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The other one was deleted
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Have Mandalorians ever fought for a noble cause? As a whole, I mean, I know there are the good individuals. Mostly from what I've seen its just "muh warrior culture" and fighting for fighting's sake.
>The other one was deleted
It wasn't. It fell off page 10.
>>As a whole,
Not that I know of
There was another new thread that came first, but some autist started posting fat and so it was deleted.
Nigger what the fuck did I miss ?
Your manners.
*you're
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Not as far as we know. In the past, the probably fought for personal conquest and expansion. Now? it's pretty much 'muh warrior culture'/trying to relive the glory days of their ancestors before the Jedi curb-stomped them for their bullshit.
If the Mandalorians were involved with the Rebellion, I think we'd have heard about it. But with the shit going down in the ST, they may have a chance to step up to the plate and fight for a noble cause. Provided the filmmakers decide to use them. Would be kinda nice if Mandalorian supercommandos led the vanguard for the Republic's forces against the first order. Or became the Republic's special forces.
No, that's why all the edgelords love them
Why do people think that the LSG wouldn't let Wendig be the one to introduce Gallius Rax/Snoke, if that theory holds true? It literally does not matter who they have write the introduction and backstory, as long as it gets done and released. Having a personal fan-vendetta against Wendig means nothing to the LSG.
>Why do people think that the LSG wouldn't let Wendig be the one to introduce Gallius Rax/Snoke
Because maybe it doesn't fit with what's been written out for episodes 8 and 9?
Somehow I doubt we're gonna see much of the Mandalorians in the ST, but that would be pretty cool to see. I'd more expect them to be on the First Order's side though, given that they're the ones inciting war by blowing shit up and war is what they're all about, but who knows. I suppose there could be some on either side, like different houses/clans aligning with each faction and fighting one another.
I'm sure, if Rax is Snoke, they would know so when writing Episode 8 and 9.
And how do you know that for a fact? We've seen already that stuff in the new canon has been in the planning stages for years before it actually comes out (Battle of Jakku and Cham's episode in Rebels as prime examples, dating back to 2014 according to Pablo).
What makes you think they haven't already decided on a full backstory for Snoke?
I was also thinking. Snoke has been said to have witnessed the rise and fall of the empire. If LSG have written out stories for Snoke, is that why we have so little content between TPM and AotC and between ESB and RotJ?
Those seem to be "boring times" to a lot of people. There's no full-scale war happening between TPM and AOTC. It would require humanizing more of the Jedi Order and show them slipping to the point they get to in ROTS.
ESB to ROTJ as well. The Vader comic people don't even want to do a sequel of the comic once it's over of Vader between those movies. All we know is that the second Death Star begins to be built, if it's not already, and that the Rebellion is in full chaos. That's not really much to cover a few good stories, imo.
It's also possible that whatever happened between those two movies has no impact on what's coming out in the future, so there's no reason to visit the time periods.
>I'd more expect them to be on the First Order's side though
I don't. The First Order wants to recreate the Empire, or something like it. The Empire subjugated Mandalore. Probably kept them from 'Muh Warrior culture' just as much as Satine regime did. Mandalore is all for waging war. But I think they'd consider who they would fight with over just fighting for the fuck of it. Siding with the FO will lead to shit like how it was with the Empire, or worse. Siding with the Republic at least presents a chance to retain their independence and cultural identity.
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Hopefully next month they'll announce a new mini. I'm surprised they didn't at Celebration or SDCC. Then again maybe Rogue One was supposed to be next.
>(W) Chuck Wendig
Just fucking end me.
At least he hopefully can't mess up an established script.
Welcome to a couple months ago when we already saw that that was announced. Some issues of it have even already come out!
>inb4 he adds a billion hyphens
based Kreel fucking Luke up
Holy fuck I've been in these threads that entire time and I've never even heard of it.
Alright, is it decent?
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Soooooooo, how could we miss this?
No. It's quite poor and skims over the story very fast.
It forces the entire movie into 5 issues. Lots of things have to be skipped over or shown in one small panel to fit everything important into the comic. The art is worse than the writing.
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tl;dr: Authors have no say at all in the cover of their novels. Artists are picked based on how well their art matches the subject matter and tone of a book.
of course it could happen because that may have been the initial intension of Aftermath to eventually reveal that some character in it is actually so super important to the Sequels he is Snoke himself.
Unfortunately such a decision would surely have been made before it was discovered that he's the writing equivalent of fanfic.com, and not the good kind but almost very nearly the Sonic fanfic kind.
>Poor Little White Jedi
Are you under the impression that they hired him without looking into his past books? They knew going into the contract that his writing style would be iffy, and yet they still gave him three books and a 5-issue comic run to write. Probably even more in the future too.
If I'm fully studied in my Sup Forums antics by now, the answer is that anyone actually from reddit is immediately sent back there, so we don't have any spies there. Except you, though, and you should apparently go back there and never return.
>Are you under the impression that they hired him without looking into his past books?
They hired him because his Tumblr SJW fanbase kept nagging until they hired him
Consider that from what we've heard of his hiring process it was his "fandom" on twitter who got him the job. Also consider that his previous books were, as I understand it, young adult.
Yes it is entirely possible that they thought they were hiring someone with a built in market AND that just because his earlier writing was YA he was capable of writing above the YA level.
They didn't see the begging on Twitter and immediately hire him on the spot. They still had to research his style and then hire him based on the begging.
>They still had to research his style and then hire him based on the begging.
No they most certainly didn't. They SHOULD have, but there is certainly nothing that forces them to do due diligence before hiring someone.
I rather be on both sides, making yourself exclusive to just one site can only give you so much.
They should have used the one on the right
Im very disappointed we disnt get any exciting news. The panels from sdcc and celebration were just condensed versions of all the interviews from the last year.
I agree.
upboated XD
>Hondo and Maz
Son of a bitch...
Based on the solicitations, we aren't even seeing anything new until November at the earliest, or some time next year. No point in announcing what won't be seen for a while, since they are just comics at the end of the day, and not a novel or movie.
Just making a joke, but one that some people probably act out seriously.
At least you don't see people freaking out over tumblr filenames so much, but then these days the line is that Sup Forums IS tumblr so...oh who cares, it's a stupid topic anyway.
Thats a really good point. I should have looked at the release schedule more instead of just getting mad.
Shouldn't Kreel be an officer if he's leading an elite commando squad?
While that may be the case, we saw from the season 3 trailer that there are Mandalorians who serve the Empire. At present it's unclear how many, if any, do so willingly, and that could affect whether any of them would support/fight for the FO.
Plus, not all Mandalorians value the same things; there could be a variety of reasons they'd support a group like the FO. Things like money or resources could play into it, but also the fact that they pretty much annihilated the entire Republic fleet, so it's fair to say that despite losing Starkiller Base, they could still be considered the winning side. Some clans or houses might find it wiser to side with them as a result of that, simply for the sake of survival. Others who value that warrior culture much more would probably go with the Resistance and try to protect it.
Im not sure. Lieutenant seems like an appropriate rank for him.
Apparently not.
It's Sheev's Empire, they do what he wants. If some sergeant is told he can pick his assignment they just do it. Vader has absolutely no rank or title in the Empire, beyond arguably Lord for whatever that means in their structure, but he sure as hell can throw his weight around.
>Vader has absolutely no rank or title in the Empire
Vader is more of a political enforcer than a military one. I can see him being the minister of defense or some shit like that
Why is Ashley so perfect?
Vader has command over political and military aspects of the Empire. Scares the absolute shit out of both of them.
Tarkin considered his power derived from politics, given the Emperor is the one personally backing up his authority, but at the same time Vader leads more like a military man than a political one.
She's made out of 10,000 lego bricks.
I know this video is by the king of clickbait, but is this top 10 list of Clone Wars episodes good?
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10. To Catch a Jedi
9. Darkness on Umbara
8. Monster
7. Witches of the Mist
6. Rookies
5. The Ghosts of Mortis
4. Revenge
3. The Wrong Jedi
2. The Lawless
1. Sacrifice
Vader is obviously the religious leader of the Empire like the Pope but for the dark side
I don't know but I want to cuddle with her.
I see. We need to have a book explaining the political and military sides of the Empire. I still don't see where Grand General fits in when there is already Grand Admiral and Tagge seems more like naval officer then someone involved with the army
>is this top 10 list of Clone Wars episodes good?
>The Lawless not number 1
No
If anyone is the pope of the dark side, it's Sheev for sure.
Vader is probably akin to an SS leader that alos gets to push around Wehrmacht Generals all he wants.
The Emperor obviously prefers Vader outside of their usual structure to scare the shit out of people. We've most commonly seen him as a problem solver, sent to Lothal to deal with their rebel problems, sent to the Death Star II to get production back on schedule. Arguably sent to deal with the missing DS plans and later sent to capture Luke for the Empire.
It helps when he wanders about the Empire openly murdering people with magic when they fuck with him.
Task Force 99 is an atypical unit within the Imperial military. They don't act like regular Stormtroopers and obviously aren't bound by the rules against personalization of armor, allowing them to carry gear that fits their unique specializations.
A sergeant is certainly capable as a squad leader, and they seem to feel he's proven himself enough elsewhere. We HAVE seen Stormtrooper commanders (Grand Inky had one with him when he visited Fort Anaxes) but usually it's officers in cloth uniforms like Taskmaster Grint and Commandant Aresko or Supply Mater Lyste. Or, sure, Agent Kallus.
My standard rule of thumb for any Imperial officer who prefers cloth uniforms to armor is that they're all Niedermeyer from Animal House. Arrogant, blustering, convinced they are right, and almost certainly doomed to being fragged by their own troops if they aren't choked out by Vader.
>Those seem to be "boring times" to a lot of people
Fucking how? There are billions of planets out in the galaxy. The Jedi are often used as peace keepers. You could have an entire saga around a Jedi master and his Padawon solving a planetary civil war or sector civil war. Calling it boring is a lack of imagination. Hell, you could have had an entire mini series of Jango bounty hunting and training Clones
Sheev is the Pope of the dark side
Vader is a crusader
>You could have an entire saga around a Jedi master and his Padawon solving a planetary civil war or sector civil war
Literally this
>they could still be considered the winning side.
At the moment, I don't see it that way. Yes, the republic lost it's fleet. though that doesn't necessarily mean they've lost all manner of their defenses. It's fairly likely that they can pool together militias from individual worlds, which could potentially rival or exceed the FO in man power given that we don't know how many of them there are. What I'm trying to get at is that yes, both sides lost their biggest guns (though the FO's was bigger), and now, I think, the field between the two is pretty level. It's going to be an actual war as opposed to the guerrilla shit the Rebellion was pulling with the Empire. Given that, and yes, you make good points on that there probably are some who'd side with the FO, it would still probably be more likely that they'd side with the Republic (mostly).
Though it could be cool if there were some who'd go and side with the FO in spite of the majority allying with the Republic. But I doubt the filmmakers would give us something that potentially awesome.
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He got a lot of respect out of me for schooling the EU/Legends diehards.
Wendig's style of incredibly clipped sentences arguably lends itself better to comic books. The guy practically writes in fragments. Very useful when forced to fit the story onto what dialogue bubbles/boxes you can fit into a panel.
>darth vader was a skeleton the whole time
wtf I hate star wars now
Enjoy.
One mans boredom is another mans comfy. I enjoy politics and I would love a small series focusing on Padme and the corruption spreading in the senate. I get that most people wouldn't enjoy a story like this but I can dream.
Vader is literally a brutalized version of a Jedi in terms of function. He pretty much does the exact same shit they were intended to do, only through any means necessary. The Jedi represented the Republic/Senate, Vader represents the Empire/Sheev.
T-THIS IS A BLUE BOARD user.
People who pop skele-boners make me turn in my grave.
Wasn't Shadows of the Empire between ESB and RotJ? That was fun. Why not do a rerun of that?
I just want Dash back
Dash is back though. Didn't you see the trailer?
Such sweet, ironic, poetry...
Between this and Cleganebowl, I cannot be more hyped for things that are 100% confirmed actually happening.
Yo holy shit this includes all of Vader Down too?
I think I'm going to give away my paperbacks and grab this instead.
I suspect there was indeed going to be a Rogue One mini, which has since been cancelled, because they only mentioned the Catalyst book at Celebration.
So for a little while, we're probably going to have 1 less comic a month than usual.
Well I wouldn't argue that he does what the Jedi were meant to do based on Yoda claiming they had fallen from their path during the war.
Vader's role is very much what he did during the war even though he's not a general anymore. He still leads men into combat when needed and problem solves on his own ass required.
Yoda would argue that leading men into battle isn't what the Jedi do. Qui-Gon on Naboo merely facilitated and was otherwise content to let the Queen and Gungans figure out their own path, which arguably has more meaning than a mystical monk just solving all your problems for you. They needed mutual peace, arrived at by their own wishes on their own terms. Any peace secured by the will of the Jedi would be far more fragile. Also like Obi-Wan's solution to the problem in the Obi-Wan and Anakin comic. He solved it by summoning in the Republic. The Republic will aid both sides and try to get them to agree to something in terms of mutual benefit so they can rejoin the larger galaxy.
I bet those lizard sculptures are actually alive and give the best backrubs at the end of a hard day's art appreciation. Much better than some force resistant stink lizards.
>Pope but for the dark side
>not Sheev "The Senate" Palpatine
...shit.
It's not something I'd really expect to see in the films in any major capacity anyway. But it seems like it would be an interesting idea for some sort of side story, at least.
Not really related but I'm curious to see how many different factions/cultures make up the FO and the Republic at this point. Like, which ones we might be familiar with already, how they're integrated into whichever side they're on, who's fighting who, etc
>The Jedi are often used as peace keepers. You could have an entire saga around a Jedi master and his Padawon solving a planetary civil war or sector civil war.
>This was the majority of the Jedi Apprentice/Jedi Quest novels and as such remain GOAT to this day
>I suspect there was indeed going to be a Rogue One mini, which has since been cancelled, because they only mentioned the Catalyst book at Celebration.
There was, three issues and a one-shot iirc
Plus in a comic you don't have to suffer through herkily jerkily wibbly wobbly