Star Wars, Clone Wars, Rebels, Oh My

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Nope, second half about to start.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 January 2017 20:18 (seven years ago) link

I could never put my finger on what the horrible scenes that were supposed to be romantic in the prequel movies reminded me of, thematically. I think someone's got it figured out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vEG76KfRKc

mh 😏, Sunday, 15 January 2017 22:06 (seven years ago) link

three months pass...

finally getting into the middle of Rebels S3. This nascent insurgency sure does put a lot of sweat and treasure into hair

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 1 May 2017 01:52 (seven years ago) link

"you must drink it all. just like me. all of it."

forcefully enunciated this to many apprentices in my day as well

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 1 May 2017 01:53 (seven years ago) link

Saw Gerrera revealed as long ago, far away Bernie Bro

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 1 May 2017 02:58 (seven years ago) link

Thrawn forcing that suspected saboteur dude in the factory to accelerate the speeder bike until it exploded was some cold-ass shit for a kid's cartoon tbh.

Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Monday, 1 May 2017 12:42 (seven years ago) link

In a show centered on teenage soldiers in a guerilla war you gotta take your chances to illustrate the stakes when they come, is what I thought of that bit. Ditto Hondo's cellmate although his demise was so quick I barely registered that we'd lost a dude.

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 1 May 2017 13:38 (seven years ago) link

Mandalore = Europe

This is one of the only planets in the SW canon universe that has more than one observed biome
Population 100% warfighters who all look alike but have very, very, deadly serious clan shit
They invented and mastered many of the deadliest combat technologies around, except for that one
THE LIGHTSABER (ps this is a metaphor for the bomb)
and they have the lightsaber now, they just call theirs the darksaber, or whatever
and it's cool and all but it's not the same, is it
no, it's not

Also in the end, they're just fighting over Mandalore, provincial as can be, and not to spoil it, but

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Friday, 5 May 2017 03:31 (seven years ago) link

the toughest Mandalorian is cloned into a bazillion battalions, but all are rendered moot by a whiny hippie and his chubby robot friend. This metaphor pays for its own ticket, no?

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Friday, 5 May 2017 03:39 (seven years ago) link

the darksaber was from clone wars, i forgot about it but it's some mandalore leadership symbol from hundreds if not thousands of years ago and was taken from a jedi they defeated in battle

a landlocked exclave (mh), Friday, 5 May 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link

I take that back, it belonged to the first mandalorian jedi and has been a status symbol: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darksaber

a landlocked exclave (mh), Friday, 5 May 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link

This is one of the only planets in the SW canon universe that has more than one observed biome

Some of those are actually different planets btw. Sabine's family/clan are on Krownest, which is in Mandalorian space.

BTW they announced at Celebration that next season is officially the final season.

Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Friday, 5 May 2017 15:55 (seven years ago) link

I'll be vague to avoid major spoilers, but the seeing Thrawn's plan get spoiled at the last minute by the one factor he had no idea existed in the season finale was great

a landlocked exclave (mh), Friday, 5 May 2017 15:59 (seven years ago) link

placeholder for how fucking awesome the death of that one guy is

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 11 May 2017 03:18 (seven years ago) link

DM?

mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 03:22 (seven years ago) link

slide into your DMs like obi wan, DGAF your double sabers

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 11 May 2017 03:33 (seven years ago) link

*sound of soda can opening*

Is Coke it?

Yes, Coke is it.

"hhhhhh"

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 11 May 2017 03:37 (seven years ago) link

the idea of really skilled swordplay being a matter of sizing up stances, countering, and very little actual action is good imo

mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 03:55 (seven years ago) link

-- I become a redditurd about 20 words into this so bear with me or don't --

oh it was SO GOOD

Watching the entire "canon" from CW to the prequels, and Rebels, OBK is basically the one dude who could probably whup Yoda. He didn't get lucky in EP III; he called it how he saw it, and he was right. There needs to be albums about OBK. The only other truly fearless motherfucker in that galaxy is R2-D2 and he's actually an avatar of god, so

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 11 May 2017 04:02 (seven years ago) link

In Revenge of the Sith, Yoda tella Kenobi he isn’t powerful enough to face Sidious, which Yoda then goes to do himself. I do not think, at least that point, if at any point, really, could Kenobi beat Yoda.

the ghost of markers, Thursday, 11 May 2017 05:25 (seven years ago) link

The orbital bombardment of the base by Thrawn is one of the most terrifying things I've seen in an SW movie in terms of showing actual warfare. Like you genuinely feared for the characters' lives there.

Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Thursday, 11 May 2017 12:51 (seven years ago) link

well, could Yoda have beaten Sidious? In the movie it's a draw; in the novelization he loses.

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 May 2017 13:07 (seven years ago) link

Kenobi vs Yoda is decisively the dumbest argument I have ever started in any context

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 11 May 2017 13:15 (seven years ago) link

Sentence mitigated by you subconsciously trying to drop responsibility by calling him OBK.

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 11 May 2017 13:19 (seven years ago) link

are we talking "fall of the republic" kenobi or "been meditating and seeing all the moves in advance for twenty years" kenobi

mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link

I think the best written/performed part of the Maul/Obi-wan episode isn't even the confrontation -- it's Ezra being so driven to help, and Obi-wan just calmly telling him, "You're not supposed to be here." But it doesn't seem to really bother him that this has happened, just acceptance that this is how things have flushed out.

That was the original series' idea of How a Jedi Should Be that stuck with me. Not that being a warrior makes you less of a jedi, but the monk-like existences of Ben and Yoda not simply an artifact of them being in hiding

mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 14:07 (seven years ago) link

And then him just being chill while Maul basically throws a tantrum, and finally igniting his light saber only after Maul's finally done thinking out loud

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 11 May 2017 14:19 (seven years ago) link

it was almost a look of resignation when Maul puzzles out why Obi-wan is there and his primary purpose -- protecting the Skywalker kid, the only thing that spurns him to combat

mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link

spurs him to combat

jesus I've mistyped that twice this week

mh, Thursday, 11 May 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link

Phil D pretty close to the mark re: orbital bombardment. Very happy to see Sabine back in the fold. Also TOM BAKER WILL THUNDER DOWN ALL YOUR AT-ATS

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 18 May 2017 01:26 (seven years ago) link

I had a few free hours last night and read the Ahsoka book

...

― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Wednesday, October 12, 2016 10:48 AM

Have you read any of the other canon novels? Has anyone dipped into any of the canon novels besides mh? I probably shouldn’t, but who knows if I end up doing it anyway.

the ghost of markers, Friday, 19 May 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link

Supposed to be a new Vader comic thing happening too?

the ghost of markers, Friday, 19 May 2017 20:37 (seven years ago) link

That’s exactly what I should be doing with my life right now: finding out how he goes about building a lightsaber.

the ghost of markers, Friday, 19 May 2017 20:37 (seven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

do you think they'd ever have a character with white lightsaber(s) in the movies?

mh, Friday, 9 June 2017 03:47 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

the new rebels trailer feels like it reinforces my hunch that these good people are mostly going to wind up dead before long

http://www.youtube.com/embed/JtigV-biVGg

El Tomboto, Sunday, 3 September 2017 00:57 (seven years ago) link

ffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtigV-biVGg

El Tomboto, Sunday, 3 September 2017 00:58 (seven years ago) link

weird editing on that one

I like the idea of making the last season about going back to defeat the empire in the place they all came together

fwiw the new Thrawn book was half about Rebels

mh, Sunday, 3 September 2017 01:25 (seven years ago) link

four months pass...

I enjoyed reading Bloodline! I tend to agree that a lot of what's in it doesn't really appear so much on screen (which is a flaw of the newer movies, mostly TFA), but it did kind of jibe with what I expected about the First Order. Paramilitary, funded by some secret extremists within the government (Hail Hydra), salvaged existing craft from the Empire, mostly lived underground (literally).

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 03:02 (six years ago) link

is there any place Rebels is streaming? I bought season 1 but lord do I not wanna buy each one individually.

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 03:02 (six years ago) link

I think you can buy a season pass subscription from Amazon or Apple or the like

It's streaming on Disney XD, if you can get the ability to sign into someone's cable streaming credentials

mh, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link

Of the recent stock of writers allowed to dabble in Star Wars I'd put Claudia Gray on a higher tier than the others. The writing has a character focus, the connective tissue quotient is way too high on a lot of the others, or they're given characters that seem ephemeral

mh, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 03:44 (six years ago) link

just watched the ep where [redacted] confesses to the crimes they tried to frame [redacted] for and it's pretty much all the stuff that Luke says in the Last Jedi, just more use of the present tense. Clone Wars is the best Star Wars

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 03:41 (six years ago) link

Rebels really takes a big step up in quality between Seasons 1 and 2. I wish I had a show like this as a kid.

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link

omg the scene where Ahsoka shows up and faces down the two Inquisitors

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 January 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link

omg the episode with Agent Kallus and Zeb was incredible

fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 14 January 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link

there are some slower episodes but... you have a lot of great moments ahead

mh, Monday, 15 January 2018 00:23 (six years ago) link

Love REBELS 4evah

Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 15 January 2018 02:50 (six years ago) link

they grind on Sabine’s arc a little hard but it’s a cartoon, and it pays off

mh, Monday, 15 January 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link

New trailer for the final episodes, plus a lot of further detail (for now) from Filoni

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-final-trailer-for-star-wars-rebels-is-here-and-we-1822194377

Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 January 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Thrawn is so fuckin dope

Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 February 2018 01:44 (six years ago) link

The other thing you learn from watching all of Clone Wars is that the Jedi spend a LOT of time in the gym

sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 December 2020 05:57 (three years ago) link

Somewhere in the galaxy is a whole other club of force users who huff and puff after five minutes on the track and would really rather just have a cold space beer while they use their powers to detect when the coals have gotten the space pig to exactly the right internal temperature

sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 December 2020 06:01 (three years ago) link

did we talk about how terrible Anakin’s hair is in CW S7? My god

sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 03:30 (three years ago) link

That's how you knew he was headed to the dark side.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 04:55 (three years ago) link

The dork side

Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 07:55 (three years ago) link

two years pass...

new Bad Batch episodes!

this show’s grown on me and it seems more promising now that they’re out of the origin arc. it’s like the a-team but with experimental clones (and a kid)

mh, Thursday, 5 January 2023 00:27 (one year ago) link

three months pass...

Ahsoka tv show trailer's out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnzNZ0Mdx4I

It really does look like live action Rebels!

mh, Friday, 7 April 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link

LIVE ACTION REBELS would so be my jam.

i'm down for this.

Trout Fishing in America (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 April 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link

I keep coming back to the realization that there's a whole generation of folks for whom Clone Wars/Rebels was THEIR Star Wars, and that this must be such an exciting time for them. Like, imagine if all of the anticipation and hype leading up to The Phantom Menace had been in the service of something other than a two-hour George Lucas fart.

Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 April 2023 18:43 (one year ago) link

Love it! And Titus Pullo as a Sith!

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 7 April 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link

So if they’re doing Thrawn, and they teased the line “heir to the Empire,” dare I speculate that that’s Joruus C’baoth?

Bruce Hornsby–Big Stick 3:15 (Eliza D.), Friday, 7 April 2023 19:11 (one year ago) link

Still no sign of Ezra so he's definitely dead.

nashwan, Friday, 7 April 2023 19:27 (one year ago) link

they've got to hold something back for the show!

mh, Friday, 7 April 2023 19:28 (one year ago) link

xxpost Pretty much my initial guess. (Also: given all the various breadcrumbs being laid EVERYWHERE re cloning things lately in Mandalorian, Bad Batch, etc., that would fit in as well. I've seen it argued that this is a massive Rise of Skywalker retrofit going on, which makes sense -- but I'm actually interested in how that plays out here.)

Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 April 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link

xxpost Ezra’s in the trailer ( as a hologram) around the 1:20 mark!

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 7 April 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link

Be great if they went full Uncanny Valley and Ezra is the only one specifically rendered in CGI as his Rebels look without alteration. "But I've always looked like this."

Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 April 2023 20:34 (one year ago) link

I think that hologram (and the bit with Sabine in the tower) is a recreation of the end of Rebels where Ahsoka shows up

mh, Friday, 7 April 2023 22:38 (one year ago) link

Yeah, definitely.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 April 2023 23:53 (one year ago) link

not sure I'm very excited by more Rey.

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 8 April 2023 05:37 (one year ago) link

God it’s all so t e d i o u s

assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 8 April 2023 11:56 (one year ago) link

just give me 5 seasons of Andor please and nothing else

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 8 April 2023 13:07 (one year ago) link

Confirmed today that Lars Mikkelsen will reprise his role as Thrawn for _Ahsoka_

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 8 April 2023 13:28 (one year ago) link

So many Mikkelsen in Star Wars now

Trout Fishing in America (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 April 2023 13:39 (one year ago) link

four months pass...

Finally finished watching Rebels after all these years, very good stuff. Obv on the whole, way more consistent than Clone Wars (though that had a lot of high points tbf) and weird since I watched Season 7 of CW and the first 2 episodes of Ahsoka before this... but yeah. Pretty worthwhile. All the characters (except maybe Zeb who they kinda stopped giving stories after season 2) got nice arcs and the last 1.5 seasons especially had great momentum

cool that they carried over the Disney/deco art style from the final Jedi Temple story into future properties - current Ahsoka credit sequence, some of the stuff we saw in Visions etc.

Nhex, Monday, 4 September 2023 22:39 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

Am enjoying Rebels more than I thought I would. It’s a great accompaniment to painting SW Legion minis at night.

Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 3 November 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link

Yeah it's a solid effort in the overall canon-as-such. Tom Baker as a big plant-animal thing in tune with the Force, I'm down.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 November 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link

That was Tom Baker? Ha!

Nhex, Saturday, 4 November 2023 17:17 (one year ago) link

It was indeed!

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 November 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link


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