Just wanted to remind everyone that the new Star Wars movies should've been based off the Thrawn Series, when they find out that this J.J. Abrams verison sucks...
>>63237496
>smart guy figures out how to defeat an enemy fleet commander by looking at his species' artwork
Thrawn isn't that great of a character.
>>63237496
fuckin bluie
>>63237496
tfw no Yuuzhan Vong trilogy.
Instead we'll have Abrams going full Troma on Star Wars.
>fanfiction from some hack writer who has to write star wars novels
i'm good
>>63237496
>bluemahdick cumderbucket
>>63237541
>>63237649
I feel like it's the best plot/story after ROTJ, and Lucas gave it the approval in the 90s
>>63237687
>Eggsbenadict Cabbagepatch
>everything in the new movies will just be rehashed from the original trilogy
>will still make infinity billion dollars
JUST
>>63237736
Recycling concepts is still better than just making absolute garbage.
I don't expect these to be excellent, or even particularly great, but they probably won't be shit like the prequels.
>>63237736
That's exactly what the EU was.
>>63237700
The best plot was the three-way war from the X-Wing books between the rebels, the imperial admirals who broke away to become independent warlords, and the imperials who stayed loyal to the bureaucracy on Coruscant. The villains were more believable than "I can guess your strategies by looking at this painting" Thrawn. The only problem with it from the POV of making a movie is that the multitude of imperial factions all fighting each other as well as the rebels would confuse the shit out of most viewers due to their short attention spans
>>63237621
The Vong were shit. The ONLY interesting part of that arc was that Sheev knew about them and that's why he kept building superweapons
>>63237700
>Lucas gave it the approval in the 90s
m8
>>63237621
>>63238291
whoever made that trilogy looked like they were really into world of warcraft based on the artwork
The heir to the empire comics are awesome if you guys read them as a kid
>>63237496
I am glad they are going with something original. Or at least we can hope. I do not expect something mindblowing, but at we dont know what is going to happen.
I am sick of adaptations.
>>63238830
>original
>there's a planet-sized death star
>>63238830
>something original
hate to break it to you but JJ is basically remaking A New Hope scene by scene
>>63237723
Bumtheass Humperdick
>>63238830
I am too, but anything that people come up nowadays is never original... I saw a quote somewhere that Lucas was upset about this new one because his story verison is about "father-son complexes"
>>63238861
Yeah, that was disappointing. But I am talking more about difference between original movies vs. adaptations.
Storywise we dont know much (or I dont want to know).
>>63237541
I bet you're just parroting shit you read in a Star Wars thread.
>>63237496
>cumberbatch plays Thrawn
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>63238939
You're in for a disappointment. It continues the JJ Abrams trend of "it's just like the old one....with a twist!" (aka Kirk is the one who gets radiation poisoning instead of Spock)
>>63238830
also "starkiller" and "captain plasma" sound like really corny names
>>63239000
>really corny names
>star wars
Nice trips but this is to be expected.
>>63237496
>that fucking shit tier fan art with a fucking Naval officers jacket
Fucking kek'd.
Just wanted to remind everyone that JJ made KOTOR canon
>>63239034
um....how? I thought Disney specifically DIDN'T make it cannon
>>63239045
There was a galaxy map released that had a planet exclusive to KOTOR in it, so either it is canon or they just recycled the planet's name.
>>63239069
inb4 2 new teirs of cannon including just that planet in kotors story and then another including all of kotor.
thanks autists
>>63238998
Well, I guess that is possible. So I am aware of that.
That said I think Abrams likes SW more, there is bigger pressure, bigger opportunity and so on. I really hope there wont be any cheap tricks like that.
EU fags are truly the worst. Then again, if I spent thousands of dollars on stuff that's been reduced to toilet paper canon-wise, I guess I'd be upset too.
>>63239034
>>63239069
video games have nothing to do with movies
>>63239069
Wookiepedia still lists it as legends
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic
I'm almost positive they were lazy and just reused a name
>>63239141
I dont get the need to put canonization into fictional words.
In art and culture there were always interpretations. Completely without cross-references, they shared only same source material.
>>63239250
Jew Jew is a kotor fan and probably added it as a nod to the game.
>>63239310
I'd buy that it's an easter egg. Still doesn't make it cannon. Too bad really.
>>63239275
its to fool pleebs into thinking they are buying official high quality stuff.
>>63239141
Yeah, whether or not something is canon really influences my enjoyment of that thing a lot.
>>63239327
The map is canon. We are yet to see if the planet has anything to do with the movie though. Could be Starkiller is ancient and was built by the Rakatans. Probably just a nod to the game though.
>>63239069
>tfw the only officially cannon SW video games are a cow clicker mobile piece of shit and Battlefront
>>63239275
They did it with the bible.
>>63237496
These books were only popular because fans were starving for new material. They were terrible.
>>63237496
>young adult novel movie
I don't really want to see Hunger Games in Space! thank you.
>>63239446
These are the same people that think the kotor games were well written. They can't desperate fun with good. I like fun too but these stories were shit.
>>63239327
>>63239414
>>63239422
Part of me hopes they make one of the side movies about KOTOR and part hopes they leave it alone, but I don't think they could shit on the story more than SWTOR has. A little nod to the game in one of the main movies would be nice.
>>63239243
Call the mods on me for being a bad boy, buddy.
>>63239473
>>63239446
did you guys ever even read them? or were you not born yet?
>>63239243
Reddit was your first forum wasn't it?
>>63239527
I unironically would like a Darth Bane movie where he establishes the rule of two. It would be nice to see a anti-hero movie.
I'm still waiting for Marvel to announce all the animated movies they'll make. There are a ton of legends that would be lapped up by their market.
>>63238664
There's something very wrong with her left arm
>>63239639
I would love a Darth Bane movie too, he's my favorite sith. The first book was great and would probably work well as a movie. I never get to talk about him because of baneposting.
>>63239639
Why would Disney have Marvel make a Star Wars movie? Take a breather from the capeshit for a minute
I loved the mandalorian armour trilogy. A lot of the republic commando books were fun too.
I liked the thrawn trilogy but I was a lot younger then. I'm not going to ruin the nostalgia by reading them again though.
Anybody who also read the other Zahn's books knows about "Zorba The Hutt" and his revenge against Han for killing his son Jabba & Boba Fett escaping the pit hunting down the jedi solo twins that Leia and Han have together.
>>63238291
Correct.
>>63239069
DAILY REMINDER
>rakata prime is canon
>bane is canon
>onderon is canon
>mandalore is canon
IF THIS IS TRUE THIS MEANS
>revan is canon
>hk47 is canon
>canderous is canon
AND IF CANDEROUS IS CANON THIS MEANS
>the yuuzhan vong are canon
>tfw
>>63239956
>AND IF CANDEROUS IS CANON THIS MEANS
>the yuuzhan vong are canon
How?
X-Wing series was good
>>63239873
The Mandalorian Armour trilogy was awesome as fuck. I glad someone remembers those
>>63238291
>The ONLY interesting part was that Sheev knew about them
This is correct, however, I wouldn't mind getting an big screen adaptation that at least sticks with the Emperor knowing. The Vong are truly one of the only ways to 'up the ante' in the SW universe realistically.
>>63238111
This is also correct, and God, what I wouldn't give to see a strong adaptation of the plot.
The problem with both of these arcs, however, is that they would both need to be adapted quite a bit for film. Frankly, I just don't trust any big name in Hollywood atm to do either justice.
>>63239988
He strongly alluded them is one the dialogs about his travels on the edge of the galaxy.
>>63237496
Yeah basing a new trilogy off of source material is a good idea
yeah basing a story that takes place 30 years after ROTJ on a story that took place 5 years after ROTJ is a good idea
Yeah some mastermind officer of the imperial remnant that serves no relevance to the overall star wars saga arc is a good main antagonist for 3 movies
I cant believe EUfanboys
>>63240332
>Yeah basing a new trilogy off of source material is a good idea
it's better than any corny idea they come up with to butcher the original ones.
>yeah basing a story that takes place 30 years after ROTJ on a story that took place 5 years after ROTJ is a good idea
honestly, these sequel movies should've been done right after ROTJ if you you had to do them at all or instead of the prequels... you could do a cg characters and have the older actors voice them now. Visual effects are good enough now to do that like in this photo
>Yeah some mastermind officer of the imperial remnant that serves no relevance to the overall star wars saga arc is a good main antagonist for 3 movies
Thrawn isn't the only bad guy in that trilogy, and whatever JJ Abram comes up with isn't going to have any relevance either with the old star wars movies, so might as well go with someone who's been writing them for 20 years...
>>63240629
Ysanne Isard and Warlord Zsinj were both better EU villains than Thrawn
>>63240757
I never read the x-wing series, but what was cool about thrawn was that he became the 1st non-human to become grand admiral
>>63240999
X-Wing is top tier stuff
>>63240332
>>63240757
Joruus C'baoth was the dark sith lord in the thrawn trilogy also
>>63238291
that made no sense.
>Oh shit the vong are coming better kill off all the jedi so they can't help us. lol nah
>>63241099
The jedi were worthless against the vong. Giant science death balls would have still wrecked their shit though.
But Sheev knowing about them was total retcon bullshit only teenagers would think is cool.
>>63239800
marvel does the star wars comics.
>>63241099
Republic had no army, got to militarize and shit.
>>63237496
>>63241171
Now edit it so Thrawn is played by a black guy.
>>63238291
>The ONLY interesting part of that arc was that Sheev knew about them and that's why he kept building superweapon
No, that was stupid too. I feel like the main reason it was added was so that edgy teenagers could wank over shit like the Sun Crusher without feeling bad about all the people dying.
>>63241129
and yet it's because of the jedi that the vong were defeated. lol senpai pls
>>63241256
If you haven't made this connection yet, in SW everything is because of the jedi. It's nothing new.
>>63237496
>Making a Star Wars adaptation off shitty EU garbage
>hurrrrrr JJ Abrams
look how autistic this faggot is!
In an alternate universe, Star Wars Episode VII is directed by Christopher Nolan. What can we expect from it?
>>63241293
Ironically shitty EU garbage is what VII is going to be, scrapped the EU so they could rehash it
>>63241183
>>63237496
It's too late to do a real adaptation of the thrawn trilogy. Also Timothy Zhan is the fourth most important person in terms of crafting the Star Wars saga after Lucas, Kasdan, and Kershner. Coruscant as a planet covered entirely in miles-deep city being an example of one of his contributions.
I'm glad that the old EU has been set aside, but I'm even more glad that Disney / LucasFilm seem more than happy to pull ideas, characters, and ships out of it. I mean they just put the Interdictor back into canon because it's honestly a great concept for a ship in the star wars universe. They could easily do this with other bright spots in the old EU.
>all of the old EU is shit
Is usually what you hear from people who skipped all of it, or KOTOR fanboys. A good 60% of the old EU is pure flaming garbage, another 20% is mediocre, but that last 20% is better than what we got in the prequels, better than the clone wars or rebels and is just sitting there waiting for some writer at LucasFilm to find some creative way to work it back in.
Someone earlier mentioned Isard as a villain, hell you could throw Daala in there as well and people here would love them. Why? Because they act exactly like you'd expect a female Imperial to act, they are flawed, sometimes idiotic, narcissistic, emotional female characters.
It's also kind of hard to argue that the old EU is somehow worse than current canon considering all the prequel shit bogging it down and bullshit that the clone wars invented, like that homosexual southern baptist sounding Hutt Ziro.
>>63241394
>better than what we got in the prequels
That's not saying much
>>63241394
>Coruscant as a planet covered entirely in miles-deep city being an example of one of his contributions.
You mean Issac Asimov's contribution, right?
>>63240999
What was cool about Thrawn is that he was really the first villain in the Star Wars saga that wasn't some kind of mustache-twirling bad guy archetype or some kind of evil wizard. He was just a very competent blue dude with a set of principles. Most star wars villains are saturday morning cartoon stock.
>>63239760
BANE?
>>63241440
Covering your city planet in domes may be more realistic, but it sure is boring.
>>63241436
Most mass produced tie in stuff isn't better than shitty movies so I think he has a point.
>>63241245
I did enjoy the fact that the ship the Vong had most trouble dealing with was one of the last remaining super star destroyers.
>>63241436
There's plenty of people on the website that will eagerly hop to the defense of the prequels that they are better than the original films.
>>63241326
>>63241293
Truth... Episode VII is gonna be as bad as the prequels and become EU. If they do anything serious in this movie, they're gonna have to remake it over and over again like the spiderman movies.
>>63241497
Yeah, I like the irony that the Empire at its height would have been better-equipped to deal with the Vong; it's just the "Palpatine knew about it and was just trying to prepare" angle that is just silly and unnecessary.
I wonder if they will ever do remakes of the original trilogy.
>>63237496
Thrawn wasn't that interesting a character and 90% of the EU was terrible at best.
t. Someone who read a bunch of the novels and owns several "Essential Guide to..." books.
Also, whoever wrote TFA took Kylo Ren's name from a shit children's cartoon focusing on C-3PO and R2, which featured a pirate warlord named Kybo Ren.
>>63241525
Kylo Ren is Han's son that turned to the dark side
Jacen Solo was Han's son that turned to the dark side
>>63241245
The Sun Crusher was just as dumb as the Vong
Honestly, there's very little that is redeeming about the EU. Out of everything, the video games may have had some of the best stories, which is insane
Top Tier:
-Shadows of the Empire
-KOTOR I (and partially II), but only if you ignore what they pulled with SWTOR
-Dark Forces
-Jedi Knight (one only, Outcast and Academy's stories were fucking retarded)
-TIE Fighter (the plot was actually pretty damn good)
-X-Wing Alliance
-X-Wing book series
-Thrawn series (mostly)
-Shit tier
Just about everything else
>>63239956
this post gave me cancerous ordo
>>63241281
So then the whole "sheev was a genius for building an army to fight the vong, and he killed all the jedi because they were useless against the vong, even though the Jedi win the war against the vong"
>>63241575
To add:
Good Tier:
-Truce at Bakura: it at least tried to do something new
>>63241637
The only good thing about the Bakura book was when they came back in the Corellian trilogy to fuck up space pirate shits.
>>63241633
You could argue if Sheev had his superweapons/unified army the Vong would have been repelled at lot better. The jedi fucked all of that up and so they were the only people left to fight when the vong showed up. And they barely beat the vong and it was hardly a clean victory
>>63239956
What you people fail to understand is Disney can completely change whatever they want if they so choose.
They've started their canon with the movies, Rebels the Clone Wars show and whatever books and shit they've released so far. Everything that came before their acquisition of Star Wars is subject to being thrown out, taken in or adapted as necessary. They can make Jacen and Jaina Solo canon in a completely different manner than they were in the books, just in their own canon. They can keep Mandalore, Onderon, and Rakata Prime but erase Revan and every character from the lore. They can pick and choose and they will. It's not a full package.
Understand that and stop this dumb shit.
>>63241547
It's a really blunt and dumb justification. Honestly I'm old enough now that I can look back at the NJO and see that most of it is terrible, but there were some honestly terrifying, awesome, and just jaw-dropping moments in those books. It would be neat to see something from the NJO make an appearance, even if it isn't the Vong themselves.However for my money I would kill for those X-wing novels to get re-purposed.
>>63238889
This is probably what he's going to do and I'm okay with that.
>>63239527
This. I love KOTOR and wish it was acknowledged more, but SWTOR (and KOTOR II to an extent) ruined it. Part of me is really glad it was decanonized.plus, Revan's way cooler as a woman so I hate how male Revan was the "canon" one
>>63241559
What would you put in your "10% of the EU that isn't shit"?
I personally would put The X-Wing series including the wraith squadron books minus the last one. I'd put Spectre of the Past / Vision of the Future in there, I Jedi, Shadows of the Empire, and I honestly forget if any of the jedi academy books were worth a damn.
>>63241547
>it's just the "Palpatine knew about it and was just trying to prepare" angle that is just silly and unnecessary.
SHEEV WAS A GUD BOI HE DINDU NUFFIN JUST TRYING TO GET HE SUPERWEAPONS ON TRACK NEED MO MONEY FO DEM PROGRAMS
>>63241681
I liked the lizard people. It was a nice change of pace from
>ally gets corrupted by the bad side
>corrupted ally is actually being manipulated by the big bad (which usually turns out to be the emperor in one form or another)
>jedi have to go and save the day
>corrupted ally turns good again at the bleakest moment, sacrificing themselves
plotline that every single fucking EU story arc followed
>>63241558
probably in 20 years. society does a pretty good job of lobotomizing itself
>>63241575
>KOTOR
Am I the only person that read the original old republic comics, the ones where they tried to make things really primitive in order to set it apart from the traditional star wars setting? It was grungy as fuck, there was a planet where just monsters were eating people, light sabers had power-cables, etc... I thought that was a much cooler setting than what we actually got with KOTOR which kind of suffered from the prequel problem of super-old technology looks more advanced because it wasn't designed in the late 70's.
>>63241771
Not him, but this is mine. I think it even coincidentally lines up with his 10% comment in terms of quantity
>>63241575
>>63237496
>Luuuke skywalker
no thanks, thrawn wouldnt be worth that dumbness
>>63241637
>>63241793
I really liked Truce at Bakura because the most impressive ship in that whole book was a goddamn imperial light cruiser. It was just a handful of imperials and rebels fighting together for the first time against an honestly terrifying and strange as fuck enemy. I mean that children's book opens with a female imperial officer killing herself so that velociraptors from space can't harvest her life-force to power one of their drone starfighters.
>>63241793
Except that all that was balanced out by the worst trope ever.
>OMG there is an even bigger bad guy so now we have to work together!
It didn't help that the lizards were written as some kind of sadistic comic relief characters. Only good thing about the book was the Carrack cruiser.
>>63241575
>Battlefront
>Republic Commando
>Darth Plagueis novel
>RotS novelization (much better than the movie)
>Darth Bane trilogy
For you etc
>Tales of the Jedi
To name a few.
>>63239501
I have to agree, the KOTOR story was meh overall. The only interesting part was that you were the bad guy the whole time and either nothing changed and you became evil again or you had a nice redemption to some sort ofJedi... until you realize that amnesia driven stories are shit and the beginning of your adventure is facealmingly drab.
>>63241905
>facealmingly
Facepalmingly... stupid autocorrect...
>>63241821
Kyle Katarn, Corran Horn, and 70% of Mara Jade are the best characters to come out of the old EU. Jade was a shameless mary sue, but that's partially because for a long time she was the only significant female protagonist in the whole saga (Leia was pretty much written out) and if you consider the time period of the late 90's she wasn't nearly as cliche and derivative.
There are other neat characters but they aren't fleshed out enough. Also book wedge is great, but movie wedge turned out to be a complete douche.
>>63241857
I also really liked the lizard people using the captives as human shields and having them beg for their lives over open transmissions. That shit would fuck with any army and it was evil as fuck.
>>63241869
Meh, most didn't work together which was a large chunk of the novel. And afterwards they all fucking hated each other again. It wasn't so much that there was an even bigger bad guy (honestly the empire with sheev probably would have smashed the lizard people) it's that both sides were beat to hell and a smart enemy they didn't know about took advantage of their moment of weakness
>>63241838
Mara Jade would have
>>63241915
I never really liked Mara, mainly because like you said she turned into a huge mary sue
>>63241923
Honestly, I never liked Mara Jade much
>>63241938
me neither, vice admiral palleon and that smuggler crew were my favorite things from the thrawn books
>>63241838
Thankfully Disney can cherrypick what then want from the old EU bin and I kind of doubt they will opt to revive Luuke, or that scrambled egg monster from the Crystal Star, or the sun crusher, or that 100 mile long star destroyer, or the dark saber, or the hutt jedi, or the Vong, or zombie storm troopers.
But hopefully they resurrect some cool shit, like Dash Rendar or Guri. /tv/ would love Guri.
>>63241915
>but movie wedge turned out to be a complete douche.
How? He's barely in any of the movies
>>63241958
i never thought of it that way, there are tons of cool stuff from even the terrible books, like i hated the entirety of the vong stuff, but it had some cool bits, like that jedi ganner dying, and the badguys calling him The Ganner.
a shadows of the empire based movie would be tits also
>>63241938
>>63241957
That one Wraith Squadron book where the whole story takes place in a modified corellian corvette that has been turned into a small escort carrier and they do hit and run missions out of it with their X-wings all while pretending to be part of a warlord's fleet and half of the end up dying by the end.
>>63238963
It happens in the first goddamn scene he's in.
>>63241957
Rukh was tight. also the spacetroopers
>>63241962
Actor Wedge wouldn't come back because he said the part would be 'boring'. I think that's what he means, the actor is a jerk.
>>63241962
The actor hates star wars and refuses to do anything for it including VO work or coming back for future movies.
>he's just a man with good taste
nah he's just a bitter old asshole
>>63242039
In fairness, he might be right in terms of the new movie
>>63241936
>>63241938
>>63241957
mara jade is luke's baby's momma doe
>>63237496
>Cumberbatch
nigger please
>>63242030
The spacetroopers were awesome, the whole Katana Fleet act was cool as well. The cloak was also a cool part, something that never got brought back as far as I know.
i liek the spess battles 2
![latest[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/QkRbe8a.png "latest[1].png")
>>63239919
I read them when I was a kid. That shit was goat. Especially finding out aboutthe father and grandchild of Sheev
>>63242051
He did Rogue Squadron 2, about a decade ago. Which is odd if he flat out hates the franchise. I think he's just upset this is the pinnacle of his career.
>>63242068
that would be epic
>>63242082
typo
I meantsoninstead of father
>>63242017
>The Ganner
That was a hell of a book, just this asshole Jedi standing his ground on the ruins of coruscant fighting off hundreds of Vong until they finally manage to kill him, and instead of doing typical bad-guy bragging they instead they deify him as some kind of death-god and start praising him. The Vong were pretty fucking stupid, but parts of their culture were neat.
>>63242083
>I think he's just upset this is the pinnacle of his career.
Dude should just embrace it, like Jeffrey Combs did with his Star Trek roles
>>63239956
anon, this doesn't matter.
what matters is that if anything from kotor 1 is canon, then kotor 2 is canon.
and kotor 2 is the greatest thing in the entire star wars universe.
>>63242051
He was the narrator for the audio book version of the Thrawn trilogy
I get tired of music at work and listen to books on tape
>>63239956
Mandalore is cannon only because of fett/rebels
Since we're having a star wars nostalgia thread if any of you TIE Fighter fans out there aren't deathly allergic to 80's style anime you might enjoy this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_CP4SuoTU
>>63242170
>we will never, ever, get a true sequel to TIE Fighter
EA will fuck it up (or more likely not even try)
>>63242170
what is that, an image for giants?
>>63242110
I was just going to say the same thing, that book was fucking awesome and for those who haven't read it you should at least look up the last few chapters when he sets up a choke point at the gate and just fucking wrecks their shit.
>>63242114
Its hard for some people. People with ambition never wanna look at themselves 30 years later and realize they didn't go father than they were right then.
Imagine working at McDonalds for your entire life and never moving past assistant manager. That's how he feels. Going back there probably feels like admitting the totality of his acting career can be summed up with "Red Two, Standing By"
>>63242039
He's right though. His part in the OT was very minor and his lines were shit like "I'm hit, I gotta bail", "Pull up, Porkins!", and "Red 3 standing by". If he came back it would just be a glorified cameo with 30 seconds of screentime, and his lines would be shit like "I'm hit, I gotta bail", "Pull up, Porkins!" etc. Can't blame him for not wanting to bother
I've listened to the Darth Bane and Thrawn trilogies and loved them both, any other great audiobooks?
I can see why they got rid of post ROTJ EU
But getting rid of Bane trilogy, Rise of Darth Vader, Plagueis, Tales of the Jedi, KOTOR1+2 made me sad, doesn't stop me from enjoying them though.
>>63242170
Even this 7 min short is gonna be better than episode VII
>>63242261
Not sure about audio books but out of the entire EU probably the best running series of novels is the X-wing series. Runs from the end of the Thrawn Series onwards and is almost entirely great. The final book "Star Fighters of Adumar" doesn't follow the storyline but is fine a a stand alone.
>>63242170
That was some cool shit.
>Showcases battle between Imperials and Rebels
>No big name characters
>Imperial victory
>TIE pilots have some personality
That's what I want to see more of. That's why people liked fucking Battlefront so much. I want to see battles between soldiers more often.
>>63242230
http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/12/5711780/star-wars-episode-7-wont-feature-wedge-antilles-actor
You're on the money there. He wanted a better role, they just wanted a cameo.
Anyone else here enough of a fucking nerd to spot all the shit they got wrong in this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL15KbAxfKZE2DnUA9RNWn4IJQGR6VsBkF&v=O6nLCXvQeRg
>>63241394
>Timothy Zhan is the fourth most important person in terms of crafting the Star Wars saga after Lucas, Kasdan, and Kershner.
thank you for acknowledging this
>>63239023
these trips don't lie
>>63241817
>they tried to make things really primitive
>light sabers had power-cables
That was only in like the first volume of the series. By the time Exar Kun and Nomi Sunrider come around, there's no cords and no issues with hyperspace travel, they're not using hollowed out bug carapaces for spaceships anymore. In terms of technology it's pretty much close to the level of what you see in ANH. And KOTOR is set like a generation after that.
That said, I agree that they could've gone the extra mile instead of just pandering to the movie fans. It's ridiculous Jawas and Sand People looked exactly like in the OT. And it's worse in KOTOR2 where every jedi had exactly the same monk robes as PT jedi did and the entirety of Nar Shadaa was a sprawling metropolis with towering buildings like Coruscant.
>>63242134
Hardly, KotOR 2 is what you get when you hire a guy who hates Lucas' binary morality to write a Star Wars story.
Kreia's point of view is interesting, but ultimately isn't valid in the setting. Goddamn, the game still enforces "Dark Side = cartoon villainy" when you can be full Jedi by just being a pretty chill dude or dudette.
>>63242552
>Exar Kun
How does Mara Jade get all the Mary Sue flack when this asshole exists, they have to kill him a half dozen times and he's constantly regarded as the most powerful force user ever.
>using hollowed out bug carapaces for spaceships
Man I need to find this comic series again. I remember those old grungy 90's star wars comics being pretty brutal.
>>63242552
>nd it's worse in KOTOR2 where every jedi had exactly the same monk robes as PT jedi did
yeah i agree its bullshit that Buddhist monks have the same robes design that they did 10,000 years ago
>>63239141
>this faggot
A book costs 12.99. You should try reading
>>63242625
Jedi shouldn't wear robes as a uniform in the first place. That entire precedent was set because Kenobi lived in a desert. It's lazy and stupid as hell and Lucas should have known better.
>>63242625
Is there a point to your post? It's obvious you're trying to act like a retard but is there an ulterior motive or are you just stupid?
>>63242677
they should have worn clothes based upon the worlds they were on so they could fit in with the commonfolk and look less obvious. plus it gives you a little more acceptance if they wanted to adopt your kid to be a jedi if you saw them in your normal attire
>>63242170
All that detail and such awful animation.
>>63242625
>>63242677
Actually the Jedi costumes were based on samurai & the force is based on Buddhism cuz Lucas was into Kurosawa. You can tell Darth Vader's armor and the Jedi robes look super similar to Samurai during that time period
>>63242747
I'd shit on it more but it was literally done by one guy trying to emulate flawed 80's japanese animation.
At least it has this qt.
>>63242800
>>63242747
Yeah, you can definitely see a western cartoon style animation sometimes but I liked it. With a bigger team or longer time the guy would've nailed it.
>>63242747
Yeah, I too expected a product that reflected an entire corporate team working on it rather than just one guy.
Oh wait, it was one guy.
>>63239956
>Bane is canon
>Ruusan is not
>The battle of Ruusan never happened
>Bane was the dark lord of nothing
>>63239639
Bane is my favorite sith lord, bar Sheev. Too bad memes killed him.
>>63239873
I listened to an audiobook version of the thrawn trilogy less than a year ago for the first time. It blew my mind desu. I went in expecting garbage, but the books are fantastic; it isn't nostalgia.
Does anyone know where I can download the .PDF version of the Thrawn Comics? I found this download link, but I'm not sure which download button to press or if it works - http://newcomic.org/5825-star-wars-heir-to-the-empire-1-6-series-complete.html
>>63242985
>the books are fantastic; it isn't nostalgia.
Truth!
>>63237496
>shitty contact lenses
>blue makeup character
If they can't outdo X-Men with those eye effects, they shouldn't try it.
That said, it does look badass in the poster.
>>63237496
no one cares about EU
>>63242170
this is fucking great. do you faggots not like heavy metal? you dont have to answer i already know youre too young to know what heavy meatal is
>tfw ill never kill filthy alien loving terrorists in the name of the glorious empire
>>63242170
I want TFA in anime format!
>>63242778
>taoism
>>63243140
ya they do
>>63242170
I kinda prefer when he used the KOTOR song in the unfinished version but its still an awesome animation
>>63242170
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_KXgFpguE0
>>63243144
Heavy Metal fucking sucked
the animation was shit, the story was shit,
it was just all ugly and janky, and I don't mean because it was depicting ugly grotesque things or the attempted style, it was just shit-looking rotoscoping.
The only thing it had over other animated films at the time was the edgy material, which is pretty hollow.
>>63242837
One guy who is bad at animation. Fucking deal with it dweeb. It's not a valid excuse.
>>63243685
no it was cool
who the fuck watches anime for excellence in animation?
>>63239956
>implying anything but the original trilogy is canon
>implying Star Wars has consistent lore
>>63242170
Repeatedly zooming in on eyeballs and cut-away helmets were retarded. The concept was kinda neat, though.
>>63244040
But why? In movies, heroes never wear helmets or masks since you need to see their face to relay their emotions and shit, which doesn't always make sense. In animation you can just show their face like this while they still have normal helmet/mask that everyone else also has.
So I read in the other threads the rumor that Han Solo might die...
If they do that and if the movie sucks, will they have to remake the trilogy?
>>63242170
>Tie Fighters hanging from racks
>That accurate briefing room
>Lasers, Turbo Lasers, and Ion Cannons all make the correct sounds
>An x-wing flies out of the hanger on a Nebulon-B frigate
>lasers shoot from the correct locations on a TIE-Bomber
>The interdictor uses its gravity well projectors to scramble the torpedoes
My nerd-boner is diamonds over how painfully accurate this is to the lore.
>>63244040
The cut away helmets were to show us the 3 main characters since they all look alike in TIE pilot gear. Apparently this asshole even wrote up a short story around the video and all the characters have names and backstories.
>>63244100
Han was supposed to die in Jedi but George kept him alive for toy sales.
>>63241319Darth Bane
>>63242192
>more likely not even try
Pretty sure that's preferable at this point.
>>63242363
This. Battlefront is the tits because it's lets you feel the grand scale of some of these (fictitious) conflicts.
>>63244669
Why did you need to put parentheses over fictitious?
>>63243163
>tfw Coruscant in the prequels will never be the grand, future-gothic, neo-noir planet you always wanted it to be
>>63244723
>they're real in my mind
>>63242170
>mfw rebel scum thinks that shields make a difference
>>63244669
just switch allegiance to 40k
the terrorists arent the good guys and the people protecting humanity arent the bad guys like in diversity wars
>>63244851
also now with meme wars coming out all the faggots wanting more nigger and female space marines will latch onto it instead and leave 40k alone
>>63242110
That entire mykyr mission was like a bad war story gone wrong.
If we had to get notJacen
I would rather have vong arc jacen.
>I didn't catch the lightsaber because I became the lightsaber and somewhere along the way individualism changed the Jedi from something greater, where by he becomes a living conduit of the force and defeats an enemy without even touching him.
>When your bro becomes a space god and defeats the ultimate bad guy without touching him.
>>63243013
Literally read a book nigger
>tfw BASED Pellaeon is not canon anymore
>>63238402
Trilogy? I read that shit over a decade ago I swear it was over a dozen books.
>>63237496
>Just wanted to remind everyone that the new Star Wars movies should've been based off the Thrawn Series, when they find out that this J.J. Abrams verison sucks...
It's true.
All of it.
