Star Wars Megathread

[celedhring]

Looks like Tarkin was promoted between episodes of the show 

[Syt]

Star Wars Explained in their post show podcast brought this up and that it doesn't quite match up the books where he's promoted later. But they also more or less shrugged their shoulders at this, not sure if it was intentional or accidental.

Alex pointed out that when they made those insignia for A New Hope some prop guy probably just glued some bits and pieces together that looked like insignia with more squares just meaning higher rank and it wasn't till later that proper meanings were attached to each pattern.

[celedhring]

Yeah, the exact ranks for each insignia are clearly ex-post. IIRC Moff Jerjerrod in ROTJ doesn't even wear the same one as Tarkin in ANH.

My bet is that someone put the wrong insignia on Tarkin's animated model and now they'll have to retcon everything 

[Syt]

And then we're not even talking about the whole Grand Moff vs Governor Tarkin thing.

Anyways, here's Grandma Tarkin.

[celedhring]

You know, you've made me look up his cameo in Revenge of the Sith:



Moff insignia.

[Tamas]

Is it possible a kids' program failed to be consistent?

[The Minsky Moment]

Maybe the empire just had a chicklet shortage?

[HVC]

Clones. There are multiple Tarkin's (Tarkini?) at at different ranks. Time line maintained

[Barrister]

Clones. There are multiple Tarkin's (Tarkini?) at at different ranks. Time line maintained

But then why is Tarkin so skeptical about clone troopers?

[Grey Fox]

Clones. There are multiple Tarkin's (Tarkini?) at at different ranks. Time line maintained

But then why is Tarkin so skeptical about clone troopers?

They don't know their clones.

[viper37]

Looks like Tarkin was promoted between episodes of the show 

Moff is a civilian rank, akin to sector governor.Even though they wear military uniforms, they answer to the Emperor, not the military chain of command.  Technically, not a promotion.
Ah, figure the old European colonization model.  I guess Spanish colonies were similar to New France.  In 1757, Montcalm was the general leading the military expeditions against the British, but Vaudreuil was responsible for all military forces left in what is now Quebec, as well as civilian operation of the colony.  That would be like a Moff.  Except the French never got a Death Star to destroy Albany.

[Zoupa]

Just came across The Rise of Skywalker on one of those streaming websites I "subscribe" to.

I gave it another go, as I thought "It couldn't be as bad as I remember after the 1st viewing".

It's so bad, Jesus Christ it's bad. I burst out laughing a couple of times.

[celedhring]

Looks like Tarkin was promoted between episodes of the show 

Moff is a civilian rank, akin to sector governor.Even though they wear military uniforms, they answer to the Emperor, not the military chain of command.  Technically, not a promotion.
Ah, figure the old European colonization model.  I guess Spanish colonies were similar to New France.  In 1757, Montcalm was the general leading the military expeditions against the British, but Vaudreuil was responsible for all military forces left in what is now Quebec, as well as civilian operation of the colony.  That would be like a Moff.  Except the French never got a Death Star to destroy Albany.

I always thought moffs more as Roman governors, which both ran a province and commanded its military forces.

[The Larch]

Just came across The Rise of Skywalker on one of those streaming websites I "subscribe" to.

I gave it another go, as I thought "It couldn't be as bad as I remember after the 1st viewing".

It's so bad, Jesus Christ it's bad. I burst out laughing a couple of times.

The Rise of Skywalker was sentenced the moment the openin crawl brought up Palpatine.

[celedhring]

Just came across The Rise of Skywalker on one of those streaming websites I "subscribe" to.

I gave it another go, as I thought "It couldn't be as bad as I remember after the 1st viewing".

It's so bad, Jesus Christ it's bad. I burst out laughing a couple of times.

The Rise of Skywalker was sentenced the moment the openin crawl brought up Palpatine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx03yPXg4ZQ

Such a terrible creative decision, made even worse by how they don't even give a fuck about explaining it