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Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off
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Depends how far the project has actually gone and how invested Disney is in this being the future of star wars. From what I have seen, its not really gone anywhere beyond concept art and maybe a few prototype projects. So my best guess is it will be silently shit canned if there first outing's do poorly and its assets will be reused in other projects. If Disney does not outright sell star wars (or is forced to sell to keep the lights on), which I think is fairly likely at this point.
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Iger should really ought to be discreetly contracting the Clinton Foundation for layoff expertise and servicing troublesome employees.
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So the first trade only covers the first 6 issues of the comic. I'm going to post spoilers here as I doubt many of you care.
It is... mixed. Most of the first issues involve Kanan as a young padawan when order 66 happens. Order 66 is good in parts.
Now here's the interesting part - this comic makes it VERY hard for the "clones have chips" canon to work. Because a key plot point of Kanan's backstory is that 2 of the clones he used to fight alongside keep hunting for him. For like... years! after. (maybe it was one year, maybe a few months, time is not always precise in this) They keep trying to locate this tween kid and execute him and the only way Kanan ultimately gets away from them is that he guilt trips one of the clones into ultimately blowing up the ship all of the hunters are on.
One thing that makes it really hard for me to hate this comic is that they do have so many aliens in it. It's stuffed full of aliens, including classic ones.
The writing in general is... ok though I think the script could have had a few more editing passes.
This gets into one of the biggest issues with Star Wars nobody wants to talk about: George Lucas has frequently set things up so that trying to do stories in the prequel times is like trying to fit square pegs into round holes - you can do it, but it isn't going to be pretty or enjoyable for anyone.
Like it's a real question of how in the world the Jedi can be taken out by order 66 given all their powers. In this one you have a slight excuse as the master is trying to help her padawan (the protagonist) get away and a momentary distraction gets her gunned down.
But then how come we didn't have way more of these instances across the galaxy? Oh wait. With Ahsoka and everyone else, it seems like the only Jedi that actually fell to order 66 were the half dozen we saw on screen in episode 3. Sheev seems to have killed more Jedi than his whole entire army.
Another thing that bugs me. So issue 6 is where the story picks up proper in SW: Rebels. Kanan ends up going back to the planet where he was when o66 went down and - this is important - doesn't want to draw his lightsaber less old friends recognize him. Now I've seen enough clips of Rebels to know that in the show, Kanan draws his lightsaber all the damn time.
Like WTF? Withdrawing a lightsaber during the empire era should be the equivalent of firing a flare. It should bring down the empire's might onto whatever town it happened in and all but nuking the place from orbit. It should be the last thing an underground movement ever wants to do. But no, with that and Sabine's freakin' pastel armor, these "rebels" all but advertise their presence to the empire making me feel more like I'm reading and watching a LARPing session involving SW fans then something actually taking place in the universe.
At least in the first 5 issues, Kanan actually acted like you'd expect someone actually on the run and hiding to act - mostly.
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To emphasize this point, here's what currently pops up to greet you on Wookieepedia (which can't be arsed to get their facts straight or update pages that don't involve Reylo, but whatever):
Jedi and Sith alike are frequently taken by surprise, blindsided and caught on the back foot throughout all six Star Wars films. I don't think that there's anything in G-Canon to suggest (as the EU sometimes seems wont to) that Force-users are like Spider-Man, whose "spider-sense" makes it virtually impossible to catch him off-guard unless you're Venom (or Deadpool).
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More on people trying to defend the sequel trilogy without actually defending the sequel trilogy.
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He just can't let go of his creation. He probably see her as his daughter in some way, which could only get more creepier if she has a wolf nickname or call-sign.
She has a wolf nickname or call-sign, doesn't she?
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Actually what makes it worse in the comic is that it reveals that Kanan's master is receiving visions of the attacks all across the galaxy (like Yoda possibly in RotS). Given another bit, it's heavily implied that Palpatine didn't send out a general order, but is personally calling every clone unit commander and giving the order by name. Even if you allow for 5 seconds to make the call, it only takes twelve units before there is now a minute gap between your first call and the 13th. A whole minute for the jedi masters to be getting Force alerts that shit is going down.
Which is a shame because originally I thought the order went out in a giant simulcast and that's how the Jedi got surprised. That's not even getting into the larger narrative problems with order 66 in the first place...
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Other Jedi Surviving order 66 and the Jedi Purge is nothing new, it happened quite a bit in the True Eu, so that aspect didn't bother me.
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Wonder if the Thrawn prequel will get canceled as well. On one hand the book already got delayed before the pandemic so that might not look to good yet on the other I think Zahn might be the highest profile/respected writer still at lucasfilm.
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I just remembered that today marks the sixth anniversary of Legend’s cancellation.
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In other words, the sixth anniversary of the definitive stopping point for all things Star Wars.
Kind of like Star Trek and May 13, 2005.
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I refuse to call the old Eu "Legends", because that is me admitting defeat from Disney and the Lucasfilm story group and I hate the Legends banner over the books.
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I remember when I first saw this guy and how surprised I was when C-3PO asked him who his Maker was. The old coot simply said "Maker? I'm my own Maker!" It would be the start of a long running theme in droid mentality and what happens to them if they go without memory wipes for too long. They start to become more human, more independent, and with a 50/50 chance of becoming truly sentient or viciously rebellious. This old coot practically defined droid progression in SW and inspired a whole story arc in Dark Horse comics back in the 90s.On the general topic of Disney Wars (this will be relevant, promise), I've been on a bit of a minor Droids kick since the reference to "Dha Werda Verda" in Republic Commando: Hard Contact jogged my memory, and while surfing the holonet for related info, I came across a small but well-made fansite, the Droids Adventures Encyclopedia, which has some brief bios of most of the major characters, distinguished in most cases by some really nice scans of the original animation model sheets for each. What really caught my attention, however, was the profile for the "Proto-1 droid" from the latter part of the cartoon's first story-arc:
According to his bio, "Proto-1 is an ancient security droid who considers himself his own maker and master, due to the fact that he rebuilt himself to his present form."
Eat your heart out, Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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The novels will be released without question. However their reception and the continued decline will have a great impact on the shitty comics. If reception is bad and continued losses are had, then the High Republic comics will get canned after a few issues or be forced to end as quickly as possible. And if its really bad, the comics won't even see print. One thing that seems likely is that if High Republic was going to have more content after the books and comics, it certainly won't have that shit now.
In other news, World Class Bullshitters is having an interview with a former Lucasfilm illustrator who was a victim of the KK takeover it seems.
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Yeah, another sign of how Disney didn't bother to try and learn from missteps from before.
One of the things that they at least worked on in the old day to mitigate it is that very often when old Jedi were found, it wasn't long before Darth Vader swooped in and finished them off - which helped reinforce the danger of the Empire and the idea of why any Jedi need to remain hidden.
(The best part of the novel I, jedi is that it introduced the idea of talents & specilizations to the Jedi as well as gradations to their power. It's a shame none of the movies (even the prequels) bothered to run with this idea further.)
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Not that I know of. But Filoni's redesign of adult Ahsoka and recent 2D drawings make her horns look more like wolf ears, despite that her first adult design made her horns look more like Shaak Ti's and other togrutas, and he's drawn quite a lot of art of Ahsoka riding wolves, touching wolves or living with wolves.
One with her riding a wolf (alongside R5-"Skippy"-D4 the Jedi Droid), another with her as "not the wolf" and another with her 30 years later as She-Gandalf living with a wolf pack who she goes to for guidance since wolves are now the new gods of SW in the Disneyverse.
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I remember watching this one video about Jedi ruined Star Wars Galaxies. Apparently one of the original plans for implementing the the Jedi was via notoriety meter. The more a Jedi used the force the more their notoriety went up. The higher it went up the more people the empire would send. It would start with thugs and basic stormtrooper then work its way up to specialized/elite troopers, bounty hunters, and inquisitors. Once the player got to a certain point Vader would show up and curbstom the player.
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That's funny you say that Dave Filoni, True and Honest creator of Ahsoka, has him as his favorite council member and gave him a clone squadron called, I'm not kidding, The Wolf Pack.