I used to love that show, imagine my disappointment when I found out that almost no one liked it in favor of the original(which I'd never seen at the time).
I'm going to assume it doesn't hold up.
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Finally going through all of rebels
A-Wings and their pilots are amazingly bad at staying alive
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I'm also finally going through rebels. It's quite good in to midde s3 so far. I'm a big fan of the episodes that show how the rebellion is building literally ship by ship.
I recently bought second edition of WEG Star Wars and the rebellion book for nostalgia.
That stuff really, really, holds up in terms of expansive ideas and world building.
There are some fasinating-as-hell passages about civil governance in the Empire. I mean, assuming you give a shit about civil governance, colonial systems, political hegemony, etc.
You can see how this stuff informed some of Zahn's original trilogy, but particularly TIE Fighter, where the military's role in propping up the civil government is really blatantly this, assumed with little or no modification ("Stele! Go take this TIE Fighter and do that!"). The people at LucasArts pretty much copied it wholesale wherever they needed it.
Of course, it's all "obsolete" now--hell, even before Disney the prequel trilogy made numerous details "obsolete", specifically the state of the Republican Army and Navy (for starters, there were no cloned war slaves), the parliamentary procedures used for the Emperor's rise, and the founding of the New Order. Then we have all of the new stuff commissioned by Disney set in a smaller, more tightly-scripted galaxy than this massive one proposed by the sourcebook, so large that a lot of it misses the civil war.
Still, it's a fun read. Assuming you find detailed political theory and practice interesting.
Plus, they actually explain what the hell a "Moff" is (aside from a pre-Republican title for a military governor...which is actually kind of cool etymological standpoint) and what they normally do--which is, as it happens, not very much outside of a crisis. As well as how the Empire plays politics via in unusual circumstances, via carrot and (very sharp) stick.
You can really taste the School of the Americas/Afghan national building.
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Is that WEG stuff?
I've started resistance and Kaz so far is kinda charming
Like if atla main character was Sokka instead of aang. I love low stakes star wars
Is that WEG stuff?
I've started resistance and Kaz so far is kinda charming
Like if atla main character was Sokka instead of aang. I love low stakes star wars
Yea, from the (I want to say) 1994 reprint of the Sourcebook.
EDIT: I'm actually a fan of low stakes Star Wars too, albeit manifested in goofy fanfilms like IMPS: The Relentless.
"Whatever happened to her?"
"Who?" "
"That pilot you liked, the one you joined the Stormtrooper Corps for!"
"Oh, she joined some rebellion somewhere..."
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Yes. That one belongs to a character on the show, who also wears red armor. I don't know his name.
We've also seen gold armor as well as Phasma in her silver armor.
Given that she seems to be in charge and that her armor is blasterproof, I'm thinking Phasma's armor, in the rankings, might be platinum colored, because she clearly outranks the dude in gold.
Anyway, (speculation for Resistance)
given that I can't imagine they stumbled across a practice recording of the speech, I have to think that the back half of Resistance season 1 takes place over the same timeframe as TFA and maybe even TLJ. Which only seems to confirm theories that there will be a time skip more like the other movies for episode IX.
Dark Forces, the first game, did that pretty well too. I mean, Dark Troopers were a super weapon of sorts, but they were just an advanced combat droid. That by itself didn't have the potential to DOOM the rebellion.
I'm sad that the x-wings just kind of showed up at some point. They had such cool "building the rebellion by stealing ships subplot going for a little bit there"
I'm sad that the x-wings just kind of showed up at some point. They had such cool "building the rebellion by stealing ships subplot going for a little bit there"
I'm still salty that they reset the universe for the sequel trilogy, instead of making the trilogy about the difficulties of rebuilding a galactic republic after decades of war.
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I'm still salty that they resolved the galactic civil war 1 year after endor just to reset it with everyone in the same positions 35 years later.
The empire republic war lasting years after endor was one of my favorite parts of the EU. It was so ripe for story telling.
I'm still salty that they reset the universe for the sequel trilogy, instead of making the trilogy about the difficulties of rebuilding a galactic republic after decades of war.
Um, getting the capital blown up by neo-fascists seems to be exactly about “the difficulties of rebuilding a galactic republic after decades of war.”
I'm still salty that they reset the universe for the sequel trilogy, instead of making the trilogy about the difficulties of rebuilding a galactic republic after decades of war.
Um, getting the capital blown up by neo-fascists seems to be exactly about “the difficulties of rebuilding a galactic republic after decades of war.”
That completely annihilated the Republic, removing it from the narrative, resetting the universe to the state of "plucky fighters led by Leia and Luke are the last hope for the galaxy."
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"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
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I'm still salty that they reset the universe for the sequel trilogy, instead of making the trilogy about the difficulties of rebuilding a galactic republic after decades of war.
Um, getting the capital blown up by neo-fascists seems to be exactly about “the difficulties of rebuilding a galactic republic after decades of war.”
That completely annihilated the Republic, removing it from the narrative, resetting the universe to the state of "plucky fighters led by Leia and Luke are the last hope for the galaxy."
Yeah. It felt like a attempted reboot but no real leg work was done to earn the set up.
Yea if we're going to ignore all that interesting potential why not just do the full 100+ year jump to the Legacy of the Force era and get your reset there?
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That stuff really, really, holds up in terms of expansive ideas and world building.
I used to love that show, imagine my disappointment when I found out that almost no one liked it in favor of the original(which I'd never seen at the time).
I'm going to assume it doesn't hold up.
A-Wings and their pilots are amazingly bad at staying alive
Sounds about right.
It's a sad, sad tale. Well, not really.
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Also a red TIE Interceptor, though I suppose that has already previously appeared in the series.
We've also seen gold armor as well as Phasma in her silver armor.
There are some fasinating-as-hell passages about civil governance in the Empire. I mean, assuming you give a shit about civil governance, colonial systems, political hegemony, etc.
You can see how this stuff informed some of Zahn's original trilogy, but particularly TIE Fighter, where the military's role in propping up the civil government is really blatantly this, assumed with little or no modification ("Stele! Go take this TIE Fighter and do that!"). The people at LucasArts pretty much copied it wholesale wherever they needed it.
Of course, it's all "obsolete" now--hell, even before Disney the prequel trilogy made numerous details "obsolete", specifically the state of the Republican Army and Navy (for starters, there were no cloned war slaves), the parliamentary procedures used for the Emperor's rise, and the founding of the New Order. Then we have all of the new stuff commissioned by Disney set in a smaller, more tightly-scripted galaxy than this massive one proposed by the sourcebook, so large that a lot of it misses the civil war.
Still, it's a fun read. Assuming you find detailed political theory and practice interesting.
You can really taste the School of the Americas/Afghan national building.
I've started resistance and Kaz so far is kinda charming
Like if atla main character was Sokka instead of aang. I love low stakes star wars
Yea, from the (I want to say) 1994 reprint of the Sourcebook.
EDIT: I'm actually a fan of low stakes Star Wars too, albeit manifested in goofy fanfilms like IMPS: The Relentless.
"Whatever happened to her?"
"Who?" "
"That pilot you liked, the one you joined the Stormtrooper Corps for!"
"Oh, she joined some rebellion somewhere..."
Given that she seems to be in charge and that her armor is blasterproof, I'm thinking Phasma's armor, in the rankings, might be platinum colored, because she clearly outranks the dude in gold.
Anyway, (speculation for Resistance)
Until they introduced red and gold, Phasma got by on being the "cool shiny one". Now she's not unique anymore.
She wasn’t that cool anyway.
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And she was only shiny in comparison to the regular Storm Troopers.
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Y-Wings get the job done.
I had totally forgotten a Y-Wing got a terrain kill on a goddamn TIE Defender.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
well it sure wasn't gonna out-dogfight it.
(I kid, I kid)
This particular scene would be totally at home in The Last Jedi. "Supreme Leader Snork secretly revealed to be robot all along!"
Yeah, TLJ dropped Snoke without ever trying to explain anything about him at all.
Well they all died quick.
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
The empire republic war lasting years after endor was one of my favorite parts of the EU. It was so ripe for story telling.
Um, getting the capital blown up by neo-fascists seems to be exactly about “the difficulties of rebuilding a galactic republic after decades of war.”
That completely annihilated the Republic, removing it from the narrative, resetting the universe to the state of "plucky fighters led by Leia and Luke are the last hope for the galaxy."
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
Yeah. It felt like a attempted reboot but no real leg work was done to earn the set up.