Hat Edition
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That's a real poor choice of thumbnail.
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would you prefer this?
sorry you dont have a hat user
The rebels panel is pretty stacked
Nah dude, I was talking about the YouTube image.
The hat's cool.
oic. who was he flipping off
is this really necessary
>You will give the people of the galaxy an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the light, Rey. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders.
Is any of Star Wars?
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First Order Strikes Back leaks from the previous thread:
>Rey begins training with Luke but he's desillusioned with the Jedis and she questions his methods and yadda yadda yadda.
>Snoke finds out where they are and sends Kylo and the Knights of Ren to kill them. Luke takes out the Knights while Rey fights Kylo and ends up capturing him. Luke wants to kill him, Rey doesn't want to, Kylo tries to turn her against Luke, Rey and Kylo begin getting all close and shit.
>Meanwhile Leia is injured in a First Order attack and Laura Dern's character takes over. The Resistance outpost on Crait is vital and Finn ends up there and hooking up with Rose. They meet Del Toro who sells them out to the First Order. Dern is a shitty leader so Poe essentially stages a coup and rallies the Resistance to help out at Crait.
>Del Toro is this Lando-ish intergalactic entrepeneur who rolls around in a massive spaceship that looks like a casino and apparently is doing business with the folks at Crait. Finn and Rose end up running into him but he pulls a Reverse Lando and actually betrays them to the First Order for real. Rose ends up getting captured and is apparently relevant or important enough that Rey and Finn team up to rescue her from Snoke's castle.
>Rey leaves to join the fight after sensing Finn in distress and takes Kylo along with her, but it's all part of keikaku and he escapes. Finn and Rey end up in Snoke's castle while Poe battles Hux and Phasma and those guys over at Crait.
>Snoke reveals his background, whatever it may be, and ditches Kylo for Rey. Luke shows up and saves her, forcing Snoke to ditch for the day. Rey and Luke are on the same page now, but then butthurt Kylo kidnaps Rey so he can force her to help him start his own Force order with hookers and blackjack. Luke reunites with a recovering Leia to join the fight in order to rescue Rey and target the First Order now they've been dealt a solid blow by the loss of the battle at Crait.
>people actually unironically want space Witchers called Bendu
I just want my New Jedi Order God damnit
Am I the only one who was more reminded of The Phantom Menace than of The Empire Strikes Back here? The cliffs, the way the craft hits the ground, the rickety construction of them, the formation they fly in and the dust tracks they leave behind them?
It's going to be very interesting to see how Rian mends the styles of both trilogies, while adding his new visual flair (the LotR-esque Ahch-To shots). Despite how conservative the trailer was, I think the actual movie should be far more inspired than in might seem now.
>Kurt Vonnegut will never write a black comedic version of the Rogue One
Why live?
I was actually hoping for something like this to actually give the character some style and depth that was painfully lacking in the film. It may well not do that, but at least there's a chance
>mfw Reylo is the endgame
The assravaging will be glorious.
did the guy give any source to this stuff?
I am most reminded of Evangelion because of the stark white on red effect. As the crafts hit the ground it looks like blood, a wonderful visual image.
Bigger image.
Has it been commonly accepted that Cad Bane is the best bounty hunter character in the Star Wars setting?
think of the old EU: was it necessary for Boba Fett to get amnesia, escape the sarlacc, team up with Han Solo and get re-eaten by the sarlacc? Then to escaping the sarlacc a 2nd time??
>Knights of Ren are literally a bunch of unimportant jobbers
>who or what is Ren will probably never be explained, or it will be a single line in some random book
That's why most of the fandom wants that new unfinished TCW clip to end with Boba merc'ing Cad Bane and taking the title for himself.
I think "Ren" is just shit Snoke made up to placate Ben.
>yeah, whatever, have a meaningless fancy title and a bunch of disposable mooks to command, have fun
Which would be retarded because I don't think killing the best makes you the best in that profession. Especially since he never lived up to his father's legacy and grew up to be a mediocre Bounty Hunter.
It's also kind of funny because in that clip he goes on about not killing/hurting innocents, yet by the OT era he goes around and does just that without any hesitation or remorse.
>uh, yeah, you guys be the knights of... Ben
>Ben?
>Ren
>the Knights of Ren
>an ancient and storied order of Dark Siders
>do they have badass Darth titles?
>sure. Yes. Yes they do. But backwards, because it's cooler. You shall be... Kyle Ben- Kylo Ren. Yes.
>Okay, I'm done, twelve years later and this fandom is still fucked, time to hide in the woods again
This is what ticks me off the most. We should've just had the Knights of Ren be the villains. No new Empire, the Resistance would just be the lightly armed Republic defense force, maybe there could be more underworld stuff going on. The most interesting group of characters seems to be constantly shoved to the back for no reason.
I hope they confirm the next villain at the Rebels panel today.
>The most interesting group of characters seems to be constantly shoved to the back for no reason
>faceless characters with interesting visual design are given absolutely shit-tier narrative importance and characterization
What else is new for Star Wars?
That was the original plan for TFA, pretty much. The Jedi Killer led a group of space pirates causing havoc and hunting for old Jedi/Sith relics.
They were essentially an advance force puppeteered by the First Order from the shadows, with intention of creating chaos in the New Republic before the real invasion that we'll get in TLJ. Think along the lines of what the Amaxine Warriors eventually turned out to be in the canon.
Trailer reaction videos should be banned.
The First Order should have been introduced as the initial villains and then the Knights of Ren revealed as the true antagonists.
I think it's more interesting to keep them separate. FO as the military Imperial remnant and Knights of Ren being shadowy dark-siders.
I really want to see a fight between Stromtroopers and dudes with red lightsabres.
I would have much preferred we got the solo twins equivalent with Kyra and notKylo going on adventures and running into this Jedi Killer. A one off adventure getting us used to the two main characters exploring the world around them. The Jedi Kiler opening new plots about the force and possibly hidden threats out there, that kind of jazz.
(checked) and yes.
The Jedi are shits, I'm glad they all died.
Is that the 'tell that 2 Kanjiklub' guy?
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>The Jedi are shits
wasn't that kind of the point of the Prequel trilogy? like, they were so far up their own asses that they could be in the same room as the Sith lord they were hunting and not even know. and the Jedi Code forbidding attachments, plus the "six year olds are too old. we indoctrina- I mean train pretty much from birth" thing.
Adventure, excitement, a Jedi craves not these things? Maybe they should live a little, and you wouldn't have guys like Dooku and Anakin being so easily tempted by the Sith. Depending on what the origin story is now, there might not have even been Sith to begin with if the Jedi weren't so rigid in their "behaving like a normal human (or your species here) being is the path to the Dark Side" attitude.
How can anyone prefer ANH 2.0 over what Lucas had in mind?
What kind of a dumbass brings dual handguns as a primary weapon into a military situation instead of a proper rifle or an SMG?
Oh man, the day Sup Forums tried to force that meme was pretty funny
This is what I'm most excited about from this new trailer. It's not just a re-heat of the same old story from the OT: 'we've got to beat the baddies and rebuild the jedi order like it used to be'.
When the title dropped the joke on here was 'oh I guess Return of the Jedi doesn't matter anymore'. But this hint of a new direction away from the old Jedi model is good. We the audience have changed since ROTJ. Back then we just had vague good notions about the jedi. If they came back everything would be alright. But since then we've seen the bumbling, rigidly orthodox organised-religion version of the Jedi in the PT and realised they're not all that, and that Vader is as much a product of their fuck-ups as the emperor's scheming.
So now it's time for something new. And that feels like we're moving on and incorperating the PT into the star wars experience in a meaningful way, and not just ognoring it like JJ wants to.
Unless, of course, Luke is just being depressed and Rey's enthusiasm brings him round to wanting to rebuild the order again. I hope i's not that.
The one who lives the longest, according to current canon.
>and the Jedi Code forbidding attachments, plus the "six year olds are too old. we indoctrina- I mean train pretty much from birth" thing.
That was actually not at fault. Forbidding attachments worked. Anakin not heeding it and the Jedi bending the rules to let him in DESPITE all the bad vibes they got from him was the problem. If Anakin had stayed true to the code and not formed attachments, the Jedi wouldn't have gotten as fucked as they did.
The idea of abolishing the no attachment rule is complete retardation and the Jedi would never last near as long as they did before the rise of the Empire because every individual member would be open to compromise because they would be worrying about one or a few people as opposed to being concerned with the entirety of all life. That's why Anakin failed as a Jedi.
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You know what, Mark put it perfectly.
It's what Carrie would have wanted
>/ss/ is there
It's like a weird hybrid of TPM, and ESB
I don't know how to feel about it honestly, it'll depend how the scene plays out.
If it really is just a ESB """""homage"""""", then fuck it.
Is this image REAL or FAKE?
>Not knowing about Kix
They are probaly making fun of retarded fan theories floating around since before TFA premiere.
I see that people still don't know anything about the Jedi.
They weren't goddamn robots, they fucking want you to feel love and compassion for literally everyone, they just forbid selfish attachment.
>dat promo poster
> /ss/ is next to Ezra
It rhymes.
And yet Luke's academy(legends), which didn't forbid attachments, did much better.
Funny how that works.
For all we know Phasma is an amazing character since she was wasted in TFA. Maybe she's fun?
>tfw you see everyone at celebration get it and you're just watching the live stream in your pajama's
That's a big saber
>And yet Luke's academy(legends), which didn't forbid attachments, did much better.
Don't see how. If I recall correctly, by the time of Cade Skywalker, which was only a couple hundred (or less) years, they were already gone. Whereas the Jedi before the Empire lasted for well over 1000 years.
I'd hardly call that doing better.
Face it, the Jedi Code works. The forbidding attachments rule specifically. The Jedi Order got fucked because their most promising member didn't listen and was being manipulated by the most cunning schemer to ever live.
>SS at the Rebels panel
>next to Ezra
This pleases me.
>Phasma was really underutilized, we know nothing about her
>Alright we'll give her a little standalone comic
>Do we really need *more* Phasma stuff?
The Blood Buccaneer and The Last Clone Trooper. I need more stories with them!!
you're an idiot. user is asking "is this really necessary" because nobody gives a shit about phasma
>mfw the first 4 issues are re-tellings of TFA from her perspective only for the last one to show how she got out of the trash, and it ends with her leaving Starkiller base because we can't spoil le big bad villain Snoke
>le big bad villain Snoke
too bad he's just an old rich aidsy skeleton man. look it up
There were still enough Jedi left to eventually defeat the Sith again. In the new canon, it looks like eveyone but Luke was killed within thirty years.
Which is great. I always hated this "Order 66 killed every jedi... EXCEPT my special snowflake" thing EU authors had. It made Obi Wan's words about the jedi extinction meaningless.
Probably because there's no chance they could ever redeem her character. The character didn't even put up a fight or even resisted to protect the base.
I meant there were enough survivors in the Legacy era. I agree that the old canon introduced too many Order 66 survivors.
>There were still enough Jedi left to eventually defeat the Sith again
Regardless, they were nowhere near what the Order was prior to the Empire's founding. Saying they did better is just outright false.
>Luke reunites with a recovering Leia to join the fight in order to rescue Rey and target the First Order now they've been dealt a solid blow by the loss of the battle at Crait.
pls
if IX is basically "Mark Hamill staring in Space Taken" I'd nut so fucking fast
The new Jedi Order did better only because Luke was in charge. After he died it went to shit quick. Cade would have also died if it wasn't for Luke holding his hand beyond the grave.
When s the rebels panel?
11 AM, right off the bat for the stream if I recall correctly.
When's Battlefront?
>love and compassion for literally everyone
yeah Mace Windu was showing a lot of love and compassion towards Sheev there in Revenge of the Sith.
>he's too dangerous to be kept alive!
"literally everyone" doesn't leave room for exceptions.
BrownRobe status: rekt
Don't know. The rebels panel is the only thing I give a shit about for today's stream.
>Rey and Kylo begin getting all close and shit.
You had me until there.
>I definitely think that Mark’s idea was not terrible at all, but it definitely wouldn’t have served the story well.
What story? What did he mean by this?
Tough. The Jedi must END.
NO. I won't allow this.
>Imperial walkers in the second movie
Goddamnit.
>space Liam Neeson exists
>not in space taken
damn it
Is Star Wars Rebels worth watching?
The closest we got to that was a couple lines of dialogue in The Phantom of Menace.
Is someone going to Shakespeare Rogue One?
>KRENNIC: I bite my thumb at thee!
I guess you could say he was Taken from us too early
Yes.
Yea for the most part
Yes, and even if some episodes are a bit tedious, just lay back and think of Coruscant.
You gonna ask this in the comics board? You think an entire general is going to tell you not to watch it? That it sucks? That we just hang around here to bitch about it?
I'll be honest, I would much prefer Rebels had it just been Vader and Tarkin hunting down Rebels all the time. Like in the book Tarkin.
I never got into it myself
space aladdin pissed me off
Doubtful. I suspect Doescher is just sticking to the main saga.
I think he intends to do the ST, but that likely won't happen at least till episode IX comes out. And even then, there's no guarantee of that. Episode VII didn't really give off any Shakespearean vibes like the Original Six did.
>space aladdin pissed me off
Space Aladin a cute.
I know, I am.
But when I do, you guys yell at me and call me a shitposter, because opinions are not allowed.
He was kind of annoying. I hopped in to watch tarkin and thrawn, and I just couldn't get into it. I don't care if you like it, good for you.
it's just not for me. I respect your opinion
See on how to have an opinion.