The fact these films are tarnishing the brand way more than that shitty holiday special and Jar Jar, tells you how passionless these series of films have been. Thank god for The Mandalorian, but the fact it's force to fit with the nu-trilogy is really depressing.
The sheer awkwardness of the disparity between the two is almost hilarious. I mean, there's more genuine heart in any random interaction between the Mando and the Yoda baby than just about any scene in the Nu-trilogy (save perhaps when Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford have their lone, abbreviated moments with Carrie Fisher), and more compelling world-building in just the Mandalorians' use of "This is The Way" as a ritualistic antiphon (which I absolutely adore, by the way) than in all of Disney's shitty Donut Steel OCs put together.
Here’s my thoughts on Fallen Order’s story after beating the game and collecting all the side content.
Ori'vor'e, ner vod. The effort-post is much appreciated.
Cal’s buddy almost dies in an accident but is saved after Cal uses the force. He’s one of the nu-aliens that all have human skin tone.
God, those things make me want to put my fist through the monitor...
In the tomb, Cal learns of a Wookie friend of Cordova’s named Tarrful that may have more info about the Zeffo.
Apologies if you know this already, but Tarrful was buds with Yoda during the Clone Wars and was one of your AI allies in the Kashyyyk missions of
Republic Commando.
Cal goes back to the ship and Bug-eyes literally knights him, like its Medieval Britain or something, with his lightsaber.
To be fair, Genndy did that as well when Yoda knighted Anakin (with the neat little flourish of lopping off his Padawan braid):
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I wanted to buy all the old EU toys so I looked up the checklist and it turns out the only one I was missing was Dash Rendar's Outrider. Boba fett's Save 1 w/ Han Solo Carbonite and the Swoop Bike with the Rider were the only other Kenner EU vehicles they made before fully switching over to Hasbro when Episode 1 premiered.
I've got all the figures to Shadows of the Empire but the thing I care most about is matching ships and vehicles up with their appropriate pilots. Stuff like the Cruise missile Trooper is literally the fighter pilot merged with the vehicle and I have one of those along with other kenner stuff like the snowspeeder and Millennium Falcon.
I never did get an OT Y-Wing, A-Wing, or AT-AT though. Y-Wings and AT-ATs are supposedly super expensive though and the Y-Wing supposedly has easily breakable parts.
I still have my old Hasbro-Kenner A-Wing. The sculpted detail is actually pretty impressive, for a mass-market toy originally produced in the early 1980s. Light-years ahead of the original Kenner X-Wing. Hasbro later produced an upgraded version with a detailed console for the pilot (this time Hilton McRae's Green Leader character, rather than the generic guy from the earlier release) which is apparently very hard to come by now.
As a kid, I desperately wanted the EU-ish "Green Leader" A-Wing (piloted, ironically, by a recolored Y-Wing driver), but never managed to get my hands on one.
Also, is it just me or does anyone else think that Disney really butchered their 25% A-Wings? The ones in
The Last Jedi look too long and flat and the ones in
Rebels look too short and stumpy in comparison with the original, which is just a beautifully-proportioned design all-around.
Anything having to do with Dr. Aphra is also pretty damn cringy, with the worst shit being the recent end to her current comic line where she just fucks over everyone for her own gain and owns Vader.
Aphra really takes the "have my cake and eat it too" character sweepstakes. Her closest pre-Disney counterpart is Boba Fett (mercenary who often works for Vader, occasionally teams up with the heroes), and as I've sort of suggested previously,
no one in their right minds would want to be Boba Fett, because his status as one of the most dangerous people in the galaxy is counter-balanced by the fact that it requires him to live like an insane doomsday prepper crossed with an autistic monk, maniacally focused on his vocation to the exclusion of just about everything that makes a life human (friends, family, down-time, you name it). By contrast, Aphra seems to flit from casually murdering people to indulging herself with spa-days without missing a beat or ever really having to deal with any consequences for her actions.
...the new ROTJ novelization changes it so nu-3PO is talking about Ahsoka and Aladdin to the Ewoks.
You've got to be shitting me...
Holy hell that is a TERRIBLE look. Did they decide to prove Palpatine is the grandfather by showing conception?
