've ever watched SW while feeling so tense! I'm very grateful for the 2 episodes of setup for this one too. I feel like maybe other shows I'm watching lately need to end an ep on a big note or a cliffhanger and would have maybe started the heist early or mid episode 5 with a complication hitting right at the end, just to keep a viewer in suspense for next week. But here we know the heist is happening tomorrow, we know its next episode and then we just get a banger to watch the whole way through for 40ish minutes. Great pacing.

I wonder how it'll feel when I inevitably rewatch the whole show over a weekend?

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Stormtroopers in the airport, Coursant really is just space London now, huh?

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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No one is ever going to take Saw alive

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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What a fuckin' episode :aaa:

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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"Climb!"

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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We know at the very least that wookies were segregated into their own labour camps by the Empire. They don't seem to like mixed groups.

I imagine they'd think a mixed group of prisoners would be too unpredictable, they seem to like setting up different solutions to managing prisoner populations. Apparently in the current EU they had everyone on Kashyyyk fitted with inhibitor chips.

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Azhais posted:

Why don't they just clone midichlorians? Force powers are the new designer drug

That seems to be what those Imperial Remnants wanted Grogu for

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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2 hours 50 minutes on this weeks A More Civilized Age let's Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :woop:

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Sep 28, 2005

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teagone posted:

Having to wait another week for the finale loving suuuuuuuuucks. Luthen is such a badass. Also, that wooden looking club thing that Saw's guard picked up while searching Luthen...that poo poo's not a lightsaber hilt, right? Lmao.

100%


Man I can't believe this show is over next week

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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i say swears online posted:

where was the hint that mondaughter would ever go trad? I thought it was way too convenient to the betrothal plot

things seemed too telegraphed this episode

the droid was nice and sad but I think if the ol' lady ate it but secretly lived he'd have spilled the beans

I dunno about hints but I do think this is keeping in theme with this show's approach to cultural identity. Earlier we saw the Aldani struggling to keep their customs alive and here we have this daughter of 2 people very much burned by Chandrillan customs embracing them. It makes sense to me that she would though, as a 2nd generation ex-pat she probably wanted to know more about where she was from. I could see her heading home at some point and being disappointed, like Worf, where she's like don't you say this morning prayer and her cousin or whoever is like "oh uh yeah I guess"

Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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Karn doesn't have an apt of his own because ironically there is a housing crisis on Coruscant

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Shoehead
Sep 28, 2005

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What a show

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