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DuracellEnergizer

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#1384016
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The Unpopular Film, TV, Music, Art, Books, Comics, Games, & Technology Opinion Thread (for all you contrarians!)
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I didn’t grow up with him, but I still believe George Reeves is the best live-action Superman. He comes closest to recapturing the original Siegel & Shuster Superman, which is the best Superman.

I no longer care for the big blue boy scout played by Chris Reeve.

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#1383896
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The Last Son of Krypton (Season One)
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I’ve hit a snag with writing this series. The plan has always been to use Luthor as the main villain of the story, but I’ve been having trouble figuring out how to organically involve him in the proceedings. I believe I’ve finally found a solution, but it would require me to retool much of what I’ve written so far — namely, everything with Luma would have to be tossed out and the character entirely reimagined. As you can imagine, I’m not keen on doing this, but I may have to to get the story where I want it.

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#1383200
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The Ultimate Star Wars Saga
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Hadrian sunrider said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I’ve been doing some worldbuilding, and here’s what I’ve got nailed down for the SWS:RE Universe:

  • The setting is our own Milky Way, some 25,000 years into the future.
  • Earth has either been abandoned/forgotten or become the city-planet Had Abbadon.
  • The Galactic Republic is 10,000-18,000 years old and spans a million worlds.
  • The known galaxy spans 25% of the Milky Way.
  • Excluding genetically divergent subspecies, just over three dozen sapient races inhabit the known galaxy.
  • Though not particularly speciesist, the Galactic Republic is an almost entirely human/near-human domain. There are very few member worlds with significant non-human populations, and human/non-human admixture is almost unheard of outside the Outer Rim territories.
  • Strong AI doesn’t exist. “Thinking machines” are actually cyborgs — robot bodies controlled by cultured organic brains.
  • Manned fightercraft are considered archaic and hopelessly cumbersome in modern warfare. Armed forces tend to use either remote-controlled fighters or robot fighters in combat. Remote-controlled fighters have some advantage over robots, as an organic pilot can outwit the weak AI of robot fighters. However, in the event that a remote-controlled fighter is heavily damaged or destroyed, feedback through the neural interface can kill or brain-damage the organic controller.
  • Lightsabers are entirely mystical, non-technological weapons which can only be constructed and ignited by trained Force adepts. At the heart of every lightsaber is a kyber crystal, the colour of which is shaped by the psyche/preferences of the adept who meditates over it. The blade of a lightsaber is paper-thin, with monomolecular edges. They don’t generate heat, but cut through almost any material by severing covalent bonds.
  • Force-sensitivity isn’t genetic; it cannot be inherited patrilineally, and clones of Force-sensitives will not inherit their template’s Force-sensitivity. However, Force-sensitivity is often passed on matrilineally. And if one child in a set of twins (identical or fraternal) is Force-sensitive, their sibling(s) are invariably Force-sensitive as well.
  • All space flight and space combat is in three dimensions.
  • Single-biome worlds capable of supporting complex life are rare and often marginally habitable. Life on Hoth is limited to the equator, life on Tatooine to the poles, etc.
  • Hyperspace travel is relatively slow. Travel between Tatooine and Alderaan — both Outer Rim planets — takes five days along a good hyperlane.

Love most of these ideas

One idea to suggest

Hyperspace speed is severely slow

It takes five months to get across the Galaxy in the fastest possible speed

A journey from Tatooine to Had Abbadon would take about that long. A voyage into the Unknown Regions would take even longer.

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#1382730
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The Sequels - George's Original Trilogy
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act on instinct said:

SparkySywer said:

BB-Rey said:

I really get the impression from taking into account this, George’s conversation with James Cameron, and the Yoda arc that they’re Immortal beings who study and watch the events of the mortal beings and they are the Force. They created Anakin to combat the growing threat of the Dark Side which took the Force out of Balance as it may have always been told by a central Whill. It makes me wonder if part of the journey of the Sequel Trilogy would’ve been about the grandchildren of Anakin discovering their deeper connection to the Force. Similar in a way to the Ones on Mortis. They’d become the embodiments of Light and Dark to maintain long term balance with Anakin serving as Father.

Thank God we never got George Lucas’s sequel trilogy

Pretty unnecessary bump.

Much like the Sequel Trilogy.

*zing*