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It could have also been good if they had done a Old Republic trilogy. Like Mando wars and all that stuff
This would be awesome, and where I hoped they would go with the new trilogy when it was announced. It would be what The Hobbit is to LOTR, what the Horus Heresy is to 40k. A whole mytho-history to explore. I want Mandalorian Wars, I want Revan and Malak, I want armies of Jedi and Sith destroying entire planets with the force... instead, we get what I am expecting to be Harry Potter with Lightsabers...
-Shrike- wrote: IIRC, there are 8 films. Let's not forget the FUN that was The Clone Wars, as we watched monstrous caricatures of awful prequel trilogy characters waltz around the galaxy, saving Jabba the Hutt's son!
10. You forgot the Ewok films.
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-Shrike- wrote: IIRC, there are 8 films. Let's not forget the FUN that was The Clone Wars, as we watched monstrous caricatures of awful prequel trilogy characters waltz around the galaxy, saving Jabba the Hutt's son!
10. You forgot the Ewok films.
I tried to forget.
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-Shrike- wrote: IIRC, there are 8 films. Let's not forget the FUN that was The Clone Wars, as we watched monstrous caricatures of awful prequel trilogy characters waltz around the galaxy, saving Jabba the Hutt's son!
10. You forgot the Ewok films.
I tried to forget.
If I have to remember, we all have to remember.
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2014/04/23 20:28:10
Subject: Re:Good News About The New Star Wars Films
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2014/04/23 20:32:31
Subject: Re:Good News About The New Star Wars Films
Jihadin wrote: 1lbs shy of 9lbs of squeezing the trigger on you Plat....1lbs...then I burned multiple effigy of Ewoks instead
Hey, we haven't had another Star Wars Christmas Special. Know why?
Because no one will let us forget it exists. I'm providing an important service to society.
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2014/04/23 20:38:39
Subject: Re:Good News About The New Star Wars Films
Should have done Black Hole II..but they had to go with Ewoks.....Imperial did a piss poor job on eradicating those fuzzy wuzzy....
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You see, I'm not too uptight about them dropping the EU. As long as they do what they do with the Marvel films and take the best bits out of it and put them on film.
For example, I don't particularly need a film retelling the exact plotline of The Thrawn Trilogy with him planning to conquer the galaxy using the Joruus C Baoth clone and ysalamiri from the planet Myrkkr.
However, I'd be ecstatic about a film with Grand Admiral Thrawn being his space Sherlock Holmes, art studying, Nogri bodyguarded awesome self, with the noble Captain Pallaeon at his side. Having The Emperor's Hand Mara Jade hunting down Luke (and eventually falling in love with him etc) would be awesome as well.
And I'd definitely want 'but it was all so... artistically done...'
However, I don't need the exact plotline.
Yeah, I may be a bit of a Thrawn fanboy...
2014/04/23 20:50:15
Subject: Re:Good News About The New Star Wars Films
By the way, with the news that Mark, Carrie and Harrison are back on board, what about Billy D?
Spoiler:
He was happy to reprise his role for the LEGO movie.
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-Shrike- wrote: IIRC, there are 8 films. Let's not forget the FUN that was The Clone Wars, as we watched monstrous caricatures of awful prequel trilogy characters waltz around the galaxy, saving Jabba the Hutt's son!
10. You forgot the Ewok films.
Huzzah!
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2014/04/23 21:35:00
Subject: Re:Good News About The New Star Wars Films
Sturmtruppen wrote: By the way, with the news that Mark, Carrie and Harrison are back on board, what about Billy D?
Unavailable, I'm afraid. But there is another-
Spoiler:
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Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
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2014/04/23 21:48:51
Subject: Re:Good News About The New Star Wars Films
Kronk....I love you like the Rockstar you are of the Golden Shower.
So instead of a blunt rusted spoon to remove your heart.....I will go ahead and polish it up to "Level 2 Semi Polish Tarnished Rusted Spoon"
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2014/04/25 13:59:46
Subject: Re:Good News About The New Star Wars Films
Actually, by ignoring the EU, this means we might get to see something that I was hoping there'd be more of in the EU, but there isn't as much. It's something that harkens to certain elements of Revenge of the Sith (hiss, heresy!) in that RotS showed us things the Republic has that hinted at being predecessors to what we'd see on either side of the conflict in the original trilogy, e.g. the ARC-170s and X-wings, the V-wings and Jedi Starfighters preceding TIE Fighters, and the helmets of the clone pilots were specifically designed to be halfway between Imperial and Rebel pilot helmets. So something which I'd like to see is this coming full-circle: the New Republic acquiring and using Imperial assets. So we see Stormtroopers and Star Destroyers fighting for the New Republic, TIE Fighters fighting alongside X-Wings, etc. or merging technologies to get the best of both worlds.
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2014/04/25 18:14:45
Subject: Re:Good News About The New Star Wars Films
For over 35 years, the Expanded Universe has enriched the Star Wars experience for fans seeking to continue the adventure beyond what is seen on the screen. When he created Star Wars, George Lucas built a universe that sparked the imagination, and inspired others to create. He opened up that universe to be a creative space for other people to tell their own tales. This became the Expanded Universe, or EU, of comics, novels, videogames, and more.
While Lucasfilm always strived to keep the stories created for the EU consistent with our film and television content as well as internally consistent, Lucas always made it clear that he was not beholden to the EU. He set the films he created as the canon. This includes the six Star Wars episodes, and the many hours of content he developed and produced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. These stories are the immovable objects of Star Wars history, the characters and events to which all other tales must align.
Now, with an exciting future filled with new cinematic installments of Star Wars, all aspects of Star Wars storytelling moving forward will be connected. Under Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy's direction, the company for the first time ever has formed a story group to oversee and coordinate all Star Wars creative development.
"We have an unprecedented slate of new Star Wars entertainment on the horizon," said Kennedy. "We're set to bring Star Wars back to the big screen, and continue the adventure through games, books, comics, and new formats that are just emerging. This future of interconnected storytelling will allow fans to explore this galaxy in deeper ways than ever before."
In order to give maximum creative freedom to the filmmakers and also preserve an element of surprise and discovery for the audience, Star Wars Episodes VII-IX will not tell the same story told in the post-Return of the Jedi Expanded Universe. While the universe that readers knew is changing, it is not being discarded. Creators of new Star Wars entertainment have full access to the rich content of the Expanded Universe. For example, elements of the EU are included in Star Wars Rebels. The Inquisitor, the Imperial Security Bureau, and Sienar Fleet Systems are story elements in the new animated series, and all these ideas find their origins in roleplaying game material published in the 1980s.
Demand for past tales of the Expanded Universe will keep them in print, presented under the new Legends banner.
On the screen, the first new canon to appear will be Star Wars Rebels. In print, the first new books to come from this creative collaboration include novels from Del Rey Books. First to be announced, John Jackson Miller is writing a novel that precedes the events of Star Wars Rebels and offers insight into a key character's backstory, with input directly from executive producers Dave Filoni, Simon Kinberg, and Greg Weisman.
And this is just the beginning of a creatively aligned program of Star Wars storytelling created by the collaboration of incredibly talented people united by their love of that galaxy far, far away....
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2014/04/25 20:25:53
Subject: Re:Good News About The New Star Wars Films
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Sturmtruppen wrote: Actually, by ignoring the EU, this means we might get to see something that I was hoping there'd be more of in the EU, but there isn't as much. It's something that harkens to certain elements of Revenge of the Sith (hiss, heresy!) in that RotS showed us things the Republic has that hinted at being predecessors to what we'd see on either side of the conflict in the original trilogy, e.g. the ARC-170s and X-wings, the V-wings and Jedi Starfighters preceding TIE Fighters, and the helmets of the clone pilots were specifically designed to be halfway between Imperial and Rebel pilot helmets. So something which I'd like to see is this coming full-circle: the New Republic acquiring and using Imperial assets. So we see Stormtroopers and Star Destroyers fighting for the New Republic, TIE Fighters fighting alongside X-Wings, etc. or merging technologies to get the best of both worlds.
I doubt we'd see Stormtroopers proper fighting for the New Republic, but we definitely might see the use of Imperial Equipment.
IIRC from my limited Star Wars knowledge, the X-wing is superior to the TIE fighter in every way. Having both more onboard firepower and the ability to operate without a carrier.
My guess is we'd see the Republic using repainted Star Destroyers and other Imperial vessels, but continuing to the use B, X, and Y-wing fighter craft. Along with possibly some of the higher end TIE weapons. Imperial ships would get reclassified to distance themselves from the negative connotations of the names. Star Destroyer would have negative PR problems.
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Grey Templar wrote: IIRC from my limited Star Wars knowledge, the X-wing is superior to the TIE fighter in every way. Having both more onboard firepower and the ability to operate without a carrier.
In a one on one situation sure, but there is no one on one with a TIE fighter; it is four against one, or more. They are cheaper, quicker to replace, and pack a lot of punch for their size.
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I doubt we'd see Stormtroopers proper fighting for the New Republic, but we definitely might see the use of Imperial Equipment.
Nah, for Stormtroopers for the good guys, you need to hit the Legacy period, over 100 years in the Star Wars future. Then you also get "grey" jedi, and a Death-stick smoking Skywalker, who still has R2-D2.
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Although they look awesome. And they're still better than the Jedi of the prequels.
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Ahtman wrote: Depends on if you believe Stormtroopers are clones or guys in armor, I suppose.
"Grey Jedi" are a terrible idea.
Aren't Stormtroopers supposed to be both? That is, the first cadres were made up of clones, but the Empire later began recruiting non-clones into the Stormtrooper ranks. None of the officers we see in the films are clones from A New Hope on, and it seems somewhat unlikely that the Empire would have completely separate recruiting paths for Stormtroopers and officers, especially considering almost all of the pilots and other officers during the Clone Wars era were clones.
Ahtman wrote: Depends on if you believe Stormtroopers are clones or guys in armor, I suppose.
"Grey Jedi" are a terrible idea.
Aren't Stormtroopers supposed to be both? That is, the first cadres were made up of clones, but the Empire later began recruiting non-clones into the Stormtrooper ranks. None of the officers we see in the films are clones from A New Hope on, and it seems somewhat unlikely that the Empire would have completely separate recruiting paths for Stormtroopers and officers, especially considering almost all of the pilots and other officers during the Clone Wars era were clones.
Wasn't Han Solo a Stormtrooper in training at some point?
Ahtman wrote: Depends on if you believe Stormtroopers are clones or guys in armor, I suppose.
"Grey Jedi" are a terrible idea.
Aren't Stormtroopers supposed to be both? That is, the first cadres were made up of clones, but the Empire later began recruiting non-clones into the Stormtrooper ranks. None of the officers we see in the films are clones from A New Hope on, and it seems somewhat unlikely that the Empire would have completely separate recruiting paths for Stormtroopers and officers, especially considering almost all of the pilots and other officers during the Clone Wars era were clones.
Wasn't Han Solo a Stormtrooper in training at some point?
Yeah, I thought I had heard something in the past about how he looked "natural" in his trooper armor.
Wasn't it something about transporting Chewbacca as a prisoner/slave that made him change his mind so he rescued him and that's how Chewy owes him a life debt?
Ahtman wrote: Depends on if you believe Stormtroopers are clones or guys in armor, I suppose.
"Grey Jedi" are a terrible idea.
Aren't Stormtroopers supposed to be both? That is, the first cadres were made up of clones, but the Empire later began recruiting non-clones into the Stormtrooper ranks. None of the officers we see in the films are clones from A New Hope on, and it seems somewhat unlikely that the Empire would have completely separate recruiting paths for Stormtroopers and officers, especially considering almost all of the pilots and other officers during the Clone Wars era were clones.
Wasn't Han Solo a Stormtrooper in training at some point?
Navy Officer actually.
But don't Imperial Navy officers lead Stormtrooper units?
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d-usa wrote: Yeah, I thought I had heard something in the past about how he looked "natural" in his trooper armor.
Wasn't it something about transporting Chewbacca as a prisoner/slave that made him change his mind so he rescued him and that's how Chewy owes him a life debt?
I don't know the exact details, but yes. I believe he was a low-level Imperial Navy officer when he helped Chewie escape.
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d-usa wrote:Yeah, I thought I had heard something in the past about how he looked "natural" in his trooper armor.
Wasn't it something about transporting Chewbacca as a prisoner/slave that made him change his mind so he rescued him and that's how Chewy owes him a life debt?
Depends on which you read. The more recent version(from the Han Solo trilogy which is not a bad trilogy) is that Chewbacca was part of a slave detail on Coruscant that Han was in charge of during his Academy years, and that Han stepped in and was insubordinate to a superior officer because he "recognized when a Wookiee was about to go into a frenzy and didn't want to see a Wookiee get killed".
Hordini wrote:
But don't Imperial Navy officers lead Stormtrooper units?
Again it depends on what you read. In some stuff, Navy officers lead Stormtrooper units regularly while in other stuff the Navy officers only are in charge when it's shipboard actions or near naval installations. Otherwise they are led by Imperial Army officers wearing Stormtrooper armor.