Darths & Droids

While I can see where you're coming from, I can understand the desire to make this antagonist also A Bad Guy... Wait, I'm presuming this bot goes on to do more stuff in the movie, maybe they don't? Maybe it's because they get blown up with the ship later, or something, and heaven forbid there be any innocent casualties.

(I always felt bad for the random Death Star workers getting blown up, even though they were staffing a genocide weapon in service of a cruel totalitarian regime which itself blew up so many innocent people. Though part of it was that little girl me, like present day me, thinks those black technician helmets are sick, which made their wearers endearing.)

Though that reminds me: one of my gripes with TFA was how it seemingly spent its entire 'good people as peons on the wrong side' budget on Finn. I didn't watch the other sequels, but my impression is that (barring Kylo, who is his own animal) that stayed true, and that's pretty disappointing? TFA starting with a strong statement of Stormtroopers are people too was, like, the best thing about it in my opinion.

Like so many other parts of the franchise, the "Stormtroopers are people too" idea is set up but not taken anywhere. Well, I guess it comes up again in The Rise of Skywalker, for whatever that's worth. But Finn being a moral agent sure doesn't stop the heroes from killing thousands of other Imperial troops.

Edited by Fighteer on Apr 21st 2024 at 4:11:18 AM

Episode 2456: Rice Kryptos: Scrape, Crack, and Pwn

So it's the decoder rings, is it? I am literally laughing out loud at that one.

Episode 2457: It Is Time for Us All to Decide Who We Are

The title references the break so the players can work out their roles with the GM. Brilliant.

Episode 2458: Feudal Attraction

So, any guesses on what this interstitial campaign was? I admit that I'm at a bit of a loss.

We know the party consisted of:

• Sally as the mad hermit

• Jim as captain of the guard

• The GM as a lowly scribe

• Corey as a loan banker

• Ben and Annie in unknown roles

We know that the players spent the entire first session working out supplies and inventories because it would have been reckless to venture out into the wilderness immediately and risk getting eaten by monsters.

We know there was a priest, who did not have a goatee, that the party decided to help, in spite of Annie's character not trusting him and Pete thinking it should have been obvious that he was evil.

It has been described as a "fantasy campaign" and terms like "barony" getting thrown around imply a feudal setting.

Episode 2459: Commodity Shorting

Did we figure out what the last mid-campaign was? I don't remember.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on May 1st 2024 at 1:48:13 AM

Episode 2460: Hero and Meander

I believe it was Voltron, though that was back in 2021.

Edited by jouXIII on May 2nd 2024 at 12:43:52 PM

It started out as Voltron, then became Evangelion.

Wasn't there one after Voltrogelion but before the current one that people were thinking might have been Minecraft, or something?

Nope, Pete's fantasy campaign has been the "current" mystery in-between campaign since December 2022.

Okay, I got confused. I forgot they do a non-Star Wars campaign between each movie, not between each play session. So I thought this was a new clue for a new campaign, and we were supposed to have figured out what the last campaign was by now.