It’s like any previous President!

Why, I have no idea to which habitually “well, actually...” simian-adjacent commenter you refer!

That appears to be a screencap from the YouTube series “Critical Role,” a real D&D group comprised of L.A.-based voice actors, so I guess you could say it’s their DM that’s the real racist here.

Obi-wan doesn’t say he doesn’t recognize them, though. All he says about R2 belonging to him is that he doesn’t “seem to recall ever owning a droid,” which was more of his specifically true bullshit. R2 belonged to Senator Amidala, and Obi-wan’s own astromech droid was issued to him by the Republic, not his personal…

I actually agree with you, but if the Jedi has never existed, the Republic would have been forced to maintain a professional standing army to keep the peace, hunt pirates, deter the corporate armies, etc. A longstanding GAR, presumably not made up of clones brainwashed/microchipped to be personally loyal to Palpatine,…

Named by Lucas’s adult daughter, no less.

It’s probably a lot more elegant than what they’re going to come up with. It seems Disney is still adhering to the Rule of Two, however. Sidious only recruited Tyrannus after Maul was presumed dead in the Theed Palace. I also don’t see Vader suffering an apprentice of equal stature to live.

He may have been too old and slow in real life to dodge all those lightsaber strikes. He also might not have a lightsaber any longer (we only see Luke’s in flashback, and Rey took Anakin’s with her).

All I did was groan at the writing that was beating me over the head with its aren’t-we-so-clever flourish of having everything Snoke said make sense both ways that it actually sounded unnatural. It was hard for me to enjoy the part I knew was coming next.

I don’t know if these films have the time to delve into minutiae like that—

We knew from the original novelization that the Emperor was Palpatine, a Galactic Senator who seized supreme power to take over the government. Although it was unclear then if he was a member of the Imperial Senate they refer to in the film, or a Republic Senator who then overthrew the Republic. We didn’t find out…

They don’t even show the Republic fleet in the movie, do they? I had to see the production sketches to learn that they were stupid enough to park their entire fleet in the system that was their capital that year, and that they all got wiped out.

What spoilers there are—i.e., who and what lives and dies—I feel are strong enough to hold up on repeat viewings, and won’t be ruined by knowing ahead of time.

Or that genre movies nowadays generate massive amounts of cash, rather than being viewed as an embarrassment.

About 2,000 calories, I’m guessing.

Did you inform them that it’s no longer 1998?

Maybe try not eating so much goddamn cocaine.

So it’s not a Hoth analogue. It just looks and plays exactly like a Hoth analogue in the speeders vs. walkers fight on the flat white plain in front of the hidden Rebel base that they’ve fled to from their previous green planet base with the stone hangars. Down to the exact same shots of rows of suicidal Rebel…

I don’t understand your quote. Motti never said that the Jedi weren’t real, and wasn’t even surprised by Vader’s use of the Force. He just viewed such little tricks as insignificant compared to the Death Star’s force projection ability. Han didn’t dispute that there used to be religious police with laser swords, just…

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