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
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 biomePopulation 100% warfighters who all look alike but have very, very, deadly serious clan shitThey invented and mastered many of the deadliest combat technologies around, except for that oneTHE LIGHTSABER (ps this is a metaphor for the bomb)and they have the lightsaber now, they just call theirs the darksaber, or whateverand it's cool and all but it's not the same, is itno, 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
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
...
― 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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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