Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi

Guerilla footage of a civilian uprising against the First Order.

Edited by Tuckerscreator on Jun 12th 2019 at 9:23:13 AM

I salute thee, tiny Rey!

I'll always have nothing but respect for the Disneyworld entertainers, as well as ones from other theme parks like Universal Studios, who play villains.

You have to play up being a bad guy and being entertaining at the same time, skirting the line between being just offensive enough to be a hoot, but not offensive enough to actually repel people.

It's damn hard especially to do that level of malevolence around children, let alone engage with them directly, because being so confrontational could easily result in legitimate fear in someone so young.

I know people have discussed Reylo here, and I recently discovered that the top-rated Star Wars fic on AO 3 is a Reylo fic. Just thought I'd share.

That reminds me of this fanfic about Pong.

The top fanfic on fanfiction.net is a TPM Peggy Sue AU! https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3054756/1/Shadows-of-the-Future

Edited by lalalei2001 on Jun 13th 2019 at 12:25:07 PM

Mace confronting Palpatine was the lesser of two evils. Either they eliminate a man who, by his own actor's mouth, is more evil than the Devil and sully their reputation by taking out a Villain with Good Publicity, or wait until he has too much power for them to hope to take out in any way and screw them over anyway. Of course, they didn't expect Palpatine to also be the strongest Force user in the galaxy outside of full potential Anakin and maybe Yoda. And Palpatine knows that, so he can use it for his Order 66 plot.

And now for the strangest bit of Star Wars trivia I know.

There is a very obscure Jukebox Musical called Back to the '80s, which features a John Hughes-style teen movie plot set to the greatest hits of, well the '80s. I first learned about it when my sister was in a school production, and I just found the whole thing so bizarre that I was surprised to learn that it really exists and was not invented out of wholecloth by the drama teacher.

Anyway, the strangest thing in a show that offers no shortage of them is a Star Wars inspired fantasy sequence set to "Believe it or Not, It's Just Me" that features the main character playing Luke and his crush... as Leia. And before anyone says anything, the show is explicitly set in '85. So there's no excuse.

I found the show's Wikipedia page! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_80s_(musical)

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is now open to the public with no reservations.

Somebody overlay this with March on the Jedi Temple music.

"Wasn't the entire point of the ending that all that stuff about cycles was bullshit"

Kinda but seen how it end TLJ it look even more a repetion of a cycle.

My two issues with kylo are this: how much snoke have to do with is corruption, and I think I never get why kylo a facist suddenly is breaking with the past, I mean if someone should is rey who cling to the idea of her parents.

How will they end this anyway? With Rey declaring to not take any Padawans to try to end the whole mess with the Force?

Let the Force die. Kill it, if you have to.

This message has been brought to you by screeching wraith of Kreia

Edited by TheAirman on Jun 25th 2019 at 2:59:21 PM

I don't think that's possible — people will always be born with the ability to use it.

Unless you make some sort of Force police to keep people from using it.

Did Palpatine do that?

Yes, that is exactly what Palpatine did. The Inquisitors recruited who they could and killed everyone else.

One episode of rebels was protecting force sensitive children from getting killed by the empires inquisitors

His reach was probably imperfect, though. IIRC, Palpatine was unable to get his hands on the Holocron that yadda yadda told you who and where all the force sensitive children were.

He, Vader and the Inquisitors had to do it the hard way.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Jun 25th 2019 at 10:32:47 AM

"This message has been brought to you by screeching wraith of Kreia

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Oh kreia, we always know you will be right in the end.

you know, it would be hilarious if kylo have found solo holocron of kreia, that could explain is messy worldview.

Kylo is halfway towards being Kreia. I want him to go into being a full Kreia expy, so someone can FINALLY tell Kreia to shut the fuck up because she’s full of shit.

Of course tell is full of shit is one thing, prove is quite another, and consider the stale of the galaxy right now.....

What? That neo Nazis are rampaging across the galaxy? Don't think Kreia being right or wrong is going to change that.

Kreia’s argument boils down to “Star Wars sucks and you suck for liking it because only a manchild could think magic space wizards could effect positive change.”

Rampaging across the Galaxy usually led by a powerful force user so it wouldn't be completely unrelated.

Kreia always struck me as an attempt to capture the same character type as DC Comics’ Manchester Black - essentially embodying / lampooning the self-important cynicism that was often applied to classic series back then by inserting a character in the narrative who believed a more idealistic series should be that way and thus desired to force it to comform to it.

Kreia herself is also very much a product of her time. In the old EU, Jedi really were the ones who pretty much did everything, the Force was at its most powerful and pervasive thanks to years of escalation, and they were really, really big on Because Destiny Says So.

That’s not really the case in the current continuity; while the Sequel Trilogy has it as a theme that the constant war between dark siders and the light is something that has stagnated forever and needs to be transcended, we’re definitely not at the “the Force controls everything and forces this cycle, and thus needs to go away” level.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Jun 26th 2019 at 11:39:12 AM

I feel like a lot of people miss the fact that Kreia is very deliberately written as a bitter old hypocrite whose good points are buried under a mountain of personal grudges, and that the whole point of the ending is that your actions have proven her at least partly wrong and she's having a breakdown over it.