Considering this is the biggest deal I can remember anyone making about someone getting a star, I think any complaints are kinda unnecessary.
I notice everything.
I bet there’ll probably be another book for her that covers that time period.
You guys are silly. Season 2 ended with a shot of her entering the doorway we see here standing in front of at the end of A World Between Worlds. Not only that, she went back through the same portal she was pulled out of which was set to Malachor at the time of season 2.
That was the answer to the mystery of her fate at the end of Season 2. She was pulled out of time but then returned shortly after.
What she did in the time since then is the actual mystery. I would guess studying on Malachor and elsewhere.
I know that, just saying they could futz with the timeline if they wanted to.
Apparently Fergie (of The Black Eyed Peas) did a terribad rendition of the national anthem at the NBA All-Star game.
they should find someone with ability to sing it, someone whose singing style fits the Anthem sung straight. The Anthem is not rap, rock, swing, or Jazz song.
I entirely agree. Sing it straight or find someone else who can.
I entirely disagree. We should just stop signing the national anthem at sporting events.
I’m late to this discussion, but I agree. It has nothing to do with sports.
What about at video game and/or chess tournaments?
Meh. I don’t love or hate Favreau. I like the idea of a live action series in general, but I’m going to need some more specifics before I get excited. I will say, and I’m not blaming any of these directors themselves, that I’m more than a little dismayed by the way that Disney’s ostensible commitment to diversity doesn’t seem to extend beyond actors. By my count, Favreau is the twelfth white male to head one of these projects since the Disney buyout (fourteenth if you count JJ and Rian twice). Someone over there has to understand how this looks.
Yeah, it’s looking not great. Admittedly, it looks better when you note that only 4 have actually completed their films, and when you realize that in terms of directors, there’s only two future ones on the docket and they’re both returning players. The silver lining is that Favreau and Weiss/Benioff are only writer/producers, which means that even those projects (and Rian’s other films) still have the chance to hire more diverse creatives. Let’s hope they do.
As for the show itself, it’s about time this happened, considering all those years Lucas hyped up live action SW TV. As you said, it’s hard to get too excited though, not knowing what it’s about. What a strange time we live in where there a three new Star Wars series in the pipeline, two film series and one TV series, and we know nothing about their subject matter beyond “a galaxy far, far away.” Rian’s is almost certainly the one I’m most interested in as a much prefer film to TV, and he’s easily the most talented of those four (and he’s already proven he can handle SW very well).
I feel like Space Whales worked for me as well as they did because their intro seemed like such a useless episode, that no one would ever let you forget about as an example of the show’s low points. I would have forgotten about the episode had it not been the poster boy for the “too much filler” criticism. To see them play a pivotal part of the story’s conclusion was a lot of fun.
My thoughts on the matter exactly.
As for the Ezra and Ahsoka being around during the OT; I’m fine with it because Ezra and Thrawn are pretty much M.I.A in a part of the universe literally called the Unknown Regions. They might as well not exist because they’ve essentially been taken out of the known galaxy, uncharted space, and presumably without a way to get back.
I think the idea that they’re in the Unknown Regions is just speculation at this point, no?
We aren’t even positive Ahsoka got spit out of that weird Force tesseract thing on Malachor; we just saw some similar architecture through the window. If that is where she ended up, she’d be on a dead planet with no immediate way off. If not, she could be just as far-flung as Ezra and Thrawn.
I suppose we also don’t know when she was spit out.
I really wanted to go into the newest Star Wars movie spoiler free, but people on this site have been carelessly referring to the film’s title outside of the spoiler thread, and I consider the title to be a major spoiler. I also saw someone post the movie poster too, and that’s a huge spoiler. I actually saw part of the trailer on Youtube! Now that I’ve been exposed to so many spoilers I just don’t even see a reason to watch the film.
Preferably you should never know what movie you’re seeing or even that you’re going to see a movie. You just wake up one day and everything is dark and suddenly the Star Wars logo appears in front of you and the movie plays. Perhaps the logo should be removed though, to not spoil that it’s a Star Wars movie. In fact, remove all Star Wars tropes, change the actors and the names and the music. And then before the credits it’s written “actually, this was a Star Wars movie, bet you didn’t see that coming!”.
Sounds like a natural progression for Rian’s next Star Wars films.
Sounds like the PT, actually. The ST is basically a bunch of Star Wars-y moments and Star Wars tropes connected by a poorly conceived plot telling an almost interesting although pointless story.
The PT, on the other hand, is nothing like Star Wars with a poorly conceived plot telling a very very good story.
Great, now you’ve spoiled Star Wars for me, I was trying not to even watch the trailers or look at the posters.
‘Mark Hamill gives advice to young girl afraid to wear ‘Star Wars’ shirt to school’…
http://ew.com/movies/2018/03/08/mark-hamill-star-wars-fan-t-shirt-school/ (in the article - not the video)
Would have been cool for a girl to wear a Star Wars shirt 30 years ago and don’t know why that would have changed. Good on Hamill.
It’s still cool in many places, but you never know when kids are going to act like jerks.
Interesting that he hasn’t really done much TV, but either way he is talented.
Not on the writing end of things, but he’s dabbled in tv a bit over the last few years.
He directed the pilot episodes of Revolution, The Orville and Young Sheldon and executive produced The Shannara Chronicles.
I’m aware he has TV credits, as far as a I know though he’s never been a showrunner, which is presumably what he’s doing here.
I really wanted to go into the newest Star Wars movie spoiler free, but people on this site have been carelessly referring to the film’s title outside of the spoiler thread, and I consider the title to be a major spoiler. I also saw someone post the movie poster too, and that’s a huge spoiler. I actually saw part of the trailer on Youtube! Now that I’ve been exposed to so many spoilers I just don’t even see a reason to watch the film.
Preferably you should never know what movie you’re seeing or even that you’re going to see a movie. You just wake up one day and everything is dark and suddenly the Star Wars logo appears in front of you and the movie plays. Perhaps the logo should be removed though, to not spoil that it’s a Star Wars movie. In fact, remove all Star Wars tropes, change the actors and the names and the music. And then before the credits it’s written “actually, this was a Star Wars movie, bet you didn’t see that coming!”.
Sounds like a natural progression for Rian’s next Star Wars films.
I wish, it’d be worth it just to see all the cry baby fans revert to a prenatal state and never be heard from again.
I find Giacchino to be pretty meh, the one composer I’d love to see return to the SW franchise is Joel McNeely. Seriously, check out his Shadows of the Empire, it captures the spirit of SW music.
It does not at all.
Interesting that he hasn’t really done much TV, but either way he is talented.
Now everyone can see how ridiculous your thoughts on the matter are.
I don’t use emoticons, but if I did I would have in my last post if you know what I mean.
Art is political, amigo 😉
How did I know this is where this was heading…
Might as well start talking about Trump in Random Thoughts then.
You brought it upon yourself. Better I get it out of my system now. Trump should be contained!
There’s a difference between discussing films from a political perspective and discussing films just in general (without regard to their politics). Only one of those should take place in this thread, otherwise you’re suggesting forum anarchy.
Are we comparing Trump to Ted Kennedy now?
I guess we could. I’m just asking if anyone wants to see that movie. This is still a general politics thread I believe 😉
Probably shouldn’t, considering we’re talking about how this sort of thing used to keep people from being president.
As for the movie, I like Jason Clarke and it’s a compelling story so… possibly.
Maybe it’s just me but that kind of thing should have kept him out of politics altogether. Not the debate I was looking for but many presidents carried on dalliances (Roosevelt and Kennedy leap to mind) and the media didn’t report on it. Many things have changed.
I tend to agree, it’s just mostly funny in this instance to see Trump supporters (who normally jump at the possibility to take down Dems for the same behavior) bend over backwards to defend him.
Them’s the breaks in politics. If Obama had called for tariffs on steel and aluminum or had talked about sidestepping due process in order to take people’s guns…heads would have exploded on the Right.
And when Obama was reportedly deporting illegal immigrants in record numbers and doing nothing to reform immigration year-after-year…the Left was pretty quiet.
The Left was noisy, but there’s no Left media to amplify that for anyone else to hear. The media was still trying to push the story that there was some sort of illegal immigration crisis in the US (which effectively excused Obama’s actions), and the media’s attempt to fabricate that crisis both pre- and post-dates the Obama Presidency.
The pushback on Obama’s use of drones was also muted.
Muddled more than muted. Lots of people were mad about how the drones were being used, but that got conflated into a larger group of people who didn’t like the concept of drones at all.
Yep.
What makes this situation funnier is that many on the right had previously labeled the Republicans as the “moral” party. Whereas a lot of Democrats have always been more or less okay with deportation and drone strikes and such (the Dems are basically center-left at best, though many would argue they’re actually center-right).
Planning to see “Annihilation”?
Already did, quite liked it. Getting a little further away from politics on this one, though.
Art is political, amigo 😉
How did I know this is where this was heading…
Might as well start talking about Trump in Random Thoughts then.
Are we comparing Trump to Ted Kennedy now?
I guess we could. I’m just asking if anyone wants to see that movie. This is still a general politics thread I believe 😉
Probably shouldn’t, considering we’re talking about how this sort of thing used to keep people from being president.
As for the movie, I like Jason Clarke and it’s a compelling story so… possibly.
Maybe it’s just me but that kind of thing should have kept him out of politics altogether. Not the debate I was looking for but many presidents carried on dalliances (Roosevelt and Kennedy leap to mind) and the media didn’t report on it. Many things have changed.
I tend to agree, it’s just mostly funny in this instance to see Trump supporters (who normally jump at the possibility to take down Dems for the same behavior) bend over backwards to defend him.
Planning to see “Annihilation”?
Already did, quite liked it. Getting a little further away from politics on this one, though.
Are we comparing Trump to Ted Kennedy now?
I guess we could. I’m just asking if anyone wants to see that movie. This is still a general politics thread I believe 😉
Probably shouldn’t, considering we’re talking about how this sort of thing used to keep people from being president.
As for the movie, I like Jason Clarke and it’s a compelling story so… possibly.
Are we comparing Trump to Ted Kennedy now?
It wasn’t retconned, it’s pretty ambiguous. There wouldn’t even be anything for ady to do about that.
the only real Rebels suggestion should be to put the Ghost into the space battle.
It is official cannon that that’s Rex now.
It’s not.
What we personally deem as canon aside, Pablo Hidalgo did confirm that as official canon.
Sure about that?
https://twitter.com/pablohidalgo/status/971414871337189376?s=20
It wasn’t retconned, it’s pretty ambiguous. There wouldn’t even be anything for ady to do about that.
the only real Rebels suggestion should be to put the Ghost into the space battle.
It is official cannon that that’s Rex now.
It’s not.
I disagree it’s a plot hole, just a big question mark.
I really don’t care about Yoda’s line, I think that works, it’s really a question of where was she? I think it’s totally possible that she actually did help out the rebellion and meet Luke, she just didn’t want to train him or face Vader again.
Ultimately there just needs to be an explanation at some point.
Don’t know if people wander into here much (I don’t) but seems the most appropriate place. Have you bought TLJ figures - if so which ones?
I haven’t bought figures since…forever. On a whim some number of years back I bought a nice looking Wicket figure. The collecting value definitely isn’t there for me. The new toys seem particularly uninspired to me, but curious if others here like them and why.
Gracias, mis amigos.
Randomly decided to by a cheap Finn figure on eBay before TFA. Was probably the first time I had gotten a toy in about a decade. Figured I’d do the same for TLJ, got a Rey.
I personally think it’s bullshit to say Ahsoka and/or Ezra survived because even though “I’m no Jedi” for the former, Ezra IS a Jedi. And that kind of destroys the idea that Luke is the Last Jedi. But I think it was bold enough already to kill two (one for sure) of the main characters.
Well we know Ezra is alive (based on Filoni statements, also so is Thrawn) but no idea what state he’s in. I’m imagining he’s sort of been out of commission in some way otherwise he’d have tried to make it back himself.
I definitely think there needs to be some explanation of what Ashoka was up to (and why, I suppose, Yoda felt they couldn’t rely on her).