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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Dec 04, 2019 5:41 am

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Fontra (?) » Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:14 pm



Here is Emperor Sheev Palpatine talking about Darth Plagueis. Btw Plagueis doesn't follow the "in" rule so we need a new rule.

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:26 pm

you know

lucas had the right idea with regards to designs in the prequels

everything is opulent and excessive

like look at coruscant or that ship padme is on
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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:27 pm

and this is a nice contrast when you start introducing the clones who all wore simple uniform full body armor and have simple uniform vehicles and spacecraft
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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Fontra (?) » Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:55 pm

Again Lucas is fantastic at some things and just bafflingly stupid in others. His scenery and lighting tends to be spot-on. If there is one thing the man was good at, it was that. Hell, a lot of his character and alien designs are amazing too.

He is the most confusing man to me. I don't understand how someone is incredibly talented in one area and terrible in others. Like not just "normal" terrible, I mean like the kind of guy that writes dialogue like the Padme/Anakin scenes.

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:35 pm

The prequels needed Harrison Ford to stroll in and remind him that you can type this shit, George, but you sure as hell can’t say it.
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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Angel Beat (?) » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:55 pm

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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.
Yes, and I played it. :lol:
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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:59 pm

I honestly really liked the first Force Unleashed. I never touched the DLC, though. :pinkieshrug:

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Fontra (?) » Wed Dec 04, 2019 3:30 pm

Force Unleashed was great, dumb, fun and even though Galen was stupidly overpowered (that star destroyer shit was dumb as hell) he was still an interesting character concept in that he was someone Vader used as a way to replace his family.

He's no Kyle Katarn or Kreia though. God, I miss those two. Though I think Rogue One means Katarn really can't exist and Rebels means Starkiller can't exist.

At least give me Kreia, Disney. She doesn't contradict literally any of the new canon.

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Orange Fluffy Sheep (?) » Wed Dec 04, 2019 6:50 pm

she contradicts it by being actually clever and introducing moral ambiguity
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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Wed Dec 04, 2019 6:59 pm

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if some of Luke's speeches about the Jedi being bullshit in TLJ were at least a little inspired by Kreia's force neutrality, tbh.

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Fontra (?) » Thu Dec 05, 2019 2:00 am

Perpetual Motion wrote:
Wed Dec 04, 2019 6:59 pm
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if some of Luke's speeches about the Jedi being bullshit in TLJ were at least a little inspired by Kreia's force neutrality, tbh.
I was thinking about this and I think one of the big reasons TLJ's version of Luke alienated people is that he had to fit in the kind of themes KOTOR 2 had while only having limited movie screentime to do so while KOTOR 2 is a 20+ hour videogame which gave Kreia a lot of time to explain the exact follies of the Jedi while fleshing out her character and her past.

TLJ had to rush a bunch of shit regarding Luke, Rey, and Kylo because it had like 3 plot threads it was trying to follow and it was still a long ass movie.

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Madeline (?) » Thu Dec 05, 2019 2:07 am

Fontra wrote:
Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:55 pm
Again Lucas is fantastic at some things and just bafflingly stupid in others. His scenery and lighting tends to be spot-on. If there is one thing the man was good at, it was that. Hell, a lot of his character and alien designs are amazing too.

He is the most confusing man to me. I don't understand how someone is incredibly talented in one area and terrible in others. Like not just "normal" terrible, I mean like the kind of guy that writes dialogue like the Padme/Anakin scenes.
A lot of hard sci-fi writers are like this. They can come up with the most amazing technical concepts, but their characters are boring one-dimensional cardboard people and their dialogue doesn’t sound like anything most people would say.

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Fontra (?) » Tue Dec 10, 2019 5:44 pm

Madeline wrote:
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A lot of hard sci-fi writers are like this. They can come up with the most amazing technical concepts, but their characters are boring one-dimensional cardboard people and their dialogue doesn’t sound like anything most people would say.
George goes above and beyond even just "normal" terrible though. I watched the making of TPM and realized this when he called the Gungas (the original name he made) the Goongas and then now they're Gungans.

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Tue Dec 10, 2019 5:57 pm

Also Star Wars is not Hard Sci Fi in the slightest. The main thrust of the setting is Space Magic Wielding Ninja Monks with Laser Swords, and all of the explicitly non-magical tech in the setting is abstract and unexplained without even any bullshit technobabble outside of supplementary materials.
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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

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Fontra wrote:
Tue Dec 10, 2019 5:44 pm
George goes above and beyond even just "normal" terrible though. I watched the making of TPM and realized this when he called the Gungas (the original name he made) the Goongas and then now they're Gungans.

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Orange Fluffy Sheep (?) » Tue Dec 10, 2019 6:52 pm

what were they trying to put in the fridge that wasn't food
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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

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DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

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DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
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i kind of wish darth jar-jar was real
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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:12 am



This is a really good video overall, but I timestamped a part I had never realized before but now know to be one of the absolute stupidest bits of plotting I've ever seen. Like, holy shit.

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:48 am

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Madeline (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 7:28 am

Perpetual Motion wrote:
Tue Dec 10, 2019 5:57 pm
Also Star Wars is not Hard Sci Fi in the slightest. The main thrust of the setting is Space Magic Wielding Ninja Monks with Laser Swords, and all of the explicitly non-magical tech in the setting is abstract and unexplained without even any bullshit technobabble outside of supplementary materials.
I know Star Wars isn’t hard science fiction! The actual comparison is that George Lucas has the same exact inability to write interesting people that those authors do.

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Madeline (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 7:32 am

Also TROS is shaping up to be the worst reviewed Star Wars movie ever. I’m legitimately depressed and even worse, my brother is dragging me to see it Thursday night. I don’t want to even bother seeing it.

Also all the worst people in the world get to gloat and celebrate another win.

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Fontra (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 7:46 am

Eh don't sweat it so much. I'm dragging my friends to see it tomorrow and even asked for a day off for Christmas vacation early to see it. If it sucks, it sucks. Not like I've never seen a bad star wars movie in theaters before.

As for the gloating assholes you refer to, well eh they were probably going to hate the movie no matter what. But now the whole "Disney PAID reviewers to praise The Last Jedi" argument holds basically no water anymore.

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Madeline (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 9:25 am

Fontra wrote:
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Eh don't sweat it so much. I'm dragging my friends to see it tomorrow and even asked for a day off for Christmas vacation early to see it. If it sucks, it sucks. Not like I've never seen a bad star wars movie in theaters before.

As for the gloating assholes you refer to, well eh they were probably going to hate the movie no matter what. But now the whole "Disney PAID reviewers to praise The Last Jedi" argument holds basically no water anymore.
This made me feel better :flutterunsmith:

PM, I’m sorry for posting so badly

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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Fontra (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:03 pm

Madeline wrote:
Wed Dec 18, 2019 9:25 am
This made me feel better :flutterunsmith:

PM, I’m sorry for posting so badly
You're fine. It *is* frustrating that people who obvioisly hated the ST from the beginning because it has a woman and poc protagonists will likely feel validated by these reviews, but it's also important to remember that, ultimately, those kinds of people are a very loud minority.

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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:42 pm

I'm curious enough to see how they finish the trilogy off, for better and worse, and at the very least it'll be an interesting movie to see and discuss afterwards I'm sure

also shitty nerds suck but remember that a movie being good has never stopped them from making up shit about it to drag it through the mud, so honestly the actual quality of the film has no bearing on what certain types of toxic idiots say
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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:43 pm

Watch it and try to have fun with it and make your own opinion, that's a perfectly fine and valid thing to do and shit-tastic people on the internet are not worth modelling your life around
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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:44 pm

also also if it turns out to be like, fascinatingly bad, it can join the prequels as some of the most discussed nerd movies ever and in a weird way that's also worth appreciating
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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Blarghalt (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:47 pm

Yeah like, I didn't like TLJ because I think it made a bunch of very questionable storytelling decisions and gambles that didn't pay off, not because RAY MARY SUE FEMALE PROTAG ADMIRAL LADY HAD PINK HAIR or whatever the chuds were screeching about

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Post by W.T. Fits (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:58 pm

I still have not actually bothered to sit down and watch The Last Jedi yet.

I've come to realize that I just don't care about these new Star Wars movies. I saw the Force Awakens and it just... didn't feel like Star Wars to me. It was an okay movie, but I felt like it didn't do anything new or interesting or different enough with the setting to justify making a movie about, let alone a whole trilogy.

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Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 1:00 pm

That's funny, because my biggest problem with TFA was that it was too much like a Star Wars movie. :v: The lack of anything new was definitely the problem, though. Characters are nice, at least.

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 1:49 pm

i have the controversial opinion that i think star wars should've stayed with the original three and nothing else
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Post by Angel Beat (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:08 pm

I watched it today, and I'll have to rewatch it to fully form my thoughts on it. For now, I mostly enjoyed it, but I can definitely see how it could piss of various people in various ways.
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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Fontra (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:44 pm

DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
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i have the controvercial opinion that i think star wars should've stayed with the original three and nothing else
Uh I think you mean TWO movies plus the Luke/Vader scene in RotJ AND NOTHING ELSE :twistsay:

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:46 pm

rotj was fine
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:47 pm

pacing was whack in a few places, but otherwise it was fine
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Re: The Emperor Sheev Palpatine

Post by Pocket (?) » Wed Dec 18, 2019 3:24 pm

I was never able to get into Star Wars and I still don't know why. The big showdown between Kylo Ren and Luke was amazing, though. That's the one moment in the whole series that finally got a reaction from me. And I only had to sit through five movies I didn't care for and two that were genuinely atrocious to get to it!
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