Calcium
Banned
Does the fact that it's from a kids book change anything about the point I'm trying to make? Nope.
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ManaByte
Member
Yes it does.
Kids books look like that and this:
But the YouTuber you're parroting who uses that one image to claim is all is High Republic won't show what the normal stuff looks like.
Imperius
Banned
Lmao. None of this is any better. This is a joke.Yes it does.
Kids books look like that and this:
But the YouTuber you're parroting who uses that one image to claim is all is High Republic won't show what the normal stuff looks like.
ManaByte
Member
You literally signed up on this forum to defend Zack Snyder, which means troll anything Disney.
Imperius
Banned
Does it? I didn't get that memo.
Calcium
Banned
Who am I supposedly "parroting" here?
You seem to be under the assumption that I'm talking about the art style. I know what children's books look like. I'm saying that aesthetically it doesn't look like Star Wars. Some of the other art for High Republic does look more accurate, but when you are presenting a mass media campaign like this it looks fucking stupid to have aspects so disjointed.
Also, are people really interested in a time period where every character is a Jedi? Personally, I've always found the Jedi Order to be fucking boring. An entire series where the vast majority of characters are emotionless monks doesn't seem even remotely interesting.
ManaByte
Member
It's a mass media campaign. With products for 5 year olds all the way up to actual novels. You're posting a product for 5 year olds and trying to pass that off as what the whole thing is.
And High Republic isn't about emotionless monks. It's Jedi vs. Space Vikings.
Calcium
Banned
You seem really stuck on the idea that since it's a children's book it doesn't matter what it looks like. A Star Wars product, even one for 5 year olds, should resemble Star Wars. How is that so hard for you to grasp? I'm not talking about the art style.
High Republic isn't about emotionless monks, it's about Jedi....who are typically depicted as emotionless monks. Gotcha.
sol_bad
Member
"Looks like Star Wars"
This is the problem with the fandom sometimes. There's this huge galaxy that can be explored in Star Wars lore. And not only is it a huge galaxy with thousands or millions of cultures that could be explored but you can set the stories at any time point making things different yet again.
Even though there is so much potential, some of the fandom want these stories stuck in the usual Star Wars format with the usual Star Wars setting.
I haven't read any synopsis for the High Republic stuff but what makes you think the characters in this era are emotionless monks?
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Imperius
stop kidding yourself, you have a massive issue with Disney and I doubt you will ever praise anything from them. You can tell this just based on your comment in the Wandavision thread.
This is the problem with the fandom sometimes. There's this huge galaxy that can be explored in Star Wars lore. And not only is it a huge galaxy with thousands or millions of cultures that could be explored but you can set the stories at any time point making things different yet again.
Even though there is so much potential, some of the fandom want these stories stuck in the usual Star Wars format with the usual Star Wars setting.
I haven't read any synopsis for the High Republic stuff but what makes you think the characters in this era are emotionless monks?
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Imperius
stop kidding yourself, you have a massive issue with Disney and I doubt you will ever praise anything from them. You can tell this just based on your comment in the Wandavision thread.
Imperius
Banned
Coco was a fantastic movie."Looks like Star Wars"
This is the problem with the fandom sometimes. There's this huge galaxy that can be explored in Star Wars lore. And not only is it a huge galaxy with thousands or millions of cultures that could be explored but you can set the stories at any time point making things different yet again.
Even though there is so much potential, some of the fandom want these stories stuck in the usual Star Wars format with the usual Star Wars setting.
I haven't read any synopsis for the High Republic stuff but what makes you think the characters in this era are emotionless monks?
And
Calcium
Banned
Yes, wanting Star Wars to look and feel like Star Wars is silly. There is no potential for this shit where the line "for control of the Force itself!" exists. That is a clear display of a creative team that doesn't know what they are doing. You don't "control" the Force, that's fucking stupid.
Because that's what the Jedi are...? Emotion is bad, attachments are bad, etc. The only Jedi that have been interesting have generally been atypical ones.
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ManaByte
Member
This is 200 years before The Phantom Menace. Different Jedi.
Calcium
Banned
Have they said that or are you assuming? It seems weird that they'd completely change what a Jedi is because it is set in the past. Jedi are still Jedi in the Old Republic, but in the High Republic they get drunk and bang hookers?
ManaByte
Member
I'm reading the novel right now. These are the Jedi that Obi-Wan described to Luke in ANH. Not the blind monks that let Palpatine take over in the Prequels.
Calcium
Banned
How are they different, exactly?
ManaByte
Member
They're not stoic ambassadors that are sent to settle trade disputes. If a system in the Republic sends out a distress signal, the Republic doesn't send a military ship. They send a ship full of Jedi to deal with it. They're basically the Republic military at this point, and celebrities to the point where the peasants read Jedi romance novels.
The High Republic stuff coming out right now is set 200 years before The Phantom Menace, about 300 years into the High Republic era. Everything is at peace, so much so that systems don't even have planetary defenses. But then these villains that are basically Vikings show up at the first phase is basically Jedi vs Space Vikings.
Yoda is in the comic that's coming out tomorrow, and he's a teenager at this time.
sol_bad
Member
I think the Clone Wars does a pretty good set up of saying that the Jedi have their head up their arses and it's easy for me to imagine that the Jedi were not always this way. Beliefs and religion can change over time. I think the Clone Wars Jedi are a twisted form of what the Jedi used to stand for.
Calcium
Banned
Huh. I'd be interested to know what happened to the Jedi to cause them to change so significantly in just 200 years. Is the Jedi Code mentioned at all? Are characterizations of them at all in line with the Code?
That being said, I'm still not interested enough to actually get into the High Republic. The setting just looks too sterile and generic for me.
Please tell me the comic is about Yoda conceiving Grogu. That'd be terrific.
Jethalal
Banned
Isn't Grogu like 50 years old?
Calcium
Banned
Yoda's species could be pregnant for 200 years. You don't know.
Jethalal
Banned
Soodanim
Member
I’m late to the party, but I recently went through Mando and started TCW to keep the Star Wars universe stuff going (more interesting than the movies to me). I found a revised watch order here, would you agree with that or recommend just watching them in release order? I’ve only done 2 episodes so far, as I’ve yet to find time for the film.
sol_bad
Member
Yeah I'd recommend the chronological order. I watched it in release order and some episodes confused me because they were out of chronological order. I'll be watching the show again soon and will do chronological order.
ManaByte
Member
Yet you came to an OT to post that.
Soodanim
Member
Cheers, good to know. Looking at the list it stops jumping about so much after a while, which is nice.
I’ll do Rebels after unless someone tells me it’s bad. I’d never even heard about it until I saw it on D+.
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ArtemisClydeFrog
Banned
ManaByte
Member
I told ya'll, she ain't going anywhere. 4 out of the 5 films she green lighted made over a billion dollars and Mandalorian is a massive success.
But this YouTube video said there was a WWE style brawl and she was fired.
sol_bad
Member
Ya, a massive "civil war" within Lucasfilm!!! Doomcock was totally right!
Toons
Member
But are they canon or not??? I have to know!!!Both Ewok movies are on Disney+ now IN HD!
