Star Wars 7 shit talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEle_DLDg9Y

I always figured the Emperor was self-consciously evil. He knows he's a huge prick and loves it. That might not be a subtle or coherent representation evil, but he's there as a kind of imaginary limit against which the more conflicted characters are measured.

he's the Grand Inquisitor, duh

he believes he's using evil means to achieve good outcomes

good guys don't shoot lightning out of their fingertips and he really wanted to do that

Yeah, his second-in-command is someone he has psychologically tortured, and that's how it's supposed to be - he might replace him with someone else that he's psychologically tortured, leading up to him taking his father's place by killing him - and that would be fine too. It's a win-win world when you're the Senior Sith Lord.

Hi I made you some pronoun salad, hope you like it.

xp KOTOR games were actually quite good at that, if you choose light or dark you get broadly similar powers (suggestion vs overwhelming their mind etc), but only one gives you lightning fingertips.

Anakin's temptation in the prequels would have been a lot more convincing if it actually was played as more like what Yoda describes in the original films: it's not stronger, but it's quicker, so you could come to believe you were doing the righteous and necessary thing, directly, while those fuddy-duddy Jedis dither over whether it's the right thing to do. He should have been tempted by, like, resolving the war quickly by a gradually worsening series of atrocities, not by the promise of a magic anti-death-in-childbirth potion, coming soon from the Emperor. Also, tangent and old news but maaaaaaan how lame is it that "he helped the Emperor hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights" means "he killed a bunch of kids this one time and then the Emperor activated his robot kill program"? It's tough for me now to remember the days when I imagined the "Jedi Knights" as kind of a small number of widely-dispersed do-gooders, out there righting wrongs and guarding peace without much fanfare or institutional structure.... like how Gandalf and Radagast do their own thing but just kind of bump into each other once every hundred years.

Making me wonder if there are any good sci fi prequels, cf. how the SW prequels and our old friend Prometheus try to flesh out something that's just suggested in the original text ('Jedi Knights' and the dead navigator) and fail

Hi I made you some pronoun salad, hope you like it.

― Andrew Farrell,

more vinaigrette I need

Also, tangent and old news but maaaaaaan how lame is it that "he helped the Emperor hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights" means "he killed a bunch of kids this one time and then the Emperor activated his robot kill program"?

he did in the books -- he becomes Tarkin's enforcer basically, brought on as the guy who has most commerce with the Emperor (although Tarkin does too).

Making me wonder if there are any good sci fi prequels, cf. how the SW prequels and our old friend Prometheus try to flesh out something that's just suggested in the original text ('Jedi Knights' and the dead navigator) and fail

― cardamon, Wednesday, December 10, 2014 7:38 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

caprica was good for about an episode

which one?

http://bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/Rey.jpg
http://bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/Finn.jpg
http://bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/Kylo-Ren.jpg

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/12/11/star-wars-the-force-awakens-character-names/

Kylo Renney

Kylo Riley

I totally had a huge pile of Star Wars bubblegum cards. Back when I was 4, they used to sell bubblegum cards from ice cream trucks. I have, like, a ton of Star Wars, a handful of Battlestar Galactica cards, and maybe four Kiss cards. And somehow I also ended up with Wayne Gretzky's rookie card. I didn't even know they made hockey trading cards.

oscar isaac as damon dash or smth

as an elementary school star wars CCG obsessive who basically sees all star wars media through the lens of the star wars CCG, those cards are alright. but the names are dumb.

yeah, it's star wars

I've still got a stash of the original cards around in my desk. I mean, why wouldn't I, me being me.

I am a tedious fuck for being annoyed that those cards all have the exact same stains/creases, etc

They're from an old universe

IF U ARE GOING TO POST THEM, POST THEM ALL FFS

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-the-force-awakens-oscar-isaac-poe-dameron.jpg

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-the-force-awakens-bb-8.jpg

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-the-force-awakens-trading-card-stormtroopers.jpg

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-the-force-awakens-trading-card-x-wings.jpg

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-the-force-awakens-trading-card-millennium-falcon.jpg

how's yr petard?

i meant the pictures u pedant, i know they were in the link

clear your cache

huh

(They've messed with the links, made direct links to the JPEGs show the entire page)

(Ah, I have images off so I see only the links. If I click on them it goes to the page. But if I long click and open in new tab I get the image.)

i dont see any of that on zing

petard shmetard

"open image in new tab" takes me to collider.com home page

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-the-force-awakens-oscar-isaac-poe-dameron.jpg

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-the-force-awakens-bb-8.jpg

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-the-force-awakens-trading-card-stormtroopers.jpg

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-the-force-awakens-trading-card-x-wings.jpg

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-the-force-awakens-trading-card-millennium-falcon.jpg

can we pedant about other things now

you guys sure ate up that sith.

Has anyone unearthed which of these VII characters are the progeny of the original trio of leads?

Some of these names, like "Poe Dameron" or "Finn", sound curiously English, so I think it's time to bring up this question again:

Are the people in the Star Wars movies humans?

Is there really no other nationality that the name 'Finn' makes you think of?

HAHA

lol

"Finn" is not a Finnish name. There is an archaic female first name "Suometar", which translates roughly to "Finlandess" (as in "lioness"), but I don't think anyone's been given that name in decades.

Finn's not an particularly English name either - it is apparently top 10 in Germany - have you tried www.ilxor.de ?

What's the source for that? I've never met or heard of a German with the first name "Finn"...

A minute's Googling, and this: http://www.firstnamesgermany.com/

Though it's only fair to point out that I'm really not that invested in this beyond pointing out that Luke (and possibly Ben?) are the only English names in a series known for ridiculous names, AND that this isn't really a reasonable link to your 43rd theory of point-missing.

It's Gaelic isn't it? Finn MacCool!

pointing out that Luke (and possibly Ben?) are the only English names in a series known for ridiculous names

Also Leia (a variant of Leah), Owen and Lobot.