Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi

x6 When has the new continuity done that? The only stories that prominently featured the Mandalorians were on The Clone Wars and Rebels. I never got the sense they portrayed the Mandalorians as inherently better.

Edited by Kostya on Oct 5th 2018 at 10:45:21 AM

I assume he was talking about the old EU.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that is what he was referring to particularly Karen Travis.

x3 - The Republic Commando series that Travis wrote IIRC was a big offender.

I was indeed. No matter what she wrote Star Wars related it was always Mandalorians: Good! Republic: BAD! Jedi: Worse!

, Not to be that guy, but he did say the new continuity, which has so far been a nice balance of "Mandalorians are cool warriors" and "Mandalorians are self-destructive warmongers."

I'm wondering how much of the Mandalorians we'll actually see and how much of it will be this one Mandalorian going on adventures himself?

Also I'd love to see Sabine or Bo-Katan pop up here.

Legends the cover story for the Death Star was them trying to carve up dead planets for materials, which sounds like a better use for the superlaser. Canon-wise is there a cover-up story for what's essentially a terrorist Manhattan Project?

Was the the story they told the galaxy, or the story they told the chief designer? I recall it being the latter.

I thought the (Legends) chief designer was a Mad Scientist that Palpatine literally, actually, no-seriously-its-canon fed to space-piranhas after the plans were complete?

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Oct 5th 2018 at 10:25:32 AM

You are correct. Galen Erso is a saint in comparison to Bevel Lemelisk, although Bevel had to endure being revived and killed by Palpatine over and over for the Death Star’s destruction as punishment. He evidently died so many times that he told his New Republic firing squad to make sure and check that he’s actually dead before they killed him.

At least Galen only needed to die once.

So we think.

Turns out the ghost of Galen Erso was actively haunting the Death Star 2, ultimately rendering them unable to close that big honking hole in the side in time for the Rebel attack.

@ Parable: More the story they told the galaxy at large on where so many of the resources were going to so nobody tries to stop the Death Star's construction

In retrospect, the idea of the Mandalorian being “Kung Fu, but Star Wars” could actually do a lot to fill in the little things about Mandalorian culture and how the public treats them, even more so than Sabine did. It’s not about “Mandalorians rule, Jedi drool!”, as much as it’s about experiences shaping people.

You think he was asked to grab the pebble?

In sad news, Ray Park announced he was renouncing his honorary status with the 501st Legion as a result of some bad experience. Notably, Daniel Logan backed him up on this sentiment by stating he had some issues with the group and a lot of people coming to their defense are members themselves.

Goddammit, can we have one part of fandom that isn't toxic?

Geez, wonder what they did to have two actors denounce them?

From what I can gather, Park never said the specifics of what happened, but a lot of people have reported that a member harassed him over his appearance in Solo. A lot of members have come out to support the two and have noted there has been an increasingly toxic element of the group, a large part of it having to do with members who are extremely obsessive over screen accuracy to the point of pestering people for not getting names or small details right. This all really saddens me given this supposed to be a charity group and both Park and Logan have always been very laid back and thankful guys.

Well I guess it's good to know it's just one faction, rather than the whole group, but that's probably damning by faint praise.

Sometimes this fandom makes me sick.

Its every fandom that goes on the downswing.

Even so the last time I saw a fandom lose its mind to anywhere near this degree was when the canon couples in Naruto were revealed.

Same thing happened at the end of Bleach.

There’s also the Voltron fandom which has a really insane section.

As well as the Sichuan sauce people.

Edited by slimcoder on Oct 7th 2018 at 5:44:59 AM

Bleach was way tamer than Naruto though.

Well Bleach did have the benefit of a having dwindling fandom.

Less people to go crazy.

Star Wars problem is that it’s too big meaning proportionally there’s more psychopaths in it.

Edited by slimcoder on Oct 7th 2018 at 5:49:38 AM