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Apathy is death, anon.

I'm re-reading the Thrawn Trilogy (haven't read them in about 8 years). Let's discuss them.

Interesting note: All references to Vader and others are "Dark Jedi" and not sith. When exactly did the word Sith enter the vocabulary? I know games like Jedi Knight had the word Sith (Mysteries of the Sith), so it emerged somewhere in the mid 90s.

I am not the most well-versed in the EU. Can someone explain the rationale behind the Sith Rule of Two to me? Seems kind of counterintuitive to cripple your numbers when your goal is to overthrow the massive and supremely powerful police force of the galaxy.

I will concede that there is a certain elegance to the provision that a Sith must be constantly prepared to kill his Apprentice/Master, and alert that the reverse may happen, such that only the strongest, smartest and most brutal Sith can live to spread his teachings. Very fitting for an order which gets their power to use the Force from hate.

Could BB-8 be an even cuter droid than R2-D2?

so apparently this book will have the first lesbian character in star wars that is now considered canon

http://www.nerdist.com/2015/03/star-wars-adds-first-lgbt-character-to-canon/

the fuck is happening to our beloved, troops? nevermind the cunt that wrote the article is a clear-cut feminist sjw, but i don't want my classical black/white good vs evil getting shitted up by this progressive crap.

and i know it's not canon anymore but

>implying admiral daala wasn't a bull dike

also what riles my jimmies is

>a new dawn adds a female stormtrooper and female officer
>notes this as progress when lucas stated decades ago that female imperials existed but were rare and not stationed aboard the death star
>again, admiral daala

Rian Johnson has just been confirmed as the director of Star Wars Episode VIII via a Disney shareholders call. Along with that news, we’ve got the Star Wars Episode VIII release date: May 26, 2017.

The official Star Wars site confirms the report. We’ve known that Johnson would write and direct the next major Star Wars chapter, but we’ll take the confirmation.

More interesting is that the release of Episode VIII brings the series back to its traditional May opening spot after the push to December for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This release date is also forty years and one day after the opening of the original Star Wars in 1977.

(J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy had reportedly asked Disney to push The Force Awakens back to May 2016, but that didn’t happen.)

We don’t know anything about the cast or story of Episode VIII at this point, other than the fact that many people will carry forward from The Force Awakens. But since the story of that film remains generally unknown at this point, we have nothing to go on as far as expectations for the Episode VIII story.

Reports say Daisy Ridley will be in all three upcoming major Episodes, but that is unconfirmed. Mark Ruffalo, who appeared in Johnson’s second film The Brothers Bloom, asked to be in Johnson’s Star Wars film, but we don’t know how that worked out. Rian Johnson has also been said to be writing Star Wars Episode IX, but we don’t have confirmation of that at this point.

Here’s an official rundown of the eighth major Star Wars film:

[Bob] Iger confirmed that Rian Johnson will write and direct Star Wars: Episode VIII. The film, which continues the saga after the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is set for release on May 26, 2017 — forty years and a day after the release of Star Wars: A New Hope in 1977. Johnson is widely considered one of cinema’s most gifted young filmmakers, having directed the modern sci-fi classic, Looper, as well as Brick and The Brothers Bloom. He was also behind the camera for three episodes of the critically-acclaimed TV series Breaking Bad, including “Ozymandias,” which series creator Vince Gilligan named as the best installment of the show. Kathleen Kennedy and Ram Bergman, producer of Looper, Don Jon, Brick, and The Brothers Bloom, are on board to produce.
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Star Wars toys thread.

inb4 "they're action figures".

A random idea came to me today: Why bother with Endor or the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi? Cutting them out entirely and moving the shield generator onto the Death Star itself would have made the story considerably more logical and tighter.

Luke (and possibly a strike team?) goes on a covert mission to sneak into the Death Star itself to disable the shield, where he is discovered (or surrenders to buy time for the rest of the team?) and brought before the Emperor, whose throne is above the shield generator. Duel happens as usual, Emperor is thrown down a shaft to destroy the shield generator, bringing it down allowing the fighters (led by Han with Lando?) to bring down the Death Star. Luke (and team?) evacuates with Vader's body as the fighter squad goes in and takes down the Death Star.

1. Removing the extra step of a separate shield generator on Endor allows the main characters to be more together and involved. Lando was nice, but it still felt a bit weird to have a relative newcomer in that role alone.
2. Putting the shield generator within the Death Star itself just feels like it makes more sense and safer from an in-universe perspective.
3. Putting the shield generator within the Death Star and having it brought down along with the Emperor gives the duel aboard it more meaning by making the Emperor more of a load-bearing boss. Sure, the load-bearing boss is something of a cliche, but Star Wars was built on tropes.
4. No Ewok controversy.

Just some thoughts. Feel free to criticize or give your own.

Thanks Sheev

Star Wars Rebels thread?

Any of you guys remember this?

troopers,

have we ever taken into consideration the theory that boba fett was the one responsible for killing aunt beru and uncle owen? i mean the theory is sound, although there is a comment that notes that IG-88 could also have been the one to do the job. whatchy'all think?

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/09/26/boba-fett-killed-who-in-star-wars-this-explains-everything-2299242?lt_source=external,manual

This book was so fucking good and actually managed to redeem some of the more retarded elements of the prequels. For such a big part of the film canon's backstory that had needed fleshing out for so many years, this book did it the best way possible. Then scarcely a year after it came out, it's purged from canon? What the fuck?

I don't normally bitch about the old EU but I was hoping Disney would make an exception for this book.