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The first big part of The High Republic comes out in two days: Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule. quote:Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before even The Phantom Menace . . . Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in The High Republic I'm curious, but not really expecting a whole lot. I've enjoyed Charles Soule's Star Wars comics, so I feel like there might be a good chance that I'll enjoy this too. Guess we'll see if this ends up going anywhere.
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Jan 3, 2021 23:03
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Not even a single  joke huh? Alright go off, kingIs this a comic or a novel?
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Jan 4, 2021 01:30
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This one is a novel, but there's going to be a comic series starting this week as well.
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Jan 4, 2021 01:32
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I'm pretty interested in this! A whole new era of Star Wars is always a cool deal, and I'm down with a more upbeat Age Of Explorers/High Middle Ages tonal framework. One of the TV/Movie projects they announced at the event recently is also in this timeline btw. Acolyte I think its called.
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Jan 4, 2021 04:39
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Alex on Star Wars Explained has read the novel and he said it was probably one of his favorite Star Wars novels ever. I take that as a good sign because he's always been fair with SW stuff, like he will straight up say "I didn't like this". I'll see if my local Indigo has and copies on saturday.
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Jan 4, 2021 07:22
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twistedmentat posted:Alex on Star Wars Explained has read the novel and he said it was probably one of his favorite Star Wars novels ever. I take that as a good sign because he's always been fair with SW stuff, like he will straight up say "I didn't like this". I've not seen Star Wars Explained in a couple years now so I can't say I remember much about his content, but I'd be lying if I said I found the opinion of literally anyone in the actual Star Wars fan community trustworthy anymore with how irrevocably toxic that whole space is. The reasons people who live in Star Wars spaces tend to like or dislike Star Wars things rarely have anything to do with whether those things are good anymore. For example I was unfortunate enough to have to overhear some Star Wars pundit decry the High Republic based on its preview materials for being "agenda driven," just a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure which agenda he feared because I clicked off and blocked as soon as I heard the dogwhistle, but regardless that kind of thing makes me gunshy of trusting any content creator who spends all their time in the toxic waste rather than just being occasional franchise visitors.
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Jan 4, 2021 10:42
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Jedi Wookiee is a horrendous betrayal of my lord and master George Lucas’ vision
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Jan 4, 2021 15:13
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Sanguinia posted:For example I was unfortunate enough to have to overhear some Star Wars pundit decry the High Republic based on its preview materials for being "agenda driven," just a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure which agenda he feared because I clicked off and blocked as soon as I heard the dogwhistle, but regardless that kind of thing makes me gunshy of trusting any content creator who spends all their time in the toxic waste rather than just being occasional franchise visitors. Well, there's a woman front and center on the cover, and the guy to her side looks...swarthy...I don't see a single Jedi who is a white man with brown hair and a lovely goatee. The "agenda" is clear. (Can't those people find another franchise to obsess over already)
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Jan 4, 2021 16:08
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I forgot this was a thing. I haven't read a single New Canon novel and kinda checked out on Star Wars awhile ago. I assume a new era is a good point to jump back in... ...but I've also never heard of the author. Are they good?
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Jan 4, 2021 19:22
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It looks bad and will probably be worse than the EU.
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Jan 5, 2021 00:13
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On the one hand Charles Soule is a good writer and I support him. On the other it's both Star Wars EU crap and another "new era" that's going to 100% be more Darth Vudor crap:  So... eh.
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Jan 5, 2021 02:02
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I always liked that the KOTOR era looked visually distinct from the other eras that had been introduced at that point. Funnily enough, even the Prequel era looks visually distinct from the original trilogy and things do change across the movies to look more and more like the Empire.
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Jan 5, 2021 02:42
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Bogus Adventure posted:It looks bad and will probably be worse than the EU. Sounds like exactly my kind of poo poo. Roth posted:I always liked that the KOTOR era looked visually distinct from the other eras that had been introduced at that point. Art direction and particularly concept art creation is always a high water mark for Star Wars.
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Jan 5, 2021 05:58
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Drone posted:I forgot this was a thing. I've heard fairly good things about the books that try to backfill the story of the Sequels like the Aftermath trilogy and Phasma, same with the Tarkin book and Timothy Zahn's two Thrawn books set in the new canon. In all sincerity, you should probably remain checked on on Star Wars though. There's nothing new or worthwhile to it anymore and is now 100% obsessed with catering to its worst 1% of fans with sugar candy in a futile bid to get them to stop crying. Go enjoy other things while you can.
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Jan 5, 2021 08:09
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nine-gear crow posted:In all sincerity, you should probably remain checked on on Star Wars though. There's nothing new or worthwhile to it anymore and is now 100% obsessed with catering to its worst 1% of fans with sugar candy in a futile bid to get them to stop crying. Go enjoy other things while you can. Isn't the existence of The High Republic evidence enough to say that maybe they're not catering to the crying fanboys? The same fanboys who flooded the YouTube chat for the stream yesterday calling the whole endeavor poo poo and spamming Revan's name over and over? Or is this a "there's Jedi in this, therefore it's pandering trash" kind of shitpost?
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Jan 5, 2021 16:22
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Cross-Section posted:Isn't the existence of The High Republic evidence enough to say that maybe they're not catering to the crying fanboys? The same fanboys who flooded the YouTube chat for the stream yesterday calling the whole endeavor poo poo and spamming Revan's name over and over? That's just evidence that the crying fanboys cannot be sated. They have sensed weakness on the part of the creators, have been rewarded for their excesses, and will continue to go hard until the entire system collapses.
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Jan 5, 2021 16:31
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I liked being Revan in KOTOR but he kinda sucks. He’s just a vader expie with a different twist, until eventually he’s retconned into having the exact same plan old EU Palpatine had: Space Fascism is the only way to stop the extragalactic threat only I know about
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Jan 5, 2021 17:40
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Tulip posted:That's just evidence that the crying fanboys cannot be sated. They have sensed weakness on the part of the creators, have been rewarded for their excesses, and will continue to go hard until the entire system collapses. They got their inch with the death by a thousand cuts erasure of The Last Jedi in The Rise of Skywalker and their Bad CGI Action Figure Luke Hallway Scene at the end of Mando this year, and now they’re not gonna stop until they get that full mile of having Disney pay to have their memories of The Last Jedi surgically removed from their brains or some poo poo. The High Republic is a good performative gently caress you to them, but the core of what Star Wars wants to really be now is hallway scene forever. Loud, empty, meaningless, and always looking backwards to 1977.
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Jan 5, 2021 18:27
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nine-gear crow posted:They got their inch with the death by a thousand cuts erasure of The Last Jedi in The Rise of Skywalker and their Bad CGI Action Figure Luke Hallway Scene at the end of Mando this year, and now they’re not gonna stop until they get that full mile of having Disney pay to have their memories of The Last Jedi surgically removed from their brains or some poo poo. I don't think its worth surrendering to cynicism on the creative end yet. If backward looking fanservice to appease Last Jedi hating manchildran was going to be the core of Star Wars going forward, I feel like they wouldn't keep making stuff like Squadrons which storywise is deliberately inclusive and designed to continue expanding the Sequel Era. Rangers of the New Republic is one of those upcoming projects they announced and just the name is a sign. Heck, like I said above that Star Wars Acolyte project is supposed to be in the High Republic Era. Giving it a non-print media tie in is a pretty significant move. Theyre absolutely hedging their bets by throwing those people red meat like the increased continuity porn in Mando s2, more Filoni Wars Projects, Lando and Obi Wan, Hayden coming back being a selling point, Rogue Squadron Movie, even that Andor show since a lot of Disney Star Wars hating fanboys offer refer to Rogue One as "the good one." But I don't think they're completely throwing in the towel on new things at franchise spearhead.
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Jan 5, 2021 19:17
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Can y'all wait until things are actually out before making GBS threads up the thread with negativity?
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Jan 5, 2021 19:32
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Roth posted:Can y'all wait until things are actually out before making GBS threads up the thread with negativity? Welcome to the somethingawful.com forums. It's traditional to post an introductory message in FYAD. Does this have any relation to the terrible looking comic I've seen posted around, or does it just share a name? Or am I completely misremembering the name of said comic?
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Some Goon posted:Welcome to the somethingawful.com forums. It's traditional to post an introductory message in FYAD. There's a new series coming out tomorrow about The High Republic. Was thinking of grabbing it just to check it out. Post the screens.
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Jan 5, 2021 20:17
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It was the later, the comic I was thinking of has nothing to do with the high republic. Other than the DRUGS For reference: 
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Jan 5, 2021 21:10
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Yeah, that's Star Wars Legacy which is set a couple centuries after the original trilogy.
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Jan 5, 2021 21:20
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Legacy is also good, despite Cade Skywalker being lolinsanely bad. No longer canon anyway, as it was pre-Disney.
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Jan 5, 2021 21:29
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Drone posted:Legacy is also good, despite Cade Skywalker being lolinsanely bad. Also it literally having BSG Reboot Kara "Starbuck" Thrace in it, as Cade's secret sister. Sounds like the Nhil or however its spelt are nothing like the Sith, that they're not force users and their philisophy is more about complete and utter freedom, both from rules and consequences.
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Jan 5, 2021 23:37
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Based on that one comic page, Cade rules
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Jan 5, 2021 23:45
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nine-gear crow posted:They got their inch with the death by a thousand cuts erasure of The Last Jedi in The Rise of Skywalker and their Bad CGI Action Figure Luke Hallway Scene at the end of Mando this year, and now they’re not gonna stop until they get that full mile of having Disney pay to have their memories of The Last Jedi surgically removed from their brains or some poo poo. sad poo poo edit: wait, hang on. i know this line. 'star wars isn't for you, grow up' lmao Horizon Burning fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Jan 6, 2021 |
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Jan 6, 2021 00:53
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My favorite thing about Star Wars Legacy is how every single Star Wars fan knows or would instantly recognize Darth Talon even if they'd never actually heard of Star Wars Legacy being a thing. The Power of Horny is the REAL force that binds the galaxy together.
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nine-gear crow posted:They got their inch with the death by a thousand cuts erasure of The Last Jedi in The Rise of Skywalker and their Bad CGI Action Figure Luke Hallway Scene at the end of Mando this year, and now they’re not gonna stop until they get that full mile of having Disney pay to have their memories of The Last Jedi surgically removed from their brains or some poo poo. Personally, I think it's cool and good for people to get a chance to see Luke as the hero he became after ROTJ, but that Mando Hallway scene is full-on cringe. They basically did the same poo poo as in Rogue One because it made fanbabies cream their jeans. I want to see Luke be Jedi Master Luke, but I don't need him to Force crush a bunch of lovely evil droids to do it. I'm at peace with the fact that my mind's eye view of the characters will never match up with other fans' or producers' vision. I just want to see a Farm Boy being a friendly knight errant, teaching others that believing in the good of your friends and family is greater than any power in the galaxy. It's a dumb, sappy interpretation of Luke, but that's my vision of Luke. That's the hero I imagined as a kid when I was watching VHS tapes over and over of those drat Star Wars.
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Bogus Adventure posted:Personally, I think it's cool and good for people to get a chance to see Luke as the hero he became after ROTJ, but that Mando Hallway scene is full-on cringe. They basically did the same poo poo as in Rogue One because it made fanbabies cream their jeans. I want to see Luke be Jedi Master Luke, but I don't need him to Force crush a bunch of lovely evil droids to do it. Wasn't his guest spot in Battlefield II very similar to that?
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Jan 6, 2021 08:24
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Sanguinia posted:Wasn't his guest spot in Battlefield II very similar to that? It was, and I loved it. I would have preferred it if he didn't have to kill the stormtroopers along the way, but videogames gonna videogame.
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The High Republic era sounds like a neat concept to break away from the movie eras, although I'm a little apprehensive how prominent the Jedi are going to be. Part of what made them neat in much older parts of the EU was how exotic they were compared to normal people, and this kinda seems like all Jedi all the time.
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Jan 6, 2021 08:54
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Haven't started reading it yet but I heard a rumor about how the implication for the era is that dark Jedi / Sith didn't exist prior to it? Which is a bit of a load of poo poo considering this era is only like 250-300 years before the OT.
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Jan 6, 2021 14:57
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Nazis Made Crysis posted:The High Republic era sounds like a neat concept to break away from the movie eras, although I'm a little apprehensive how prominent the Jedi are going to be. Part of what made them neat in much older parts of the EU was how exotic they were compared to normal people, and this kinda seems like all Jedi all the time. It's the eternal EU problem that the franchise has always suffered from-- the most marketable, "coolest" thing about Star Wars will always be the Lightsaber (and the Jedi/Sith holding them, I guess)-- so no matter how interesting the product is otherwise there's a gravitational pull to put those characters in, and even if a property starts as a deliberate break from the Jedi/Sith crap that still will inevitably infest the property until it saturates and it's just like every other Star Wars product out there.
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Drone posted:Haven't started reading it yet but I heard a rumor about how the implication for the era is that dark Jedi / Sith didn't exist prior to it? I thought it was closer to 800 years ago, like the very start of Yoda's Jedi Career was what I heard.
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Jan 7, 2021 02:47
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Sanguinia posted:I thought it was closer to 800 years ago, like the very start of Yoda's Jedi Career was what I heard. Oh poo poo, it'll be REAL Baby Yoda!!!
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Jan 7, 2021 10:04
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I've been slowly making my way through Light of the Jedi. Seems kind of weird that a third of the book is devoted to the leadup to the inciting incident of this entire era's big conflict.
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Jan 10, 2021 23:39
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Just finished LotJ. Pretty cool. Love all the stuff with the Force and how different Jedi interpret it.
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