Joe Johnston had a hand in this design. Wonder how much stuff of his they haven't used yet?
Eli Russell
I wish ILM would make a Coruscant screensaver that randomizes the air traffic and has a day and night cycle...
Gabriel Moore
Any chance the kid of the group is Dash Rendar?
Brody Nelson
Dash Rendar is already in Rebels.
Dylan Reed
Dash Rendar is already in the show tho
Isaiah Harris
Astro mechs are gross
Colton Walker
>Again, he stopped being that person after the first movie, there is no revelation here. The revelation is the development he made was the cause of his death, user. Love was the death of a man who started out a tough smartass. >No. He's written to be a joke. There's other ways of writing internal conflict and not be has ridiculous as Kylo Ren's. But Ren wasn't ridiculous. He had mental issues which justifies his tantrums and rants. That's his character. Yes there are ways to write a conflicted character, but the way Ren was done was great. >He can be angry, but the the entire film works against him and compromises any serviceable qualities of him as a person and an antagonist. How? Just because one character can act like a smartass to his face doesn't mean he can't be a serious threat. Tarkin and Leia treated Vader like a dog, that didn't make Vader less villainous. >characters in TFA were just poor archetypes The OT was nothing but cookie cutter archetypes. That didn't make it less fun. user, I'm not really going to convince you otherwise, but I can't see how these complaints are valid. You're saying "oh Ren is bad because l, eh, I didn't like his tantrums". That's fine, but there's nothing wrong with his tantrums because that's how he was written. He's insane. I feel like you wanted someone like post-ESB Vader probably. But I think the new guy we got is fantastic.
Daniel Davis
Unrelated but I would like to see this toy make a reappearance.
Also fuck JJ for ruining Jurassic Park 3.
Michael Nelson
What is she, /swco/?
Ryan Stewart
Can we not bring old arguments into a new thread? Especially one we're about to get a new episode.
Brody Green
Wow I really like how Catalyst dealt with the end of the Clone Wars on Lokori.
Luis Miller
?????
Ryder Brown
He's blue and has a white uniform user
Jackson Hughes
Galactic civilization has always been about the same for tens of thousands of years, or so we think. They have shown that technology progresses. So what happens that causes galactic civilization to regress? It just can't be the never ending cycle of Sith vs Jedi, Empire vs Republic.
Henry Jones
I only want to defend Ren, user. If people here can defend their villainfus like Grievous, I should be allowed to as well.
Daniel Long
Finally, a new alien waifu. Sick of all these humans pretending to be aliens (muh mandalorians).
Austin Morgan
Yes, the constant piss wars between Sith and Jedi holds the galaxy back. They should be removed, or at the very least the Force, the source of all their autism, should be expunged from the Galaxy.
Hudson Long
Suppression of advances? The powerful keep it to themselves, and leave scraps for the masses.
Luke Martinez
I don't get this meme.
Evan Kelly
People saw the Outrider and assumed Dash Rendar was in Rebels (Filoni confirmed right after the trailer premiered that it wasn't the Outrider, just a similar ship).
Some idiot heard about it, started a thread about Dash Rendar being canon but used a picture of Thrawn because somehow he didn't know that wasn't Dash Rendar.
Jaxon Jones
This is only true in the EU. Technology has advanced in Star Wars in the past 1,000 years. The Outer Rim was the Unknown regions during the Old Republic.
Cameron Morales
That's actually pretty funny.
Josiah Lewis
Dash Rendar may not be canon, but you know who is?
DARTH REVAN IS 100000000% canon now because of toys! He is more canon than all other canon characters combined!
Jaxon Taylor
When will Fordo be recanonized?
Dominic Rogers
Never. We already have enough clones.
David Powell
The same time as ysalamiri
Oliver Bennett
He will appear in season 4 of Rebels as a veteran clone now instructing young stormtrooper cadets.
Or rather... "instructing" young stormtrooper cadets
William Miller
What do you mean "we have enough clones"?
Ethan Harris
Way too late
I don't think we actually have enough lore in nucanon to make that clear, do we?
I would like this very much
Jayden Bailey
I thought that was someone joking. There was a flood of Dash Rendar posting after Celebration.
Thomas Ramirez
Here's something fun to kill the time before the new episode.
This is the letter that George Lucas sent to Mad Magazine after he found out that his own legal department threatened them with a cease and desist for spoiling ESB.
>"Does this mean that I can skip Episode VI?", it reads, which may have been more of a cry for help than they realized.
Colton Carter
Where dis screencap from? Is there more?
Ryan King
Exactly what I said. We have enough. We don't need more clones. We need more memorable droids instead.
Adam Taylor
Goddamn why does Luceno like the word bailiwick so much.
>The lawyer representing Samovar’s mining conglomerate was a woman named Arsha Lome, who was as strikingly beautiful as a holopresence as she was in real life, and whom Tarkin knew from his days as adjutant general to have as sharp a legal mind as he had ever encountered
>She sniffed. “Only if we can return to The Cupola—in exchange for your sudden obtuseness.” Waifu alert waifu alert waifu alert
Luceno seems to be back on his game with Catalyst. Hopefully his next novels are just as good if not better.
I really don't know what to expect from this episode. I like this feel.
Asher James
At first I thought you were talking about JJ Abrahms, I've gotten used to that from /swco/.
On the other hand, Joe did give us The Rocketeer and the most underrated of all the MCU movies.
Jacob Howard
Arsha Lome is going to marry Tarkin and then living with him is going to change her appearance to be more... Willhuff-esque.
Liam Johnson
Quads of truth
Henry Cruz
>My dear Arsha, let me explain a little thing that happens to those who marry into the Tarkin family. We call it... the Tarkining.
David Anderson
Are you seriously telling me that you guys didn't like Tarkin?
Camden Flores
It wasn't bad, but it wasn't Luceno's best work. For whatever reason his pacing was pretty bad and he got a little too self-indulgent with the history lessons.
Jace Nelson
I think the book could've gone through a revision or two to tighten it up. Definitely not awful like some of the other books we've gotten, but yeah, it was a slight letdown since Luceno usually hits it out of the park.
Adrian Hernandez
So hooded figure with royal guards confirmed
>not snoke >not ian
Please tell me some fucker at disney didnt assume ian was a prequel casting choice and they got someone new for sheev
Dominic Gonzalez
I thought it was easily 9/10. Especially the history lessons. People hated it but it really builds up the lore around ancient Star Wars
Wyatt Evans
I hope sheev dissolved the imperial senate via chain lightning in the donut platforms room
Dominic Green
The history lessons in and of themselves weren't bad, it was just their placement and their tendency to go on too long. They were a big part of the reason the pacing was so awkward, since every time the main story starts building momentum, Luceno takes a break to give us the history of Eriadu or a prolonged flashback to Tarkin's youth.
Isaac Gray
I could have swore Ian Mcdiarmid died, but he's alive still
Is this some mandela effect shit?
Ryan Ramirez
Someone play battlefront with me
Im a qt rodian twink ;)
Adrian Robinson
You're probably mixing him up with his TCW voice actor Ian Abercrombie, who did die.
Jackson Reyes
>both named ian and played sheev
I guess that makes sense
Alexander Cooper
Unfortunately Tim Curry could not pull off Sheev.
Brayden Hughes
I think he did a great Sidious. His regular Palpatine was terrible, though.
Caleb Barnes
Yes yes, introducing her to his Carrion Spike. We've all heard the stories.
Elijah Wilson
Agreed but 50% is still an F.
Ethan Bell
If they ever bring him back for post-prequel stuff he'd only be using the Sidious voice anyway. I'd rather have him than Witwer's accurate but completely soulless impression of McDiarmid.
Cooper Bailey
ouch
Thomas Cox
Same. Ideally we'd have McDiarmid back and it's amazing that he hasn't played Palpatine since 2005 (outside of an Angry Bird commercial) despite being very vocal about wanting to play him again.
Still, if we can't have McDiarmid I'll take Curry.
Zachary Fisher
You think THAT'S an ouch?
I'm a Rocky Horror fag. At the point in the movie when you see Tim Curry floating dead in the pool, the audience yells, "stroak! stroak! stroak!"
Yknow, cuz he had a stroak...
...Wrong fandom?
Jace Harris
This is brilliant, I hope somebody does this eventually
Jonathan Johnson
nobody is talking about the big casting news?
For Han Solo trilogy.
Josiah Cook
>I'd rather have him than Witwer's accurate but completely soulless impression of McDiarmid. I've been struggling for a way to describe why his Sheev doesn't sit well with me and this is pretty much it. It sounds exactly like ROTJ Sheev but it just feels so hollow. I'd rather have the other guys who didn't sound identical to Ian McDiarmid but at least they felt like they inhabited the role.
Thomas Bailey
Box office bomb confirmed!
Angel Mitchell
*groan*
Fuck game of thrones.
Gavin Garcia
It came up last thread, but without knowing what character she's playing or anything beyond "Emilia Clarke is in it guys!" there's nothing to discuss.
John Perry
Ouch
Nathan White
OBESE B E S E
Brandon Powell
So you think she'll be a Hutt?
Cooper Rivera
The baldie will die/disappear, but we will see the others later.
Noah Diaz
I think we're approaching that time. I will begin the summoning ritual.
0:33 Fucking based ARC-130 made from a box of scraps.
Zachary Reyes
Oh shit, you're right.
I didn't think they'd actually be in the movie, and even if they were, I would never have imagined Disney letting that piece of info slip out like this.
Well, given the timeframe it's not a HUGE surprise that they're in it, though I expect them to not have huge roles. They may just be there in crowd shots and such as easter eggs (especially since the Porkins dude doesn't even have the right facial hair)
Julian Lopez
Wow, those are DEFINITELY Biggs and Porkins helmets. Based Gareth.