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Noob Saibot: Jan 29, 2020; by Fluffdaddy

Guy A. Person posted:

He's not on Jakku is he? I thought he was at Maz's place. I thought he was one of the guys FN tried to escape with.

That was such a weird set piece, it's where they put all the interesting looking aliens but they just stuff them all in there and don't do anything interesting with them. By contrast the Mos Eisley cantina is over pretty quick but you have two action beats (Obi Wan cutting off that dude's arm, Han shooting Greedo), and some memorable dialogue.

Phasma was also weird because she was fairly prominent in the first one then shows up just to die in the second one in a really pointless way, and then FN's arc is basically over since they refuse to follow through on his attraction to Rey for some reason.

Black guy with a white girl makes china uncomfortable

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Noob Saibot: Jan 29, 2020; by Fluffdaddy

nine-gear crow posted:

I love the loving dipshit whiplash public opinion tracking on the Sequel Trilogy. From The Force Awakens "IT'S TOO MUCH LIKE OLD STAR WARS, DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT" to The Last Jedi "IT'S TOO DIFFERENT, IT SCARES ME, FIX IT ABRAMS" and finally to Rise of Skywalker "NOT LIKE THI-HI-HI-HISSSSS"

The movies were a loving cartwheeling disaster fire, but an incredibly enthralling people-watching experience.

TLJ isn�t really different it�s essentially empire strikes back with the throne room scene of ROTJ at the end instead of the luke/vader fight and the battle of hoth takes place at the end rather than the beginning of the film.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2020 22:03

Noob Saibot: Jan 29, 2020; by Fluffdaddy

Guy A. Person posted:

It could've actually been a decent plot to have the failing clone be the specific reason why Palpatine needed to seek out his progeny that he previously didn't give a poo poo about. Like his DNA had become unviable through weird experimentation or something and all the clones came out badly deformed and aged to dust within months or something.

But yeah that's just flat out not what's in the movie, you don't fuckin' clone someone as a crumbling old man puppet on purpose, and cloning has been established not to work like that in Star Wars. It makes an already insanely dumb plot even dumber to "fix" one aspect (Sheev being thrown into the core of a space station that was vaporized 5 minutes later) that was the least stupid part.

This was eleborated more in the comic the movie was based on, dark empire

# ¿ Mar 3, 2020 11:03

Noob Saibot: Jan 29, 2020; by Fluffdaddy

So wait snoke and reys dad are both clones of Palpatine? Why do they look wildly different from him and why is cloning all of a sudden some super complex and forbidden thing in the Star Wars universe than only Sith magicians dabble in?

Like are the prequels even canon anymore? Cloning is a well known and old tech in the Star Wars universe and also there are only supposed to be 2 Sith at a time not a whole planet of them doing cloning experiments and building super weapon equipped Star destroyer fleets

What the gently caress happened to that story group that was supposedly in place to keep everything consistent

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 09:12

Noob Saibot: Jan 29, 2020; by Fluffdaddy

Mooey Cow posted:

Don't forget the tragedy of Maz Kanata blasting her own workers.

She was having a union dispute

# ¿ Mar 6, 2020 01:07

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