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Things that are acceptable here:
- Trailers and trailer speculation
- Discussion of the Star Wars movies and what we would like to see/not like to see in them.
- Discussion about anything and everything Star Wars, just...no spoilers.
Things that are not-acceptable here:
- Spoilers! No talking about the leaks!
- Being mean! If you disagree with someone's opinion, try not to come across as mean or rude.
And here. we. go.
Rise of Skywalker Final Trailer:
Mr. Sunday's Ten Easy To Miss Details in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Final Trailer Breakdown):
This cool mashup of Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker and Avengers: Endgame trailers:
And also here's a trailer for The Mandalorian:
Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 31st 2024 at 8:23:29 PM
It's unsurprising that Star Wars is successful in Japan, especially given the influence of Samurai movies. Incidentally, I now kind of wanna see a Shonen take on Star Wars. It's kind of close as-is that I could kind of see it being awesome.
Leviticus 19:34There were Star Wars manga from Dark Horse Comics between 1998 and 1999.
They were really bloody
and Leia was adorable
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Edited by lalalei2001 on Nov 29th 2019 at 3:28:27 AM
The Protomen enhanced my life.
I was all set to link a big article on it until I realized it was Legends and not Canon. Whoops.
All you need to put against Thrawn is someone that he thinks is lower than him, but who thinks outside the box. Actually, Thrawn would make a very interesting Villain Protagonist if Disney ever decided to do a movie with a Villain Protagonist.
Edited by alliterator on Nov 29th 2019 at 7:13:59 AM
Exploiting Thrawn's blind spots is the key to beating him, yes, but if you want defeating a villain to mean something, you must first establish that villain as a credible threat. Thrawn's areas of expertise are fleet-based strategy, large-scale logistics, and exploiting intel; therefore, to properly display his competence as an antagonist, it would be wise to pit him against a credible fleet commander to give him a chance to display his skills.
Incidentally, this is why I was a tad wary when Thrawn was first announced to be joining the cast of Rebels; hunting down a fledgling Rebel cell with an OT-era Imperial force is a huge waste of talents for someone whose combat talents are much more suited for punching above his fleet's weight class with a combination of strategy and competent underlings. (That said, I still have little idea of how the plot of Rebels actually progressed, so maybe I was worried over nothing?)
but HOW?Show, don't tell, my friend. Again, you get more mileage out of characters with established on-screen cred. Just going, "Oh my god, Thrawn just beat General Garm, and he was the military genius who invented the A-Wing slash technique! This Grand Admiral guy's unstoppable!" is kinda underwhelming compared to if we were to actually see our friendly neighborhood general in action. Have our Worf pull out crazy tactics on the fly like hiding ship signatures in A-Wing exhaust trails or something, stuff that's obviously inventive and evidence of a keen mind in and of itself. Then have him fail anyways because Thrawn immediately pieces together what just happened through sensor reports and just plain eyeballing the battle, checks what tech he has available on his ships, orders some clever repurposing to counter the strategy with stuff that was most certainly NOT designed to be used that way, and takes back the upper hand with ease. Instant cred for both sides, with no character shilling necessary.
but HOW?It would be pretty simple to do the same with a different Rebellion/Resistance character. Hell, get that guy from Rogue One that was Cassian's superior.
It could be interesting to see a veteran Imperial like Thrawn trying to direct a fleet of zealous but inexperienced First Order loyals. Maybe that's how you nerf him; his tactics are sound but these rabid newbies really just can't resist diving in for the kill.
But it won't happen because Thrawn's an EU character and means pretty much nothing to the filmgoing public at large the way the return of Sidious does.
x6 Well its old EU but.
Actually no, more a Battle of Wits. Ackbar actually wasn't ever Worfed, he was always treated as one of the few people in the galaxy to actually keep up with him and not just destroyed outright, many other commanders were Worfed before him. And considering Thrawn had access to an old bug planted in the Senate by the Emperor... that was flat out amazing for someone who made his career about fighting Imperials who used the Tarkin doctrine and nothing else but.
The final battle actually had Ackbar actually take the advantage in the battle, despite it being a complete trap. We never got to see the conclusion to the slugfest though as Thrawn was assassinated before he could try to counter and the second in command ordered a retreat as he did not know how to counter the NR forces breaking through their formation.
Edited by Memers on Nov 29th 2019 at 8:40:45 AM
Without spoiling too much, the Empire would've straight up won had they listened to Thrawn instead of letting pettiness and gloryhounding get in the way; and mass producing his TIE Defenders would've been a vastly greater use of time and resources than sinking everything into the Death Star. Even with all that he only loses because of being blindsided by Force shenanigans he had no way of accounting for. Still kicking around somewhere in the galaxy though.
PSN ID: FateSeraph | Switch friendcode: SW-0145-8835-0610 Congratulations! She/TheyThe Essential Atlas and Guide to Warfare explained the Empire's rationale in acting like that thusly: space is big. Even with the resources of the Empire, policing every corner of an entire galaxy for seditiousness would be impossible - unless you had a big, showy thing that could make everyone scared of you, all at the same time, thus, the Death Star.
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Okey find and even that the rebell aliance have to pull everything into getting the plans, which show how hard the rebels have to do in order to win against the Death star.
I feel the whole things get bad rep that is underserving....unlike the starkiller, which it deserve it.
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Star Wars also has zero cultural legacy in China. TFA was the first one released there (legally, at any rate). Even setting aside political stuff, there was never any reason to expect the mainland to go crazy for it the way the rest of the world did.
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