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Star Wars |OT2| This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them! [OPEN TROS SPOILERS | TAG MANDO SPOILERS]
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It's tough in prose form to decide how long to go without explaining things. In a movie you can reasonably say "We tell you about the Rebels in the first two minutes, and then 20 minutes later more explanation is provided" but in a book you have no idea how long it takes someone to read, how many breaks they might take, how bored they might get, etc. With a movie you have a captive audience. So I've been trying different things.
SPOILER WATCH ALERTS (heard the below on boxofficeforums)
Carrie Fisher's brothers interview has spoilers in it apparently. Someone said mega spoilers.
Also non movie forums have trolls posting random TROS spoilers
Stay safe all and may the force keep the spoilers away.
Edit: Also the 'leaked images' have been used as youtube thumbnails on videos and fan artists on reddit/other places have been reproducing the image. So just be very careful guys.
I have stopped going on youtube now. Never use other social media stuff bad insta/fb. Doubt insta will have spoilers on it as I just follow friends.
Carrie Fisher's brothers interview has spoilers in it apparently. Someone said mega spoilers.
Also non movie forums have trolls posting random TROS spoilers
Stay safe all and may the force keep the spoilers away.
Edit: Also the 'leaked images' have been used as youtube thumbnails on videos and fan artists on reddit/other places have been reproducing the image. So just be very careful guys.
I have stopped going on youtube now. Never use other social media stuff bad insta/fb. Doubt insta will have spoilers on it as I just follow friends.
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As somebody read up on the more-recent spoilers, uuuuhhh
I mean, if you want to go in completely fresh, maybe don't read the article.
I mean, if you want to go in completely fresh, maybe don't read the article.
Todd seems to mention J.J. being great friends with Carrie as an explanation for that idea... but wasn't J.J. brought to Episode IX after Carrie's death?
Funny enough, I'm on the third draft of a thing that also takes some inspiration from Star Wars...but it's from TPM.
My tastes are very particular!
Master & Apprentice is damn good, I'm 2/3s through it. Reading more about Qui-Gon has been awesome and while we don't get a lot of characterization for him in Episode I, Claudia Gray is able to take that little bit and expanded upon it in some really cool ways.
Todd previously said they also used Leia footage from TLJ for Episode IX but everyone else (JJ, KK, etc.) only ever mentioned footage from TFA not TLJ. Honestly, how reliable is he?
Honestly I'd love a well done SW politics book, so long as it's not trade route disputes
Bloodline is probably the best we've got in the new canon so far.
I got burned hard on Lost Stars, otherwise I would have read that book. Big waste of time, despite some bright moments.
Oh jeez, Lost Stars is one of my favorites 😆And Claudia Gray is probably the best writer the new canon has up to now, although I haven read some others and in way behind on the comics.
I guess you've never been a big fan of expanded universe or expanded media stories.
Wow, I guess I'm not alone in disliking that book after all. :o
I enjoyed some of the world building details. However the love story and young adult components reduced it to tired tropes with dialogue on par with the PT. And no it's not hyperbole, I read part of it out loud to my ex at the time because I couldn't believe how bad it was.. who legit laughed for a few minutes at some of the lines lol
"Let's catch some sky" still makes me cringe
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The one book I was bummed wasn't better was Thrawn.
Timothy Zahn's original trilogy was great but one of the major issues I had with it was that it was almost purely a sci-fi story. It was clear that Zahn didn't really know how to write the mysticism surrounding the Jedi, to the point that he created a narrative reason to remove the Force. So I figured that writing books that only focused on Thrawn, that could be 100% sci-fi since they didn't have Jedi in them, would be great. Not really.
Thrawn ended up being bogged down by a really poor side POV character arc and it never once approached the quality of his previous books. I ended up never even getting the second since I heard nothing but bad things about it.
Timothy Zahn's original trilogy was great but one of the major issues I had with it was that it was almost purely a sci-fi story. It was clear that Zahn didn't really know how to write the mysticism surrounding the Jedi, to the point that he created a narrative reason to remove the Force. So I figured that writing books that only focused on Thrawn, that could be 100% sci-fi since they didn't have Jedi in them, would be great. Not really.
Thrawn ended up being bogged down by a really poor side POV character arc and it never once approached the quality of his previous books. I ended up never even getting the second since I heard nothing but bad things about it.
I still think Alexander Freed is the best author in the new canon. Battlefront 1 was a crazy good surprise. And Alphabet Squadron is next level.
Guitars and pianos confirmed.
Qui-Gon is on that 'I can't believe George Lucas made Jedis into cops for politicians'.
Yes, this book made me care so much more about Qui Gon, and even Obi Wan. And it fits so much better with the rest of the saga.
It actually hits all the points Lucas was trying to make with TPM and the prequels in general. You even get a sneak peek at why Dooku left the order, at the prophecies Qui Gon later becomes obsessed with (and why he became a believer in them) and even touches on the subject of slavery in the Galaxy in a much better way.
This would've made for a better Episode I honestly, in that regard, although it's missing Anakin and everything around his story (who is only about 2 years old during the events of this novel, I think).
Since you were talking about force powers and the like on the last page, it's unfortunate that Kylo didn't use his "force freeze" ability in TLJ; not that there was any moment in particular were it would have made sense, but I would have loved to see more of it.
I finished the 5th season of Clone Wars and thought it was amazing.
Is Rebels worth a watch now?
Is Rebels worth a watch now?
Rebels is certainly not as good as The Clone Wars. The first two seasons are comparable to the first season of The Clone Wars which was by far the worst. The series really starts to get good with the last two or thee episodes of season two. After that it mostly gets better and better with the finale episodes being amazing.
I would say watch Rebels if you liked TCW a lot.
Yeah the first season of Clone Wars was not that good, it's going to be tough then. But I'll give it a try.
I wanted to drop it tbh, but then I read online that it starts to get really good. The show is just much more inclusive which means it doesn't cover some morally grey topics like TCW and the characters aren't as good.
I was actually surprised by how dark CW was. Didn't expect that at all from kid's show.
That's one of the big reasons why I love it so much. Before watching it I kept wondering how someone can make a kids show about war really good without it being dark. Turns out it wasn't really a kids show.
I liked it more than the Clone Wars because I think the quality is a bit more consistent. There's a few dud episodes here and there but when I was watching Clone Wars there were entire arcs that I just didn't enjoy.
Yeah I know and I don't mind it not being hard sci-fi. But with the systems it almost seems like they actually made a mistake. Like they realised later a system is usually named after the sun, not the planet haha.
Man, so two people has cancelled their seats for the big showing at 6 o'clock for The Rise of Skywalker. So I naturally buy one, and now have a ticket at a good time at with a full theater experience. But now I find out I actually did buy a ticket last month for the showing at 3 o'clock but through a different ticketing system duh. This is my theater, I'm on row 6 in the middle. Might still be a bit too close to the screen for me, so might jump on that empty seat at row 12.
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