He's bald in his first scene, but we only see him like that for maybe 15 seconds.
I give Death Star II a pass because it's bigger, incomplete, and they had to go at the reactor directly.
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He's bald in his first scene, but we only see him like that for maybe 15 seconds.
I give Death Star II a pass because it's bigger, incomplete, and they had to go at the reactor directly.
Dr Duncan Steel
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I still believe Kyle Katarn was the one and only behind the Death Star plan leakage. EU Purge be damned.
Did it all by himself, relatively unscathed like the pimp that he is.
Did it all by himself, relatively unscathed like the pimp that he is.
I'm almost certain it was well and truly pre-planned, in that it had been decided at some point between ANH and ESB, but that the cast/production had been given different scripts so as to prevent spoiler leaks. Then, on the day, the actual twist was revealed to a select few including Mark Hamill. But the twist itself had been in for a year or so prior.
There was no exhaust port. They flew into a hole that was there because this thing was still in construction while beeing protected by a shild generator on a planet.
I think the excuse there is that the DS2 wasn't complete and was only put in the position it was to get destroyed was because Palpatine sabotaged it at numerous points in an insane plan to lure the rebels out.
I guess the point of contention is now with the reactor having the same weakness to concussive blasts, but we have the u finished excuse still.
Bobby Roberts
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The second Death Star's weakness was more that it was barely half finished and you could fly directly into it.
Killer Queen
Banned
Yeah it's actually surprisingly good
I remember hearing something that said otherwise, something about the shock being real because no one knew about it until that day.
Bobby Roberts
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The actors didn't know until just before it was shot, but the concept of Vader being Luke's father was arrived at in early 1978 or somewhere around there.
They didn't just come up with it on the day.
Sanjaaaaaaaay
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Can anyone be kind enough to post all the references this movie makes to the prequels? I'm interested in hearing about the ones I missed.
Also, the way they handled the rebels motivations and tactics was a highlight to me. Made a lot of connections to real world 'freedom fighting' groups. I was hoping they would show the bleakness of the rebel alliance by maybe showing a few of them suicide bomb. I know that's a little intense for disney but the tone throughout the movie almost had me feeling like something like that was gonna happen. Would give justification or rhetoric the Imperials could use against them...etc.
Also, the way they handled the rebels motivations and tactics was a highlight to me. Made a lot of connections to real world 'freedom fighting' groups. I was hoping they would show the bleakness of the rebel alliance by maybe showing a few of them suicide bomb. I know that's a little intense for disney but the tone throughout the movie almost had me feeling like something like that was gonna happen. Would give justification or rhetoric the Imperials could use against them...etc.
If we accept that then we must also accept that Galena Marek founded the rebellion. That's the drawback
Killer Queen
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Ah okay, that makes sense.
Well, he sent him to Tatooine to negotiate with Jabba in the canon comics knowing it would rustle his jimmies.
Yeah. The emporer just underestimated the rebels/ over estimated the imperial fleet.
To be fair, the was almost right.
Trigonometrize.
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Gotta be honest, I keep trying to get into it but the first two episodes keep turning me off. Dooku being boring, Grievous being Grievous, Yoda doing his dance routine, attempts at jokes through droids... I know that it gets better but it feels very prequel-y in setting but also in quality.
I only located two. The use of actor Jimmy Smits as Bail Organa, and the use of Mustafar as the home to Vader's castle.
I don't know if there are more.
The first two seasons are the weakest but then once Season 3 begins it hits a really good stride that runs (mostly) up to Season 6.
A good guide to what to watch for S1 and S2. There are guides for S3 to S5 but honestly I think those are pretty much worth watching outside maybe the droid episodes. Anything that focuses mainly on the clones are usually the highlights.
The show is really good at showing Anakins fall to the dark side and really enhances watching Rebels if you had watched TCW beforehand.
(I will say if you do decide to watch it, do watch the Ryloth episodes in Season 1. Because it really comes back around in Rebels.)
Also Saw Garrena is introduced in TCW. I believe Season 4 or 5.
Watching it now, and it gets much better. First half of the first season is pretty boring and awkwardly paced, but they get into some much more interesting stuff afterwards. I'm only halfway through Season 2 and it's a far better show.
Soapbox Killer
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I really hate something about this...
Having no music or fanfare.
Strange enough they made a new fanfare for when it comes on TNT.
Having no music or fanfare.
Strange enough they made a new fanfare for when it comes on TNT.
I liked how they brought back Genevieve O'Reilly to play Mon Mothma considering they cut most of her scenes in III (or all of them? I can't remember). She was good.
-Smits and O'Reilly as Organa and Mothma
-Saw Gerrera
-Flashback to Krennic and Galen on Coruscant
-Vader on Mustafar
-Juggernaut tank on Wobani
-Kyber crystals (been around for a while but TCW really solidified their modern importance send their tie to the Death Star)
-not in the movie, but according to the visual dictionary Cassian is from a separatist family
Ah yeah! Man, she does look a lot like the original actress from the OT.
I really hate something about this...
Having no music or fanfare.
Strange enough they made a new fanfare for when it comes on TNT.
20th Century Fox Theme is missed
The Clone Wars was worse than all three prequels.
Killer Queen
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That's quite an unpopular opinion.
And this is coming from someone who loves all 3 prequels, so I know a thing or two about unpopular opinions around here. :v
Maybe it's because I never got past Season 3. Still, it was absolutely unbearable for me, especially Ahsoka.
And I don't see as much love for TCW at all away from GAF.
I hope you are just talking about the animated movie lol.
Nope. The show was no where near as good as it could have been or as the original Clone Wars content, especially from Dark Horse.
Soapbox Killer
Grand Nagus
I swore up and down Ahsoka was going to show up in Rogue One.
So, before knowing anything about Rogue One. I thought I read that it was supposed to be a series that would alternate between the years that the main episodes aren't out.
Obviously since that's out the bag, I assume they'll still be doing that with other spin-offs like the young Han Solo movie that's coming out?
Obviously since that's out the bag, I assume they'll still be doing that with other spin-offs like the young Han Solo movie that's coming out?
I think the art style turns a lot of people off to it initially but I've never heard someone watch a few episodes and go "I don't like it." Star Wars seems to have stayed surprisingly consistent on the quality of its TV shows.
See you missed out on all the character development Ashoka gets. By the end of the show she's honest one of the best things in it. He reappearence in Rebels was amazing because of that.
Honestly the animation work in the later seasons is quite jaw dropping for being a TV show.
Killer Queen
Banned
Anthology series, every other movie is going to be a non mainline film. Rogue One was first, Han Solo is next, nobody knows what comes after.
I don't think I could get over the idea of Anakin having an apprentice. It just doesn't fit in believably for me, in between AOTC and ROTS. Not that Anakin's character development was believable in ROTS.
Fortunately though we're at a golden age for Star Wars now and Rogue One is a million times better than the prequels or TCW.
Really? Ahsoka ended up becoming one of my favorite characters in the series. I'd definitely recommend looking into the series post Season 3. It gets really good and churns out great episode after episode.
Killer Queen
Banned
I hated the artstyle years ago but now I kinda love it.
Ah very cool!
Now I'm really curious to what they'll do after Han Solo.
Although, that'd be after the end of episode 9 so maybe they'll start a new series or continue with young Solo if that's a huge hit.
I hope you're only referring to the movie, or at least one of those people who only saw a couple of early/bad episodes.
It gets better, both in terms of story and art.
Season 3 on is pretty great. Although shorter, Season 6 or the 'Lost Episodes' as I believe they're technically called are also really good and provide a lot of really great insight into the overall Star Wars universe. It really sucks that the show was cancelled, the stuff they said they wanted to do in the rest of Season 6 and beyond sounded really amazing.
What Saturday morning show for kiddos has a character enter a room, throw his light saber and decapitate everyone in there?
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