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"So much potential" should be a slogan.
It's a lengthy and gratuitous "look at me" shot.
For a second I thought something was going to happen. I'm still waiting...
The game looks really good. I thought I was looking at a movie trailer. The thing that bugged me is that this is what, like 200 years before the Prequels, yet the Trade Federation is using the same freighter/battleships from TPM. Not to mention they weren't even heavily armed until TPM, they were just freighters with light defensive armament. Not like Disney cares about continuity though...
harrisonp
Sr Member
George barely cared about continuity either, we just give him slack because he was the Maker. The Lucrehulk ships don’t bother me that much, and it’s nice to see a design that actually stands the rest of time and ends up feeling like surplus. I sometimes wish the prequels had given us pristine X-wings or their direct predecessor, instead of the weird ships that we never see again just 20 years later
Joek3rr
Master Member
Wookieepedia currently lists the High Republic era as lasting from 300 to 82 BBY. So if it's at the end of that, that's only about 50 years difference from TPM.
Joek3rr
Master Member
We did, kind of.
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The Aggressive ReConnaissance-170 starfighter, also known simply as the ARC-170 starfighter, was a heavy-duty model of starfighter used by the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars and was considered the latest in fighter technology. Jointly manufactured by Incom Corporation and Subpro, it...
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One of the things I liked in the early novels was the sense of history. The prologue of the Star Wars novelization talking about the slide into tyranny, SotME showing us a neglected Imperial mining planet and how non-humans were regarded and treated, Bran Daley's Han Solo books giving us a broad swath of everything from the Corporate Sector to Z-95s to Han's military career to how most people were just trying to keep food on the table regardless of who was in charge...
I feel like the PT spent way too much time at the center of power, and the ST none at all. There was stuff in the ancillary material surrounding the PT that bothered me, like no standing military and George having no sense of scale. We absolutely should have seen those Z-95s all the way from the beginning. They're the F-4s of the GFFA -- semi-obsolete holdovers from an earlier era that are still viable enough for a peacetime military and various planetary defense forces to use them. There was stuff in the EU that worked great about how the early ones had bubble canopies, variable-geometry swing wings, and triple blasters in each wing... And the design gradually evolved until, during the Clone Wars and after, late-model Z-95s were the direct inspiration for the T-65 X-Wing. Some Z-95s were even fitted with splitting S-foils for improved wingtip cannon coverage. Then there's the whole Y-Wing evolution that's been hinted at since the first film.
If George had trusted first instincts and kept the Obi-Wan films at six episodes, maybe we would have gotten to see more of the galaxy at large -- the Alderaanian Guard, the Corellian Defense Force, the Rarefied Air Cavalry, the Tierfon Yellow Aces, the Republic Navy shifting from peacetime complacency to the shocked reaction to finding themselves in war that eased the slide into militarism and authoritarianism. Boba Fett's better backstory from the comics and the impact that could have had on the galactic Risk gameboard*.
[*Slave I was originally conceived of by the designers and builders as one of at least a score of interdiction craft, with crews of three. There was conflicting material around the time of Empire as to the nature of the people who wore the armor Boba Fett opted for. One said they were a race of evil warriors defeated by the Jedi during the Clone Wars. David Michelini, over at Marvel, spun that out into a cadre of 212 supercommandos charged with the ultimate defense of the Mandalore system from the Empire (since we didn't know who was involved in the Clone Wars. Since history is written by the victors, naturally they were painted as villains. Only three survived, one ship. Boba abandoned his people to become a bounty hunter as the Empire occupied Mandalore. The other two stayed on to fight a guerrilla war against the invaders. I much prefer that to what we got.]
I feel like the PT spent way too much time at the center of power, and the ST none at all. There was stuff in the ancillary material surrounding the PT that bothered me, like no standing military and George having no sense of scale. We absolutely should have seen those Z-95s all the way from the beginning. They're the F-4s of the GFFA -- semi-obsolete holdovers from an earlier era that are still viable enough for a peacetime military and various planetary defense forces to use them. There was stuff in the EU that worked great about how the early ones had bubble canopies, variable-geometry swing wings, and triple blasters in each wing... And the design gradually evolved until, during the Clone Wars and after, late-model Z-95s were the direct inspiration for the T-65 X-Wing. Some Z-95s were even fitted with splitting S-foils for improved wingtip cannon coverage. Then there's the whole Y-Wing evolution that's been hinted at since the first film.
If George had trusted first instincts and kept the Obi-Wan films at six episodes, maybe we would have gotten to see more of the galaxy at large -- the Alderaanian Guard, the Corellian Defense Force, the Rarefied Air Cavalry, the Tierfon Yellow Aces, the Republic Navy shifting from peacetime complacency to the shocked reaction to finding themselves in war that eased the slide into militarism and authoritarianism. Boba Fett's better backstory from the comics and the impact that could have had on the galactic Risk gameboard*.
[*Slave I was originally conceived of by the designers and builders as one of at least a score of interdiction craft, with crews of three. There was conflicting material around the time of Empire as to the nature of the people who wore the armor Boba Fett opted for. One said they were a race of evil warriors defeated by the Jedi during the Clone Wars. David Michelini, over at Marvel, spun that out into a cadre of 212 supercommandos charged with the ultimate defense of the Mandalore system from the Empire (since we didn't know who was involved in the Clone Wars. Since history is written by the victors, naturally they were painted as villains. Only three survived, one ship. Boba abandoned his people to become a bounty hunter as the Empire occupied Mandalore. The other two stayed on to fight a guerrilla war against the invaders. I much prefer that to what we got.]
Not to jump franchises, but the forced exuberance for being served a meal consisting of a glass of tepid pond water, a single cracker, and a mayonnaise sandwich reminds me of the behavior of Wesley Crusher, whenever the makers of Discovery put him in front of a camera to gush about the profound impact that their latest escapade has had upon him…
Set phasers on “cringe”…
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ScourgiousJinx
Master Member
These actors may have actual enthusiasm for what they're talking about but the directors are probably in their ears yelling "Step it up!." It's like watching ridiculously intense anime where the emotions are completely out of touch with reality (not knocking anime some of it is truly amazing).
ScourgiousJinx
Master Member
. Exactly what I mean't.
Agree. Saw those 2 on TV recently too and forgot how much I liked em both
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