Star Wars Misc. Catch-All

I met him briefly at a con. One of the nicer cranky old dudes.

The Lego Holiday was super fun and surprisingly hilarious.

Sequel-haters probably need not apply.

PaladinTom wrote:

The Lego Holiday was super fun and surprisingly hilarious.

Sequel-haters probably need not apply.

I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. I think the secret to a holiday special is making it lego so it has license to be silly.

Interesting. Star wars twitter:

The party isn’t over, it’s just beginning! Sending a very happy birthday to Samuel L. Jackson.

Is that a hint?

MannishBoy wrote:

Interesting. Star wars twitter:

The party isn’t over, it’s just beginning! Sending a very happy birthday to Samuel L. Jackson.

Is that a hint?

Samuel L Jackson is 72 years old. Seems like a not great age to be filming an action series. Animated show perhaps?

kazooka wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

Interesting. Star wars twitter:

The party isn’t over, it’s just beginning! Sending a very happy birthday to Samuel L. Jackson.

Is that a hint?

Samuel L Jackson is 72 years old. Seems like a not great age to be filming an action series. Animated show perhaps?

Maybe he shows up in Bad Batch?

kazooka wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

Interesting. Star wars twitter:

The party isn’t over, it’s just beginning! Sending a very happy birthday to Samuel L. Jackson.

Is that a hint?

Samuel L Jackson is 72 years old. Seems like a not great age to be filming an action series. Animated show perhaps?

He's filming a Marvel series. Don't see how they couldn't shove some money at him as a old wise Jedi coming out of hiding. If they can make a Yoda fight scene years ago, I think they can combine doubles, Jedi hoodies, etc. to make an occasional fight look serviceable.

Just give him the Old Ben style: minimal movements, maximum effectiveness. No need for him to flip around like Yoda did in the prequels.

It would work thematically as well, given that both the in-world and real-world aging of Windu and Jackson would be the same between prequels and Mandalorian (or whichever) and now.

Stengah wrote:

Just give him the Old Ben style: minimal movements, maximum effectiveness. No need for him to flip around like Yoda did in the prequels.

Agree. I was just saying if they could make a muppet fight, they can make enough stuff happen to make a real person fight seem believable.

Mandalorian talk:

Spoiler:

And unlike Luke, they wouldn't have to de-age. Just replace.

Random thought. I want a Wookiee centric show or movie. If they can make the new Planet of the Apes series with believable emotions from the various mo-capped apes, they can give us a bunch of cool Wookiees doing wookiee stuff. Probably too expensive for TV unless they went animated, but I don't see them doing a subtitled animated show. So likely a movie.

Favereau seems the person to engineer the technical stuff to make it happen with his Jungle Book background.

Or James Cameron, if we can have it 10 years from now.

Working title: Walking Carpet

The more direct comparison is Christopher Lee in episodes 2 and 3

Tanglebones wrote:

The more direct comparison is Christopher Lee in episodes 2 and 3

True.

Tanglebones wrote:

The more direct comparison is Christopher Lee in episodes 2 and 3

Lee was a really athletic dude with a lifetime of training in fencing. I'm not sure I've seen Sam L move faster than a slow jog in any movie he's ever been in.

That said, dude took a pretty big hit from Skywalker and the Emperor, so they don't have to make him the same type of swordsman he was in the prequels/animated series.

Y'all are right, they can make it work, I was just noting that there are some...difficulties.

kazooka wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:

The more direct comparison is Christopher Lee in episodes 2 and 3

Lee was a really athletic dude with a lifetime of training in fencing. I'm not sure I've seen Sam L move faster than a slow jog in any movie he's ever been in.

That said, dude took a pretty big hit from Skywalker and the Emperor, so they don't have to make him the same type of swordsman he was in the prequels/animated series.

Y'all are right, they can make it work, I was just noting that there are some...difficulties.

Lee was such a real world badass... I love seeing anecdotes about him.

manta173 wrote:
kazooka wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:

The more direct comparison is Christopher Lee in episodes 2 and 3

Lee was a really athletic dude with a lifetime of training in fencing. I'm not sure I've seen Sam L move faster than a slow jog in any movie he's ever been in.

That said, dude took a pretty big hit from Skywalker and the Emperor, so they don't have to make him the same type of swordsman he was in the prequels/animated series.

Y'all are right, they can make it work, I was just noting that there are some...difficulties.

Lee was such a real world badass... I love seeing anecdotes about him.

I love the one where he described to Peter Jackson what a real knife wound in the back was like.

PaladinTom wrote:

The Lego Holiday was super fun and surprisingly hilarious.

Sequel-haters probably need not apply.

As someone who didn't much like the sequels, I did enjoy the holiday special.

That's really cool.

Awesome!, except that 1965 for Luke & Leia’s births feels wrong. The graphic should have been calibrated to their ages when Episode IV was filmed (March 1976 - April 1977, with them being born 1951 and 1956) so approximately 1953.

uuuummmmmmm.........

Some ask "Why?" Others, "Why not?"

Yeah, it's pretty dumb, but it does have its moments.

And you have to admire the commitment of those Kiwis.

Some ask, “what?”

BadKen wrote:

And you have to admire the commitment of those Kiwis.

Don't they have something better to do these days? Like humblebragging about having competent leadership during a pandemic?

Squadrons, SW Battlefront 2, and Jedi Fallen Order are on sale as a package in the Xbox marketplace. If you're into those sorts of things.

RawkGWJ wrote:

Some ask, “what?”

Sorry. I was trying to be deep. That's as far as I got.

Speaking of "what", I finished season 3 of the clone wars and I still can't rap my head around "The Nightsisters" 3 episode arc.

Spoiler:

Count Dooku is told his assassin to "too good" and she has to die. So he betrays her and leaves her for dead, not checking to see if this "too good" assassin maybe finds a way to survive. Of course she survives.

She goes back to her home world, talks to her leader, and gets two more sisters and potion of blindness to try to kill Dooku. They fight, and even out numbered and blind, Dooku fights them off. Maybe this assassin isn't "too good" after all?

Immediately after that fight, the leader of the night sisters contacts Dooku and offers him a replacement assassin for the one he just lost. At no point does Dooku think "this is the leader of the person I just betrayed and I was just attacked by 3 mysterious people who blinded me- maybe my old assassin is alive and getting help from her homeworld". Instead he's like "cool, get your strongest dude and bring him to me- this definitely isn't a trap".

So the leader of the nightsisters gathers the 8 strongest male warriors, and is like "you're all going to fight to the death until one of you is alive. Then that one's the strongest and will help me." Thus leaving all the best male warriors on the planet dead except the one she'll send away.

She gets her best male warrior, and sends him to Dooku so he can be trained, become more powerful and then eventually betray him and kill him. Cool.

This guy is sent on one mission, where he kills a handful of clones, two very incompetent Jedi and even some droids that were fighting on his side just for kicks. He "takes over" the building they were guarding by getting to the front door and then leaving.

Then instead of sticking to the plan of letting him become trained and more powerful, the female assassin is told by the leader to attack Dooku- now! She shows up and gets the new male warrior to attack Dooku with her. But then he's like "screw both of you, ya'll treated me like sh*t, I'm out of here".

The "too good" assassin is still to sucky to kill Dooku. Nobody dies, and they all go off to their corners of the universe and nothing is resolved.

The End.

What?

Grenn wrote:
RawkGWJ wrote:

Some ask, “what?”

Sorry. I was trying to be deep. That's as far as I got.

I was trying to be an immature jackass. Apologies from my end too.