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Gands wrote:you either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain

/nolansideaofsubtleforeshadowing

Well I was going to make a joke about the OT not being considered art and thus his statement didn't apply, but Gands sort of beat me out of the witty comeback race before I ever entered.

Oh dear, the original cast is in 7. This ought to be good for a laugh.

Yeah, that'll be... awkward. I can't imagine they'll be doing a whole lot aside from setting up the new lot of heroes.

Though I'd like to see Hammil do some actual acting. He was pretty good in Criminal Minds.

Luke Skywalker's Son: "But I was going to Toschi station to pick up some power conv-erk!"

[Luke Skywalker Force Chokes his son, falls to Dark Side, primary plot of the Sequel Trilogy begins]

"Star Wars VII: The SpaceApple Never Falls Far From the GalaxyTree"

Vibro apple

Did you know that eating vibroapples doubles the powers of Force users? I read it in a novel where an ordinary vibroapple farmer finds out he's actually really good at the Force. Through the power of vibroapples he defeats the similarly apple based bad force users.

I kind of want to see novels about the Jedi off-shoot that uses forcefield shields in place of lightsabers from one of the Star Wars RPG books.

I just love the fact that they tossed the EU to give themselves more creative freedom, and then went ahead and repeated what was arguably its biggest mistake by having the Big ThreeTM be around and doing important stuff despite being fucking geriatric.

I know the EU had its low points, but with Han, Luke, and Leia being pushed into the background with Crucible, I actually had hope for some interesting stories. Aside from Rebels, nothing that Disney is doing with the Star Wars brand is sparking my interest.

You might as well get them involved, they're still alive and having a 'passing of the torch' theme can work wonders, if done right.

Which, given it's JJ Abrams and Disney... yeah I dunno.

I know it's a new creative team and all, but Star Wars doesn't have a good track record when it comes to letting those three bow out gracefully. They could do it well but I don't have high hopes.

I think that's what pissed me off the most about the whole Disney deal and the loss of the EU. They had finally done it. The big three were out of the limelight, and the story was going to shift to younger characters like Jaina Solo, Ben Skywalker, and Tahiri Veila who still had legitimate character arcs to fill out. That's something i've been waiting for since the end of the NJO, and right as it happens, the whole thing gets tossed out.

I'm not one of those shrieking lunatics who will swear off Star Wars forever (and then just buy all the new stuff anyways). Rebels looks interesting, I'll definitely go see the new movies when they come out, and the new DICE Battlefront game might be cool, but book wise? I think I'm done with SW.

Well, as one of those shrieking lunatics I was done with SW years ago when Lucas refused to put the original trilogy on the blurays. I haven't felt a compelling reason to give a shit about this franchise for years.

Stofsk wrote:Well, as one of those shrieking lunatics I was done with SW years ago when Lucas refused to put the original trilogy on the blurays. I haven't felt a compelling reason to give a shit about this franchise for years.

I was mostly referring to the people who are so pissed off about the de-canonizing of the EU that they have "sworn off" Star Wars forever, but who will undoubtedly buy every single product Disney shits out.

Loosing interest in SW is something I'm familiar with. After the atrocity against literature that was the Legacy book series, I was about ready to give up on it too, then I started watching TCW and someone recommended Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor to me.

I was mostly referring to the people who are so pissed off about the de-canonizing of the EU that they have "sworn off" Star Wars forever, but who will undoubtedly buy every single product Disney shits out.

sheeple nerds gonna sheep

people buy their warz cuz it's their nerd comfort food

also i hate to say it man but you got invested in the most disposable part of any franchise

i'm sure people into the SW marvel comics felt the same way 40 years ago

you have to go into it knowing you're not that important

Any idea where they are gonna go with 7? The story was wrapped up neatly enough with ROTJ.

Maybe they'll kill them off.

It might be a family sitcom in movie form about exactly how they lived happily hilariously ever after.

If the opening scroll says "STAR WARS is filmed in front of a live studio audience" i'll wet my pants

I first knew Star Wars existed by buying the WEG sourcebook before I knew what roleplaying was... My parents didn't either so I got away with it. I then read the second of the Thrawn trilogy, then the third, finally got the first, then bought a bunch of sourcebooks. For me, the Star Wars I know isn't this Star Wars. But I also haven't bought a single Star Wars product since my ticket to see Revenge of the Sith in the theatre, and literally the only time since then I've done anything with it was dribs and drabs of fanfiction and a couple RPG sets with the old WEG books in my wife's company. I think people like me to some extent have just moved on... So while I don't really care for the new direction, I also don't really care period--more than what's required to write a single paragraph, anyhow.

I think I've mentioned before that I got into Star Wars via the EU, but that's also the exact order I first read the Thrawn trilogy in too.

http://thedissolve.com/news/2218-today- ... antilles-/

we'll never get to yub yub commander

I am disappoint

I can't blame him, considering all he did was sit in that cockpit set, say his lines and get jostled around a little.

Oh and he was in the ROTJ end scene too, I guess.

So unless they were going to have General Wedge Antilles, Galactic Badass play a larger role, I get where the dude is coming from. And I've heard he apparently wasn't a fan of working on SW anyway? That could just be Internet hearsay, though.

RogueIce wrote:And I've heard he apparently wasn't a fan of working on SW anyway? That could just be Internet hearsay, though.

Way I hear it pretty much none of the actors was a fan of working on Star Wars. Lucas has this tendency to treat them like pieces of the set.

holy shit the guy who plays wedge is now one of the cast of New Tricks

mind = blown