How many reasons are there floating around for why that worked? They were going with the "experimental shields" thing for a while, wonder what the current handwave is now.
Another thing is that despite the execution of the prequels being suspect up until "Sith" (Sith is in my top 3), the underlying story behind the prequel trilogy was sound. The Clone Wars was a good addition to the Canon. The excellent animated series proves this. The final Obi-Ani on Mustafar was cinematically breathtaking and fit the canon perfectly. It was just unfortunate that Hayden Christianson delivered some of the clunkiest dialog in the series during it.
That’s what’s annoying about Rey though. Since she has had little to no struggle, the successes are diminished. I wish they kept her win against Kylo in the TFA, but have her struggle onwards to actually beat him later on. That way, she could have just been considered lucky and not have god status. She beats Kylo way too easily, and it also makes Kylo seem like a less intimidating villain. There’s a reason why people were happy for Luke when he was able to beat Vader. Darth Vader was an imposing villain and he beat Luke multiple times, before Luke was able to win. With Rey, the villains are so easy for her to conquer that people lose interest. That’s the reason why so many people are against Mary Sue characters. If a character is already invincible to most things, there’s no chance for growth or struggle. This is why Leia is a better written character too. Just because she’s a woman, didn’t mean that she was without fault. Han didn’t automatically like Leia, and they would fight each other often. Also, Leia would sometimes be too stubborn and headstrong, which at times would not work in her favor. She’s even captured in ROTJ and needs to be rescued again. Even so, Leia was a good fighter, and clever. If the execs wrote Rey more like Leia, I think Rey would have been an overall more interesting character because she would not be a blank slate, and instead be a character all her own.
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It didn't used to be that bad with the mantra of "you can't hurt female characters!" until fairly recently.
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Well, the mere fact that they have chipped paint doesn't really mean anything. I rather doubt that they have enough Beskar to start mixing it into their paint. If you're referring to scarring and pockmarking on the armor itself, that in and of itself is also not necessarily indicative of the armor's composition, as comments from Mando himself suggest that the metal is not invulnerable to damage.
Gold-colored armor apparently signifies a devotion to vengeance, interestingly enough....
They're saving it for the last episode.
Somebody mentioned that Lucas hated the idea of Luke getting married in general but Mark Hamill (who is/was apparently quite happy with Luke being the husband of Mara and father of Ben in the EU) was always working on him to change his mind.
Per Lucas: Balance to the Force = no Sith.
I always figured that Jaina would have been the better candidate to fall to the Dark Side than her brother. Jacen Solo was just too passive a character, for the most part.
Being outside of/dead to the Force is kind of the whole larger point of the Vong, though. It's representative of how, despite their ostensible religiosity, they're a purely materialist society, with no consideration/understanding of existence or value beyond "crude matter."
Agreed. Plus, Mike's "Plinkett" voice/vocal mannerisms just make me want to bounce a VCR off of his face.
Yeah, I got a little mixed up there. The Mandalorian devil-analogue is called Arasuum and he is specifically the personification of sloth and stagnation.
That was exactly what you should have expected.
I dunno, man. It seems to me that establishing the objective badness of Nu-Wars is exactly what we've been doing in this thread for months now.
My half-forgotten memories of playing Warcraft 2 back in the day would seem to indicate that Azeroth humans should be just about as big as orks to start with.
That's kind of hard to reconcile with Obi-Wan's statement that the Jedi were the guardians of the Republic for over a thousand generations, or the explicit identification of the lightsaber as "the weapon of the Jedi." The glimpses at the vanished Jedi Order that the OT provided ran the gamut from obfuscating, reclusive mystics like Yoda to "cunning warriors" and (presumably combat) pilots like Anakin Skywalker, to puckish wizard-types like old Ben.
I would pay money to see that, NGL.
It's not the same thing. Dune isn't a universe that I want to travel to and have fun (if sometimes harrowing) adventures in, it's a universe that I want to burn to ashes. I mean, don't even get me started on the Bene Gesserit...
This is an excellent point, and I'll add, it's really difficult to reconcile Obi-Wan's comments about Anakin already being an incredible pilot when he first met him, with "let's try spinning! That's a good trick!" (no offense intended to Jake Lloyd).
Yes. We can quibble over whether the scale of destruction was too over-the-top or not, but the victory over the Vong felt earned in a very tangible way, and I think it really cemented Luke's eponymous New Jedi Order as the bonafide guardians of the Galaxy, so to speak. Like, they weren't assuming a position of authority and guardianship just because the old Jedi Order used to have one before the Clone Wars, but rather, because they had been instrumental to prosecuting and ultimately winning a war for the preservation of the entire galaxy, a victory sealed with the blood of the countless Jedi Knights who had fallen in battle along the way (unfortunately, Legacy of the Force then went and dumped all over that, but that's another story).
The beatings will continue until morale improves...
Gotta tie him to Tatooine in some way, though.
Only when they get called on it, apparently...
One of the things that infuriates me about Solo is that it feels like about three or four different, potentially-interesting movies all jammed together into the space of 135 minutes. First you've got the vaguely cyberpunk-ish "underworld/life under the Empire" bit on Corellia (which looks nothing like EU Corellia and has somehow inherited Kuat's ISD shipyards, but give it a different name and it'd be fine), then the embryonic "Imperials are people too" segment with the war on Mimban, and then the whole thing with the smugglers. Each of those could have served as the basis for an extended story in its own right, similar to what The Mandalorian has been doing wit bounty hunters, but they're packed into the same movie like so many sardines, with the plot swerving from one theme/setting to the next at such a pace the audience is in danger of getting whiplash from trying to keep up with all of the abrupt shifts in tone and setting. It's especially irritating for me, because the film "canonized" (lol for whatever that's worth) one of my favourite bits of obscure EU lore, the Imperial Army infantry from the old West-End Games RPG books (whom I really think should be used more widely to avoid nerfing the allegedly-elite Stormtroopers), but that entire section of the film, which could have been a springboard for introducing a little more ambiguity into the image of the Empire, showing that, rather than being composed entirely of faceless blasterfodder, the Imperial war-machine contains plenty of people like Han, only lasted about as long as a bathroom break and probably suffered more from the film's all-over issues with cinematography than any other part of it.
Doesn't matter. It's the acting head of Lucasfilm parading around with a dumb grin on her face wearing a T-shirt that suggests the disembodied, genderless cosmic maybe-entity that governs the Star Wars universe has a vagina. It's very indicative of her mindset, especially in the context of how overpowered Rey is (and how much more overpowered Kennedy allegedly wanted to make her).
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No the color of the metal under the chipped paint isn't the color of beskar.
Well, the mere fact that they have chipped paint doesn't really mean anything. I rather doubt that they have enough Beskar to start mixing it into their paint. If you're referring to scarring and pockmarking on the armor itself, that in and of itself is also not necessarily indicative of the armor's composition, as comments from Mando himself suggest that the metal is not invulnerable to damage.
Gold-colored armor apparently signifies a devotion to vengeance, interestingly enough....
They're saving it for the last episode.
Somebody mentioned that Lucas hated the idea of Luke getting married in general but Mark Hamill (who is/was apparently quite happy with Luke being the husband of Mara and father of Ben in the EU) was always working on him to change his mind.
Per Lucas: Balance to the Force = no Sith.
I always figured that Jaina would have been the better candidate to fall to the Dark Side than her brother. Jacen Solo was just too passive a character, for the most part.
Being outside of/dead to the Force is kind of the whole larger point of the Vong, though. It's representative of how, despite their ostensible religiosity, they're a purely materialist society, with no consideration/understanding of existence or value beyond "crude matter."
Agreed. Plus, Mike's "Plinkett" voice/vocal mannerisms just make me want to bounce a VCR off of his face.
Yeah, I got a little mixed up there. The Mandalorian devil-analogue is called Arasuum and he is specifically the personification of sloth and stagnation.
That was exactly what you should have expected.
I dunno, man. It seems to me that establishing the objective badness of Nu-Wars is exactly what we've been doing in this thread for months now.
My half-forgotten memories of playing Warcraft 2 back in the day would seem to indicate that Azeroth humans should be just about as big as orks to start with.
That's kind of hard to reconcile with Obi-Wan's statement that the Jedi were the guardians of the Republic for over a thousand generations, or the explicit identification of the lightsaber as "the weapon of the Jedi." The glimpses at the vanished Jedi Order that the OT provided ran the gamut from obfuscating, reclusive mystics like Yoda to "cunning warriors" and (presumably combat) pilots like Anakin Skywalker, to puckish wizard-types like old Ben.
I would pay money to see that, NGL.
It's not the same thing. Dune isn't a universe that I want to travel to and have fun (if sometimes harrowing) adventures in, it's a universe that I want to burn to ashes. I mean, don't even get me started on the Bene Gesserit...
This is an excellent point, and I'll add, it's really difficult to reconcile Obi-Wan's comments about Anakin already being an incredible pilot when he first met him, with "let's try spinning! That's a good trick!" (no offense intended to Jake Lloyd).
Yes. We can quibble over whether the scale of destruction was too over-the-top or not, but the victory over the Vong felt earned in a very tangible way, and I think it really cemented Luke's eponymous New Jedi Order as the bonafide guardians of the Galaxy, so to speak. Like, they weren't assuming a position of authority and guardianship just because the old Jedi Order used to have one before the Clone Wars, but rather, because they had been instrumental to prosecuting and ultimately winning a war for the preservation of the entire galaxy, a victory sealed with the blood of the countless Jedi Knights who had fallen in battle along the way (unfortunately, Legacy of the Force then went and dumped all over that, but that's another story).
I still tear up a little bit reading those last lines from Luceno's The Unifying Force, with the heroes and their families all gathered together for a celebration amid the forests of Kashyyyk, echoing the final scenes of Return of the Jedi:
...Gradually their bittersweet laughter floated from the wooden table, up past the lanterns, the wind chimes, and the thick branches from which they dangled, meandering up through the crowns of the tallest wroshyr trees and gliding weightless into the twilight sky, up, ever up into stars too numerous to count, defying the stillness of vacuum and dispersing, vectoring out across space and time, as if destined to be heard in galaxies far, far away...
The beatings will continue until morale improves...
Gotta tie him to Tatooine in some way, though.
Only when they get called on it, apparently...
One of the things that infuriates me about Solo is that it feels like about three or four different, potentially-interesting movies all jammed together into the space of 135 minutes. First you've got the vaguely cyberpunk-ish "underworld/life under the Empire" bit on Corellia (which looks nothing like EU Corellia and has somehow inherited ISD shipyards, but give it a different name and it'd be fine), then the embryonic "Imperials are people too" segment with the war on Mimban, and then the whole thing with the smugglers. Each of those could have served as the basis for an extended story in its own right, similar to what The Mandalorian has been doing wit bounty hunters, but they're packed into the same movie like so many sardines, with the plot swerving from one theme/setting to the next at such a pace the audience is in danger of getting whiplash from trying to keep up with all of the abrupt shifts in tone and setting. It's especially irritating for me, because the film "canonized" (lol for whatever that's worth) one of my favourite bits of obscure EU lore, the Imperial Army infantry from the old West-End Games RPG books (whom I really think should be used more widely to avoid nerfing the allegedly-elite Stormtroopers), but that entire section of the film, which could have been a springboard for introducing a little more ambiguity into the image of the Empire, showing that, rather than being composed entirely of faceless blasterfodder, the Imperial war-machine contains plenty of people like Han, only lasted about as long as a bathroom break and probably suffered more from the film's all-over issues with cinematography than any other part of it.
I mean, c'mon, don't these look like scenes from a much more interesting story than what we ended up with?
Doesn't matter. It's the acting head of Lucasfilm parading around with a dumb grin on her face wearing a T-shirt that suggests the disembodied, genderless cosmic maybe-entity that governs the Star Wars universe has a vagina. It's very indicative of her mindset, especially in the context of how overpowered Rey is (and how much more overpowered Kennedy allegedly wanted to make her).
They're 3 characters from Filoni's Clone Wars who still play a huge part in Disney shit and are credited as the creators of the time anus from Disney's Aladdin's Rebels cartoon which was used to bring Ahsoka back to life via time travel.
