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Oh I agree it's unlikely, because for any role X and actor Y it's unlikely Y will play X. It's just not about her being israeli.

She has a successful actress career and she had no trouble being cast in Wonder Woman. Pressing X to doubt israelis face any serious issue getting roles in general on that basis tbh. Edit: Natalie Portman is also israeli, pretty sure she's been in Disney movies.

R2 could theoretically be a mass produced model? Honestly kind of wish they'd cut the PT too when they cut Legends from canon.

True, but we only really see that used by the escaping main characters - there's a more common model which is very much more classic TIE in conception which evidently sees a lot more use.

40K is very author dependent I think, but it's definitely very much not Star Wars and isn't really trying to be, I think (except insofar as it's a sci fi universe on the galactic scale). I think the corruption of the Jedi and the Republic isn't really addressed because it was never really...

I'm not really getting into the specifics here, it's about the fundamentals. The First Order is founded by the ousted Imperial elites, and backed by (or at least sold to by) major galactic industries. They also for the majority of their existence held no territory to recruit or draft from, are...

Building or buying droids or clones, yeah.

So I think as it's described cash is not really going to be the limiting factor for the First Order. It's started by essentially a bunch of Imperial Moffs and upper officers who fuck off to the Unknown regions - and as we saw in The Mandalorian this sort of person was rich. Even if Imperial...

This might have made sense, except that IIRC Palpatine is running the First Order too by way of Snoke, and were part of Palpatine's "Contingency." I'd probably feel differently if the First Order felt more differently, but as it is these are both Imperial-successor statesbased out of the...

See, I think an all-clone army would have made more sense for the Empire, thematically, because as far as I can tell we don't have many characters below the Moff level who actually like the Empire, and the Empire doesn't really even try to rule on anything other than fear. So it's army being...

Yeah, I guess? Haven't watched TRoS. The First Order / Final Order division is super dumb, and one of the best changes Templin made in his video was combining them.

Also, Clone Troops would have made a lot more sense for the First Order to use but also for the Empire of the OT in general. Actually, wasn't it canon for a bit that Stormtroopers were Clones, just not Fett clones? That would solve the questions of where the First Order gets its manpower rather...

"Ancient Sith Superfactory" is something they could have done without it being the Star Forge or even a lot like the Star Forge, in the same way that Starkiller base is kinda like the Galaxy Gun but there probably aren't any copyright issues. The Disney Canon also kinda includes Revan already...

Why do nobody put special shields on any other ship? What benefit does the Raddus get out of them? Why didn't they stop the bombing run on the bridge of the Raddus? Like, do you really think that in the writing room "the Raddus has special shields" is something that they decided on ahead of...

Uh, yeah. The explanation for how all that stuff happened *should* be... they can just do that? Small ships hitting critical stuff being able to take out big ships is how the OT just works, it's central to the plot in 2 movies. It doesn't need a special explanation. Star Wars space combat is...

"It was explained in the novelization" is cope tbh. For 95% of people Star Wars is the movies. If it "makes sense" if I stumble across the right forgotten tome in an abandoned subbasement with a sign on the door saying "beware of leopard" then it doesn't make sense.

IMO the standard of quality for franchise fiction is lower than the average of what's read, so even great franchise fiction is typically on par with good original fiction, decent stuff would be considered only okay elsewhere, etc. Although, in fairness, I probably have jade-colored glasses with...

Definitely agree here. A lot of the EU is garbage. IMO people are also tending to get rose-colored glasses with respect to the prequels as well. I'm not sure the prequels are any better than the sequels. Although the prequels did start terribly and end on a more mediocre note, whereas the...

Thinking about this a bit more, I feel like tweaking the whole Starkiller base sequence so that the Rebels *lose* in TFA would potentially have fixed a lot of issues storytelling-wise. Have the plot go something like the rebels are trying to find the location of Starkiller base, (maybe instead...