Star Wars Universe Thread: May The 4th Be With You

[Mark Antony]

The Jedi Order is like the Manitowoc County justice system.

 

[39478]

The Jedi Order is like the Manitowoc County justice system.

Bruh...

Don't even get me started

 

[SC kid]

Back when the prequels first came out, everybody loved them.

Where the **** do you live?

 

[3am scholar]

Subscribed to Marvel Unlimited since they acquired Star Wars. Plan to just read through their library and cancel the subscription soon after.

 

[sea manup]

why didnt they send that guy with the super long neck to arrest palp? perfect chance to get his head cut off 

why did they send anakin and obiwan on all the most important missions when mace windu is god tier, even better than sidious and yoda, with a lightsaber?

 

[sea manup]

why didnt both sides just mass produce R2 droids since they are clearly better at fighting than battle droids? 

 

[jays25]

Im telling yall man they need to do a new cartoon covering all that 30 year period make it like the clone wars the hell they waiting for?

Probably for Rebels to wrap up.

Watched the prequel trilogy back to back on Blu Ray last night. Man, Episode II was easily the worst but even that one had some amazing scenes like the final battle on Genosis and Yoda vs. Dooku. I vaguely remember people going wild in the theater 14 years ago when that happened.

Phantom Menace wasn't even as horrific as people make it out to be. Anakin creating 3P0 and blowing up the Trade Federation mothership is really the dumbest thing about that movie. Obviously everything about Jar Jar Binks is still just terrible.

And I was right about The Force making you a better pilot. "You must have Jedi reflexes".

Hayden was trash in II but his acting had vastly improved in III. III might actually be the second or third best Star Wars movie out of the first six. The final battle on Mustafar the best in the series easily.


Just makes me more depressed that Gendy Tartakovsky's EPIC cartoon series is no longer canon despite Episode 3 clearly taking place directly after it ended

Agreed on all counts. Personally AOTC is the only film out of the first six where my opinion of it slowly worsened over time, as it didn't hold up to the many times I watched it afterwards. Phantom Menace however I never really understood why some people don't like. Like the other films it's exactly what it says on the tin, the phantom menace of the Sith revealing themselves again to the galaxy after being believed extinct for centuries. We see classic characters like Obi-Wan and Yoda in their prime (Or slightly less ancient state in regards to Yoda). Anakin Skywalker, one of the most important characters in the mythos, is introduced to us and we get to see that big bad Darth Vader was once just an innocent kid, with a talent for mechanics. Beyond the main conflict with the Trade Federation's blockade of Naboo you have minor ones as well, such as the previously mentioned return of the Sith, the political machincations of Palpatine (Who we know will end up becoming the despotic Emperor down the line), our heroes trapped on Tatooine and the integral nature of the Podrace that allows them to escape, Anakin's discovery and why he's so important to the mythos, beyond the fact that he becomes Darth Vader, etc. A lot of seeds are laid that you can already tell will sprout to allow the galaxy to become the place that it is in the later films and I thought Lucas did a good job of having his universe go back to an earlier point and look at where everything would have been at the time.

The original Clone Wars series. Bruh I don't care what anybody says, that was a masterpiece. Each episode was what? A few minutes? It's a testament to how good this series was that the later Clone Wars CGI series took so many ideas from it and then used the longer episodes to tell more detailed stories.

Clone Wars isn't canon?

The original microseries? Not anymore.

 

[Betonblck]

Back when the prequels first came out, everybody loved them.

Where the **** do you live?

In the Northeast, tri-state area.

 

[chris82790]

The Jedi Order is like the Manitowoc County justice system.

Never thought of it from that perspective.

 

[KingdomFlatbush]

Also not seeing the issue with Anakin's transition to Vader because the transition from Vader back to Anakin is equally as ridiculous.

I think that's the nature of being a Jedi, when you're attuned to these Force and posses such high levels of power and telepathic sensibility, I believe these kinds of emotional lapses were intended to be taken to the most extreme and logical conclusion, I.E. Kylo Ren saying that he literally feels like he's being torn apart.

But nobody complains about Vader going back to Anakin. "Tell your sister...you were right". What? How was he right exactly?

Billions dead, billions suffering, the children of the man who married your mother are smoldering skeletons, but you flushed Palpatine down the toilet and now it's all hunky dory? a commander comes to you to personally apologize for something he couldn't control, and you aphyxiate the *****, but an hour later "you were right about me" because you kicked the Emperor down the stairs? What?

 

[BANLEU]

Yeah I never understood that. Luke could sense when Vader was on the same planet, Leia supposedly felt when Han died. But Yoda ...a Jedi master can't feel when the Emperor is right in his face ?

I mean if Yoda and Mace were powerful enough to sense things on a galactic scale, then I don't understand why it's not possible for Palpatine to mask his true identity? Besides the force doesn't grant omnipotence. It doesn't always make clear what the danger is and it sometimes just tells force users that there are disturbances within the force. That's why Mace and Yoda could sense that someone was plotting but not know who or where that person was. Not only that, but Yoda makes clear that Jedi should not put too much stock in premonitions because they can become self-fulfilling like Anakins did.

I do agree that we don't see enough of a transition from Anakin to Vader, but I think the point that GL was trying to make is that he was absolutely blinded by love and would have done anything for it. Remember, Anakin was still young in ROTS and Padme was the only woman besides his mom that he ever loved. Idk about you guys, but I did some dumb ish when I was a teen and I thought I was in love with a girl.

 

[jays25]

Palpatine being able to hide himself from the likes of Yoda is an example of just how powerful he is.

 

[ARK]

Palpatine being able to hide himself from the likes of Yoda is an example of just how powerful he is.

UNLIMITED POWER!!!

 

[Ingenious Bastard]

Good points

 

[sea manup]

anakin cries and complains about literally everything the jedi tell him to do but suddenly he has no objections to the emperor telling him to murder all the children? 

vader tells anakin that he was right about there being some good in him

there was a reason for him to turn on the emperor, to save his son

there was no reason for him to suddenly think its a good idea to go kill a bunch of kids

then choke out his pregnant wife 2 minutes later

the prequels turned the most iconic, cool villain ever into a poorly written, weak minded, idiot. its a story better off not told

why did they introduce a force birth and a prophecy when the subject doesnt show that he's any more special than your average jedi?

rather than making him just some kid with potential that was brought down a dark path, they make him out to be space jesus even though he takes nothing but Ls 

 

[sea manup]

Palpatine being able to hide himself from the likes of Yoda is an example of just how powerful he is.

also an example of how much of an idiot yoda is 

 

[Mark Antony]

Good points

Sure, if the Jedi only failed once, allowing mass genocide once, but it's been multiple times. I'm not even all that sure why you shouldn't join the dark side.

I feel like we've been running on the all powerful jedi myth for the longest time, but yet to see it. Star wars mega fans can disagree, but look at the majority of the costumes they wear, they're certainly not jedis.

 

[ARK]

I try not to over analyze them and just enjoy them for what they are entertainment.

 

[jays25]

Palpatine being able to hide himself from the likes of Yoda is an example of just how powerful he is.

also an example of how much of an idiot yoda is 

Naah.

 

[sharpshooter718]

Tickets are damn near 20 a pop. Records aint hard to break these days

 

[silverbackhoney]

Jar Jar = Snoke

 

[Armada]

 

[Ingenious Bastard]

Sure, if the Jedi only failed once, allowing mass genocide once, but it's been multiple times. I'm not even all that sure why you shouldn't join the dark side.

I feel like we've been running on the all powerful jedi myth for the longest time, but yet to see it. Star wars mega fans can disagree, but look at the majority of the costumes they wear, they're certainly not jedis.

Translation: Jedi suck

I like how ROTS highlighted those failures though. Yoda going into exile, and the rest of them getting slaughtered smh...

 

[KingdomFlatbush]

So instead of Palpatine being just that smooth about his scheming and his ability to mask his presence, the Jedi are dumb

And dudes really need to watch the OG Clone Wars if they don't think the masters weren't bout that life





[Video]

I don't even particularly like the prequels that much outside of ROTS but some of yall continue to look at the OT with them rose-tinted goggles

 

[sea manup]

 

Good points

Sure, if the Jedi only failed once, allowing mass genocide once, but it's been multiple times. I'm not even all that sure why you shouldn't join the dark side.

I feel like we've been running on the all powerful jedi myth for the longest time, but yet to see it. Star wars mega fans can disagree, but look at the majority of the costumes they wear, they're certainly not jedis.

it was cool to be a jedi because of the original movies

prequels turned jedi into a clown show 

if you replaced yoda with a new character and mace with some no name actor thats not same jackson but give them the exact same lines and actions and no one would care at all about these two stupid characters. just lazy terrible writing taking advantage of recognisable faces to trick people into liking them