• Lightsaber Helicopters
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I've always thought all of the animated Star Wars stuff was silly, tbh.
[QUOTE=Robman8908;52169110]I've always thought all of the animated Star Wars stuff was silly, tbh.[/QUOTE] yeah especially phantom menace
[QUOTE=RG4ORDR;52168670]It's highly implied in the show that anyone in the Phoenix Cell don't kill their enemies. As weird as it sounds prior to season 3 there were a lot of times we saw the storm troopers get shot by Kanan,Hera, and Sabine. But if you take a look you see them either breathing or moving around, so logically it means Sabines blasters aren't exactly at the tops of what they can be. We still see them get taken by explosions or destroying tie fighters but youre not explicitly seeing them shooting to kill. Granted season 3 seems to have done away with it for the most part where if the stormies are shot they either die or their armor actually works and saves them.[/QUOTE] It is canon that Stormtrooper armour can dissipate blaster shots. There was the scene in the Pilot episode where Kanan tossed a thermal detonator at a Scout Trooper who caught it and then promptly exploded. Plus whenever they destroy a Starship they are clearly killing a lot of imperials.
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;52167699][media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afOLSCZMTCc&t=78s[/media] [/QUOTE] The thing that boggles my brain the most about this is that the imperial guy is wearing [i]glasses[/i]. In the super space future where theres cyborg prosthetics, robots, AI's, space travel, faster-than-light travel, light sabers, and the ability to clone perfect soldiers, this dood is [i]still[/i] wearing glasses. He's affiliated with the most powerful government in the galaxy and they still let him wear glasses. Not some futuristic computer laced glasses, just plastic framed glass lenses. [editline]30th April 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Lord of Boxes;52165520][video]https://youtu.be/5sOvNYYH6Cs[/video] :hammered:[/QUOTE] Is that Darth Maul in there? Did Disney just drag the 2 halves of his corpse out of that Nabooean drainage pipe and toss him into the show somehow? God damn Star Wars EU is so fucking stupid.
[QUOTE=Cyke Lon bee;52169315]The thing that boggles my brain the most about this is that the imperial guy is wearing [i]glasses[/i]. In the super space future where theres cyborg prosthetics, robots, AI's, space travel, faster-than-light travel, light sabers, and the ability to clone perfect soldiers, this dood is [i]still[/i] wearing glasses. He's affiliated with the most powerful government in the galaxy and they still let him wear glasses. Not some futuristic computer laced glasses, just plastic framed glass lenses. [editline]30th April 2017[/editline] Is that Darth Maul in there? Did Disney just drag the 2 halves of his corpse out of that Nabooean drainage pipe and toss him into the show somehow? God damn Star Wars EU is so fucking stupid.[/QUOTE] i think he got turned into a spider made out of garbage
He was dragged out of the pit in Clone Wars, his brother Savage Opress revived him and gave him a new pair of legs. He became leader of Mandalore by force, and was last seen in that series fighting some dude in a bath robe. [video=youtube;-7hBZNsPnyg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7hBZNsPnyg[/video]
[QUOTE=Cyke Lon bee;52169315]The thing that boggles my brain the most about this is that the imperial guy is wearing [i]glasses[/i]. In the super space future where theres cyborg prosthetics, robots, AI's, space travel, faster-than-light travel, light sabers, and the ability to clone perfect soldiers, this dood is [i]still[/i] wearing glasses. He's affiliated with the most powerful government in the galaxy and they still let him wear glasses. Not some futuristic computer laced glasses, just plastic framed glass lenses.[/quote] Maybe he is allergic to what ever medicine they use prevent the body from rejecting the implants? He isn't the only character to use eye glasses in the franchise. [QUOTE=Cyke Lon bee;52169315] Is that Darth Maul in there? Did Disney just drag the 2 halves of his corpse out of that Nabooean drainage pipe and toss him into the show somehow? God damn Star Wars EU is so fucking stupid.[/QUOTE] It wasn't Disney, it was George Lucas' idea, he appeared back in 2011 on Clone Wars.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;52169363]Maybe he is allergic to what ever medicine they use prevent the body from rejecting the implants? He isn't the only character to use eye glasses in the franchise.[/quote] Again, you mean to tell me in the immense Star Wars universe, theres not a drug they can give a guy he's not allergic to? You mean to tell me allergies are still a thing? They have [i]perfect[/i] cybernetic prosthetics that seamlessly meld to your skin to where you can't even tell you have one, but this dood is relegated to glasses... Do you recall any characters from the original movies, or even the prequels, that normal frame eyeglasses? I sure as shit can't. [QUOTE=Tuskin;52169363] Not the EU, this is all canon. Why is it I never see you post anything positive? Every time we end up posting in the same thread it is always negative or complaining or something.[/QUOTE] Because I'm not going to clog a thread up with "Wow! Great job!" crap like that. The current canon is probably as bad or worse as some of the old EU crap. [editline]30th April 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Tuskin;52169363] It wasn't Disney, it was George Lucas' idea, he appeared back in 2011 on Clone Wars.[/QUOTE] Granted it's not unlike Lucas to do something like that, I doubt he wrote the storyboard for dredging up someone who was clearly killed for a creatively bankrupt series.
Another thing that bothers me is the babyfaces in rebels. Anakin is older on the right.. [T]https://hostr.co/file/lL1B9uJ0va0t/cwani.PNG[/T]vs[T]https://hostr.co/file/TaAJ8mkNB0Q1/rebelsani.PNG[/T]
[QUOTE=Cyke Lon bee;52169418] Granted it's not unlike Lucas to do something like that, I doubt he wrote the storyboard.[/QUOTE] Well you are right. He told the Clone Wars staff to bring back Maul and left (most of) the details to them. He still approved what they showed him and he contributed his own ideas (like the very very stupid Spider design in his first episode). He was also personally funding the series. He was giving them more money then they were actually making because he liked it. There are no official numbers on episode budget but some estimates put it around 1 Million per episode starting around season 3 (the increase is the reason they made new character models). While Rebels' Budget is a lot lower because no more GL personal funding.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;52169518]Well you are right. He told the Clone Wars staff to bring back Maul and left (most of) the details to them. He still approved what they showed him and he contributed his own ideas (like the very very stupid Spider design in his first episode). He was also personally funding the series. He was giving them more money then they were actually making because he liked it. There are no official numbers on episode budget but some estimates put it around 1 Million per episode starting around season 3 (the increase is the reason they made new character models). While Rebels' Budget is a lot lower because no more GL personal funding.[/QUOTE] If you have George Lucas personally fundinf your Star Wars endeavor, maybe you should work more on your story because it probably isnt any good.
[QUOTE=Cyke Lon bee;52169787]If you have George Lucas personally fundinf your Star Wars endeavor, maybe you should work more on your story because it probably isnt any good.[/QUOTE] Lucas wouldn't have kept funding it if he didn't think it was good. So in their minds if the creator of Star Wars thought it was good, then it was good. The show was ran by his prodigy.
I don't think clone wars would deserve that funding if it had lightsaber helicopters either. Thank fuck that isn't in the movies.
[QUOTE=Vodkavia;52167699] These problems aren't entirely the shows fault, really IMHO it's due to some shocking level of short sightedness from a team with a really good track record and the limitations imposed upon them by Disney.[/QUOTE] The main issue with the show is the fact that the team working on this has to appeal to a much younger audience, where The Clone Wars was aiming for a "Family Friendly" audience, Rebels is aiming for a younger audience without the appeal for adults. Sure they have Thrawn and all that in here, but there's never any real consequence, and they can't show things like Saw Garrera being terrorists because "Muh brand" That being said, it's probably a good thing rebels is being canceled. Its development has been troubled to no end, and whenever somebody says something nice about Rebels, I feel they're saying something nice about The Clone Wars, and Rebels is only a stand in. "I love Rex / Ahsoka!" - TCW characters "I love Maul" -TCW character (Basically) "I love Darth Vader" -Only scene besides him fighting the main cast in the first episode is him and Ahsoka, a clone wars arc, even bringing back his old VA to have a small few lines. Everything good about Season 2's finale was basically a TCW sendoff. Nobody cares about Ezra or Kanan or anybody else on the ship because there's no character development. The most that happened to Kanan is him going blind, and that changed fuck all. Ezra has several close shaves with the Dark Side but it's usually a one episode "MUH POWER" shit that changes nothing in the long run.
[QUOTE=Cyke Lon bee;52169315]The thing that boggles my brain the most about this is that the imperial guy is wearing [i]glasses[/i]. In the super space future where theres cyborg prosthetics, robots, AI's, space travel, faster-than-light travel, light sabers, and the ability to clone perfect soldiers, this dood is [i]still[/i] wearing glasses. He's affiliated with the most powerful government in the galaxy and they still let him wear glasses. Not some futuristic computer laced glasses, just plastic framed glass lenses. [editline]30th April 2017[/editline] Is that Darth Maul in there? Did Disney just drag the 2 halves of his corpse out of that Nabooean drainage pipe and toss him into the show somehow? God damn Star Wars EU is so fucking stupid.[/QUOTE] But this takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, laser eye surgery didn't exist yet :eng101:
[QUOTE=minilandstan;52170131]and they can't show things like Saw Garrera being terrorists because "Muh brand"[/quote] Next season is going to show why Saw gets alienated from the rest of the Rebellion. [QUOTE=minilandstan;52170131] That being said, it's probably a good thing rebels is being canceled.[/QUOTE] It isn't cancelled, it is ending. This isn't like Clone Wars, that was cancelled. Here the team is choosing to end it on their terms
[QUOTE=Tuskin;52169991]Lucas wouldn't have kept funding it if he didn't think it was good. So in their minds if the creator of Star Wars thought it was good, then it was good. The show was ran by his prodigy.[/QUOTE] You realize that Lucas made the prequels right? Everything hes touched past 1983 has been equivical to the holocaust for Star Wars as a franchise. If he was funding that stuff because he liked it, then its probably terrible.
[QUOTE=Cyke Lon bee;52170216]You realize that Lucas made the prequels right? Everything hes touched past 1983 has been equivical to the holocaust for Star Wars as a franchise. If he was funding that stuff because he liked it, then its probably terrible.[/QUOTE] Except from what I've heard, Clone Wars and Rebels have mostly been praised? It's clear that A): he's learned from some of his mistakes and B): he let the CW team have most of the creative control with the former series.
Rebels and clone wars are fantastic shows and I recommend everyone who enjoys Star Wars watch them. Clone Wars honestly [I]saved[/I] the prequel trilogy in my eyes, that's how much I enjoyed it and Rebels has gotten better and better each season. [editline]edit[/editline] Besides, in regards to the Lightsaber copters, Star Wars is science [I]fantasy[/I] lightsabers themselves already don't make much sense and even then you can make up some technobabble to make it make sense, like the fact the Inquisitors blades utilize repulsorlift technology to spin as well as a mix of force powers that let's them get off the ground. I dunno, you really don't have to explain [I]everything[/I] in great detail, like the EU did. [editline]edit[/editline] [video=youtube;FVzc20Bm8Xo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVzc20Bm8Xo[/video] As an example on that front.
[QUOTE=Cyke Lon bee;52170216]probably terrible.[/QUOTE] I'm glad you're blindly throwing shade at Genndy Tartakovsky and Dave Filoni, who worked on two separate series of TV shows because good ol' Georgie's name is attached. [video=youtube;WIj7gIDFDe4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIj7gIDFDe4[/video] The TV shows are why I like Maul and Grevious, they are actually fleshed out into characters and made use of, instead of being a stuntman with no lines of dialogue and a CGI character for Obi-Wan to get into a fight with.
[QUOTE=Dr. Kyuros;52170246]Except from what I've heard, Clone Wars and Rebels have mostly been praised? It's clear that A): he's learned from some of his mistakes and B): he let the CW team have most of the creative control with the former series.[/QUOTE] Its fine that its received praise but from the episodes Ive seen, its not very good. You gotta remember that Star Wars only has a 50% track record for good movies, non-movie content, with the exception of some of the video games, is generally terrible. Dont get me started on the force-blocking lizards.
Man, goofy shit is going to occasionally happen in a star wars based show and I'm more than willing to look past it. In-universe consistency has never been one of the franchise's strong suits, frankly. Neither Rebels or Clone Wars are perfect, but they're both very entertaining and they do a lot to make the events that happened in the prequels more bearable, even though the movies are forever garbage. Rebels is fine, IMO. The Ghost crew is still fairly likable and you still get good moments out of it, like this. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeG215-yu-k[/media]
[QUOTE=Foogooman;52167595]Star Wars was never a universe that tried to make sense of its sci-fi in any way that is consistent with the real world or even itself in many cases. Lightsabers are magic future swords, deal with it[/QUOTE] the difference is that lightsabers are cool, and they look cool this just looks ridiculous as fuck [editline]e[/editline] which is fine I guess if the scene is trying to be stupid and ridiculous but I don't think it is
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;52171013]the difference is that lightsabers are cool, and they look cool this just looks ridiculous as fuck [editline]e[/editline] which is fine I guess if the scene is trying to be stupid and ridiculous but I don't think it is[/QUOTE] I don't know if the scene is trying to be ridiculous but the ridiculousness of it fits thematically with the inquisitors, who are generally mediocre duelists that rely on gimmicks in-universe. Maul butchers all of them in the same episode the helicopter thing is introduced.
why not just use jetpacks or something, those already exist and would be cooler than this shit
[QUOTE=Limed00d;52165547]how in the fuck does that even work[/QUOTE] Midichlorians maybe?
[QUOTE=mecaguy03;52171135]why not just use jetpacks or something, those already exist and would be cooler than this shit[/QUOTE] The Punishment Wheelâ„¢ will not take this lowly insult sitting down.
[QUOTE=Cyke Lon bee;52170992] Dont get me started on the force-blocking lizards.[/QUOTE] You'll be happy to know they don't exist any more and probably won't ever again. Or at least they'll never appear on Rebels. Dave Filoni is against them because George Lucas was against them. Since everything is part of the force, having a creature null in it doesn't make sense
Flightsabers?
Rebels had like the best scene ever that made my inner child come out and squeal [video=youtube;kZoNjrFEo9E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZoNjrFEo9E[/video] [QUOTE=Tuskin;52165856]Not entirely, there was a great episode in the 2nd last Season with Jar Jar and Mace Windu.[/QUOTE] Yeah the Temple of Doom episodes were certainly interesting. Jar-Jar had a girlfriend, she's queen of that planet. Mace Windu tags along, and Jar-Jar calls him his "helper" at one point (AKA SLAVE. Jar-Jar is just one giant Space Racist), and then they go to the Temple of Doom (and at one point I swear I can hear bits of the Indiana Jones theme in the music they play lmao)
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