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joefavs said:

So I just read the mouse droid story in FaCPoV. Is Tarkin canonically gay now? Was that nameless officer someone else like Motti or Tagge? It had to be someone that high up, and all signs seemed to point to Tarkin. I’m totally down with the recent push for inclusivity in SW media, but making the creepy mass murdering Nazi-inspired villain gay feels like kind of a retrograde trope.

The voice actor in the audiobook definitely does a Tarkin impression. And his room number is “G[rand]M[off]-1”. It is odd, trope-wise, and seems to have gone under the radar completely. There’s an article on the fact that Bea Arthur’s character from the HS is a lesbian, but nothing on Tarkin.

There’s way too many contradictions and just silly stories in the collection for it ALL to be canon.

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Finally finished the Aftermath series, and I must say in the end I liked it quite a bit, with Empire’s End easily being the best of the three.

I also finished the Phasma audiobook, which was pretty solid, and am just starting Bloodline, which I love so far.

I must say, they’ve done a pretty good job so far painting the broad strokes of the political transition from ROTJ to TFA thus far, especially considering as far as I know there’s basically a 20 year gap where no story has yet taken place.

I am really curious how much of this stuff is mapped out by the story group and how much is just determined by each individual writer. I’m especially curious, in this regard, about some of the stuff about Palpatine that is revealed in the Aftermath books. If we are to believe there is some larger force at work here behind these revelations, I have some speculations to make about potential developments in the future films

Like I said, this all depends on whether the filmmakers/story group have a say in this kind of stuff, otherwise forget it, but I feel like I have a fairly plausible prediction – so Palpatine was obsessed with the unknown regions of the galaxy, and the regions beyond the galaxy. He said there was an extreme dark force presence out there calling to him or something. Seems to me like it could very well be that Snoke is either an entity from outside the galaxy or an ancient Sith who left the galaxy and has now come back, and when the Imperial remnants regrouped in the unknown regions they made contact with him and that’s when he joined (and formed?) the First Order.

I could be late to the party with this or have already been disproven by something I haven’t read yet, but those were my thoughts anyway, when I read Empire’s End.

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You’ll get more info about the formation of the First Order in Bloodline, but not a ton. But yeah, a lot of that is still possible, or even likely, from what I know of current canon.

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Why am I having a feeling that the well spring of the dark side is some kind of Thanos type fallen whills threat that is waiting to return to the galaxy?

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So I’ve gone through a lot of stuff in the past month…

  • From a Certain Point of View Audiobook - bit of a mixed bag but pretty enjoyable on the whole
  • The Princess Leia and Shattered Empire comics, which are short but still enjoyable
  • The Poe Dameron comic (Volumes 1-3) which is pretty great and easily the best stuff I’ve read from the new Marvel run
  • The Battlefront II campaign which is very light but also satisfying if you’ve read Inferno Squad, Shattered Empire, and Empire’s End
  • The Captain Phasma comic series which is really cool and makes a great pair with the Phasma book

Overall I have to say I’m very much liking most of the new canon stuff I’m seeing, and some of the synergy going on is fairly well done.

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^The Poe comic is wonderful. That and Dr. Aphra are definitely my favorites.

I’m halfway through Canto Bight right now. Neat little book, sort of reminds me of the old Legends Tales From… anthologies. I’ve read the first issue of the Phasma comic and will probably finish that tomorrow. I caught up on the new Darth Vader series a week or two ago as well and I’m digging it more than I expected. That Charles Soule knows how to write some Star Wars.

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I am kind of curious if they’ll end the Poe comic soon. He can only be looking for Lor San Tekka for so long. It’d be nice if they jumped ahead to after TLJ, but I don’t know if they’d allow that sort of thing.

I won’t get into spoilers here obviously but it is interesting that no members of Black Squadron make an appearance in TLJ besides Poe.

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Collipso said:

You could update the first post to say “Episodes I-VIII

I don’t really have the patience to update the first post with all the stuff I’ve watched/read.

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DominicCobb said:

I am kind of curious if they’ll end the Poe comic soon. He can only be looking for Lor San Tekka for so long. It’d be nice if they jumped ahead to after TLJ, but I don’t know if they’d allow that sort of thing.

They did that with the Republic comics between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, and they were awesome. I hope they do something like that this time.

Not enough people read the EU.

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I’m finally reading FACPOV. I really liked all the stories until the Beru one, which could’ve been good but she spent the whole time talking about how much her cooking teacher loved her blue-milk cheese. She could have reminisced on raising Luke, she could’ve talked about early hints he may have been Force sensitive, she could’ve talked about anything but, no, the entire story was wasted.

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I really hope they make a book trilogy about Luke rebuilding the Jedi, and another trilogy later on down the line expanding how it was destroyed.

Not enough people read the EU.

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I just want to state for the record that it is now official cannon:

Yoda approves of book burning. Yoda is a book burner.

FACT

Now Yoda is the best character ever in the history of Star Wars.

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LuckyGungan2001 said:

I really hope they make a book trilogy about Luke rebuilding the Jedi, and another trilogy later on down the line expanding how it was destroyed.

I’d be interested in that if they did - maybe not two whole trilogies, but certainly a couple of books on it 😃

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I’ve got a subscription to Marvel online comics. Still haven’t read the Star Wars comics yet, but plan to at some point. I’ve read that the “Star Wars” line isn’t necessarily that good, but seems that people liked the mini-series Vader Down comics.

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Ryan said:

I’ve got a subscription to Marvel online comics. Still haven’t read the Star Wars comics yet, but plan to at some point. I’ve read that the “Star Wars” line isn’t necessarily that good, but seems that people liked the mini-series Vader Down comics.

Vader Down isn’t really it’s own discreet thing; it’s a crossover arc spread between Star Wars and Darth Vader. Star Wars has some good arcs and some bad ones, it’s pretty up and down. My favorite canon SW series are Dr. Aphra (which you probably ought to read Darth Vader before getting into), Lando, and Poe Dameron.

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Love Doctor Aphra and Lando, they’re definitely the best canon comics right now. I enjoyed the Darth Maul miniseries too.

Lando is especially good, surprisingly enough.

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joefavs said:

Ryan said:

I’ve got a subscription to Marvel online comics. Still haven’t read the Star Wars comics yet, but plan to at some point. I’ve read that the “Star Wars” line isn’t necessarily that good, but seems that people liked the mini-series Vader Down comics.

Vader Down isn’t really it’s own discreet thing; it’s a crossover arc spread between Star Wars and Darth Vader. Star Wars has some good arcs and some bad ones, it’s pretty up and down. My favorite canon SW series are Dr. Aphra (which you probably ought to read Darth Vader before getting into), Lando, and Poe Dameron.

Yeah, I’ve actually got the whole Vader Down crossover thing saved via subscription. On the website, I opened the comic up to full screen mode in landscape view and did the copy/paste and saved a screenshot bmp pic, and then did that for each page of each comic in that series. And so I’ve got a lot of those digital comics saved as full screen bmp pics for each page.

I’m glad the designs in the newer Star Wars comics look fairly decent. A lot of newer comics do an anime or whatever look to their characters, and I just can’t read those. I also really like the style of the newer Silver Surfer comics. As it pretty much looks similar in design to the old stuff.

At some point, I plan on going through all the original The Amazing Spider-Man comics of the 70’s on. I really liked that series. I think that continuity is still running today. I don’t believe they did a reboot of it from what I can tell. But I don’t know if the newer ones of that line is any good.

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I finished From a Certain Point of View. It’s my new favorite SW book. The only story I didn’t like was the Beru one.

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My friend lent me the trade paperbacks of the Darth Vader and Star Wars comics, which I’ve been reading in chronological order. I just finished the Darth Vader line and I really loved it. It was really interesting seeing how Vader was promoted to his rank in TESB, and

SPOILERS

It was immensely satisfying to see Vader deal with his possible successors, especially Karbin.

I really loved Aphra as well and will be starting her comic soon. The main Star Wars comic is pretty good as well, but apparently it goes down hill, especially in the art department.

Not enough people read the EU.

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LuckyGungan2001 said:

The main Star Wars comic is pretty good as well, but apparently it goes down hill, especially in the art department.

I quit picking it up after issue 12 because I thought the story got dumb, but Stuart Immonen (Superman: Secret Identity) was the artist on #8-12 and it was fantastic. I can see how it would be downhill from there.

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story-wise, I don’t think it’s quite fair to say it’s all downhill. It’s wildly inconsistent, but when it’s good it is in fact pretty good. It really ought to be judged on an arc-to-arc basis.

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DominicCobb said:

I am kind of curious if they’ll end the Poe comic soon. He can only be looking for Lor San Tekka for so long. It’d be nice if they jumped ahead to after TLJ, but I don’t know if they’d allow that sort of thing.

I won’t get into spoilers here obviously but it is interesting that no members of Black Squadron make an appearance in TLJ besides Poe.

Well, apparently they’re at that point, with the new issues taking place more or less immediately after TLJ, but just as a framing story for a retelling of TFA, and for what Black Squadron was up to during TLJ. Needless to say, I still find this very exciting.

What will be really interesting is what happens after those stories wrap up. Where do they go? Does the series end? Is it put on hold? Do they do flashbacks to before Poe was in the Resistance? Or do they do the obvious (yet unlikely) thing of continuing after TLJ and up to IX? The last would be the coolest, of course, but who knows what plans LFL has for IX and whether they’re willing to let up any info about the time in between yet (probably not, considering).

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snooker said:

The art does get pretty awful. I mean, look at this:

https://i.redd.it/035el919isxz.jpg

(the picture is pretty tall so I didn’t want to put it in this post)

I’m late in responding, but my God. It’s like the artist drew the bodies and backgrounds by hand, but when it came time to do the faces, said “fuck it” and copy-and-pasted some Photoshopped heads in there.