The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

[Juju&Lulu]

i kind of wish darth jar-jar was real

Same, shame they chickened out of it

[Fontra]

Well he did give Palpatine emergency powers. Technically he's partially responsible for the death of more Jedi than the average Sith ever was.

[Perpetual Motion]

This is the same man that said "Jar-jar is the key to all of this"

This is the same man that saw models of Darth Maul and Darth Talon on a table together, walked over to them, pushed them together, and decreed it canon that they were friends, despite the two never having been alive in the other's lifetime.

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

lol

[Fontra]

I had to look up who that was admittedly, but all I needed to see was her picture before I thought "Yep, Lucas would see they look alike therefore friends regardless of timeline" that or his daughter.

[Fontra]

I don't think George paid much attention to his own universe

[Angel Beat]

snoke still sounds like slang for some drug

Snoke em if you got em.

Red hot take coming in here:

The Mandalorian is pretty good

I should find a way to watch it.

[Orange Fluffy Sheep]

I was gonna post the sheevmobile

[Orange Fluffy Sheep]

it's like a dragster version of the cybertruck with blue flames, but since palpatine decides what's street legal the sheevmobile roars down highways killing younglings

[Orange Fluffy Sheep]

i mean palpatine will see a youngling and deliberately swerve to destroy said youngling

[Mechanical Ape]

I got lucky in that a buddy with Disney+ came to town over the weekend so I got to watch through episode 4. I was pleasantly impressed. It’s a, you know, the real deal.

I said this in that Disney+ thread and nobody else said anything about it. It has the "wild west" aspect that I think Star Wars content has been missing since... basically OT.

Yeah IMO Star Wars is at its best when it’s adapting conventional stories, especially war stories, but IN SPACE! It’s basically what the whole thing is all about. The original film was “The Dam Busters” and “The Hidden Fortress” IN SPACE! Star Wars could be so easy — pick a WWII film and remake it in the space aesthetic, add Eastern mysticism for flavor — and whenever the series departs from this and goes up its own worldbuilding ass, or tricks itself into believing the Jedi are actually interesting, that’s where it stumbles.

Rogue One tried to be “The Dirty Dozen” IN SPACE! and while I don’t think the execution worked out, the concept was solid and I support it. It’s absolutely the sort of thing Star Wars should be doing.

As for The Mandalorian, it’s got worldbuilding but it isn’t ABOUT worldbuilding, if you get me, it’s about character and story. We learn about Mandalorian culture but it’s always for a narrative purpose, to explain why “Mando” does things or to provide context for his actions. Because this is a show about storytelling through actions. There’s dialogue, but much like Samurai Jack our main character only speaks when he has something to say, not because there’s an obligation to fill the space with dialogue. (Another comparison to SJ is how both shows manage to sprinkle the seriousness with cutesy or silly stuff, and make it work.)

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

something star wars needs to also do is dump "important characters" and let stuff work on its own

no, not everything has to be about the skywalkers or darth vader

[Smoke]

Killing off Han Solo was a good move.

[Mechanical Ape]

But killing off Admiral Ackbar was unforgivable

[Vivianinatoga]

I would watch Empy Palp go on wacky adventures saving the galaxies with his anthropomorphic lightsaber buddies.

[Mechanical Ape]

We really need the RLM idea of Endor being a wasteland from Death Star debris and Palpy being a barely-alive corpse on a throne of sticks being sustained by corrupt devil-worshiping Ewoks.

That’s the Episode IX we both need and deserve.

[Perrydotto]

I will now introduce my new very important character, Darth Cooties,

[Perrydotto]

We really need the RLM idea of Endor being a wasteland from Death Star debris and Palpy being a barely-alive corpse on a throne of sticks being sustained by corrupt devil-worshiping Ewoks.

That’s the Episode IX we both need and deserve.

that's just Warhammer 40k though

[Perpetual Motion]

I will now introduce my new very important character, Darth Cooties,

You joke, but

“The team threw a Hail Mary to George, saying the game would have more credibility if the apprentice had a ‘Darth’ title,” a Force Unleashed team member says. Lucas agreed that this situation made sense for Sith royalty, and offered up two Darth titles for the team to choose from. “He threw out ‘Darth Icky’ and ‘Darth Insanius.’ There was a pregnant pause in the room after that. People waiting for George to say ‘just kidding,’ but it never comes, and he just moved on to another point.”

The quoted article

[Perrydotto]

I saw that and was badly trying to come up with a character whose name is even worse

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

Darth Icky is my favorite

[Fontra]

I don't understand how this man even thinks

[Fontra]

How do I get in George Lucas' mind? Like I can usually empathize and get in the head of what a creator is going for, but with George, his ideas zigzag from good and bad and insanely stupid so much I don't even know how this man plans anything

[Adiwan]

The original movie (trilogy) was saved by his wife and other people who had the guts to rein him in. The original story is incomprehensible. I own the comic adaptation of that original script and I hate it.

[Fontra]

Regardless of what any of you all might think of The Last Jedi, I could at least understand what Rian Johnson was going for even during the parts of it that weren't executed very well.

George is just... what is this guy?

[Fontra]

The original movie (trilogy) was saved by his wife and other people who had the guts to rein him in. The original story is incomprehensible. I own the comic adaptation of that original script and I hate it.

Oh I know and, to be fair, he has some fantastic concepts and story-telling ideas that I think are cool, but then he does things like Jar-jar and adding insanely convoluted political debate scenes or even convolutes a simple bet like the Watto and Qui Gonn scene in TPM. The man needs like 10 editors, and he can end up creating something pretty damn cool.

[Vivianinatoga]

Just follow the Jenny Nicholson rule of naming sith lords: take a word from the dictionary that begins with "in-" and replace it with "Darth"

Darth Ebriated
Darth Terrupt
Darth Tegrate
Darth Cest

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

haha

[Mechanical Ape]

Chewbacca can’t pronounce his own name.

[Fontra]

Chewbacca can't pronounce anyone's name

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

han can't prounounce chewbacca's name

why do you think he calls him chewie

[Angel Beat]

b-bacca

[Fontra]

I looked up the force unleashed 2 cutscenes and I swear to christ there is a mode where you just go through the original trilogy and kill the entire cast including Obi Wan and Boba Fett.

Starkiller comes off more like someone's edgy oc and less like the character he actually was there and suddenly "Darth Insanius" makes a ton of sense. Just needed "Damaged" scrawled across his forehead here:



I think they made this DLC while doing crack and reading edgy fanfictions

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

this is my oc STARKILLER he's cool and strong and was DARTH VADER'S student and he kills all the heroes and becomes emperor of the galaxy

[Angel Beat]

DLC of the first one had you turning Luke to the dark side, and you killed Obi-Wan (by shoving him into the Millennium Falcon's active engines) and Boba Fett (by redirecting his own missiles at him), yup.

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

so basically this really is god of war but with lightsabers

[Angel Beat]

Quite so.

[Pocket]

Getting some real Spock Helmet vibes from this

[Fontra]

Why can't I get a star wars game that's more like Devil May Cry? Fallen Order now gives us Star Wars game that's like Dark Souls/Sekiro. Force Unleashed was God of War star wars game. Dark Forces was Doom star wars game. We need a DMC star wars game game now.

[Fontra]

DLC of the first one had you turning Luke to the dark side, and you killed Obi-Wan (by shoving him into the Millennium Falcon's active engines)

Oh my christ I just saw this. He literally just disintegrates like "poof" and then you fight his fucking ghost. This is real. Someone made this.