All Things Star Wars thread

[Key]

My decision to wait is sounding better and better.

My wife said she probably would’ve liked it more had it simply been on Disney Plus.

 

[Here me roar]

So here's what I'm curious about - where does this Mando and Grogru story go now? Or was that the end of it?

I'm guessing nowhere. I don't know why Pedro Pascal would continue doing this. He's masked pretty much the entire time and he speaks in that particular monotone. It's not any kind of acting.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

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[Here me roar]

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Oh I'm certain there's some of that. But at the same time, once you have so much money, do you really need more? Pedro seems to be a kind and empathetic human being so I really hope he just doesn't want to amass more money just so he can say he did.

 

[sgreenwell]

Oh I'm certain there's some of that. But at the same time, once you have so much money, do you really need more? Pedro seems to be a kind and empathetic human being so I really hope he just doesn't want to amass more money just so he can say he did.

I mean, I kind of feel like his net worth is probably more in the 7 or 8 figure range, as opposed to someone who's super duper rich. Plenty nice, but he's someone that's really come along lately, 51 years old. Plus, I think he clearly just likes to work. He's been using his status to get as many roles as he can, most of them more interesting than Mando, which probably allows him to stretch his wings.

 

[outofplace]

If I remember correctly, he has been the one wanting to spend less and less time in the suit, turning it into as much of a voice role as possible.

 

[outofplace]

I read this on Facebook. He is not wrong. People think R2-D2 is comic relief, but he's ruthless. Don't even get me started on Chopper.

Reminder that R2-D2 – who witnessed Luke and Leia's births and knew they were twins – intentionally exploited Luke's attraction to his sister in order to complete his mission with the Death Star plans, then later watched them kiss on Hoth but said nothing.
That’s because R2 is the most cold-blooded (cold-circuited?) droid in the galaxy. His defining personality trait is an utterly ruthless commitment to completing the mission by any means necessary – regardless of how it impacts anyone else’s comfort, dignity, or safety.
C-3PO doesn't want to come with him when they land on Tatooine? R2 tells his best friend of 20 years "Suit yourself, dumbass" and leaves him to die in the desert.
Luke's uncle wants to buy a different astromech? R2 literally convinces that droid to blow his own brains out for the cause. (this is canon!)
R2 needs to trick Luke into removing his restraining bolt so he can find Obi-Wan? Initiate operation "get this redneck horned up for his own sister."
The predictable consequences of getting that redneck horned up for his sister start to emerge, and R2 has to choose between preventing incest or honoring Obi-Wan's InfoSec protocols? Sorry kids, hope you use protection.
Luke's plan for rescuing Han from Jabba's palace involves tricking R2's best friend into slavery in a place where droids are routinely tortured and killed for entertainment? "Damn, Threepio is gonna hate this. Let's do it, lol."
R2-D2 isn’t the lovable comic relief, he’s a ruthless career intelligence operative who happens to look like a trash can. If compromising your physical and emotional wellbeing increases the probability of mission success by 0.3%, then buddy, you’re about to have a really weird week

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Chopper is a monster.

 

[outofplace]

Chopper is a monster.

Yup. Just search "Chopper is a murder droid" and all sorts of fun stuff pops up.

Chopper kill count

 

[Bubbler]

I read this on Facebook. He is not wrong. People think R2-D2 is comic relief, but he's ruthless. Don't even get me started on Chopper.

Reminder that R2-D2 – who witnessed Luke and Leia's births and knew they were twins – intentionally exploited Luke's attraction to his sister in order to complete his mission with the Death Star plans, then later watched them kiss on Hoth but said nothing.

Meh. I do not like retrofitting the sequels plot points to the original films. George Lucas didn't know any of that when the original "Star Wars" was made.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Meh. I do not like retrofitting the sequels plot points to the original films. George Lucas didn't know any of that when the original "Star Wars" was made.

George Lucas didn't know much of anything.

 

[sgreenwell]

George Lucas didn't know much of anything.

The original trilogy as it went along seemed like an example of "hey this would be fun, let's go with that." Whereas the prequel and sequel trilogies get so often hung up on pedantry about how things fit together.

 

[Bubbler]

The original trilogy as it went along seemed like an example of "hey this would be fun, let's go with that." Whereas the prequel and sequel trilogies get so often hung up on pedantry about how things fit together.

Star Wars fans are kind of suckers this way too. For the longest time, the legend was that Lucas had all nine of these stories planned out. What he really had was a very basic idea of how it might be and then they tweaked as they went along. There was stuff left out of "Star Wars" that were allegedly supposed to be central to the plot, like the whole Biggs story arc.

One of the very few novelizations of a movie I ever read was "Star Wars" when I was a kid. Reading it, I was like, "Who the **** is Biggs?" He's barely in the released movie, but the original story in the novelization features him heavily, especially at the start.

I've never read (because, frankly, I don't care) about when they decided to make Luke and Leia siblings. It's clearly alluded to in "Empire Strikes Back", but not at all in "Star Wars", which makes me think that relationship was conceived after the fact. I'm sure a Star Wars fan can correct me if I'm wrong.

The prequels and sequels to the original three films are, as you said, an exercise in filling in a puzzle. (The reason "Rogue One" works so well is that it is implicitly this way and expands beyond a fairly narrow original premise of "how did this happen?")

It's tiresome. And a lot of it is fan service for the sake of it which got more brazen as the movies went along. (Leia in space, Chewbacca surviving an explosion because ... he can?) I mean ... who cares whether R2D2 was at the birth of Luke and Leia? Other than the "ooh" factor for nerds, how is that remotely important?

Maybe what Lucas is really trying to imply is that R2D2 is God? He's omnipotent and all-observing, pulling the strings. R2D2 is the Force! Yet he decided to hang out with C3P0 so perhaps not.

 

[I Should Coco]

Star Wars fans are kind of suckers this way too. For the longest time, the legend was that Lucas had all nine of these stories planned out. What he really had was a very basic idea of how it might be and then they tweaked as they went along. There was stuff left out of "Star Wars" that were allegedly supposed to be central to the plot, like the whole Biggs story arc.

One of the very few novelizations of a movie I ever read was "Star Wars" when I was a kid. Reading it, I was like, "Who the **** is Biggs?" He's barely in the released movie, but the original story in the novelization features him heavily, especially at the start.

I've never read (because, frankly, I don't care) about when they decided to make Luke and Leia siblings. It's clearly alluded to in "Empire Strikes Back", but not at all in "Star Wars", which makes me think that relationship was conceived after the fact. I'm sure a Star Wars fan can correct me if I'm wrong.

The prequels and sequels to the original three films are, as you said, an exercise in filling in a puzzle. (The reason "Rogue One" works so well is that it is implicitly this way and expands beyond a fairly narrow original premise of "how did this happen?")

It's tiresome. And a lot of it is fan service for the sake of it which got more brazen as the movies went along. (Leia in space, Chewbacca surviving an explosion because ... he can?) I mean ... who cares whether R2D2 was at the birth of Luke and Leia? Other than the "ooh" factor for nerds, how is that remotely important?

Maybe what Lucas is really trying to imply is that R2D2 is God? He's omnipotent and all-observing, pulling the strings. R2D2 is the Force! Yet he decided to hang out with C3P0 so perhaps not.

didn't the Ewoks worship C3PO as a god in "Return of the Jedi"? Haven't seen that one in a long time.

Of course, maybe they just edited that out for the re-release, like they did that goofy Ewok song at the end.