All Things Star Wars

[r16]

better . How many Stardestroyers have you got ?

 

[Kyriakos]

The same amount as you :/

 

[r16]

might not be the answer you think it is .

 

[Gori the Grey]

I'm not looking for an apology from Lucas, r16. I'm just saying that, in retrospect, he probably would have been better served to just laugh and say, "I messed up," than to devise a bunch of convoluted explanations for what Han said.

 

[r16]

the whole expanded universe was convulated explanations . It kept Star Wars alive . It kept it profitable . It is only Disney's fault when they make a Star Wars movie that loses money . Confident that it will happen , too .

 

[Gori the Grey]

Maybe, but I can't think of another case where that was to cover for a verbal mistake.

 

[Patine]

are we really talking about different things here ?

empire Strikes Back . Hyperspace is down . Han goes to Bespin . The story needs Luke to feel the danger they are in . So that he will abandon his training . And will face Vader , very possibly his death . Yoda fears it will not be Luke's death . But like , what chance Luke can have ? In a day's training ? No , it is actually 8 months of training . Very earth style boot-camp at a time hundreds of thousands of Americans remember their own ordeals in Vietnam .

mrs Lucas strikes . What will Organa and Solo will do that in that 8 months , cooped in that tube of a space junk ? This is a time when there is competition between between Luke and Han for the hand of the Princess . 8 months has nothing romantic and whatnot to make the final choice noble and stuff ...

mr Lucas says Einstein . Relativistic speeds . Will be 8 hours on the Millenium Falcon so that they will not kill each other . Also not bored enough to try other things . From later movies and stuff we know you can't track ships in hyperspace . We know Slave One followed Millennium Falcon . Currently said that Boba Fett attached a tracker on the hull . The Episode V was shot scientifically .

thought more about it , deleted the relevant scenes , because there would be no end of arguments . Got his tome . Turns out Calrissian ... Also the maps say there is 1150 lightyears between Hoth and Bespin . You see , you can't have the most isolated hideout in the galaxy within 0.8 lightyears of a gambling casino on an huge gas refinery ...

We're not talking about different things, we're approaching the same issue from different positions. However, the position I take is the same one taken by the vast majority of the fandom of Star Wars, or most other Science Fiction and/or Fantasy properties.

 

[r16]

the like is an accident . Out of such a thing , some forum that had banned me got the option to remove the likes . This is not trolling , it is troublesome when you are watched by quite a few of institutions . Was just scrolling .

so , 1980 also happens to be the year of Star Trek Maps . Where they really sat down to fix things .



two screenshots , couldn't take in one . From such stuff we understand that 1000c was seriously cool but would hamper the nerds . Too many places to visit within 5 years , the duration of the voyage USS Enterprise made . Can't prove the maths but the earlier ship in the Enterprise show apparently wouldn't have made it to one solar system and return in 5 years or whatever .

there is also the TNG version . Made faster but not to the extent of the 1980 thing .

If USS Voyager is out of the Federation zone by 70 years of travel , it would be a distance of 30 000 lightyears . ı think it would be something like 19,5 million lightyears for the 1980s numbers ...

the point is if warp 6 comes out as 765 lightyears per day , the current Hoth-Bespin comes out almost as 36 hours of travel . The fake physics is based on stuff sold on mail order !

 

[Kyriakos]

the like is an accident .

If you press on the like, it will unlike it.

 

[r16]

ah , thanks . Was pressing "you with a thumb up thing" ... It is better this way , with me liking nothing and nobody .

 

[Gorbles]

Hadn't it been for woke and the Disney formula , where some young girl is like expert in 15 seconds flat

What a way to misspell "Luke"

Also it's wild that this is page 300 and we're still on parsecs.

 

[Kyriakos]

You can suggest a new topic ^^

 

[r16]

indeed ... not for the topic , as there would be those who would blame woke for the closure .

indeed for Luke . Any Luke fan who has actually seen Star Wars would support Rey without fail . Who has the Force . No matter her previous missteps and faults might have been . This is the saga of Anakin Skywalker , right ? Rey has won the galactic lottery . There is no need to do anything - though robust training is such a manly joy . Let her us face danger and she will not fall short of Luke in the Death Star trench run . Never . This is Star Wars . This is where a green fool turns out to be the greatest jedi alive and lifts the X-Wing from the swamp .

what do we instead get ? The classic Disney formula . Not the one Google will give you . Some movie ı saw had a 13 or 15 years old girl captain , princess of her darling company owning father , actually captaining a sailing ship in 1800 odd something , daringly moving it while people who have spent 40 years at sea would have already sunk the ship in their cowardice . When do we get that ? At the height of some culture war where the sides shut down dissenting voices in their respective echo chambers . If anyone ever questions Rey the Jedi , it is perhaps on people's own hands . Oh , a strange concept , ı presume ...

cancellation is not the power it is taken to be .

 

[Gorbles]

indeed ... not for the topic , as there would be those who would blame woke for the closure .

indeed for Luke . Any Luke fan who has actually seen Star Wars would support Rey without fail . Who has the Force . No matter her previous missteps and faults might have been . This is the saga of Anakin Skywalker , right ? Rey has won the galactic lottery . There is no need to do anything - though robust training is such a manly joy . Let her us face danger and she will not fall short of Luke in the Death Star trench run . Never . This is Star Wars . This is where a green fool turns out to be the greatest jedi alive and lifts the X-Wing from the swamp .

what do we instead get ? The classic Disney formula . Not the one Google will give you . Some movie ı saw had a 13 or 15 years old girl captain , princess of her darling company owning father , actually captaining a sailing ship in 1800 odd something , daringly moving it while people who have spent 40 years at sea would have already sunk the ship in their cowardice . When do we get that ? At the height of some culture war where the sides shut down dissenting voices in their respective echo chambers . If anyone ever questions Rey the Jedi , it is perhaps on people's own hands . Oh , a strange concept , ı presume ...

cancellation is not the power it is taken to be .

Yes, it's truly unfortunate for Rey that Star Wars has never embodied the concept that "just because somebody in your family has great Force powers, you'll get them too". It definitely wasn't a line Luke spoke to Leia in VI. Nope. Never happened

 

[Gori the Grey]

Also it's wild that this is page 300 and we're still on parsecs.

We've only been talking about parsecs for three of those 300 pages!

 

[r16]

democratization of the Force . The Force for the masses . The Force for the kids who clean the fathier sh_t from the stables . The Force for the Black Man . No Force for the not straight , because in the first place he is better than Luke . Obi Wan should have been Yo Mamaing Tarkin ! They should have f*rted in the general direction of the Death Star in relativistic speeds .

ı wonder why Rey turned out to be Palpatine's . And none of those up above happened ...

you know after all the good work , those who have been conditioned to be contrary will be ready to believe it was on purpose to destroy Darth Vader , his story , his saga , his finding the Light and stuff . The Power of Love , certainly a tired cliche or whatever in these days . And the Emperor , the evil , the bad wins and his line continues and usurps even the Skywalker name . Imagine the good work you people will be doing when it turns somewhat not to be the case .

 

[Patine]

Yes, it's truly unfortunate for Rey that Star Wars has never embodied the concept that "just because somebody in your family has great Force powers, you'll get them too". It definitely wasn't a line Luke spoke to Leia in VI. Nope. Never happened

Of course, the notion of your lineage mixed with your destiny making you special in a fantastic paradigm, is not unique to Star Wars. I mean, Dune, Harry Potter, Starlord from Guardians of the Galaxy, Aragorn from the Lord of the Rings, the Arthurian Cycle, every Mythic Greek Demi-God Hero, and so many other examples. I confess, it is an overplayed trope, and one I think should be moved beyond.

 

[Gorbles]

I was hoping they moved beyond it with Rey, personally. I didn't like the twist in IX.

But to say that it's somehow not in tune with the rest of the franchise? It's the hero's journey! Emphasis on hero!

 

[r16]

bigger better flashier hero .

 

[AdrienIer]

You can suggest a new topic ^^

How about Skeleton Crew, which is the main star wars news currently ?
I didn't have any expectations going into it, and it feels like a show made for 8-to-15-year-olds but in a good way. Many good things in there, but with a strong kid's adventure series vibe. Enough interesting stuff in there to make an adult care.