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- 2020-03-01 12:00am
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Volume of Xyston-class Star Destroyer?
- Replies: 108
- Views: 89497
Re: Volume of Xyston-class Star Destroyer?
To answer the question Go ahead and ignore what sw-v-st says, Robert Scott Anderson is nuttier than squirrel poop - you can find some of his insane behavior in the archives here - and terrible at math, science, or honesty. Hopefully that guy has gotten the mental health treatment he so desperately n...
- 2019-05-13 07:15pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: SUPERTHREAD: 2020 United States Elections
- Replies: 2322
- Views: 772389
Re: SUPERTHREAD: 2020 United States Elections
There are an almost infinite number of ways that the situation could go wrong, but suggesting that a Biden Presidency, or a Booker or Harris Presidency, would be as bad as a Trump one does nothing to help. Its not accurate, and all it does is play into Trumper/Kremlin "Both Sides" narrati...
- 2019-05-12 12:33pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Pelosi is worried Trump won't step down voluntarily if 2020 is a close race.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 26641
Re: Pelosi is worried Trump won't step down voluntarily if 2020 is a close race.
Frankly, this isn't even worthy to discuss unless it is backed by evidence that there is a substancial voting block at hand ready to start or "prevent" a coup. And a handful of white nationalist nutjobs who come on each other hoping that their re-enactment of 1984's Red Dawn comes true is...
- 2019-05-12 12:25pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Pelosi is worried Trump won't step down voluntarily if 2020 is a close race.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 26641
Re: Pelosi is worried Trump won't step down voluntarily if 2020 is a close race.
I reiterate: vote Democrat in the general, but in the primaries, you first consideration should now be: which candidates do I trust most to lead us in a civil war against Trumpism? I haven't given the question enough thought to say for sure, yet, but right now I'm leaning toward Pete Buttigieg in t...
- 2019-05-12 12:08pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: SUPERTHREAD: 2020 United States Elections
- Replies: 2322
- Views: 772389
Re: SUPERTHREAD: 2020 United States Elections
Biden, though unquestionably far better than Trump, I strongly question whether that is the case. Keep in mind, the worst case scenario is not 8 years of Trump. Trump is a fucking clown with a weak grasp over the party - he has largely bent to their will than the reverse. His low attention span and...
- 2019-05-12 10:11am
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Vader vs Obi-Wan fight fanfilm
- Replies: 98
- Views: 63233
Re: Vader vs Obi-Wan fight fanfilm
The prequels feels very different from the OT, because it is not trying to be the OT. The prequels have flaws, but I think the reason some of those fans latched onto the flaws is because they felt taken out of the movie. Also because it basically became a meme right at the start of YouTube movie ta...
- 2019-05-12 10:03am
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Vader vs Obi-Wan fight fanfilm
- Replies: 98
- Views: 63233
Re: Vader vs Obi-Wan fight fanfilm
Also, the seemingly positive response to this on Youtube from ST bashers tells me that the "Prequels/Disney ruined Star Wars" OT fanboys are often complete hypocrites, and at the end of the day, its not changes to the OT they care about, or flashy effects over substance, or character and ...
- 2019-05-10 10:20pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Vader vs Obi-Wan fight fanfilm
- Replies: 98
- Views: 63233
Re: Vader vs Obi-Wan fight fanfilm
I mean the strength of the OT fights doesn't come from the action, its the emotional resonance of it. In ROTJ when Luke comes tearing out of the dark to protect Leia and just goes completely apeshit on Vader, the action is goofy as hell - it looks like Luke is just beating Vader with a baseball bat....
- 2019-05-09 07:37am
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Vader vs Obi-Wan fight fanfilm
- Replies: 98
- Views: 63233
Re: Vader vs Obi-Wan fight fanfilm
I will say that the viscousness with which Vader strikes down Kenobi here feels more appropriate. The original is constrained by the effects of the time, and that it was a stuntman in an extremely heavy suit vs a classically trained 63 year old man. The fight is a lot of them striking at each other'...
- 2019-05-08 08:39pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Vader vs Obi-Wan fight fanfilm
- Replies: 98
- Views: 63233
Re: Vader vs Obi-Wan fight fanfilm
definitely heavy modern influences, particularly the hallway scene in Rogue One
I get what they were going for using that music, but it really doesn't fit there.
I get what they were going for using that music, but it really doesn't fit there.
- 2019-05-06 10:19pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: You are adviser to the monarch of Westeros (RAR)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9539
Re: You are adviser to the monarch of Westeros (RAR)
King Robert. The hard part of all of this is always the game of thrones itself. It is easy to list out social improvements, but the point is that you need to have a base of power and maintain that base against all comers. That means picking your allies, out maneuvering your enemies, etc. It is easy...
- 2019-05-05 11:58pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: You are adviser to the monarch of Westeros (RAR)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9539
Re: You are adviser to the monarch of Westeros (RAR)
King Robert. The hard part of all of this is always the game of thrones itself. It is easy to list out social improvements, but the point is that you need to have a base of power and maintain that base against all comers. That means picking your allies, out maneuvering your enemies, etc. It is easy ...
- 2019-05-01 10:20pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Godzilla 2: King of Monsters
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7395
Re: Godzilla 2: King of Monsters
But, seriously, I think it was just a mater of the right people getting a hold of the rights to the francise, and then PAYING ATTENTION to what made the original franchise work. the Godzilla reboot is brilliant because it replaces the original analogy of nuclear holocaust with the idea that an esch...
- 2019-05-01 10:17pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Godzilla 2: King of Monsters
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7395
- 2019-05-01 10:10pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: New Star Wars comic featuring Vader-obsessed fan girl causes controversy.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23743
- 2019-05-01 10:09pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: New Star Wars comic featuring Vader-obsessed fan girl causes controversy.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23743
Re: New Star Wars comic featuring Vader-obsessed fan girl causes controversy.
What's worse, though, is the contempt that seems to be present here, for the character and, by extinction, for many female fans as well as women who are drawn to abusive men. No. Let's be real clear here. This isn't "women are drawn to abusive men as empowering". This is "the power f...
- 2019-04-15 01:32pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: EP 9 teaser trailer
- Replies: 192
- Views: 105799
Re: EP 9 teaser trailer
The great heroes having no other avenue left and having to resort to such things might also be part of TLJ's playing with the conventions - showing the consequences and the no-other-choices people end up in, which discomforts and makes hard the happy-go-lucky power projection fantasies and escapism...
- 2019-04-15 01:22pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: EP 9 teaser trailer
- Replies: 192
- Views: 105799
Re: EP 9 teaser trailer
I am also often troubled by the glorification of suicide attacks in media. But its pretty clear to me that in ESB Luke expected to die, and that it was pure luck that he didn't. And I don't see how Holdo ramming the Supremacy is all that different from that A wing pilot ramming the Executor at Endo...
- 2019-04-15 07:28am
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: EP 9 teaser trailer
- Replies: 192
- Views: 105799
Re: EP 9 teaser trailer
I think context is important when judging whether depictions of heroic sacrifices count as glorifying suicide. If it is depicted as tragic or a last resort, it is less problematic than if it is depicted as expected or redeeming of some past cowardice on the part of the sacrificer, at which point yo...
- 2019-04-14 11:15pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: EP 9 teaser trailer
- Replies: 192
- Views: 105799
Re: EP 9 teaser trailer
I'll admit I read wholly different things from those events, considering Luke acknowledges how fucked up it was for him to try and kill Ben, and the "suicides to win" moments instead being acts of sacrifice so that others could live. The difference is made pretty stark as a concept when L...
- 2019-04-14 11:06pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: EP 9 teaser trailer
- Replies: 192
- Views: 105799
Re: EP 9 teaser trailer
I'd be fascinated to know from where you get those lessons in TLJ. or if you were asking where TLJ presents the usual star wars lessons about radical vulnerability, rejecting anger and fear, and trust and hope being greater than past hurts, the closest it comes is Luke's face off against Kylo. But ...
- 2019-04-14 10:51pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: EP 9 teaser trailer
- Replies: 192
- Views: 105799
- 2019-04-14 10:35pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: EP 9 teaser trailer
- Replies: 192
- Views: 105799
Re: EP 9 teaser trailer
No. This is Star Wars. The reason that swashbuckling million to one chances payoff is not because of "genre conventions". It is because of The Force. The series bakes in that it functions a certain way to it's very world building, from the first movie on. Throwing out the core premise of ...
- 2019-04-14 05:31pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: EP 9 teaser trailer
- Replies: 192
- Views: 105799
Re: EP 9 teaser trailer
Amusingly, it took less than 24 hours for the Episode IX teaser to accumulate 4M more views than the Solo teaser currently has. The argument that Solo just wasn't that interesting (amongst all its other hurdles) to the general audience than the main saga is pretty firmly established I think. It wil...
- 2019-04-14 05:25pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: EP 9 teaser trailer
- Replies: 192
- Views: 105799
Re: EP 9 teaser trailer
I'd say one problem with TLJ is that it uses typical framing for stuff like Poe of that suicide run to the point that details like how the suicide run was going to fail get lost in cliches like "this dangerous efforts looks like it's going to fail and a bunch of people think it will, but it ju...