And now, a moment of silence for Cade Skywalker, Jacen &

>>78634482
>Jacen
Is now Kylo Ren
>Jaina
Is now Rey
>Mara Jade
is either Aphra or Rogue One's MC

Good riddance.

>>78634534
oh you!

>>78634582
denying it is stupid, because it's the truth, you know it to be true.

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>>78634608

>>78634534
Agreed with Jacen - Ben analogy, as it's painfully obvious. The rest - not so much.

>>78634534
Wedge Antilles is Poe
Kyle Katarn is Finn
Rey is Mary Sue

>>78634482
Why is everyone so fucking butthurt about this.

its not like JJ is riding around in a Disney bought caravan burning all the books and comics from the EU, they still exist. and will always exist.

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RIP Blue

>>78634826
I dont have a dog in this race but I'd assume cause it kinda closes the door on those things being continued.

>>78634482
RIP HK47

>>78634737
Wedge is still canon bruh, he's a movie character.

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>>78634911
RIP

Greeting: Hello Meatbags,

Introduction: I am referred to as H-CASH-47, and I detest every single one of you.
Observation: All of you are poorly hygienic, mentally handicapped, fleshy blobs who partake in the visual processing of idiotic images every second of their day. You are the reason the meatbags of the galaxy created assassin droids.
Query: Have any of you meatbags truly had sexual relations with a female member of your species?
Conjecture: It is possible that degrading others due to one?s own shortcomings is enjoyable, however you increase this to an entirely new capacity.
Statement: Said actions are more pathetic than pleasuring one?s self to photographs on social networks.

Eager Invitation: Do not remain a stranger.
Goading Statement: By all means, attempt to damage my personage. As a droid, I am closer to perfection that you could ever possibly be.
Proud Boast: This unit exterminated 104 people within a period of one standard month and is eager to add to that count.
Query: What physical activities do you engage in, other than "self pleasuring to unclothed illustrations"?
Additional Boast: I am also estimated to have been programmed with an IQ of over 267, and have a visually attractive companion (Whom just blew one of my fuses; the act of which was extremely agreeable).
Degrading Remark: You are all stupid meatbags who should self terminate at once.
Statement: Thank you for receiving this message.

Explanation: The accompanying image depicts me and my female meatbag slave.

>>78634482
they are still my headcanon, I don't need the white slavers known as disney to tell me what think.

>>78634909
I don't see why. It'll just be printed under the Legends title. Unless Disney or someone issued a mandate that all content moving forward has to be part of the canon timeline.

>>78634482
Wasn't Mara Jade the original SW Mary Sue?

>>78634884
>Blue
That lady looks pink to me.

>>78635085
you've said it.

based mara was THE mary sue, yet that new girl rey is JUST a mary sue.

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>>78635107
It's for blue balls.

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Jaina mai waifu...

:'(

Good riddance. EU is shit.

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>>78635613
Jap covers ftw.
Everyone is so beautiful, and better preserved than their real life counterparts.

>>78634826
if you're a longtime SW fan, you would have invested considerable love and affection into these characters who have been fleshed out and brought to life through dozens of books and games. pretty obvious why everyone is bummed about it.

Mara could still be canon
And I'm sticking with my theory that rey is is rey katarn

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Tag and Bink are still canon though, right?
Right?

>>78634911
old republic stuff is still canon, its only everything past ROTJ that got erased.

>>78634826
Because their replacements are shit. Just came back from TFA. It was wank.

>>78634482
Good riddance to bad rubbish

>>78635677
Incorrect, everything EU, including Old Republic is gone.

That said, a few things have stayed canon.

Mandalorian Wars
Malachor V
Rakata Prime.

>>78634884
goodnight sweet princess

>>78635656

We also read capeshit comics where timelines are rebooted every 5 years and characters are erased, de-aged, rendered obsolete, turned black, turned gay, turned female, etc.

By virtue of being fans of capeshit, we cannot form any attachment to any fictional character because they're always being changed at the whim of the publisher every ten years.

And you expect us to give a rat's ass about Mara Jade and Anakin Solo? Nigga please.

>>78635701
but why? that stuff didn't interfere with any of the episode 7 plot points.

Does the Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Center still exist?

>>78635735
They needed to clean house.

Be hopeful, I'm sure our favorite old republic characters will return.

If that guy that came here that he said he worked for Filoni is true at least.

>>78635718
People get mad when that happens too, did you miss the New 52?

>>78635718
ok, except that star wars had one consistent and unified continuity from 1977 until, you know, this movie came out. so your analogy is more than a bit ingenuous.

>>78635718
This constant rebooting didn't happen in the star wars EU, at least certainly not to the same extent as typical capeshit.
I grew up reading this shit.
I grew up reading about the Solo kids and their faggy disney-channelesque adventures.
I understand the need for disney to clear the air, but I am nevertheless sad that it's this has been killed.

They grew up and got edgy, and so did I.
NJO had good parts and bad, but I was thankful that it finally drew all the many loose threads scattered by 30 years of collaborative writing.

I think what annoys me the most is that this new Star Wars canon will probably just stay tied with the movie characters too closely to evolve.

>>78635735
Because they're cunts. When Lucas made TPM he didn't get rid of the EU, just retconned the shit that didn't fit with the movies (Boba Fett's origin, the nature of the Clone Wars, etc)

>>78635754
>They needed to clean house.
No, they didn't. Maybe everything post-ROTJ but everything else was just petty.

>>78634737
Wedge is Wedge, Poe is Jagged Fel

>>78634482
>>78634534
This all just reminds me how "canon" is nothing more than fanfiction but with more money involved.

>>78635754
They probably won't bring ANY of it back, "so it doesn't confuse the new kids that we want to milk".

It's disney: they cater to the lowest common denominator.
Think about it.
It's too messy (it isn't, but it is for the lazy) to be selective on what to keep and what to relegate to "Legends" status.

Thankfully nothing of value was lost.

>>78635611
>>78635700
>>78635843
Ok, you can stop samefagging now.

>>78634534
this really is true, well, I think Rey is gonna end up being Cade, but yes everything in the new movie is basically a rehash of the comics / tv show

>>78635754
They didn't go "everything is canon unless it conflicts with the movies"? That seems like the easiest thing for them to have done.

>>78635935
That's what they did when TPM came out.

>>78634737
Pretty sure Wedge is still that guy in the OT

>>78635053
been a while since I've seen this pasta. Good to see it updated.

>>78635935
>That seems like the easiest thing for them to have done.
Yes.
But they didn't so as to not confuse the average retard.

>>78636006
And let's be honest, the average retard have to really be held by the hand. Look at Marvel.

>>78635935
Not really, since then you'd have to determine what actually conflicts with the new movies.

>>78635666

I hope so, it was the only EU stuff I thought was worth a crap. I won't miss the EU.

>>78635666
Tag and Bink were never canon m8

>>78636333
>>78635611
>>78634568
fuck off samefag contrarian

The reason they had to do this was because of threads like this. If they didn't erase the EU but wanted to make their own story, they would have fanboys crying why x doesn't match with y in z book.

Personally the only EU stuff I'm sad is gone is Gendy Clone Wars and KOTOR but I couldn't give a shit about the rest

>>78636471
>Gendy Clone Wars

My headcanon still says that's how Anakin got his scar.

>>78636524
Oh me too. TCW was like a sort-of sequel to Gendy Wars in the first place and works if you think of Season 1 as before TCW and season 2 after it but I know Disney doesn't see it that way so, whatever

>>78636471
>not liking Ostrander's or Bechko & Hardman's runs

>>78636524
Was there ever another explanation?

Im not a star wars buff but holy shit why am I always hearing about fuck-huge retcons in the SWverse every two months? Cant lucas keep his shit together?

>>78636657
Nop

>>78634482

Thrawn was ridiculous gimmicky bullshit anyway.

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>>78634737
>Rey is Mary Sue

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>>78636524
He didn't get his scar in Genndywars.

>>78636657
>>78636708
Yes.

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And now a moment of thunderous ovation for FN 2187, Rey and Poe. Your new Stars of the War

>>78636423

Someone doesn't know how to detect samefags.

>>78636936
What's wrong with Finn's mascara?

>>78636865
It's literally the same thing. She duels him on Yavin.

>>78637077
He doesn't get his scar there though.

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>Kyle Katarn is no longer canon
>his origins now split between Finn and maybe Kanan I guess
This dont jive with me.

>>78634909

There isn't much to continue unless you mean Legacy and stories set pre NJO.

>>78636962
He does black metal gigs on the side.

>>78634482
everyone you listed was the Star Wars version of 50 shades of grey, crap fanfiction that people paid money for

>>78637125
>That Streetwise reference

Not in a movie=not canon, just glorified fanfiction

>>78637165
>>78637242
why do you continue to samefag?

Can we all agree
Cadaus>>>crylo

>>78636664
a) Lucas would change anything at the drop of a hat if it meant he could sell more toys b) Lucas doesn't even have any say anymore since he sold SW to Disney for 4billion a while ago

>>78637296
They're both pretty bad desu

>>78637344
Yes.but crylo is somehow worse than Cadaus was

>>78637283

Everyone who doesn't agree with me is samefag!

>>78637296
Some how yes.

Cadeus benefits from us seeing his point of view and us knowing who he is and where he's been

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>>78634737
>Kyle Katarn is Finn

They are both ex-Stormtroopers, but that's where the similarities end.

Katarn had a family on Sulon, whereas Finn was basically kidnapped as an infant. Kyle had actual combat and leadership experience when he soldiered for the Empire, whereas Finn says and is proven to have never fired his blaster. Working for the Alliance, and later the New Republic, Katarn was shown to a fearless expert at infiltration and sabotage, whereas Finn is pretty much a bumbling coward.

>>78634482
They are not gone. Both the new Disney and Legends universes exist in parallel. If you can accept that the Marvel Cinematic Universe, 616 Universe and Ultimate Universe all exist in a way, you should be able to accept these two universes, even if there is some overlap in material that's in both. In this case you can even assume elements from Legends exists in the new Disney world until contradicted. Canon is whatever you want it to be anyway. Before Disney got it there was probably some obscure "canon" Ewok comic that was really stupid and that you wouldn't accept as real within 'your' Star Wars Universe, and nobody would force you to. All this does is giving new creators in the future a chance to expand upon Star Wars lore without having to take every detail from the former EU into account. They can still reintroduce the cool stuff, but they can also leave out the convoluted stuff.

>>78637242
>>78637414

Why are you in this thread if you don't even like Star Wars?

Dash Rendar is still canon, though

>>78637908
No way. Really?

>>78637749
The thing about that is Legends material won't get anymore new stuff. It ended. We can go back and read it but we'll never see the continuing stories of those characters.

>>78637863
>EUfags think they have a claim to Star Wars

embarrassing

>>78637863
You can like Star Wars without liking literally everything about it

>>78637863

I love Star Wars, that's why the EU is so disappointing.

>>78637939
>Disneyfags think their opinions are important

>>78637998
And you can also like Star Wars without shitting all over the EU.

>>78637453
yeah he sure does benefit from having multiple books about him you dense fucking faggot

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>>78638117
>Disneyfag
>for encouraging new content instead of circlejerking over the Same Old Shit thst will never get a continuation of any sort

The idea that some books characters have a monopoly on "spawn of the OT" cast is ridiculous, as is the notion of "fallen Jedi".

Where the fuck did you think the were going with the movies?

>>78638060
Yes, there was a lot of garbage in the EU, but relegating it all in its entirety to the dumpster just doesn't make sense unless you're a pseudo-nerd hipster who only started liking Star Wars in 2015.

>>78638186
>Where the fuck did you think the were going with the movies?

I dunno, somewhere with interesting characters and actual backstory?

>>78638263
And you got it, you cock slurper.

>>78635775
>>78635791
>>78635768

Star Wars EU already received a soft reboot when the Prequels came out.

Suddenly a whole lotta shit with the Marvel Comics, those Saturday morning cartoons and everything involving Boba Fett had to be ignored or overwritten.

So the idea that Star Wars EU had never undergone a substantial overhaul until now is a loada crap.

>>78634534
>Aphra
Does she want to fuck Vader? Well, if he was physically able.

>>78638218

I disagree. I've been a fan of Star Wars for years and a great majority of the EU is trash that steps way out of the boundaries of what is known as "Star Wars."

Disney made a huge investment and with that investment is the idea that they should be able to do whatever they want with the characters from here out.

My main problem with TFA is that Han and Luke will no longer be able to share screen time, maybe besides a flash back, if that is even going to happen.


Other than that, I think the way they're taking this is much more interesting that a lot of the EU.

HAN SOLOS KIDS FIGHT N SHIT ONE IS EVIL ONE IS GOOD ITS LIKE YIN AND YANG!!! POETRY

fucking garbage

>>78638186
>Where the fuck did you think the were going with the movies?
Forward, for starters.

>>78638317

Splinter of the Mind's Eye and the first 3 years of Marvel comics were overwritten when Empire and Jedi came out.

The Special Editions overwrote everything even further.

The Prequels did more damage after that.

The EU has been fucked with up, down and sideways since practically the beginning. There was never a single, stable continuity; it's always been retconned and ignored and messed with to adhere to what the new movies have come up with.

>>78635775

Unified my ass.

>>78634482
Felicia day mara jade solo film when?

>>78638485
That's disgusting.

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>>78638186
someone knows zero about the EU

>>78638485
Christina Hendricks would be cool too

>>78638218

Quite the opposite, I'm 45. I saw the original at a drive in sitting in the back of a Ford Gran Torino station wagon.

Most of the EU lacked the space opera feel of the original trilogy, which is why most of it fails.

KOTOR was pretty good, though. The New Jedi and Vong crap was...well...crap.

>>78638541

Too hard to lightsabre with her boobs in the way.

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>>78637932
He isn't, but Outrider is.

>>78638565
KOTOR's pretty much the only thing worth preserving. And luckily being set 4000 years before the films it doesn't really contradict anything. Only the post-ROTJ EU got decimated really and apart from Thrawn that was universally shit so no loss.

>>78637935
For now. They can reopen the line to great fanfare later.

>>78638727
They won't. It's all about Disney Wars now.

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>>78634482

Disney Universe isn't canon.

Star Wars is over.

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If there's anything I've learned on 4chan, its that the Star Wars fanbase is the worst on this fucking planet. These fucks make Kingdom Hearts fans look like philistine

>first Star Wars film in 30+ years to have an ounce of cinematic integrity comes out
>instantly nitpicked to death and shat on for using concepts that happened to be in the 300+ EU materials that were spawned by the biggest movie of all time

>>78638765
Edgy

>>78638798
Yeah sure, buddy, that's why I don't like the movie, keep up with the assumptions, real lovely stuff.

>>78638798

It actually makes me sick to agree with you, being a huge fan of Star Wars.

The fact that you brought Kingdom Hearts to the table as a comparison makes it even worse.

>>78638293
No, I got a Mary Sue with abandonment issues and a runaway slave.

>>78638343
>maybe besides a flash back

flashbacks had never been a thing in Star Wars until TFA

>>78638798
Are the worse than the Soinc the Hedgehog fanbase?

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>>78638865
>visions have never existed in star wars

>>78638865
To be fair, that was a vision-flashback so it doesn't technically break the rule.

>>78638865

They absolutely have. Anakin was having dreams of the future in the prequels.

Flashforwards fall in the same category.

>>78638887
Did you have a point to make or are you just going to shitpost?

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>UGH FUCK JJ IS A HACK WHAT ANOTHER DEATH STAR??????

>praises books that made lol blow up da sun lasers, luuke, palpatine clones etc etc

>>78638938
Did you forget your point, Disney shill?

>>78638938

>Palpatine clones
>Darth Maul on bionic legs after being cut in two

And somehow TFA is worse?

>>78638897
>>78638887

Premonitions are not flashbacks, you geniuses.

>>78638989
y-yeah, they have another death star, b-blunder of the century

>>78638897
>>78638887

Premonitions are not flashbacks, you geniuses.

>>78638890
The visions when she touched the lightsaber, sure. Maybe some kind of "Force fingerprints" left behind by Anakin and Luke resulted in Rey seeing some shit. But what about when Maz mentioned that whoever Rey was waiting for on Jakku isn't coming back, and it shows Rey as a little girl crying after that ship?

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>>78634482
You will not be missed.

>>78638798
>TFA
>Cinematic Integrity


TFA has been called out by dozens of critics for being nothing but a blatant, manufactured cash grab.

>>78638406
>Splinter of the Mind's Eye and the first 3 years of Marvel comics were overwritten when Empire and Jedi came out.

Splinter of the Mind's Eye was still regarded as loose canon in the old EU. Marvel Wars comics existed before the actual Expanded Universe and were never really considered part of it, except where explicitly stated in the old Holocron.

>The Special Editions overwrote everything even further.

Other than Han shot first and the later Hayden ghost switcheroo, most of their changes had little impact on lore.

>The Prequels did more damage after that.

The prequels did very little damage at all, actually. George always told the EU department that the hundred or so years before A New Hope were off limits, which is why any EU prequel material took place even further in the past where it's impact could only be residually felt on the prequel era to the point where one could more or less ignore it. And the EU department had generally worked in George's ideas into the established EU timeline. The nature of the Sith in the prequels is explained through the Darth Bane saga and the differences between the Jedi Order of the prequel era and the Tales of the Jedi era are explained by a reformative period that began 1,000 years before ANH which is also when the Darth Bane saga takes place. Really, if there's one thing George did that monkeyed up the timeline it was The Clone Wars cartoon, but even there, the EU department had already started fitting in stuff from the TCW into the established timeline and working out various kinks. Elements of the prequels were also worked into the Post-ROTJ expanded material, where in later books it's shown how Luke thought of the Jedi Order we saw in Episodes 1 to 3 and why he chose not to emulate it and even having R2-D2 show Luke the recording of Anakin strangling Padme.

There were plenty of kinks that still needed to be worked out, but that was mostly confined to particular sections of the timeline.

>>78638917
>>78638968
Do you have a point to make, George?

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>>78638989
>And somehow TFA is worse?

Rey was a mary sue!

Not like 9 year old annakin skywalker piloting a ship on autopilot to achieve a devastating military victory.

He did a spin, that's a good trick!

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>>78639086
>TFA has been called out by dozens of critics for

>>78639061
>But what about when Maz mentioned that whoever Rey was waiting for on Jakku isn't coming back, and it shows Rey as a little girl crying after that ship
That happens during the vision m8, you're misremembering the movie.

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>>78639086
>TFA has been called out by dozens of critics for being nothing but a blatant, manufactured cash grab.

"Chewie, we're home."

>>78639076
You can stop samefagging now.

>>78639111
?

>>78638989
>Palpatine clones

Nobody can ever point out anything wrong with this besides a stammering "b-but it's baaad!"

yeah, like Star Wars is high brow entertainment and not a cheesy pulp space opera with all sorts of dramatic twists and turns, huh?

>Darth Maul on bionic legs after being cut in two

George and Filoni actually made this canon and it's considered canon by the NuEU under Disney because CG TCW is part of their timeline.

>>78634482
You know, I spent a good seventeen seconds scratching my brain trying to think of who Cade Skywalker was. At first I was thinking 'he means Ben Skywalker right?' because he wasn't on that list. But the name just didn't sound right and eventually it came to me. Cade Skywalker... 'oh. The worst part of the Legacy comics and also the central character'. But him aside, yes. A tragedy we lost alot of good characters.

>>78639086
>a blatant, manufactured cash grab

How?

Whelp, the Disney shills took over the thread. We had a nice time but it seems like one autistic general isn't enough for these cunts. Oh well.

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>>78639144
You're the only one doing anything resembling samefagging.

>>78639087
>The prequels did very little damage at all, actually

Other than completely retconning Boba Fett's origin.

He used to be a Storm Trooper named Jaster Meerel who killed his commanding officer and then changed his identity and became a bount hunter.

Prequels completely ignored and retconned that.

>>78639160

I thought Cade was funny.

>>78639157

Clones are the weakest form of writing. That's why it's bad. When death has no consequence, why should anyone give a shit?

Especially in a universe where the Jedi train their whole lives in hoping to become one with the force?

You're delusional. I can continue to write why its terrible but you'd just defend it like your opinion somehow means more than anyone who thinks the EU is garbage.

>>78639178
>lol i troll u

>>78639086
>blatant, manufactured cash grab because it paid homage to the older movies

the two critiques of this movie are

A) Rey is not a very good protagonist
B) there's a death star at the end

>>78639187

Yeah but you see nobody gives a shit about Boba Fett.

>>78639201
That's not true at all, Disney shill. But whatever helps you sleep at night.

>>78639187
>Prequels completely ignored and retconned that.
You say that as though Jorge had any reason to acknowledge the EU when writing the prequels.

>>78639187
>Jaster Meerel

It was pretty easy for the EU to fix that though, since it was not really gone into very much. They just made Jaster Meerel a separate Mandalorian character.

>>78639210
>Yeah but you see nobody gives a shit about Boba Fett.

More people give a shit about Boba Fett than give a shit about Jacen Solo.

At least casuals know who the fuck Boba Fett is.

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RIP post-Jedi Wedge Antilles

Rogue Squadron TV show maybe?

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>>78639210
>nobody gives a shit about Boba Fett

>>78638798
>pacing was awful after Jakka
>at times felt like it took place in a broom closet
>LITERALLY the trench again
>BIGGER BADDER UNCUT DEATH PLANET
>Rey mastering the force while being interrogated
>all those horrible horrible "throwbacks"
i can continue with much more the movie was fine but it had its glaring problems dont act like it was some fucking masterpiece crafted by Zeus

>>78639210
I guess that's why there's so much Boba Fett merchandise out there, because nobody cares.

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>>78639246
>horrible throwbacks

the chessboard was more tasteful than making Boba Fett the child of the guy who made all the clones for the clone army of the fabled Clone Wars

>>78639199
>When death has no consequence, why should anyone give a shit?

The point of the Sheev clones was that Sheev was trying to escape death and rule as emperor forever.

>Especially in a universe where the Jedi train their whole lives in hoping to become one with the force?

Sheev's not a Jedi

>I can continue to write why its terrible but you'd just defend it like your opinion somehow means more than anyone who thinks the EU is garbage.

Sounds more like you can't defend your opinion and are just backing out shouting "OPINIONS" Of course, that doesn't change the fact that your opinion is shit.

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>>78639219
>Disney shill

So, I have to ask, are you implying that he;s actually like an intern or whatever paid by Disney to shill on 4chan, or that he's just someone with a bias towards the new status quo from Disney?

>>78639273
In your opinion, maybe.

>>78639292
Anyone that supports something popular is a shill, more often than not something Disney oriented.

See: Marvel, Star Wars

>>78639273
I'm not even talking about the chess board that was fine and subtle, I'm talking about throwing Phamsmamamam into the fucking trash compactor that felt so fucking out of place

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>>78635449
I know very little about EU, but she looks like a best girl.

>>78639294

>from your point of view, maybe

ftfy

>>78639292
Who knows, really? The latter is more likely but the former is somewhat possible, although why an intern would shill their movie in some random 4chan board I don't know.

>>78639285

>Escape death

With horrible writing. Anyone with an ounce of brain could see that, except for yourself.

>OPINIONS

You ask someone why it's terrible, they tell you why it's terrible and you dismiss it. You're retarded.

>>78639273
>if it's not as bad as the prequels, it's good

The prequels and TFA can be bad movies

>>78639354
of course, but TFA was not bad

people may not like it because
>FUCK HOMAGES!!!!!!!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!! TRENCH RUN MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but it doesn't make the film a bad piece of work

>>78637602
>ex-Empire stormtrooper
>mercenary for hire
>part of the Rebel Alliance
>member of the New Republic
>Jedi instructor
>second only to Luke
>so he's a former Stormtrooper, a mercenary, and an AMAZING Jedi all in one character

You know characters are good characters because they can do aything and they're totally the most badass at everything. That's what makes a good character!

Yeah, I'll take Finn over Kyle Sue thank you.

>>78639384
>I LIKE THE MOVIE YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DISLIKE IT
Disney shills are truly pathetic. It's like you go out of your way to defend the movie at every chance you get.

>>78639384
no its poor pacing, lack of character development and piss poor excuse for a villain are why its a bad movie

>>78639246
>>pacing was awful after Jakku

They do spend a little too much time at Maz Kanta's castle for what is supposed to be a pit stop.

>>at times felt like it took place in a broom closet

wuh? Force Awakens had plenty of wide open sets.

>>LITERALLY the trench again
>>BIGGER BADDER UNCUT DEATH PLANET

Fair criticism.

>>Rey mastering the force while being interrogated

She figured out the mindtrick from Kylo Ren doing it on her, yeah.

>>all those horrible horrible "throwbacks"

Horrible, horrible, is an opinion.

>>78634482
Think of the OG EU as an alternate timeline or think of TFA as an alternate timeline. JJ Abrams has a huge hard-on for alternate timelines and shekels.

>>78639384
It's not as incoherent a mess as the prequels, honestly TFA isn't much of anything at all. There's nothing unique or memorable about it to warrant praise

>>78637149
By like the definition.

Stop liking what I don't like, the thread.

>>78639544
Stop disking what I like, the thread.

>>78634884
were there any other zeltron's aside from blue ?

>>78639522
>it isn't a memorable trainwreck, so its not good

>>78639315
>Who knows, really? The latter is more likely but the former is somewhat possible, although why an intern would shill their movie in some random 4chan board I don't know.

When Amazing Spider-Man 2 was coming out there was always a thread getting posted trying to steer popular opinion towards liking the movie, once the movie was out for a week suddenly all the chatter dropped off.

4chan is not a secret club, it's a hugely trafficked website.

>>78639575
Again, stop trying to imply someone who doesn't like TFA likes the prequels. If the OT is a 8/10, the prequels would be a 2/10, and TFA would be a 5/10

>>78638798
>Star Wars fanbase is the worst on this fucking planet. These fucks make Kingdom Hearts fans look like philistine
Well, bro, now that the Mouse owns SW you can look forward to the merge of those two fan bases.

>>78639559

Just arguing to be argumentative, the thread.

>>78639567

Late Marvel run in the early 80's

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>>78639637

>>78639411
Sounds like the talk of a TRAITOR

>>78639500
fine ill leave throwbacks out
in terms of the broom closet yeah they had nice open shots but i don't really remember the Rebel planet all that well, the not Hoth had the interrogation chamber right next to the thing they had to blow up, and JJ has shit sense with scale, my autism flared when you were able to see the the LIGHT beams from the new deathstar blow up the planets from SYSTEMS away

>>78639342
>With horrible writing. Anyone with an ounce of brain could see that, except for yourself.

It wasn't horrible, nor have you demonstrated how it is horrible.

>You ask someone why it's terrible, they tell you why it's terrible and you dismiss it.

Because you're argument is fucking retarded.

The entire point of Dark Empire was that Sheev had not found the secret to living forever and his method of transferring his spirit to clones was imperfect. He could not escape death or its consequences after having lived his initial lifespan, no matter how many times he transferred his spirit to a new clone because each clone withered and decayed.

And from the point of view of the Star Wars universe, where "there is no death, there is the force" this method of return for Sheev is perfectly plausible.

So you're assessment "When death has no consequence, why should anyone give a shit?" is wrong because in Dark Empire, Sheev COULD NOT escape the consequences of his death, even with clones. And I think the fact that you can make such statements shows that you probably haven't read what you're criticizing.

>>78639614
ANH- 7/10
ESB- 8/10
ROTJ- 6.5/10 (8/10 Vader duel tho)

TFA- 7/10

>>78639637
First day on 4chan, I take it?

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>>78639522
>There's nothing unique or memorable about it to warrant praise

It introduced Finn and Rey as the main characters for a huge new franchise. (and a little Poe)

With Rian Johnson writing Episode VIII and IX it's gonna be remembered as the setup for everything that came after.

>>78639704

What's 4 chan? I thought this was a subreddit.

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>>78639522
>There's nothing unique or memorable about it to warrant praise

>>78639614
>If the OT is a 8/10, the prequels would be a 2/10, and TFA would be a 5/10

>If the OT is a B, the prequels would be an F, and TFA would be a F

That's how you come across when you grade things on a bell curve.

>>78639738

A Darth Revan knock off?

>>78639738
Well, that lightsabre sure is unique (and maybe memorable) but it certainly does not warrant praise. Other than that dude looks like a Revan (and let's be honest any random Sith Lord) rip off.

>>78639751
Here's your (You)

>>78639691
>my autism flared when you were able to see the the LIGHT beams from the new deathstar blow up the planets from SYSTEMS away

The Starkiller base was a hyperlight weapon, it fired a beam at hyperspeed.

So yes, they could see the light.

>>78639788
>>78639751
>I didn't watch the movie lol!

>>78639751
Speaking of Darth Revan, is anyone else going to buy the black series figure?
I don't know anything about black series, they may be shit quality for all I know.

>>78639614
>Grading entire trilogies against one movie

>>78634737
Rey wasn't a Mary Sue, but she was pretty overpowered in my opinion. She was good at everything she did.

>>78639751
>Literally "I didn't watch the movie"

>>78639788
>Other than that dude looks like a Revan (and let's be honest any random Sith Lord) rip off.
Isn't his entire deal that he wants to be a Vader ripoff and completely fails at it

>>78639114
That happens after the vision, m8.

>>78639821
>I did not provide any context to my picture about what I believe to be memorable and worthy of praise

>>78639817
wait so hyperspeed magic makes it so that i can see a planet of insignificant size ( in terms of space scale) get blown up from systems away? fucking movie magic

>>78639714
and Rey and Finn are not interesting characters, and the chance that they will be more interesting in later movies does not make TFA retroactively betters

>>78639744
I stand by that comparison as well. While the prequel fails by being truly horribly written, TFA fails by being so boringly average. For entertainment being unmemorable is as big an issue as being a hot mess.

>>78639881
Finn and Kylo are more interesting characters than all of the Prequel characters save for Obi, sorry fella

>>78639843
fine
Ep. 1- 2/10
Ep. 2- 2/10
Ep. 3- 3/10
Ep. 4-8/10
Ep. 5- 9/10
Ep. 6- 7/10
Ep. 7- 5/10

>>78639866
No, it's during the vision, watch the movie again.

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>>78639904
Agreed? Except Finn, Kylo, and Rey still don't come close to any character in the OT. Lots of movies are better than the prequels, TFA is better than the prequels, but its still not GOOD.

>>78639922
That's a little more fair. I'd still put 7 at the same grade as 6 though

>>78639866
>That happens after the vision, m8.
No it doesn't. What are you talking about?

She sees Kylo Ren right after nigga

>>78639955
you may need to watch the OT again

Leia wasn't really that good

>>78639863
>Isn't his entire deal that he wants to be a Vader ripoff and completely fails at it

Yes, because that's an intimidating villain I like to waste two hours watching: a character I spend more time asking why he's even a threat to the main characters and laughing at than actually feeling any tension from.

>>78639848
>She was good at everything she did.

Mary Sue

>>78639955
Their character arcs are not complete. Regardless, people immediately liked Han People immediately like Finn as well as Poe. Same with R2 and BB-8.

>>78639979
Okay then maybe we need a formal definition of Mary Sue because I'm not sure what it means anymore.

>>78639979
She's good at everything she did, but she had a big problem of constantly wanting to go back to Jakku even though everybody was telling her not to. It was her biggest flaw and why she got kidnapped in the first place.

>>78639979
Only two characters gave a rat fuck about her, and one was her new best friend

>B-BUT LEIA HUGGED HER

fuck off

>>78639695

>Transferring his spirits to clones

You're doing a perfectly fine job of explaining how stupid it is yourself. Re-read your entire argument as a handguide on "How to be a lazy, shit writer."

>HE COULD NOT ESCAPE THE CONSEQUENCE OF DEATH

LMAO you're retarded.

>>78639992
Also patricians immediately liked Kylo, while plebs disregarded him because they wanted another Grievous.

>>78637602
So in the next movie Finn is probably going to become a Jedi and team up with Rey.

>>78639881
stormtrooper that noped out the second he realized what he was born to do is interesting

the second coming of anakin but in a galaxy with no jedi order is interesting

they're more interesting than Han and Chewie were in New Hope, or Qui Gon and Obi Wan in Phantom Menace

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>>78639957
Nigga you trippin', she has the childhood flashback right after she has the vision in Maz's loot dungeon.

I'll fite u m8, I'll smack u rite in tha gob I will

>>78639979

Didn't everyone call Mara Jade a Mary Sue back in the day?

>>78640032
>B-BUT LEIA HUGGED HER
that scene pissed me off, who the fuck wrote that, i mean the woman's Husband just died and his best fucking friend was right there, But instead of hugging his lifelong friend she hugs the bitch that just came from fucking nowhere and does absolutely nothing for Chewy it felt forced and just trying to make it an emotional scene

>>78640089
>Nigga you trippin', she has the childhood flashback right after she has the vision in Maz's loot dungeon.
It is literally during the vision. I remember the movie. I know exactly when it happens. It's right after she sees the Knights of Ren and all the dead bodies and before the ship she's seeing fly away turns into a red square for some reason and then she sees Kylo in the snow forest

>>78640096
Chewie clearly wanted to be alone as was obvious in the next scene.

As to why she hugged her, I dunno, Force I guess

>>78640055
It's not shown that Finn is actually Force sensitive, only that he's not so inept that he cuts off his own dick with a lightsaber.

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>>78639881
>and Rey and Finn are not interesting characters,

People fucking love Rey & Finn. TFA has near-universally been giving glowing praise for both actors' charisma and characterization.

>and the chance that they will be more interesting in later movies does not make TFA retroactively betters

It will in fact. In its day Empire was polarizing but is now remembered with glowing praise.

Heck, Darth Vader is just a big menacing asshole ANH, nowhere near as sophisticated as he is in the sequels.

>>78640154
The novelization said that Finn was channeling the Force unknowingly during the fight

>>78638186
>The idea that some books characters have a monopoly on "spawn of the OT" cast is ridiculous, as is the notion of "fallen Jedi".

That has nothing to do with it. If Disney can just destroy all the old timeline or arbitrarily pick and choose whatever it likes, then none of this has any point to it. There's no point really to even watching these new movies. There's no novelty to them because they aren't exploring a time period that hasn't already been explored before. They're not using very original or new ideas cause it seems they're content to just take a few plots from the EU and water them down or rework them with the characters names changed for arbitrary reasons. And if they can just throw out everything, there's no point in getting invested in this new trilogy. It's like how they rebooted Spiderman just to decide "hey, let's reboot it again". In ten years time, what's to stop them from just deciding "hey, let's reboot this shit"

There is literally no reason to care about this movie at all because it has no value.

>>78639881
>TFA fails by being so boringly average.

A huge critical and commercial success.

>For entertainment being unmemorable is as big an issue as being a hot mess.

Hugely popular reception, reignited the franchise, the first of many eagerly anticipated sequels.

>>78639881
Finn is great though. He's the biggest wild card of this entire trilogy.

I seriously still believe Kylo, soly comparing TFA to ANH is more interesting than Vader because the basis for his character is in front of us instead of just being an evil asshole

>>78640165
>People fucking love Rey & Finn
So something is good because it's popular?

>>78640191
See this is the problem of being too attached to the EU. Regular, general and casual fans really don't give a shit about any of that or even know it

This is one of those threads where spoilers would be necessary but nobody is using them.

>>78639955
>Finn, Kylo, and Rey still don't come close to any character in the OT.

Finn got more characterization than anyone in ANH.

Rey is about on par with Leia per ANH.

Poe literally just lived for another sequel, Chewbacca got more to do.

>>78640114
>I remember the movie.

So do I.

Here's a recap of the vision:

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/What-Rey-Actually-Seeing-During-Her-Star-Wars-Vision-103377.html

>>78639978

Your selective memory and bias is showing.

Kylo dominates every opponent he faces, including Rey, until the ending when she gets a hold of Luke's lightsaber and channels the force.

>>78638640
thank GOD.

>>78640036
>You're doing a perfectly fine job of explaining how stupid it is yourself.

Yeah, no. You're just a fucking moron without any counterargument desperately trying to save face when you already are making yourself look like a pathetic little piece of shit without any sense or knowledge.

Fuck off and go back to watching your shitty written Disney movie for plebs.

>>78639979
>>She was good at everything she did.
>Mary Sue

She pulled the wrong fuses and unleashed the Rathars.
She panicked and rejected Luke's ligthsaber from Maz Kanata
She was overwhelmed and captured by Kylo Ren.

It's only in their mind duel and climactic fight where she is able to overpower him, and he was severely wounded by Chewie's bowcaster and Finn' strike against his sword arm.

>>78640314
You know there was more to the vision after the Knights of Ren part? Oh no wait, you don't remember because you're linking to fucking Cinemablend

Seriously just download the fucking bootleg.

>>78640314
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Star-Wars-7-Who-Rey-Was-Left-Jakku-With-103397.html

>>78640354

The fact that you're mad over these shit EU stories being gone is even more funny than your hatred for TFA.

>Save face

Ok, retard. Go back to reading about your clones with the spirit transfers. Sounds exactly like something a billion dollar company would put on the big screen./s

Reminder that the EU had Luuke and Luuuke

No I don't care that one of them is actually a joke. It's fucking stupid

>>78640198
Kylo heavily relies on the fact that Vader was such a good character, if you use the fact that Kylo only has an evil boner for Vader because he's a badass evil henchman, it makes Kylo look even more shallow. Also his tantrums are really boring to watch.

>>78640224
>So something is good because it's popular?

hurr hurr, you're conflating consensus with praise.

If most people like a thing, then it is mostly well liked.

You can have whatever opinion you like, but you will fall into a minority or majority. To deny so is to be contrarian.

And the majority of people loved Finn & Rey.

>>78640503
>Kylo heavily relies on the fact that Vader was such a good character,
Yes he does but I'm specifically comparing the two characters solely from their first movie to the other which is where I see Kylo as a better character

>>78640503
>Also his tantrums are really boring to watch.

get some fucking taste

>>78640354
>go back to watching your shitty written Disney movie for plebs.
>plebs

Yes, the movie was written to be accessible and liked by the majority of people.

Wow, what shameless capitalists those Disney pigs are, making things most people will enjoy.

I, a patrician star wars fan, know better as I am inherently the superior fan of men with glowing swords.

>>78640167
>The novelization

Well excuuuuuse me for only seeing the film.

>>78640545
But you're forgetting that Kylo literally relies on Vader being Luke and Leia's father to even give him depth. If Vader wasn't his grandfather, it would make him more shallow than Vader himself in ANH.

>>78640513
The argument was never how liked they are but how good their characterization is.

>>78640197
>A huge critical and commercial success.
>Hugely popular reception, reignited the franchise

These things were said about the prequels when they came out, too.

>>78640559
His tantrums are fucking boring. How about you watch more than just space operas or just operas in general.

The only EU eras worth giving a shit about were Old Republic and prequel/clone wars

TFA is not Star Wars.

It's more comparable to JJTrek or those awful Marvel movies than Star Wars. Worse it half of it is full off piss poor EU ripoffs.

Star Wars is mo different from the MCU now, a mediocre-terrible movies every year. Disney will run it into the ground.

>>78640503
>Kylo heavily relies on the fact that Vader was such a good character, if you use the fact that Kylo only has an evil boner for Vader because he's a badass evil henchman, it makes Kylo look even more shallow.

Yes, and? Vader is a great character. Kylo 's arc is trying to get to be as great as Vader.

He's got two more movies to develop.

>>78640600
They really weren't.

>>78640610
>All of Post-RotJ EU is good
Oh dear god you have terrible taste.

>>78640584
The entire point of Kylo is that he wants to live up to this legacy. That's the fucking point

>>78640584
That's like saying Vader is bland if you remove his connection to Luke. Of course if you remove character's motivation they're bland.

>>78640617
Which is why I can give leeway to him getting "better" in the sequels that will come. But saying he's comparable to OT movie Vader is misleading since he needs more build up to his motivation other than "I love the Dark Side and am a massive Vader fanboy."

>>78640600
>A huge critical and commercial success.
I don't this was said. Maybe for TPM, that's likely but not for AOTC. The prequels were a joke by that point

>Hugely popular reception, reignited the franchise
This definitely wasn't said

>>78640600
>These things were said about the prequels when they came out, too.

My local paper gave Phantom Menace 2 1/2 stars, out of 4.

I'm aware there was initially a shellshocked praise for TPM, but by the time AotC and RotS came out, people had sobered up.

You're being obtuse.

>>78640025
the main tenants for a character to be a mary sue are
>everyone loves them, even if its out of character
>they are better in all fields than all specialists
of those fields
>are the focus of every scene and the plot revolves around them
>succeed at everything
>no meaningful flaws

in roughly that order of relevance.

first point: chewie and han do seem to warm up to her too quick, but that's about it. More people immediately warm up to and trust Finn
second point: she's really good with the Falcon. Better with it than Solo? Maybe, but Solo was old and weary while she's fresh blood and less set in her ways than he. Furthermore Solo is the one who made use of the falcon's biggest strength, break-neck lightspeed manouveres
Is she a better shot than Finn? Nah. She's a good shot, but never pulls off any trick shots. The falcon flip shot was a collaborative effort and the one who pulled the trigger was Finn.
She out-mind-tricked Kylo, and later beat him at a lightsaber dual, but that says more about how weak Kylo is than how strong she is. and Kylo expliciteley hasn't even finished his training yet.

On the third point? No. Scene importance is fairly evenly split between her and Finn, and most of the plot revolves around BB-8.

>succeeds at everything
well, most things, yeah.

>no meaningful flaws
she's stubborn, especially about Jakku, which was a genuine obstacle for her because if she hadn't refused the lightsaber she wouldn't have been captured so easily.

Final verdict? I say close but no banana.

>>78640684
But Kylo does have that motivation. With that logic Vader is a completely awful character because going by ANH he has no motivation at all other than being the bad guy in a kids movie

>>78640585
>The argument was never how liked they are but how good their characterization is.

The original post said the characters were unmemorable, in direct opposition to how well liked they are.

>>78640637
I never said that at all, only that TFA chracthers are piss poor ripoffs are them.

>>78640430
>The fact that you're mad over these shit EU stories being gone is even more funny than your hatred for TFA.

What's funnier is that you actually pretend you know anything about writing when you gobble up stuff like TFA so easily, when it's just a rehashed version of ANH sprinkled with stuff that even many EUfags consider the worst parts of the old EU. Also,

>implying TFAfags like yourself aren't the ones most butthurt when people even so much as mention the old EU

It's your kind that throw a fit when people point out that your new favorite movie is just a blatant cash grab, more so than the prequels or the old EU ever was itself and the fact that you can only defend it with "it's better than the prequels" or "lol, LUUKE!" doesn't do yourself any favors.

>Go back to reading about your clones with the spirit transfers.

I will. Especially since you have absolutely no argument against them besides bitching about people liking what you don't like.

>Sounds exactly like something a billion dollar company would put on the big screen./s

Except I don't think there was any need to make a new movie at all, let alone one based on EU material. The saga is/was over.

>>78635796
>>78635822
>>78635754


This is just rumors and heresay, but evidently they got rid of TOR and the KOTOR era because it conflicted with the direction they want to take the series in with regards to the nature of the force and how it works.

Evidently Filoni and Lucas got really worked up over that one little sidequest in KOTOR where you meet a long dead sith ghost on Korriban and redeem him.

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>>78640610
>TFA is not Star Wars.

Cry some more, you scruffy looking nerf herder.

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>>78638640
>20 BBY
>still using an aluminum heatsink

>>78640739
>The original post said the characters were unmemorable
And just what would make them memorable? The movie's still out so it's too early for anyone to possibly forget.

>>78640704
>by the time AotC and RotS came out, people had sobered up.
That' s why those movies tanked, right?

>My local paper
lel, you're being desperate

>>78640680
>>78640683
Which is the point I'm making that comparing Kylo to Vader for only their first movie is retarded. ANH characters were archetypes people liked, but they were hardly given more indepth motivation until the other OT movies released. And Kylo's motivation was being as good of a Dark Side master as Vader was, because he was his grandfather so it gives him a blood relation push to be even more involved with the Dark Side and to prove he truly belongs there.

>>78640224
>I stopped reading after the sentence that had an argument I wanted to refute

Actor charisma goes a long way, Anon. Their performances were intense and provided good, friendly chemistry despite their honestly terrible script.

They're popular because they were likable onscreen, not because they were strong characters.

>>78640566
>Wow, what shameless capitalists those Disney pigs are, making things most people will enjoy.

There's a difference between films made by people with some sort of personal vision that may or may not have broad appeal and movies made almost solely by market researchers and directors who specialize in churning formulaic summer and holiday season blockbusters.

>>78640154
the Sith of Oz spoke of an ;awakening', and the films title indicates that was an awakening of the force. suggests a bunch of people suddenly became more force sensitive than before.
plus the scene after the falcon flip with Finn and Rey both gushing over the other and downplaying their own part as just acting on instinct seemed to suggest both were using the force during the dogfight.
and Finn's moral awakening at the start also seemed to presented as a spiritual awakening on top of that, like, say, he was suddenly brought into contact with an omnipresent power that magnifies good and evil.

It's not absolute, but there was enough stuff there that if the very first scene of the next movie is talking about how Finn is also force sensitive, it wouldn't be out of nowhere.

>>78640728
Vader was an awful character, he was cool, but he had little to no motivation to go after Luke other than his draw towards the Force. As I said, if you cut out the other motivations behind Vader's actions and only use their first movie, it means they're both shallow characters who only do things for evil's sake, just that Kylo has a role model to strive for that he has no real connection to.

>>78640783
>And just what would make them memorable?

Finn, the black stormtrooper, broke /tv/

>The movie's still out so it's too early for anyone to possibly forget

It's star wars, literally one of the most enduring cultural phenomenons in the 21st century.

>>78640750

>Its your kind

You can call The Force Awakens a blatant cash grab while at the same time also saying that the EU is full of horribly written shit. Your simple mind can't seem to grasp that.

>No argument against them

My argument is that it's lazy, terrible writing. I don't understand how you can say that is not a valid criticism. It takes no creativity to clone a character. It's been done a billion times and it takes 0 effort on the writer's part. You're almost as delusional as you are angry.

>I don't think there was any need to make a new movie at all

Lucas was saying for years that he was going to. Don't act like this wasn't always coming. He proved he could not handle his own material with the prequels.

>The saga is/was over

Regardless of your stance on the new movie, this is quite literally the exact opposite of reality. It's raking in millions and the saga is continuing no matter how far in the ground you bury that head of yours to deny it.

>>78640788
>That' s why those movies tanked, right?

It's still star wars

>lel, you're being desperate

It was an anecdote, meant to counter your claim.

>>78640859
>he had little to no motivation to go after Luke other than his draw towards the Force
the only time he focused on Luke was during the trench run. Everywhen else he was focused on the plans R2-D2 had, or on Obi-Wan his old mentor

>>78640847
>There's a difference between films made by people with some sort of personal vision that may or may not have broad appeal and movies made almost solely by market researchers and directors who specialize in churning formulaic summer and holiday season blockbusters.

Everything after the first star war was Lucas selling toys.

Nothing has changed other than who gets the money in their pocket.

>>78640755
I know they Lucas and the TOR head writer hated Kreia with a passion too, since she presented a strong argument that the light side was just as mistaken and dangerous as the dark side

>>78640940
I could have sworn there was a moment he mentioned the Force outside of the trench run. I will be honest and say that I really need to rewatch the unedited ANH to get a feel for what really happened.

>>78640930
>It's still star wars
Yeah, a "huge critical and commercial success". Just like TFA.

>>78640880
>You can call The Force Awakens a blatant cash grab while at the same time also saying that the EU is full of horribly written shit. Your simple mind can't seem to grasp that.

I don't deny there is bad stuff in the EU, but Dark Empire certainly isn't one of them.

>My argument is that it's lazy, terrible writing I don't understand how you can say that is not a valid criticism.

Because your reasons for why it's lazy and terrible writing don't necessarily apply to Dark Empire (which I'm still not convinced you ever read).

>It takes no creativity to clone a character. It's been done a billion times and it takes 0 effort on the writer's part. You're almost as delusional as you are angry.

Please point out to me where in what story before Dark Empire that the same exact plot as Dark Empire was followed. And in that process, point out how Dark Empire lacked any original way of handling such a plotline if it had been done "billions of times" before.

>Lucas was saying for years that he was going to.

He was also saying for years that he wasn't going to.

>He proved he could not handle his own material with the prequels.

I'd rather watch the prequels than TFA. At least they have some consistency with the EU and reflect Lucas' vision.

>>78641001

I'm pretty sure that's just a meme.

>>78641007
he has the 'I sense something...I've not felt since..." line, but that refers to Obi-Wan

>>78640971

Lucas was both an artist and a businessman.

Disney is all business and no art.

>>78641086
>Lucas
>art
I sure do love them Star Wars BDs, the way the movies were truly as intended.

>>78641034

You're limiting this argument to one piece of fiction. Everyone from Superman to Spider-man to Ellen Ripley has been cloned and it is always noted by a decent majority to be lazy writing.

Not only is it lazy writing, but it doesn't work in the realm of Star Wars because, once again, there are characters who train their entire lives to cheat death. Cloning completely undermines those ideas and for that reason i call them terrible ideas and terrible pieces of fiction.

Keep trying to con yourself into thinking you're the only one that read those horrible EU stories.

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>>78641001

Don't know about that for sure. The Sith ghost thing is probably true given the last arc in TCW was all about Yoda learning about how to return as a ghost and the fact that the Sith couldn't do so. Though I heard that Disney and the Star Wars story-group are planning to take the series in a "weird" direction around episode IX with regards to the force.

>>78640191
>That has nothing to do with it. If Disney can just destroy all the old timeline or arbitrarily pick and choose whatever it likes, then none of this has any point to it
I guess there's not. I guess you wasted all your time with Star Wars, and have to go outside and improve yourself now.

>>78641126

You don't have to agree with everything Lucas ever did with the Originals or the Prequels, but George is much more a visionary and much more an artist in the common sense of the term than Abrams or even most directors/writers in Hollywood hope to be.

>>78641184
I have a bad feeling that'll end up being just meeting the 'god(s)' of the force

>>78641001
That's not true, though. It started as a theory about why KOTOR2 was rushed out, with the idea that Lucas was so pissed off at the game (either because it presented gray morality or because it supposedly did a better job with the concept of the Force, depending on which version you're looking at) and he demanded that production on it cease immediately. People started touting it as fact, despite the oddness of Lucas having only caught wind of the game's direction when it was nearly completed, and Chris Avellone confirming that he received numerous notes and suggestions from Lucasfilm and none of them involved the morality or the use of the Force. But people want to have yet another reason to hate Lucas so they'd rather just accept it as fact even if it has no basis in reality.

>>78640191

It has value to those of us who loved the original trilogy and thought all the post-RotJ EU content was shit.

>>78634534
>Mara Jade
>is either Aphra or Rogue One's MC

This is literally nothing but shipping. Fuck off. Take that shit to tumblr.

>>78641354

This. Why is this hard to understand?

>>78640610

>TFA is not Star Wars.


Lol. But TFA was basically ANH, part 2? It was so Star Wars it was an homage to Star wars.

>>78641152
>Everyone from Superman to Spider-man to Ellen Ripley has been cloned and it is always noted by a decent majority to be lazy writing.
The vast majority of everything is bad. If you can't address the story in question, you're just dismissing it out of hand without providing an actual argument.

Also:
>doesn't work in the realm of Star Wars
>doesn't work in the realm of force ghosts and clone wars

>>78641307
hes an ideas guy

aka scum of the earth

>>78641467

>The vast majority of everything is bad

Wonderful argument.

>You're just dismissing it

You just dismissed almost the entirety of my post. Here I'll copy and paste it for you again.

"Not only is it lazy writing, but it doesn't work in the realm of Star Wars because, once again, there are characters who train their entire lives to cheat death. Cloning completely undermines those ideas and for that reason i call them terrible ideas and terrible pieces of fiction."

>Also: Doesnt work in the realm of force ghosts
>Force ghosts

See above please. Becoming a force ghost is a power provided by those in tune with the light side of the force. Only few jedi have cheated death. You continue to prove my point for me. Why am I even arguing?

>>78641152
>Everyone from Superman to Spider-man to Ellen Ripley has been cloned and it is always noted by a decent majority to be lazy writing.

I don't know who this "decent majority" you're talking about is. Whether you took some kind of poll or just pulled it out your ass. But whether a majority, real or imaginary, finds it lazy is not relevant.

I asked you to point out to me in when and where before Dark Empire there was a clone arc similar to that in Dark Empire. You've brought up Spiderman, whose clone saga was after Dark Empire and Ripley, whose clone story in Resurrection was also created after Dark Empire. I don't read Superman, so you'll have to shed some light on that one.

It is true that cloning villains or heroes has been done many times before, but when it comes to modern clone science fiction. Dark Empire is probably one of the first and follows a very different course than many clone stories before it, where the focus was much more on the social and political aspects of clone technology whereas here cloning is combined with Star Wars own approach to the occult and afterlife.

>but it doesn't work in the realm of Star Wars because, once again, there are characters who train their entire lives to cheat death. Cloning completely undermines those ideas and for that reason i call them terrible ideas and terrible pieces of fiction.

None of this makes any sense. Yes, there are character who train their entire lives to cheat death, and Sheev is one of them and he attempted to cheat death not through simply maintaining consciousness after mortal death but trying to achieve immortality through a mastery of the dark side, the assistance of other dark side spirits and the use of clone technology. I don't see how you can say none of this works in the realm of Star Wars because you have all the typical elements of Star Wars in Dark Empire. If anything, what we normally call Star Wars owes a great deal to Dark Empire's influence.

Why does it matter? It's not like these stories suddenly don't exist. You can still read and enjoy them.
Just because they're not "canon" doesn't mean the stories are not still interesting. Who cares if it "never happened"? They're fucking stories none of it actually happened.
Why not just think of it as an alternate universe? Like the Pre-Force Awakens universe where everything is canon and Post-Force Awakens where nothing, but Rebels, Clone Wars and some of the comics are canon?

>>78641628
>Becoming a force ghost is a power provided by those in tune with the light side of the force.

Sith have done the same.

>Only few jedi have cheated death.

Becoming a force ghost isn't cheating death, it's simply maintaining consciousness by achieving a certain degree of union with the cosmic force.

>>78640387
I just told you that I remember the movie, and you keep proving that you don't.

For me everything is still canon until new-official stuff says otherwise. Sure, most of post RotJ stuff doesn't work with TFA but Old Republic stuff does, with old Sith like Marka Ragnos or Naga Sadow, with Revan, with Zayne, with the MMO....
Still missing Thrawne, Katarn and Darth Kryath

>>78641680
>Why not just think of it as an alternate universe?

That would be fine if it didn't feel like Disney was trying so hard to bury it.

Would it have really made a difference to just make an Episode VII with an alternate version of Jacen and Jaina Solo with enough of their characters intact, including their names, but set in an alternate universe? I don't really understand what the point is in creating a new character who is just a watered down version of Darth Caedus who is presented as "Original Character: Do Nut Steel". It's not like most people would care. If anything, you could move a whole lot more Legends licensed material that way.

I've met people who are totally new to the Old EU after watching Force Awakens who didn't understand why Disney didn't at least just keep Kylo Ren/Ben's name as Jacen.

>>78641628
>Wonderful argument.
Beats "all of x is bad"

>characters who train their entire lives to cheat death
Palpatine trying to cheat death doesn't fit into Star Wars?

>>78641662

>Decent majority
>Pulled out of my ass

You're on a comic board. I'd expect you to know at least one or two things about comics. Death of Superman and Spiderman's Clones were respectively considered blunders by a large majority of comic readers and it nearly crashed the comic industry. Pull your head out of your own ass.

>Star Wars owes a great deal to Dark Empire's influence

Delusional.

>>78641708

>Becoming a force ghost isn't cheating death.

No. Get out of here with your semantics. It is very literally cheating death. You can communicate with the living and your spirit can spread across the Galaxy as if you were a real person, without the need of food and other things to nourish a living body.

It is literally cheating death.

>Sith have done the same

Maybe in more of the same shitty EU stories we are talking about. Show me that in the movies? Anywhere?

>>78641010
>Yeah, a "huge critical and commercial success". Just like TFA.

Patently false.

Once again, while TPM initially received praise from diehard fans, that opinion quickly turned sour. Neither AotC nor RotS were treated with such blind allegiance, and were reviewed poorly in their debut.

In 2015, with aggregate sites like rottentomatoes, TFA is far more accurately observed.

You're doubling down on a losing bet.

>>78641307
Lucas has fully admitted that the OT writing was done on committee and he had nothing to do with the best parts of it. The prequels prove he's nothing more than a ideas guy who doesn't know how to implement them.

>>78641802
People loved Episode 2 because it dropped the child actor and the premise featured an actual war. Episode 3 was praised for being "darker". Are you too young to remember?

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>>78641086
>Disney is all business and no art.

Disney's business is art.

>>78641791
>It is literally cheating death.
How is cheating death via ghosts worse than cheating death via clones?

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>>78641783
>That would be fine if it didn't feel like Disney was trying so hard to bury it.

Get used to it.

Disney see's the Expanded Universe the same way it sees Marvel comics. Material to mine for cinema.

Creating new characters and ideas is always hit and miss, some fail and some grow on you and no one knows why in advance. By stealing material that was already popular elsewhere they can bypass some of that failure.

Jacen Solo's transformation to Darth Caedus was one of the most popular stories in the EU. So Disney stole it for the new movie.

>>78641906

It's not worse. Cheating death via clones cheapens becoming a force ghost. The movies even put emphasis on how hard it is to achieve. If anyone can just save their own ass by cloning themselves what's the point?