Zentrex just filled his underwear with jizz.
We do need some of that Snoke time stuff though. I'm just worried about how potentially limited they are with the new movie coming out and the canon. Hope they can actually make new stories and add shit.
The Resistance issues are being written by Tom Taylor, so they might be decent. I am very curious to see the direction he goes with the Snoke and Kylo issues.
The Rebellion stuff is being written by Pak, though, so that should be...interesting.
Good thing I wasn't interested in The Rebellion time then anyway. I mean I'll read it, but that's not an interesting time for me, coupled by Pak being shit.
I lost any hope of them giving us what I actually want a while ago. But if this issue is actually seeing Snoke in his prime, in the Unknown Regions, getting to find out about what he did with the past two hundred years of his life...I don't want to get my hopes up, though.
We've been told about pretty much everything. We just haven't seen it in detail.
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He said he had "masters" in the Unknown Regions who told him never to fully trust visions of the Force in the TLJ novel. I don't have the exact quote, I don't own the novel.
He was in the Unknown Regions. Aftermath books, TLJ novel, TFA novel, Visual Dictionaries, Interviews, The Art of the Force Awakens, this museum exhibit in late 2015 which revealed some behind the scenes ideas.
Well, he doesn't know everything, but he did know what happened on the death star, and while we don't know, I think it's fair to say that he just used a force vision.
According to the TLJ novel, the Resistance is to blame for that. In the Aftermath books, there was a team of scouts who went into the Unknown Regions as part of a contingency plan in case the Empire falls. In the Thrawn Novel, many imperials were to go into the Unknown Regions to find whatever is inside. In Battlefront 2, Luke goes to Pillio and discovers plans to go into the Unknown Regions. In the Visual Dictionary for TLJ, it says that some imperials came into the Empire and would "surely have perished were it not for the attendants" who are these tall, mute people who were found in the unknown regions with Snoke.
So I say that he got them defending the Imperials from the Resistance.
The sources which have mentioned him make a big note of his phyiscal impairments, even saying that him walking and talking gives him extreme pain. So wielding a lightsaber would be out of the question.
lol, even the marketing team couldn't figure out a way to hide how unoriginal the new trilogy era is compared to the OT.
I'm always down for a Qui-Gon story though.
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It's also weird that they would use the First Order insignia to mark the sequel era. The "Age of Republic" is the Republic logo, makes sense, The "Age of Rebellion" is the Rebellion, okay, so I guess we're going by who our good guys are, and then the "Age of Resistance" is the First Order? Did they just think the logos looked too similar?
Well, the Resistance' logo is literally a carbon copy of the Rebel Alliance' logo. So they couldn't use it twice.
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I think I've realized why I'm not that engaged with this new canon as I am with the old one. Kudos for any of you that are, especially Galan who even goes through the extremely cheesy stuff(Resistance....).
The pieces are there, but a great deal of the puzzle just doesn't fit right to me. If that makes sense.
Zen, could you elaborate? Is it that the universe isn't as well connected, is that there's not enough of an overarching theme, or that there's no personal connection you have to any of the material?
The biggest thing is that the narrative just doesn't hold for me. In either the GCW era or the Resistance/FO era.
For GCW, it started with Rebels. What exactly is threatening about the Empire here? Their best and most threatening guy that wasn't from the OT or Legends, was killed in the first season and replaced by 2 morons. It doesn't help that in some episodes, the Rebels crew clearly should have all died but didn't.
Even when Thrawn came into the picture, that just made things worse. I get it that it was for fan service, but narratively...why send a ****ing Grand Admiral...THE Grand Admiral to deal with a Rebel cell? They could have easily put in Captain Piett who by all accounts given he ends up Admiral of Vader's personal fleet and the Executor, should be enough.
Also they try to excuse Thrawn's losses in this show by him saying he has some bigger plan, or he allowed to happen...but honestly doing it so many times I wasn't buying it all that much.
Agent Kallus turned traitor because.....reasons, spending a day with Zeb I guess. I didn't believe he became a Rebel, it didn't work right. The guy committed genocide of a species years ago(oh I'm sorry, supposed genocide) and I'm suppose to believe he's gonna defect because of....something? He was another wasted enemy that could have been used.
Also they take concepts from Legends into this series and just....I hated them. I'm not saying to have a complete carbon copy, but what they did was just....no. The Inquisitors, where's their differences? Why does it look like they come off an assembly line with their spinny lightsabers? They aren't any better in the comics either.
The TIE Defender....what a complete waste this was, only in for a few episodes, ship is destroyed by something it should have been able to destroy easy and the project halted completely because...unique fuel or some stupid reasoning. Also the pilot was a stupid hypocrite, says to follow orders in one episode...goes onto completely ignore his superior.
Rukh the Noghri Assassin. ......First impressions and he failed hard. Even later he wasn't much.
The comics, I did like Vader's first series, the other....ehh...some issues were ok. Art is on point, but other than that...meh didn't find em that engaging. The main SW series even less so apart from Obi-Wan's issues, SCAR squad was a complete waste imho, sgt Kreel was the only interesting one and that's only because of his lightsaber...which I don't really think he should have had but whatever.
But you know one of the biggest things? That the GCW ended a year after the Battle of Endor, that is probably what grinds me the most. Yeah, yeah, Palps designed the Empire to fall because he was petty....ok? So? It was pretty much like that in the previous continuity, difference was...it took a hell of a lot longer which makes a lot more sense given the scope of the Empire.
The Resistance/FO era isn't holding any better, if not worse because the movies seem disconnected from one another, this new Resistance series....I don't wanna talk about it, I'm still trying to get over what I watched.
The Clone Wars era is....alright I guess, probably because we haven't gotten much other than TCW, I find it ok. I wasn't big on Maul's series though didn't hate it but didn't really like it either, his older series from the early 2000s was much better imo.
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