The General Star Wars Thread

Anyone thinking a Gungan might show in Mandalorian? At this point the entire species canonically realizes Jar Jar has shaped their reputations.

One could show up as a dead-serious villain...

"Bingo! If two species hate each other, they will wipe each other out on their own."

I had a really cool idea that, like, a Gungan pirate would work on the Mandalorian.

Imagine you had Les Mandeux run into a crew of pirates, and one of them was this tough as nails gungan with like an Ear Notch and such.

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

I remember one version of The Force Unleashed had a Gungan bounty hunter as a boss.

That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.

Arr-Arr Binks.

Cleef. My favorite Gungan.

Starkiller just arrives blowing walls down and Cleef chuckles, pulls out a (steel) sword and goes "Mesa prepared. Yousa gonna die (Evil Laugh)".

"All you Fascists bound to lose."

So how’s that bit about Disney trying to change the space calendar to be about Star Killer base?

I'll teach you a lesson about just how cruel the world can be. That's my job, as an adult.

Didn't they already do that?

but HOW?

I find it funny Wookiepedia isn’t doing adapting it.

I'll teach you a lesson about just how cruel the world can be. That's my job, as an adult.

Trying to change the timeline to revolve around itself is basically the perfect summation of the ST at this point

I'm A Pervert not an Asshole!

The ST is more about nostalgia and the past, though, so...not really.

Also, I always found it weird that they counted years from the Battle of Yavin, when they should have been counting years from when the Empire started (that's generally what happens when a dictator takes over — they restart the calendar). But then again, I thought it was pretty clear that the BBY/ABY timeline was just something for fans, rather than something in-universe, the same thing with BSI/ASI.

Everyone in the Star Wars universe actually uses the Wookie calendar, because the Wookie calendar has Life Day and everyone loves Life Day.

Edited by alliterator on Apr 1st 2020 at 11:28:13 AM

Life day is just a scam by Jawas!

I'm A Pervert not an Asshole!

New Star Wars Holiday Special set in the ST era where the First Order has cancelled Life Day.

Finn and Poe travel in the Falcon delivering presents, Rey has never celebrated it so she has to be taught what it is by Rose, who gets the gift of actually being involved in the plot. And Kylo gets a lump of coal.

And then Palpatine is revealed to be the drunk grandpa pretending to be Santa Claus.

I'll teach you a lesson about just how cruel the world can be. That's my job, as an adult.

Yeah, good luck getting anyone back for that.

The question of what to do next still has me wonder. High Republic is clearly a stopgap and the second it was announced people predicted its failure.

Palpatine being inebriated might justify a lot of his ST plans.

Edited by Beatman1 on Apr 2nd 2020 at 8:36:38 AM

Palpatine blew up Alderaan so the value of his Alderaanian wine would increase.

I'll teach you a lesson about just how cruel the world can be. That's my job, as an adult.

“Alderaan is destroyed, and I can think of one way to celebrate.”

Well, that second part just proves how toxic Star Wars fandom is these days.

Everyone seemed fairly united in not liking ROS. I feel like when something like that occurs, the best thing to do is back off for a while. Let Mandalorian do its thing, then roll out new products.

Disney is backing away for a while — the High Republic stuff is solely for books/comic books and it's just a way to tell stories where they don't have to be beholden to the Prequel/Original/Sequel Era. It's basically a good idea that some people want to see fail because they've transferred their hate of TLJ/TROS to Star Wars itself and want to see the entire franchise go up in flames.

@Beatman 1: Palpatine walking in the Death Star's inaugural ceremony:

I'd pay to see Jericho as LE CHANCELLOR.

"All you Fascists bound to lose."

Yeah, people already predicting that the High republic stuff will fail are just fans being stupid. It's a novel concept, something we haven't gotten out of the sequels yet, and it's a part of the timeline that we know nothing about even from the old EU.

That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.

As long as Disney remains committed to it, it should be fine.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."

As long as Palpatine isn't randomly behind it all we should be fine.

Hopefully they can get more creative with the setting.

But part of me fears they will add lore to justify things in TROS. Like officially canonizing Force Download.

Edited by RedHunter543 on Apr 2nd 2020 at 8:58:12 AM

I'll teach you a lesson about just how cruel the world can be. That's my job, as an adult.

As long as it doesn't reach the point of the authors intentionally retconning and sabotaging each other like the old EU did, I'm happy.