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I hope they all die, except for Hera and Thrawn.
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I hope they all die, except for Hera and Thrawn.
WadiumArcadium
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You're a big meanie.
I tire of their childish, family friendly antics.
I hope Thrawn massacres them all and keeps the burnt out husk of their interminable, comic relief droid as a trophy.
Give him time.
LordofAllThatIsEvil
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While I quite enjoy the show, a fitting end would be Thrawn lashing their dead bodies to the prow of his flagship.
I would laugh.
Duane Cunningham
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Yeah, Rex has only been played live on screen by an unnamed stunt actor, in 1983.
balladofwindfishes
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Hera makes it all the way to at least Return of the Jedi. She's in the Freemakers Lego show, which isn't technically canon, but exists within the universe of Star Wars as it was between Empire and RotJ. So they can't kill off anyone or use anyone who was dead at the time (Han never appears in the show, for example).
This is my favorite thing and they need to officially make this canon. It's one of those things that's really fun, and it's not like they're doing anything with the random old man rebel who they brought on a serious strike mission for some reason. It actually makes it make a bit more sense.
Hera's also explicitly mentioned in Rogue One. No need to rely on the questionable canon of a Lego project.
She's definitely fine (along with Rex, given Filoni's repeated enthusiasm for the ROTJ theory), which is more than okay with me. It's the rest of those fools I want rid of, especially Ashoka, Kanan and Ezra, who are apparently running around cutting down stormtroopers with their lightsabers like there's no tomorrow, when Luke is supposed to be viewed as the Jedi's last hope.
WadiumArcadium
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The username checks out.
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That new Battlefront trailer...
Yeah, it looks great. The lack of Obi-Wan, Anakin and Mustafar as a playable level bums me out, though.
Duane Cunningham
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Plus, there's a story to be told there... when the rebels first get there, he's wearing rebel gear like everyone else:
But later, when Han Leia and the whole team get arrested (when Chewie shows up in the AT-ST), Rex is wearing scout trooper gear, albeit with a few missing pieces... Did he steal the outfit during the battle somehow or what?
After Chewie springs them, he resumes helping the rest of the squad, still in his stolen gear:
So SOMETHING clearly happened... he clubbed a scout trooper and stole his gear, did something, and then apparently got busted. We need the Endor ground assault retold from Rex's point of view at some point, whether it's live action, cartoon, comic or whatever!
WadiumArcadium
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There was a rumour that Obi-Wan and Grievous are in the works.
Plus, there's a story to be told there... when the rebels first get there, he's wearing rebel gear like everyone else:
But later, when Han Leia and the whole team get arrested (when Chewie shows up in the AT-ST), Rex is wearing scout trooper gear, albeit with a few missing pieces... Did he steal the outfit during the battle somehow or what?
After Chewie springs them, he resumes helping the rest of the squad, still in his stolen gear:
So SOMETHING clearly happened... he clubbed a scout trooper and stole his gear, did something, and then apparently got busted. We need the Endor ground assault retold from Rex's point of view at some point, whether it's live action, cartoon, comic or whatever!
I predict a comic
It's true. All of it
The latest trailer certainly seems to be hinting that there is going to be an exit point of sorts for the jedi characters.
Ahsoka is dead, Kanan will definitely die, and that leaves Ezra. He's the only one to be concerned about.
Here's a general rule for television marketing:
The more the trailers for a show try to convince you a certain character is going to die, the less likely it is that it's actually going to happen in the show itself.
That rule has never failed me. Ever.
Ashoka is definitely not dead.
I need those shirts.
Ron Howard voice: "It wasn't."
That's why I didn't specifically say that they would die, but that they would exit out of the big picture some way or another, whether that means dying, giving up their Jedi status or turning into wolves/some sort of animal.
I'll take another big-budget animated show like Clone Wars if they want, but there's no reason why they couldn't do live action. There are so many shows you can point to these days that demonstrates how well high-concept material can do on TV... from Game of Thrones, Star Trek, to Marvel and DC's live action stuff.
Cross-Section
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Here's a bit of Jon Hamm voicing the Boba Fett story. Not bad at all.
They were supposed to before the Disney purchase, but that was back when Lucas ran the show and didnt care about burning money.
WadiumArcadium
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I think between 6 and 7 is more likely. More room to play with and they'll probably leave the sequel trilogy era alone until after IX's been released.
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"Probably Stormtroopers. Some might call them precise. Me? I say they can't hit the butt end of a Bantha."
Obi-Wan really was going senile, eh?
Lifejumper
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A bit of non news but: TFA RT score actually increased two years after release from 92% to 93%. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_episode_vii_the_force_awakens
WhiteRabbitEXE
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Luke and Leia's theme is a completely underappreciated theme and I hope it gets more time to shine in TLJ.
cue being really depressed when Luke and Leia get no shared screen-time
Fandango lists The Last Jedi's runtime at 2 hours 30 minutes: https://mobile.fandango.com/star-wa...jid=cj_10504407_2470763_j85sp916rx00ag8y001nr
More Rian Johnson goodness than expected!
More Rian Johnson goodness than expected!
WadiumArcadium
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Picked up Princess of Alderaan and Rebel Rising today. I've got some catching up to do.
Lifejumper
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Can we expect LF to debut the theatrical poster with the final trailer?
Just praying they told Gleeson to dramatically tone down the over the top Hitler impersonation this time around.
I don't think he'll be doing that again.
This is an interesting combination of books. I think you'll find that reading them together will make it seem like a comparative character study - they both take place during similar times in the main characters lives, deal with their first loves, how they came to the rebellion, their adoptive father figures, etc.
Leia and Jyn are really two sides of the same coin. That thought first came to me when I saw that panel in the Rogue One adaptation showing Bail and Saw talking to each other with young Leia and young Jyn by their sides.
No. We need more!
He's totally showing up with a stache this time
TheSecondSpitter
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No it doesn't. It's a stupid retcon designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator of nerd.
What makes more sense is that by RotJ the Rebels were so stretched and desperate for personnel, they need to get people in their 70's to fight on the frontlines.
TomJoadsGhost
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That doesn't make any sense at all, it is the only ground engagement in what the rebellion consider to be their final decisive battle, they manage to summon up hundreds of ships and thousands of people to populate them but they are so desperate for troops to comprise a strike team of about 20-50 people that they just send a random pensioner to make up the numbers?
Whether or not that guy is rex (it obviously wasn't the original intention), he is there because he is a valuable enough soldier to be warrant his inclusion - otherwise why choose him to be the guy to carry out the crazy stormtrooper scheme.
Whether or not that guy is rex (it obviously wasn't the original intention), he is there because he is a valuable enough soldier to be warrant his inclusion - otherwise why choose him to be the guy to carry out the crazy stormtrooper scheme.
Depths of Orion
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What's the consensus on the "Thrawn" book? I have it and just started reading today. Worth the time?