Darths & Droids

As someone who liberally uses Detect evil, It just doesn't work unless you have a filthy cheating Necromancer close by. In which case the (now animated) corpse always registers as evil.

omg nooooooo

And one last very important message before we break until August.

Suddenly, extras.

Another alternate continuity strip, in which Anakin is trying to RP character conflict and nobody else cares. Like most actual gaming groups, really.

edited 27th Jun '17 5:16:57 AM by Fighteer

While poking fun at a certain scene in AOTC, naturally.

In the world of DND, it's not evil until you attack your fellow P Cs or try to rob the shopkeep.

What if Padme had died in Sith? It might have gone something like this...

I can't help but think of a ladyfriend's reaction to the opening scene of Star Trek: "Really? They have the technology to travel through space and colonize other planets, but nothing to make childbirth quicker or less painful?"

Your lady friend would be great at Cinema Sins.

...Although they were trying to get off before the ship was blown to pieces. Still, point made.

It's funny, because science fiction authors have been proposing ways to make childbirth less traumatic for ages, but visual science fiction works almost never depict them. Heinlein, for example, had the idea of using an artificial gravity field to "yoink" the infant out of the womb. Basically, get the mother supported in a more or less upright position, dial the gravity up to 3 Gs for a few seconds, catch the baby, and you're good to go.

The reason why films portray it in the old-fashioned way is that it makes the scene more visceral for the audience.

The majority of writers being male may play a part as well.

Oops

edited 5th Jul '17 6:51:28 PM by DeMarquis

I like it, I like it.

I mean, this is still the wrong thread, but I like it.

edited 5th Jul '17 1:38:52 PM by God_of_Awesome

http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/1526.html

What Could Have Been His Name Is.... Maybe too obvious at such an early stage of the story?

...Eh, probably.

They say they came up with this idea independently of the publication of William Shakespeare's Star Wars.

Last bonus strip.

I'd say that it feels wrong to hear lines from Star Trek coming from Star Wars characters, but I vaguely recall this isn't the first time it's happened in the comic.

This is going to be interesting for me, as I haven't seen Rogue One. I won't get any of the references.

If you have Netflix, they just added it to their Instant play list. I'd recommend it, it's really good. Easily among the best Star Wars movies, and also by far the darkest.

And we're off! Rogue One begins with Episode 1529: "Let's Twist Again".

DMM and crew have a bit of a twist for us, this time — the strips will be, essentially, liveblogged by two readers who have never seen the film.

Most of the fun of reading Darths & Droids, at least for me, is getting their unique take on a story that I already know like the back of my hand. I'm not sure how one would ever be able to take the original seriously if the comic is one's first experience of it... But to each their own.

edited 1st Aug '17 5:14:02 AM by Fighteer

I also haven't seen the film so seeing the thoughts of people in the same boat, here and under the strip, is going to be interesting in a special way.

Okay, so I know the campaign for Rogue One is being played after their ROTJ campaign, but what about when they're setting it in-universe?

Hopefully it will be set in-universe at the same time it's set in the original tri-trilogy.

It would seem difficult to place it at any other point in the timeline, as the continuity changes you'd have to make would get rather torturous. How would you explain a third Death Star being made by the Empire after it was defeated?... Wait, never mind.

edited 1st Aug '17 6:34:37 AM by Fighteer

I was really hoping it would be a bunch of new players that would lead into TFA, perhaps run by one of the original players.