It Still Hurts - Edition
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Undrafted shit. Read at your own risk desu.
>>81594137
But that's not Ahsoka, that's just a shit-tier waifu.
>>81594220
But she isn't dead
anyone have a mega link for the umbara arc?
>>81594267
She probably is. It hurts but it's the truth.
Reminder that this is a thing and everyone should be hyped for it
>>81594267
She's basically dead.
She failed to save Vader and now her story moving forward is all about the past.
She has no future.
We talk a lot about waifus, why don't we give husbandos some love?Mine's 8Bro. Slinky, effeminate aliens in skintight suits 4 lyfe.
>>81594354
Canon guide should be updated with this
>>81594220
I wonder why she doesn't wear that teeth-headdress anymore, I know she's grown spiritually but afaik they're still pretty special/source of pride for Togruta.
>>81594375
My husbando.
>>81594354
But what if it's bad?
>>81594414
Forgot pic.
>>81594389
Maybe her head lekku things got too big and they popped it.
>>81594387
Way ahead of you
>>81594375
I don't know where you get effeminate from.
>>81594442
I miss young Luke
>>81594467
But Shaak Ti wore hers all the time.
Which are the hottest Star Wars alien races?
>mfw britbongs call him chew-baka
>>81594535
Twi'lek, they're the best space sluts
>>81594535
Dried apricots.
>>81594442
>>81594373
It's not like Vader is her story. She's her own character. It was her *past* with Anakin that made a confrontation with Vader inevitable. Now that she's tried and failed to redeem him she's actually free from the need for them to meet up again.
When we last saw her she was heading somewhere, suggesting she has a purpose. She feels horrible that she left Anakin, she won't abandon the Rebellion and compound that.
>>81594375
Will we ever learn what species he and Fifth Brother where?
>>81594535
Twi'Leks.
>>81594689
8th bro is a jango jumper. his species jumps on jango.
>>81594689
5th was just a cool design adapted from TFA concepts, and 8th is the same as her.
>>81594689
>>81594743
I like the TFA helmet better, it's full-on turtle.
>>81594442
>>81594624
>>81594779
That meme is cancerous trash and you know it
Didn't notice the new thread.
>>81591967
To be fair this is the same exact shit the EU dealt with. Obvious contradictions cleaned up by Pablo and Chee. You know they made that scene in Rogue One, realized they fucked up, then Pablo sat down with everyone to figure out how to unfuck themselves.
Why does Poe use bb8?
he doesnt even have a rocket booster
I can understand if bb units are used to work on the interioirs of bigger spaceships like mousedroids
but outside? I cant really imagine BB8 doing what R2 did in ep1
>>81594779
Jesus christ...
>>81594779
I don't even get the joke in this one
>>81594835
>i like it
>>81594725
Twi'Leks are the best
>>81594852
You ever notice how R2 never did that shit in eps IV-VI?
>>81594852
BB looks more mobile than R2and there's a theory floating that it was build by Kylo when he was still on the Light Side.
>>81594900
Fucking hell.
>>81594900
p-pretty...
>>81594375
They wasted that character design and that delicious voice. Inky's mine.
>>81594927
It's a "bad guy builds the iconic droid when they were young" episode
>>81594900
Teeth are p cute.
And who's this Xeno calling a Xeno?
>>81594503
I assume you're just talking about husbando stuff, but we really didn't need more stories of a younger Luke. His character arc was over. It why we really didn't need any sequel to Jedi to begin with, but at least with an older Luke we can explore how he's adapted to his lofty role in Jedi history and his responsibilities as a seasoned mentor.
I really hope he isn't just Obi-Wan or Yoda 2.0 VIII.
Not gonna lie Rebels was not impressing me as was this new Star wars in general but that season 2 end game really captured everything I love about this shit, they knocked it out of the park
>>81594979
Nice.
>>81595064
I'm just talking about how he looks so scruffy now. I miss young Mark Hamill.
>>81594660
The question is whether or not she's interesting enough to justify being around without the focus on that relationship, which is basically what she was created for. I don't think she is. She served her purpose.
>>81595111
>trips
Nice.
>>81594763
It's not even a screw up. You can actually see that just like the rest of the Death Star it's just the framework. It's a metallic lattice, a skeleton, not even fully fleshed out. Why the heck would a fully completed emitter dish already be in place when nothing else on the surface, or the interior for that matter, is done?
For some reason people see a round shape and shout, "OO OO OO! LOOKIT!" but never bothered to actually look closer at what they'd seen. No clue why they thought this was like the Death Star II and despite being half done it must be fully armed and operational. Weapons done, just need to attach the frame and apply the coat of standard Imperial grey paint. Yeah, right.
>>81595149
He looks good with the longer hair and beard, though.
>>81594927
Why the fuck would Poe have a droid Kylo made. That's so dumb. I hate this fandom.
>>81594183
What the fuck did I just read.
Who's Renno and who's Tria? The wook tells me nothing.
>>81594979
What's the joke?
>>81595232
Because thanks to cocksmoker Lucas, it's not Star Wars if everything's not "connected". The crutch of the weak storyteller.
>>81594474
>Chuck "the Cuck" Wendig is making the official TFA comic
will the pain never end
So, do you think RO will be like Guardians of the Galaxy or serious business no fun allowed?
>>81595279
Except Lucas has no say in what they're doing with the sequel trilogy
>>81595212
Closeup for blind retards from /tv/.
I would pay so much for a movie based around Delta Squad. I'd even take a little hour long Clone Wars style movie about them.
>>81595338
Except for the fact he set the precedent, which is why shit theories like Kylo building BB8 have any clout at all.
>>81594900
thanks for the cancer
>>81595178
That's a lack of creativity, though. Ventress was a Sith Assassin, a mini-boss to harass the Jedi so they didn't always have to face Dooku or Grievous and humiliate them by always getting away. Grievous suffered enough from that as it was.
Change her dynamic, take her out of her initial role, and what does she become? Something else. Ultimately dead, but everyone dies even in fiction. Except for Boba Fett, he'll outlive them all as he digests for the next thousand years, and only when he's older than Yoda will he finally pass.
These characters can be whoever they want them to be. You might not see any use, maybe they can. Maybe they can even make it compelling. But if you think Ahsoka was always limited by being necessarily attached to Anakin it's a shame we never saw her further adventures on her own in TCWs unproduced materials. After all, her point to being Anakin's Padawan was him learning to let her go, which we knew he'd have to eventually. So many people thought she died because she wasn't in Episode III. She didn't.
>>81595340
Wrong squad, fambro.
>>81594535
Twi'leks and Togrutas
>>81595232
Why would Luke Skywalker be running around with a droid Darth Vader made? Why would Leia trust him in both the Rebellion and later Resistance?
>>81594852
BB-8 must have the most unpractical design of all droids.
I mean, he can't possibly traverse everywhere.
And if he wants to use one of those arms that unlock doors he will have to roll around a bunch to position himself. Sometimes the arm might be under him, or behind him.
He's such a stupid design.
>>81595212
We still have people going "THERE'S GONNA BE BOTHANS IN THIS ONE RIGHT? HEY SAID MANY BOTHANS DIED I WANNA SEE THAT" despite like two years of reminding people that's the second Death Star. Pointing out that they're looking at the ROTS DS wrong isn't going to stop them from flinging shit on mock-outage.
>>81595388
But theories are going to happen anyway. You're blaming Lucas for something idiot fanboys are coming up with.
This is like blaming Lucas for the REY HAS THE STAFF OF PLAGUEIS idiocy.
>>81595331
>Dance off, Vader. Me and you.
>>81595463
he's cute tho
Does he even have a behind?
>>81595331
The trailer made it look like the regular Star Wars serious business with some occasional banter.
That's how I want it to be.
>>81595464
We've been dealing with that for more than two years. Try decades. Though yes it does come up rather more often these days. Before Rogue One we were dealing with people shouting that if Rebels dealt with the Death Star Filoni would be retconning out the Bothans.
>>81595463
It's funny, BB8 didn't do anything in the movie. Like the usual R2 stuff: open the door, etc
>He's such a stupid design.
yep, sadly
>>81594375
Aresko and every other Imperial in Rebels/Star Wars that isn't fat.
>>81595212
People nitpick shit, that's what they do. They love to say something is wrong without even fully looking at the thing that's supposedly wrong in the first place.
I'm just surprised no one is calling that caped Imperial Tarkin and making enflamed posts telling everyone they're right and you're wrong.
>>81595331
They're going for a gritty spy/espionage type of film. They're might be some lighthearted moments and a ray of hope at the end, but it's not going to be a happy go lucky film. Let's just say, don't get attached to your favorite character, they might not live.
>>81595515
I'd say the behind is where his head is not looking so technically all of him is potential behind, but also all of him is the front.
Balls am I right?
>>81595512
>Starlord dance off with Vader
I swear I've seen that before...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL8G9i1VKcI
>>81595589
B-but he gave Finn a thumbs-up with a lighter and his beeps are cute!
BEST CHARACTER EVER MADE
>>81595500
Except Lucas had literally nothing to do with the idea of Plagueis having a staff, so your aphorism is wrong. Lucas did have everything to do with R2D2 belonging to Padme Amidala, the mother of Luke and Leia, and everything to do with C3P0 being built by Anakin, Luke and Leia's father, and how Vader was Anakin, and how Obi-Wan just happened to be on the same planet the stolen Death Star plans wound up landing on, etc etc ad nausem. That kind of asspull convenient connectivity sticks to epics like toilet paper on a trucker's boot.
>>81595632
TRUE ECKS DEE
>>81595589
I wonder how he will be utilized in the next one, if at all.
Will R2 do everything or is there going to be a convenient reason in EP8 too for why he's not around?
Or they will just have Rey do all of the door opening.
We gonna have any more thread marathons soon? I always like those.
>>81595589
>>81595632
I know exactly what BB-8 did in the movie
>>81595641
>Except Lucas had literally nothing to do with the idea of Plagueis having a staff, so your aphorism is wrong.
He also had nothing to do with the idea of Kylo building BB-8. Both theories rely entirely on the POTTERY meme.
Either way you're blaming him for something he had nothing to do with and getting legit upset about it, as if a fan theory were a real thing. Kylo building BB-8 isn't even a wide enough theory to justify being annoyed with.
>>81595589
>>81595632
>>81595340
That has me thinking. Would you guys play an Imperial Commando game only if it had the members from Delta in it or would you be fine with a new cast?
>>81595641
Reminder: you're bitching about fan theories and not something that's actually happening in the movies.
>>81595779
Awwww.
>>81594979
I say it doesn't feel like Star Wars because it doesnt have Lucas's signature visuals. It looks like a modern film with a Star Wars theme like TFA.
Not saying it's going to be bad or not good, it's just very clear Lucas is gone from the series.
>>81595405
>That's a lack of creativity, though.
No it isn't. It's being aware of when to call it quits and resolve a story with thematic strength and emotional resonance intact and at their most potent. Some cool shit could be done with her, maybe, sure. But is it warranted? Is there something else about her that we really need to see? Probably not. Ahsoka doesn't need to be another Darth Maul or Boba Fett.
I could be wrong, maybe she'll be back in an interesting way. I really doubt it, though.
>>81595020
Still feels weird. We saw the GI go into a ball of fire, and the Fifth Brother get disemboweled. It feels weird to have him do this offscreen sort of deal when the series hasn't shied from killing its antags onscreen in grody ways.
>>81595781
I'd be fine with either, has long as it's not made by EA.
>>81595781
If it was written well I'd be fine with a new cast
>>81595779
This is the only reason for BB-8's existence.
>>81595756
>>81595806
Reminder: fan theories like this wouldn't happen if people knew how to tell a story properly.
>>81595891
You'll have to wait like 10 years for that.
>>81594488
Look at the way he moves, it's like something you'd expect from a more acrobatic female character like the Seventh Sister.
I hope they explain why Obiwan was so shit at fighting in ANH, maybe through an encounter with maul or something
>>81595779
as long as he is happy, im happy
>>81595781
Wouldn't matter that much to me if it's a new cast. As long as they have the same sort of gameplay.
But I'd love a sequel for Delta Squad, recononize that stuff and let us have a game where they try to find Sev.
>>81595339
Thinking about it, I don't think the Geonosians ever actually expected this thing to destroy planets. Take out some ships with a big gun? Sure. Maybe wipe out cities. Heavily armored, mobile, huge fighter carrying capacity. A base you can move anywhere in the galaxy and lay siege to any world or even entire star systems.
But destroying planets? I doubt it, unless they somehow knew the magic of kyber crystals. I think the Emperor is the one who decided to add that little ingredient to amplify the power of the weapon.
To me there is a difference in creating something to wage conventional warfare and an outright doomsday weapon. But it probably doesn't matter. Show the CIS dbags a weapon that can destroy entire planets and they'd probably clap and cheer. Would Nute Gunray be appalled? Or Wat Tambor? Maybe just in the idea of destroying worlds instead of conquering them and reaping all the riches, the actual spoils of war.
>>81595924
I can wait for my deliverance.
>>81595906
>Reminder: fan theories like this wouldn't happen if people knew how to tell a story properly.
Okay do you're just bitching for the sake of bitching. Good to know.
>>81595855
>Lucas is gone from the series
I'm surprised Filoni didn't ask him to help on Rebels. I suppose the problem with George is that he would have no regard for the comics or novels and the storygroup would have to say no to ideas that contradict anything
>>81594375
Why are there so many gays on /co/?
Is it because cartoons appeal more to their malformed brains than real media?
>>81595985
LIDF, please go.
>>81595949
Star Wars is one of the only franchises where they would have to come up for a lore reason why an old man who didn't want to even be in a movie was bad at fighting
>>81595949
>I hope they explain why Obiwan was so shit at fighting in ANH, maybe through an encounter with maul or something
Because first film choreography.
>>81595987
>I'm surprised Filoni didn't ask him to help on Rebels.
Because George doesn't own the company anymore, what reason does he have?
>>81595949
>I hope they explain why Obiwan was so shit at fighting in ANH
I'd rather they not. It was a technical limitation at the time. I would imagine they were moving at pic related speeds.
You can easily interpret Luke and Vader's fight in both movies as Anakin and Obi-Wan speeds.
>>81595963
The superlaser is clearly visible in the plans Poggle had, so it's really unlikely that they didn't know.
>>81595989
>not being gay
check this faggot out
>>81595989
>>81596054
Already mentioned. Without the kyber it could explode ships, probably decimate cities. That's still impressive. Remember the Malevolence with it's massive ion canon? They are familiar with super weapons.
But destroying ships is one thing. Whole planets? That's, potentially, another.
>>81595987
>Filoni didn't ask him to help on Rebels
Lucas has gone on record that he's done with Star Wars. He described it as an ex-wife/girlfriend. He can't get close, he has to move on and forward.
Further proof? Watch the premier of TFA. He literally walked away from the interview with Andi.
>>81596113
I think they would've figured a moon-size station was too much for just a big ion cannon or a lot of guns.
>>81595989
>>>/pol/
Ya big cunt.
>>81596113
That doesn't make much sense since Poggle warns Dooku if they(Jedi) figure out what they're planning, they're doomed.
He knew it was a planet cracker.
>>81596130
>Further proof? Watch the premier of TFA. He literally walked away from the interview with Andi.
But that was only because Frank Marshall called him away. Not that it changes that Lucas is done with Star Wars, he made that clear, but just clearing up what actually happened in the red carpet interview.
>>81596130
Lucas tries to distance himself from it loads of times but he keeps coming back to it. It's like an ex girlfriend sure but one he can't stop having feelings for no matter how much he tries to forget and move on
>>81596227
It's called autism.
>>81594183
For some reason I feel the transition to smut came without any real warning or buildup
>>81596227
What if, in the future, we get a Lucas Anthology movie?
>>81596170
Why? A giant armored battle station with thousand so surface guns, shields enough to repel enemy fleets, able to carry massive compliments of ships, troops/droids, and all the goodies you need, and also had a big gun.
To them it could basically have been a mobile oppression palace. You can't lay siege against it, you blockade against it. But then star fighters and that one tiny flaw in the plans would no doubt still happen.
>>81596249
You don't even know the definition
>>81595949
I'd say being old as fuck and more stalling for time than actually fighting is part of it.
>>81596227
Right, which is why he sold it. He now cannot get to it no matter what.
You really think Lucas would come back and answer to Disney? To Hollywood? He'd rather strangle his children to death and remarry his ex-wife.
>>81596212
That doesn't make sense. Even if they were making a giant non-planet cracking mobile battle station the Republic would still attack them before they could complete it.
>>81596227
He certainly didn't shy away from it after the premiere. Check the Charlie Ross interview. Said some things he later had to apologize for.
![hqdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ayTJlFi.jpg "hqdefault[1].jpg")
Why do people make these kind of thumbnails?
>>81595967
That scene made me cry.
>>81596416
That shit was pretty tight.
>>81596298
>A giant armored battle station with thousand so surface guns, shields enough to repel enemy fleets, able to carry massive compliments of ships, troops/droids, and all the goodies you need, and also had a big gun.
At that point, it's only a few steps away from being a planet killer as it is, so I don't see the point in hiding the weapon's true intention from them.
Plus if they're the ones building it and they have the actual plans I don't know how you could hide its purpose from them. The Geonosians knowing the purpose of the Death Star would also justifying silencing them permanently.
Let me ask you this, though: would it make a big difference to the Geonosians if this giant weapon they're building is a planet killer or not?
>>81595924
Not if EA fucks up badly enough to get the company completely gutted. Licensing rights would return to Disney, and they could pick another anti-consumer company to make more shitty cash grabs.
>>81596212
The Republic kicked the shit out of Geonosis a second time for daring to create some ray shielded super tanks. The arc ends with Poggle captured and a queen killed. It doesn't take building a Death Star to get the shit kicked out of them.
That said, recall that Grievous was sent to retrieve a kyber. Was it for the Death Star? Ultimately, yes, but I suppose people can still argue whether the CIS was in the dark as to why they needed the crystal and it was juts something Sidious and/or Dooku ordered Grievous to secure.
>>81596227
I feel sorry for anyone who has had to work with George Lucas in the past seven or eight years, he has become truly insufferable.
He demands more control than anyone would ever be willing to give him. He sells Star Wars to Disney, hands them his treatments for Ep. VII-IX, authorizes three people at Disney to actually look at them then complains when the movie doesn't turn out the way he wants it.
He sunk the Darth Maul game and 1313 on a whim, then hands his whole company over to Disney finally puts Lucasarts out of its misery, then sells the video game rights to EA.
>>81595437
>TOR
>looks like some shit outta dark souls
nah
>>81596409
>>81596458
Autismmind, I'm sorry but you both have double-autism now
>>81596253
The woes of writing smut as a virgin.
>>81596490
>Shields
Did the Death Stars actually have a shield of their own? The second one had to have the shield made by Endor to cover it, instead of making it itself like Starkiller.
>>81596531
>>81596533
It's calleddubs
>>81596490
>Geonosians if this giant weapon they're building is a planet killer or not?
I highly doubt the Genosians would care. Why would they, as far as they were concerned this thing was going to kill the enemy and not them.
Then again the Emperor had them all killed and got rid of the people that might have known what exactly that station they were building actually was.
>>81596529
I get the want to have control over it I mean he did create it but at some point in the past 30 years he should have realized it became bigger than he was. To him probably everything that he didn't have complete control over is annoying fanart that people like more than his work and that really gets under his skin.
![adb_DBaKtaG_03[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/kGNdCEw.jpg "adb_DBaKtaG_03[1].jpg")
>>81596409
>>81596458
>>81596495
NOW THIS IS AUTISM
>>81596490
There is a rather huge difference between subjugating a planet with a giant battle station and just destroying that planet.
The CIS knowing at all, at the start of the war, about a weapon of that magnitude is a huge issue. Sidious was all about compartmentalization of information. It would be fully in character to trick the Geonosians into creating the very thing he later plans on turning into yet another Sith super weapon without them knowing they're actually creating a planet destroying gun.
>would it make a big difference to the Geonosians if this giant weapon they're building is a planet killer or not?
If you mean morally see >>81595963
If you mean in terms of how much they'd get the shit kicked out of them see >>81596505
>>81596373
>Charlie Ross
Charlie Rose and the whole Disney and JJ are white slavers controversy.
>>81596388
>>81596458
Someone say autistic thumbnail?
I saw a clickbait article about "top 5 reasons why Rogue One is a canon version of Dark Forces" with the #1 reason being that Josh Trank said it was a Dark Forces adaptation back when he was attached to direct it. Of course, they gave no source at all.
Is there any truth to that? Did Josh Trank say anything like that?
>>81596663
>The CIS knowing at all, at the start of the war, about a weapon of that magnitude is a huge issue.
But the Geonosians aren't the entire CIS. I can believe regular Separatist citizens and even the senate probably didn't know about it. But having Poggle and the Geonosians not be aware of what it was they were building is kind of stupid.
Anybody got any high quality screencaps of the Rogue One trailer with the T21 wielding stormtroopers? Or the running scarab troopers?
>>81594430
When has anything with Ahsoka ever been bad?
>>81594183
One day I will upload my own shameful Star Wars fapfic to one of these threads, but that is not this day.
>>81596529
He was right. It was a retro movie. A remake.
>>81596663
Have we even seen the Geonosians care about death? Heck, one of them got eaten in front of his coworkers by a nexu and they didn't bat an eye. You're asking why an enemy combatant would care if they built a superweapon that could kill an enemy's entire planet in one shot.
I don't think the CIS or the Geonosians would care at all about neutralizing an enemy with whatever they had in their arsenal.
>>81596854
I don't know if he ever said that but I know he was never attached to direct Rogue One. We still don't know for sure what movie he was working on (the big rumor is Boba Fett) but we do know he wasn't doing Rogue One or Han Solo.
>>81596529
>He demands more control than anyone would ever be willing to give him.
The fact you don't understand why Lucas wanted control over his franchise is unsettling. Do you know the drama between Hollywood and Lucas. Do you recall what happened during the making of ANH and ESB?
Lucas is not some dictator, this Plinkett rumor has to go. Almost everyone that works with him challenges him and his ideas. He wasn't surrounded by "Yes men" during TPM. Everyone was over ambitious and excited that they forgot to double check.
>>81596529
Lucas was the phantom menace the whole time.
>>81595212
>>81595624
Yeah, just like when people started bitching about how powerful Chewie's bowcaster was in TFA, when the one time we saw its effects in the OT it disintegrated a speeder bike with a single hit.
>>81596940
Lucas was the main villain in TFA
>>81596863
Considering how expensive and material heavy the Death Star construction has been shown to be multiple times in canon, I can't see the Geonosians doing it on their own. Especially when their world keeps being conquered by the Republic.
They don't need the average citizen or the Senate, both of whom are repeatedly been shown to be unfortunate dupes, to know. The CIS Council with the resources of the Techno Union, Banking Clans, Trade Federation, etc? Yeah.
Did Luke, Leia and Kylo ever learn about their grand/mother Padme? Wasn't Phasma's armor made out of Padme's ship's hull or some shit? Would Kylo have done that on purpose for her?
>>81596863
>But having Poggle and the Geonosians not be aware of what it was they were building is kind of stupid.
Most of the Empire didn't know what the damn Death Star would do, until the thing actually shot and killed Alderaan. The people working in the battlestation itself didn't know what exactly the Death Star was capable of.
Read Lost Stars for further information.
>>81596933
I refuse to believe no one told him Jar Jar or killing Maul were bad ideas.
>>81596638
People will complain about him like
>George Lucas is bad because prequels
>George Lucas is bad because special editions
But fuck those guys, he made those movies, it's up to him. It's when he fucks with guys like Red Fly Studios and the 1313 Dev team or the even the guys who made the concept art for Star Wars Underworld who LOVE STAR WARS and had been busting their asses trying to do the best job they can that makes him a dick. He is like Anakin Skywalker.
>I WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL DIRECTOR EVER
>>81597011
Oh, I'm sure someone did. They were then fired and ignored.
>>81596960
It's been 30 years, it's easy enough to imagine Chewie is using a new or upgraded version anyway.
>>81596992
>Wasn't Phasma's armor made out of Padme's ship's hull or some shit?
That sounds retarded.
Unless R2 told Luke nobody else would be alive to tell them.
>>81595949
>I hope they explain why Obiwan was so shit at fighting in ANH, maybe through an encounter with maul or something
Fucking autists like you are why they also canonized the stormtrooper effect.
>>81596992
Luke and Leia probably found out from Mon Mothma. And it was Palpy's ship actually.
>>81597002
Those people didn't build it, though. You sort of need to know what something does when you're the one making it.
>>81597048
No, it's the chroming from Palpatine's old Naboo transport from when he was a Senator.
>>81596885
They're hive insects. The death of a drone means nothing to them, however we've seen Anakin use Force Choke to torture Poggle into giving over the details on how to defeat the mind control worms. He very much seems to care about his own life, but he's a non-queen leader caste, so maybe that's the difference.
>>81596546
Watch the movie again.
>>81597126
>suffering through ANH
Nah
>>81597058
That's why you have the people that know what you build killed.
Which is exactly what happened to the Geonosians, they were killed by the Empire.
>>81596870
Now we will finally be able to see if the T-21 is still a light machine gun analogue like in the EU, or that weird anti-materiel rifle EAfront turned it into.
>>81597083
I wonder if Rex popped a celebratory champagne after he found out about Geonosis.
Can a bug and a clone ever be friends?
>>81597055
They simply acknowledge that not every stormtrooper is equally badass as every other stormtrooper. They aren't a clone army anymore with the same base physical traits and strict training regimen. You can still have those badasses taking over the Tantive IV, though not without casualties, and you can have the idiot guards who make up the local garrison on a planet.
The Empire was fucking huge and standards were all over the place. The reason we're given why the First Order Stormtroopers are back to being largely badass elites is because the First Order has a much smaller number of them and are forced to rely more on quality control instead of zerg rush tactics.
>>81596933
>Do you know the drama between Hollywood and Lucas. Do you recall what happened during the making of ANH and ESB?
I recall all of that shit. I recall the studio meddling that kept American Grafitti from being released, and how furious Warner Bros. was with THX-1138 which nearly brought down he and Copalla's own studio, American Zoetrope.
I know what happened when he didn't like what Dale Pollack had written in Lucas' first official biography.
I know about the time he threw out hundreds of completed VFX shots from ILM on RoTJ, the whole crew screaming at him the whole time.
Don't even FUCK with me right now.
>>81597026
The thing is, that isn't even necessary. The weapon was already shown as powerful shit in the original movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyukuEz5ED4
>>81597155
>watching the best movie of the franchise is "suffering"
kill you're fucknig piese of gargbage self
>>81597172
And that's why this whole "maybe the Geonosians didn't know?" detour is pretty stupid. We have no reason to believe they didn't know, and the whole race being permanently silenced is proof enough that they had to know.
>>81597011
>Jar Jar
>plunky comic relief for kids
Why would you be concerned? His antics don't overpower the main story. I still don't see the sensible reason adults bitch about this. 3PO was an annoying twat too.
>Maul
>audience introduction to the Sith and Sidious
How is Darth Maul a bad idea?
>>81597225
Are you going to source all of this?
>>81596885
That was Bob. Nobody liked Bob.
>>81597210
>he reason we're given why the First Order Stormtroopers are back to being largely badass elites is because the First Order has a much smaller number of them and are forced to rely more on quality control instead of zerg rush tactics.
Fun thing is, FO troopers are pretty much the same as the OT ones. Guys who miss the heroes for obvious plot armor reasons, but are still portrayed as threatening figures and the main characters take them seriously. They just don't have 30 years of overanalysis and memes on their backs.
>>81595989
/co/ bleeds with tumblr.
>>81597184
In battlefront its more of a battle rifle, like an M1 Garand, shoots a few high powered bolts semi auto before it has to "reload"
>>81597265
>you're
Tarkin, you have terrible grammar, but I do have to agree with your statement.
>>81597347
That's more like the T-21b, the vanilla version did have full auto fire, albeit slow as shit.
>>81597260
But that guy was already heading straight for a fallen tree even before Chewie hit him so what was the bowcaster and what was just that idiot wrecking his speeder?
>>81594183
Nigga, I can't tell if he's fucking her ass or her vag. I'm assuming ass though. But did she cum or did your character just leave her unfinished after he fucked her?
It's ok, but you left the story very vague and somewhat disjointed.
>>81597343
>They just don't have 30 years of overanalysis and memes on their backs.
Don't they? You can change the armor but people still lump them in, fairly or unfairly.
>>81597403
Both versions in game are semi auto, I mean I guess the heavy blaster version is "automatic" in the sense that if you hold the mouse button down it will fire continuously but its very slow and its only got like 8-10 shots before overheating, the T21b is like a DMR version of it. ANYWAY, I want pics of it from Rogue One, but I don't know how they get those super high quality screengrabs from a youtube video, they always wind up artifacted for me.
>>81597303
http://www.shadowlocked.com/industrial-light-and-magic.html
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/nov/17/zoetrope-coppola-lucas-star-wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Graffiti#United_Artists
>>81595855
>I say it doesn't feel like Star Wars because it doesnt have Lucas's signature visuals.
The framing shot of Ben Mendelsohn is better than anything Lucas did.
>>81597012
You're right, it was up to him. And there's nothing wrong with people calling out his numerous shitty creative decisions.
>>81597553
So it's better than anything in A New Hope?
>>81596307
Reveal the names of these semen demons.
>>81597640
Tiya Sircar and Vanessa Marshall, aka voices of Sabine Wren and Hera Syndulla(also Jan Ors)
>start getting into the EU after knowing everything about canon
>it's 100 times more interesting than canon
What the actual fuck? No offense, but I seriously cannot for the life of me understand why people would choose canon over this. Maybe for the few inconsistencies here and there and the Vong shit but other than that the EU is fucking amazing. I am convinced that everyone that's into the new canon are either an old EU fan that got bored of the EU, or someone who got into Star Wars when Episode 7 was announced. I don't want to sound like an dick or anything, but it really feels like a situation similar to Silent Hill where you can tell who the newfags are because they're getting into all the shitty new stuff.
>>81597588
>So it's better than anything in A New Hope?
Lucas was pretty much a second unit director of RotJ too.
Rogue One looks great, I can only hope Jyn Erso isn't as bland a protagonist as whatshisface was in Godzilla. I'm predicting Mendelsohn or Whitaker will be the Bryan Crantson of the film.
>>81597750
Haha, fokking Friesland.
>>81597750
>Why would someone choose something that's only had 3-4 years to barely get off the ground compared to something that had 20 years to accumulate new stories?
>>81597719
Vanessa Marshall has blue eyes and doesn't look that hot.
Tiya Sircar a cutie.
>>81597750
WARNING WARNING THIS IS BAIT DO NOT REPLY INITIATE CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES
>>81597011
From a marketing perspective, it would probably be good for the kids. Although Lucas definitely was interested in his universe, there is no doubt that he still wanted to make money off of it.
>>81597343
The stormtroopers became laughable goons in ROTJ when they lost against the teddy bears. It's not about hitting the heroes, it's about being menacing. The FO troopers were pretty menacing during the village attack or when TR-8R kicked Finn around.
>>81597880
So like stormies in ANH? JJ, being JJ, was pretty obviously emulating the Tantive IV scene during the village raid.
>>81597750
>What the actual fuck? No offense, but I seriously cannot for the life of me understand why people would choose canon over this.
I like some parts of the EU, like the X-Wing series, but I can most definitely understand why the EU was thrown out and truly put in it's own separate universe. There was too many cooks in the kitchen and so many different stories with completely different characters about the same thing.
You cab like both the EU abd Canon, don't know why you're whining about it.
But with that Hitler Picture right now I think I might have been baited. If so, good bait.
>>81597503
>I guess the heavy blaster version is "automatic" in the sense that if you hold the mouse button down it will fire continuously
So yeah, it's automatic.
>>81597750
>>81597750
You'd think they'd make things more impressive given the many years of the EU, but since canon is more strict, I guess it's harder. Plus, they probably value different things such as being accused of plagiarism, having original ideas, impacting the Star Wars universe, etc.
>>81595963
>, I don't think the Geonosians ever actually expected this thing to destroy planets.
You're a dunce.
http://www.starwars.com/databank/death-star-superlaser
>According to legend, the ancient Sith used massive kyber crystals to create superweapons; during the Clone Wars, the Geonosians revived the superlaser design.
>>81597443
The bowcaster clearly hit before that, are you being obtuse on purpose?
>>81597455
>>81596253
>>81595246
I've been trying to write 2000-3000 words a day about anything. Today I wrote this.
It started as an exercise from location description whilst I distanced myself from the other thing I was writing. In the end I gave up and smutted it up.
>>81597874
>Although Lucas definitely was interested in his universe, there is no doubt that he still wanted to make money off of it.
Did he really care about money at that point? He was already set for life.
>>81597880
I dunno, as a kid I never saw that as their fault. I mean, the guys could be good, but what would that do if they get swarmed from all sides? I mean, there were like five fucking Ewoks for every stormtrooper in the forest, coming from everywhere.
>>81597880
That battle also had the stormtroopers hitting the heroes. And from pretty far distances, too.
>>81597932
As I said, they became a joke in ROTJ. I mean they always looked kinda goofy with their armor, but at least they act competent in ANH, TESB and TFA.
>>81598131
>I dunno, as a kid I never saw that as their fault.
That's okay, I didn't either. But now you should see how stupid that battle was. Imo, the worst part of the OT by far.
>>81598075
A lot of AotC was done to sell toys after TPM's poor reception.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMcAGYP3EjI
Look at that picture on the screen with the AT-ATs. Are we gonna see AT-ATs storm a beach in Rogue One?
>>81594979
I prefer the title on this one, but the black and white is perfect
>>81597553
Better do you mean "modern"? Star Wars was envisioned as a cheesy serial pulp. Not something ground breaking.
>>81598218
TPM toys actually sold well, the problem was stores over-ordered the stuff. Either way, unsold merchandise only affects the stores, not the manufacturers and definitely not Lucas himself.
>>81598217
>a joke in ROTJ
you realize they were winning pretty handily until Chewie hijacked the ATST right?
>>81594220
No one is like Ahsoka, anon. We had the perfect waifu and we lost her.
>>81598298
I doubt you can get any more cheesier than a blind shaolin monk.
>>81597290
>How is Darth Maul a bad idea?
I said KILLING Maul was a bad idea dipshit and it was. It was a complete waste of the character. He could've helped provide a smoother transition for Anakin's fall, with Anakin trying to avenge Qui-Gon.
>>81598331
At which point all it took was Han putting on an AT-ST driver headset to trick all the remaining Imperials inside the bunker to not only open the door but rush out like a bunch of morons.
You can frame it any way you want but the Empire's forces on Endor were incompetent no matter how you look at it.
>>81597750
It's "Kanon", anon.
>>81598331
That doesn't matter at all. They still acted like total fools in the entire movie.
>>81598063
If you're going to write a story then you have to stick with it, giving up and then adding poorly written smut isn't a good way to write anything. You have to stick with your idea and make it cohesive and flowing.
> I've been trying to write 2000-3000 words a day about anything
Are you good at writing 2000-3000 words a day or do you feel like you're getting too overloaded with the word count? That's no small number, but the writing here is suffering poorly because of it. I don't know who Renno is or his Apprentice, I don't know their personalities.
It's really sad. Back in the day Lucas was just trying to make a movie in accordance with his vision. But things kept getting in his way - producers telling him what to do, actors adding their own bits and pieces, limitations of special effects at the time. He probably felt that when the movie was done it was no longer his movie. In the end studio had the final say, telling him what he can and can't do, and he couldn't resist.
So with the prequels he was the one holding all the leashes, so no one else could. He thought he was bringing peace, freedom and stability to his filmmaking. But what he didn't see was that now he was merely telling others what they can and can't do. He was shoving shit on screen, blinded by his freedom, without thought, and no one could resist him. He would choke EU on a whim by canceling products and contradicting established lore just to prove his power.
No one was safe from his vision.
Luke may have been Lucas' self-insert, but Anakin was his true alter-ego, even if he never realized it himself.
This is the ultimate pottery of Star Wars.
>>81594979
>>81598237
Why are the titles in French if I may ask?
>>81597848
Do you really think we're going to get anything better than what we've got now though. Lords of the Sith was the only really great thing I've read so far. Everything else has been just as mediocre as the old EU. When are we going to start getting the good shit?
The grand fault of the Empire in ROTJ, from the Emperor to the lowliest trooper, was overconfidence. They were only expecting a simple arrest, not a heavy fight against hundreds of natives.
>>81598369
Given Maul's (lack of) characterization in TPM killing him wasn't a bad idea. He was just a walking excuse for action scenes. I think he should've been Dooku, really. We didn't need Maul.
>>81598345
Rest in peace, my sweet orange.
>>81598218
>A lot of AotC was done to sell toys after TPM's poor reception.
This is a myth.
>>81598063
>In the end I gave up and smutted it up.
But anon, you should write what you know.
Oh wow Pablo.
>>81598470
It's more artsy that way.
>>81598459
>Luke may have been Lucas' self-insert, but Anakin was his true alter-ego, even if he never realized it himself.
I think he did realize it. Didn't he say that Anakin was his favorite character? Not just that, Anakin literally became the most important character in the saga, just because of the prequels. He was Lucas's true self insert.
>>81598540
>I think he should've been Dooku
Dooku for sure should've been in TPM, but as a good Jedi Master, supportive of Gui Gon.
>>81598454
I have a story with 12000 words about an aspiring bounty hunter and his mentor, both of whom are trying to make it big(And bigger) on Nar Shaddaa.
I've finished the first draft but it needs additions to explain stuff better.
I have writers block and the experience stopped being fun a long time ago.
>>81598552
I know, I know.
>>81598564
Ahah, oh wow, fucking Pablo!
>>81598426
And a few scenes earlier a scout trooper decks Han in the face, while another goes full Naked Snake on Leia.
That scene is just Han being a daredevil as usual, exactly as that one moment in ANH when he chases the troopers.
Besides, after that, the scout gets surrounded by a superior number of rebels. What did you expect him to do? Some bullet time shit?
>>81598564
But Kylo isn't really a tortured anti-hero, much less so than Vader.
>>81598470
It's a /tv/ meme where they change movie titles to different languages to make them sound more patrician.It's one of the only /tv/ memes I find mildly humorous of done right.
>>81598603
*Qui Gon
>>81598564
If your favorite Star Wars villain isn't Palpatine, then you are wrong
>>81597750
> why people would choose canon
> Vongshit
> Darksaber
> Palpatine clones - seriously, this is so bad jesus christ
> Trioculus
> selonians (literally otter aliens)
Literally the only good parts of the EU were the Old Republic material, the games, and maybe some of the New Jedi Order stuff.
Not to mention that Canon is still supported and is the universe in which all the new movies and media will be set. It's the only relevant version of Star Wars, you don't get to pick and choose.
>>81598652
Sheev is my sithfu.
>>81598540
Which is why he should've gotten more scenes instead of fucking Jar Jar. And Dooku SHOULD HAVE been in TPM as a good guy who has his doubts about the Order. That way he wouldn't have come out of fucking nowhere in AOTC.
>>81598543
she's not dead though
>>81598593
>He was Lucas's true self insert.
