Dathomir Nightsisters - Edition
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Was it rape?
>>84427261
From a certain point of view
Reposting the new art of Disneyland's Star Wars Land. Hoping the final product actually does a decent job of obscuring the spaceport from the river vehicles
>Anakin, what's the matter?
>It's just... I shouldn't have ordered that Kazrl steak. I always feel bad after eating it.
>I thought it was something serious.
>We have to go on a mission tomorrow. I swear if I get diarrhea I don't care if Sheev takes over the Jedi temple..
>Sheev?
>Uh...
Asajj Ventress is extremely overrated.
>>84427261
Please, Dooku has dreams like this all the time. This is his fantasy.
Will she ever return?
>>84427261
He was asking for it. Count Dooku? More like Cunt Doodoo.
>>84426349
>Did he even really get that far?
Yeah, he did. He used him far enough to actually get him to activate the temple. Everything was going as he wanted until he fucked himself over by losing to a blind, fresh knighted Jedi. Yeah, he's no Sheev. But he did better than any of us probably would have.
>but at this point Ezra would be an idiot to trust Maul again.
Do not underestimate the power of adolescent stupidity.
>>84427507
Little Ben isn't going to pleasure itself in Obi-wan's film trilogy.
![Star.Wars.Episode.III.2005.1080p.BluRay.X264-AMIABLE.mkv_snapshot_01.15.07_[2016.07.08_21.21.30].png](https://i.imgur.com/xDShnLC.jpg "Star.Wars.Episode.III.2005.1080p.BluRay.X264-AMIABLE.mkv_snapshot_01.15.07_[2016.07.08_21.21.30].png")
>>84427630
>Yeah, he did. He used him far enough to actually get him to activate the temple
No, I mean did he really get far in gaining Ezra's trust and loyalty. He clearly got him to activate the weapon, but he failed to really secure Ezra's trust since it fell apart right then and there, and we know from Maul's own words as well as Filoni that Ezra becoming his apprentice (and thus his legacy) was also something Maul genuinely wanted.
>>84427667
Spoiler that shit next time.
>>84427667
why did he turn into a skeleton?
>>84427196
When Celebration is happening, the houseordo stream will have it playing live, so even if /tv/ feels like paying the threads a visit, people can just chill out in the stream instead.
>>84427797
Meant to reply to >>84423517
>>84427797
Awesome!
Then we can all react to all the Star Wars news. Good stuff
>>84427793
Electricity does that to people in movies/tv shows, or used as comedy in cartoons.
>>84427507
If Freddie is right about season 3 being the Mando show, yes. Check out the voice actors this season
>>84427630
>Do not underestimate the power of adolescent stupidity
How is Ezra stupid for trusting Maul?
>fights inquisitors
>hates Sith
>hates Empire
What's not to trust? You're forgetting Ezra doesn't know what Kanan does. He has no knowledge of a real Sith, Jedi or even what the Force is. Freddie even mentions this in the podcast. Ezra is being split in half.
>>84427261
Yes.
![Star.Wars.Episode.III.2005.1080p.BluRay.X264-AMIABLE.mkv_snapshot_01.14.58_[2016.07.08_21.20.26].png](https://i.imgur.com/JodKT9y.jpg "Star.Wars.Episode.III.2005.1080p.BluRay.X264-AMIABLE.mkv_snapshot_01.14.58_[2016.07.08_21.20.26].png")
>>84427719
Make me
>>84427793
He was always one
>>84399270
>Fan
>Want to spoil it
You're an oxymoron and a liar.
>>84427895
>mace windu was a skeleton the whole time
WTF I hate windu now
>>84427969
Spoiling is great. There's nothing fans hate more than spoilers.
>>84427868
>Electricity does that to people in movies/tv shows
Except force lightning isn't actually electricity. It doesn't do the same things to people that electric current does. Force lightning is basically just concentrated Dark Side hate-bolts.
>>84428147
Which means Mace Windu wasn't originally a skeleton, but Palpatine's dark powers turned him into one! What a monster!
>>84428181
>What a monster!
You're surprised that Sidious can do this given that he has access to UNLIMITED POWER?
>>84428296
I didn't think he'd go that far, turning people into skeletons when they weren't skeletons before is unforgivable!
>>84428400
Such is a Sith Lord, anon. It's what they do.
>>84428586
Someone should stop him!
>>84428147
But Yoda uses it
>>84428732
Yoda uses bolts of love.But love still hurts a lot.
Is Sith Lord a holdover from when there were more than two Sith? The ruling Dark Lord and his apprentice are always Sith Lords whether they head an entire empire or whether there are literally only two Sith in existence?
>>84428732
When does he do that?
>>84427793
Same reason it happened to Vader
![Star.Wars.Episode.VI.Return.of.the.Jedi.1983.1080p.BluRay.x264.mkv_snapshot_01.57.05_[2016.07.03_17.18.16].png](https://i.imgur.com/SBNy8TW.jpg "Star.Wars.Episode.VI.Return.of.the.Jedi.1983.1080p.BluRay.x264.mkv_snapshot_01.57.05_[2016.07.03_17.18.16].png")
>>84428021
I have some more troubling news anon.... so was Vader
>>84428773
>Is Sith Lord a holdover from when there were more than two Sith?
It's difficult to tell. I myself don't know much, canonically, about the old Sith Empire.
It could be. I can only say that right now, in the Rule of Two, both Sith are lords. But the master, the ruling Sith, is the Dark Lord. At least until their apprentice kills them.
>>84428894
>>84429029
You mean when he holds the lightning with the force and pushes it back?
>>84428947
>You can see the metal bits and replacements
What a nice touch
>>84429084
I swear I remember him shooting it and having a DBZ style energy battle with Sheev
>>84429369
He does it to Dooku as well
>>84428947
>skeleton Vader being the cute dark side teacher he was always meant to be
Marvelous.
>>84429369
I think it's time for you to rewatch AOTC and ROTS
>>84429369
He's not actually shooting the lightning himself, though. He's just pushing Sheev's own back at him.
so whats going on with jakku
seems like someone
is important
>>84429369
Yoda was using the force to repel/shield himself from it. Using force lightning is a dark side ability.
hm?
>>84429519
>>84429565
>highlighting in a book
For what reason
>>84429519
>>84429540
>>84429565
Things that won't be brought up in the next movie or ever.
>>84429540
>the man hmms
>>84429565
>>84429540
these are backwards. glad to see more sheev namedropping though!
>>84429608
Empire's End, the third book in the trilogy, is going to end up taking place mostly on Jakku. We'll probably find out then.
>>84428709
But no one can.
Okay, so Life Debt will become available at midnight tonight. Quick poll, how many of you want to be able to get it right away, and how many of you are fine waiting a few days for it?
>>84428894
WTF I hate star wars now
>>84429714
I WANT IT NOW
>>84429714
the sooner the better to hold me over until the rogue one trailer
>>84429714
I'm in no rush to get it
>>84429591
... I guess Tashu was among the few in the Emperor's inner circle who knew his true identity. So, excluding the Royal Guards, that makes Vader, Amedda and Tashu.
>>84429714
Audio please
>>84429714
I'm already going to be waiting a few days to get it from the local library, so either or.
I am curious about one thing: how much of the SW fandom reads the EU?
And inside the EUfags, how many actually pay for'em? Is continuing the EU worth it for the Mouse?
>>84429714
Doesn't matter to me, id be fine with either.
>>84429827
Another Anon handles the audiobooks, so I can't say whether he'll have it tonight or not
>>84429827
Audiobook should be available in no more than a day or two. Just depends on when Kileko gets it ripped
>>84430049
>>84430093
Cool, thanks
Any leaks for season 3 of Rebels?
Sure hope they introduce a Kaleesh character at some point. They're my favorite race.
>tfw I am finally forced to get through Aftermath's audiobook in order to listen to Life Debt in a few days
Welp here we go.
Wake up sheeple
>>84430348
>Never stops his kill Luke pose.
Hilarious.
>>84429714
Right away would be cool, last couple of days and spoilers have made me quietly hype
>>84430348
Episode VI is a horror movie
>>84429714
i always want everything asap
>>84430494
Episode I and II are definitely comedies.
>>84429981
My dad accumulated literally every EU novel from Splinter to the second to last big Post-ROTJ multi-author thing. I've read a decent chunk of it, the 'classics' are still pretty good, I even enjoyed some of the Vong. Though my favorite stuff was either the early really pulpy works like the Han Solo trilogy or the clone wars stuff and the post-cw continuations with characters that came from the Maul book and the Space M*A*S*H duology
>>84430553
>Chickenwalkers
>>84429714
I would be happiest with tomorrow morning, around 6am, if you please good anon.
>>84430348
Does this mean Luke is half-skeleton?
How different would things be if Windu was Anakin's master? Saw somebody post the question on youtube and wanted to know what you guys thought.
>>84431208
He would have also been a condescending prick, but may have taught him to channel his anger since Windu also flirted with the dark side.
>>84431208
>>84431241
I get the feeling this would've made things easier for Sidious. Alot of the reason it was easy for for him to feed Anakin's ego was because he always felt underappreciated by the order to varying degrees. Being under Windu I can't help but feel would've accelerated that process.
>>84431208
Ahsoka would have been executed for crimes she didn't commit.
But on the plus side, Windu may have managed to stamp out Anakin's attachment problems, and they may have defeated Sheev, thus stopping the Empire from ever happening.
But if that were the case, Ahsoka would probably have been sent to be Obi-Wan's Padawan, like originally intended, and everybody would have lived happily ever after...
Fuck.
>>84431298
Yeah, Mace was even more "by the book, follow the code, no exceptions" than Obi-Wan. Anakin wouldn't have handled it well.
>>84427878
>Ezra is being split in half
Maul can empathize with that.
>>84431241
Yeah if vanilla anakin was a butt head you know Mace is gonna just make anakin a pain to be in the room with. Like, youd be in the jedi temple in the library reading up on some shit and he'd fucking scoff at what your reading
"Hmph. MY master had finish that book before I was even to be knighted."
>>84431208
Sheev would have used Mace's position in the Jedi against Anakin. He would constantly invite Mace and Anakin to fancy dinners and whatnot to make the other padawans dislike Anakin and from being buddies with Mace he would be able to fuck with the Jedi even more. I feel like he would have immediately destroyed the Jedi during the battle of Geonosis by activating Order 66 and then attacking the main temple by saying that the Jedi had aligned themselves with the Separatists and were on Geonosis to plot an attack on Coruscant. By then he would have made sure that Anakin and Mace were busy on Coruscant and intentionally let it slip to someone like Yoda that he was a Sith Lord so that the Jedi would try attacking him, Anakin would be confused and doubt they're reasoning, then Mace would likely join in after trusting Yoda forcing the clones to deal with the Jedi and Anakin to align himself with Sheev. Sheev would then use Jango's underworld connections to continue intimidating Senators and making the Republic bend to his will with Anakin as Sheev's personal guard now that the Jedi have been destroyed. Eventually the Delegation of the 2,000 would be formed but Sheev would plant some evidence on them that they were plotting another attack like the Separatists and then send Anakin and the 501st to deal with them but this time Anakin would gladly kill Padme because he has no attachment to her. Over time Palpatine would slowly lead Anakin to the dark side and after years he would fake finding out that he was force sensitive and after turning Anakin to the dark side he would then act as if he's recreating the ancient Sith order. Anakin would gladly accept this by now and now with the Sith mindset him and the Clones would execute the Senate and enact an Empire. The galaxy is forever fucked. The end.
I'm editing on my SW fanfiction.
The first part might go up on Wattpad tonight.
>>84431707
Don't care
>>84431707
What's it about? Might check it out.
>>84431860
Picking up some characters from Lego Star Wars in the year 15BBY. Cosmic Horror / Adventure with a touch of smut.
>>84429714
Right away pls.
>>84428773
Egomania comes with the territory. Even in an order of two you gotta feel like the biggest one in the room.
>>84432584
Why is it so hard to make new friends?
So let me get this straight. Mon Mothma:
>disbanded the military
>let the Empire exist after the Civil War
>privatized fucking prisons and wasted tons of New Republic money hiring companies that will likely listen to the highest bidder instead of being loyal to the New Republic and actually housing prisoners (a majority of whom are probably old Imperials)
>didn't centralize hospitals or healthcare
>moved the capital around constantly so that the galaxy was even more unstable than it already was
>made senators control sectors instead of individual planets meaning there's less loyalty to the New Republic on a local level and the New Republic has less power over any worlds in it's own territory
>went 'fuck it' and gave up on half the galaxy leaving a huge portion of planets to be unaligned with the New Republic or Empire
>>84432799
What is this?
>>84432939
Yes. This is how lazy the ST era's setting is, they had to turn the rebellion's leader into a total fucking idiot in order for it to even work.
>>84432979
I'm chatting with an anon in discord, and he said my taste was shit.
>Windu also flirted with the dark side.
>[Citation needed]
>>84433004
Her character deserved better. She was nice and motherly in Lost Stars, but still shown to be a strong leader. Then she goes full retard in the name of "peace", and it's pretty much all damage control from the LSG to show how the Empire can be resurrected within half a decade. Sad but true.
>>84432939
Yep
>>84432799
Lower your standards, or accept your loneliness with open arms.
>>84433102
But he said I have shit taste for not liking Thrawn, Chiss, Wedge, or spaceships ;-;
>>84432939
This bothers me so badly. they destroyed her legacy. How and why would they do this?
>>84433074
Can I join? I'm bored as fuck.
>>84433156
>How and why would they do this?
Because 'you have to go back to go forward.'
Do you guys miss shit like this:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/DBY-827_heavy_turbolaser_turret
>On medium power, it could knock out shields and allow allied starfighters to attack areas the turbolaser could not reach. On the highest power setting, this would punch through shields and incinerate their targets.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Acclamator-class_assault_ship/Legends
>24 point-defense cannons, rated at 6 megatons per shot; and 12 quad turbolaser turrets, each rated at a maximum of 200 gigatons per shot. The hull armor of Acclamator-class vessels was impregnated with ultra-dispersive neutronium that withstood and spread massive energy blasts. Fusion rockets fired by enemy forces barely made a scratch on the hull as a result.
Please, Pablo make Star Wars overpowered again.
>>84433248
>he actually said this
>Lucasfilm was okay with this
>mysoulwhen
>>84433194
it's not a star wars discord
>>84433437
Oh nvm. I thought your posts were multiple people posting screenshots from some /swg/ discord.
>>84429714
Isn't life Debt the Wendig dumpster fire?
The fuck would you all be excited for it?
Stockholm Syndrome much?
>>84433472
It actually sounds interesting >>84400848
>>84432939
Wow... I have no words to describe how upset this makes me.
>>84433472
>ignoring the entire plot of a book that is establishing new things just because the author is a bad writer
That's not how you get the most out of Star Wars, anon.
>>84429714
>>84430093
So which MEGA do you two handle?
Would it be accurate to say that Anakin Skywalker is the main character of Star Wars?
>>84433641
That was how I got the most out of the old canon: I ignored everything written after the Hand of Thrawn (and some stuff before that)
>>84433660
I handle canon books/comics.
>>84433854
Anakin is the character that 6 films center around, so you could make that argument.
>>84433660
I handle:
Soundtracks MEGA
Audiobooks MEGA
Legends MEGA
Rebels Season 2 MEGA
Films MEGA
the Pastebin
Legends recommendation list
I also occasionally make webms, like the Grievous ones and >>84430348
>>84430029
I don't always put my trip on(mostly because I forget)
My name really is outdated since I used to just provide the soundtracks.
>>84433854
Alot of people see it that way and will tell you so. I personally don't think there is a single main character. In the films specifically, they focused in threes.
In TPM, it was Qui-gon, Obi-wan and Padme.
In AoTC and RoTS, it was Obi-wan, Anakin and Padme.
In the whole of the OT is was Luke, Leia and Han.
In TFA it was Rey, Finn and, arguably, Han.
>>84433929
Hell, if anything the name MEGAnon applies to you more. I only use it because people started calling me that.
>>84433854
Sorta but not really.
For the Main Saga, at least the first 6, yeah. There are multiple protagonists, but the focus and story is tied all around Anakin (except ANH obviously)
George Lucas himself said that's how he viewed it, that Anakin was the main character of his movies, despite only being the protagonist of 2-3. Even then you can make a strong argument that Obi-Wan was mostly the main protagonist for those two.
Overall though, no. Star Wars has no main character. Because Star Wars is just hundreds of interwining stories, each individual story has a protagonist (or multiple)
In ANH, it's Luke. In Attack of the Clones, it's Anakin and Obi-Wan. In Blood Sisters, it's Sabine. In Levers of Power, it's Rae Sloane. And so on.
>>84433953
Yeah, its funny how that happened.
Is it true that Life Debt is actually decent?
>>84434229
Probably not.
>>84434229
Apparently reviews have said it's better than Aftermath, but whether that actually means it's good is another question.
>>84434229
The plot sounds interesting but I doubt it's written any better than the first one.
>>84433461
I wish there was a /swg/ is there any interest in it?
I suspect that Snoke was one of the original dark siders. Maybe even the first Jedi that ended up fucking off to create what turned into the Sith in the Hundred Years of Darkness. The Sith say that they believe that you need an extremely powerful government like the Empire in order for the galaxy to actually have peace and order but in reality they just used it to get power for themselves because they went full retard in the dark side and got selfish. I suspect that Snoke was one of the original Sith (maybe before they were even called Sith) that honestly believed in using power to establish peace and order and he will be somewhat more compassionate and understanding than Sidious because he doesn't want to take over the galaxy to feed himself energy from mass suffering like Sidious, he truly believes that the galaxy is doomed without a strong Empire controlling it and that the Jedi are too weak to effectively defend the citizens of the galaxy from threats.
This could also make sense given that we know Kylo truly believes that what he's doing is right and it also makes some sense given that he believes Vader was mostly right (except for him going back to the light) because Vader was dark because of his belief in the Empire and not because he was greedy like Sidious. This could also explain why Snoke made Kylo give up the attachment of Han, because their dark side order isn't based off attachments or emotion but cold emotionless rationality.
Did we get a new episode of the Freemaker Adventures today?
>>84435362
this essentially acts as one
>>84434229
I think in terms of story. Weather that means it's actually written well? Is yet to be seen.
>>84433248
I wonder if it burned him to hear James Cameron shit all over him. I know he has piles of money to keep him company, but since he fancies himself as a genius and a "visionary" I like to think hearing someone shit-talk his work stung.
>>84435970
Why would he care what Cameron thinks? TFA was extremely successful. JJ did his job very well and left. He probably won't consider it his best films but he did what he was suppose to do.
How do you guys figure Star Wars will look within the next 30-50 years? Will TFA be forgotten, will the prequels get a better reception or will people be burned out and not to care?
>>84436074
Yeah, Abrams is a huge Spielberg fanboy and has managed to gain his favor by kissing his ass, so as long as Spielberg still pats him on the head Abrams's ego will be fine.
>>84436074
Star Wars needs to fucking evolve. Star Wars needs to grow and change and be fucking weird.
Remember, the whole reason the OT took over the world is because it was literally like nothing anyone had ever seen before. Oh, sure, there were bits and pieces of stuff people had seen before--Kurosawa movies, Westerns, Buck Rogers--but it had never been put together in this way, with this style and aesthetic. It was really original and that's what drew everyone in.
If Star Wars wants to stay relevant it needs to keep being original. I think Lucas was actually on to something with the prequels, with his need to keep doing something different with Star Wars. Sure, everyone felt nice and comfortable with TFA because it was familiar, but that's only because the prequels were bad movies. Too many safe, familiar movies and everyone is going to get burned out fast. Star Wars needs to once again push beyond the edges of what everyone knows and do something totally unique. It needs to once again make us really feel like we're a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
>>84436074
>How do you guys figure Star Wars will look within the next 30-50 years? Will TFA be forgotten, will the prequels get a better reception or will people be burned out and not to care?
I've been thinking about this.
TFA is doomed to only ever be "alright", and ultimately overlooked and forgotten. This is literally because of how similar it is to ANH.
In 30 years, when there is another dozen or so movies, TFA will likely be the ONE Star Wars movie, out of them all, that doesn't stand out. The only one. And that is entirely because of JJ's "go back to go forward" mentality. He made it so similar to ANH that, no matter how much you enjoy it, it will still lack the ability to stand out among the other movies.
As for the Prequels getting better reception, that's already happened. TFA gave the fans a lot of what they were asking for, and in retrospective, left a lot to be desired that fans realize the Prequels gave to them. Worldbuilding is a popular example.
As for people being burned out, that's very hard to say. Star Wars is so huge, the biggest franchise on the planet, it's hard to imagine the bubble bursting.
Hey, at what point in the prequels does Sheev wear his robes with the ridiculously large shoulders?
>>84436402
Attack of the Clones, during the emergency powers scene in the senate
>>84436517
Thank you.
Welp, Google Books is being retarded and Google's technical assistance isn't being helpful. I can't even download the epub let alone rip it. Looks like you guys will have to wait for someone else to rip it.
So I was reading up on religions that inspired the force and I think Taoism is probably the biggest one. I'm also surprised that most of what I wrote up in pic related is actually very relevant to Taoism leading me to believe that my descriptions were correct. Here's some interesting shit I found out:
>Tao is the force behind everything that exists.
>There are 3 forms of power in Taoism.
>The first is Jing which is sperm/ovaries. Keep in mind that Lucas inspired midichloreans off the Jewish concept that there's energy in a person's blood so Jing may have been the final nail in the coffin to make him decide to make a bodily fluid hold power.
>The second is qi which are thoughts and emotions. I suspect that this inspired the concept of the living force having power through sentience and Sith misusing this power and feeding off suffering or anger.
>The third is shen, spiritual power, a person's power in the overal Tao. Maybe what inspired the concept of people becoming part of the Cosmic Force when they die.
>Yin (literal translation: shady) is the treacherous part of this power in a person. Probably inspired the dark side.
>Yang (literal translation: sunny) is the positive 'belonging to tao' part of a person. Probably inspired the light side.
>Yin and Yang must be in kept in balance.
>Wu Wei which is the concept of being one with the tao in a state of inaction and peace ensuing. Probably inspired the Jedi to be peacekeepers.
>Wu Wei can also mean 'action does not require effort' which could have inspired the 'Judge me by my size do you?' scene in ESB.
>Qigong which is meditating until you are one with the tao.
>>84436771
That sucks. Oh well, someone should have it by tomorrow
>>84435749
We did, but there don't seem to be any rips yet.
>>84436174
>but that's only because the prequels were bad movies
I hate to sound like a broken record but I honestly don't believe this. I keep marathoning through the saga and I keep coming to the conclusion both trilogies are on equal footing. They both have the same dialogue, action and atmosphere. We talked a little about this last thread but I think the reasons the prequels failed with fans is because of nostalgia. People were expecting the new Star Wars films to pick up where ROTJ left off and continue the adventures of Han Solo and Luke. I think the general response was first shock and outrage because it was something so far removed from what they were expecting. A completely new story, setting and group of characters that was nothing like the originals. Lucas even laments about this in behind the scenes info.
If the prequel films were a separate story not directly connected to the main saga, I believe the response would've been much different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Uud2kp9GQ&index=66
If you play this at half speed, it strongly resembles Sheev's theme from ROTJ.
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>>84436229
>Star Wars is so huge, the biggest franchise on the planet, it's hard to imagine the bubble bursting.
Some of the largest franchises and companies have died from product fatigue. It's not impossible but it would take time.
>>84436862
>>The second is qi which are thoughts and emotions.
Also forgot to mention that qi directly inspired the force which was once called 'the will' in early drafts. This also leads me to believe that I was correct in my description that the Living Force is significant because of it's sentience and that the Cosmic Force gives the Living Force the ability to use it's sentience as a power with midichloreans since we know that midichloreans are what allow someone to use the force (implying that this is coming from the Cosmic Force that the midichloreans are connected to). It also matches up with Obi-Wan saying that the force comes from living beings in ANH.
Think of it like this. There's the Cosmic Force which is existence itself and it has power. The Cosmic Force decided to create the Living Force which is significant because of it's sentience. The Living Force has midichloreans in it's blood which allow the Cosmic Force to let the force flow through the Living Force and the Living Force uses it's sentience to use the force given to it by the Cosmic Force for selfish or selfless reasons. The Living Force can be selfish though and decide to consume itself and become a sort of virus in the Cosmic Force that will eventually destroy existence itself, but the Jedi defend the Living Force from such selfish beings like the Sith and decide to live in symbiosis with the Cosmic Force receiving energy from the Cosmic Force in the form of force sensitivity and giving back when they die and their energy becomes one with the Cosmic Force again.
You may also be thinking that force spirits are selfishly staying with the Living Force instead of letting your energy go into the Cosmic Force but think of it like this: when you die normally your soul and energy haphazardly goes back into the Cosmic Force but you can train to have it go back into the Cosmic Force in an organized manner that resembles your sentience and become a force ghost.
>>84436862
No shit the Force is based on the Tao. However, you've got it backwards: the Light Side comes from Yin, the Dark Side comes from Yang. This is because Yin is white and Yang is black on the symbol of the Tao, the good old Yin-Yang. Pic related.
Here's something subversive to think about: in Taoism, Yin and Yang are both essential to the operation of the universe. Yin is passive, peaceful, and feminine. Yang is active, warlike, and masculine. They cycle back and forth, swinging round in an eternal circle. Moreover, none of them are ever fully gone: there is always a little Yin in Yang, and a little Yang in Yin, hence the off-color dots in the Yin-Yang.
So, then, is the Dark Side essential to the proper function of the Force? Do the Force and the universe NEED the Dark Side? Your first reaction would be to say 'no,' but considering how often the Dark Side bubbles back up to the surface, you have to wonder, don't you?
>>84437165
You realize we've all known this for 17 years, right?
>>84437308
>So, then, is the Dark Side essential to the proper function of the Force? Do the Force and the universe NEED the Dark Side? Your first reaction would be to say 'no,' but considering how often the Dark Side bubbles back up to the surface, you have to wonder, don't you?
I would say it probably is needed. Without anything to do the Jedi sat around doing nothing in the temple forgetting their purpose and ended up unprepared for Sidious. Obviously a huge galactic Sith empire is bad for the force but little planetary conflicts and whatnot are needed for the Jedi to not stray from their purpose like they did in the PT.
Also you forget that Yin is also somewhat nefarious and plotting and Yang is sometimes described as relieving. I see this as Yin being what Palpatine was during the prequels. A nice old man who was plotting to create a horrible Empire and Yang is what Jedi should experience at times where they accidentally go into the dark side and understand their mistake in a sort of relieved reassurance of their place in the light side.
>>84436771
Nevermind, found a way around it.
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YOU WILL NOW RECEIVE THIS BOOK BUT ONLY IF YOU RESPOND TO THIS POST WITH *clinks my glass of blue milk against yours*It's in the canon books/comics mega
>>84437445
>*clinks my glass of blue milk against yours*
Triggered.
>>84437445
>dat image
*clinks glass of blue milk against yours*
>>84437308
>So, then, is the Dark Side essential to the proper function of the Force?
Yes, there's always a latent dark side
>>84437445
Based
but I'm not clinking nothing with you
>>84437445
Thanks! Hopefully when I get up in a few hours to give my car his medication (he has a respiratory infection) the audiobook will be available for me to share
>>84437445
thanks friend!
>>84436862
Also some more possible inspiration in relation to Qiqong are that some meditations are based around emotions like laughing or sighing meditations. Reminds me of how Sidious always has Vader meditate on his anger. This also brings to mind those weird emotion spirits from the Yoda arc where he found out where the Living Force was made. All of this is leading me to believe that the important factor in the Living Force is sentience and what beings in the Living Force do with their sentience and emotions.
>>84437751
I hope your car feels better.
My car was wheezing badly two years ago and we have to replace the entire respiratory system. It cost like $2,500 bucks.
Fortunately my cat had hail damage, and that paid for the under-the-hood work. Now I just have a cat with dimples.
"He ran. For one klick, then another, until his legs ached so hard they felt like clumps of cured, dried meat hanging from his hips. But now here he is, atop the Plaintive Hand plateau—an outcropping of bent, flat rock that the anchorites say is a holy place, a place the Consecrated Eremite considered home thousands of years before, when Jakku was supposedly a verdant, living place."
well, since we know thatSheev is looking for something in this area and that Jakku was important "a thousand years ago", is it possible the Jedi/Sith war destroyed Jakku's environment? watch Jakku turn out to be new canon Ziost or something
Would it be accurate to say that Anna Kendrick is the main character of Starbucks?
i'm surprised nobody's made fan art of Adea Rite. she seems like waifu material
>>84438324
They could be adapting/ripping off the Rakata plot of KOTOR, with Jakku in place of Tatooine as the planet that gets turned to desert by the impossible Force-powered tech.
>>84439029
What does she look like?
>mfw I just came here to see if there was news about Rebels.
>>84439441
Why would there be news now? We've known for months that they're going to save it for Celebration.
>>84436174
>If Star Wars wants to stay relevant it needs to keep being original.
He said, after TFA made over one billion dollars and it had nothing original whatsoever.
>Star Wars needs to once again push beyond the edges of what everyone knows and do something totally unique.
Nigger please. We all know the top money makers are shit movies. The BEST Star Wars movie made the least amount of money. Even the critics was against it.>>84437149
Even if you seriously believe this it doesn't change the fact people hate the prequels.
>>84439483
>He said, after TFA made over one billion dollars and it had nothing original whatsoever.
I think he's thinking long-term. TFA being successful is great for Disney but they also didn't buy the franchise just to have one billion dollar movie, they're expecting Star Wars to print money for them for years to come. They successfully played the nostalgia card and it worked really well, especially after the prequels left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths, but now that people have had their fix, constantly going "remember the OT? wasn't that great?" isn't going to keep working.
At least that's the idea- though for all we know, they'll keep getting away with it. The fact that this formula worked at all is kind of troubling.
>>84439476
I dunno, a leak before Celebration or a teaser of some sorts.
they've just been completely silent since the end of S2
>>84439539
>I think he's thinking long-term.
Any big franchise makes money by selling its name and toys, not movies. Even if people dislike Star Wars in the future after they've made 1 billion generic movies it really doesn't matter. They still own it and can simply make more Star Wars movies in the future when people want more of it. Disney might make shitty movies but they understand business.
>>84439626
You're still going to get diminishing returns all around if the movies don't do so well. The fact that we're getting constant movies in itself is going to lead to it, since Star Wars movies used to be big events. They're not going to be the eagerly-awaited box office blowouts they used to be if there's a Star Wars movie every year.
>>84439626
>Any big franchise makes money by selling its name and toys, not movies.
But the movies still exist to generate excitement for all the merch. If the movies start failing to excite, that's less merch being bought.
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Uploadrocket is faster. Couldn't find mega links this time.
>>84439813
Thanks man!
>>84439705
>>84439722
>You're still going to get diminishing returns all around if the movies don't do so well
Again, top money makers are still shit movies. There is no diminishing returns.
http://fortune.com/2015/12/24/star-wars-value-worth/
>>84439870
But your argument only works if they continue to always be top money makers. The idea here is that there's a chance that won't always be the case.
>>84439813
You got the other episodes somewhere by any chance?
>>84439705
>>84439722
Merchandise sales have tended to slow down considerably in non-movie years. That's part of why the Clone Wars multimedia project from 2003 was made, because merchandise did really well in 1999 for Episode 1* but there was a huge drop in 2000 and 2001. AOTC brought it back up, but they needed something to keep sales up while ROTS was being made.
Disney seems to be trying to counter that with the "one movie every year" model, and it might work, but it may also lead to burnout. We've never seen this formula applied to Star Wars before, so who knows.There WAS a huge glut of unsold Episode 1 stuff that stores couldn't get rid of, but overstock doesn't always mean poor sales. The stuff sold really well, the problem was they made too much of it, and some smaller companies did end up suffering for it.
>>84439940
Dude, they have people that think about this like 5 days a week. The fact you guys think it will magically not make money because some poor movies get made (prequels, episode 6, TFA) isn't how real life works. Take Harry Potter. I hate it but the best movie is Prisoner of Azkaban. Guess which movie made the least amount of money? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_(film_series)#Box_office_performance
>>84440003
>The fact you guys think it will magically not make money because some poor movies get made (prequels, episode 6, TFA) isn't how real life works.
It's not about the quality of the movie, it's about whether audiences will get tired of them. The point I've been making from the beginning is that going with the TFA formula of relying entirely on nostalgia (something the prequels didn't do) may not be successful in the long run. You can keep going on about "bad movies still make money" buy you're ignoring the actual argument here. You can't even throw around numbers or figures because we're going into uncharted territory here.
>>84439970
Look for them here: http://2ddl.ag/. Many of the links are still up. You can also try Google or torrents.
>>84433854
Kinda. The PT are about his fall, the OT are about his redemption, and the ST is about his legacy.
>>84440037
>You can't even throw around numbers or figures because we're going into uncharted territory here.
You don't know what you're talking about.
>>84440083
You keep going "Star Wars makes money, shit movies still make money!" but you're not even listening to the argument, dude. It's not as simple as you want to believe it is.
>>84440098
I didn't say it was simple. But the fact you still don't get what I'm saying is...
>>84440114
I understand what you're saying, my point is you keep using examples that aren't actually comparable to the direction the series is going, they're not a one-movie-per-year model and none of them are using the heavy nostalgia tactic TFA did. This is my entire point that you keep ignoring and just going "bad movies still made money" as if that's even a response to the argument.
I'm not even sure why I'm wasting time on this.
>>84440127
It's okay. When you grow up you'll realize it's okay to stay quiet if you don't know what you're talking about.
>>84433937
>Padme
>Main character
She was a fleshed out (as best as the prequels could) side character at most. She was never a protagonist.
Movies with a poor public reception and bad WOM don't always make money even from popular franchises. Just look at how the legs fell out under Batman V. Superman.
The thing is some of the films have a formula for getting the asses of a certain demographic in seats that other shit franchise films like the Objectivist's Wet Dream of Depressed Superman.and Mass Murderer Batman don't.
>>84440230
>Just look at how the legs fell out under Batman V. Superman.
Well, yeah. But BvS tried to kickstart an entire franchise in one movie. It didn't work.
>>84440230
And X-Men: Apocalypse showed that following up one successful movie by doing "more of the same" can already lead to audience fatigue. Hell, the X-Men series as a whole is a good study in audience fatigue- after Last Stand, the series started to earn less and less with each movie. DOFP was the first since then to reverse the trend and actually make more than the previous ones, then Apocalypse set the series right back into downhill territory.
>>84440255
As a movie it may have failed, but it's very much still a "successful" kickstarter, because the movie franchise is still happening. In fact they announced a few more just after BvS came out. Something about a Harley Quinn-led villains movie.
>>84440281
Most of the stuff we're seeing was already in production before BvS opened. WB has been changing a lot of its gameplan behind the scenes, and they seem to be waiting to see how Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman do before committing to anything beyond what was already started.
>>84440281
I don't think so. It cost 250 million dollars, and even if that's jew accounting that's a lot of money for a movie that didn't even reach 1 billion. Considering it's Batman and Superman it kinda bombed. Still, it depends on how much money the other movies make. There's a lot more competition now, not just in movies but free entertainment as well.
Do you think the audiobook will be uploaded before I go to work tomorrow? (Ten hours from now)I'd get it on Audbile myself but apparently Australia doesn't get Star Wars books on there.
>>84440262
>DOFP
You mean first class
>>84440372
No, First Class made less than Origins. It was way better, but made less money.
>>84433929
Hux how the fuck aren't you blind from staring directly into the beam with no eye protection
>>84438020
Whoops haha, guess I shouldn't type when half asleep
>>84440348
It should be available by then, I'd be surprised if it wasn't
>>84440381
He has special eyes
>>84440491
The fleet really isn't noticeable.
>>84440491
Oh no, all those poor people we never saw before...
>>84440491
Cool.
Geoblocking media is a retarded practise.
>Last surviving member of an Order he revives with his female orphan apprentice
>voiced by Mark Hamill
A Bane cartoon has a lot of pottery potential if Lucasfilm wants it.
>>84439813
That opening scene, good stuff. Thanks anon.
Wow Wattpad is a PoS.
How the fuck do I get a shareable link for this shit tier fanfic.
>>84440620
alright just fuck my shit up lads
https://www.wattpad.com/story/78107546-swco-fishing
so where did this thing that lightsabers were weighty come from? wasn't the weight always in the hilt?
>>84430190
They will show the first episodes of S3 on celebration, so hopefully we get some juicy leaks.
>>84432939
Blame JJ.
He single handily ruined what could have been an amazing ST era.
>>84440777
It happened in TFA, I think.
Anyone going to Celebration?
>Luke and Leia goofing around
>Roger and the carnivorous plants
>That imperial officer
>Vader and Sheev mocking Naare
The Freemaker Adventures are great.
>>84440777
Lightsabers were weighty since the OT, until they weren't in the PT, and again are in the ST.
>>84440854
The "How many Alderaanians does it take to change a light bulb?" joke killed me.
Just a reminder that a new Rogue One trailer airs on ABC, Friday night
>>84440858
Luke waves around a lightsaber with one hand near the beginning of a new hope as if there wasn't much weight to the blade.
>>84440799
I doubt JJ knows/gives a fuck about the EU. We have to understand, we're the minority and always will be, /sw/ is so fucking big there'll never be enough of us that the Mouse takes what we think and want into account.
>>84432939
>privatized fucking prisons and wasted tons of New Republic money hiring companies that will likely listen to the highest bidder instead of being loyal to the New Republic and actually housing prisoners (a majority of whom are probably old Imperials)
Wait when did this happen?
>>84433437
Speaking of Star Wars and Discord.
Maybe we should have a /swco/ Discord? Or would the be way too awkward?
![[fear and trembling intensifies].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/7taeTwF.jpg "[fear and trembling intensifies].jpg")
>>84433248
>'you have to go back to go forward.'
Oh JJ, if only you understood that life is understood backwards, but lived forwards.
>>84432584
>>84432799
Surprised to see you here,David
>>84442168
I'm black. My name is definitely not David. Maybe the guy I was talking to, but not me.
>>84442242
Right, David.
>>84439029
Life Debt fucks it all up for Adea Rite, Morna Kee is where the waifu-ing is at.
>>84440491
I find it remarkeble they even destroy the little moons.
If they just destroy the planet itself, there's also not much left of the moons.
>>84433854
Not anymore if the leaks have any truth to them
>>84440491
JJ could make so many fans happy by placing an old Jar Jar on that balcony.
>>84441081
I'd be down.
>>84440491
Most EU moment ever
>>84443008
The entire starkiller plot reeks of fan-fiction. Makes the Yuzahn Vong and Sheev clones seem pretty normal (hell, even preferable) by comparison
>>84443209
TFA as a whole is pretty EU now that I think about it
>Ani's lightsaber being space excalibur
>Rey
>Snoke and the Knights of Ren
>Ben
>>84443307
>the Knights of Ren
I liked 'em. But we didn't get to see them in action which was so boring. The entire movie needed some action scene to show the new order means business instead of blowing up 4 planets.
>>84443307
>ani's lightsaber being space excalibur
Where do they suggest that?
>rey
ANH Luke
>Snoke, Knights of Ren
Emperor and Redguards
>Ben
...who?
>>84443458
>blow up 4 planets
>they don't mean business
And what do you think the opening scene was?
>>84443769
>>84443307
>>84443458
I feel we should put it in the OP that TFA was a film hampered by overly fast pacing, much like the Phantom Menace was hampered by overly slow pacing.
>>84443796
The pace was just one of PM's many problems.
>>84443769
>And what do you think the opening scene was?
Copying ANH, mostly. It made money but it really suffers because it copied but didn't understand why ANH worked in the first place.
>>84441059
They show it in the new Poe Dameron comic. Issue 4 I think.
You know what Star Wars movies really needs? More cute girls as child sex slaves.
>>84440799
we barely know anything about the st era. it isn't ruined.
>>84444137
Are you a Hutt by any chance?
man, leia and mothma really screwed over mas amedda, huh
>>84444215
Yes
>>84444402
Nice
>>84444137
As much as I disagree, I can't deny the quads. You get all the pubescent twi'leks you can get your flabby fingers on.
>>84444215
On the Internet, nobodda ha binkee chuda puu. Kith waahaa kuu junka papoonda nee.
>>84444433
So I'm heading to celebration this weekend. I've never been to a con before. Is there any good tips to know beforehand? I'd love to get to the big panels but I read that people queue overnight. Does that mean unless you don't plan on doing an allnighter you wont be able to see the panel (besides seeing the streamed version)
>>84444487
>Is there any good tips to know beforehand?
Take condoms.
>>84444487
Food is super expensive, bathrooms are full, bring water and food.
>>84444487
>Is there any good tips to know beforehand?
If you're going to ask Daisy Ridley if you can take pictures of her armpits and feet don't do it in front of hundreds of people because she's shy and Rian might get you kicked out because he's really possessive when it comes to her armpits and feet.
