Superweapon VII

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.

Star Trek: Picard (Season 3)

I haven’t watched Seasons 1 & 2; everything I’ve seen/heard/read about them convinced me that the lunatics in charge either don’t understand or don’t care about the spirit of Trek, so I avoided them like the plaque. But I heard different about the third season. Of course, I heard the same about Strange New Worlds, and watching the first season of that, I found it juvenile crap. But after watching the RedLetterMedia reviews, I decided to take a leap of faith; if those jaded hackfrauds could enjoy it…

So yeah, I loved it. Very, very much. TNG was never my favourite Trek series, but I always felt that for all its flaws – and I do consider it very flawed – its heart was mostly in the right place. And I always felt that the TNG films did the TNG crew dirty (including the overrated First Contact). Season 3 of Picard, I feel, rectified most of the damage those films did. I wasn’t completely satisfied. There were lots of references to the Dominion War, but not a single DS9 character could make an appearance? And

SPOILERS

The Borg Queen just had to be included. I hate the Borg Queen.

But overall, I was more than satisfied.

9/10

Vodo-Siosk Baas in the greatest Jedi of all time. He took a stick to a lightsaber fight. Mad respect.

dgraham414 said:

Because DoomCock says so

How anyone can take a person who dresses up as a robotic blow-up doll and calls themself “DoomCock” seriously, I’ll never know.

JadedSkywalker said:

Was watching Rise of Skywalker And i’m still confused by objects being teleported from one location to another. For a series that is totally fake and make believe with space wizards i couldn’t suspend my disbelief. It just breaks the canon laws of the Star Wars universe which they’ve been doing since Force Awakens. Things like […] Force Skype, astral projection.

Now I’m absolutely no apologist for the ST, but Force Skyping and astral projection both appeared in Legends material going back to the '90s, so they’re not without precedent.

I left a burning effigy of Stalin on Grover Furr’s doorstep.

That upscale really brings out the layers of pancake makeup on Mark Hamill’s face.

Spartacus01 said:

Superweapon VII said:

Unironic love for the PT must be countered with unironic love for Battlefield Earth/Manos: The Hands of Fate/Plan 9 from Outer Space/Reefer Madness/Robot Monster/The Room/etc. It’s the only way to bring balance to the Farce.

What about minding your own business and not paying attention to what people like? And I don’t say it in a provocative way, I’m saying it seriously. The same goes for the PT fans who are constantly criticizing the ST fans. Why can’t people just mind their own business and let others have fun with what they want?

I likely made that post when I was in an extra surly mood and/or drunk. Pay it no mind.

Spartacus01 said:

If the Force did not exist, the inhabitants of the Star Wars Galaxy would have experienced not even half of the wars they experienced through Galactic history. The Force is the real problem of the Star Wars Galaxy. The more I look at the Saga, and the more I realize that this is the case. If Kreia had managed to extinguish the Force and make everyone insensitive to the Force, then the Star Wars Galaxy would have been much better for the next millennia. Sure, some of my favorite characters would never have been born, but it would have been worth it

I’d say unsubtle creators who treat the Force like superpowers and Force users like superheroes/villains are the real problem.

I just watched Moontrap (1989) for the first time. This movie’s apparently regarded lowly, but I quite liked it. The ending was executed a bit weakly, but I still felt it was was well-made overall. How wrong can you go with Walter Koenig and Bruce Campbell as the leads?

It’s just late-stage capitalism working as intended, bra.

of_Kaiburr_and_Whills said:

Is- is that Yaldabaoth…?

It is indeed.

Beetlejuice is not a good movie. I read the original darker script, and while I still have quibbles with the writing, it’s still stronger than the final movie. Every major change made was for the worse.