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Looks like a variant of that one species they kept reusing in the sequel films.
Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off
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There really isn't a way they win no matter what happens. If it simply fizzles out, then it was a stupid idea that got KK in more hot water and just made Disney look like fools.
If it does happen...you know it will be terrible, it will be mocked, and in a few years time it will be ultimately forgotten. Iger's only got what, a year left before Chapek moves in full time, and Chapek is infamous for his budget cutting, so if the show is underperforming, I don't think he'll have the same inhibitions as Iger in giving KK the boot.
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I liked Kathleen Kennedy better when she was a producer and kept her mouth shut... Except when she had to suck off Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and Richard Donner for her production credit. (guys she's worked with as a producer at amblin BTW. )
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I'm bitter of having Taika Waititi directing a Star Wars film, but it will be cool to see what Robert Rodriguez will do with the Mandalorian.
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I think Jon Favreau is testing different directors for Star Wars with the Mandalorian.
I think Jon Favreau is testing different directors for Star Wars with the Mandalorian.
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Well shit. On the bright side Wookieepedia will finally implode.
Its even worse. A lot of their older articles in both canons have fallen into disrepair or vandalism unless they're related to the ST or OT characters (minus Rose whose article is always targeted by vandals). You can even slip a Galaxy's Edge employee a few bucks to make up some bullshit about a "phagottazz eater" farting on the roof tops and the dumb fucks at Wookieepedo will add it to the site (hell you might not even need proof). Other sources and articles haven't been updated in years, mostly due to that their new generation of editors are just trend followers who only like to cover the most recent shit like Reylo (seriously a lot of them are only there because they have a hard on for Kylo Ren and Aphra). But to be honest, at this point I'm more interested in seeing them breakdown or argue amongst themselves, since that's some pretty juicy retard drama.
Movies:Original Trilogy: The celebration on Yavin 4 and Luke's final moments with his father.
Ewoks Duology: The Gorax and the Marauder castle.
Prequel Trilogy: "Now this is podracing!" and the droid attack on the Wookiees.
Radio Dramas:ANH: Biggs and Luke's expanded friendship.
ESB: More Imperial drama as they begin to grow distrustful of Vader, and also getting the recipe to Yoda's stew.
ROTJ: 3PO meeting a mysterious dancer aka Mara Jade entering G-Canon.
Animated:
Genndy's Clone Wars: Grievous going on a killing spree and Ventress's arena battle.
Droids: 3PO losing his temper against some droid turrents, R2 fucking up Kybo Ren and defeating the droid equivalent of a planet-eater.
Specials: The Boba Fett introduction short from the Holiday Special. That's about all I say in regards to the HS.
Filoni Wars: Boba trying to kill Windu.
Comics:Tales of the Jedi: The coming of Naga Sadow and Exar Kun.
OT comics: The failed coup against the Emperor.
Prequel comics: Quinlan Vos being Quinlan FUCKING Vos
Legacy: Cade Skywalker getting put in his place by great-grandpa Luke.
Tales: Vader and 3PO's short-lived "reunion".
Tag & Bink (Parody): The one where Rebel agent Manny Both-Hanz nobly dies in the line of duty.
Thrawn Trilogy: Rukh betraying Thrawn. Also Luke's unexpected romance.
NJO: The Vong nuking Coruscant.
Labyrinth of Evil: Grievous's reflection on his past.
Darth Plagueis: Sheev killing his whole family.
Cult and Supernatural Encounters: The Soulworm.
Han Solo Trilogy and Falcon novel: Han winning the Falcon.
Shadows of the Empire: Guri going berserk and the Skyhook attack.
Video Games:Super Star Wars games: Finally seeing what a Gundarrk is and fighting Dejarik monsters.
Dark Forces 1 & 2: Having Katarn rip and tear super soldiers and monsters, avenging his dad and getting the bad guy ending.
Battlefront 1 & 2: The battle on Kashyyyk and political assassinations, also "we've captured a command post!"
KOTOR 1 & 2: Dealing with unwanted robosexuality and thoughts of droid suicide.
Bounty Hunter: Jango doing a prison escape in space.
Podracing games: Getting to explore planets on a larger scale.
Shadows of the Empire: IG-88 bashing skulls and invading Xizor's castle.
Force Unleashed: Shaak-Ti's legacy and the arena level.
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The whole of Disney Wars:
That time Aphra got down on her knees and begged to Vader, not-Jawas eating a hairy egg, Anakin and Kenobi finding evidence of Revan, and Vader killing some tusken raiders.
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Again, don't believe shit until cameras are rolling and people have cashed checks.
There are a billion ways to kill a "confirmed" project such as just continuing to bump it from the (heh) current year's production schedule because of "priorities".
Again, you might wonder "Well hold on, those contracts usually stipulate that while the studio is wanking, they pull a not insubstancial salary". And you are correct.
But the $100,000 or whatever they are paying out is chump change. Less than a fucking rounding error. And they people they are paying this out to don't want to collect a paycheck, they want to make their art ; they want to in charge. So you just dick them around for a few months till they get the message and they leave.
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I'd agree on this, especially since Kennedy loves declaring shit that won't happen. But, it still makes Iger look weak, and Disney is run by fucktards. I can see it happening, and the only reason it wouldn't is due to the Rat going broke.
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I don't understand why firing a women would somehow ruin your chance at a political career, unless he did something nefarious behind the scenes that Kennedy or another one of her cronies know that will end him.
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Machete Kills The Sequel Trilogy could be a cool movie
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It's probably too optimistic to think the stockholders meeting will result in any of Disney's execs having their feet put to the fire. Usally these meetings are little more than mandatory formalities. Worse, it wouldn't surprise me if the stockholders continue to encourage Disney to keep embracing wokeness, social responsibility, or whatever pet buzzword project is the in thing at the moment.
I realize I never posted a favorite ST moment. Part of that is because it's hard to have a favorite moment in the ST when it was so underwhelming and disappointing, and part is because I avoided Episode IX for various reasons (although the spoilers posted here played a key role in that decision). Still, I'll post one now for completeness' sake:
ST: Finn kicking Phasma's butt a second time in TLJ to show how ridiculous it was to bring her character back only to be defeated more soundly by Finn than he defeated her in TFA. So much squandered potential in that trilogy.
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On Iger being reluctant to kack Kennedy, quote missing as MY FUCKING PHONE IS BEING A CUNT WITH MY FINGER LOADOUT AND AUTOCORRECT:
He's a weak suit like Romney. Slander just makes him wilt or deflect as he tries to figure out how to ruin you with the right marketing. He's just as stuck in 2015 as Kennedy is my bet. Plus he isn't sure how hard Hollywood would rail against him is my bet and he's again an uncreative weak money man who makes Bloomberg look tough.
He's a weak suit like Romney. Slander just makes him wilt or deflect as he tries to figure out how to ruin you with the right marketing. He's just as stuck in 2015 as Kennedy is my bet. Plus he isn't sure how hard Hollywood would rail against him is my bet and he's again an uncreative weak money man who makes Bloomberg look tough.
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I have to ask, is this fanfiction or actual canon Disney never got around to properly removing?
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I explained it in the links in the posts already, specifically here in the "production stuff" section:
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/star-...ywalker-spoilers.32492/page-1462#post-6141387
In short, its an unpublished article turned novella that dates its conception to all they way back in 2006 that served as a compilation of all SW works as well as George's view on the cosmology of SW (its all in the link). But the work kept being stalled due to unfortunate circumstances as detailed in the link, resulting in numerous changes and additions over the years.
Its strange as to why Disney hasn't removed references to it yet from their current works. Either a shitty editing department or Lucasfilm no longer gives a fuck. Also the obsession with tentacles in nu-Canon really feels like a rather fitting parallel when you consider to who this story leads up to.
Moments like these make me wonder if I should make some kind of PDF that compiles all the most important posts in this thread for easy access.
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Well, maybe not a PDF, but if someone could update the OP that'd be cool. That way you can just say "read the OP faggot".
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Would be nice if the mods could add a few links on the OP to a few major posts. Among the key posts that could be added off the top of my head are mine and @Optimus Prime's Galaxy's Edge info and coverage, @TheMysteriousAHole's Kylo Ren comic critiques and Plan IX links, @damian's mega links, the box office and profits info posted by many users here like @Jub-Jub, myself and that one guy with the Thrawn avatar whose name I forgot, the High Republic info I posted, this merch and sales info posted by multiple people starting here, and the cancelled sequel trilogy. Just to name a few. Anything else of note I'm forgetting?
Jub-Jub
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This story might hit the SW youtubers soon.
https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2020/...lps-arrests-employee-in-stormtrooper-costume/ http://archive.is/3AdI3
The employee dressed in the Star Wars stormtrooper costumer at Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina. (Supplied by Bradley Whalen)
Star Wars Day promotion goes awry after LPS arrests employee in stormtrooper costume
By David Opinko
May 04, 2020
LETHBRIDGE, AB – ***WARNING — Attached video contains coarse language
May the fourth is widely known among fans of the sci-fi series as Star Wars Day, and thus, a local business themed around the franchise wanted to put on a promotion to celebrate it.
Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina Owner Bradley Whalen told LNN that it very quickly went off the rails and put one of his employees in serious danger.
“We had music playing in the parking lot, we had one of our staff dress up as a stormtrooper kind of waving to people walking up and down the road, we had people stopping by and getting pictures with the stormtrooper, we put a couple of promotions on in the restaurant to entice people to come.”
The female employee arrived for work at 10:00 am on Monday, May 4, and went out in full costume around 20 minutes later.
He believes that some members of the public must have seen her brandishing a plastic toy blaster believing it was a real gun and phoned police. Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) Inspector Jason Walper says they got two 911 calls regarding a firearms complaint near the business on 13 Street North. At approximately 11:20 am, three police cruisers arrived and a truck followed shortly after.
In the video, Whalen came outside after hearing the officers shouting at the employee. He can be heard telling the officers that the girl in the costume only has a toy gun.The officers tell Whelan to get back in his building.
“Police officers had guns drawn, pointed at my employee. They were yelling at her to put the gun down so she threw the plastic gun on the ground. At that point in time when I came out, she was on her knees kneeling down on the ground. The police had already checked and seen that the gun was plastic so they already knew that there wasn’t an issue or a risk there.”
The video shows that the girl did drop the gun to the ground when told to do so.
Walper offered a different account of the officers’ initial encounter with the employee.
At the time he spoke to media about the incident, he had not yet fully reviewed all of the details, but claims “the person did not comply with the police verbal directions. Eventually, they did after multiple repeated orders given by the police officers.”
After she got on her knees, Walper adds that the officers then “pushed the individual down to the ground” and put her into handcuffs.
As a result of being pushed to the ground, the employee had a bloodied nose. Neither Whalen nor Walper could confirm if she had suffered any other injuries. The employee could be heard crying out on the video and there were blood stains on the concrete.
According to Whalen, it took an extra few moments for the employee to get down because of the costume itself.
“She kept yelling at them that she couldn’t kneel down because, in that stormtrooper costume, you can’t even sit down in it, like it’s impossible to sit down. She kept telling them that she couldn’t get down is what she explained to me after we talked to her.”
“It wasn’t a matter of her not wanting to cooperate,” Whalen continued. “She dropped the gun when they told her to and just forcing her, making her get down on the ground after they determined that she wasn’t a risk and that the gun wasn’t even a real gun, it was a plastic Star Wars blaster.”
Whalen claims that there was no effort on the part of the police to de-escalate the situation or speak to him or the employee calmly before taking action. Walper says he understands that this matter likely boiled down to a misunderstanding, but they have to take these types of calls for service seriously. “We had multiple 911 calls stating there was someone with a firearm.”
“Any time our officers are responding to something that’s very spontaneous where there’s a weapon involved, our first responsibility is to ensure we can create a safe environment for the officers, for the public, and the individual itself,” says Walper, “So certainly, their first response is to deal with that weapon and remove the weapon from the person, take the person into custody, and then allow us to follow up with that investigation to determine exactly what occurred.”
The employee was arrested and placed into a police vehicle, but was released at the scene. No charges against her were filed.
Either way, Whalen believes that the officers should have handled the incident with “common sense and self-control.”
“She must be traumatized. She’s got guns pointed at her because she came to work today to dress up as a stormtrooper to promote Star Wars Day and she lasted an hour before she had guns pointed at her. I’m sitting here wondering, what are people thinking about my business now?”
Whalen told LNN that he is talking with the employee’s family about what, if any action they might take in response to this.
The employee standing along 13 Street North holding the toy blaster. (Supplied by Bradley Whalen)
The disassembled stormtrooper costume and the toy blaster. (Lethbridge News Now)
Blood on Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina’s parking lot following the police altercation. (Supplied by Bradley Whalen)
Video of arrest
https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2020/...lps-arrests-employee-in-stormtrooper-costume/ http://archive.is/3AdI3
The employee dressed in the Star Wars stormtrooper costumer at Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina. (Supplied by Bradley Whalen)
Star Wars Day promotion goes awry after LPS arrests employee in stormtrooper costume
By David Opinko
May 04, 2020
LETHBRIDGE, AB – ***WARNING — Attached video contains coarse language
May the fourth is widely known among fans of the sci-fi series as Star Wars Day, and thus, a local business themed around the franchise wanted to put on a promotion to celebrate it.
Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina Owner Bradley Whalen told LNN that it very quickly went off the rails and put one of his employees in serious danger.
“We had music playing in the parking lot, we had one of our staff dress up as a stormtrooper kind of waving to people walking up and down the road, we had people stopping by and getting pictures with the stormtrooper, we put a couple of promotions on in the restaurant to entice people to come.”
The female employee arrived for work at 10:00 am on Monday, May 4, and went out in full costume around 20 minutes later.
He believes that some members of the public must have seen her brandishing a plastic toy blaster believing it was a real gun and phoned police. Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) Inspector Jason Walper says they got two 911 calls regarding a firearms complaint near the business on 13 Street North. At approximately 11:20 am, three police cruisers arrived and a truck followed shortly after.
In the video, Whalen came outside after hearing the officers shouting at the employee. He can be heard telling the officers that the girl in the costume only has a toy gun.The officers tell Whelan to get back in his building.
“Police officers had guns drawn, pointed at my employee. They were yelling at her to put the gun down so she threw the plastic gun on the ground. At that point in time when I came out, she was on her knees kneeling down on the ground. The police had already checked and seen that the gun was plastic so they already knew that there wasn’t an issue or a risk there.”
The video shows that the girl did drop the gun to the ground when told to do so.
Walper offered a different account of the officers’ initial encounter with the employee.
At the time he spoke to media about the incident, he had not yet fully reviewed all of the details, but claims “the person did not comply with the police verbal directions. Eventually, they did after multiple repeated orders given by the police officers.”
After she got on her knees, Walper adds that the officers then “pushed the individual down to the ground” and put her into handcuffs.
As a result of being pushed to the ground, the employee had a bloodied nose. Neither Whalen nor Walper could confirm if she had suffered any other injuries. The employee could be heard crying out on the video and there were blood stains on the concrete.
According to Whalen, it took an extra few moments for the employee to get down because of the costume itself.
“She kept yelling at them that she couldn’t kneel down because, in that stormtrooper costume, you can’t even sit down in it, like it’s impossible to sit down. She kept telling them that she couldn’t get down is what she explained to me after we talked to her.”
“It wasn’t a matter of her not wanting to cooperate,” Whalen continued. “She dropped the gun when they told her to and just forcing her, making her get down on the ground after they determined that she wasn’t a risk and that the gun wasn’t even a real gun, it was a plastic Star Wars blaster.”
Whalen claims that there was no effort on the part of the police to de-escalate the situation or speak to him or the employee calmly before taking action. Walper says he understands that this matter likely boiled down to a misunderstanding, but they have to take these types of calls for service seriously. “We had multiple 911 calls stating there was someone with a firearm.”
“Any time our officers are responding to something that’s very spontaneous where there’s a weapon involved, our first responsibility is to ensure we can create a safe environment for the officers, for the public, and the individual itself,” says Walper, “So certainly, their first response is to deal with that weapon and remove the weapon from the person, take the person into custody, and then allow us to follow up with that investigation to determine exactly what occurred.”
The employee was arrested and placed into a police vehicle, but was released at the scene. No charges against her were filed.
Either way, Whalen believes that the officers should have handled the incident with “common sense and self-control.”
“She must be traumatized. She’s got guns pointed at her because she came to work today to dress up as a stormtrooper to promote Star Wars Day and she lasted an hour before she had guns pointed at her. I’m sitting here wondering, what are people thinking about my business now?”
Whalen told LNN that he is talking with the employee’s family about what, if any action they might take in response to this.
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I just love best boy Splendid Ap. Tried to fix the mistakes of his silbings, did his best and failed, but the thought was there.
What the fuck was these cops' problem?
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My favorite overall Star Wars moment will always be the Death Star trench run in A New Hope, ever since I first saw the movie with my grandma (RIP) one afternoon as a little kid in the mid-90s. It was the most intense thing I had seen in my short life at that point and I remember being so freaked out the Empire was going to win and my grandma said "they may win the battle but they won't win the war". All throughout my childhood I loved those scenes and whenever I watch the movie now I still love that scene. The Rebels win a decisive victory against the Empire, killing some of their greatest leaders like Tarkin and utterly humiliating Vader and the future is looking bright in their struggle.
As for the prequels, it has to be Order 66 in Revenge of the Sith. Sidious has just removed the last obstacles--some of the strongest Jedi like Mace Windu--to his ascent and completed his corruption of Anakin Skywalker. He now goes to end the Clone Wars in one swoop. You have an epic panorama of the Clone Wars (showing it's impressive scope on so many planets with all the scenery) and scenes of all those Jedi Masters you've seen in the prequels being betrayed. Just look at Ki-Adi-Mundi's face as he's urging his clones toward the next goal and instead of moving forward they just line up and shoot him like a firing squad. Or Yoda's agonized face as he meditates and senses all the Jedi being killed, and then that moment of hope where he decapitates the clone commander sent to kill him. John Williams's accompanying piece hammers it home, it's just so tragic and emotional and among his absolute best, and how it suddenly ends when Yoda kills the two clone troopers about to kill him is just fantastic. Honestly, I think that's my second favorite scene in all Star Wars.
I don't think I can name a favorite sequel trilogy moment. There's some enjoyable stuff in there (mostly in TFA), but for every good moment there's a dozen in the PT and OT. I've only ever watched TFA twice and TLJ and Plan IX once and have no plans to watch them ever again for a long time. Best in Disney Star Wars is going to be the Scarif space battle in Rogue One. You have some Mon Calamari admiral on one side on a suicide mission and Vader on the other side. Honorable mention goes to Darth Maul showing up in Solo. It's such an utterly stupid moment but I can't help but love it since it adds some serious cheese to the movie ("mwahahahaha THIS ISN'T OVER SOLO!") and hearing Duel of the Fates again brought a smile to my face.
As for individual movies:
TPM - The final duel with Darth Maul. The insane choreography, the emotions, the now-iconic music, it's just perfect.
AOTC - Geonosis Arena scenes. Anakin and Padme meet Obi-Wan and the two plot threads in the movie reunite. Gunray and his crew getting increasingly pissed as Padme and Anakin and Obi-Wan keep surviving as Dooku gives reassurances. Finally the Jedi show up and the battle really starts and we get to see Mace Windu in action
ROTS - Order 66 as I said. I can't decide what my second favorite scenes are, but recently I like the idea and symbology behind Yoda vs Sidious. You have "Duel of the Fates" show up again and the greatest Jedi Master battling against the Sith Lord. Palpatine shows his contempt and misuse of democracy as he throws the Senate pods at Yoda. Yoda does everything he can, as shown by the clawmarks as he falls. And that sad ending where Bail Organa rescues him is perfect. But pretty much everything leading up to and after the Order 66 scenes are some of the greatest moments in all Star Wars.
ANH - Trench run as I said. Second is the leadup to it at Yavin. The droids have been successfully delivered and completed their mission, but every pilot knows they're on a suicide mission and the Rebel generals seem frantic in trying to imply it will work. And the Death Star is approaching. Han Solo seems unreliable. The perfect "darkness before the dawn" moment.
TESB - The ending. After all the shit Luke, Leia, and the Rebels in general have been through, they're ready to deliver payback on the Empire. Luke is healing from the battle. The shots of the galaxy and the Rebel fleet are incredible. "Meet me on Tatooine!" tells us we're going back to where it all started to rescue Han Solo. The scene before, where the Millennium Falcon finally jumps to lightspeed (after failing to the entire film) right as the Empire ensnares it, showing Luke rejecting Vader despite Vader calling out to him, also is up there.
ROTJ - Laugh all you want but I like the Special Edition ending after the Death Star blows up. There's a great bit of John Williams's music and scenes from across the galaxy celebrating the fall of the Empire. The Rebels are celebrating with the Ewoks, and meanwhile Luke puts his father to rest and burns his armor. In the final scene we see the ghosts of Anakin (Sebastian Shaw--Lucas changing it to Hayden Christensen is insulting), Obi-Wan, and Yoda encouraging hope toward the future.
TFA - Kylo Ren confronting the mask of Darth Vader. He so desperately wants to be his grandfather, yet neglects the final part of his grandfather's legacy (his redemption). It makes you feel pity for the kid.
TLJ - The final scene. Luke's death is done beautifully and makes you think he's ascended to a place higher than even Obi-Wan or Yoda (until you remember the shit writing that led up to it).
TROS - There are no good scenes in TROS, but the funniest scenes are THEY FLY NOW and Kylo and Rey playing tug of war with that First Order ship. Just hilariously stupid.
As for the prequels, it has to be Order 66 in Revenge of the Sith. Sidious has just removed the last obstacles--some of the strongest Jedi like Mace Windu--to his ascent and completed his corruption of Anakin Skywalker. He now goes to end the Clone Wars in one swoop. You have an epic panorama of the Clone Wars (showing it's impressive scope on so many planets with all the scenery) and scenes of all those Jedi Masters you've seen in the prequels being betrayed. Just look at Ki-Adi-Mundi's face as he's urging his clones toward the next goal and instead of moving forward they just line up and shoot him like a firing squad. Or Yoda's agonized face as he meditates and senses all the Jedi being killed, and then that moment of hope where he decapitates the clone commander sent to kill him. John Williams's accompanying piece hammers it home, it's just so tragic and emotional and among his absolute best, and how it suddenly ends when Yoda kills the two clone troopers about to kill him is just fantastic. Honestly, I think that's my second favorite scene in all Star Wars.
I don't think I can name a favorite sequel trilogy moment. There's some enjoyable stuff in there (mostly in TFA), but for every good moment there's a dozen in the PT and OT. I've only ever watched TFA twice and TLJ and Plan IX once and have no plans to watch them ever again for a long time. Best in Disney Star Wars is going to be the Scarif space battle in Rogue One. You have some Mon Calamari admiral on one side on a suicide mission and Vader on the other side. Honorable mention goes to Darth Maul showing up in Solo. It's such an utterly stupid moment but I can't help but love it since it adds some serious cheese to the movie ("mwahahahaha THIS ISN'T OVER SOLO!") and hearing Duel of the Fates again brought a smile to my face.
As for individual movies:
TPM - The final duel with Darth Maul. The insane choreography, the emotions, the now-iconic music, it's just perfect.
AOTC - Geonosis Arena scenes. Anakin and Padme meet Obi-Wan and the two plot threads in the movie reunite. Gunray and his crew getting increasingly pissed as Padme and Anakin and Obi-Wan keep surviving as Dooku gives reassurances. Finally the Jedi show up and the battle really starts and we get to see Mace Windu in action
ROTS - Order 66 as I said. I can't decide what my second favorite scenes are, but recently I like the idea and symbology behind Yoda vs Sidious. You have "Duel of the Fates" show up again and the greatest Jedi Master battling against the Sith Lord. Palpatine shows his contempt and misuse of democracy as he throws the Senate pods at Yoda. Yoda does everything he can, as shown by the clawmarks as he falls. And that sad ending where Bail Organa rescues him is perfect. But pretty much everything leading up to and after the Order 66 scenes are some of the greatest moments in all Star Wars.
ANH - Trench run as I said. Second is the leadup to it at Yavin. The droids have been successfully delivered and completed their mission, but every pilot knows they're on a suicide mission and the Rebel generals seem frantic in trying to imply it will work. And the Death Star is approaching. Han Solo seems unreliable. The perfect "darkness before the dawn" moment.
TESB - The ending. After all the shit Luke, Leia, and the Rebels in general have been through, they're ready to deliver payback on the Empire. Luke is healing from the battle. The shots of the galaxy and the Rebel fleet are incredible. "Meet me on Tatooine!" tells us we're going back to where it all started to rescue Han Solo. The scene before, where the Millennium Falcon finally jumps to lightspeed (after failing to the entire film) right as the Empire ensnares it, showing Luke rejecting Vader despite Vader calling out to him, also is up there.
ROTJ - Laugh all you want but I like the Special Edition ending after the Death Star blows up. There's a great bit of John Williams's music and scenes from across the galaxy celebrating the fall of the Empire. The Rebels are celebrating with the Ewoks, and meanwhile Luke puts his father to rest and burns his armor. In the final scene we see the ghosts of Anakin (Sebastian Shaw--Lucas changing it to Hayden Christensen is insulting), Obi-Wan, and Yoda encouraging hope toward the future.
TFA - Kylo Ren confronting the mask of Darth Vader. He so desperately wants to be his grandfather, yet neglects the final part of his grandfather's legacy (his redemption). It makes you feel pity for the kid.
TLJ - The final scene. Luke's death is done beautifully and makes you think he's ascended to a place higher than even Obi-Wan or Yoda (until you remember the shit writing that led up to it).
TROS - There are no good scenes in TROS, but the funniest scenes are THEY FLY NOW and Kylo and Rey playing tug of war with that First Order ship. Just hilariously stupid.
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Karens, even worse than rebel scum.This story might hit the SW youtubers soon.
https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2020/...lps-arrests-employee-in-stormtrooper-costume/ http://archive.li/3AdI3
Video of arrest
The employee dressed in the Star Wars stormtrooper costumer at Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina. (Supplied by Bradley Whalen)
Star Wars Day promotion goes awry after LPS arrests employee in stormtrooper costume
By David Opinko
May 04, 2020
LETHBRIDGE, AB – ***WARNING — Attached video contains coarse language
May the fourth is widely known among fans of the sci-fi series as Star Wars Day, and thus, a local business themed around the franchise wanted to put on a promotion to celebrate it.
Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina Owner Bradley Whalen told LNN that it very quickly went off the rails and put one of his employees in serious danger.
“We had music playing in the parking lot, we had one of our staff dress up as a stormtrooper kind of waving to people walking up and down the road, we had people stopping by and getting pictures with the stormtrooper, we put a couple of promotions on in the restaurant to entice people to come.”
The female employee arrived for work at 10:00 am on Monday, May 4, and went out in full costume around 20 minutes later.
He believes that some members of the public must have seen her brandishing a plastic toy blaster believing it was a real gun and phoned police. Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) Inspector Jason Walper says they got two 911 calls regarding a firearms complaint near the business on 13 Street North. At approximately 11:20 am, three police cruisers arrived and a truck followed shortly after.
In the video, Whalen came outside after hearing the officers shouting at the employee. He can be heard telling the officers that the girl in the costume only has a toy gun.The officers tell Whelan to get back in his building.
“Police officers had guns drawn, pointed at my employee. They were yelling at her to put the gun down so she threw the plastic gun on the ground. At that point in time when I came out, she was on her knees kneeling down on the ground. The police had already checked and seen that the gun was plastic so they already knew that there wasn’t an issue or a risk there.”
The video shows that the girl did drop the gun to the ground when told to do so.
Walper offered a different account of the officers’ initial encounter with the employee.
At the time he spoke to media about the incident, he had not yet fully reviewed all of the details, but claims “the person did not comply with the police verbal directions. Eventually, they did after multiple repeated orders given by the police officers.”
After she got on her knees, Walper adds that the officers then “pushed the individual down to the ground” and put her into handcuffs.
As a result of being pushed to the ground, the employee had a bloodied nose. Neither Whalen nor Walper could confirm if she had suffered any other injuries. The employee could be heard crying out on the video and there were blood stains on the concrete.
According to Whalen, it took an extra few moments for the employee to get down because of the costume itself.
“She kept yelling at them that she couldn’t kneel down because, in that stormtrooper costume, you can’t even sit down in it, like it’s impossible to sit down. She kept telling them that she couldn’t get down is what she explained to me after we talked to her.”
“It wasn’t a matter of her not wanting to cooperate,” Whalen continued. “She dropped the gun when they told her to and just forcing her, making her get down on the ground after they determined that she wasn’t a risk and that the gun wasn’t even a real gun, it was a plastic Star Wars blaster.”
Whalen claims that there was no effort on the part of the police to de-escalate the situation or speak to him or the employee calmly before taking action. Walper says he understands that this matter likely boiled down to a misunderstanding, but they have to take these types of calls for service seriously. “We had multiple 911 calls stating there was someone with a firearm.”
“Any time our officers are responding to something that’s very spontaneous where there’s a weapon involved, our first responsibility is to ensure we can create a safe environment for the officers, for the public, and the individual itself,” says Walper, “So certainly, their first response is to deal with that weapon and remove the weapon from the person, take the person into custody, and then allow us to follow up with that investigation to determine exactly what occurred.”
The employee was arrested and placed into a police vehicle, but was released at the scene. No charges against her were filed.
Either way, Whalen believes that the officers should have handled the incident with “common sense and self-control.”
“She must be traumatized. She’s got guns pointed at her because she came to work today to dress up as a stormtrooper to promote Star Wars Day and she lasted an hour before she had guns pointed at her. I’m sitting here wondering, what are people thinking about my business now?”
Whalen told LNN that he is talking with the employee’s family about what, if any action they might take in response to this.
The employee standing along 13 Street North holding the toy blaster. (Supplied by Bradley Whalen)
The disassembled stormtrooper costume and the toy blaster. (Lethbridge News Now)
Blood on Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina’s parking lot following the police altercation. (Supplied by Bradley Whalen)
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He had the power to arrest others but not to avoid arrest himself.This story might hit the SW youtubers soon.
https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2020/...lps-arrests-employee-in-stormtrooper-costume/ http://archive.li/3AdI3
Video of arrest
The employee dressed in the Star Wars stormtrooper costumer at Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina. (Supplied by Bradley Whalen)
Star Wars Day promotion goes awry after LPS arrests employee in stormtrooper costume
By David Opinko
May 04, 2020
LETHBRIDGE, AB – ***WARNING — Attached video contains coarse language
May the fourth is widely known among fans of the sci-fi series as Star Wars Day, and thus, a local business themed around the franchise wanted to put on a promotion to celebrate it.
Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina Owner Bradley Whalen told LNN that it very quickly went off the rails and put one of his employees in serious danger.
“We had music playing in the parking lot, we had one of our staff dress up as a stormtrooper kind of waving to people walking up and down the road, we had people stopping by and getting pictures with the stormtrooper, we put a couple of promotions on in the restaurant to entice people to come.”
The female employee arrived for work at 10:00 am on Monday, May 4, and went out in full costume around 20 minutes later.
He believes that some members of the public must have seen her brandishing a plastic toy blaster believing it was a real gun and phoned police. Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) Inspector Jason Walper says they got two 911 calls regarding a firearms complaint near the business on 13 Street North. At approximately 11:20 am, three police cruisers arrived and a truck followed shortly after.
In the video, Whalen came outside after hearing the officers shouting at the employee. He can be heard telling the officers that the girl in the costume only has a toy gun.The officers tell Whelan to get back in his building.
“Police officers had guns drawn, pointed at my employee. They were yelling at her to put the gun down so she threw the plastic gun on the ground. At that point in time when I came out, she was on her knees kneeling down on the ground. The police had already checked and seen that the gun was plastic so they already knew that there wasn’t an issue or a risk there.”
The video shows that the girl did drop the gun to the ground when told to do so.
Walper offered a different account of the officers’ initial encounter with the employee.
At the time he spoke to media about the incident, he had not yet fully reviewed all of the details, but claims “the person did not comply with the police verbal directions. Eventually, they did after multiple repeated orders given by the police officers.”
After she got on her knees, Walper adds that the officers then “pushed the individual down to the ground” and put her into handcuffs.
As a result of being pushed to the ground, the employee had a bloodied nose. Neither Whalen nor Walper could confirm if she had suffered any other injuries. The employee could be heard crying out on the video and there were blood stains on the concrete.
According to Whalen, it took an extra few moments for the employee to get down because of the costume itself.
“She kept yelling at them that she couldn’t kneel down because, in that stormtrooper costume, you can’t even sit down in it, like it’s impossible to sit down. She kept telling them that she couldn’t get down is what she explained to me after we talked to her.”
“It wasn’t a matter of her not wanting to cooperate,” Whalen continued. “She dropped the gun when they told her to and just forcing her, making her get down on the ground after they determined that she wasn’t a risk and that the gun wasn’t even a real gun, it was a plastic Star Wars blaster.”
Whalen claims that there was no effort on the part of the police to de-escalate the situation or speak to him or the employee calmly before taking action. Walper says he understands that this matter likely boiled down to a misunderstanding, but they have to take these types of calls for service seriously. “We had multiple 911 calls stating there was someone with a firearm.”
“Any time our officers are responding to something that’s very spontaneous where there’s a weapon involved, our first responsibility is to ensure we can create a safe environment for the officers, for the public, and the individual itself,” says Walper, “So certainly, their first response is to deal with that weapon and remove the weapon from the person, take the person into custody, and then allow us to follow up with that investigation to determine exactly what occurred.”
The employee was arrested and placed into a police vehicle, but was released at the scene. No charges against her were filed.
Either way, Whalen believes that the officers should have handled the incident with “common sense and self-control.”
“She must be traumatized. She’s got guns pointed at her because she came to work today to dress up as a stormtrooper to promote Star Wars Day and she lasted an hour before she had guns pointed at her. I’m sitting here wondering, what are people thinking about my business now?”
Whalen told LNN that he is talking with the employee’s family about what, if any action they might take in response to this.
The employee standing along 13 Street North holding the toy blaster. (Supplied by Bradley Whalen)
The disassembled stormtrooper costume and the toy blaster. (Lethbridge News Now)
Blood on Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina’s parking lot following the police altercation. (Supplied by Bradley Whalen)
Ironic.