Star Wars Megathread

[celedhring]

Christ, that "fan film" probably has more budget than most of the stuff I work in 

Cute idea. They should've gone all in and made it an Indy/Star Wars crossover.

[garbon]

A rather odd Guardian article about where this writer thinks Star Wars should go next after the Mandolorian season 2 ending. I like the comments section.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/24/luke-skywalker-the-mandalorian-new-mark-hamill-led-star-wars-movies

[Josquius]

More of the same in series 2. Light on plot but high on flash. Fun.
.... But....
This means kylo ren kills baby yoda?

[viper37]

This means kylo ren kills baby yoda?

20 years from now, he might have moved elsewhere

[celedhring]

Nearly finished with Rebels. Lots of love for how much of the old EU backstory they kept for Thrawn. Having an entire multi-season story arc revolving around the [spoiler]TIE Defender[/spoiler] truly pleased my teenager me.

I'm going to summon Syt for something though. Is there an in-universe reason as for why X-Wings never show up until the last season? They [spoiler]devoted an entire episode to the origin story of the B-Wing[/spoiler], but X-Wings are not addressed and being such an iconic craft, it's kinda strange (because they are never shown until the last season, implying the Rebellion didn't have them yet).

[celedhring]

Oh, and regarding the darksaber inconsistencies with Mandalorian.

[spoiler]The whole "you have to take it via combat" thing is indeed present in rebels, just for some weird reason is never alluded to when Bo-Katan receives it from Sabine.[/spoiler]

[Oexmelin]

I think the rationale re: crafts is that every rebel cell had access to different material. Hence the cell in Rebels had access to the A-Wing and Dodonna's cell to the Y-Wing. X-Wings have not been covered, I am willing to bet deliberately.

[Syt]

What Oex said. Considering how iconic the X-Wing is and that the show runs basically up to the events of Rogue One, it seems deliberate, but I have no info.

Wookieepedia is also very sparse:

The X-wing was descended from Incom Corporation's Clone Wars–era starfighters, namely the Aggressive ReConnaissance-170 starfighter, Clone Z-95 Headhunter, and Z-95 Headhunter. Incom's engineers strove to build a well-rounded, hyperdrive-equipped snubfighter with no exploitable weakness. The new starfighter was intended to become the backbone of the Imperial Navy, but political forces led to the Galactic Empire deciding to rely on Sienar Fleet Systems' more affordable TIE line. The Alliance to Restore the Republic then adopted the X-wing design as its own.

In old EU, the ships were secured in a raid [spoiler]similar to what we see with the B-Wings in Rebels[/spoiler].

[FunkMonk]

In TIE Fighter, Z-95s were flying garbage cans with no armor or shielding. They exploded quite easily 

I hated trying to shoot down Y-Wings and B-Wings though. Fuckers could take a ton of hits.

[celedhring]

What Oex said. Considering how iconic the X-Wing is and that the show runs basically up to the events of Rogue One, it seems deliberate, but I have no info.

Wookieepedia is also very sparse:

The X-wing was descended from Incom Corporation's Clone Wars–era starfighters, namely the Aggressive ReConnaissance-170 starfighter, Clone Z-95 Headhunter, and Z-95 Headhunter. Incom's engineers strove to build a well-rounded, hyperdrive-equipped snubfighter with no exploitable weakness. The new starfighter was intended to become the backbone of the Imperial Navy, but political forces led to the Galactic Empire deciding to rely on Sienar Fleet Systems' more affordable TIE line. The Alliance to Restore the Republic then adopted the X-wing design as its own.

In old EU, the ships were secured in a raid [spoiler]similar to what we see with the B-Wings in Rebels[/spoiler].

The Shantipole episode in Rebels is a very obvious homage to the old EU RPG module that dealt with the same incident. I love that Filoni is such an obvious geek, and loved the same geek things I did. 

[spoiler]Instead of a planet where it's very difficult to land, Shantipole was a research station in the middle of an asteroid field. There was also a Mon Cal in charge (although it was Ackbar in the module). Like in the episode, you ended up taking the prototypes to break an Imperial blockade.[/spoiler]

[Josquius]

I've heard it said often clone wars is worth a watch.
I recall watching some of it many years ago and found it Meh... But turns out there's 2 series. I saw the cartoon. There's also the Pixar styled one which is the good one.
But apparently it was all shown completely out of order and there's a proper order to watch it in.
This is all needlessly complex.

[Grey Fox]

There's a animated movie & there is 7 season worth of ~20minutes episodes.

Yes, you are right, it is needlessly complex. But that was GL for you.

[Syt]

I've heard it said often clone wars is worth a watch.
I recall watching some of it many years ago and found it Meh... But turns out there's 2 series. I saw the cartoon. There's also the Pixar styled one which is the good one.
But apparently it was all shown completely out of order and there's a proper order to watch it in.
This is all needlessly complex.

Only the first two seasons were out of order, IIRC (and maybe a stray episode or so in season 3); after that it's all in order. Personally, I find no issue with just watching them in broadcast order. The movie is quite "eh" and mostly serves as contrast to how much better the series got. It's not much of a movie and more a few episodes stitched together.

[Syt]

On the topic of "people age weirdly in the Star Wars universe"

[Habbaku]

Another mark in favor of not turning Anakin into Vader until the kids were a little older. And not making Luke and Leia twins so that the line about Leia's young memories of her mother didn't turn out to be retconned into something impossible.