Superweapon VII

Judy Davis

“Where’s my honey?!” indeed.

The only lightsaber duel I can say I really have no qualms with is the TESB duel. The SW duel’s fine for what it is — Ben distracting Vader to buy Luke & co. time — but it’s hardly thrilling stuff. My issues with ROTJ as a whole put a damper on my enthusiasm for the duel. The prequel duels got more inane with each entry. And the one sequel duel I’ve watched — the one from TFA — is as mediocre as the rest of the film.

I’m too poor to upgrade to 4k. For the same reason, I still buy DVDs alongside BDs.

Eyepainter said:

Cheetos are the worst cheese-related product ever conceived.

I’d say processed cheese slices are truly the worst, but I refuse to recognize that yellow plastic garbage as cheese.

Joseph Scoren

[double post]

“You were right. You were right about me. Tell your sister, you were right…”

It’s the best duel in the PT. Which isn’t saying much, but still.

Zero interest from me. Does every origin story need to be told? Can’t something ever be left to the imagination?

JadedSkywalker said:

I always liked Qui-Gon but the character fits nowhere in the Star Wars Lucas set up in the original trilogy.

I got into the Jedi Apprentice YA series before I saw TPM. I think my evaluation of the character was informed by those books first-and-foremost, and I wasn’t able to distinguish Lucas Qui-Gon from EU Qui-Gon until years later.

SWOTFAN25 said:

RogueLeader said:

Honestly my head canon after TLJ was that Luke didn’t really “die” from Force projecting himself, but confronting his greatest failure (Kylo Ren) and forgiving himself caused Luke to achieve enlightenment, and he just became one with the Force as the next step of his ascension.

No one’s ever really gone.

*cue RLM video*

Hannah Hussein

Darth Tremor said:

Superweapon VII said:

Darth Tremor said:

My favorite EU is:

Tales of the Jedi
-Ulic Qel Droma
-Exar Kun
-Aleena Keto
-Vima Sunrider

Love TOTJ, but I’ve never been a fan of how compressed it all is. The Great Sith War spans, what, a year at most? If you’ve read the Dark Empire endnotes, you’d know Veitch originally envisioned the rise of the Krath and Ulic’s fall to the dark side as a process which spanned several years than the weeks/months the comics imply, so I don’t know why the storylines came out so truncated. KJA’s eventual involvement or some editorial decree from on high throwing a spanner in the works?

If I had any faith in the nuEU doing it justice, I’d like to see TOTJ redone as an ongoing title in the same vein as the KOTOR comic, but I just know it wouldn’t recapture any of the magic of the original. Probably end up with a scene of Kun bleeding a kyber crystal red in the process of constructing his double-bladed lightsaber, because that’s the stupid bullshit that typifies modern SW.

Haha Kun bleeding a lightsaber lol I can see Disney Wars doing that cuz Sith only use red sabers! 😄

Eyepainter said:

Hamsters.

I imagine Lucas would’ve had to have taken a more hands-off approach and trusted the directors’ creative vision without his micromanagement, if only for the sake of his own sanity. Filming three trilogies back-to-back over a 30-odd-year stretch would take a lot out of a person.

Darth Tremor said:

My favorite EU is:

Tales of the Jedi
-Ulic Qel Droma
-Exar Kun
-Aleena Keto
-Vima Sunrider

Love TOTJ, but I’ve never been a fan of how compressed it all is. The Great Sith War spans, what, a year at most? If you’ve read the Dark Empire endnotes, you’d know Veitch originally envisioned the rise of the Krath and Ulic’s fall to the dark side as a process which spanned several years than the weeks/months the comics imply, so I don’t know why the storylines came out so truncated. KJA’s eventual involvement or some editorial decree from on high throwing a spanner in the works?

If I had any faith in the nuEU doing it justice, I’d like to see TOTJ redone as an ongoing title in the same vein as the KOTOR comic, but I just know it wouldn’t recapture any of the magic of the original. Probably end up with a scene of Kun bleeding a kyber crystal red in the process of constructing his double-bladed lightsaber, because that’s the stupid bullshit that typifies modern SW.

of_Kaiburr_and_Whills said:

I don’t always listen to Rebel Force Radio, but I tuned in to today’s show and learned there was apparently an alien guard for Cloud City that never made it into the final movie. The EU named him “Utris M’Toc.”

Glad he got the cut. He looks like one of those lame rubber forehead aliens from TNG.

• Vader didn’t kill Needa. He choked him into a swoon, had him demoted, then reassigned. Vader’s evil, but he has a sense of honour, and he wouldn’t straight up murder a competent officer who’d own up to their failure and offer a genuine apology. Ozzel, on the other hand … you can tell that incompetent boob brown-nosed his way to the top and Vader’s had bad blood with him for a long time.
• Stormtrooper armour is far more effective than the films let on. The stormtroopers we see get shot and presume killed? In most cases, they’re only knocked senseless; after a couple minutes, they shake it off and get back up.

Spartacus01 said:

Superweapon VII said:

Spuffure said:

Sorry if this is too political (however it’s really not to start a debate) I said it before, but I really feel like I have no idea who to believe and who not to. The internet has made so many political ideologies present, I don’t know whether or not I should be left or right or centre or something else. Who is right? Who is wrong? Am I a bigot and don’t even know it?

Fuck tankies, fuck fash, and fuck liberalism, too. Libertarian socialism FTW.

I could be defined as a Tankie. Lol.

I’m not one of those guys who stamps everyone under the Leninist/Marxist-Leninist/Maoist umbrella a tankie. I’m not a fan of any of those strains of Marxism, but I don’t like demonizing individuals. So long as you’re not a Grover Furr-type Stalinist, I’m content to agree to disagree.

Spuffure said:

Sorry if this is too political (however it’s really not to start a debate) I said it before, but I really feel like I have no idea who to believe and who not to. The internet has made so many political ideologies present, I don’t know whether or not I should be left or right or centre or something else. Who is right? Who is wrong? Am I a bigot and don’t even know it?

Fuck tankies, fuck fash, and fuck liberalism, too. Libertarian socialism FTW.

fmalover said:

As someone who’s had the misfortune of being one of those losers who can’t get laid in their personal lives, I lament the fact that the term “incel” has become synonymous with “bitter misogynist virgin who blames women for all his problems”.

Especially galling when you know that the OG incel was a lovelorn woman who created the community in the hopes of helping others suffering the same predicament.