The Mandalorian did this with an AT-ST walker before (and also a TIE Fighter), but it's nice to see this sort of thing again.

By the Force, Abrams is such a fucking hack.

Not every threat should be both over the top and background trivial just because Glup Shitto has a Midi-Chlorian count of over 9000. live-slug-reaction

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Secretly built a fleet of Star Destroyers that can also blow up planets like Death Stars because WHAT ELSE CAN THEY THINK OF?

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      2 months ago

      I have yet to see that one, my interest in the war in our stars kind of died out after the D I S C O U R S E (read:G*mer malding) over TLJ

      • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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        2 months ago

        I hate Star Wars so much, but that's just because I had all these amazing ideas for what they could do with the setting and it's just the same damn thing every time

        God, for being "kid's movies" it's like they never sat down with a kid and actually got some good ideas for it

        I know kid me would have been so disappointed to see the ending of TLJ and been like "I could be a hero too?, and then having the rug pulled out from under me with ROS

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 months ago

          Lucas dismissing them as "kid's movies" always came off as deepling disingenuous. My dude you made a movie about the Weimar Republic falling to fascism where half the scenes are people talking to each other in a giant legislature hall. I know you're a dork but you 100% do not believe it's "Just a kids movie".

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
            hexagon
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            2 months ago

            I think he said that as a "just kidding, unless..." dodge of the dodgier parts of his writing.

        • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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          2 months ago

          You can tell that Phantom Menace is a movie for babies because it has a cartoon rabbit, race cars, and the implication that electoralism ever worked.

        • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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          2 months ago

          From what I gather Disney got pretty scared after TLJ so they nuked it by bringing back Abrams and demanded he make something to make the G*mers happy...but he lost his sauce too and made a big ol' stinky.

          • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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            2 months ago

            Pretty much

            Especially with how you would be going into the movie and get caught completely off guard with the return of Emperor Palpatine

            Unless you'd been playing Fortnite a week before the movie came out and saw the in-game announcement that Emperor Palpatine was back and in charge of The First Order

            • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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              2 months ago

              Unless you'd been playing Fortnite a week before the movie came out and saw the in-game announcement that Emperor Palpatine was back and in charge of The First Order

              Could you just shoot him? Sick of his bullshit.

              • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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                2 months ago

                Nope, they had the Star Destroyer fleet project a giant TV screen where ol' Sheev yelled at everyone

                • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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                  2 months ago

                  Fucking Palpy is so annoying I STG, go get some more work done at the EmpSuRecon center you old fuck https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Emperor_Palpatine_Surgical_Reconstruction_Center

                  • UlyssesT [he/him]
                    hexagon
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                    edit-2
                    2 months ago

                    Palpatine performing Sith alchemy and dark side rituals within the center

                    So that's how, somehow, Palpatine returned. soypoint-1 unlimited-power soypoint-2

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
            hexagon
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            edit-2
            2 months ago

            but he lost his sauce

            He had sauce to begin with? VII was an exhausting retread that was too busy hating the prequels and destroying everything the original trilogy built up to for a boring reset to the status quo.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          2 months ago

          "I could be a hero too?

          Only if you're born special, like in the Harry Potter treats. my-hairdo

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
        hexagon
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        2 months ago

        Anything good that could have happened in TLJ that wasn't reversed by the end of TLJ was then fully reversed in ROS. Yes, everything. Even the "Rey was a nobody and the Force just needed a champion and she was there" thing.