Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

[Fluoxetine Man]

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1. I didn't know that the Huffington Post employed Mr. Potato Head.
2. Wonder Woman is the highest-grossing superhero origin movie in history. I'm sure that's the patriarchy's fault.

If Rey was 'Ray' people wouldn't be so gentle criticising his Gary Stu-ness. Shit, just look at Wesley Crusher if you want to see how well received Rey would be as a man.

 

[Clark Kent]

It's sad to see what the Rat has done to Star Wars, but the silver lining here is that the old EU material still exists, books, comics, games, etc, and that can never be taken away no matter how many shitty movies get made.

This is how you deal with modern corporate escapist fantasy. Being a Superman fan is difficult because Warner seems hellbent on chasing me away, but I have all sorts of comics and a few cartoons and even some music that remind me why I call myself a fan. So I ignore the garage as best I can and try to enjoy other things.

 

[Love Machine]

I doubt that it's literally half the size, but the standard Mandalorian helmet is actually pretty big.

The heavy's helmet leaves his entire neck exposed. I like the look though.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Man, Palpatine was so fucking useless in the movie he feels like the producers were forced to bring him back in for reshoots.

The final battle felt emotionless without a legitimate payoff. I heard so many people complain how this movie was trying way too hard to ape Return of the Jedi, but it felt like it was aping more of Avengers: Endgame than anything else. If anything, the movie makes a pathetic excuse to become The Post-Skywalker Saga Cinematic Universe.

This movie was seriously a legitimate dumpster fire. It was way worse than TLJ and TFA.

So in conclusion, even if I do consider the What If/Post-LucasFox/Disney trilogy canon, it's still the least likely Star Wars trilogy I'll rewatch even if I wanted to.

 

[Love Machine]

Spoiler: Spoilers for last episode of mando

https://twitter.com/starwarsjapan/status/1208915123571773440?s=20

HE FLYS NOW!

 

[Cyril Sneer]

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The heavy's helmet leaves his entire neck exposed. I like the look though.

Most Mandalorian helmets do that, though, with the exception of Old Republic-era designs that either ape the Thyrsus Sun Guards or feature an armored collar and chin-seal:

 

[IcyHotStuntaz]

If Rey was 'Ray' people wouldn't be so gentle criticising his Gary Stu-ness. Shit, just look at Wesley Crusher if you want to see how well received Rey would be as a man.

Gotta love these looney tunes "nurture over nature" types who are convinced that the only reason why girls didn't like the original Star Wars back in the day was because Princess Leia didn't do enough space kung-fu.

 

[Poe-Shen Zcela]

Spoiler: Spoilers for last episode of mando

https://twitter.com/starwarsjapan/status/1208915123571773440?s=20

HE FLYS NOW!

God I love Japanese voice acting.

Anyone else notice the Sand People drums during the Trando ambush on Navarro?

 

[Love Machine]

Most Mandalorian helmets do that, though, with the exception of Old Republic-era designs that either ape the Thyrsus Sun Guards or feature an armored collar and chin-seal:

Yes but if you look at the other mandalorians, they are all wearing a the same styled helmets as mando, besides heavy and the matriarch.

Obviously this is because
>Boba Fett
But still somewhat interesting.

Mando seems to also be the only one wearing a bascar helmet, or have any bascar at all. Which seems to denote some sort of rank, but apparently not enough to put off heavy sperging out on him. He is also the on who doesnt have a jetpack yet.

 

[Fluoxetine Man]

Gotta love these looney tunes "nurture over nature" types who are convinced that the only reason why girls didn't like the original Star Wars back in the day was because Princess Leia didn't do enough space kung-fu.

It shows that they didn't even watch Star Wars, Leia in ANH grabbed Luke's blaster and made a hole in the vents to escape 'Someone has to save our skins. Into the garbage chute, fly boy!'

 

[Cyril Sneer]

So in conclusion, even if I do consider the What If/Post-LucasFox/Disney trilogy canon, it's still the least likely Star Wars trilogy I'll rewatch even if I wanted to.

I was thinking today that Disney could resurrect the "Infinities" concept of alternate realities and timelines from the Dark Horse Star Wars comics if they wanted to walk this dumpster-fire back a bit, but I tend to suspect that that would look too much like an admission of guilt.

Gotta love these looney tunes "nurture over nature" types who are convinced that the only reason why girls didn't like the original Star Wars back in the day was because Princess Leia didn't do enough space kung-fu.

Totally stealing this.

God I love Japanese voice acting.

Anyone else think that this star-faring Lone Wolf and Cub homage is going to be very popular in Japan?

Yes but if you look at the other mandalorians, they are all wearing a the same styled helmets as mando, besides heavy and the matriarch.

Obviously this is because
>Boba Fett
But still somewhat interesting.

Mando seems to also be the only one wearing a bascar helmet, or have any bascar at all. Which seems to denote some sort of rank, but apparently not enough to put off heavy sperging out on him. He is also the on who doesnt have a jetpack yet.

We don't know that the others aren't wearing any Beskar. If the action figure is any indication, Paz/Heavy's armor is just as silvery as our hero's under its blue paint (and Mandalorians generally A: use their Beskar for producing armor above and beyond anything else, and B: never give up their armor unless they're killed and their clan is unable to recover their remains).

Mando seems to be in a bit of a liminal state in relation to his clan, though. Comments from Greef Carga and from Ranzar Malk and his mercenaries imply that the Mandalorian is near-legendary veteran hunter, but he apparently has yet to receive a totemic personal crest from the armor priestess, which, going by real-world tribal rituals, seems like something that under normal circumstances should have happened very early in his career.

*edit*

Gee, isn't it fun to actually be genuinely curious about the past and future of a character in Star Wars?

 

[Love Machine]

Mando seems to be in a bit of a liminal state in relation to his clan, though. Comments from Greef Carga and from Ranzr Malk and his mercenaries imply that the Mandalorian is near-legendary veteran hunter, but he apparently has yet to receive a totemic personal crest from the armor priestess, which, going by real-world tribal rituals, seems like something that under normal circumstances should have happened very early in his career.

The Armor priestess mentions that having the full beskar will stand out. This seems to imply they do not paint it. I doubt he would purposely leave it so, its out of his character to want to stand out. They also go out of the way to mention that he is a foundling. Which could lend credence that he isnt actually mandalorian by birth(not like thats a super huge deal for mandalorian culture it seems), It would be interesting to get some more stuff on the purge. Since they imply the empire did it, but his homeworld was ruined by separatists.

 

[HeyYou]

I thought EP3 was a pretty solid recovery considering the first two... still a little bloated and clunky in places... we probably didn't need 25 minutes of lava acrobatics before Obi-Wan defeated Anakin... but generally speaking, I liked Ep3. While I kind of drifted into and out of the Clone Wars stuff, I generally enjoyed it.

But in general, I felt TFA nailed the SW universe vibe much better than the prequels did. From the get go, the prequels looked cheap. Nobody was fooled that this was anything but Lucas sitting in a greenscreen covered warehouse outside of San Francisco filming his actors read banal dialogue. They just felt lazy from the get-go. There were exceptions obviously, with TPM returning to Tunisia and such... but just way way way too many obvious digital matte paintings sucked the immersion dry pretty quickly. It just didn't really pass the smell test at the time and today looks dated as fuck. Lucas was more worried about advertising for ILM then he was in telling an engaging story or getting his actors to wake up. But I will give Lucas credit where it is deserved, the prequel trilogy slowly improved over time while Disney shit the bed and crashed with their 2nd entry.

Do I have to do another "the prequels had a ton of practical effects" post?

 

[DiabeticSP]

I can't tell if Palpatine is there because the last one killed Snoke and he's filling in for where Snoke would have been or if its reshoot hell, but it makes me wonder if there was even a way to salvage this shitshow without Disney meddling.

The one time they should have subverted expectations they didn't. Wild.

 

[HeyYou]

I want to see Colin Trevorrow's script. It genuinely might have been awful, I wouldn't be surprised it the production of this movie was a shitshow from the start, but despite his statement that Palps wouldn't have been in the movie, I don't recall him being a big fan of TLJ either.

EDIT: God, they're totally bringing Rian back with all this talk of "I can see the merits of VIII now". Absolute worst timeline.

 

[Marissa Moira]

It's looking like Rian is going to get most of the blame for steering the whole franchise into a brick wall.

JJ's Box of Mystery may also be permanently broken.

Like the earlier Marvel Movies (i.e. Hulk and I guess all the previous spider-man films) it's not going to surprise me one bit that they'll suddenly not count as canon one day.

If the Japanese can strike things from canon from many long standing series because they turned out bad, there's zero reason that Star Wars won't do it.

 

[JambledUpWords]

It's looking like Rian is going to get most of the blame for steering the whole franchise into a brick wall.

JJ's Box of Mystery may also be permanently broken.

Like the earlier Marvel Movies (i.e. Hulk and I guess all the previous spider-man films) it's not going to surprise me one bit that they'll suddenly not count as canon one day.

I hope they don’t. The resurrection powers that Rey gets with the force, despite little to no training, is insulting. Rey isn’t any more special than other Jedi, and should be treated as such. With how fast Rey picked up her “training”, there’s no actual enjoyment in seeing her succeed. It becomes boring.

 

[kidatari]

Her name is Megan. (autistics always obsess with the name Megan). Someone took a video of her working at the ride and uploaded it to /tv/. It became obvious that she was on the spectrum by her facial movements and speech. They're now all obsessing over her because they think she's an attainable gf. She had to delete all her social media because of the stalking. There's also now dozens of fan art about her on the board. https://youtu.be/B8Sk_riaISY

found a fan art on /pol/ and its pretty damn good
but what is the deal with the guy hugging Rey. I have vid but no sound, and does not look like Megan

 

[Cyril Sneer]

The Armor priestess mentions that having the full beskar will stand out.

Yes, but she may simply mean that it will stand out in comparison with his previous panoply of (duraplast?) armor (which would make sense, since he's such well-known figure, apparently).

This seems to imply they do not paint it.

Not necessarily. As I've noted, the show cribs a lot from Karen Traviss for its depiction of Mandalorian culture, and one of the more "colorful" elements of her take on Mandos was that they almost always paint their armor in very distinctive ways, each hue communicating a different message about its wearer's mindset, intentions or personality. Blue, for example, was supposed to indicate a Mandalorian who cherished "reliability," and that does seem to fit the Heavy, who comes to blows with Mando over a point of cultural decorum but is still willing to charge in, giant gun blazing, to haul his ass out of the fire when it counts.

I doubt he would purposely leave it so, its out of his character to want to stand out.

It could potentially tie in to his state of undecidedness that I commented on. He's not comfortable accepting a Mudhorn as his totemic "signet" because it "wasn't a noble kill." By the same token, he may not be comfortable painting his new armor because he doesn't have a signet yet (although the out-of-universe reason is probably because the silvery Beskar makes him look more like the proverbial "Knight in Shining Armor").

They also go out of the way to mention that he is a foundling. Which could lend credence that he isnt actually mandalorian by birth(not like thats a super huge deal for mandalorian culture it seems)...

Well, he outright states that he's not Mandalorian by birth in "Sanctuary" (which potentially adds an interesting additional layer to the scene in "The Child" where he determinedly gets back on the Blurrg after Kuuil invokes his Mandalorian "ancestors" taming the ancient Mythosaurs)

It would be interesting to get some more stuff on the purge. Since they imply the empire did it, but his homeworld was ruined by separatists.

Well, again, his homeworld was apparently not a Mandalorian one, but yeah, they seem to be drawing from Karen Traviss again, and her telling (ultimately inspired by the old Marvel comics) of Mandalore being occupied by the Empire after the Clone Wars and strip-mined of its Beskar.

 

[Vault Boy]

It's looking like Rian is going to get most of the blame for steering the whole franchise into a brick wall.

JJ's Box of Mystery may also be permanently broken.

Like the earlier Marvel Movies (i.e. Hulk and I guess all the previous spider-man films) it's not going to surprise me one bit that they'll suddenly not count as canon one day.

If the Japanese can strike things from canon from many long standing series because they turned out bad, there's zero reason that Star Wars won't do it.

Eh, I'd say pride would prevent them from outright retconning the ST. Best case scenario, they'll finish up the projects that center around that era, and then quietly abandon it for the foreseeable future since it's easily the least popular era. They'll either jump forward about a century or two, or they'll go back to the past with PT/OT content or even the Old Republic era.

However you look at it, I highly doubt that the ST will get as much exposure like the other eras have.