Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Shit like this is what led me to believe that they axed Shaak Ti on purpose for the show. She was a popular jedi and she appeared in a large number of Clone Wars media before Filoni Wars, yet Ahsoka comes on the scene and Shaak Ti is never seen or mentioned until much later on where she's reduced to the role of clone instructor.

This was something else I disliked about CGI Clone Wars. Shaak Ti appeared in AotC and was to appear in RotS before being deleted out twice or more, so she was already a recognizable character from the films. Apart from her appearances in the Season 3 Kamino Arc and the Lost Missions bonus episodes, she was largely relegated to being a cardboard cutout/NPC during Clone Wars. Heck, in the Togruta Slave arc, when one would expect her to have strong feelings or an emotional response to seeing her species taken by Dooku to be sold into slavery, she appears as nothing more than a silent, stolid background character that doesn't even flinch -- leaving Ahsoka to be the one to say "Those are my people!" and wanting to take action.

Also, I found it to be a huge letdown and disappointment that we never saw Shaak and Ahsoka interacting with each other on-screen during Clone Wars. If not in a mentoring role or capacity, one would think Shaak would take interest in Ahsoka as a fellow Togruta at the least and offer her some words or wisdom or other advice to help the latter as a padawan. It certainly bolsters the idea that Clone Wars was little more than the Anakin & Ahsoka show with everyone else, Obi-Wan included, seen as little more than supporting cast. In retrospect, one might even argue it foreshadows Filoni's obsession with Ahsoka and his plans to later squeeze her into whatever media he could despite rumors at the time Ahsoka would likely die at or before the show's end to explain why she isn't mentioned in Episode III.

 

[Zaryiu]

JJ Abrams mystery box was/is and will always be shit, tomorrow i will post the comic that showed back in the good old days how Luke lightsaber went from Bespin to his son Ben Skywalker

And that would mean that Rey/Kylo is yet another incestuous relationship being teased, just like Luke/Leia. It would be peak pottery.

At least in the OT it was only started by ONE of them (I can't Luke ever being the one to kiss first, Leia was) but now oh boy with how absolutely related Disney and Lucasfilms are... Oh no

I can't believe these haven't been posted yet; Lucasfilm's latest attempt to exploit the pre-school market is a series of shorts called Star Wars Rollout.

All your favourite characters like Rey, Janitor, and.... uh... anyway, all your faves reimagined as spheres! Let the toddlers in your family be amazed by how far the 30 cent animation budget has been stretched for this latest high quality offering from a galaxy far, far away (from its heyday);

Rey and the Secret Treasure – Chapter 1 | Star Wars Roll Out

Rey finds a rare part while scavenging on Jakku, only to have it stolen by thugs! Star Wars Roll Out is a series of whimsical animated shorts featuring new a...

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You knows what truly horrifying? This is the closest to being sympathetic Rey has EVER been since she first opened her ugly face

 

[Puddleduck]

He's like the Bad Robot/Lucasfilm employee on Reddit last month who told everyone about the drama going on but at the same time trying to save face for JJ Dindunuffin. WDW Pro feels similar to that except he's going all "Kennedy and JJ dindunuffin! They just had the wrong people! Kiri and Johnson were to blame! Not them! KK is trying to salvage what's left because of mean old Kiri".

To be fair I wouldn't be surprized if there was some truth in it - KK worked her ass to get where she is, and the fact that some people are diversity hires may be "below her line of sight", so while she broadly wanted SW to be more inclusive, she might not have realized what lunatics she hired ...

 

[vertexwindi]

Candy corn is pretty shit imo
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Oh man, this reminded me of something interesting. I was in the back of a store recently that sells some Disney merch like clothing and lunchboxes. Fun fact about the lunchboxes, they came in a set of four: two Frozen boxes, a Cars one and a Star Wars one. And not just any Star Wars one, but TLJ boxes. Apparently Disney will not sell them separately. Stores are essentially made to buy merch that doesn't sell.

 

[qu_rahn]

Why did they give Rey all these tinkering and salvaging skills if she's not even going to build her own lightsaber? Why tease a double bladed saber and then have her wield the Anakin blade? This is imo the unforgivable sin of nu Wars

 

[BScCollateral]

Why did they give Rey all these tinkering and salvaging skills if she's not even going to build her own lightsaber?

What potential they ever had was wasted. A defecting stormtrooper is a great idea, which they never did anything compelling with. Rey should be a mechanic instead of being able to do anything. Not-Rey in Rogue One was supposed to be a forger, but she never forges anything. In a heist story, they never set up a situation where she had to forge something.

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

I decided to look up more info on WDW Pro and he claims that its not just Kiri Hart who got replaced, but the entirety of the Lucasfilm story group as they knew it between 2014-2018 no longer exists, and some interpret this as a full disbandment, which would explain why Disney canon is messier than usual lately, but that still doesn't explain why Pablo Hidalgo and Matt Martin are still actively serving as shitty Canon maintainers and officiators while Resistance is still restricted to Hart and Kennedy's ideological roots to its core. If the story group really is disbanded, Hidalgo and Martin shouldn't even be talking about this kind of shit anymore, which they still are. So I'm having some doubts about WDW Pro. The Kiri Hart thing is partially legit though as she did go from Story Group head to Consultant, but I'd rather wait for more dirt to come out on this from multiple sources.

>Implying Pablo might not still be under contract and just being an ass till he has to leave by confusing things

What potential they ever had was wasted. A defecting stormtrooper is a great idea, which they never did anything compelling with. Rey should be a mechanic instead of being able to do anything. Not-Rey in Rogue One was supposed to be a forger, but she never forges anything. In a heist story, they never set up a situation where she had to forge something.

The wasted potential of Finn makes me angry

 

[vertexwindi]

The wasted potential of Finn makes me angry

I'm pretty sure Boyega agrees.

 

[Kane Lives]

I'm pretty sure Boyega agrees.

Honestly, I think the actors are the one that'd be stuck with carrying the failure of nuWars for a long time. Think about it:

Kelly Marie Tran will be now forever known as that ditzy Asian chick who made the stereotype of Asian chicks being bad drivers come true.
John Boyega will be known for being a stormtrooper janitor.
Daisy Ridley will be known as the fish-face mouth-breathing brit-bong Mary Sue.
Adam Driver will be swole-lo and emo Vader knock-off.
Alden Ehrenreich will be known as that bootleg version of Solo who needed to be coached onset.

and so on. I think only Poe's actor came off without a scratch, and that's only because Poe himself was so forgettable.

 

[BScCollateral]

Honestly, I think the actors are the one that'd be stuck with carrying the failure of nuWars for a long time.

I'm honestly sorry for them. Actors are probably the least responsible for terrible films, but they take the hit because they're the easiest to replace.

I'm glad that some Internet reviewers get that and are starting to compliment actors for doing well in bad productions.

 

[Gar For Archer]

I'm honestly sorry for them. Actors are probably the least responsible for terrible films, but they take the hit because they're the easiest to replace.

I'm glad that some Internet reviewers get that and are starting to compliment actors for doing well in bad productions.

It’s also hard for them to honestly speak any negativity it until decades after the fact. Even if they hated nuWars, they’re all relatively unknown actors (aside from Oscar Isaac I suppose) who will forever be known as “those people who were in Disney Star Wars”. What are you gonna do, shit-talk the company that runs half of Hollywood, which you rely on for future employment?

 

[Safir]

Adam Driver will be swole-lo and emo Vader knock-off.

I'd say except for the threat of fangirls, Adam Driver already recovered. If the Twilight and Harry Potter leads managed to not get typecast, he'll be fine. Won't even need to fuck a horse.

 

[BScCollateral]

It’s also hard for them to honestly speak any negativity it until decades after the fact.

Even ignoring their employment future, they'd be shitting on people they worked with. I've been involved professionally in some awful projects, but I'm not going to blab about them, even if we pretend that anyone would care.

 

[Gar For Archer]

I'd say except for the threat of fangirls, Adam Driver already recovered. If the Twilight and Harry Potter leads managed to not get typecast, he'll be fine. Won't even need to fuck a horse.

But Daniel Radcliffe avoided being typecast basically by leaving Hollywood. He mostly does smaller films and theatre stuff nowadays.

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

I'd say except for the threat of fangirls, Adam Driver already recovered. If the Twilight and Harry Potter leads managed to not get typecast, he'll be fine. Won't even need to fuck a horse.

Yeah crazy Reylo shippers are the worst

 

[Ghostse]

I'd say except for the threat of fangirls, Adam Driver already recovered. If the Twilight and Harry Potter leads managed to not get typecast, he'll be fine. Won't even need to fuck a horse.

But Daniel Radcliffe avoided being typecast basically by leaving Hollywood. He mostly does smaller films and theatre stuff nowadays.

Don't worry bros, Adam Driver has his career recovery project already lined up.

Odobenus is the scientific family name of the walrus, like Equus is the scientific name of the horse. Equus was the play Harry Potter (aka Daniel Radcliff) starred in after completing Harry Potter, and play is about a guy with a sexual fixation on horses. This a very good joke if you get the theater references and latin biology names and.... I...I'll see myself out.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

Remember back when the worst thing fans of Han Solo had to deal with was George's ham-handed attempt to show Greedo shooting first in the remasters?

Like I said earlier. Loved one, dementia.

 

[Marissa Moira]

These people don't know what and adventure is unless they shoe-horn modern politics into which destroys the adventure aspect.

It's like what happened with all the Diversity Disney Princesses outside of Mulan. They get so bogged down trying to get a bunch of culture committees to rubber stamp shit that the move suffers creatively. Mulan really didn't have that compared to Moana which had boardrooms of pacific island advisers.

You think they had a Norwegian Advisory Council for Frozen? Fuck no they just went with the story and didn't bother with any of that shit.

Political Correctness really doesn't have room if you trying to tell a story.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Remember back when the worst thing fans of Han Solo had to deal with was George's ham-handed attempt to show Greedo shooting first in the remasters?

Like I said earlier. Loved one, dementia.

I think Star Wars fans would accept the blu-ray version or whatever was the last altered version of the OT Lucas did (the one where Darth Vader screams NOOOOOOOOOOO from Episode III as he throws the Emperor down the shaft) as the final, ultimate canon if it could erase Disney Star Wars from the universe and set the franchise back on a course which wasn't that of a failure so utter and abject that in a century or two all Star Wars will be remembered for is how fast and decisively Disney destroyed it out of hubris.

 

[The Reaper]

was so small it required Luke to use the force to actually exploit.

I was always of the opinion that Luke didn't need to use the force to exploit the weakness, rather he opted for it because of his trust in Obi-Wan, which led to a greater trust in himself. Its that little moment right at the end of the movie where he basically says "I have the power to do this, I just have to trust myself" without actually saying it, and reflects more on the story that Luke isn't a young farm boy anymore but rather someone who rose to the occasion to change the galaxy. There might be more story out there that proves my opinion wrong, but hey, I always liked that point of view.

I've never had candy corn - is it any good?

I may be biased, as shown by the statement under my name, but Candy Corn is my favorite Halloween candy, and I love the weeks following the 31st when it goes on sale. To me it can stand as a solo candy (you obviously can't have as much) but if you use it in a trail mix like you would m&m's its even better. I now feel personally attacked by all the negativity being projected on the adorable sugary replication of maize.