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Pretty sure I've dropped this video earlier, but its worth resharing if so. I encourage you to watch when you have the time, but the gist of it is that Star Wars has become modern mythology and like mythology there are a lot of conflicting takes on it. For all of its many, many flaws and...

My problem with all this is that it assumes that Stormtroopers are the majority of the Imperial ground forces. They are not, the Imperial army always gets jobbed but they make up the vast majority of the non-Navy Imperial military, and if you're looking for the SS analogs look no further than...

*sigh* I honestly wish they'd gone for Wraith Squadron. I have too many Rogue Squadron characters I really like and don't trust any Disney Wars hack not to fuck up. The Empire/First Order is incompetent on purpose, the New Republic is incompetent because the writers are.

Disney never invited any of the actual old Star Wars architects into the room when they took over Star Wars. They wanted to reinvent the Star Wars moment from the 70s without grasping with the fact that the cultural zeitgeist was different back then. As such they just aped the big Star Wars...

Making me bawl like a baby does not automatically make something good.

You mean we could have had the Empire of the Hand emerge from wild space to start picking up the shattered pieces of leftover Imperial warlords still holding out against the New Republic? Led by people actually politically loyal tot he concept of the Empire rather than than retarded Sith...

God I love the Empire at War Expanded guys. They've poured more love, focus, and intelligence into three era mods for a decades old game than Disney ever put into the entire franchise.

More or less. It's important to remember that the Republic is old and that in its golden years, it was largely just a Coreward polity. These worlds and systems are millennia old and tapped out their development before Yoda was out of diapers. They pushed the colonization and discovery of the mid...

It's called High Human Culture. I don't remember when it became part of the lore but it's a belief system of racial superiority that places humans at the top and core humans above other humans. It is blatantly sci-fi Nazi stuff and Palpatine used its adherents as his primary underlings to secure...

I thought I'd share some conjecture on the nature of Star Wars in our culture. The guy in the video compares it to a modern day myth where collective mutation and storytelling defines something back upon itself and that Disney may own the rights to profit from Star Wars, but don't really own the...

Having not seen Ashoka I can't comment on his overall performance, but I do think its indicative of the declining quality of actors. We have all these great last performances by the actors of yesteryear right before they die or retire, meanwhile the new generation of actors struggle to...

No. Vader has a soft spot for his personal line troops and a broad tolerance for general competence, but he is absolutely selfish, callous, and ruthless 99% of the time. Combine that with his general distaste for the Empire's political class, of which officers are absolutely a part, and he'll...

I don't mind them doing an Ashoke show, but wasting Heir to the Empire on Filoni's pet OC is going too fucking far! Either adapt it correctly or leave it the fuck alone!

Star Wars is a setting as large as 40k and has ample room for thousands of stories involving pilots, soldiers, bounty hunters, Jedi, secret agents, admirals, and so much more. So long as a few standards are set (like no light speed ramming!) you can write any of a thousands stories that are out...

Look, I don't mind a diversity hire if the diversity hire can perform the bare minimum. That woman was competing with the kid that played Leia for worst actor in the show. Her performance was stilted, flat, and incredibly threadbare. If the dude in prosthetic makeup is emoting better than you...

If they had been packing a proton torpedo rack like a PT boat that would have been different. I'm fine with the heavy beam weapons when they're impractical strategic assets, less so when they casually violate the offense/defense balance of Star Wars. It's rarely consistent, but Star Wars does...

It was very cool but the lack of shields on any of the vessels and the presence of uber beam cannons on a corvette bugs the hell out of me.

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Movies have always sacrificed worldbuilding first to fit in character growth and plot into their limited timeframe. Its just that the Star Wars sequels were just spectacularly bad at using their time. Everything is either padding, fanservice, or spectacle and its honestly impressive how much...

One of the many bits of worldbuilding that's been lost to the Stormtrooper flanderization is that since they're no longer elite shock troopers most writers have erased the existence of the regular Imperial army grunts. The fact that all it would take is one writer showcasing Imperial regulars in...