DominicCobb

suspiciouscoffee said:

I think it’s possible that

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Strange gave up the Time Gem because he knew Thanos would regret killing Gamora and go back for her.

I could see that. I haven’t read the comics so I don’t know anything about how any of that works but

splior

I wonder if because of the way she died there’s something about the soul stone that could bring her back specifically, like maybe her soul is in the stone? I don’t know.

It’s not my favorite Marvel movie but it might be the only one that has made me want to read the comics. Any recs?

suspiciouscoffee said:

How does Thanos shave?

What I thought was odd was you can’t see any stubble on his face but you do see it on his head. I would’ve just assumed his species was naturally hairless.

He also has fingernails.

ChainsawAsh said:

I really hope that…

INFINITY WAR SPOILERS

…they have the balls to actually keep the characters that died before the “SNAP” dead. I acknowledge that all the disintegrated characters due to the “SNAP” will be back, but everyone else should be gone for good.

I agree except for

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Gamora, because even though her death was well done and made sense in the context of the film, on the whole I think it is a premature end to the character.

I’ve now seen Infinity War and I will say it was pretty good.

ChainsawAsh said:

snooker said:

I understand that ‘Jedi being hypocrites lead to their downfall’. That’s fine. It’s just that I don’t care about the Jedi in the first place- so I can’t care about their downfall.

What I look for in a movie is likable characters. I like Luke Skywalker, I like Han Solo, and I like Leia Organa.

You know what trio I don’t give two shits about? Anakin, Padme, and prequel Obi-Wan!

Every scene in that trilogy is the worst because I don’t like the characters and I don’t care if they succeed. I don’t even know what Obi-Wan wants! He doesn’t have an arc in the prequels! In TPM he tells Qui-Gon to be more boring so that he could be on the council. In AOTC he fights with Anakin the whole movie, talking about how arrogant he is. And in ROTS Obi-Wan barely considers bringing Anakin back to the good side. He feels bad about it, sure, but he has no reservations telling Yoda to kill him instead!

“And he was a good friend” my ass.

Anakin, our protagonist, isn’t relatable in any way! He’s an annoying little boy in TPM, he’s a weirdo sex-pervert in AOTC, and he’s a bipolar maniac in ROTS! He doesn’t have a fall from grace in my mind because we never see him in a likable state!

Padme’s just boring. I don’t care about negotiating support in the senate. I don’t care about “fixing up the baby’s room on Naboo”. Nothing that character does ever matters, especially in ROTS. She just sits and talks and dies. The only reason George had her in the movies is because Luke and Leia had to have a mommy.

The droid conveyor belt scene could have been fine if I cared about the characters (and if it wasn’t just a last-minute thought.)

I knew there was a reason I liked you, snooker. 😉

Yep.

Zachary VIII said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

The Mary Poppins nomenclature is so dumb. How does a lady pulling herself through outer space in zero gravity even remotely reassemble a lady using an umbrella to fly on earth?

Superman is a more apt comparison.

Neither is an apt comparison.

MalàStrana said:

DominicCobb said:
I personally think it’s a lot more interesting situation for expanded material than just Galactic Civil War v2.

Yeah that’s why the ST is so boring by the way 😃

You certainly have a way of missing the point.

Mocata said:

Anakin’s most evil deed was building a robot to help his mom, a robot that can barely move its arms.

Not only that, from what we’ve seen, it seems like his primary purpose is to annoy people.

suspiciouscoffee said:

I might see it tonight. If it’s not the best MCU flick by a country mile, I’ll be disappointed.

I haven’t seen it yet, but it seems like you’re setting yourself up to be disappointed.

Tobar said:

DominicCobb said:

Tobar said:

Tell me, how badly would the main plot of TFA been affected if they’d established that the conflict with the First Order had started before the film?

Isn’t the whole point of the Resistance that the New Republic won’t go to outright war? If anything, TFA didn’t take that far enough. Honestly that whole situation was a favor to expanded material writers, who now have the chance to write more interesting stories than just another civil war. I love the whole cold war angle.

But how important was the Resistance to the plot? What difference would it have made if Leia was just in charge of the Republic Navy or at least that base/branch of it? Would that not have made more sense, after the majority of the fleet is destroyed and it’s just her band, to then label themselves the Resistance?

Nothing about the main plot, the introduction of Rey, the defection of Finn, the surprise superweapon. None of that would have been adversely affected had this film been set after this new Galactic Civil War had already begun. Same as Star Wars starts with the war already in progress.

I think the extent of the First Order’s power only really makes sense if the New Republic is ineffectual.

If anything, you should be blaming the expanded material writers for this perceived issue. Nothing in TFA states that the Resistance hasn’t already been fighting the First Order.

I personally think it’s a lot more interesting situation for expanded material than just Galactic Civil War v2.

Instead we have what we have, a 30 year period where nothing happens and then more nothing until after two whole films at least.

Define “nothing.”

Tobar said:

Tell me, how badly would the main plot of TFA been affected if they’d established that the conflict with the First Order had started before the film?

Isn’t the whole point of the Resistance that the New Republic won’t go to outright war? If anything, TFA didn’t take that far enough. Honestly that whole situation was a favor to expanded material writers, who now have the chance to write more interesting stories than just another civil war. I love the whole cold war angle.

Mrebo said:

I thought it was quite obvious in the PT, if not quite beating us over the head (which usually isn’t good in a movie anyway).

There’s a difference between hitting you over the head and actually putting in the leg work to make choices like this clear. Subtle subtext is cute, but when it’s something that’s actually important to the story and characters, you can’t just leave it up in the air where it is easily ignored. What you say is “obvious” is only such if you look at the big picture and assume the best of Lucas’s intentions. But the truth is that this subplot is basically, in dramatic terms, nowhere to be found.

ChainsawAsh said:

The most baffling complaint I’ve seen lately is that there’s no room for any “big” stories between ROTJ and TFA because we’ve been told that those years were a time of relative peace. That makes no sense to me. There’s plenty of stories that can be told in that time period - just because there wasn’t a large scale galactic conflict doesn’t mean nothing happened.

We need a like button.

The filmmakers don’t care about the additional material, nor should they.

I was going to say something long and winded but Trident pretty much nailed it. Don’t worry so much. Just enjoy what you have and be yourself. If you do end up losing her, it’s actually won’t the end of the world, even if it might feel like it. Let whatever happens happen.

Also, if it means that much, tell her exactly how you feel. Awkward but important.

Collipso said:

DominicCobb said:

Mrebo said:

TV’s Frink said:

SilverWook said:

I’m still wondering how the Jedi council never found out about that Tusken slaughter. Nobody even asked what Anakin was doing on Tattooine?

The Prequel Jedi are too stupid to ask questions or sense any danger other than vague “I sense a plot to destroy the jedi and evil surrounds Palpatine but let’s not do anything about it” comments.

To be fair, that kind of thinking extended to Luke in TLJ where he doesn’t do anything until it’s too late and then bungles it.

Which, at least in TLJ, is the point.

Of course that might have been the point in the PT too, but it certainly wasn’t communicated clearly if so.

so you don’t think the pt jedi were written to be stupid and blind? i always thought that was the point.

Whether or not that was the intention, I don’t think that aspect is explicit enough or explored thoroughly.

timdiggerm said:

DominicCobb said:

timdiggerm said:

DominicCobb said:

As much as we all love the OT, I think it’s time for them to move past it a bit and start telling more stories in what is ostensibly the “current” era of Star Wars. At the moment, the amount of material in the ST period is shockingly low, considering.

I think this has been so that they don’t box themselves into any corners with ST plot/worldbuilding, but as EpIX is (presumably) written by now they’re free from that.

No doubt, and it makes sense, just a little weird when you think about it and compare it to the onslaught of material that came out during the prequels, about the prequels. Even the OT had a good amount of stuff at the time too, between the various comics and such.

OT, they weren’t operating with the same canon-mindset. PT, kind of a similar mindset, but at least there everyone knew where things were headed.

No I totally get why, and I don’t really have much of a problem with it. I’m just saying it feels strange because we’re not accustomed to it.

yotsuya said:

I guess that the complaint that baffles me the most is saying how a new movie ruins the old ones. Each new movie is a new story. The only time that I’ve found it to impact the OT is in the redemption scene in ROTJ and it only made it more powerful for me. But I still get the same feeling from the OT now that I did when there wasn’t even and EU to carry on the story.

I agree, I think new movies can only add, not detract. If a new movie has something I don’t like, it’s easy to ignore when watching the old one.

timdiggerm said:

DominicCobb said:

As much as we all love the OT, I think it’s time for them to move past it a bit and start telling more stories in what is ostensibly the “current” era of Star Wars. At the moment, the amount of material in the ST period is shockingly low, considering.

I think this has been so that they don’t box themselves into any corners with ST plot/worldbuilding, but as EpIX is (presumably) written by now they’re free from that.

No doubt, and it makes sense, just a little weird when you think about it and compare it to the onslaught of material that came out during the prequels, about the prequels. Even the OT had a good amount of stuff at the time too, between the various comics and such.

Mrebo said:

TV’s Frink said:

SilverWook said:

I’m still wondering how the Jedi council never found out about that Tusken slaughter. Nobody even asked what Anakin was doing on Tattooine?

The Prequel Jedi are too stupid to ask questions or sense any danger other than vague “I sense a plot to destroy the jedi and evil surrounds Palpatine but let’s not do anything about it” comments.

To be fair, that kind of thinking extended to Luke in TLJ where he doesn’t do anything until it’s too late and then bungles it.

Which, at least in TLJ, is the point.

Of course that might have been the point in the PT too, but it certainly wasn’t communicated clearly if so.

Tobar said:

DominicCobb said:

I’m in.

Though I would have preferred a series about fighter pilots to be set during the OT era. It’ll be interesting to see where they take this series. I wonder if eventually it will lead through TFA and past TLJ.

As much as we all love the OT, I think it’s time for them to move past it a bit and start telling more stories in what is ostensibly the “current” era of Star Wars. At the moment, the amount of material in the ST period is shockingly low, considering.

What’s interesting though about Poe’s inclusion is the timeline. The Resistance was established by Leia I think about six years before TFA. But Poe only joined something like a year beforehand. So we’ll either see them stretching the limits of what they’ve previously established (I guess there aren’t any exact dates in the material related to Poe), or they’ll just set the show within a year of TFA, which is possible, but seems tricky. The other option would be to set it before Poe joined the Resistance, and when he shows up, he’s still with the New Republic, which could work.

It’ll be interesting to see what other characters they get to guest. Funnily enough, like TCW, this will be another “kids” show where we know most of the characters will wind up dead shortly after the show ends - that is of course unless they continue through TFA and TLJ.

I’m in.

Not a big surprise of a premise, but that’s because it makes sense. I’d probably even say this is more or less the premise I was hoping the new animated show would have. If I had to guess though, we’ll probably hear about another new animated show soon.

Also, I assume by “anime inspired” they mean like Avatar: The Last Airbender.

ChainsawAsh said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

Well I wouldn’t say that, but I’m (debateably?) post-millenial so idk how much that counts.

Oh, I wasn’t trying to say that’s what you were doing at all. I was trying to be light and flippant but it may not have come across that way.

But since I brought it up, I’m demisexual.

Doesn’t sound that weird.

Mocata said:

DominicCobb said:

Sad, confused, angry. No reason it can’t be all of them.

But not conflicted and amazed.

Why not conflicted? And amazed seems an odd way to describe either scene, though I guess I get it.