Star Wars:The Last Jedi (SPOILERS!!!!)

Bah, I was never on board for Boba Fett surviving. But seriously, how can she be a scary Vader-like entity when she's been a chump twice over?

Why, phone? Why do you always post twice?

Those are great.

Hobear wrote:

Those are great.

Brilliant.

bnpederson wrote:
Slumberland wrote:

hey that armor was blaster-proof... maybe she'll be back with a f*cked up eye and an even bigger beef

So a villain shows up once, is defeated with some difficulty and seems to have been killed. Then that same villain shows up again, is much more easily defeated and is again seemingly killed. At this point if Phasma comes back yet again I think she's officially a joke villain.

I think the character's a joke now. She had a book written about her, and she gets nuked pretty quickly.

BadKen wrote:
WolverineJon wrote:

The one instance of bad guy stupidity that I caught live which bugged me was how the First Order didn't even consider the possibility of a ram when they noticed the mostly-evacuated rebel ship firing up its FTL.

My rationalization for that is that is that tactic has probably never been used before against the first order or the Empire, and certainly not by the rebels. They are poor, ships are precious to them, and destroying a cruiser is something they just wouldn't do. Also it's the kind of tactic that only works once, because it will make the enemy more cautious in the future.

Late on this, but remember, the rebels did something similar with the Hammerhead ship in Rogue One. Not going to light speed, but ramming a bigger ship to destroy it.

The guy likes salt.

I have about ten different salts in my pantry right now - I bet he has more.

If you want to know more about Phasma, read the book and comic. It gives you great insight to the character and she is a badass. It is a shame we did not get to see more of that in the movies.

TBH, I never felt that Vader did a lot in the OT to warrant how terrified people were of him. If you read the first run of new canon Vader comics it does an excellent job of displaying that along with the Rogue One shots.

So, enjoy other Star Wars media fro fuller pictures of people, places, and things.

I'm out! (for tonight)

Aetius wrote:

2. The First Order can track us through hyperspace using a previously unknown technology! From only one ship at a time! Or ... you know ... they could have put a beacon on board your ship like they did before. Occam's Razor, people. And why couldn't track them from more than one ship at a time, which would render the entire plan useless?

Well, they did set up the tech in Rogue One.

karmajay wrote:

If you want to know more about Phasma, read the book and comic. It gives you great insight to the character and she is a badass. It is a shame we did not get to see more of that in the movies.

I'm not 100% convinced she's dead yet. She fell into fire last time, and didn't die. And her armor is made from starship hull material, so it's stronger than most Storm Trooper's stuff.

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Just thinking.

Rey is the last living Jedi with a broken lightsaber and all the musty tomes tucked away in the Millennium Falcon. I assume one of those will tell her how to rebuild her lightsaber. If it does I hope she crafts a battle staff, but where is she going to find a second crystal seeing as Jeddah was obliterated in R1.

She also has to fight the Knights of Ren. Given the concept of balance (great darkness and the light rising to meet it) I wonder how they are going to explain Rey rebuilding a Jedi temple and recruiting padawan without a huge timeskip.

karmajay wrote:

TBH, I never felt that Vader did a lot in the OT to warrant how terrified people were of him. If you read the first run of new canon Vader comics it does an excellent job of displaying that along with the Rogue One shots.

This was my point in my earlier post about Star Wars' "gaps".

We see very little of Vader's power until fight with Luke at the end of The Empire Strikes Back. We are told very little about Vader's deeds in A New Hope and Empire. The rest... ? The rest we infer the rest based on John Williams' Vader theme, the costume, the fear he inspires in other, and - crucially, I believe - the Vader stories that we create for ourselves.

Bfgp wrote:

Just thinking.

Rey is the last living Jedi with a broken lightsaber and all the musty tomes tucked away in the Millennium Falcon. I assume one of those will tell her how to rebuild her lightsaber. If it does I hope she crafts a battle staff, but where is she going to find a second crystal seeing as Jeddah was obliterated in R1.

She also has to fight the Knights of Ren. Given the concept of balance (great darkness and the light rising to meet it) I wonder how they are going to explain Rey rebuilding a Jedi temple and recruiting padawan without a huge timeskip.

In the EU, there was nothing special about the crystal used in a lightsaber. What made it special the connection the Force user made with it when finding it. The current canon made it a living crystal farmed from a specific place, but I would be perfectly happy to say that it is just the tradition but that it wasn't necessary. Note that Kyber crystals exist throughout the galaxy.

I find it interesting that people were so against Midichlorians but not living crystals used in the lightsabers.

I really find it strange that people really liked the EU (not a put down) but didn't Han have an evil twin, and inherit a planet? Also they killed Chewie and replaced him with a Jedi Wookie right? Most of that never resonated with me.

There was a book about ZOMBIE STORMTROOPERS.

Zombie. Stormtroopers.

I was generally happy to see Disney nuke the Extended Universe from Orbit by that point, tbh.

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In related news, I've been struggling for the past week to get Knights of the Old Republic to work on my PC but nothing I do seems to fix it's major resolution problems and I am a sad Padwan.

pyxistyx wrote:

In related news, I've been struggling for the past week to get Knights of the Old Republic to work on my PC but nothing I do seems to fix it's major resolution problems and I am a sad Padwan.

There's a mobile version. I spent some time last year playing through the first couple planets on my phone. Was fun

MannishBoy wrote:
BadKen wrote:
WolverineJon wrote:

The one instance of bad guy stupidity that I caught live which bugged me was how the First Order didn't even consider the possibility of a ram when they noticed the mostly-evacuated rebel ship firing up its FTL.

My rationalization for that is that is that tactic has probably never been used before against the first order or the Empire, and certainly not by the rebels. They are poor, ships are precious to them, and destroying a cruiser is something they just wouldn't do. Also it's the kind of tactic that only works once, because it will make the enemy more cautious in the future.

Late on this, but remember, the rebels did something similar with the Hammerhead ship in Rogue One. Not going to light speed, but ramming a bigger ship to destroy it.

Well, the hammerhead cruisers are also specifically designed to do what they did. they are re-purposed tugs that were reinforced to push derelicts around in orbit. I don't know if that's a pre-existing explanation or a post-hoc rational, but i think they showed up in comics prior to rogue one.

Flintheart Glomgold wrote:

I really find it strange that people really liked the EU (not a put down) but didn't Han have an evil twin, and inherit a planet? Also they killed Chewie and replaced him with a Jedi Wookie right? Most of that never resonated with me.

Jedi wookie was around long before Chewie died. Lowbacca first appeared in the YA novels that came out just following Jedi Academy Trilogy that centered in the solo twins in training, and is one of their contemporaries.

Also the Stormtrooper Zombie book is one of the very few i don;t own/havn't read... is it any good, setting aside the ridiculousness of adding the zombie fad to star wars?

Thin_J wrote:
Hobear wrote:

Those are great.

Brilliant.

This pleased me beyond words.

Stele wrote:
pyxistyx wrote:

In related news, I've been struggling for the past week to get Knights of the Old Republic to work on my PC but nothing I do seems to fix it's major resolution problems and I am a sad Padwan.

There's a mobile version. I spent some time last year playing through the first couple planets on my phone. Was fun

yeah I tried it. not for me. I just can't play games on an ipad / phone.

Plus, I really wanted to play it with the 'restored' content patch, which I've not played through before.

pyxistyx wrote:
Stele wrote:
pyxistyx wrote:

In related news, I've been struggling for the past week to get Knights of the Old Republic to work on my PC but nothing I do seems to fix it's major resolution problems and I am a sad Padwan.

There's a mobile version. I spent some time last year playing through the first couple planets on my phone. Was fun

yeah I tried it. not for me. I just can't play games on an ipad / phone.

Plus, I really wanted to play it with the 'restored' content patch, which I've not played through before.

What is in the restored content patch?

pyxistyx wrote:

There was a book about ZOMBIE STORMTROOPERS.

Zombie. Stormtroopers.

I'm not sure if they are the same zombies but zombie troopers showed up in the Clone Wars cartoon so they are canon.

thrawn82 wrote:
pyxistyx wrote:
Stele wrote:
pyxistyx wrote:

In related news, I've been struggling for the past week to get Knights of the Old Republic to work on my PC but nothing I do seems to fix it's major resolution problems and I am a sad Padwan.

There's a mobile version. I spent some time last year playing through the first couple planets on my phone. Was fun

yeah I tried it. not for me. I just can't play games on an ipad / phone.

Plus, I really wanted to play it with the 'restored' content patch, which I've not played through before.

What is in the restored content patch?

KOTOR 2 has the more robust restored content patch but, just from researching, KOTOR 1 has one as well. The description is pretty long and hard to read but it's in this link.

Reaper81 wrote:
Thin_J wrote:
Hobear wrote:

Those are great.

Brilliant.

This pleased me beyond words.

I chuckled at the salt soldier while watching the movie since I did the exact same thing in Bolivia years ago.

Vector wrote:
Reaper81 wrote:
Thin_J wrote:
Hobear wrote:

Those are great.

Brilliant.

This pleased me beyond words.

I chuckled at the salt soldier while watching the movie since I did the exact same thing in Bolivia years ago.

So how many countries have you tasted, and which one is the tastiest?

Thanks for the link of KOTOR, I didn't know that was a thing.

thrawn82 wrote:
Vector wrote:
Reaper81 wrote:
Thin_J wrote:
Hobear wrote:

Those are great.

Brilliant.

This pleased me beyond words.

I chuckled at the salt soldier while watching the movie since I did the exact same thing in Bolivia years ago.

So how many countries have you tasted, and which one is the tastiest?

Thanks for the link of KOTOR, I didn't know that was a thing.

At this point, probably at least six. Bolivia is the saltiest I've had.

If you haven't played the KOTOR 2 restoration patch, it's really worth. Fixes so many problems with the game including the ending and adds in entire new sections of the game that were meant to be there.

That is definitely going on The List

kazar wrote:

In the EU, there was nothing special about the crystal used in a lightsaber. What made it special the connection the Force user made with it when finding it. The current canon made it a living crystal farmed from a specific place, but I would be perfectly happy to say that it is just the tradition but that it wasn't necessary. Note that Kyber crystals exist throughout the galaxy.

Yep. The Clone Wars show is still canon and mentions some non-Jedha places to find kyber crystals.

Gremlin wrote:
kazar wrote:

In the EU, there was nothing special about the crystal used in a lightsaber. What made it special the connection the Force user made with it when finding it. The current canon made it a living crystal farmed from a specific place, but I would be perfectly happy to say that it is just the tradition but that it wasn't necessary. Note that Kyber crystals exist throughout the galaxy.

Yep. The Clone Wars show is still canon and mentions some non-Jedha places to find kyber crystals.

The Ahsoka book as well