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TheKingofSprings posted:I was thinking about this the other day, Palpatine should've been legitimately just a ghost in some kind of soul jar fuelling a bunch of old Sith weapons out of sheer hatred and he's only beaten when people work together to cut him off from the Force
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A story for another time, probably in a few years, when you've forgotten what a hash we made of this and you're ready to buy more toys.
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2house2fly posted:Any creative decision was filtered through "what will a hypothetical Star Wars fanatic think about this" as determined by Disney corporate suits and it's pointless to even attribute anything to JJ because who knows what decisions were his and which ones he fought against and bitterly resents their inclusion. 2house2fly posted:The big problem with TLJ was that at the end there were only eight villain characters- Hux, Kylo, and the Knights Of Ren. The producers of ROS wisely decided to introduce Pryde and Palpatine, bringing the number of villain characters up to a much more manageable ten.
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My theory is that Snoke is a cheap rush-job. Palpatine didn't want to train a Sith apprentice; they will always betray you, and it's a headache to kill them and clean up the mess, especially when you're in hiding beyond the known universe. So Snoke is just a bio-droid who has crazy Force powers because he's chock-full of midichlorians. The side effects are that he's 20% bigger than a normal human, and he looks like he was reheated in the microwave.
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Jan 24, 2020 20:41
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Chuck Buried Treasure posted:I thought Snoke was going to turn out to be an old, pre-Vader apprentice of Palpatine, and he was all hosed-up looking because he tried to supplant Palps and got fried, and he barely survived. He licked his wounds and stayed in hiding until Palpatine and Vader were gone and he could try to fill the vacuum. This would explain where he got his Dark Side powers and would make him and Kylo both angry failsons. They could have just made Asajj Ventress the Supreme Leader of the First Order.
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cams posted:in rise of skywalker, lando shows up completely randomly with no real justification cause jj is creatively bankrupt. later, they introduce a young black woman who pairs up with finn for the rest of the movie.
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Jan 24, 2020 22:14
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Jan 25, 2020 18:55
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Flavius Aetass posted:When the two ladies kissed at the end of TROS several people in my theater made angry noises The guy next to me like SPASMED in his seat.
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Jan 25, 2020 19:34
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AdmiralViscen posted:Isn’t babu frik onscreen to murder threepio, which all the protagonists laugh at, and it turns out it wasn’t necessary anyway since the new droid had the info anyway
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:If they had been smart the antagonists would have been a completely new threat from outside the galaxy  The absolute shittiest ideas from the EU are exactly this. The Yuuzon Vhong and even worse, the Charon.
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SlothfulCobra posted:The First Order is something that rose from the ashes of the Empire, which is incredibly vague seeing as how it's been 20 years. Of course, none of this is clearly conveyed in the films. I incorporate the TV shows into my reading of the films, but none of the novels or comics. Because they don't supplement the films, they're written as apologism for all the ways they hosed up, patching "plot holes" and whatnot.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Just because it was done poorly in EU books from 30 years ago (which are basically a half step up from fanfiction anyway) doesn't mean it couldn't have been written by someone who isn't a hack and can come up with a good antagonist instead of Bigger Emperor (and also the emperor). Star Wars is essentially political, and has a degree of social realism that's lacking in, say, Burroughs' Barsoom. All those Death Stars and lightsabers have to come from somewhere; this is emphasized when we learn that they run on the same nonrenewable resources. The stupidest thing in Rise of Skywalker isn't that Palpatine can use the Force to disable a fleet of ships, but that he built a fleet of ships in the galactic equivalent of North Sentinel Island. This understanding is present in the major influences on Star Wars. The Comanches who abducted John Wayne's niece weren't bug-men from another dimension, they were indigenous people suffering under colonialism. Jesus didn't come to Ben Hur from the moon; he came from an oppressed ethnoreligious minority. The conference room scene in ANH explains that the purpose of the Death Star is to be the One Weird Trick that makes fascism sustainable. Totalitarianism is hideously inefficient--nightmarish bureaucracy, people only working because they're held at gunpoint, and the skyrocketing cost of policing everywhere all the time. The Death Star allows you to literally hold everyone in the galaxy at gunpoint. As an example, let's say that the big threat was the Chiss Ascendancy, launching an attack from their little kingdom past the Outer Rim. Okay, but where did they get the industrial capacity to do that? What was the Empire doing while they did it? It would be like the remake of Red Dawn where North Korea somehow invades and occupies the United States. The entire point of the prequel trilogy is that fascism didn't come out of nowhere. It was the result of various forms of social rot, exploited by someone with vision (however terrible), and it was welcomed by a lot of people who wanted change. From the Republic and the Separatists, to the Empire, to the New Republic, people in this setting understand themselves to be part of a global ("galactic") society. All these star wars keep happening because of these global conflicts. Having a huge army just appear out of the "Unknown Regions" is deliberately jettisoning all the themes of Star Wars so you can have a big dumb space fight without actually writing a story. That sort of thing is actually far more appropriate to Star Trek than Star Wars. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Jan 14, 2021 |
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Grendels Dad posted:Right, these are just the times for "We must forge an alliance with the Space Nazis to fight the giant gorilla" type stories.
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Jan 15, 2021 19:24
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Finn's last name is Dameron
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Jan 19, 2021 18:40
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That's the most credible aspect.
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It really grinds his gears.
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Apr 14, 2021 14:37
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Weird, I just marathoned the whole thing. Yeah, it's worth seeing.
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nine-gear crow posted:Quick google search shows the judge in question is a massive chud and Trump appointee. Why am I not surprised?
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By far, the worst parts of televised Star Wars are the episodes where they try to make the Force into a Harry Potter/Dungeons & Dragons kind of deal, where allegory and metaphor are discarded in favour of making the Force just some kind of Lawful Good Magic Energy vs. Chaotic Evil Magic Energy lore.
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