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Vladius said:

Yeah Andor is about actual rebels and the difficulties of starting a rebellion. Rebels would be a much better title for it too. Sometimes when watching Andor I started imagining all the events of Rebels happening in the same world and laughing.

It’s the main reason I hate Rebels so much. It’s always Mission Accomplished for the main characters with (almost) no casualties, main characters rarely if ever die, and the Empire is so laughably incompetent it makes you wonder how they rose to power in the first place.

If I’m allowed to brag, I am one of the very few who’s been immune to the Filoni Kool-Aid from the start.

YouTube user HelloGreedo made what is IMO the best critique of how Palpatine is portrayed. When he first appears in the OT he was inspired by the Roman and Chinese Emperors of old, but the prequels made him so goddamn evil, more akin to a mythological creature from the Underworld.

From what I’ve read about The Rise of Skywalker (I refuse to watch that movie), Abrams cranked up the whole evil entity to a ludicrous level.

Before the prequel trilogy, I always assumed the reason you didn’t hear about the Jedi having love lives was because they tended to be hyper-focused on their vocation, but if a Jedi were to fall in love it was no big deal.

At no point in the OT did either one of Obi-Wan or Yoda say to Luke something like “Now that you have chosen this path you must forsake any notion of a love life. Your father violated this.” or something to that effect.

Superweapon VII said:

coasting on '80s nostalgia

This is my problem with pretty much all pop culture these days. It’s all about the 1980s.

Superweapon VII said:

BedeHistory731 said:

Vladius said:

That’s really interesting. I actually just read Dark Empire and I’m on Dark Empire 2 right now. I still question that internal logic though because the Emperor was clearly Vader’s master, and the Dark Lord of the Sith wasn’t ever subordinate to anyone else in TOTJ, other than ghosts of former Dark Lords like Marka Ragnos.

I’m trying to think of a justification for this inconsistency and I’m coming up blank.

I like to entertain the idea that Anakin joined the Sith specifically to gain the power to defeat Palpatine. But he overestimated his own abilities, confronted Palpatine half-cocked, had his ass handed to him, and was forced to join him or die.

This is a way better idea than Anakin joining the Sith to prevent Padme from dying during childbirth IMO.

I say ROTJ marked the point George Lucas decided that Obi-Wan’s robes from the first movie were the official Jedi vestments, as evidenced by Anakin’s ghost, which retroactively creates a problem.

If Obi-Wan was in hiding why would he still be wearing the very robes that would give away his identity as a Jedi?

JadedSkywalker said:

Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1. Incredible action movie. Only the train scene looked fake. One of the best Mission Impossible films. Why this film bombed at the boxoffice i have no idea. It was better than No Time to Die. And also better than the newest John Wick.

Barbenheimer killed all of its momentum.

The first set of five minute shorts were OK, but it was just nonstop action. The longer videos were a vast improvement IMO, as they had more of a Star Wars feel to them.

The one EE scene that should have been part of the theatrical cut is Saruman’s death.

henzINNIT said:

Instead of dragging Palpatine’s corpse back, use Anakin as the final ‘boss’. The confrontation on Mortis ends with Anakin Skywalker appearing to Rey and Kylo. Anakin has become the ‘Father’, intent on bringing balance to the force, and to achieve this he needs a Son (Kylo) and a Daughter (Rey). Both have been ‘destined’ to fulfill these positions and have felt the weight of external forces pulling them throughout their lives. Rey defies prophecy, choosing to leave and help the galaxy directly rather than watch from a distance.

That’s a pretty fucking cool idea.

Hal 9000 said:

I genuinely don’t get why Filoni is held in such high regard, as I tend not to like his stuff very much.

I’ve been wondering the same thing for years.

If you ask me, I say Kreia would greatly approve of Baylan Skoll. Anyone else agree?

Emre16O1 said:

What is with all the spam accounts and posts on here?

Same here.

I myself prefer the EE, but if there’s one thing that should have been part of the theatrical cuts it’s most definitely Saruman’s death in TROTK, which is left unresolved in the theatrical cut.

Peter Pan said:

I would love to see Huyang join Baylan in an endeavour to establish a remade Jedi/whatever-you-wanna-call-it order in the new galaxy.
Baylan is clearly driven by the thought of a new, improved order, and Huyang has fallen out of time with the fall of the Jedi. It makes sense for them to start over again.

Too bad Ray Stevenson died. Baylan has proven to be the most popular character in this series.

alastair said:

thank you! but the imgur says 404 for me

Same here.

I got ripped off of some of my money.

Wraths said:

elendil42 said:

Read the thread to find out how to download, do not pm me.

You should already own a copy of these films on official home media.

Do 35mm prints exist for the Return of the King Extended Edition?

No, which is a real shame as this means the EE LOTR trilogy in 35mm will forever remain incomplete.

Vladius said:

Yeah I’ll never forgive what they did by making the TOR MMO instead of 3, and having Revan and the Exile go down like weak punks in a tie-in book. One of the biggest betrayals or mistakes in the EU other than maybe Jacen Solo becoming a Sith.

KOTOR 2 having a mysterious open ending is interesting in its own way anyway.

Other than having the Exile as a Force Ghost, TOR otherwise pretends KOTOR 2 never happened.

Channel72 said:

Let’s face it: the only competent Star Wars sequels ever created were written by Timothy Zahn, and those are basically unfilmable.

Unfilmable? How so?

It’s pretty clear at this stage that George has a penchant for making shit up as he goes along.

I still find it infuriating how he was thwarted by Ezra in the series finale of Rebels.

Dave Filoni is a terrible storyteller.

This TV series being favourably compared to Rebels is really discouraging me from giving Ahsoka a go, because I absolutely despise Rebels.