You're looking forward to Disney-made Star Wars spinoff/cashgrabs?

Now where did I put that saberstaff...

Let me share a good Nostalgia Critic quote:

"Don´t get too offended at all the changes made as long as you still have the original to enjoy"


I´m gonna remind myself of that quote everytime someone brings up Expanded Universe

Expanded Universe is awesome.

Save that quote for the *shudders* prequels

Maybe you´re right. I thought of the *shudder* prequels as part of the Expanded Universe. Not really sure about what things are being called these days..

This post has been edited by mirocu: May 23 2014, 10:49 AM

Well yeah...Any Star Wars in the cinema is good for me...

We have a severe lack of decent adventure sci-fi at the moment...

And as J.J. has abandoned Trek for Wars then I'm happy to have however much they want to give headed our way...



As for the Expanded Universe...Quite obviously there are those that love it, and those that think it should stop with the films...

As I said at the start, I respect that...And don't feel that either side should be disparaged in any way...

But I know how much I've loved reading the E.U. stuff...Even if I'm having trouble remembering a lot of it now...*Sigh*...

But I'm pretty definite that Mercy Kill is headed to the top of my list of the most awesomely amazing favourite SW novels ever...It's so brilliant, it's almost tear inducing...

Well, Lucas considers the films his universe, and the Expanded Universe the other universe. So for Lucas, only the films are canon.

Most fans of the EU consider it all Star Wars canon, except for the prequels.

And some people consider all of it to be canon.

And Disney consider it a cash-cow to be milked.

Of course, it would be so much simpler if Lucas hadn't made the prequels



I thought the same once, and then I saw the phantom menace

I do agree with you about the lack of adventure sci-fi though, really need to see some more...

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: May 23 2014, 10:56 AM

Yeah...Okay...And once more I will point to my two...One of which is almost begging to be allowed to not watch Empire, but says The Phantom Menace is her favourite...

*Shrug*...

I enjoyed The Phantom Menace...And will more than likely watch it again at some point...I'm still not sure what everyone's problem is with it...And bear in mind that any opinion is all From A Certain Point Of View™...

Wise words from the scruffy-looking Nerf herder

This post has been edited by mirocu: May 23 2014, 11:03 AM

Who's scruffy look-*Catches sight of reflection*...

Nevermind... ...

That's good for Star Trek. Bad for Star Wars though... If Disney owning the franchise was not bad enough... Now if they could get someone like Bryan Singer to make the movies, they might turn out decent.

At least Rick Berman and Brannon Braga aren't ruining Star Wars now, so... it could be worse

Well, unless Singer's got a good lawyer, he's not going to be making much except himself known to the prison warden for a while... ...if the allegations are proved true etc...

*Sigh*...Well, I'll just continue to be the lone J.J. fan in the room then... ...I don't mind, I've been a fan of Marillion for long enough...I'm used to it... ...

Well, I'll be first in the queue for all and any SW films that come our way...Well...With the kids anyways...No, I'm not dressing up...Well...Maybe give the Obi-Wan look a spin...Who knows?...



Berman and Braga...*Shudders*...

Aargh!

All this talk of Star Wars has me itching to break out a game. I've got Jedi Academy, but I doubt it'll run too well on the 360

Which leaves me with KotOR 1 & 2, and getting them to run on windows 8 will be a pain. Assuming I can even get them to run.

And my options for picking one up for the 360 are either Lego Star Wars, or The Force Unleashed

*Sigh*

I guess TOR ain't a crowd favorite around here

Favorite characters: Darth Maul, Darth Vader, Darth Sidious, Darth Tyranus, Darth Bane( thank you sir for helping the Sith.survive), Darth.Zannah. I sort of liked Darth Revan but he was corrupted by the lightside after being manipulated and brain-wiped by the Jedi. Starkiller was interesting but he, like Revan, turned evil.

Now, Jango and Boba are my favorites non-force users.

Edit: Star Wars 1313 and.Star Wars: Damage being cancelled was the worst decision ever made. We would've played as Boba Fett and Darth Maul as the protagonists. What the hell George Lucas!? And screw Disney.

This post has been edited by Darkness Eternal: May 23 2014, 08:11 PM

Lego Star Wars is bloody awesome though... ...I mean, come on!...Who doesn't love the Lego Han and his winking?...Or the Lego Lando's hand kissing thing?... ...Love it!!!!...


DE...I never imagined that...Not for a second...You've chaaanged... ...

Oh, wait ...No...Nevermind... ...

( )...

Vader, Sidious, Tyrannus, and Bane, I get. They were all good characters, and I love the books focusing on Bane. But Maul? Does he get a pass just for being a Sith? That guy was a major letdown as Sith go. Not only was he an utterly one-dimensional character (one of the worst parts of the phantom menace was that flop of a villain compared to Vader) but he then got himself sliced clean in two by a padawan.

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"Corrupted be the light side", "turned evil", are you trying to run the old "Jedi are really the evil ones, and the Sith are the righteous" argument?

Because if so I'm more than happy to throw down about that


McB- Maybe the one that covers the first three movies (as in IV, V, VI) could be worth considering...

I swear I played one like that on my ds ages ago...

Well, as long as it's respectful of the rights of others to disagree...Go for it... ...

As for Lego Star Wars...

The Complete Saga was the first game I ever played on the PS3 and was impressed by how much the graphics were an improvement on the PS2, Original Trilogy game...I'm not sure about the X-Box versions...How much they changed/improved or anything...

But I definitely prefer the cantina in the PS2 one to the PS3 one...So much bigger and more stuff to do...

I've completed both PS2 games to 100%...I've never finished the PS3 one...I can never get through the third film in either set...*Sigh*...The same for the second Lego Indy one...But that's a different franchise... ...

The movies didn't do Darth Maul any true justice on his character. He was a mysterious, dark-clothed Sith we knew nothing about. All we knew about this guy is that he's an alien, he wants revenge against the Jedi, he's a Sith Lord and he's apprentice to Sidious. The EU did give him more justice than the movies ever did, and I started liking him much more since we got more story on him. I guess, though, that EU is no longer canon so we have to stick with what we saw of him in the Clone Wars(I hate you, Dave Filoni).

The fact that he got sliced in two by a padawan was due to his overconfidence as a Sith Lord. His ego, as many Sith, is way high. Hell, Sidious warned him that he's not a one-being army and that if he keeps being cocky he's going to end up getting more than scratch(he told this to him after he got wounded after butchering a bunch of Black Sun criminals all over the Outer Rim territories). As far as I remembered, Maul, a Sith apprentice killed Jedi master( a skilled Jedi MASTER) Qui-Gon Jinn, and then was able to overpower Obi-Wan and leave him hanging for his life. Instead of killing the padawan, Maul taunted him. That's what got him sliced in half, his arrogance.

Darth Vader was the same deal. His arrogance and believing he had the ultimate power resulted in his losing of his limbs and suffering fourth-degree burns and encasing him in a metal suit of a prison his entire life. Darth Tyranus was overconfident as well in his duel against Anakin Skywalker. He believed he had the upper hand and could use Dun Moch(a technique used to lower an opponent's self esteem via psychological warfare) and he lost his head when it backfired on him.

Hmm, on Revan:

The whole Sith being good and Jedi evil is more of a tease I like to use through my own point of view. Like I said, going by the books, the Sith believe the Jedi are corrupt, hypocritical, and to some extent, evil(Darth Vader, and Darth Tyranus referring Yoda to a "shriveled and evil green potato). I just believe it is a matter of perspective, and everything else is just relative.