How's Kieran Gillen's Vader? I generally like his writing style (though more for the characters than for the storytelling), but the comics of his that I've read don't really match with what I'd expect of a Darth Vader story.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
How's Kieran Gillen's Vader? I generally like his writing style (though more for the characters than for the storytelling), but the comics of his that I've read don't really match with what I'd expect of a Darth Vader story.
I've enjoyed the first 2 issues so far.
Vader is essentially disgraced in the eyes of the Emperor after the Death Star, and then after the rebels blow up a major factory while Vader is present (the events of which are the opening arc of the Star Wars comic) The Emperor demotes him, more or less, and puts him under the command of Grand General Tagge. At the same time, Vader finds that the Emperor is hiding things from him, and begins trying to discover what. He's also beginning to realize who Luke is.
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It really is. During my last marathon I focused on watching secondary characters in every scene. ESB and especially the scenes with Luke in ROTJ are just masterful.
Oh and Lando.
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It really is. During my last marathon I focused on watching secondary characters in every scene. ESB and especially the scenes with Luke in ROTJ are just masterful.
Oh and Lando.
When the Special Edition came out, my dad decided we wouldn't go to see ESB in theaters because "it was the boring one, wasn't it?"
QUICK PRIMER. When I was a kid, the very first movie I saw was Star Wars, a shitty VHS recording from a TV broadcast. (The earliest TV show I saw was the Transformers premiere.) One of my earliest memories is watching "Darf Vader" choke the shit out of the Rebel commander.
When I was seven, there was a TV broadcast of Return of the Jedi that my parents recorded. I was too scared too watch it all the way through until I was ten. I knew broadly what had happened in ESB, because I had a picture book, but I had never seen it until the THX remastered VHS release.
I think what I'm saying is that my Dad remembered the Star Wars movies not as culture eventually appreciated them, but as he remembered them in the theaters, and while today ESB is rightly regarded as the best of the originals, at the time it was the unloved middle child that had a downer ending. So I got to see needlessly-busy Mos Eisley and shitty dewbacks and Jedi Rocks in the theater, but not the only movie in the original trilogy that I think was relatively unchanged at the time (aside from some longer shots of Cloud City). To this day it remains the only Star Wars film I haven't seen in the theater. (Well, that and Clone Wars, but that was terrible anyway.)
There's a reason the Battle of Hoth has been featured in, like, half the games - wherever they can find an excuse to put in a snowspeeder level. And yes, it was entirely a delaying action, to try to hold off the Empire long enough to get as many people as possible the hell out of there.
Leia is tiny and a badass. Takes after her mom. (Padme, not Debbie Reynolds.) Wedge is also great, as always. And General Veers is very good at his job - a credit to der Panzerkorps.
For those who missed the last movie, or forgot, Vader provides another demonstration of his inimitable management style. The unfortunate Captain Needa will be the subject of another later on. However, we don't see what happened to the captain who charged ahead into that ion barrage. Must have taken his crew quite a while to replace all those blown fuses and breaker panels...
Of the OT the only one I haven't seen in the theater is Return of the Jedi. Even with the additions the opening of a New Hope still was awesome to see as a kid.
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There's a reason the Battle of Hoth has been featured in, like, half the games - wherever they can find an excuse to put in a snowspeeder level. And yes, it was entirely a delaying action, to try to hold off the Empire long enough to get as many people as possible the hell out of there.
All I remember is I got pissed in Rogue Squadron as a kid because I could somehow never manage to trip those fucking AT-ATs. I think I eventually figured it out, but it was waaay harder for me than it should have been.
And General Veers is very good at his job - a credit to der Panzerkorps.
Veers is my favorite imperial character, hands down. In my head canon he's not a true believer in the Empire, just a professional soldier who does his duty and then goes home to his wife and kids in the evening. He's also the only competent member of imperial military, so he has that going for him.
When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge:
"I don't want the world, I just want your half"
So, I read the first chapter of Heir to the Jedi, and I've just got to say that it is incredibly weird reading a book in First Person Luke perspective.
Also, it apparently takes place before the Star Wars comic, and Han & Chewie didn't stay on with the Rebellion at first, due to losing all their reward money and are back to trying to pay off Jabba.
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It really is. During my last marathon I focused on watching secondary characters in every scene. ESB and especially the scenes with Luke in ROTJ are just masterful.
Oh and Lando.
When the Special Edition came out, my dad decided we wouldn't go to see ESB in theaters because "it was the boring one, wasn't it?"
QUICK PRIMER. When I was a kid, the very first movie I saw was Star Wars, a shitty VHS recording from a TV broadcast. (The earliest TV show I saw was the Transformers premiere.) One of my earliest memories is watching "Darf Vader" choke the shit out of the Rebel commander.
When I was seven, there was a TV broadcast of Return of the Jedi that my parents recorded. I was too scared too watch it all the way through until I was ten. I knew broadly what had happened in ESB, because I had a picture book, but I had never seen it until the THX remastered VHS release.
I think what I'm saying is that my Dad remembered the Star Wars movies not as culture eventually appreciated them, but as he remembered them in the theaters, and while today ESB is rightly regarded as the best of the originals, at the time it was the unloved middle child that had a downer ending. So I got to see needlessly-busy Mos Eisley and shitty dewbacks and Jedi Rocks in the theater, but not the only movie in the original trilogy that I think was relatively unchanged at the time (aside from some longer shots of Cloud City). To this day it remains the only Star Wars film I haven't seen in the theater. (Well, that and Clone Wars, but that was terrible anyway.)
Yeah ESB was a little too dark for me as well when I was a kid. Luke's expression when he screams at Vader "That's impossible!" was terrifying. It didn't help that my dad had scored some pirated VHS copies (before they were actually available on VHS) that had static over several minutes in various parts so I tended to watch Hoth and some of the asteroid stuff and then call it quits.
All I remember is I got pissed in Rogue Squadron as a kid because I could somehow never manage to trip those fucking AT-ATs. I think I eventually figured it out, but it was waaay harder for me than it should have been.
Yeah, I had the same issue.
I've been replaying the Good Old Games re-release with a 360 controller, and while I'm better at it now, it's still surprisingly tense and hard to pull off.
I went and saw all the Special Edition releases in the theater at least three times each. My parents wouldn't let me see the movies in the theater as a youngster and we lived overseas for most of my childhood anyway so I didn't really have the opportunity. My Uncle was going to sneak us to Star Wars in '77 but my Aunt caught wind of it and reported it to my Mother who put the kibosh on that. I had to overcompensate for that I guess.
I plunged back into Clone Wars last night, rewatching the pilot movie and the first episode of the show.
I used to catch it whenever I could on TV, but I gave up really early in season 2 because the show felt like it was just offering the same thing over and over with every set of episodes: some type of big set-piece battle with nominal importance to the war effort and no real character development or world building.
I'm already getting that feeling again, although I still enjoyed the hell out of the pilot movie (it's all the things from the prequels that were actually fun, and very little of the garbage aside from Ziro!). Please tell me this turns into an actual show at some point, with characters I care about and some legitimate form of serialization beyond repeating 3 and 4 part arcs.
And General Veers is very good at his job - a credit to der Panzerkorps.
Veers is my favorite imperial character, hands down. In my head canon he's not a true believer in the Empire, just a professional soldier who does his duty and then goes home to his wife and kids in the evening. He's also the only competent member of imperial military, so he has that going for him.
I have a soft spot for Piett, but yes Veers is a very close second.
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Captain Pellaeon for best Imperial.
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I plunged back into Clone Wars last night, rewatching the pilot movie and the first episode of the show.
I used to catch it whenever I could on TV, but I gave up really early in season 2 because the show felt like it was just offering the same thing over and over with every set of episodes: some type of big set-piece battle with nominal importance to the war effort and no real character development or world building.
I'm already getting that feeling again, although I still enjoyed the hell out of the pilot movie (it's all the things from the prequels that were actually fun, and very little of the garbage aside from Ziro!). Please tell me this turns into an actual show at some point, with characters I care about and some legitimate form of serialization beyond repeating 3 and 4 part arcs.
Yes, just watch it all.
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I thought we had agreed that the stormtroopers missing during Leia's escape wasn't because they can't hit anything, but because (at least some of them) were supposed to escape, because there was a tracking device on the falcon
I thought we had agreed that the stormtroopers missing during Leia's escape wasn't because they can't hit anything, but because (at least some of them) were supposed to escape, because there was a tracking device on the falcon
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Another way to look at it, though, is that the prequels were really awful movies by themselves. But the OT is just good enough to give them some pathos.
Oh fuck, a circuit in my brain just crossed and lined up the scene where Qui-Gon dies with the one where Rufio dies in Hook.
I'll be over thataway giggling like a derpydoo if you need me.
I always forget how hot Carrie Fisher was. And how bad ass Leia is. Directing the troops being the last one out. Basically commanding the damn rebels.
Also this shows how scary the Empire is. They basically walk over the rebel lines in minutes.
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Also, the new Star Wars novel is out, Heir to the Jedi. Just grabbed it off iTunes and will likely report back in a few days.
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I've enjoyed the first 2 issues so far.
It really is. During my last marathon I focused on watching secondary characters in every scene. ESB and especially the scenes with Luke in ROTJ are just masterful.
Oh and Lando.
When the Special Edition came out, my dad decided we wouldn't go to see ESB in theaters because "it was the boring one, wasn't it?"
QUICK PRIMER. When I was a kid, the very first movie I saw was Star Wars, a shitty VHS recording from a TV broadcast. (The earliest TV show I saw was the Transformers premiere.) One of my earliest memories is watching "Darf Vader" choke the shit out of the Rebel commander.
When I was seven, there was a TV broadcast of Return of the Jedi that my parents recorded. I was too scared too watch it all the way through until I was ten. I knew broadly what had happened in ESB, because I had a picture book, but I had never seen it until the THX remastered VHS release.
I think what I'm saying is that my Dad remembered the Star Wars movies not as culture eventually appreciated them, but as he remembered them in the theaters, and while today ESB is rightly regarded as the best of the originals, at the time it was the unloved middle child that had a downer ending. So I got to see needlessly-busy Mos Eisley and shitty dewbacks and Jedi Rocks in the theater, but not the only movie in the original trilogy that I think was relatively unchanged at the time (aside from some longer shots of Cloud City). To this day it remains the only Star Wars film I haven't seen in the theater. (Well, that and Clone Wars, but that was terrible anyway.)
There's a reason the Battle of Hoth has been featured in, like, half the games - wherever they can find an excuse to put in a snowspeeder level. And yes, it was entirely a delaying action, to try to hold off the Empire long enough to get as many people as possible the hell out of there.
Leia is tiny and a badass. Takes after her mom. (Padme, not Debbie Reynolds.) Wedge is also great, as always. And General Veers is very good at his job - a credit to der Panzerkorps.
For those who missed the last movie, or forgot, Vader provides another demonstration of his inimitable management style. The unfortunate Captain Needa will be the subject of another later on. However, we don't see what happened to the captain who charged ahead into that ion barrage. Must have taken his crew quite a while to replace all those blown fuses and breaker panels...
and yes, ESB is so good.
I used to play the hell out of that game.
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Veers is my favorite imperial character, hands down. In my head canon he's not a true believer in the Empire, just a professional soldier who does his duty and then goes home to his wife and kids in the evening. He's also the only competent member of imperial military, so he has that going for him.
"I don't want the world, I just want your half"
Also, it apparently takes place before the Star Wars comic, and Han & Chewie didn't stay on with the Rebellion at first, due to losing all their reward money and are back to trying to pay off Jabba.
Yeah, I had the same issue.
I've been replaying the Good Old Games re-release with a 360 controller, and while I'm better at it now, it's still surprisingly tense and hard to pull off.
Tarkin novel
A New Dawn novel
Rebels show
Star Wars: A New Hope
Princess Leia comic
Heir to the Jedi novel
Star Wars comic
Darth Vader comic
I used to catch it whenever I could on TV, but I gave up really early in season 2 because the show felt like it was just offering the same thing over and over with every set of episodes: some type of big set-piece battle with nominal importance to the war effort and no real character development or world building.
I'm already getting that feeling again, although I still enjoyed the hell out of the pilot movie (it's all the things from the prequels that were actually fun, and very little of the garbage aside from Ziro!). Please tell me this turns into an actual show at some point, with characters I care about and some legitimate form of serialization beyond repeating 3 and 4 part arcs.
I have a soft spot for Piett, but yes Veers is a very close second.
Yes, just watch it all.
I'm partial to Daala.
They were also drunk that day.
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EDIT: Sorry, that reads really rudely even in an "I'm obviously joking with you" way. So, uh, yeah - sorry about that! Daala still sucks, though.
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