Badger Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 3 hours ago, Old Man said: Unless one suspects them... of treason. regardless, letting your troops believe you are going to fly aimlessly until death, might not be the best morale booster. Edit: Huldo may or may not be a good strategist, but she was a horrible judge of troop morale. And that can often ruin a good strategy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 That whole situation not only didn’t make tactical sense, it didn’t even make in-universe physical sense. Which is hard to do in Star Wars. Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grailknight Posted December 29, 2019 Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 What? You mean the idea that 2 fleets match velocity so closely that neither gains or loses range over the course of several days doesn't make sense to you? Or the idea of launching the hundreds of tie fighters in your star destroyers to cover your dreadnaughts from a fighter and bomber attack? Or building quadrillion credit planet killers when you could just lightspeed collision into them with droid ships? What more tactical sense could you want? Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted December 29, 2019 Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 On December 27, 2019 at 9:09 AM, Cygnia said: The Hubby has...THOUGHTS https://michaelsonby.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-rise-of-skywalker-thoughts.html?fbclid=IwAR3uUwJrhrYLF0OF6gERoytxi8jWeGb5iSKJ7uzTEBhnz2_GoBzgWZsfW5k I mean no disrespect when I say this, but in regards to the "whatever that kid's name was's redemption arc goes too quickly," I would like to point out that Vader's "redemption arc" was less than ten minutes. Less than ten! It _kills_ me that people hold this crap in such high regard. Armory 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 29, 2019 Report Share Posted December 29, 2019 I think what it really comes down to is how the story is inevitably told. 4-6 is how to tell a good story. 7-9 will go down as how not to tell your story. It may be the same story, but the former you can feel was told by your local wizened sage around a campfire. The latter you can feel was told by your drunk uncle after a drunken weekend bender. Grailknight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 Star Wars spoiler generator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 Moonsquisher sounds cool. Though, probably better as a Decepticon seeker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 An "explanation" for Rose Tico's Lack of Screen Time in Episode IX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 Baby Yoda implies the existence of a Sporty Yoda, Scary Yoda, Ginger Yoda, and Posh Yoda Duke Bushido, Starlord, Old Man and 1 other 1 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 You're doing it again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 1 minute ago, Bazza said: Baby Yoda implies the existence of a Sporty Yoda, Scary Yoda, Ginger Yoda, and Posh Yoda you, uh... don't happen to know any talented artists, do you? Just asking..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 9 minutes ago, L. Marcus said: You're doing it again! Yes I am. I'm evil. Darth Bazza. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 7 minutes ago, Duke Bushido said: you, uh... don't happen to know any talented artists, do you? Just asking..... No, but the tribble surely does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 18 minutes ago, Old Man said: An "explanation" for Rose Tico's Lack of Screen Time in Episode IX Yeah, it said it upset a lot of fans, given the feeling about her character in the previous movie, I am betting it made a whole lot more other fans happy. (like I said, I am more forgiving of Rose than Huldo, but that doesn't mean I am crazy about the character) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 17 minutes ago, Bazza said: Baby Yoda implies the existence of a Sporty Yoda, Scary Yoda, Ginger Yoda, and Posh Yoda At this point, I am pro-Spice Girls in a Galaxy Far, Far, Away, it would be an improvement, surprisingly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 14 minutes ago, Bazza said: Yes I am. I'm evil. Darth Bazza. I prefer the Sith, but I am not taking the Darth title. As cool as Darth Badger, sounds I gotta be me, and rebel against titles. I would not become a Sith for the political intrigue, I'd just want to kick some Jedi ____ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishFox Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 On 12/28/2019 at 6:17 PM, Grailknight said: What? You mean the idea that 2 fleets match velocity so closely that neither gains or loses range over the course of several days doesn't make sense to you? Or the idea of launching the hundreds of tie fighters in your star destroyers to cover your dreadnaughts from a fighter and bomber attack? Or building quadrillion credit planet killers when you could just lightspeed collision into them with droid ships? What more tactical sense could you want? Allowing the faster-than-light ramming attack literally broke the Star Wars universe. Deathstars can be taken out by a single FTL droid-manned fighter. So can all other ships and planets. Game. Over. Spence, Grailknight and Starlord 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 1 minute ago, ScottishFox said: Allowing the faster-than-light ramming attack literally broke the Star Wars universe. Deathstars can be taken out by a single FTL droid-manned fighter. So can all other ships and planets. Game. Over. Yeah, if I was going to watch Rise of Skywalker, it better have consisted of a battle of 2 droid-manned fleets trying to outmaneuver each other into suicide jumping the other. Like I previously mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishFox Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 26 minutes ago, Badger said: Yeah, if I was going to watch Rise of Skywalker, it better have consisted of a battle of 2 droid-manned fleets trying to outmaneuver each other into suicide jumping the other. Like I previously mentioned. Now that I think about it - they completely ignored the possibility of hitting solid objects while performing FTL skips during the Rise of Skywalker. If you can hit solid objects while travelling FTL then a single chunk of anything the size of a pebble will erase your ship and given the amount of space debris from the recent wars... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 Has anyone mentioned that a parody of the film made by ''THAT VALLEY' in California could use exactly the same title ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 30, 2019 Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 47 minutes ago, ScottishFox said: Now that I think about it - they completely ignored the possibility of hitting solid objects while performing FTL skips during the Rise of Skywalker. If you can hit solid objects while travelling FTL then a single chunk of anything the size of a pebble will erase your ship and given the amount of space debris from the recent wars... Not to mention you would HAVE to pull out of hyperspace before you enter a solar system, all kinds of little meteorite (or meteoroid, my memory is mixing up which is space and which is hit atmosphere) that are wandering around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 I'm calling it now. Ep X will come out in 2045, and 30 years later a bitter failed Rey will have self-exiled to Hoth. And will be visited by a precocious droid child wanting to learn the ways of the Force. Said droid child will eventually think a star out of existence by Ep XII. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 7 hours ago, ScottishFox said: Allowing the faster-than-light ramming attack literally broke the Star Wars universe. I'm going to limit myself to just one "Yeah..... _that's_ what broke it......." comment and then move on. But it's nice to see that so many people totally got the implication there, as no one in the audience I shared the theater with seemed to appreciate the ramifications of that _at all_. 7 hours ago, ScottishFox said: Deathstars can be taken out by a single FTL droid-manned fighter. So can all other ships and planets. Game. Over. Again, it's nice to see people appreciating just how superfluous every single character (and that idiotic Jedi / Sith thing) became in that instant. And while I'm enjoying such technically-minded company, does anyone remember a particular novel-- No; I don't remember the title. I am trying to find that title, as it was the first thing I thought of when the ship turned and "light speeded" into the bad guy's flagship. At any rate: what I remember of the novel: 1) it wasn't very good. I don't mean just that it wasn't very satisfying (which it wasn't), but it wasn't particularly well-written, either. 2) races that were on the verge of discovering FTL were instantly deleted from the universe by FTL weapons: put an FTL drive on a reasonable chunk of mass, and point it toward a planet. Let physics take care of the rest. 3) No one ever saw it coming. No; I don't find that unbelievable. In fact, it made so much sense that I was a bit taken aback to see it in a sci-fi book. It amused me. The premise was that achieving FTL gave you the ultimate weapon: physics said so. And no one could stop you from using it, because they would never know that you used it. I will level with you: the entire book read like it was written by someone who _hated_ the FTL trope in sci-fi. The thing was he did such a practical job of handling the problem (go ahead and make it a weapon, and make sure that no one else ever will) that I had a grudging admiration for him. The problem, as I said, is that the book, while built around a delightful premise, was not well-written, meaning it was not particularly memorable, and I have to read it again because as I try to narrow down which book it was, I remember _nothing_ about the plot or the conclusion; I remember only that delightful "practical response to practical danger" premise. Can anyone here help a bit? Thanks to those who can! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 Afraid unless it is connected to a specific series, going to possibly be needle in haystack territory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 Star Wars’ last Jedi may use the Force of quantum sciencehttps://theconversation.com/star-wars-last-jedi-may-use-the-force-of-quantum-science-88764 The Last Jedi: latest Star Wars is a fable for our post-truth times https://theconversation.com/the-last-jedi-latest-star-wars-is-a-fable-for-our-post-truth-times-89256 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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