Tyrphanax

Weird…

TV’s Frink said:

I had never heard the quote and assumed someone put it over the wrong Sam Elliot character or something.

Nah it’s a really annoying thing people were doing for a while: put an unrelated phrase on an image of an actor or a character they played, I assume to add legitimacy to the phrase.

It was really popular to do with Will Ferrell a while back, but it seems to have died out a bit. It got under my skin because A. The person in the image didn’t say it, and B. People will think that person actually said that.

Lord Haseo said:

a Walmart employee ho

Don’t talk about Possessed like that!

doubleofive said:

Maul sees Tattooine because of Obi-Wan, Ezra because Luke is the key to defeating the Sith. So if they go to Tattooine to save Obi-Wan, they’re going to assume that Ezra just saw into Maul’s vision, not that it was the answer to his as well, and they’ll just leave.

Episode ends with Ezra-aged Luke, watching the suns set and a tiny Ghost taking off in the distance.

Exactly, that’s what I was trying to say.

FanFiltration said:

Tyrphanax said:

Make this man President.

CLICK —> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=155NOeamTbM

Haha, yeah! I posted that in YouTube finds as it popped up when I was looking for the GIF. I love it.

Make this man President.

Stop everything

It just descends further into insanity.

TV’s Frink said:

Smithers said:

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imperialscum said:

This is off-topic but if anyone is interested in tentacles:
http://grapee.jp/en/71510

Why do I read this fucking thread

In the vain hope that this thread will eventually provide pre-Season 10 Simpsons-level humour instead of the usual Family Guy tripe?

Finally someone who doesn’t appreciate Family Guy nearly as much as the earlier seasons of The Simpsons!

Who appreciates Family Guy in comparison to early Simpsons and why haven’t they been shot into space yet?

Anime people maybe.

The New Pornog Raphers.

Lord Haseo said:

Tyrphanax said:

Just watched the episode. Was that a little Jurassic Park reference when they’re meeting the Bindu? Kanan says “He’s here.” and then the broken halves of the thumper are thrown between him and Ezra?

This was a good episode. I’m with both of you with regards to Maul. It’s annoying that they brought him back, but I’m glad that they’re at least doing something good with him now that he is. I can excuse a differing characterization considering he had basically no character in TPM and he also had many years of going insane on a junk planet to change from who he was in TPM to who he is now.

I’m digging the Bindu. I feel like Kanan is truly becoming a Jedi now: shedding the lies and corrupt decadence of the old Jedi Order and learning what it truly means to be a Jedi, a lot of which is thanks to Bindu’s wisdom as the middle ground between dark and light.

Something tells me he favors the Light over the Dark Side of The Force. Just the way he interacts with Kanan and the way he talks about the Sith and other Dark Siders makes it possible that he’s not actually Force Sensitive who favors balance.

Yeah I hadn’t really thought about that, but it makes sense.

I was kind of hoping that Maul would have gone to the Bindu and gotten the holocron from him without a fight to show that the Bindu was really in the middle.

He’s definitely more Yoda than Jolee (who was a Bindo, interestingly).

DominicCobb said:

Tyrphanax said:

Well I’m sorry that I think the show is more than mindless PT garbage for children.

Oh no I meant that it isn’t but that people claim it’s amazing television or something better than it is to prove that.

My apologies for the sarcasm then!

Lord Haseo said:

DominicCobb said:
For a compelling Anakin, read the ROTS novelization or Labyrinth of Evil.

Fuck. Yes. Buuuut I don’t think it would be fair to use that version of Anakin either because there are multiple stories preceding it that develop Anakin’s character. And before anyone says anything I remember that the Before The Awakening books exist but that is one book per character and Anakin was either at the end of his arc or was pretty damn close to it (in the case of LoE) while Finn, Poe, Rey and Kylo Ren are at the start of theirs. We still have so much to know about these new characters. Rian Johnson has stated recently that Episode VIII will be diving into the core of these characters and what motivates them. With that being stated I think it will only be fair to compare Anakin to the ST characters at the very least Episode VIII comes out.

That’s my hope for VIII.

Well I’m sorry that I think the show is more than mindless PT garbage for children.

Just watched the episode. Was that a little Jurassic Park reference when they’re meeting the Bindu? Kanan says “He’s here.” and then the broken halves of the thumper are thrown between him and Ezra?

This was a good episode. I’m with both of you with regards to Maul. It’s annoying that they brought him back, but I’m glad that they’re at least doing something good with him now that he is. I can excuse a differing characterization considering he had basically no character in TPM and he also had many years of going insane on a junk planet to change from who he was in TPM to who he is now.

I’m digging the Bindu. I feel like Kanan is truly becoming a Jedi now: shedding the lies and corrupt decadence of the old Jedi Order and learning what it truly means to be a Jedi, a lot of which is thanks to Bindu’s wisdom as the middle ground between dark and light.

It was cool to see the transparent-domed astromech (which used to be R3s and are now apparently Lothal astromech droids), I always like seeing the hammerhead Old Old Republic ships (even if they’re not quite that old), and it was also cool to see a Mandalorian fighter again.

As for the big “who” at the end of the episode? I think Maul and Ezra saw two different characters on a planet with twin suns. Maul was looking for Obi-Wan, presumably, and Ezra was looking for the key to defeat the Sith.

I think we’ll see either this or this for Maul’s end (potential spoilers).

Yeah I don’t mean to argue his points for him or anything, haha. I’m just trying to get across what he was because his presentation can be a big turnoff.

Like I said (and ray too), I love TFA and I don’t agree with everything he nitpicks in the review, but I think they were interesting points that deserve consideration.

I added a lot of info to my earlier post, sorry. <_<

I really don’t like the Plinkett character and would much rather it were just Mike talking about it as Mike, but the character allows him to get away with more things.

DominicCobb said:

This review is so stupid. First of all, it’s almost two hours! Are you serious! I might as well watch the movie again. You know, I read a comment from somewhere before the film came out that said “Why even bother reviewing the film at all? What will any critic have to say about the film that will mean anything to anyone other than themselves?”. Well my opinion on TFA isn’t really going to change based on a two hour Youtube video. I’ve read other reviews, I’ve heard the usual complaints ad naseum. It’s nothing new. I know exactly how I feel about the movie. I haven’t seen or read an interesting critical take on it since the week it came out. It’s just been the same bullshit. This Plinkett douche is 9 months late to the party and not fashionably. There is value in good film criticism that analyzes a film beyond surface opinions but this doesn’t seem to be that.

So I didn’t watch the whole thing because I don’t hate myself but I did skim it. First of all the guy seems to be mostly riffing on his greatest hits (from what I’ve heard) shitting on the PT rather than actually getting to the topic at hand. Yeah the PT is nice to shit on, but it’s low hanging fruit. And yeah, the PT apologizers are annoying as fuck but I’ll never not be tired of generational bashing. Finally he gets to TFA and it’s the shame old shit. His comments on diversity seem nice at first because he isn’t criticizing the fact that the cast is diverse (you have to be a truly fucked up individual to think there’s anything wrong with a diverse cast), but then he starts to sound stupid. Saying kids don’t care about diversity isn’t really true. Yes, kids don’t care about seeing characters that aren’t their race or gender (unlike some deplorable adults) but if a kid sees someone who is their race or gender they are most certainly going to care. Don’t think for a second little girls aren’t loving TFA because of Rey, for example. And then he starts talking about the film being devoid of sex and I just have to stop. This is one of the most absurd criticisms of the film I’ve heard that I don’t think it’s even worth responding to.

Beyond that, dude’s got a super annoying voice and I just didn’t find any of it funny. Shrug.

I’m guessing you haven’t seen any of the other ones? Plinkett is a character (which I don’t generally enjoy, but the review content has always been good for me and at least in this one most of the goofy Plinkett stuff was way toned down).

What I took away from the diversity section was not that he had problem with the diverse cast (he says as much) and more that he felt that it was a bit disingenuous because it was more of a focus-group manufactured diversity motivated more by “the soulless evil force that is the Hollywood machine and their manipulative string-pulling” than it was a genuine diversity, because diversity is the popular trend thing to do these days.

As far as the sex thing goes, he doesn’t mean it needed more hardcore banging, but that the characters were mostly passionless and there wasn’t any of that romantic tension that was in the OT from ANH.

You should go back and watch those bits in more detail because even though they’re presented in a goofy way, he makes some legitimate points about the manufactured, corporate, “safely made based on focus groups and marketing data in a sterile factory” quality of the film while it lacks the homespun, grassroots, low-budget, risk-taking feel of the OT.

I love TFA and I still do. Nothing’s gonna change that. But Mike makes good points.

TV’s Frink said:

Lord Haseo said:

Tyrphanax said:

TV’s Frink said:

Better than the protagonists in TFA?

Eh, there’s only so much you can do with a TV character.

If you really think that then you need to watch more TV.

I don’t watch much TV but you’re right. You can do a lot more with a TV character. You generally only get 120 minutes to do something with a movie character.

Sorry, I should have said animated kid’s show cartoon character.

You guys are both correct.

imperialscum said:

DominicCobb said:
There is not a single thing in the PT that is better than TFA.

That is correct. The truth is that they are equally worthless.

However, as I have said before, PT at least have some spirit and creativity (a bad one but still), while TFA is a soulless rehash crap.

u ok my friend

TV’s Frink said:

Better than the protagonists in TFA?

Eh, there’s only so much you can do with a TV character. As it stands, though, over the 6ish seasons of the show, Anakin was far more developed and nuanced than the TFA characters after one movie (same as with pretty much any franchise character after one movie). And far more developed and nuanced than Anakin after the three PT movies.

TV’s Frink said:

Well first off, I don’t care about anything outside of the movies, but that’s a personal choice. With that said, what exactly are you using as your personal canon (I hate the term “headcanon” and refuse to use it)? Is this based on something tangible, or just a fan fiction story in your head? Did someone create a good Anakin character?

He’s a good character in The Clone Wars series.

DominicCobb said:

Why am I supposed to care about this guy’s opinion again?

Because other people’s opinions can be funny, insightful, and interesting.

You don’t have to care.

Congrats!

I explained it in the above post. It won’t update without your consent in that mode because they don’t want you to get charged for going over your mobile data limits, because it thinks you’re on a mobile connection.

Swazzy said:

And now, ladies and gentleman, the only video review of this movie that ever mattered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miVRaoR_8xQ

30 minutes in and it’s all PT bashing, haha. Perfect.

I love the dismantling of the Ring Theory and the talk about how we’ll never see the end of Star Wars.

JEDIT: lol, number three is titled “Idiotic Millennials ‘re-think’ the Star Wars prequels”

Pretty much sums it up. He goes on to talk about the weird prequel apologizing that’s been going on lately that we’ve all noticed and has been really annoying me with its weird subversiveness like they can somehow sneak it past the guards.

JEDIT2 Electric Boogaloo: And his complaints are about the same as mine. Great video.

Return of the JEDIT: His diversity comments are pretty aligned to my thoughts as well.