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ZkinandBonez said:

ATMachine said:

ZkinandBonez said:

I’d say that the lightwhip was one of the weirdest and most impractical lightsaber designs that ever existed in any canon (if it even counts).

I could see something like that making more sense if it behaved somewhat different physically from a lightsaber, ie, a plasma-whip which deals immense damage but doesn’t cut through metal like butter.

Didn’t Lumiya’s lightwhip from the 80’s Marvel comics kinda work like that?

Pretty much. It wasn’t even a pure lightwhip; it had metal cords with energy ribbons generated around them.

flametitan said:

Oh God, it is legends canon. Why is that legends? Who thought that was a good idea?

If I got paid a dime every time I asked that question, I’d a billionaire ten times over.

Legend (1985)

I decided today I would watch both the US theatrical version and the director’s cut, one right after the other, so I did.

Being a Tangerine Dream fan, I vastly prefer their score over Jerry Goldsmith’s. I can’t deny, though, that the director’s cut has the superior narrative; Darkness’ reveal, Lily’s characterization, etc. are handled much better here than in the American version.

Since both cuts have their own particular strengths, they about balance out quality-wise. I give them both 9/10.

Okay, I’ve actually found the worst possible lightsaber design. It’s absolutely abysmal. I bet no one can top this one in abject atrociousness.

Dek Rollins said:

the theatrical ending is a joke.

You, sir, are deadite to me now.

I thought Dooku’s lightsaber was strange looking when I first saw AOTC. Once I learned what the designer was going for with it (a scimitar aesthetic), it didn’t bother me anymore.

I admit I would’ve rated it 7/10 if it wasn’t for the ending.

But unless you belong to a species of interstellar hunters with fleshy dreadlocks, you wouldn’t be able to see it.

fmalover said:

I would loove to see an orange lightsaber introduced in Star Wars.

*ahem*

MathUser said:

Out of the various forms the light sabers been made in the movies and EU, what’s your favorite and worst? For me the worst is the ones that used to need to be plugged in, in the EU. I imagine the cords could get in the way. Probably best for me is the double light saber in Episode 1. It’d be scary to handle but would be very intimidating too.

You’re dead to me.

Not missing so much as abducted by ultraterrestrials.

Loathely?

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I recently came across a YouTube video which shows the drive from the US border all the way up to the city of Vernon here in Canada as it was back in 1966.

About halfway through the video, I got to see my hometown, and man was it a strange experience seeing it as it was back then. Most of the landmarks have changed so drastically over the decades that were it not for the shape of the hills and the curve of the roads, I wouldn’t have been able to recognize any of it at all. Whereas now my hometown’s a fairly developed suburban region – with too many shopping centres for my liking – back then it was rural, with plenty of orchards and just a few shops and gas stations.

I wish there were similar videos of the region as it was during the '70s & '80s – just so I could see how it evolved between the '60s & '90s – but there’s nothing.

Our LuckyGungan’s growing up so fast …

Spuffure continues to befuddle me. In return, I will befuddle him tenfold.

Bingowings said:

The Dianoga could have the face of Snoke. Han could be freaked out by this and say “Snokes, why did it have to be Snokes?”.

+1

^For good or ill, this.

(I’m still gonna see Rogue One eventually, though.)

Ant-Semite

I wish the Fo/Frink feud would die.

Ryan McAvoy said:

I’m sure I’m not the first here to discover this but… holy balls, go see what happens when you put “use the force luke” as a search term into youtube. At first I thought I was having a seizure.

Space is warped and time is bendable.

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

John Goodman’s wholly predictable character arc + one really shitty ending which doesn’t mesh with the rest of the film = one very heavily overrated romp through mediocrity.

5/10

Are you talking about I, Jedi by Michael Stackpole? That’s the only novel I know of which relates some of the events from the Jedi Academy Trilogy from a different perspective.

There were at least two of 'em. I recall Luke finding a lightsaber with a “pearlescent blade” in The Courtship of Princess Leia.