Have you read Battlefront: Twilight Company?
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Have you read Battlefront: Twilight Company?
ShadowSwordmaster
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You mean Twilight Company?
Cross-Section
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I most certainly do!
edit: And so does sphagnum, glad to see the same aesthetic epiphany strike at the same time haha
edit: And so does sphagnum, glad to see the same aesthetic epiphany strike at the same time haha
ShadowSwordmaster
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Nice.
BrokenFiction
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I second, third and fourth this. One of the best SW novels out there. A lot of it reminds me of the squad level banter in the Erikson Malazan books.
Google'd.
Hm, interesting. I may look into it.
Also, I seriously wanna see more stuff about the Battle of Jakku.
Cross-Section
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I wanna say Empire's End (3rd book of the Aftermath series) is covering what Lost Stars didn't.
edit: le beaten
ShadowSwordmaster
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Same here. It seems that a lot of shit went down in that battle.
Given all the bits and pieces I gotten about it, it sounds like the true end-all-be-all battle of the OT to me.
The presentation of the Battlefront level with this huge clusterfuck of ships giving each other hell throughout the entire sky box really nails that vibe too.
ShadowSwordmaster
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Given all the bits and pieces I gotten about it, it sounds like the true end-all-be-all battle of the OT to me.
The presentation of the Battlefront level with this huge clusterfuck of ships giving each other hell throughout the entire sky box really nails that vibe too.
The fact the two star destroyers went down in the battle shows it.
Cross-Section
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Not to mention the SSD that goes down as well. The Imperials had a bad time.
ShadowSwordmaster
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Imperials got they asses handed to them. It's sorta remarkable they were able to loose so much.
They were in complete disarray after the death of the Emperor, Vader, the destruction of the second Death Star, and a large majority of the Imperial fleet. Without their centralized leadership, they had no direction to go in but be on the withering defense.
broncobuster
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Any thoughts from anyone cold towards Star Wars 7?
Review thread is coming up on the 13th.
But yes, this hybrid OT thing is weird, albeit somewhat liberating.
If by liberating you mean confusing and backwards. Where do people who want to talk about R1 go to discuss it spoiler free? The film doesn't even release for another four days so it seems incredibly silly to not have an official thread for hype and impressions without worrying about reading a straight up bombshell which this movie seems to have plenty of.
Trigonometrize.
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Yeah, I'm a bit confused as well. I think if you combine the OT and spoiler thread at the very least there should be mandatory spoiler tags until Friday night or something. I'm basically going to bail on this thread starting Monday whereas I otherwise would've stuck around throughout the week.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
No offense to Kevin Smith but his reaction to a Star Wars movie might be the least valuable on the planet.More on Kevin Smith:
Can't wait to see how it ends!!!
I remember him gushing over Attack of the Clones.
WadiumArcadium
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Some of these impressions are pretty encouraging. Surprising to hear so much of the trailer footage isn't in the film though. The reshoots must have changed a fair bit. I'm relieved to hear it's still quite gritty and feels like an actual war film based in the Star Wars universe.
More on Kevin Smith:
Can't wait to see how it ends!!!
Dude was comparing the prequels to Shakespeare (and I don't have a problem with the PT).
His opinion on anything SW is garbage in my book
graffix13
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Anyone find anything spoiler wise? This is what I am following but not too many details.
SPOILERS! Rogue One Discussion Megathread
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/5ho8q7/spoilers_rogue_one_discussion_megathread/
SPOILERS! Rogue One Discussion Megathread
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/5ho8q7/spoilers_rogue_one_discussion_megathread/
bigwinnerx
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That's a dope hockey jersey though.
Impressions seem great. If we get another movie where they didn't completely fuck it up and made something competent and good, I'll be on the moon.
Also, remember KK said they're watching reaction to this movie for future Stories, so, this could greenlight a bunch of new projects very quickly if it gets into the zeitgeist on a level nearer to TFA.
Impressions seem great. If we get another movie where they didn't completely fuck it up and made something competent and good, I'll be on the moon.
Also, remember KK said they're watching reaction to this movie for future Stories, so, this could greenlight a bunch of new projects very quickly if it gets into the zeitgeist on a level nearer to TFA.
It's already going to make bank, so I feel that's going to happen. I hope they branch more on these non-Jedi focused movies. Having a X-Wing (one of the few EU series worth a damn) style movie would make me giggle.
A Serious Man
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God damn it.
Now I'm hyped and I don't have the self control to not read impressions and probably spoil myself. Fuck.
Now I'm hyped and I don't have the self control to not read impressions and probably spoil myself. Fuck.
Cross-Section
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I think it's an issue of the Star Wars spoiler threads inevitably becoming waaaay more heavily trafficked than the main OTs. I think we hit 3 with TFA, in the end.
Can definitely understand why people would get frustrated though, maybe next time we have a Pre-release OT (with mandatory spoiler tags) and a Post-release OT (no tags)?
WadiumArcadium
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Spoilers aren't allowed in the Star Wars OT so you can still post there without worrying about being spoiled. The review thread will be up pretty soon as well.
A Serious Man
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He'll have to fight Harry Knowles for that title.
The problem is that thread is dead compared to this and all impressions are being posted here. So it's hard to stay out because people want to read spoiler free impressions but they're being posted in a thread that's potentially a nuclear bomb.
I say turn this thread into non spoilers, since there's luckily pretty much none so far, and open a new spoiler thread.
Makes the most sense to me. Then when reviews come out, combine that with the spoiler thread since they go hand in hand.
It's kind of perplexing as to why this happened in the first place as pretty much all other huge films have these two threads for the sake of keeping people from being spoiled.
Cross-Section
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Alternatively, we (or I, if nobody wants to) make a spoiler-tagged review thread right now with the impressions that have come out so far, in addition to the full written pieces coming Tuesday.
That strikes me as the most crowd-pleasing solution at the moment without Quick having to trash the OT.
That strikes me as the most crowd-pleasing solution at the moment without Quick having to trash the OT.
Haloid1177
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By contrast, you should've seen Wil Wheaton shit on the Prequels and old EU during the official SW livestream.
He wouldn't have to ditch it, just alter it. But this thread could also be slightly changed to include reviews, and someone else could create a completely spoiler free impressions and discussions thread, like we had for TFA. Of course, that thread turned unto a bit of a minefield too, but at least there were separate places to go.
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jstevenson
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At a minimum spoilers in this thread should be spoiler tagged until Friday
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