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And this exact thing is where you see the Christian influence in Star Wars that most people forget / try and write out in favor of a Taoist / Buddhist interpretation. "Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends." - John 15:13. The idea of...

No, you're not. I always felt the Ewoks were well done and that nobody in that battle really screwed up per se. The Imperials clearly underestimated the Ewoks and the Ewoks had plenty of time to prepare traps designed against the strongest asset the Imperials had, the AT-STs. When you...

Which is why "mind control chip" makes more sense. Because based on the Clone Wars both the movies and TV show, while some Jedi had strained relations with the Clones, others loved their Jedi officers... which makes sense since Jedi were people are all dealt with the Clones differently. But...

. . . Rogue Squadron. He wrote Rogue Squadron and the companion X-Wing series. He also wrote I, Jedi. His only contribution to the NJO series was two early books, Dark Tide I and Dark Tide II. I don't know about first works, but he was a major author in the BattleTech franchise, penning...

I've long been a core audience type for Star Wars, and frankly Andor had no appeal to me at all. This claim that it would appeal to long term fans of the franchise who have been turned off by Disney, as I have with a lot of their recent offerings, doesn't hold water, because Andor suffers from...

I still cannot get over how poorly handled the sequel trilogy was. Like... I could have done a better job managing it as a Producer than Disney did and I have jack shit experience with anything movie production related. How do I know this? Because I would have had step 1 be to chart out the...

. . . So, in other words, what we got anyway?

I regret that I have but one "like" to give this post. This captures so much correct about Star Wars and why I find the Jedi and Force aspects so important to it too. It also explains why there is no such thing as gray Jedi you cannot be both good and evil there is no balancing good and evil...

No it doesn't. It's completely logical when you remember the actual underlying premises of Star Wars especially when you remember that the entire "Bipolar" idea of the Force was a later addition to the lore and that The Dark side was originally meant to be a forceful twisting and corruption of...

Two things on this. The last great Hollywood fencing fight was "The Princess Bride". And while that may seem like I'm joking, I'm not, the duel between the Masked Man and Inigo is actually one of the longest and most complicated stage fights ever put to film, and was mostly done by the actors...

What's happened is that Disney has shifted what those leitmotifs are for. The Imperial March is now much more Vader's theme. Binary Sunset, on the other hand, has gone from being Luke's theme, as it was in the OT, to being the generic "good guy uses the force" theme, which is why it keep...

Going by the EU it wasn't per se the Jedi were wrong, it's that Odan-Urr was an alien for whom he didn't actually understand emotions present in other species, as his species was noted explicitly for having lessened emotions and high level telepathy. He's the one who put together the Jedi Code...

Andor has fundamentally no appeal to me, I don't enjoy deep serious dramas that explore the "human condition", I never have, those types of films/movies/series never have held my attention in large part because, well, I don't need FICTION to explore the human condition, I can read any number of...

See, I'm of the camp that thinks that without the Force, there is no Star Wars. I really don't get the obsession with Force-less Star Wars. Force-less Star Wars is just a two-bit Space Opera with crappy worldbuilding. The Force is fundamental to what makes Star Wars Star Wars and without it...

I mean, you can see what became of most of those characters. A Twi'lek Jedi named Sendak - Likely lost... either that or... see below. His Togruta apprentice Ashla - This is just early draft Ashoka, same race, sex, and role. Even the name is really close. A Han Solo-like smuggler named Cad...

This is, I know, an unpopular opinion, but without the Jedi and Sith, Star Wars isn't Star Wars. One thing most folks don't realize is that Star Wars is, at it's core, a very spiritual setting with a huge focus on morality and faith. When you strip Star Wars of those aspects by stripping the...

To draw this back around, when I heard about the "rock alien" in High Republic my first thought was literally just "so, just ripping off the Horta from Star Trek, huh?" And I'm not even kidding, the Star Trek TOS novels had a reoccurring Horta Ensign (later Lieutenant) who was a shared...

Still not as cool as the original SF misunderstood rock monster:

So, in interest of allowing full discussion of the new movie, we have created a thread specifically for discussing it in depth without regards to spoilers. If you discuss it here, please mark spoilers as spoilers, but for in depth discussion please respect folks who don't want to be spoiled and...

So, looking past Rise of Skywalker for a bit, I had a thought on what should be done with the franchise to help clean things up a bit: A timeskip, and not a small one, like 100 years. Basically reset the galaxy to a clean slate a bit and give the fallout from the trilogy of trilogies time to...