Star Wars: The Force Shall Free Us All

[The Huskar Social Union]

Warhammer 40k laughs at your broken corpse. Forever. While torturing your mind. Forever.

Tbf 40K is trash.

[Kowani]

Tbf 40K is trash.

Kay, so your flag makes me think of the Iron Hands, and I wanna make some Ferrus Manus jokes.

[Dylar]

Kay, so your flag makes me think of the Iron Hands, and I wanna make some Ferrus Manus jokes.

Is actually the Black Templars tho.

Anyone else see that Vader fan-film?

[Ameriganastan]

As long as 40K is the topic, that war scene in Solo gave me a real 40K vibe. One of the very few things I enjoyed about it.

[Northern Davincia]

Is it even meaningful to talk about an antagonist being OP? OP-ness is only a problem when you've got a heroic character who's so powerful they can resolve the conflict without needing to undergo any sort of change. An OP villain is...just a villain your heroes are going to have to work really hard to beat.

I guess if they were so powerful there was no sense in anyone even trying to beat them, so your story just disappears into a vortex of grimdarkness.

The Eye of Terror is down the hall, to the left.

[The Huskar Social Union]

As long as 40K is the topic, that war scene in Solo gave me a real 40K vibe. One of the very few things I enjoyed about it.

That Imperial Officer yelling for the troopers to move forward before being blown to fucking pieces fits so much. Just do him up as a commissar and give him a sword and he fits right in

[Impaled Nazarene]

As long as 40K is the topic, that war scene in Solo gave me a real 40K vibe. One of the very few things I enjoyed about it.

That Imperial Officer yelling for the troopers to move forward before being blown to fucking pieces fits so much. Just do him up as a commissar and give him a sword and he fits right in

I thought that too. I was also VERY happy to see the Imperial Army be recognized as canon.

[New haven america]

Aaand TCW is back to being really good. Who knows how long it'll keep it up for?

The Deserter was really sweet, if a tad ham-fisted with its themes. And, most importantly, adorable Twi'lek kids adopted by a clone!

The Grievous-Kenobi sections were still naff, though, and completely disrupted the genuinely tense climactic scenes on the farm. It's a shame episode III was a thing. If it weren't for that, they could have killed off this dud character already.

God, I remember how cool Grievous was in the 2003 cartoon. Why couldn't we have kept that guy?

Does no one remember the fact that Grievous in Episode 3 was just meme fodder and doesn't do anything of particular note other then saying "General Kenobi."?

[New haven america]

As long as 40K is the topic, that war scene in Solo gave me a real 40K vibe. One of the very few things I enjoyed about it.

That Imperial Officer yelling for the troopers to move forward before being blown to fucking pieces fits so much. Just do him up as a commissar and give him a sword and he fits right in

TBH, despite its flaws, Solo was still a very pretty and well shot movie.

[Platypus Bureaucracy]

God, I remember how cool Grievous was in the 2003 cartoon. Why couldn't we have kept that guy?

Does no one remember the fact that Grievous in Episode 3 was just meme fodder and doesn't do anything of particular note other then saying "General Kenobi."?

Eh, I'll play Devil's Advocate. Grievous is a broadly functional plot device in Episode III that serves to separate Anakin and Obi Wan so that they're apart when Order 66 happens, and it doesn't really matter if he's just a bland cough-y robot. The greatest failing is that the film spends rather too long on his action scenes, though that's more a general problem with the prequels almost always spending too long on action scenes. TCW suffers because it has no choice but to promote him from one time plot device to recurring series villain.

[New haven america]

Does no one remember the fact that Grievous in Episode 3 was just meme fodder and doesn't do anything of particular note other then saying "General Kenobi."?

Eh, I'll play Devil's Advocate. Grievous is a broadly functional plot device in Episode III that serves to separate Anakin and Obi Wan so that they're apart when Order 66 happens, and it doesn't really matter if he's just a bland cough-y robot. The greatest failing is that the film spends rather too long on his action scenes, though that's more a general problem with the prequels almost always spending too long on action scenes. TCW suffers because it has no choice but to promote him from one time plot device to recurring series villain.

He was actually a master warrior and assassin in the 2003 Clone Wars series (I'm talking about taking on 6 Jedi and tons of Clone Troopers all at once, who are all armed with lightsabers and blasters while he goes in with nothing and still wins. Actually, no, he doesn't just win, he dominates them), but I think someone on the creative team changed him for RotS so he wasn't so overpowered and unstoppable, but they went a bit too far and made him a coward.

Unfortunately, TCW takes place mostly during the later half of the war so they have to make him more like Episode 3 Grievous and less like CW 03's Grievous.

[Vassenor]

That Imperial Officer yelling for the troopers to move forward before being blown to fucking pieces fits so much. Just do him up as a commissar and give him a sword and he fits right in

I thought that too. I was also VERY happy to see the Imperial Army be recognized as canon.

You mean Veers and all the Walker pilots don't count?

[Autarkheia]

Grievous does so little and is such a ridiculous character in Episode III that if he weren't needed to give Obi-Wan a reason to leave Coruscant, I would say he shouldn't have been in the movie at all. He seems more like a cartoon villain in it so he was perfect for The Clone Wars. However, he did give us lots of good memes.

[Ism]

Grievous does so little and is such a ridiculous character in Episode III that if he weren't needed to give Obi-Wan a reason to leave Coruscant, I would say he shouldn't have been in the movie at all. He seems more like a cartoon villain in it so he was perfect for The Clone Wars. However, he did give us lots of good memes.

Yeah, RotS doesn’t do much with Grievous, and so was Dooku. I think a better way to handle it would have been to have Anakin and Obi-Wan to track down Dooku and Grievous separately.

[Uinted Communist of Africa]

That Imperial Officer yelling for the troopers to move forward before being blown to fucking pieces fits so much. Just do him up as a commissar and give him a sword and he fits right in

TBH, despite its flaws, Solo was still a very pretty and well shot movie.

YOU WERE SUPPOSE TO SAVE THE REPUBLIC NOT DESTROY IT.....BRING BALANCE TO THE FORCE NOT LEAVE IT IN DARKNESS. I LOVED YOU LIKE A BROTHER ANAKIN!!!

[Jolthig]

Being a guy obsessed with lightsaber forms, I wanna practice lightsaber techniques someday. Especially Form III (Soresu) of the trolling master, Obi-Wan. It's my favorite lightsaber form.

[Kowani]

Being a guy obsessed with lightsaber forms, I wanna practice lightsaber techniques someday. Especially Form III (Soresu) of the trolling master, Obi-Wan. It's my favorite lightsaber form.

I like Soresu. It’s defense oriented. If I was flexible and agile, I might try out Yoda’s style (well, a modification), but God, I hate Varpaad.

[American Pere Housh]

HK-47 for life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jolthig]

Being a guy obsessed with lightsaber forms, I wanna practice lightsaber techniques someday. Especially Form III (Soresu) of the trolling master, Obi-Wan. It's my favorite lightsaber form.

I like Soresu. It’s defense oriented. If I was flexible and agile, I might try out Yoda’s style (well, a modification), but God, I hate Varpaad.

It's vapaad. Haha

Yoda's style is form IV (Ataru) and Mace's is a variant of Form VII which is vapaad.

[The Huskar Social Union]

I had a dream where i went to watch Episode IX last night, only got to watch half of it and then went off to do something with carrie fisher in real life (no idea what) and i got really annoyed i only saw half of it.

I remember fragments, there being this planet that was like half desert and half metal covered surface with this tall spire on the metal side surrounded by lights and FO units. I remember Finn and Leia were trying to get inside it, Rey was off doing stuff with Luke still and Ren and the First Order were using new star destroyers (which were vaguely like two star destroyers fused together, one on the bottom and one on the top, with only the top one having a command tower) to just blow the fuck out of shit and i think were fighting a Mon Cal fleet.


No idea what the plot was but ah well, watched it in a cool cinema. I have some odd dreams

[Impaled Nazarene]

I thought that too. I was also VERY happy to see the Imperial Army be recognized as canon.

You mean Veers and all the Walker pilots don't count?

To be fair they were the only parts of the army considering all the soldiers used were Stormtrooper corp. If not the vehicles specifically being Stormtrooper corp. Not to mention that the role of generals is rather confusing considering they seem to have authority over the separate branch of the Stormtrooper corp whilst being Army officers.
I can't wholly consider Veers and the vehicle crews being Imperial Army as solidly canon.

Being a guy obsessed with lightsaber forms, I wanna practice lightsaber techniques someday. Especially Form III (Soresu) of the trolling master, Obi-Wan. It's my favorite lightsaber form.

There is a lightsaber academy in Italy. They actually keep it pretty close to the old lore and include real sword fighting elements. Even holding tournaments too!

[Platypus Bureaucracy]

No one ever complain again that TLJ is the slowest chase in Star Wars. This is the slowest chase in Star Wars.

[Pax Nerdvana]

No one ever complain again that TLJ is the slowest chase in Star Wars. This is the slowest chase in Star Wars.

Oh yeah, that lasted an entire episode.

[Platypus Bureaucracy]

So I'm guessing The Mandalore Plot isn't the source of all the adoration Mandalorians seem to receive? 'twas very predictable and as safe as can be. It at least captured the spirit of the prequels, in that it had no idea what to do with Obi Wan* and shies away from properly getting into the themes of war and peace that it flirts with. And, unfortunately, it seems to be setting up another "Isn't trying to remain neutral silly?" moral, which is the exact opposite of what I'd hoped for from this series. Fingers crossed the next episodes change course.

The Mandalorians also apparently take Grievous' approach to PR. First the Malevolence, now the Death Watch.

*Imma name this phenomenon 'The Kenobi Effect':

An episode's ability to tell a good story is inversely proportional to Obi Wan's prominence within that episode.

[Dylar]

So I'm guessing The Mandalore Plot isn't the source of all the adoration Mandalorians seem to receive? 'twas very predictable and as safe as can be. It at least captured the spirit of the prequels, in that it had no idea what to do with Obi Wan* and shies away from properly getting into the themes of war and peace that it flirts with. And, unfortunately, it seems to be setting up another "Isn't trying to remain neutral silly?" moral, which is the exact opposite of what I'd hoped for from this series. Fingers crossed the next episodes change course.

The Mandalorians also apparently take Grievous' approach to PR. First the Malevolence, now the Death Watch.

*Imma name this phenomenon 'The Kenobi Effect':

An episode's ability to tell a good story is inversely proportional to Obi Wan's prominence within that episode.

Nope. From my understanding, the source of adoration for Mandalorians would be Karen Traviss' Republic Commando books. I think. Or it might be the Jango Fett: Open Seasons comic series