Superweapon VII

Melinda Lindmark

It’s the best take to take, if you wish to accept each trilogy as valid.

Myself, I go all Wile E. Coyote with the dynamite.

Darth Vader is not a good villain. The closest he came to becoming one was in TESB. But ROTJ and the PT showed that at heart, he’s just a capricious, selfish punk.

philraid said:

There’s so many lines between Anakin and Padme that I could choose from, but these are the ones that stick out in my mind:

“You are so beautiful.”
“It’s only because I’m so in love.”
“No, it’s because I’m so in love with you.”
“So love has blinded you?”
This is the one scene I consider skipping whenever I rewatch that movie. It’s mercifully short, but that dialogue is painful. And it doesn’t even make sense either, it’s like a line or two got cut.

This 110%. I remember feeling my heart sink to the pit of my stomach the first time I watched that scene. I was still too young to quite recognize the abysmal quality of the dialogue/delivery in TPM & AOTC when I first watched them, but I was finally old enough when ROTS rolled around, and this exchange was a doozy.

Kit Fisto immersing his arm up to the shoulder in xenomorph saliva.

NeverarGreat said:

Leia is my favorite character in A New Hope. She becomes less interesting in the next two movies because they fail to explore how the destruction of her home affected her, but her bold self-confidence and almost sassy demeanor in the first film never fails to put a smile on my face.

Indeed. Besides, having your home and loved ones nuked to dust would make anyone surly.

Servii said:

Rogue One and Solo are in-universe holothrillers produced under the New Republic as celebrations of Rebel heroes. While the broadstrokes events are true, creative license was taken with the details for dramatic effect.

I feel that way regarding virtually every SW film and TV show.

Channel72 said:

Superweapon VII said:

If Star Wars was the least bit realistic, all warfare would be done by droids. You wouldn’t put a organic being with imperfect reflexes into the cockpit of a fighter and send them to take out an artificial planetoid and sacrifice their life needlessly if you have the technology to build a robot fighter equipped with a strong AI which isn’t limited by the flaws that flesh is heir to.

In the Prequels there actually was an entire army of droids and fighter-ships with droid or AI pilots. But the movies insist that cloned humans are superior somehow. The excuse is that organic/biological beings are better at thinking creatively which gives them some sort of advantage in combat - a pretty dubious proposition.

I think Lucas really wanted to walk back on strong AI being a thing in SW when he made the prequels, but it’s very hard to legitimately make that the case when we’ve seen Threepio and Artoo act as they do throughout the OT. You can use the Chinese room argument against the droids, but it ruins them as characters in the process.

BedeHistory731 said:

Sideburns of BoShek said:

Attacking others to deflect away from the content of your own posts? Good job!

I think I’ll keep on scrolling past your posts.

Two of us each have a number of forum memberships and social media from years before, a decade even, before joining up here. + Keyan is who he said he is from his pre-covid socials. From your posts it appears you knew that when you made your insult, and then doubled down on it afterwards.

Keyan:

Caston:

me:

 
Your claims are something that have previously occurred on here, by others also trying to deflect away from their own actions and posts. Those false claims were disproved then, and these new false claims above have now been disproved above too. According to others here who saw through both the previous and this latest round of horseshit the accusations were made by previously banned users, friends of, or people who’d previously burnt their britches here. Caston & Keyan have already left here, and now me also. This forum is awesome, as nearly all the users are on here, but it does obviously have a small dark poisonous clique, a cancer. I hope that gets cut out or removed, for the benefit of everyone else here and for the forum itself.

I now see why you chose to try and shift the discussion onto slurring others, rather than own the rancid views you posted above. You do you.

Well that’s a blaze of glory departure for oojason and his many dupe accounts. And with broken image links too!

They’ll soon be back. And in greater numbers.

If Star Wars was the least bit realistic, all warfare would be done by droids. You wouldn’t put a organic being with imperfect reflexes into the cockpit of a fighter and send them to take out an artificial planetoid and sacrifice their life needlessly if you have the technology to build a robot fighter equipped with a strong AI which isn’t limited by the flaws that flesh is heir to.

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/05/now-is-the-time-to-send-unarmed-peacekeepers-to-gaza-and-the-rest-of-palestine/

Anakin before joining the Jedi: essentially Luke in SW.

Anakin after joining the Jedi: Luke from SW & TESB with Han’s cockiness and charisma.

Anakin after joining the Sith, but before going full dark side: more reserved like Vader in TESB & ROTJ, minus the sheer ruthlessness.

“I am, like, getting the feeling of cumming in the gym, I’m getting the feeling of cumming at home, I’m getting the feeling of cumming backstage when I pump up, when I pose out in front of 5000 people, I get the same feeling. So I’m cumming day and night.”

Monica Brant

Yeah, Vader’s got a twisted sense of humour.

JadedSkywalker said:

Thought better of my response and I’ve deleted it because it was of a political nature and I don’t want the mods to get pissed at me.

Didn’t Tobar give their blessing to have political discussions in the Off Topic sections of the forum?

theprequelsrule said:

Honestly…why do I keep coming back to Star Wars (and this site! LoL)? It seems like more of an unhealthy addiction than a real interest of mine at this point!

Same. I’m only following Andor, and it took me a tremendous lot of convincing from the folks who aren’t mindless fanboys easily suckered by lightsabers and fanservice for me to take that leap of faith; my interest in everything else Disney’s put out is in the negative numbers.

Ju a Nam

“Me sucky sucky.”

Mocata said:

I think that specific idea would be a slight problem when they get to ROTJ.

True. Though it wouldn’t be any more contrived than the retcons Lucas actually pulled.

JadedSkywalker said:

I hate Star Wars becoming the Saga of Darth Vader rather than the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, I hate Luke being supplanted and replaced by Vader becoming the lead character. We are supposed to root for a wife killer and child murderer is that it?

Lucas totally lost his sense on the prequel, virgin birth, chosen one prophecy, rules on attachment, midichlorians, Whills, how can people take any of that at face value.

He destroyed Star Wars there was nothing left for Disney to destroy.

While I agree with your points overall, I wouldn’t want Star Wars to JUST be the Adventures of Luke Skywalker. The SW Universe is bigger than any Skywalker, Luke or Anakin.

I sometimes ponder what if Lucas had decided to make Mon Mothma Luke & Leia’s mom going into the prequels. If you’re gonna make Anakin’s lover a senator, why not use the female senator character you’ve already created who goes on to play a crucial role in the Rebellion?

JadedSkywalker said:

In Baum just like Middle Earth it exists as a real world, or like Wonderland does in the Alice books.

It’s been a spell since I read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass, but I’m 99% sure Wonderland exists only in Alice’s dreams, albeit possibly as a transient sub-reality, if the speculation that Alice herself’s a part of the Red King’s dream is anything to go by.

Mocata said:

Diminished force powers don’t account for the lack of basic thinking.

Somewhat of an aside, but this is another element in the prequels I really wish was shown rather than told to us. And it could’ve been easily done, just by making the Jedi less powerful than Luke and Yoda were in the OT, with Anakin as an outlier. Instead Lucas uses Bizarro logic.

William of Ockham is a bitch. There, I said it.