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SlothfulCobra posted:The Dark Crystal was incredibly weird. Jim Henson was an amazing filmaker, but he never really managed to crack drama. He managed to create a whole weird crazy world with piles of lore, but extremely little of that lore is in the movie and the actual plot isn't really delivered well. For a world as wonderfully rich in lore, I found the Dark Crystal world strangely empty. You got miles and miles of forest with wildlife and whatnot and that part is great and feels alive, but it never feels like a world with more sentient beings in it than the handful of characters we see. The Skeksis are evil and that obviously sucks for that one Fraggle village they keep raiding, but it only ever seems to be about the Skeksis and the Fraggles and then there are about a dozen other characters on the planet and that's it.
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Robot Style posted:Yeah, according to placemat lore they're Xyston class Star Destroyers that are 1.5x the size of Imperial Star Destroyers. I love that Bigger Stardestroyer poo poo in ROS because it's so useless. Like, nobody except hardcore nerds will be able to tell those are bigger STDs because you'd need to show them in relation to old STDs or possibly other things the audience knows the size of. Stardestroyers are already Huge, that is their main feature. Return of the Jedi pulled an Independence Day Ufo Reveal to show off that the Executor is even huger. And Rise of Skywalker... makes a note somewhere in complementary flyers that these are twice as huge as the other huge thing.
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Mar 25, 2021 06:54
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Cease to Hope posted:i genuinely do not remember this part of ROS Aren't the FO also taking children during the raids on Babu Frick Planet? Farmer Crack-rear end posted:nitpick, that was Empire Strikes Back where they did the Executor reveal  right thanks. Makes sense too, since that is the one without a Death Star so they get to show off a cool big ship instead.
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Mar 25, 2021 19:14
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Up Circle posted:I think all of the 20 minute scene where they meet Han and then out of nowhere bad guys capture them, but oh wait theres a goo monster loose on the ship, then they fight the goo monster, then the first order shows up could be cut and the movie would lose nothing. The Raid dudes were very thankful they got those tiny roles to promote their martial arts, god bless them. To think that we could have had the Raid dudes having a fight in Star Wars, though... Like... Mad Dog vs. Emo Vader...
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Mar 26, 2021 21:07
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Hey these aren't D6s!! Those are D6s *swipes left*
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Mar 28, 2021 00:04
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More like General Sux At Star War.
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Apr 12, 2021 11:27
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Dirty Edition, surely.
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Apr 29, 2021 04:13
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SlothfulCobra posted:These are exact opposite concepts. You still have to be chosen by the Force or whatever, Space Janitor Bob can't do poo poo without midichlorians in his blood. In that sense it can be like the MCU, people still have to be special to matter.
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Jun 8, 2021 07:48
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indigi posted:in 123 they present the dogmatic Jedi version of The Force, they only accept people with a certain midichlorian count or whatever. but since another big point of the trilogy is that the Jedi are stupid and exceedingly bad at their job that doesn’t necessarily mean only high midichlorian people can use or become stronger in the force There seems to be a correlation between midichlorian count and power, at least judging by the way the Jedi go O__O at Anakin's count that is higher even than Yoda's. Of course, that's all part of establishing that the Jedi are dumb, so 123 absolutely are not pro institutional Force users. Many characters achieve a lot without even using the Force, most notably Jar Jar.
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Jun 8, 2021 20:10
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For being such a clumsy guy, his surviving the battle against the droids at the end of TPM is nothing short of a miracle. And all without using the Force.
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Jun 8, 2021 20:37
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Cease to Hope posted:does this make mr bean the greatest jedi that has ever lived Mr Bean could very likely defeat most of the prequel Jedi, yeah.
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Jun 8, 2021 20:42
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Robot Style posted:The Force is basically plot armor, and thanks to the story's origins as a Hidden Fortress riff that made Lucas decide to follow the droids as POV characters, it favors low status characters. Peasants and slaves like Anakin, Jar Jar, and R2 get the most protection in Episode I, and Amidala's entire bodyguard system is designed around disguising herself as an invincible low status character. She even clues in later on when she realizes the only way to win the battle at the end of the movie is to make herself lower than the Gungans, who get their asses kicked immediately after becoming a high status army. Also, smarter-than-Jedi schlub Dexter Jettster and lowly dealer Elan Sleazebaggano surviving his encounter with Obi Wan as opposed to the good Doctor Evazan in A New Hope. I like this
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Jun 9, 2021 06:02
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Guy A. Person posted:I'm pretty sure that was a separate thought to the Sleazebaggano thing, and GD was just saying that Dexter was smart Yeah this, just terrible grammar on my part. Though the thread has come up with some nice justifications to cover my shame.
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Jun 10, 2021 06:00
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Just wanted to ask if anyone wanted to execute any orders,on this here page? No? Well, carry on then.
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Sep 18, 2021 20:19
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All the talk about unmotivated actors in the PT is really funny if you follow it while looking at the screenshot from that one interview with the ST cast where they all look pissed off or sad.
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Feb 18, 2022 09:26
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One of the characters from Rogue One is coming back in a prequel series, just saying.
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Mar 11, 2022 23:23
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A heavy implication from Rogue One given they use the same crystals to finish the Death Star superlaser as they do to make lightsabers is that the original Death Star is already basically a giant planet-piercing lightsaber. If they had fleshed that out more, it could have been a nice thematic link to the PT. The basis for the weapon the Jedi have come to rely on most becoming the foundation for a fascist weapon of terror, and so on.
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Cease to Hope posted:Seems thin, like trying to draw thematic resonance out of the fact that everyone uses laser guns. They don't make a big deal out of the thing that powers the laser guns.
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