General Star Wars Thread

What book is this?

Lords of the Sith I think it's called.

edited 7th May '15 12:21:48 PM by LordofLore

I still wanna see a lightsaber duel on the outside of a ship breaking up in-atmosphere in the middle of a space battle on the scale of the Battle of Coruscant.

The visuals of fighting Darth Nihilus on his broken and falling apart spaceship bridge was really cool even if I was a tad bit overleveled for it.

The setting has so much stuff and concepts in it so it's a shame we almost always only get to see the boring single biome planets or pristine Imperial Star Destroyers in the games and movies.

On one hand, I like that they're making Vader so awesome.

On the other, I hate it because there's no reason for him to be so pathetic in the OT movies when he's doing all this crazy stuff here.

People keep getting carried away with their stories. I would call both Expanded Universe s in-universe propaganda and move on.

He was never presented with a real fight in the OT, though. First was Obi-Wan who he knew he outmatched because of Obi-Wan's age, and so was just toying with him, second was Luke where he was trying to capture or convert him in both cases.

Vader is hardly pathetic in the OT.

Compared to the things he can do in non-film stories, he really is. His fights against Luke are pathetic from an in-universe perspective.

Vader's trying to turn his son to the Dark Side in Empire and Jedi; pretty sure he wouldn't kill him, and in Jedi, he's already on the path to redemption by the time the final battle rolls around, anyway.

Vader's not weak, but he is really, really clunky. Of course that may just be down to the improved stunts in the PT.

Not like Luke is any real challenge for him until Return of the Jedi either.

It's one of those things we have to just accept as what the standard for action scenes were at the time and the limitations of the production. Really, one of the best scenes from the duel in TESB is when Vader starts throwing crap at Luke and he is just flailing about helpless. It was the moment when Luke started to realize he didn't have a chance.

I am kind of surprised that with all the tinkering Lucas made to the OT that he never spruced up the lightsaber duels. ROTJ still works well enough, having Hamill as the one with the advantage instead of the practically blind Vader stuntman (which I believe was Bob Anderson, the fight choreographer, as David Prowse had too much trouble with the props) made it easier to stage a fast paced fight. For Episode IV the Vader suit and Kenobi's cloak against a green screen would make it easy to splice in some more dynamic movements, although it would clash pretty bad with the original footage.

New preview of the next Darth Vader issue! Space!Whales?

edited 8th May '15 6:35:30 AM by LordofLore

That's obviously it, yes, but note that I said "in-universe". Stuff like Vader stopping missiles in mid air is cool as shit, but when you go back to the OT you see him needing Stormtroopers and shit and it's like "Why lol?"

The EU makes him into a One-Man Army, and the Legends verse made one wonder why the Emperor needed a Death Star in the first place, with some of the Force shit we saw being pulled off.

I'm just going to stick with these stories being propaganda to scare people from joining the Rebellion, because they're STILL not jiving with what we saw.

The Empire is still racist in this new canon.

@Cru The conflict that sprouted up from hearing his son was alive weakened his Darkside powers drastically

That's good.

Here's a snippet that I found "d'awwwwwww" in a "Seriously, I really want Vader to meet her and kill her" sorta way.

Context: Vader is in a burning, near-powerless carrier ship, along with the Emperor and not many crew members. He's taken control of piloting it because someone's trying to gun the ship down.

A memory stabbed him, as sharp as a blade. He'd floated alone in an escape pod over Ryloth once, spinning high over its surface, after crashing a cruiser into a droid control ship. Another name bobbed up and broke the surface of the sea of memory.

Ahsoka.

He'd called her "Snips" sometimes.

He pushed the errant recollection◊ aside and focused on his task...◊

edited 9th May '15 6:54:52 AM by Cruherrx

......Well, I really don't want Ahsoka to die, but we know there's going to some sort of confrontation between them in Season 2 of Rebels, so.

To be fair, whenever some non-Empire person that isn't in the movies is onscreen with Vader I hope he kills them.

Edit: The man still◊ loves his Padme.◊ Then again, who can blame him?

edited 9th May '15 9:40:17 AM by Cruherrx

This I'll have to see.

Excellent.

There's that mistake in that Lords of the Sith page again. Who the hell is Sixes? Is Paul S. Kemp talking about Fives?

Most likely Fives, yes.

Or maybe they have some as-of-yet-unrevealed story about a clone named Sixes.

It would make most sense if it's meant to be Fives, since, ya' know, Order 66 and all.

Edit: I is sad now.

edited 12th May '15 7:09:34 PM by TheAirman