Is it removable?
Very nice. I'll probably pick up the standard edition if I enjoy the game.
-
Here's the whole Black Series wave:
Did we already know offworld Jawas would be in The Mandalorian? That's an interesting canon development.
MR: Well, not giving too much away, but when Yoda shows up in The Last Jedi, I thought it was a great moment. But then when you have him show up again in Knives Out, I thought it was egregious. I'm not going to tell you how to make movies, but it's weird you did that.
RJ: Let me tell you something I've learned, Mike. You have to service the fans
So is it canon that Rey and Ben are force-bonded ... and it was just Snoke that bridged their minds? That's what I'm reading on Wookpedia anyway. I always though that it was Snoke who connected them but it appears their force bond exists outside of that
He began the bond but it continued after his death, which we see in TLJ when Rey closes the door of the Falcon on Kylo despite them not being near each other.
Several decades later, a Force-bond developed between the dark warrior Kylo Ren and the Jakku scavenger Rey. Ren's dark master, Supreme Leader Snoke of the First Order, used his powers to influence Ren and Rey's connection to each other, knowing that his oft-conflicted apprentice could not hide his feelings from Rey. As a result, they were able to communicate across the light-years of the galaxy, unaware that their minds had been bridged by Snoke in an effort to lure Rey into a trap. The connection between Ren and Rey, both of whom possessed raw strength in the Force, was powerful to the extent that they could physically interact with each other despite being in two separate locations. As their bond grew stronger, Rey sensed that her destiny was intertwined with Ren's.
Yes a duel of fatesIt was their fates that they were going to bond, and soon they will have another duel
Who else is looking forward to the 'Journey to IX' books/comics?
Very nice. I'll probably pick up the standard edition if I enjoy the game.
-
Here's the whole Black Series wave:
Nice one!Got a picture of Adam yesterday. He's always fantastic with the fans.
I hope Knives Out was just a ruse to get Chris Evans and Daniel Craig into Star Wars as Jedis.
Get Ana De Armas in the next SW trilogy.
So there seems to be a big anti-RJ bias at TheForce.net forums. Mainly because of how he wrote Rey and her befriending Kylo and his attempt to "humanize" Kylo by showing him to be a victim of Luke's error. They actually think he's a misogynist and is only capable of writing alienated white male protagonists. Do you think there's an undercurrent of misogyny in the Rey/Kylo dynamic?
I feel like this line of criticism leaves out the entire dang ending of the film, where Kylo is pretty throughly humiliated (in a way that frames him more as a villain than a victim) and is outright rejected by Rey, who has just experienced her most empowering moment in terms of saving the Resistance, in addition to Luke solidifying her role as "the last Jedi."
Have the TFN folks brought that up at all?
She wasn't just reacting IMO. Most of what Kylo and Luke did in the film was caused, even on-screen, by Rey to begin with.I think it was a bit messy to have The Last Jedi's story primarily be Kylo Ren and Luke's instead of giving Rey that focus (she does get her own moments, primarily with her coming to terms with her parents, but most of the movie is her reacting to the relationship Kylo and Luke have with each other) so I can see how that might frustrate people. At the same time, I understand wanting to make the most use of Adam Driver as you can as a director lol.
let's be real. those dudes at theforce.net forums are claiming that TLJ is misogynist not because they think it actually is, it's because they didn't like the film. and are using that excuse as a scapegoat criticism.
And the children tooIt's actually not just the dudes, it's the women too. Members and moderation staff
Yeah, I think conceptually it makes a lot of sense. I just think we needed another 10-15 minutes to bake it in and give Rey more motivation to 180, because in the film itself it has always felt way too abrupt to me.it makes sense there's a bit of naivete on her part since she just got exposed to this larger world, after living an incredibly small one on jakku. not to mention the dark side is all about deception and trickery, so that also makes sense she got roped into it all (not to mention kylo as well with snoke bridging their minds or whatever). but after all that, she stood up to kylo after he asked her to join him, and shut the door on his ass in his mind or whatever at the end.
Seeing Rey and Palpatine in the same scene is gonna give me whiplash.
Why do all of these supposed Star Wars fans miss that grace and forgiveness are cornerstone concepts for the Jedi? Luke spent a whole movie trying (and succeeding) to redeem his mass-murdering father who we had previously seen kill his kindly old mentor, among many others.They are pissed that she was written to open up to him at all, let alone turn him .. considering what he did to Han, Finn and her. They also think she's just stupid to act on a force vision. Basically they think RJ just wanted to get them together but didn't do the necessary work to get them there
Seeing Rey and Palpatine in the same scene is gonna give me whiplash.
It is not sexist or misogynistic for a female character to open up or reach out emotionally to a male one.
There's this weird strain of thought (and it's not just re: Star Wars) of thinking feminism means writing women leads like the 'ideal' male leads: unabashedly flawless paragons of virtue, physical champions, who say and do and think and feel all the right things at the right times. They have all the best lines, all the coolest moves, and knock down on anyone and everyone in their way because fuck them. But this is a super limiting way to write women! Writing a female character the same way you would write a male character doesn't make you feminist, it's actually kind of anti-feminist because it's still predicated on this idea of viewing protagonists through the lens of the traditional male stereotype lead.
It's a stupid attempt at a gotcha, as if a female character daring to tap into an emotional side is sexist while missing the whole point about feminism being about an equality of options for how you write female characters. This is what also irked me about James Cameron's argument about how Ripley and Sarah Connor were more feminist than Wonder Woman because they weren't supermodel sexy like Gal Gadot, when the whole point is that women should not have to look or act in one particular way to count as a character!
Why do all of these supposed Star Wars fans miss that grace and forgiveness are cornerstone concepts for the Jedi? Luke spent a whole movie trying (and succeeding) to redeem his mass-murdering father who we had previously seen kill his kindly old mentor, among many others.
Yep, this was heavily debated on GAF, that thread was a fucking mess. This right here, good postIt is not sexist or misogynistic for a female character to open up or reach out emotionally to a male one.
There's this weird strain of thought (and it's not just re: Star Wars) of thinking feminism means writing women leads like the 'ideal' male leads: unabashedly flawless paragons of virtue, physical champions, who say and do and think and feel all the right things at the right times. They have all the best lines, all the coolest moves, and knock down on anyone and everyone in their way because fuck them. But this is a super limiting way to write women! Writing a female character the same way you would write a male character doesn't make you feminist, it's actually kind of anti-feminist because it's still predicated on this idea of viewing protagonists through the lens of the traditional male stereotype lead.
It's a stupid attempt at a gotcha, as if a female character daring to tap into an emotional side is sexist while missing the whole point about feminism being about an equality of options for how you write female characters. This is what also irked me about James Cameron's argument about how Ripley and Sarah Connor were more feminist than Wonder Woman because they weren't supermodel sexy like Gal Gadot, when the whole point is that women should not have to look or act in one particular way to count as a character!
Why do all of these supposed Star Wars fans miss that grace and forgiveness are cornerstone concepts for the Jedi? Luke spent a whole movie trying (and succeeding) to redeem his mass-murdering father who we had previously seen kill his kindly old mentor, among many others.
lol, I think the bolded would have been an easier sell before the prequels revealed that Anakin was a whiny ass brat of a Jedi.They will say Luke was different because Vader is his father and he used to be a noble Jedi. Rey has no connection to Kylo, thus no reason to turn him.... except when she asserts that it could win the day. But they just handwave that aspect of it