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Star Wars |OT| I have a very good feeling about this...
- Thread starter WadiumArcadium
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Lost Stars, Bloodline, Leia, Thrawn
WadiumArcadium
Member
My feeling is he's probably talking to Leia as it sounds like they'll be sharing quite a few scenes. You can see Carrie's daughter's character, Lieutenant Connix, in the background too.
It would be nice to see Rey and Poe share some screen-time though. From the BTS video it looks as though Rey will turn up on Crait so maybe they will.
It looks like the guy who did it last season was banned. I don't know if anyone else is working on it.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Im gonna take a wild guess and say hes talking to Holdo.
ArkkAngel007
Member
I'd put my money there as well. While they didn't have any exchanges from what I recall, Leia and Poe likely have a good relationship in bringing the Resistance together. Poe looks absolutely livid in a way that seems directed at the individual he's speaking with, rather than the subject matter surrounding any potential defeats or losses they have suffered.
WadiumArcadium
Member
I'd assumed he was looking at something - a hologram or some other information perhaps - but I hadn't considered he was looking directly at someone as he was talking. It seems unlikely to be Leia if that's the case. Seeing Poe and Holdo go at each other could be entertaining.
ArkkAngel007
Member
I could just be projecting in wanting Poe to be more central to the film alongside Rey and Finn, rather than slipping into the background again. If Holdo is supposed to be a character butting into the business of the Resistance, I'm wanting Poe to take her on beside or on behalf of Leia.
Chuckie
Member
Do creators ever admit they do have filler episodes btw? Serious question. To me it sounds really negative.
When does the new season start btw?
These are the times I've seen him bring up filler.
https://youtu.be/P-bJu__WXmY?t=8m40s
https://youtu.be/6-W4CoeMd7A?t=6m45s
At least he understands that some of the episodes were pretty "throw away". All those episodes are what really brings down Rebels, I feel, because all the non-filler ones always are really good but you have to wait weeks before you get to anything interesting.
WadiumArcadium
Member
Monday.
If nobody else is working on a Rebels OT, I don't mind throwing something together for it. Only if no one else is interested in doing it though, I don't want to hog.
TOP TIER
Servants of the Empire series
Battlefront: Twilight Company
Bloodline
GREAT TIER
Catalyst
Tarkin
A New Dawn
Leia: Princess of Alderaan
Thrawn
Guardians of the Whills
Aftermath: Life Debt
Aftermath: Empire's End
Lost Stars
GOOD TIER
From A Certain Point of View
Smuggler's Run
The Weapon of a Jedi
Moving Target
Phasma
Before the Awakening
OK TIER
Dark Disciple
Ahsoka
Adventures in Wild Space series
Lords of the Sith
Ezra's Gamble
Battlefront II: Inferno Squad
Aftermath
Tales from a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Join the Resistance
AVOID
Heir to the Jedi
Join the Resistance: Escape from Vodran
MadLaughter
Member
In light of a lot of the harassment issues coming to light this week, the writer of Phasma Delilah S. Dawson had a SIXTY tweet thread covering all of the major times she's been harassed/abused/assaulted in her life. It's fucked up. I knew that being a woman is a constant fight that men can rarely know, but my eyes are like 10x as open now.
Trigger warnings for some severe abuse, including childhood:
https://storify.com/davewburns/delilah-s-dawson-shares-harrowing-experiences
Trigger warnings for some severe abuse, including childhood:
https://storify.com/davewburns/delilah-s-dawson-shares-harrowing-experiences
I'd put before the awakening higher honestly, even if it's short. And I just cannot fathom all the love for lost stars. The characters are cardboard cutouts and the love story is atrocious. Though there are some interesting connections to the OT story. I really had to force myself to keep reading in hopes that it would improve
Lost Stars is great because it's melodramatic cheese but it knows it and it's earnest. That's perfect for Star Wars.
Lost Stars feels more like Star Wars to me than Twilight Company, but the latter's just better as a book.
Saw this in the other thread but it's really disturbing.
Lost Stars feels more like Star Wars to me than Twilight Company, but the latter's just better as a book.
Saw this in the other thread but it's really disturbing.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Servants of the Empire is good? On Amazonk the covers looks like a picture book.
I mean, I'll give anything a shot but is this YA? MG?
I mean, I'll give anything a shot but is this YA? MG?
This is a really weird take to me.
I don't think it's really that self aware honestly. And characters have almost no personality
And there is none of that romantic cheese in the OT. the PT suffers because of said cheese
Badly
Middle grade but it doesn't read like it, except for all the sports stuff in the first book. It's a very good look at the way the youth are affected by the Empire and it helps flesh out Rebels a ton.
Come on, the characters even mention at one point how illogical it is for them to keep meeting and just go "Must be the will of the Force!"
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Guess I need to watch Rebels too lmao
Bad writing does not equate to being self aware though
I don't get why Lost Stars gets all these weird passes
It's clearly written as a serious novel.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
It's just so poorly streamed and Dish doesn't seem to get DTV or whatever weird Disney channel (not the Disney Channel itself of fucking course) it's on
WadiumArcadium
Member
I can't agree with Thane and Ciena having no personality. Some of the supporting characters maybe, but I really liked the two of them as protagonists. The romance is a bit soppy but it didn't effect my enjoyment of the book.
I don't think I've disliked anything I've read from Greg Rucka. I enjoyed it a lot.
It totally removed me from the story. Like destroyed the immersion. I think if you had to describe them, individually, you'd have a tough time picking out things that define their personalities. Very generic cardboard YA, in my eyes.
Their romance in particular hit PT levels of cheese and laughable writing.
But some of the world building and references to events from the OT were really well done.
After that novel, I've been actively searching for anything SW he's done.
WadiumArcadium
Member
It's not Star Wars but I'd recommend giving Lazarus a go. One of the best comics I've read in the past few years.
Thanks for the suggestion. Didn't he also do a Han Solo book for Before the Awakening? I bought it but have not read it yet. Very excited to get around to it
WadiumArcadium
Member
Yeah, he wrote Smuggler's Run, the comic that's set after ROTJ called Shattered Empire and Guardians of the Whills which is about Chirrut and Baze.
Nice. Thanks.
I enjoyed Moving Target quite a bit. Gunna read Luke's Before the Awakening book next. I know they're not written by Greg but they also seem quite good.
Queen & Country and Whiteout are also great reads by Rucka.
Same, on the reclining chairs/14th, except I got an 8PM showing.
Did you watch the trailer?
Haloid1177
Banned
8 PM? Damn you lying with that avatar.
Might as well just wait until it's out on Bluray.
I was refreshing movie ticket sites like crazy looking for what site would put them up first.
Finally, amctheaters.com put up seats for their showings and it was the first to have listings for the theaters I prefer to attend. Fandango still wasn't showing anything on their site or App.
I wasn't really positive what the Fan Event would entail, but I knew that it was a 6PM IMAX 2D (this is a full size IMAX for what it's worth) showing based on what the page's details, so I sort of blindly bought that one so I could get the best seats I could before everything started to fill up and sell out.
Even though it was a pricey showing compared to a normal IMAX showing... still really happy with the choice.
I don't have a lot of faith that the 5 mins or whatever of bonus footage they show will be that exciting, I don't care about the free popcorn (really don't care for it), and the pack of cards... well, if they are holofoil or something that would be neat but I doubt it. Whatever. What I know is I'm going to see a highly anticipated film on the best screen in my area at the earliest showtime possible. Hype!
I checked the seats a couple hours later and the entire theater was sold out. Gonna be a great night!
Yo
I want reclining seats and no 6 hour wait in the cold. I will fight you.
I will see this movie 8 times, one more than TFA.
WadiumArcadium
Member
The Rebels OT is almost done. I'll try and post it tomorrow. Anyone have any OT title suggestions?
I quite like this one:
I quite like this one:
I got reserved seating, but the only seats left were for 8PM
Cross-Section
Member
They confirmed that a while back, I think.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
I'm sad the only Lego set with Holdo in it is the big ol' $110 Resistance Bomber set. 
I want a Laura Dern minifig since it seems original JP will never get a series and she won't be in Fallen Kingdom.
Also, they really need to put Kylo in a more affordable set. Seems like the cheapest one so far is $60, and it's a diorama-style set, which I'm not a huge fan of.
I want a Laura Dern minifig since it seems original JP will never get a series and she won't be in Fallen Kingdom.Also, they really need to put Kylo in a more affordable set. Seems like the cheapest one so far is $60, and it's a diorama-style set, which I'm not a huge fan of.
Veritigo_X
Member
Star Wars Rebels: Season 4 |OT| Adventures of Young Snoke
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
u stop this rite now
I just listened to full of sith for the first time. That's probably the best SW podcast I've heard. Someone had an interesting idea about Rey.. that it's possible Luke (or someone who knew Luke and helped him) dropped Rey off on Jakku.. not necessarily to protect her, but to protect everyone else. I had never heard that take before and thought it was very interesting.
I am much more leaning toward Luke knowing who Rey is and lying to her face.. trying his best to get away from her because he's fucking terrified of her power, after seeing what Kylo Ren is capable of.
"it didn't scare me before", the more I think about it, is referring to Rey when she was younger.
I am much more leaning toward Luke knowing who Rey is and lying to her face.. trying his best to get away from her because he's fucking terrified of her power, after seeing what Kylo Ren is capable of.
"it didn't scare me before", the more I think about it, is referring to Rey when she was younger.