If it appeared in a movie, for even one frame, it also has a backstory on Wookieepedia. :)Thanks ya'll! I thought it MIGHT be the DL-44 but also was like "there's no way that's not a completely different blaster in canon".
If it appeared in a movie, for even one frame, it also has a backstory on Wookieepedia. :)Thanks ya'll! I thought it MIGHT be the DL-44 but also was like "there's no way that's not a completely different blaster in canon".
I love this. And I like how they prominently credit the artist. I'm totally down with them staying permanently.
The home page and brand page banners are already up. I ripped them:
And here's the little animation that appears when you go to the brand page:
It's fair to say that there are MANY bad Star Wars opinions out there. We all know this. However, today I might have come across the worst SW take ever -
I love this. And I like how they prominently credit the artist. I'm totally down with them staying permanently.
The home page and brand page banners are already up. I ripped them:
And here's the little animation that appears when you go to the brand page:
They did announce a Kamino Clone trooper for the end of the year and Cad Bane is heavily Rumoured. I'd love a new Clone Wars Maul though!I'm kind of bored of OT stuff, hope we were getting more for TCW Season 7, Mandalorian, and the prequels.
Lol they traced over a Battlefront render rather than use an image from the film for Palpatine.
Because having one colour of plastic is cheaper.
Well, he is the Senate after al.Ian Mcdiarmid is a literal vampire and cannot by photographed by mortal means
It's the only explanation
That's pretty nifty.BBTS Pre-Order up: https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Prod...ium=email&utm_campaign=marketing&utm_content=
Time to make a Death Watch helmet.
That's more then she showed up in ep9
Also LF didn't make the poster. They had an artist make a mural for Celebration Chicago last year:No they didn't, those pictures don't even line up. That shot in the poster is from ROTJ
It's fair to say that there are MANY bad Star Wars opinions out there. We all know this. However, today I might have come across the worst SW take ever -
...they are no longer interested in wars in the stars. Despite its title, The Empire Strikes Back is rarely about the Alliance v the Empire, it's about who is related to whom and who is in love with whom (the two sometimes overlap). It twists the saga from the political to the personal, from space opera to soap opera. Is it possible to say whether the Empire is better or worse off at the end of the film, after all that supposed striking back? Not really. None of that matters, apparently, compared to the booming declaration: "I am your father!"
It's because Solo bombed.Reminder that 2 years later we still have no follow-up or resolution to this - be it a movie, TV show, comic or book
Reminder that 2 years later we still have no follow-up or resolution to this - be it a movie, TV show, comic or book
Kill it with fire!It's fair to say that there are MANY bad Star Wars opinions out there. We all know this. However, today I might have come across the worst SW take ever -
Reminder that 2 years later we still have no follow-up or resolution to this - be it a movie, TV show, comic or book
Yeah, the low persistent background music made me instantly think of Blade Runner.
I love TLJ Hux. I am Era's number one Hux fan and will defend my crown from any challengers, but I think Hux was always a comic relief character, even in TFA. Domnhall Gleeson is so delightfully camp in that scene, rrrrrolling his 'r's and singing out all his vowels (my man is straight up doing vibrato on "bring an eeeend to the Senate"), and the comic timing on that beat before the Stormtroopers all Sieg Heil at the end is so pitch perfect that I can't believe it wasn't done intentionally. JJ and Larry Kasdan hadn't quite worked out who Hux needed to be yet, so he still has a few serious scenes in TFA, but Rian found him and made the character sing.
Hux is the classic conservative failson; everyone around him knows he's riding on his daddy's name and failing his way upwards into inherited power but he's convinced that he's actually working hard to get there. He'll fail over and over and over but it'll always be someone else's fault, and he'll rise through the ranks on the wings of unfounded self-confidence and a kind of slimy unpleasantness that could be mistaken for charisma if you squint. One of the things I really liked about the First Order is that it is such a perfect sendup of modern day US politics and the right-wing grifters who work the system, a group of prize idiots trying to emulate what they consider the golden age (the First Order is to the Empire what the Trump administration is to Reagan's), and Rian Johnson just nailed it so well. People complain about his Hux not being threatening or whatever, and of course they're right, he isn't. He's a huge dweeb who probably wore a suit and carried a briefcase in High School. But he's a dweeb who's in power and has his finger on the big red button all the same. People don't like that because it's not how the Empire's officers were portrayed in the Original Trilogy and they want 'proper' villains, but it's 100% true to the way things actually work in real life.
(See the masturbating Nazi child, aka Ben Shapiro, aka Young Hux in Knives Out for another very subtle example of Rian Johnson's views on conservative politics :P)
One of my many (maaaany) disappointments with TROS is the idea that Hux had to be replaced with a 'real', competent Nazi in the form of General Pryde, because it drops the metaphor entirely. It wastes the perfect chance to actually say something relevant to our current time in favour of utterly subtext-free good guys vs. bad guys. Themes are for dorks. Pryde subs in for Hux and the First Order just kind of disappears from the movie when, again, we know from real life that the idiots in charge don't just go away because they're idiots. You still have to beat them. How cathartic would it have been to watch Hux's metaphorical Trump administration finally come crumbling down? Did we really gain anything from having Pryde take over and mean mug for a couple of scenes and still die pathetically at the end? What a waste. I'll never be happy again.
btw, I think Colin Trevorrow actually understood Hux, or at least stumbled into it accidentally. The "I studied the blade" Jedi-weeb Hux from Duel of the Fates was out of left field but it's such a great idea. It's like Steve Bannon making sure to quote Roman generals in every interview so everyone knows how super smart and profound he definitely is. Having Hux deify Jedi as great warriors while thinking "Yeah, that's what I'm like", while still getting clowned on in every character interaction, would have been an inspired take on the character.
I would've loved Hux as main villain in TROS. I don't think him having comic relief moments in any way undermines his viciousness or competence in causing ills in the world, like you said just look at real life politicians who are regarded as idiots but still wield massive amounts of power in terrible ways. Tilda Swinton talked about the idea of a dictator/clown regarding her approach to Snowpiercer - her character, Mason, was originally written as a kind of mild-mannered male politician until she brought more comedic elements in (timestamped, stop watching at 2:33 if sensitive to Snowpiercer spoilers)
The funny thing is they replaced him with someone "intimidating"... in line with what some people thought Hux was in TFA.What they did with Hux may have been the laziest, most unimaginative thing about TROS and that's saying something
The sequence where they roll through Kylo's ship might be the worst sequence in SW history. The way they just blast their way through the troopers without even looking... no tension, nothing. I don't even understand what that sequence even wasThe funny thing is they replaced him with someone "intimidating"... in line with what some people thought Hux was in TFA.
I just can't appreciate TROS man, seems like such a reactive movie.
What they did with Hux may have been the laziest, most unimaginative thing about TROS and that's saying something
If it appeared in a movie, for even one frame, it also has a backstory on Wookieepedia. :)
Fuck yes. As much as I adore Richard E Grant, that was a stupid, shitty rushed decision.
Also them:
Me:
What do you mean canceled? Care to elaborate?Ah, I see that Jason Ward has been cancelled. I don't know what he's alleged to have done. Probably best not to look into it.
Lot's of 'fuck that guy', 'always a creep' etc on my timeline today. I have not looked into it too much. I first saw it from SteeleWars.
Being a creep. Apparently DM'ing underage girls. At first seemed innocent but then he was being overly nice to them like giving them leaked screens of TROS (the Ben and Rey both with blue sabers against Palpatine is one). Apparently creeping on their Instagram and liking a bunch of pictures. He tried to throw a friend (Corey who has posted a lot of exclusives about the new animated shows) under the bus for that but the friend came out and basically called him out for lying.
Gotcha. Something about that dude always rubbed me the wrong way now that I think on itBeing a creep. Apparently DM'ing underage girls. At first seemed innocent but then he was being overly nice to them like giving them leaked screens of TROS (the Ben and Rey both with blue sabers against Palpatine is one). Apparently creeping on their Instagram and liking a bunch of pictures. He tried to throw a friend (Corey who has posted a lot of exclusives about the new animated shows) under the bus for that but the friend came out and basically called him out for lying.
Bunch of other shit. Honestly you can go to his twitter and look at his replies and piece it together.
Good on people like Corey and Steele for getting out of that friendship.