DuracellEnergizer

Ben looks like one of the Foot Clan ninjas from the '90s TMNT movies on that cover.

canofhumdingers said:

Rogue One - now we’re really getting to the good stuff.

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Otherwise I love this movie and everything about it. I rank it behind only Star Wars and ESB among the theatrical films.

I also rank it behind the first two. But that’s not me saying much.

I absolutely loved R1 the first time I watched it; my initial rating was 9/10. But each subsequent viewing diminished my opinion; I now rank it 6/10, slightly above ROTJ and TFA — and that’s almost wholly due to the visuals and music, not the writing or characterization.

*follows link*

*doesn’t see Daisy Ridley in a SW-inspired G-string*

*boycotts product*

Chewbacca — hirsute hippie survivalist. 😛

MELISSA JOAN HART

Sir Ridley said:

Hal 9000 said:

I predict Kylo Ren will cut Rey’s head off.

I predict that he then undergoes a medical procedure to attach her head next to his own, and this two headed monster proceeds to rule the galaxy as Emperor Reylo.

Just what we need, a The Thing with Two Heads rehash.

Maaga said:

pleasehello said:

Happy endings are overrated.

I disagree. I’ve found that the darker and edgier endings are overrated.

Maybe they’re both overrated.

Bittersweet endings FTW.

Hal 9000 said:

I predict Kylo Ren will cut Rey’s head off.

Correction. He’ll cut her head in half. And inside he will find another, smaller Rey. And it will turn out Rey is really a matryoshka droid.

Light, dark. I’m the moff with the battle station.

I always felt lack of philosophical cohesion would’ve been a better motivation behind the Sith infighting which led to the Rule of Two than the 2-dimensional “I wanna be king of the mountain!” BS.

I’ve come to see the Sith’s concept of the “dark side” as synonymous with Nietzsche’s “will to power.”

Another series I’ve given some thought on rewriting is Andromeda. Though hampered by a painfully low budget and some dodgy storytelling, I felt the characterization was good and it was showing signs of improvement until Trance went gold and Robert Hewitt Wolfe was fired halfway through the 2nd season. Immediately thereafter, the show turned to hot garbage, with only a diminishing handful of quality episodes scattered throughout the rest of the series.

If I were to rewrite the series, I’d stick close to Wolfe’s original vision for the series. I’d make slight deviations (I’m not entirely sold on Wolfe’s backstory for Trance’s race/the Spirit of the Abyss), but the broad strokes would remain intact. I’d also redesign the lamer-looking aliens (the Magog, in particular).

It’s a project I’ll never tackle without the help of collaborators, anyway; I don’t have it in me to write an entire series on that scale by myself.

I’ve come to feel Star Wars would’ve worked better if it had either skewed more towards sci-fi or more towards fantasy, taken the Star Trek route or the Dark Crystal route. As-is, it’s too much of a genre-confused ouroboros.

SomethingStarWarsRelated said:

I think I’ve cracked the kiss

Second base, here we come. . . .

Rodney-2187 said:

I’ve heard 4 out of 5 dentists recommend Trident gum.

Paid shills, are Paid.

Mark Hamill from the 70s

pleasehello said:

thedewback2 said:

emanswfan said:

I’m sure it won’t be anything larger than what happened in Endgame, but I’m still happy to hear some progress towards LGBTQ inclusion in the Star Wars movies.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/star-wars-rise-skywalker-director-j-j-abrams-hints-lgbtq-n1095496

This was leaked a little while back. Two female Resistance pilots kiss before the final battle.

Found them!

Wow. So representation. Much inclusion.

No outfit which reveals more of Daisy’s skin can be bad in my book.

Tobar said:

Dek Rollins said:

Also the bat’leth is stupid. It’s one of the most impractical weapons I’ve ever seen. The knife from The Search For Spock is a much better melee weapon for Klingon warriors.

I’ll let the designer of the bat’leth speak for himself.

Still looks cumbersome. And until actually demonstrated in a non-choreographed fight, I won’t believe otherwise.

I would’ve made a corrupt New Republic aided by a corrupt New Jedi Order* the enemy of the ST. The First Order would’ve been the few remaining non-corrupt Jedi allied with the Imperial Remnant and other dissident groups. And I would’ve set the trilogy over a hundred years after ROTJ.

*Yes, Jedi. Not Sith. Not Knights of Ren. Self-identifying Jedi, blue/green lightsabers and all.

theprequelsrule said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

theprequelsrule said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

theprequelsrule said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I’ve come to dislike the notion that Force-sensitivity is something which can be cloned. Like adding a strong hereditary component to the Force, or the midi-chlorian crap, it grounds what should be a spiritual power to genetics.

There is a real world precedent though; in the past it was felt that certain families were descended and/or favoured by God/The Gods/Fate - genetics was never on the table, rather people were “blessed” for some unknown reason.

I always liked the hereditary component as an addition to the spiritual side. The Force is somewhat accessible to everyone, but it runs stronger in certain bloodlines for reasons unknown…and that should remain unknown. You need to explain why everyone isn’t a force user after all, right Duracell?

I admit, I am partial to the idea of Force-sensitivity being matrilineal. Nine months (give-or-take for non-humans) would be time enough for a pregnant woman to form a rapport with the child growing in her womb, and that could impart her Force-sensitivity to it. That would allow for a hereditary component without compromising the transcendent qualities.

Sounds good to me. You have a lot of sensible and inspired ideas - I hope you keep working on those fan scripts you have posted here at OT.com. Maybe you can find an artist here in the community and turn them into comics or something?

That’s the dream. I would’ve commissioned George Perez to do it before his retirement if I had the money.

Don’t give up Duracell…no matter what.

Sure. And thanks.

theprequelsrule said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

theprequelsrule said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I’ve come to dislike the notion that Force-sensitivity is something which can be cloned. Like adding a strong hereditary component to the Force, or the midi-chlorian crap, it grounds what should be a spiritual power to genetics.

There is a real world precedent though; in the past it was felt that certain families were descended and/or favoured by God/The Gods/Fate - genetics was never on the table, rather people were “blessed” for some unknown reason.

I always liked the hereditary component as an addition to the spiritual side. The Force is somewhat accessible to everyone, but it runs stronger in certain bloodlines for reasons unknown…and that should remain unknown. You need to explain why everyone isn’t a force user after all, right Duracell?

I admit, I am partial to the idea of Force-sensitivity being matrilineal. Nine months (give-or-take for non-humans) would be time enough for a pregnant woman to form a rapport with the child growing in her womb, and that could impart her Force-sensitivity to it. That would allow for a hereditary component without compromising the transcendent qualities.

Sounds good to me. You have a lot of sensible and inspired ideas - I hope you keep working on those fan scripts you have posted here at OT.com. Maybe you can find an artist here in the community and turn them into comics or something?

That’s the dream. I would’ve commissioned George Perez to do it before his retirement if I had the money.

theprequelsrule said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I’ve come to dislike the notion that Force-sensitivity is something which can be cloned. Like adding a strong hereditary component to the Force, or the midi-chlorian crap, it grounds what should be a spiritual power to genetics.

There is a real world precedent though; in the past it was felt that certain families were descended and/or favoured by God/The Gods/Fate - genetics was never on the table, rather people were “blessed” for some unknown reason.

I always liked the hereditary component as an addition to the spiritual side. The Force is somewhat accessible to everyone, but it runs stronger in certain bloodlines for reasons unknown…and that should remain unknown. You need to explain why everyone isn’t a force user after all, right Duracell?

I admit, I am partial to the idea of Force-sensitivity being matrilineal. Nine months (give-or-take for non-humans) would be time enough for a pregnant woman to form a rapport with the child growing in her womb, and that could impart her Force-sensitivity to it. That would allow for a hereditary component without compromising the transcendent qualities.

I’ve come to dislike the notion that Force-sensitivity is something which can be cloned. Like adding a strong hereditary component to the Force, or the midi-chlorian crap, it grounds what should be a spiritual power to genetics.

theprequelsrule said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

theprequelsrule said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

OutboundFlight said:

I don’t think Gray Jedi is the solution. You can’t say the side that destroyed planets, purged races, and slaughtered children are half the good guys now, and the people doing everything to stop them were partially in the wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

Just because the Jedi and Sith can experience the Force can’t mean they can know it perfectly or wholly. A most robust understanding of the Force may lie along a higher synthesis of their philosophies.

As one reviewer commented, the concept of The Force was very vague in SW77 - and that was it’s strength. Christian, Buddhist, Neo-Pagan etc. could all see their own religion in it. The more specific you get the more you are going to diverge from some people’s beliefs. The basic tenants of The Force we get from SW77: trust/believe in yourself, think of others/the greater good, take risks, technology isn’t everything. Simple and beautiful.

In addition to the above, the dark and light sides should’ve been conceived as states of mind rather than innate attributes/divisions of the Force itself. That’s where I feel TESB started going off the rails.

Using power for selfish reasons IS the darkside. Does that really need to be elaborated on further in a Space Opera?

I don’t disagree. But perhaps my argument’s getting muddled.

There’s the Force as I feel it should’ve been, and there’s the Force as it is. The Force should’ve been an innately positive (or neutral) Force which still could’ve been misused by people with bad intent. The Force as it is is a dualistic Force. Since we’re stuck having to deal with the dualistic Force, we have to find ways of interpreting that dualism through a lens appealing to us. The consensus believes that you can’t dip toes in both positivity and negativity without eventually defaulting to one; I believe otherwise. But again, I’d prefer not to view the Force through a dualistic framework to begin with.