Star Wars Saga (OT/PT/ST) Discussion Thread

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Mondragon said:

LOL is that the Laura X-23 character, Dafne Keen Fernández? They should have but lightsaber blades on her feet!
Loved her in Logan, and was looking forward to seeing her again in Deadpool & Wolverine. Hope this doesn't taint it all.

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That is just so stupid looking.

Wor-Gar said:

She's on the hunt for the spiders from Mars.

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Guys…guys…my dear online friends.

Hell some are almost family.

No not almost, you are family.

I was there opening weekend for the OT.

I hate KK with a passion.

But my friends…my family…

This belongs on my SW shelf…



AS MUCH AS THIS DOES…



Luthen’s main monologue on that windy Coruscant-ESB like skyscraper bridge in Andor is as good as anything from the OT.

No, it’s actually better than 50% of ROTJ!

I want a Luthen HT!

No scratch that.

I want a Luthen from Inart with rooted hair lol

Was Luthen wearing his posh wig during that epic monologue?!

Mando started out good, yet should have ended with delivering the kid to Luke
And Mando wandering off into the sunset alone, to his theme music.

All in on Andor, still the only compelling SW, what I'm most looking forward to.

Ahsoka seems a mostly inoffensive extension of the somewhat enjoyable cartoon, though the more it goes on the more it flies in the face of the OT.

Acolyte will be a flag waving virtue signaling message-hammer.
Likely unsubtly about how the Jedi (read as straight white(ish) males) keeping lesbians from expressing their love, is what lead to their downfall and failure, in case you didn't know.

Mondragon said:

Mando started out good, yet should have ended with delivering the kid to Luke

All in on Andor, still the SW I'm most looking forward to.

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While most of S3 was trash, that aerial battle at the end was epic.

No, it wasn't.

Parts of the Season 3 finale were mildly interesting, but there's nothing about the entire series that could come close to being described as "epic."

The attack on Death Star II was epic.

The Battle of Helm's Deep was epic.

Mando, good and bad, was just low-scale TV budget "content."

Otomofan said:

No, it wasn't.

Parts of the Season 3 finale were mildly interesting, but there's nothing about the entire series that could come close to being described as "epic."

The attack on Death Star II was epic.

The Battle of Helm's Deep was epic.

Mando, good and bad, was just low-scale TV budget "content."

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Well it was what I envisioned the clone wars to be like in 77 not that AOTC mess so at least just give me that will you.

Help me Khev-Gar, Otto is being too picky again lol

ZE_501 said:

Star Wars has become David Bowie for me. Kind of; it's not a one-to-one analogy.

I was lucky enough to see Bowie perform twice and have enormous respect for him as an artist. Yet in his lifetime he produced a massive body of work and took many risks -- most of which doesn't actually resonate with me. A glance at my Bowie playlist reveals 21 songs. One hour and forty-three minutes culled from a lifetime of work.

The bulk of his work that I don't appreciate has no bearing on what I do enjoy.

I enjoy the OT first and foremost. Appreciate Rogue One, Solo, and Andor plus some Mandalorian episodes on their own merits, and don't care about the rest. It is what it is.

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Not sure I'd draw a parallell between the risk-taking (in art, identity, syntax etc etc) a serious artist like Bowie did with what has happened to SW since the OT.

Maybe in what GL did with the PT (though I'd argue one of its weaknesses is the overtly juvenile nature of so much of it in comparison with the OT - destroying any artistry - an aspect you can see creeping in wiith ROTJ and exploding in the ewok movies,) but in terms of Disney I'd argue it's the exact reverse: endlessly mining nostalgia, story-grafting to the OT or just outright story/sequence theft, and failing through near-total mediocrity. And this includes even the very best of Disney SW like Mando and RO.

Felinx said:

Not sure I'd draw a parallell between the risk-taking (in art, identity, syntax etc etc) a serious artist like Bowie did with what has happened to SW since the OT.

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Agreed on that, hence my disclaimer that it wasn't a one-to-one situation. Mostly the way I enjoy what I like and have learned to completely ignore the rest. Years ago I would write passionate screeds on this forum about content I disapproved of, but it no longer matters.

Felinx said:

[...] but in terms of Disney I'd argue it's the exact reverse: endlessly mining nostalgia, story-grafting to the OT or just outright story/sequence theft, and failing through near-total mediocrity. And this includes even the very best of Disney SW like Mando and RO.

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100%

Wor-Gar said:

Ironically, Disney is making Star Wars more strange "Bowie" every day... in fact, isn't one of the characters in Acolyte essentially Ziggy Stardust?

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That's just their AI art department data-scraping old images.

I enjoyed The Mando seasons quite a bit (1&2 > 3), but I was getting tired of seeing early Macquarie and Johnston designs getting rifled through. Like, there’s no designers on staff? Didn’t they have Doug Chiang?

Felinx said:

Diluted isn't the word I would choose.

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I was being nice for once

Sixth Scale Man said:

I enjoyed The Mando seasons quite a bit (1&2 > 3), but I was getting tired of seeing early Macquarie and Johnston designs getting rifled through. Like, there’s no designers on staff? Didn’t they have Doug Chiang?

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Yes. He was lead designer across the whole thing

At this point, nu-Star Wars could be put on AI-autopilot and I think the result might actually be better.

Wor-Gar said:

At this point, nu-Star Wars could be put on AI-autopilot and I think the result might actually be better.

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It'll eventually become known that Disney created the ST and much of Disney+ SW by feeding the OT into an early version of that Google AI that produced the black George Washington.

The new 25th anniversary TPM comic shows us Anakin's dream about freeing the slaves. And like all comics in the Disney era (except those labelled Legends), it's as canon as the movies.

It reminds me how much I would've liked the Jedi to have this style of costume:

Prime Clone said:

The new 25th anniversary TPM comic shows us Anakin's dream about freeing the slaves. And like all comics in the Disney era (except those labelled Legends), it's as canon as the movies.

It reminds me how much I would've liked the Jedi to have this style of costume:

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If HT did the concept art versions of Jedi in their ninja like outfits I would get them. Much better look than desert dweller robes for a knight

That's a deep cut. I completely forgot about those Power of the Jedi figures that were based on unused concept art.

I could do without the yellow sabers though. They've been turning up everywhere lately.

Those costumes look bad ass.