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Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Why the gently caress did they expect me to have played Fortnite before watching the new movie?

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Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Episodes being this short is getting kind of frustrating for a weekly show. Once it feels like things are getting going, the episode ends. At least Disney+ has finally started displaying episodes in a grid.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Hryme posted:

I really liked this episode. Never seen Manny Jacinto in anything besides this but he is great. Hope this is an opportunity for him to get more good roles.

Watch The Good Place.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
That was the dumbest thing. Just be like "Ok, we will be family again" and then suggest they try to steal the jedi ship and then maybe try to apprehend her there or something. Or do literally anything to stall her until the squid games guy wakes up. No, instead grab her arm and say "you're under arrest" with no plan on how to follow through with that. And what is Jason's plan for osha? Like she's magically on his side now or something?

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

zoux posted:

what is Vader’s plan for Luke? Like he's magically on his side now or something

Are you suggesting that Jason is their father?

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Larryb posted:

Got a source for any of that?

Source: Trust me bro, my uncle works at Nintendo, et al.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
I get it now, Osha is turning into Darth Vader, this is Vader's origin story.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Kesper North posted:

Yeah it was completely worth it for the singsongy "Oh - Hello!" when he reveals himself alone

This is more Sith than we've ever seen the Sith before, imo

I like that he's just bro-ing out and being chill just wanting to expand his powers. Every time there's another sith and they are revealed as sith they go all cartoon villain.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
I'm just glad the episode didn't go where I thought it was going. I figured we were going to have to waste a bunch of time as Dip Shitto tried to figure out how to fix Pip. Doing the weird karate moves was still weird though.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

magiccarpet posted:

And then the confused Jedi put on the gray clothes because

It's like poetry, it rhymes.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Tequila Bob posted:

Three points:

1. Are you sure Dan Harmon said this? I searched for "Dan Harmon flashback" on several search engines and couldn't find any evidence of it.

2. It's a bad idea to write off an entire narrative device. Every tool has an appropriate use.

3. In general, the advice of any successful writer is valuable, but also a reflection of that writer's individual process; other writers will often take different approaches. In this case specifically, DeimosRising already cited a sufficient number of great writers who use flashbacks well.

I don't know if Dan Harmon specifically hates flashbacks, but I do know he hates the "two weeks earlier" flashbacks that lazy writers do where they tease a big climax at the beginning and then jump back in time to tell the story because they don't know how the make the start interesting. So much so that he wrote hating it into Rick and Morty where a character they meet uses it in his story and later one of them shoves the guy down the stairs, killing him and then asking if he'd like cut to two weeks earlier when he was still alive.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Obi Wan would have been a neat movie, this would have been a neat movie. Instead they made boring TV shows.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Sir Kodiak posted:

Exist, we do, in the context of all in which we live and what came before. It surrounds us and binds us.

Fall out of a coconut tree you did not

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Hazo posted:

I’m astonished to hear all the negative feedback about last night’s episode, even in this thread. I thought it was fantastic and a perfectly cogent payoff to what a bunch of us were already expecting for a flashback episode.

Was Mae burning down the coven a narrative fakeout? Of course. Were the Jedi at fault? Sort of. Was Korril at fault too? Sure. Was Mae a little dumb for going along with Korril’s hostility? Yeah. Did we get a kickass Wookiee Jedi fight scene for the people who complained about being robbed of it in the forest episode? Hell fuckin yeah, that kicked rear end.


The whole point was that innocence can suffer when everybody makes the wrong choices with the best of intentions.

It was a neat episode that suffered from having to follow a bunch of episodes that failed to move the plot forward. If they had done anything to earn a recap episode that explained things further, sure, it would be good. This was all poo poo that could have been in the other episodes but instead took out to create a mystery.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Is Bazil a jedi? For as much stuff as he does, you'd think it would be important for people to be able to understand him besides that nerd jedi.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Did the Jedi know that sheev was a force user? While we the audience obviously know he's Palpatine, to everyone else he's just the senator from naboo. So I'm confused why people think he'd be the go to for contacting adult Grogu.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

1st AD posted:

Fans growing up with the prequels are too young to remember that Phantom Menace retconned a bunch of EU stuff and fans got mad about that too.

Yeah but it's funny for someone to say it is contradicting books or whatever and then George be all "I didn't read that poo poo."

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Some Jedi can know about the sith without destroying canon. They likely keep it a secret so Jedi don't start freaking out. Being open about the existence of the sith would also likely cause some Jedi to seek them out to either join them or try to stop them and get killed.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Marsupial Ape posted:

Here’s my far out take based completely on decades of ingesting the EU: that is a Dark Side ghost haunting the mine and the stranger was attracted to the mine because of it. It’s a riff on Exar Kun haunting Yavin 4 and corrupting New Jedi Order noobs.

That would be kind of cool. Just old dark side ghosts trying to bring it back.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Sash! posted:

I hope they some day release an Iron Man Remastered that has Don Cheadle sloppily inserted.

I don't have a horse in the fight, but erasing Terrance Howard from everything is a good idea.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Jerusalem posted:

But they tried that once by re-casting Han Solo in a terrible movie with bad writing, so clearly the problem was the re-casting!

I thought the movie was ok overall. I would have been interested in seeing what was going to happen next.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
I've been working through the clone wars for a while now and it is fun to see stuff that happens in there and then shows up later in video games. Like the planet where jedis find their kyber crystals and getting to go there in the Jedi Survivor game.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
I think the 2003 animated clone wars thing is worth watching at least. It's only a couple hours, and there are a couple things that get contradicted later, but it still has some interesting plot developments about the characters in clone wars CG.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
The most important part of Solo was the backstory for the random dice that some guy in the 70s glued to a chain and then spray painted gold.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
I wonder if it was because of bad numbers or just because some executive wants a specific release cadence of things.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
What did it contradict in ANH?

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
It cost 80 million to get that korean guy to speed run english lessons.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
They won't even let me gently caress the star wars.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
I think blaster bolts just move slowly. I'm not a real Jedi yet I can still deflect the bolts as they come in in the Jedi survivor game.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Does anybody like Barbarella?

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Huyang built alll the laser swords and they didn't even let him gently caress the force.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Whereas Star Wars has actual people who have had the tops of their heads removed and replaced with computers to become servants.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Sash! posted:

The "Starfleet uses money to deal with non Federation entities" wasn't new to DS9 either. In the very first TNG episode, when Gene was at his drug addled peak and throwing out whatever, someone tells a vendor on a non Federation planet to charge something to the ship's account.

That's the first episode. Crusher buys fabric from a vendor and is all "my ship up in space will pay you."

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Star Wars stopped being good when I was talking about Star Wars with a friend and then mentioned I also liked Star Trek and he said "star track sucks"

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
I think Rogue One made the intro of ANH even better because now it is Leia lying straight to Vader's face because he just saw her ship fly off with the plans 20 minutes ago. And it's his own fault because he was too busy acting like a badass to scare those rebel dudes before killing them.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
It's so great. Vader could have been in that ship in a second and got the plans back but he needed to make sure his entrance was perfect. He's in that dark hallway to make the perfect entrance. His suit has lights on it, so he's either turned them off if that's possible, or he's just turned off his suit and is actively dying for a bit. The people in that hallway pause, turn around, and they just hear him breathing, and then the light saber lights up. He nearly kills himself so he can scare people who are going to be dead in 10 seconds. He's the messiest bitch alive. Kylo Ren wishes he could be this performative. The ending of Rogue One is one of Vader's most iconic performances in all of Star Wars. To say that this somehow ruins A New Hope means you don't understand Darth Vader in the slightest.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
CGI Leia wasn't great, but if we have to have that in order to get that Vader display, I'll take it.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
You seem to be forgetting who Vader is. In A New Hope, Vader gets into a TIE Advanced and takes part in the Battle of Yavin. He has main character syndrome and wants to be the guy who does the important stuff. If the Death Star Plans get stolen, he's going to personally go and get them back. What's the difference between Vader going on that ship to get the plans back and Vader taking part in the trench run?

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

TheDeadlyShoe posted:

Well then you have to ask why he didn't personally storm the Tantive IV in A New Hope. It doesn't really seem consistent. Vader's introduced as a dark overlord, not as a prima donna.

Although then you gotta wonder how Vader caught up to the Tantive IV above Tatooine. Hyperspace tracking...?

Because he thought it would be cool to storm that ship in a different way? Maybe he finds out that Leia is on that ship, so he decides it will be cooler if the storm troopers blast in and then he bursts through after the fight is over to take control. I don't really know what you mean by Vader being introduced as a dark overlord not a prima donna. If you're trying to come at this from a perspective of only having seen the original trilogy or something, I don't know what to tell you. Canonically, ANH is not Darth Vader's introduction and his entrance onto Leia's ship is not what defines his character. Even in that movie he is a prima donna when he's force choking dudes who piss him off.

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Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Narsham posted:

Most Star Wars shows the Imperial military as being incompetent. Even Empire, where it isn't, gives us multiple examples where it still is and apparently Vader has to kill several officers including an Admiral who can't do their jobs properly. But the Empire might have hundreds of Imperial Admirals; the odds of them all being great are slim (for that matter, some may have no practical combat experience and you know political appointments are commonplace).

I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case. The empire is so big, there are going to be places where people slip through the cracks and someone gets a promotion because their father is an important empire guy. He gets an assignment where he can't really cause any problems until the rebels decide to do rebel stuff there and he is suddenly in charge of an actual problem.

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