The Resistance is Coming Edition
>Newest Rebels Recon Episode (2x20 - Twilight of the Apprentice):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-bJu__WXmY
>Upcoming Releases:
http://www.swbooks.net/updates/release-2016.htm
>Star Wars Canon Guide:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t1KovH_1GYLDTAe3yrleeWiuzwulm670o_anQqr5Rcg/pubhtml
>Download links: (Check here for the newest episode + Books, Comics, Films, etc)
http://pastebin.com/nWsKtSya
>The Clone Wars Legacy Content:
http://www.starwars.com/tv-shows/the-clone-wars-legacy
I need Rogue One.
>>81466923
I want Poe to come in me
>>81466993
Finn pls go
Obligatory SS post
>>81466993
I want Rey to cum in me personally
> new TFA discussion incoming
only the dead know peace from this evil
>>81467180
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
How can half a man be so perfect?
>>81467272
He only ever needed half?
I think its important to post this again
In truth, Darth Vader is gone now. The body Luke eases gently to the floor is Anakin Skywalker.
"Luke, help me take this mask off," Anakin says, no longer booming."
"But you'll die."
"Nothing can stop that now. Just for once let me look on you with my own eyes."
It takes Luke a moment but he soon discovers how the front of Vader's mask can be detached from the helmet and removed. When he does so, the sound of Vader's respirator, already ragged, stops. And now Luke sees for himself the face of his father: scarred and battered into something barely human. And now Anakin sees his son's face: a handsome face creased with concern and, yes, bearing its own battle scars. But at least Anakin sees him not as a Jedi or a warrior or a threat or a mistake, but as his son...and Padme's son.
And Anakin smiles. Not a smile like the Emperor's. Or a crazed grin like Darth Maul's. Not even a smirk like Anakin might have shown Ahsoka back in his Jedi days. But a real smile. The smile that only Padme ever saw.
"Now...go, my son," Anakin struggles to say. "Leave me."
"No. You're coming with me. I can't leave you hear! I've got to save you!"
"You already have, Luke. You were right. You were right about me. Tell your sister...you were right."
"Father...I won't leave you."
>>81467291
>"Luke. You were right. You were right about me. Tell your sister...I was right about Alderaan. Those fuckers suuuuuucked-"
>>81467291
>I can't leave you hear!
C'mon son
>>81467291
Thanks for the feels anon...
>>81467272no dick
>Guilds and Raids coming to Galaxy of Heroes
Oh boy...
>>81467376
Obviously he's emphasizing that his dad has to listen to him declare that he won't leave.
Still needs a comma, though.
>>81467291
Now someone make a scene exactly the opposite like in Monty Python's Holy Grail about Luke trying to get rid of Vader and Vader saying he's getting better.
>>81467431
Still trying to get used to that game. It's kind of a bore. Those don't sound too exciting.
>>81467376
>>81467433
for fucks sake I thought I got all the typos out of it when I copied it from the book. I had to type it out manually while reading the hard copy, and then I copy pasted it from last thread
>About to go to bed
>Glance at the TV
>Admiral Ackbar's VA is dead
I didn't ask for this
>>81467251
>Son of Dathomir spends the whole time teasing a Maul vs Dooku fight
>it never happens
>>81467507
As dead as the rest of Dac
>>81466923
Why is his helmet so small compared to OT ones?
>>81467462
It's a time-waster, nothing more. The character roster is the only thing good about it; there's no story, and it's only a matter of time before you either hit a wall in progress or it becomes too tedious. Not to mention complacent gaming syndrome up the ass.
>>81467551
Damn.
>>81467551
> son of dathomir takes 15 minutes to read in its entirety
this is why I hate comics
>>81466857
>As for the others, I guess when you're surrounded by living legends you've heard all the stories by now. Hell, everyone learned about the Death Star II when they were told of the Emperor's death. Next thing we know "WEESA FREE!" and people are mosh pitting Stormtroopers over the sides of buildings.
I can kind of see that for Poe, I guess. Obviously Kylo Ren would know all this stuff because Mom and Dad and Uncle Luke would be telling him the stories themselves, and Poe, as a high-ranking Resistance member, would be reasonably up on his history, but everyone still seemed WAY too cavalier about "it's another Death Star". They not only react like they all saw a Death Star a week ago, but like they know they're in a Star Wars movie and they know exactly where this plotline's going.
But Finn and Rey both should have far more limited knowledge. Rey has been on Jakku since she was a little girl, with no formal education to speak of, and she didn't exactly seem like a social butterfly. Anakin, when we first meet him in The Phantom Menace, has lots of local Tatooine knowledge and knows lots about fixing things (because it's his job) and podracing (because it's his hobby), but everything else he knows is tall tales and half-truths about how Jedi can't be killed and how the angels on Iego are so beautiful. And that's just a busy little port like Mos Espa, not a totally isolated backwater like Jakku. How is this scavenging hermit girl such a history buff that she gets all giddy about Luke Skywalker and Han Solo?
And Finn makes even less sense. He was taken from a family he'll never know and raised to do one thing. The entire sum of his knowledge should divide neatly into two categories: First Order training and First Order propaganda. I can see him knowing who Luke is, because Luke's FO Public Enemy #1, but I can't see him knowing hardly anything TRUE about Luke, and I can't see him knowing much about Han at all, let alone seeing Han as a "war hero".
>>81467551
>we'll get Maul vs Vader but not Maul vs Dooku
I mean yeah, that sounds cool and all, but I'd rather see the latter
>>81467763
Why the fuck is it $180
>>81467764
inbd4 somebody says it was all the workings of the force
>>81467813
Because it's out of print because Disney is jew.
>>81467764
>They not only react like they all saw a Death Star a week ago
They don't even seem all that bothered that the Hosnian System got wiped out. It's just kind of a thing that happened. For all the weight the Hosnian massacre has on the characters and importance to the story, the weapon may as well have just destroyed an uninhabited planet as a test shot.
>Oh wow, they have a big weapon, that sucks
>We should do something about it, I guess
The New Republic's capital was destroyed, billions killed, surprise superweapon none of them apparently knew about... and that's as much reaction as they get.
Alderaan didn't get much fanfare either and Leia doesn't seem to be that greatly affected by it afterward, but at the very least she does show distress when it's being threatened and its destruction has a significant effect on the story.
>>81467291
Does the novelization make the events on the Endor moon bearable?
no god awful pun intended, those fucking ewoks can die by the millions
>>81467272
Honest emotions, smart, dynamic wildcard, Witwer's voice, photogenic face
>>81467840
Wasn't it the last thing Dark Horse did and it's out of print because they don't have Star Wars license anymore.
>>81467881
What I find funny is that we still get this tragic music and these shots of the poor victims but no context for who they are or why we should care beyond "Some people we never saw before are dying, that's a bad thing I guess"
Post favorite armors.
Phase II Fox looks kinda gay.
>>81468021
They all do, anon, if you play your cards right ;)
>>81467272
I want to make him whole ;__;
>>81467291
>The entirety of Anakin's life were people leaving him
>His mother left him and this world
>Ahsoka left him and the order
>Padme left him and this world
>Obi-wan left him to die
>Ahsoka stayed behind in the Sith Temple and left him again to wonder out as Vader once more
>Only Luke refused to leave him
just found out the single issue version of the Thrawn trilogy comics in the pastebin downloads section has corrupted iles. The TPB files are fine, as is the single issue Heir to the Empire.
Also, are the thrawn novels any different to the comic adaptation? I'd rather read the book if the comic doesn't adapt the whole thing
Peep my wallpaper
>>81468045
>Cody is the tsundere one
>Bly is the class rep
>Bacara is the sporty one
>Gree is the loner
>Appo is the childhood friend>Rex is an unlockable route after you woo the other five
Why doesnt this exist
>TFW horses exist in the SW Universe.
>https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2016/3/11/where-next/
>>81468021
>>81468099
We talking Clone Dating Sim now?
>>81467764
Jakku was the site of the last major battle between the Imperial Remnant and the fledgling New Republic. The first settlers? Survivors from the battle whose ships crashed. It's supposed to have a lot of vets, too. People who know those ships are good at figuring how how to navigate the wrecks and know what's valuable.
So basically she's heard a lot of stories. A LOT of stories. When? Who knows because they don't gab during the cleaning of the salvage or apparently they get hit. Pity because it would have been nice for Rey to listen to old war stories and legends of the Jedi. Maybe an old Wookiee to show why the locals might know his language.
>>81468094
in this post
>>81467272
Darth Maul has no penis
>ywn see SS grope Ezra and act all casual about it
>>81467881
Leia seems very affected at least during Alderaan's destruction. And then Luke, Han, and Ben are totally aghast at the wreckage field, and even on the Death Star Ben is like "the plans must be delivered safely or other star systems will suffer the same fate as Alderaan".
There's a much bigger deal made out of it, and one thing that helped is that the movie built up Alderaan like it was the Emerald City before Tarkin blew it up. The crawl says Leia's headed there. Leia tells Vader she's headed there. R2's message tells Ben and Luke to head there. Ben's like "we gotta go to Alderaan" and Luke eventually agrees to come with. They buy passage with Han and say "Alderaan" like three times in that conversation alone. By the time the Death Star -- also mentioned in the crawl, along with its ability to wipe out star systems -- is in orbit around Alderaan, Alderaan is Mecca and we are all Muslims.
And suddenly Mecca is gone.
Starkiller Base's ability to wipe out planets is introduced in the same scene where it fires for the first time. We were just told of a "weapon" for the first time in the first Snoke scene. The Hosnian system is introduced, not even named, just in time for it to be destroyed. It's named later, casually, off-handedly, by Poe after the Battle of Takodana. The movie has just done absolutely zero work building up this scene, and expects an emotional response from the viewer that it hasn't earned in the slightest. It's all imitation with no understanding. It's like a cargo cult.
>>81468099
How about Fives?
>>81468140
Anon, do you want me to post a graph how to do cunnilungus so you don't think dick's the most important thing?
>>81467498
It's just a typo, anon, no biggie. Happens all the tim. I mean time.
Seriously we need more levity around these threads.
>>81468140
That's the price of being a Sith, ruined penises, but glorious power in return.
>>81468167
Yes
>>81468157
>The movie has just done absolutely zero work building up this scene, and expects an emotional response from the viewer that it hasn't earned in the slightest. It's all imitation with no understanding. It's like a cargo cult.
And it even adds Hux doing a big dramatic villain speech about how he's going to destroy a government the audience once saw mentioned briefly in the opening crawl. We have no idea who these guys are, why the First Order has a beef with them, or anything whatsoever about the situation but we're still expected to find his whole "LAST DAY OF THE REPUBLIC" bullshit stirring and chilling.
>>81468140
Remember when Sidious said the Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural?
He was referring specifically to the Sith Wang Trick. Telekinetic, projectable, and completely inSidious. He likes to deploy it during long boring Senate hearings. When people complain he just says, "Oh, it's those pesky Jedi! You must sponsor another bill increasing the funding of the military!"
Because he can have his fun and still profit.
>>81468124
Yes pls. Favorite route?
>>81468159
Secretly works at a detective-themed maid cafe.
Echo is the hikikomori one, spends all his time thinking about his lost limbs andlewdlyinterfacing with machines
>>81468186
Won't derail the thread with that, sorry. But you can google, yes? Get off mainstream porn and broaden your horion.
>>81468176
>That's the price of being a Sith, ruined penises, but glorious power in return.
>every Sith Lord is either too old to get it up, loses their dick to serious trauma, or gets Sheeved before they can mate
IT'S TRUE, EVEN FOR SAVAGE OPRESS
>>81468140
>tfw a dickless man still gets more action than you
JUST
>>81468167
Yoda seems to have a personal stake in this. Hm.
>>81468099
How about Gregor and Wolffe?
>>81468414
> we could have had this
> instead we got Quinlan "the loss" Vos
kill me
>>81467291
Why doesn't ROTJ ever get the appreciation it deserves?
>>81468331
Don't start shit if you're not going to deliver, friend. It just makes you look like an even bigger douch than you obviously are.
>>81468422
Probably a bit too yaoi on their GayT-GayT.just kidding, but maybe that one imperial Kallus abandoned is hanging with them
>>81467893
Jedi's novelisation is really fucking goofy. The decision to transcribe the vocalizations of every droid/alien is the stupidest fucking thing ever. It still gives a slightly more complete picture of the events, although it wasn't created off such an early script as SW or ESB, the Ewoks are generally treated as less 'cute' and more just a crazy primitive race. Here's the same scene from the novel.
In the midst of this uproar, Luke had made it, somehow, to the main docking
bay—where he was trying to carry the hulking deadweight of his father's weakening
body toward an Imperial shuttle. Halfway there, his strength finally gave out,
though; and he collapsed under the strain.
Slowly he rose again. Like an automaton, he hoisted his father's body over his
shoulder and stumbled toward one of the last remaining shuttles.
Luke rested his father on the ground, trying to collect strength one last time, as
explosions grew louder all around them. Sparks hissed in the rafters; one of the
walls buckled, and smoke poured through a gaping fissure. The floor shook.
Vader motioned Luke closer to him. "Luke, help me take this mask off."
Luke shook his head. "You'll die."
The Dark Lord's voice was weary. "Nothing can stop that now. Just once let
me face you without it. Let me look on you with my own eyes."
Luke was afraid. Afraid to see his father as he really was. Afraid to see what
person could have become so dark—the same person who'd fathered Luke, and Leia.
Afraid to know the Anakin Skywalker who lived inside Darth Vader.
cont'd
>>81468489
Ventress deserved better than what she got.
>>81468512Come on, let's not starting getting personal in the threads again. It's happened the last two in a row now.
>>81468495
Because it's less than the sum of its parts.
>>81468422
Gregor is definitely archery or judo club, whereas Wolffe is the class delinquent who does street racing on the side.
>>81468523
Vader, too, was afraid—to let his son see him, to remove this armored mask that
had been between them so long. The black, armored mask that had been his only
means of existing for over twenty years. It had been his voice, and his breath, and
his invisibility—his shield against all human contact. But now he would remove it;
for he would see his son before he died.
Together they lifted the heavy helmet from Vader's head—inside the mask
portion, a complicated breathing apparatus had to be disentangled, a speaking
modulator and view-screen detached from the power unit in back. But when the
mask was finally off and set aside, Luke gazed on his father's face.
It was the sad, benign face of an old man. Bald, beardless, with a mighty scar
running from the top of his head to the back of the scalp, he had unfocused, deepset,
dark eyes, and his skin was pasty white, for it had not seen the sun in two decades.
The old man smiled weakly; tears glazed his eyes, now. For a moment, he looked
not too unlike Ben.
It was a face full of meanings, that Luke would forever recall. Regret, he saw
most plainly. And shame. Memories could be seen flashing across it…memories
of rich times. And horrors. And love, too.
It was a face that hadn't touched the world in a lifetime. In Luke's lifetime.
He saw the wizened nostrils twitch, as they tested a first, tentative smell. He saw the
head tilt imperceptibly to listen—for the first time without electronic auditory
amplification. Luke felt a pang of remorse that the only sounds now to be heard
were those of explosions, the only smells, the pungent sting of electrical fires. Still,
it was a touch. Palpable, unfiltered.
He saw the old eyes focus on him. Tears burned Luke's cheeks, fell on his
father's lips. His father smiled at the taste.
It was a face that had not seen itself in twenty years.
cont'd
>>81468542
You, post the thing.
>>81468512
You, quit being a dick.
I'm not letting another one of these fucking threads go to shit.
>>81468530
Like, there was a bunch of general cuck criticism about "REEEEE WHY WAS THE WOMYN CHARACTER ONLY IMPORTANT AS SOMEONES GF"
and I'm sitting there thinking that it wouldn't even have been such a big deal if they hadn't chosen an absolute chucklefuck for her to pair with - or at least they shouldn't have killed her off
Ventress should have known better, that's what really kills my immersion.
>>81468523
>Vader motioned Luke closer to him. "Luke, help me take this mask off."
>Luke shook his head. "You'll die."
>>81468581
Vader saw his son crying, and knew it must have been at the horror of the face
they boy beheld.
It intensified, momentarily, Vader's own sense of anguish—to his crimes, now,
he added guilt at the imagined repugnance of his appearance. But then this brought
him to mind of the way he used to look—striking, and grand, with a wry tilt to his
brow that hinted of invincibility and took in all of life with a wink. Yes, that was
how he'd looked once.
And this memory brought a wave of other memories with it. Memories of
brotherhood, and home. His dear wife. The freedom of deep space. Obi-wan.
Obi-wan, his friend…and how that friendship had turned. Turned, he knew not
how—but got injected, nonetheless, with some uncaring virulence that festered,
until…hold. These were memories he wanted none of, not now. Memories of
molten lava, crawling up his back…no.
This boy had pulled him from that pit—here, now, with this act. This boy was
good.
The boy was good, and the boy had come from him—so there must have been
good in him, too. He smiled up again at his son, and for the first time, loved him.
And for the first time in many long years, loved himself again, as well.
Suddenly he smelled something—flared his nostrils, sniffed once more.
Wildflowers, that was what it was. Just blooming; it must be spring.
And there was thunder—he cocked his head, strained his ears. Yes, spring
thunder, for a spring rain. To make the flowers bloom.
Yes, there…he felt a raindrop on his lips. He licked the delicate droplet…but
wait, it wasn't sweetwater, it was salty, it was…a teardrop.
He focused on Luke once again, and saw his son was crying. Yes that was it, he
was tasting his boy's grief—because he looked so horrible; because he was so
horrible.
cont'd
>>81468617
But he wanted to make it all right for Luke, he wanted Luke to know he wasn't
really ugly like this, not deep inside, not all together. With a little self-deprecatory
smile, he shook his head at Luke, explaining away the unsightly beast his son saw.
"Luminous beings are we, Luke—not this crude matter."
Luke shook his head, too—to tell his father it was all right, to dismiss the old
man's shame, to tell him nothing mattered now. And everything—but he couldn't
talk.
Vader spoke again, even weaker—almost inaudible. "Go, my son. Leave
me."
At that, Luke found his voice. "No. You're coming with me. I'll not leave
you here. I've got to save you."
"You already have, Luke," he whispered. He wished, briefly, he'd met Yoda, to
thank the old Jedi for the training he'd given Luke…but perhaps he'd be with Yoda
soon, now, in the ethereal oneness of the Force. And with Obi-wan.
"Father, I won't leave you," Luke protested. Explosions jarred the docking bay
in earnest, crumbling one entire wall, splitting the ceiling. A jet of blue flame shot
from a gas nozzle nearby. Just beneath it the floor began to melt.
Vader pulled Luke very close, spoke into his ear. "Luke, you were right…and
you were right about me…Tell your sister…you were right."
With that, he closed his eyes, and Darth Vader—Anakin Skywalker—died.
A tremendous explosion filled the back of the bay with fire, knocking Luke flat
to the ground. Slowly, he rose again; and like an automaton, stumbled toward one of
the last remaining shuttles.
-So yeah, it's neat. And then R2 or Chewie speaks and you get BEEPBOOPDOOPS or RGHGHGRGROOONKBARK. I am totally serious.
Star Wars and Empire are excellent reads though.
http://www.mwjx.com/other/book/english/s/starwar/
>>81467665
True. I've only been on it a week and it's already gotten really grindy. Farm the widgets to upgrade the characters to unlock more levels to grind. I keep setting it to auto on lower levels and it occurred to me the other day that I'm basically just letting the game play itself. Total WTF moment. How is this supposed to be fun?
I've read that buying (not with real money because fuck EA) the Chromiums is a waste of time. Takes luck to get anyone good. The advice I read was use crystals to buy Cantina Energy and farm the Squad table. Unlock Ahsoka and/or Qui-Gon to start then just expand your roster or farm shards to upgrade them. Besides free Bronzes don't seem bad, though so far I've only gotten the Ewok Scout (again), the Geo Soldier, and just now the Jedi Knight Guardian. Really basic, I suspect by design. Everything about this game seems to try to make you throw money at it.
Maybe the extra content will help, but I'm not sure what exactly it brings to the table. So to speak.
>>81468606
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxx1hTUPanI
>>81468495
Because idiots are butthurt about ewoks.
For real, though, the biggest problem of ROTJ is that it has to clean up ESB's mess. Back in 1980, ESB got very tepid reviews, and for a good reason: when the credits roll, none of the plotlines have been resolved. The original single plotline splits in two after the Battle of Hoth, and these two plotlines never reunite, they just sort of briefly pass each other in the hallway on Cloud City. Luke's training is incomplete, he's just had a bombshell dropped on him, but no time left to process any of that, come back in three years. Han's frozen and has been taken away, now we've got to go find him, but no time left to work on that, come back in three years. Everything the movie was building towards is left hanging.
Episode VI was originally going to be Rescue Han: The Movie, followed by three more movies before the Emperor's death, but Lucas decided he wanted to just get it over and done with, so he compressed ROTJ so that its first half was Rescue Han: The Mini-Movie, and then chunks of what were going to be VII, VIII, and IX were Frankenstein'd together to be the rest of the movie, so that all of ESB's hanging plot threads could be resolved in a single film.
When one movie is doing the work of four, it kind of suffers. ROTJ feels disjointed -- as thrilling as the Rescue Han half is, it doesn't feel like it has much to do with anything in the second half of the movie. On top of that, the three parts of the Battle don't interact with one another at all outside of the destruction of the shield, and the duel in particular feels very removed from the rest of the action, even if it's an amazing duel in itself.
People complain about ewoks, but the truth is that the ground battle is just the weakest section of the Battle of Endor. The space battle shows us just enough to be exciting but leave us wanting more, and the duel is unbelievably tense throughout, which leaves the ground battle feeling weak by comparison.
Man, I don't know how I ever missed it but I'm only just recently realizing that the V-wings and the Jedi Starfighters at the beginning of Episode III are supposed to look like proto- or just generally "before" TIE fighters.
>>81468711
Man I really don't think he could have pulled off nine movies of material. Having Luke finally face the Emperor around the age he is now in Ep VII is cool and all, but holy shit that would have been such a goddamned gamble. It doesn't help that that specific idea (The Emperor being the final boss or even a threat at all, and Luke facing him as an old dude) wasn't even on the table during most of Star Wars/Ep IV's creation. He was making a lot of this up as he went along.
>>81468711
>Luke and Vader era VII, VIII, and IX
Sounds like it would have been better than the sequel trilogy we're getting.
For one thing, making Luke the protagonist of two trilogies removes the notion of one trilogy/protagonist per generation
It really could have gone like movie serials where there's no real formal structure of a grand saga, just stories to be told, like the Trek movies.
Instead the main trilogies are now all about the older generation fucking up and having to be rescued by the next.
One thing I didn't understand in the battle over Endor was how the Rebel fleet won vs the Imperials. Even without the Super Star Destroyer and the Death Star2 the Empire fleet severely outgunned and outnumbered the Rebels. I've looked it up a few times on the internet and I haven't seen any details on exactly how they pulled it off.
>>81468711
It also doesn't help that the ground battle itself moves in disjointed stages. Once the Ewoks have joined the Rebels, we have the initial "sneak into the bunker". Then the stormtroopers ambush the Rebels and drag them out. Once that's done, the Ewoks show up, and now it's a fight, but this stage of the fight goes on for a LONG time showing off the battle without making a lot of progress towards the goal. Finally, our heroes make it to the bunker door, and we finally get some tense moments as R2 gets taken out and Leia gets shot, when Chewbacca finally saunters over in the AT-ST he picked up while playing Tarzan.
Then Han does his bluff over the AT-ST's communications system to get the bunker open and the fight's over, just like that. It's clumsy, unsatisfying, and doesn't have a lot of suspense or tension, unlike the other two sections of the battle.
Even the Battle of Naboo fares better as a complete ensemble. Each time we cut to a different part of the battle, we see important turning points in the battle. Every time we see part of the Gungan battle, the Gungan situation goes from bad to worse. Every time we see part of the palace fight, the team is forced to improvise a new route because the droids are too thick. Every time we see the duel, we move from one environment to another, and the Jedi either get split up or get back together. And every time we see the space battle, Anakin makes progress towards getting control of his fighter. Ultimately, all four parts of the battle hit their lowest points simultaneously, with Anakin crashing, the Gungans surrendering, the palace team surrendering, and Qui-Gon getting impaled all at the same time, but then the palace team turns the tables on the Viceroy, Anakin takes out the reactor, the Gungans are saved, and all that's left is the duel.
The Battle of Naboo really has a beautiful sense of rhythm and harmony to it. Endor was like a rehearsal for Naboo.
>>81468826
If Lucas had gone ahead with VII, VIII, and IX he probably would have finished IX in the late 90s, just in time to start Phantom Menace
That means no Special Editions and Han always shoots first
>>81468858
It pretty much boils down to the destruction of the DSII leaving such a huge power vacuum and creating such a huge communications breakdown that the majority of the Imperial fleet jumped to hyperspace to figure out their next move.
>>81468814
It and the ARC-170 really bug me as "precursor ships". The ARC-170 is just "Hey look, it splits it's wings like an x-wing, only for no purpose." Why not just keep the headhunters as the precursor to the x-wing?
And the TIEs are literally named and designed around an engine innovation. They invented a crazy good engine and then built a whole fleet of fighters around using said engine to it's fullest. No one needed to be the precursor to that, there doesn't need to be a previous ship shaped like it before they even built the engine.
>>81468884
But that also means no Expanded Universe as we know it.
No Thrawn
No Shadows of the Empire
No Kyle Katarn
>>81468908
ARC-170 would bug me a lot less if it wasn't ugly as shit
>>81468858
I don't think Piett was expecting Ackbar to charge the fleet directly into his lines.
When the Executor was taken out and crashed into the Death Star II, a massive gap appeared in the Imperial fleet's formation, which was thrown into confusion by the death of the admiral. When the Emperor died, he was no longer able to subtly influence the Imperial Fleet, which began to panic and scatter as the Death Star fell apart. From then on it just turned into a rout.
inb4 legends or not canon, I'm just going by what seem to be the most logical explanations.
>>81468919
But anon, all that stuff is gone anyways.
Filoni said that Ahsoka would not reappear in rebels from here on out, but could we still get an explanation next season?
>>81468949
Just because a story don't real don't mean you can't feel
>>81468961
Probably not. I get the feeling it'll be a long time before we get her fate explained.
>>81468961
In the Q&A he said "it depends on how many seasons we get," so I think we may get her actually properly reappearing if we wait long enough
>>81468919
That doesn't meant here wouldn't be different novels/games to fill up the void. If movies did come out from the 80s all the way into the late 90s, you'd probably actually see even more of them being produced, albeit in much different forms than what we got today. Probably mostly tie in stuff, with some material set in the ancient republic.
>>81468961
Don't worry, anon, he never said that. You can be sure because Filoni barely ever speaks definitely about,well, anything. He said she could have future stories that don't "necessarily" have to be in Rebels. That means? Absolutely nothing one way or the other in Filonispeak.
>>81468858
With the Death Star gone, the Rebel fleet's back is no longer against the wall and they can focus all their attention on the Navy. With both the Death Star AND the Executor gone, the bulk of the Imperial leadership at Endor is gone too, creating a power vacuum.
Now you have no clear leader, and the primary objectives of the mission are an abject failure. Each individual Imperial ship has a strong incentive to flee and save itself to regroup for a later battle, even if they collectively have a strong incentive to stay in the fight. If the weakest links in the chain withdraw, it makes things harder for the remaining fleet, making withdrawal a more attractive option for the next set of weak links.
So morale is in a downward spiral, cowards are chickening out and weakening everyone, and eventually the remaining fleet is small enough that withdrawal becomes the sensible choice for all surviving ships.
>>81468949
But what if we never experienced them to begin with?
Or say Lucas is burned out after IX, the 2000s have no Star Wars films, and the Anakin/Clone Wars era gets the Abrams treatment.only beginning last year?
>>81468949
Who cares what's canon as long as you like it, right? Just don't try to connect the dots between Legends and the new canon before they actually do it.
It's barely a change for the EU since the movies were always more canon than everything else and could be ignored at a moment's whim. That no longer applies. Just enjoy what you want and damn anyone who says you can't.
>>81469120
In a practical sense, the old tiers are all still there. The only real difference is that T (television) tier has been absorbed into G tier, and all new works are going directly into G tier.
I guess they've also moved the "it'sofficially canon" bar up from C to G, but that's not nearly as big a deal as people are making it out to be.
>>81469164
You are absolutely correct that there is a kind of internal canon within Legends, but since it's not really enforced it's almost pretty moot. I'm sure when discussing Legends it sometimes pisses people off to hear that the Ewok movies are just as canon now as Thrawn, for instance. Kind of an Ironic Inception, one level deeper.
>>81469164
It really isn't. It's just that everything after Jedi was always looked at as a big sandbox because no one realistically thought they'd ever officially make anything to come after it, so all their pet stories/characters/whatever are in jeopardy. The simple act of killing Han (even if he's still got some 30 years of breathing room between Jedi and TFA) throws off the entirety of the EU. I dunno why anyone thought any of these characters would realistically get to 'retire' anyway. The books were also struggling with reconciling nearly 60 years of story and making them age at a believable rate. I know they aren't really 'humans' but they were all 70+ by the final stories and only Han seemingly got to 'age' as he was the only one who would point out how fucking old he was/they were on occasion.
>>81469362
I hope the don't shit all over the established old republic/pre phantom menace lore the same way. While a good chunk of it was shit and really should be changed, a lot of the ideas and concepts are really interesting.
I also noticed in the rebels season 2 finale that Ezra picked up the jedi lightsaber with a cross-guard like the Knights of Ren have. I hope the reason behind this design choice is expanded upon in episodes 8 and 9 when we find out more about the Knights.
>>81469601
The TFA visual dictionary established that Kylo Ren's lightsaber is modeled on an ancient design used by the old Jedi Order.
That's why Ezra found a similar saber. That's how they used to make them, back in the day.
>>81467272
I feel like how perfect bad guys are is directly related to how much machinery they're composed of.
>>81469676
This is TRUE and HONEST proof that Ezra is Snoke!
>>81469676
I read an explanation from someone in the production that some old sabers couldn't regulate their power properly so they added the two crossguards as an 'exhaust' to dissipate the excess energy and keep the main blade stable. Which sounds pretty practical.
>>81469762
Then boy do I have a bad guy for you!
>>81468021
>We'll never see them again
At least they're still canon.
Reminder that the Force is real and has decided that Hera is not the best Waifu.
>>81469800
Dating sim anon, do these guys
>>81469790
That thing looks like it's powered by Christopher Lee's body spinning in its grave.
>>81467291
>The body Luke eases gently to the floor is Anakin Skywalker.
>eases gently
>gently
>followed by
>>81468495
Well. You tried.
>>81469817
If 5, Jar Jar is best waifu.
>>81468495
It really says something about the Empire that one of their leaders is being dragged across the floor and dying and not one imperial comes over to check. No wonder Kallus is so sad
>>81470014
He's being dragged by Luke "If you survive, it's a fluke" Skywalker. Would you fuck with that?
I want to see Grievous extremely pissed off in the body of a protocol droid
whatever happened to that darth vader comic with the qt scientist or whatever
>>81470089
It's still going on and it's still gr8
>>81470110
tfw no storytimes of it
>>81467291
>It takes Luke a moment but he soon discovers how the front of Vader's mask can be detached from the helmet and removed. When he does so, the sound of Vader's respirator, already ragged, stops. And now Luke sees for himself the face of his father: scarred and battered into something barely human. And now Anakin sees his son's face: a handsome face creased with concern and, yes, bearing its own battle scars. But at least Anakin sees him not as a Jedi or a warrior or a threat or a mistake, but as his son...and Padme's son.
>And Anakin smiles. Not a smile like the Emperor's. Or a crazed grin like Darth Maul's. Not even a smirk like Anakin might have shown Ahsoka back in his Jedi days. But a real smile. The smile that only Padme ever saw.
>"Now...my son," Anakin struggles to say. "Help me up, and get me on the ship."
>"No. You're about to kick the bucket. I'm just gonna leave you here. I can't take corpses on the shuttle, it's against regulations."
>"I'm getting better!
>"No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment!"
>"Luke, I want to go on the cart."
>"Oh don't be such a baby! Look, I'll hang around a couple of minutes, you won't be long."
>With tremendous effort, Vader jerks his upper body upright one more time. "I think I'll go for a walk".
>"You're not fooling anyone, you know".
>>81470221
Fuck, meant to refer to Monty Python anon >>81467434
>>81466993
I would literally lick his ass sweat.
>>81467291
Wait, is this canon?
>>81470275
Pablo basically said, "yes, but only where the novelizations jive with the movies," which is a fancy way of saying not really.
>>81470294
So Anakin wasn't actually thinking of Ahsoka in his final moments :(
Well I mean we have no way of confirming or denying it honestly so I suppose it jives
>>81470275
Yes-ish.
The official stance is that novelizations are canon where they align with the films.
It's unclear whether this means "the only canon parts of the novelization are those that are also shown in the movies" or "the novelizations are canon except where they conflict with the movies, in which case the movies take precedent".
The first interpretation means that anything added in the novel that isn't present in the films is non-canon, and you might as well just watch the films and skip the novels completely. The second interpretation means that the novels can add new things to the canon so long as they don't conflict with the movies.
>>81466993
>>81470313
Maybe a brief recollection and pang of guilt, but his final thoughts would absolutely be centered on Padme, Luke, and Leia. More than that I think would be disproportionate to her importance. He likely already dealt with his feelings about killing her years before anyway.
>>81470410
>"Hey Poe why do you have all these half dismantled and destroyed droids in your lockers?"
>>81470519
> killing her
but she's alive, anon
>>81470567
No she isn't.
>>81470593
uuh yeah she is
>>81470567
Face it, her orange butt-cheeks are now a force ghost, dispensing wisdom to any lost Jedi in need from beyond the veil.
>>81470519
Anon, have you ever actually watched TCW? She was immensely important to his development and eventual fall. That's just a tad short of saying
> ayy he probably dealt with his feelings about killing Obi-Wan years ago
>>81470603
She's dead son. Accept it.
>>81470653
She's really not. Obi-Wan was important. Padme was important. His kids are important. She was a footnote.
>>81470661
So is your wife Cliegg
>>81470695
have you watched the unfinished Crystal Crisis arc? a lot of the underlying bitterness and anger we see in ROTS stems from Ahsoka leaving
>>81470653
> his padawan, who he mentored and saw grow up on the battlefields of the Clone Wars, is a footnote
You've never seen TCW and it shows, their relationship is crystal-clear
> the kids he never knew are important
This never made sense to me desu
TCW got me into husbandoing clones but Disney will probably never touch on them again. Sucks ass.
>>81470789
Shit, meant to reply to >>81470695
>>81470789
Seen every episode many times kiddo, she's not important. Get over it.
>>81470813
> aspergers: the post
or it's bait, who knows
>>81468414
>>81468489
What could have been
>>81469770
>Which sounds pretty practical.
I wonder how many times they had to reshoot Driver's scenes so the crossguards wouldn't touch his body when they added them in post.
>>81469817
DELETE THIS
>>81471103
The props had crossguards in place and the training was done in mind with it.
>>81471174
>>81471044
If not Ahsoka, I like to think Asajj might have ended up hatefucking Obi-Wan in another universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNiB1tk0wvo
Was Darth Maul the greatest Sith?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgSI4lsWBoM
>>81471364
Nah, he was a jobber.
>>81471364
Because even when he's beaten, he still keeps going.
>>81471364
Holy fuck it's perfect
>>81471364
DELETE THIS
>>81471451
>Dathomirposters can't handle the Stewjon bants
>yfw Kanan told Hera "We'll see each other again. I promise." before leaving
kek
>>81471238
l-lewd
>>81471546
>>81471546
>there are no cybernetic eye replacements in Star Wars
Also
>the cloning factories on Kamino can't use Trandoshan cells to give Maul the ability to regenerate his lost limbs
Seriously, fuck that shit.
>>81471546
Hey does anyone have a mega on the special stuff on the blu-ray
>Maul, due to him surviving multiple things that should have killed him using the Dark Side, will become the new Sion
>Ahsoka, having been possessed by the Dark Side and resurrected by the Light Side, will hunger for the force on Malachor and become the new Nihilus
>Ezra, having found the holocron containing Kreia's knowledge, will become the new Traya
>>81471923
Anon, grasping at straws, will spout any old bullshit theory.
>>81471948I'm sleepy it's 3;30 in the morning and I have a mid term in the morning. I haven't studied for that midterm. Just let me post my stupid theories until I pass out
>>81471636
the clones seen in Star Wars take years to grow and age faster. The technology seems protected by the Kaminoans too.
Is there any indication they can clone specific body parts fast and replace them? I'd definitely wants robot legs if it wasn't a prefect replacement using my own DNA.
Ahsoker is going to show up in Rebels, along with Kanan and Ezra. They'll be killed by Vader as he makes his cameo
>>81472038
Wait, who told you that? Will Vader make an appearance in Rebels? What about the Grand Inky? I love 2014.
>>81472172
What is this Grand Inky? Do you know something we don't?
>>81471987
I don't know why people do this to themselves.
Studies show a 10 min to whatever cram just before your test is just as effective as an all night study session. Get your sleep anon, that's the deciding factor.
>>81470566
"you wanna fuck her?"
"you wanna fuck her Hux?"
>>81471903
>Hey does anyone have a mega on the special stuff on the blu-ray
yeah, does anyone have that cinematic documentary thing
>>81472286
I can't sleep.
>>81472256
He's a big guy.
>>81471636
There is cybernetic eyes replacements in Star Wars. No the question is how much they are worth (in quality and in term of money, the Rebellion isn't really rich at this point) and if Kanan would want it.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djo_91jN3Pk
Literally better than the prequels
>>81468495
It suffered under Lucas.
The original drafts had Han die early on, Luke go exhausted and alone in the end, and the Ewoks were Wookies instead.
Lucas didn't like this and was thinking more of merchandise sales.
Still easily my favourite Star Wars Episode though.
It's tied with Empire for me.And that green lightsaber, fucking perfection.
>>81472783
Too much pew-pew and no pottery. 4/10
Would it not take at least several hours to organize an effective evacuation on something the size of the deathstar? Do you guys think it was sort of failing and buckling for several hours after the falcon got it's hit in? I could imagine the superstructure failing and caving in and setting off breaches and other destruction around the station as opposed to it just blowing up instantly
Admiral Ackbar died you guys.
Who will warn us of traps now?
>>81470796
There's a clone in the TFA era.
Via cryogenic freezing.
I'm not even fucking kidding.
>>81472948
Not him ecks dee
Sorry.
>>81471923
Nothing, NOTHING AT ALL will be exported from the old EU verbatim. The best you can hope for are references and vague similarities.
>>81471546
The foreshadowing at the start of Season 2 when he's blinded for a second by the exploding ships at the start of Siege of Lothal.
>>81473014Still sore?
>>81469873
> TFW I got reminded that Sir Christopher Lee is dead
I...I've been trying to forget...
>>81473245
That's my dick everytime someone posts SS lewds :^)
>you will never make the Seventh Sister squirm in pleasure
It's not fair anons
>>81473284
You can't forget, anon.
He lives on in all our memories.
>>81473295
It shuts off?
SS has best screencaps
>>81472783
Tell me about that one Jedi cosplaying Sub-Zero. Why does he wear the mask?
>>81473345
What do you think would happen if Maul tried to take off that Jedi's mask?
>>81473312
>It shuts off?
Yes.
>>81473393
What if her tried to take of his pants?
>>81473332
Uhmm, no.
>>81473519
>not finding SS appealing
I find your lack of faith disturbing anon
>>81473539
Uhmm, yes.
>be a foolish jedi
>take a wrong turn somewhere
>see this
What would you do?
>>81473587
laugh until I die
>>81473542
>>81473558
Sorry, like qts that aren't cut in half.
>>81473587
>>81473627
That's a low blow anon and you know it...
>>81473587
See that double edged lightsaber in action if you know what I mean
>>81473624
Joker, please
>>81472948
Holy shit, it's true.
RIP Admiral, we hardly knew ye
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/05/473073158/star-wars-voice-actor-who-as-admiral-ackbar-warned-its-a-trap-dies-at-93
Why is he so perfect?
>>81474352
The one guy they brought back dies? That's... inconvenient.
>>81474388
I find it hilarious how often Maul is left for dead, then someone finds him and makes him the leader of some op.
>>81474456
>That face
[Screaming Internally]
>>81474388
He isn't anon :^)I'm just angry because he cut my waifu down
>>81474521He killed my Mando cheeks waifu too, anonBut I can't stay mad at him
>>81474456
>>81474516
This is the face of a man who is suddenly faced with the task of planning out four dozen murders in his head simultaneously.
>>81474622Sorry to hear about your Mando-cheeks anon, my condolencesI lost this lovely Mirialan bum
>>81468133
source?
>>81473587
laugh at the shittest warrior the sith have ever produced
see: >>81471364
>>81474456
This thread is infested with waifufagsand I love it.
>>81474912
>>81474962
CUTE
Stream of TFA extras WHEN?
>>81475003
Wasn't there a bunch of deleted scenes too?
>>81468495
Because people are so caught up on Ewoks that they missed some of Lucas's greatest poetry.
Allow Mr. Witwer to explain;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJTsQEoIcvA
>>81475003
Can't wait for that stream so I can spam "PRACTICAL EFFETCS" on the chat.
>>81475025
Of course.
>playing force collection
>people getting 5 star Finn, Vader, Maul, etc...from Ally point packs
>i just keep getting fucking 1-2 star podracers and random people who got maybe a minute of screen time
>>81475113
Based Witwer
>>81475113
Right now I hate that there isn't a place for someone to voice act the role of George Lucas because damn if Witwer isn't nailing it.
>>81468711
TESB isn't about plot resolution. It's about thematic exploration. You're right about the divorced plot lines, but that's what helps give the movie a sense of unease (a very unease that motivates Luke and highlights an attachment and impulsiveness that could, as with Vader before him, play into the Emperor's favor). It's also why the movie's iconic ending shot is so resonant: our characters are reunited, battered and with one less, but clinging to each other and a greater purpose. You're right about the initially tepid response, but there's a reason perspective on the movie changed over time.
>Post your Rebels waifu-ranking
1. SS
2. Hera
3. Ahsoka
4. Tua
5. Sabine
>>81474632
This is hilarious to me for some reason.
>>81475345
1. Hera
2. Tua
3. /ss/
4. Ahsoka
5. Zeb in a wig
6. Sabine
>>81475345
1. Ahsoka
2. Hera
3. Sabine
4. SS
5. Tua
What are these things the females always wear, headdresses or head-panties? Are they required?
>>81474912
I am the biggest waifufag of them all.I've written a terrible shamefully erotic self aggrandizing post-Rebels fanfic between Ahsoka and a self insert for my own uses and I dare not ever let anybody read it.
Is showing a stormtroopers face a major taboo or something? Do they never show it in the comics?
>>81475345
1. Hera
2. Ahsoka
3. Tua
4. SS
5. Gozanti TIE carrier
>>81475459Haven't we all though?
>>81475461
They show it sometimes, mostly from Imperial points of view. If you can't see the enemy, you're not supposed to feel bad about killing them in droves. The helmet dehumanizes them.
>>81475420
>5. Zeb in a wig
>6. Sabine
>>81475345
Only Sabine
>>81475459
Nothing to be ashamed of, f a m.
>>81475345
This desu. No one will ever replace my sweet ssfu
>>81475486How many involve contrived TG transformations for dickgirl on girl bdsm?
Anyone else waiting for the eventual ST boxset?
>>81475630
not enough
>>81475444
They look really weird without them on.
>>81475619
Amen, brother.
>>81475459
I mean, I really like Ahsoka, but I can't imagine being romantically involved with her. Like I think of her more as a younger sister or something than a lewd waifu
Is Great Scourge of Malachor canon Battle of Ruusan?
>>81475718
>Not thinking of her as a lewd waifu
STORMIE GET OUT - REEEEEEE
