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Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off
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The OT had hands and arms cut off. The PT also had hands, arms, and legs cut off along with Anakin getting 3rd degree burns (plus Jango Fett got decapitated). Even the ST had Snoke cut in half and one of his palace guards knocked into a giant fan that tore him into ribbons.
But none of that in the ST was too graphic for kids?
But none of that in the ST was too graphic for kids?
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The ST also had the graphic, explicit rape of Luke Skywalker and everything good and decent about Star Wars, too.The OT had hands and arms cut off. The PT also had hands, arms, and legs cut off along with Anakin getting 3rd degree burns. Even the ST had Snoke cut in half and one of his palace guards knocked into a giant fan that tore him into ribbons.
But none of that in the ST was too graphic for kids?
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I don't know whether to laugh or be genuinely upset about this idiocy.
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Huh, if only they had a late night alternative focusing on adult oriented cartoons they could stick it on.
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Just remember. While mild violence is considered "too graphic" for the children, the fart fetishist variety hour in the expanded universe novels is considered so family friendly they put it in books specifically directed at kids.
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You know, there's a certain existential horror that I just discovered about this... and am probably late to realize, sorry...Just remember. While mild violence is considered "too graphic" for the children, the fart fetishist variety hour in the expanded universe novels is considered so family friendly they put it in books specifically directed at kids.
Once again I will let the good fellas at RLM sum up everything for me
The character who is getting married in this scene is Cuck Windbag's self-insert... for some reason this has been eluding me, most likely since my brain simply refused to aknowledge that.
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My only explanation is that about 10 years ago some neckbeard got his hands on a monkey paw and wished for everything Karen Traviss did to the Star Wars EU to be erased from history...
With his second wish he wished for new Star Wars films...
With his third wish he wished for a new Ghostbusters movie...
With his fourth wish he wished for a new Teen Titans show...
With his fifth wish he wished for a new Diablo game...
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When did he wish for an unannounced Fallout, screen adaptations of A Wrinkle in Time and The House with a Clock in Its Walls, or a new Trek? Because I think we need to find that guy and beat the everloving shit out of him.
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I suggest outlawing monkey paws and all talk of monkey paws, plus mandatory asswhoopins for all monkey paw users.
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When I first saw the link, I thought maybe the coming dozen of new Clone Wars episodes had been halted because they had been judged too violent. Then I read the article and saw it referred to the show's original run.
I suppose I'm not too surprised.
I heard that in the fifth season - which was aired after Disney's acquisition of the SW franchise, they censored a scene where Savage Oppress uses a lightsaber toss to behead members of the Black Sun when they balk at his brother's plan to form a multi-syndicate crime ring. Also, I believe they censored a different scene featuring Maul beheading Pre Vizsla; I seem to recall mentions of an uncensored version where Pre's head bounces and rolls upon his behading.
My speculation is Disney didn't like strong war violence in a cartoon under their ownership. With the remaining seasons and episodes culminating in the events that start Episode III - namely the Battle of Coruscant - Disney may have felt there was no way to air these planned Clone Wars episodes without war violence and decided to pull the plug.
Just look at the cartoons released since the Disney acquisition: Star Wars Rebels and Stars Wars Resistance. Both had animation styles and presentation that were more kid-friendly. Although I watched neither, I'd be willing to say both have very minimal violence even though it's an expected part of war (especially in a franchise titled Star Wars).
Why do that when the movies have people killed, losing limbs, and suffering serious injury? Movies can be rated PG, PG-13, whatever so the onus is on parents/guardians to decide what is and isn't appropriate for their children.
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I remember the censoring of the Black Sun slaughter. As for Maul beheading Vizsla, I can't recall if that was censored or not, but I wouldn't be surprised and have no reason to doubt you on that. I also remember the episode Rookies used to have a clone say "What the Hell was that?!", but reruns after Disney bought it removed that part of the scene, as well as one from the Tarkin episode where a clone got bisected. The old expanded universe media was also filled with a shit ton of violence (with not just murder and death, but stuff like suicide, mutilation and even rape) and some Dark Horse comics and novels even had some mild sex scenes (plus some light nudes from time to time), so now that this comes up about Clone Wars being cancelled due to violence and mature shit, I have to wonder if the mature elements in the old stories is what really made Disney cancel that stuff and take away the comic rights from Dark Horse and give them to Marvel...
As for Rebels, it was pathetically tame in its violence, especially early on with Ezra even using a fucking "energy" slingshot as a weapon... I can't say much about the series after the first two seasons since I only tuned back in again irregularly and for the final stretch of the last season. But all of it was mostly tame except for some of the shit that would happen to Kanan (the blind guy) and the fact that he and the twilek were implied to have sex because of the kid at the end (although that's not really much). But that's about it. The new comics and novels (and the new expanded media in general) are also ridiculously tame compared to the old stuff, substituting mature subjects and violence with irl political comparisons, forced diversity stuff, Whedon quips or a lot of fart/toilet humor... like the shit seen in Chuck Wendig's works, Marvel's comics or anything approved by Pablo Hidalgo and Kennedy.
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Your theory about mature elements has credence. The old EU made it clear there were unsavory people, people doing unsavory things, grittier topics to be explored, and all kinds of relationships with some leading to sexual encounters. It wouldn't surprise me if Disney's legends declaration was made solely to make it appear they wanted to keep the SW franchise (their definition of) wholesome while using the guise of the EU being a mess to rationalize the decision and ignore the collateral damage.
That said, I'm still surprised Disney let stand the scene in the Young Jedi arc where Hondo threatens to sell Ahsoka to someone with a "thing" for female Jedi. Disney couldn't stand the war violence, but they kept a comment with strong sexual overtones towards a teen-aged character that was quite popular with younger kids/fans. 
As for Rebels, I saw Ezra's little energy sling shot and found it a colossal joke. I'm indifferent about the implication Kanan & Hera had sex that produced a child, yet surprised Disney allowed that after destroying the on-screen relationship between Han & Leia and acting as if on-screen romance can be teased in films, yet avoided at nearly all costs.
And don't get me started on the fact the old EU was rebooted for such "gems" as that fart story.
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Wouldn't really surprise me. They did sabotage Power Rangers due to the violence and not being able to convince Toei to tone it down. Show had been doing good in Europe, which in turn convinced them to make the last two seasons before Saban Brands bought it back. But with the last season, fan-favorite RPM, they made it's timeslot so inaccessible just to have an excuse to finally cut it.
So... yeah. I think you guys are on to something. They paid big bucks for the IP, but realized that having true Star Wars stuff would conflict with their family-friendly image.
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Which begs the question: If you want to be wholesome why buy an IP that has violence and (mild) eroticism?
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Not to mention that The Farce Awakens starts off with a village getting slaughtered, blood on a trooper's helmet (despite that the wound was caused by a blaster), followed by hours of tame shit which ends with a planetary genocide and a beloved character getting stabbed in the stomach by an obnoxious emo brat. So if it really is true that Disney nerfed the mature aspects of the franchise to be more tame, they're sure doing a crappy job of it in regards to their movies, in terms of violence at least (although the majority of new comics, games, books and tv shows do a spectacular job of being obnoxiously tame).
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I gave up on Disney Wars having serious damage when Space Aladdin tanked some blaster shots at point blank range just by carrying some cantaloupes in front of him.
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From what I've heard, JJ only agreed to do the film if his company Bad Robot was involved. Since he was a successful director, he was given a lot of control and less oversight, to the point the story group were surprised by what he had done. However they were in a rush to get the movie out and start profitting off the IP, so the movie was released without the overhauls Disney Star Wars is known for. After that, they clamped down on the directors leading to various instances of creative differences.
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So just for the record, the most successful New film is the one the Story Group didn't touch.
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Was it a "why's it so similar to A New Hope" kind of surprise?