Geek 4 Star Wars: April 2018

Monday, April 30, 2018

So this just happened...

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Haven't seen a burn that bad since Mustafar.

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Falconer

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Solo is the name of a Norwegian soda, so I couldn't resist making this

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I like AT-AT’s so I made this.

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George Lucas and JJ Abrams having a violent altercation on the set of "The Force Awakens" (2015)

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Solo: A Star Wars Story 8k Resolution Wallpaper

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In the movie Moulin Rogue, Ewan McGregor’s character falls in love with Nicole Kidman’s character. Her name? Satine. Discuss. (I just found this out and I can’t stop thinking about it)

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"Slave Leia" unused Return of the Jedi promotional photo. 1982

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I was playing a bit around with paint.net, this is the first, but not final, result. Any critic is welcome. Thanks.

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If you could live on a planet which one you would live on?

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Relic of The Clone War in a Local Shop near my home.

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Use your harpoons and tow cables!

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Rogue One but with Ed Edd n Eddy sound effects

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With the passing of Carrie Fisher, Leia will have fought for her whole life, but she will never get to see the true peace and freedom she fought for.

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Sunday, April 29, 2018

New Imperial (and even Rebel) equipment popping up in every new Rebel-era film

I see a lot of gripes about folks saying: "Well why have we never seen this type of trooper before?" Or "How come we never saw this ship outside this one film/show?" I proffer this: Look at the US Military, whose only AoR is Earth. Look at how many times we've changed our equipment over even the past 15 years of conflict.How many times has the US Army changed their basic cammie pattern? 3 officially (Tri-colors, ACU, MultiCam), but many specialized units test different patterns all the time.We've changed the desert pattern 2 times in the Corps (Chocolate Chips and Desert MARPATS).Not one of the 4 major services has the same cammo pattern.We have three different types of MRAPs and dozens of HMMWVs (So 3-4 Walker variants aren't crazy depending on the operational theater)New gear gets tested in theater all the time. So stuff that might not ever see full production runs has been used in conflict.Look at our rifles. Most troops are issued the M4A1 currently, but we have a wide range of battle rifles (not even looking at machine guns, grenade launchers, etc) like the HK416 and the SCAR that end up in the hands of special units.The USNavy is likely to abandon the Littoral Combat Ship despite deploying a handful of them because it's falling short of it's mission goals.TL;DR: Even looking at one major military on one planet it is very normal for gear to get swapped out quickly, see limited use, and be theater specific; so with a galactic empire for the same thing to happen is not weird or illogical. Cost and effectiveness are huge drivers. via /r/StarWars https://ift.tt/2r8cBVq

Infinity War Just Beat The Force Awakens's Box Office Record

Honestly, this came as a big shock to me. I absolutely loved Infinity War but I thought nothing would ever top the 32 years of hype behind TFA and the fact that Star Wars is a landmark in American pop culture. Pretty crazy.https://ift.tt/2HzLRbn course, the money all goes to Disney anyway - doesn't really matter to us. via /r/StarWars https://ift.tt/2raO9Tc

Interesting parallel of Anakin and Obi-Wan

I was thinking about this while watching Rebels and on that note, please beware my comments will have spoilers regarding the end of that particular series.It's interesting that while Anakin fell to the dark side and Obi-Wan stayed strongly devoted to the Jedi code, even rising above so much more than so many others, their mentorships had vastly different effects. First we look at Obi-Wan, who while a best friend and brother figure to Anakin, his overbearing-father type attitude in training the boy and strict adherences to the Jedi code didn't help keep him on track. Not that Kenobi is to blame for his fall but it does beg the question, had Qui-Gon trained him, would things have gone very differently?Then let's look at how Commander Cody turns out, a clone who was basically Obi-Wan's right hand through the Clone Wars and the closest thing Kenobi had to a friend regarding the clones. General Kenobi tended to keep things pretty by-the-book with Cody and in turn Cody did the same, granted they were friendly soldiers that even joked around here and there, but they never grow as close as Anakin does with his counterpart in the 501st. What becomes of Cody, he follows orders not to pursue any courses with his inhibitor chip after the incident with Fives and while It's possible he later regretted his actions, this ignorance led to his "Order 66" mandate ordering the murder of Obi-Wan.Now let's look at Anakin, as doomed as he himself seemed to be, his mentorship to his own Padawan Ahsoka Tano and clone right-hand Captain Rex had very different results. While Obi-Wan wasn't the most detached of Jedi mentors, even growing to love Anakin and Satine, he still had reserved interactions with how close he allowed himself to become. Not that Kenobi did anything wrong, but with how he was brought up and adhered to the code, look at how things turned out?Skywalker on the other hand, he wasn't detached at all, he was comfortable basically becoming a loving big brother to Ahsoka and treating Rex like one of his best friends, a brother in arms. While Ahsoka never made it to Knighthood, she still managed to survive the Clone Wars, never fell to the dark side, helped the Rebellion so much in its early years, even out-lived her fallen master and rose to become so much better more enlightened a person. Then there's Rex who did pursue removing his own chip post-Fives/pre-66, he never turned on his Jedi superiors, he learned how to get past the guilt of war and how to live a life, even serving the Rebel Alliance and making it to the end of the Original-Trilogy war a hero.Damn I think that says alot for the differences in mentorship, Obi-Wan may have been the better Jedi/human, but Anakin Skywalker was the better Mentor/friend in my opinion. via /r/StarWars https://ift.tt/2HZAE3i

Let’s discuss this new Solo featurette

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Why Kylo Really Hates Luke

So I re-watched The Last Jedi the other day (while under the influence, I should add), and I came to a realization about the nature of Kylo and Luke's relationship. During the battle of Crait, when Kylo says "I want... every gun we have to fire on that man," he says it with pure contempt. Now, on a superficial level, it's pretty obvious why Kylo should hate Luke: he ignited his lightsaber in his hut while Kylo slept and contemplated killing him.But there's more to it, I believe. Kylo really hates Luke because he is the man who stole his childhood--his chance at a normal life--by taking him on as a pupil, and developing the powers that made him a target for exploitation by Snoke. Is it ever suggested that Kylo even wanted to train with Luke in the first place? The way Luke describes it, it almost sounds like he conscripted Kylo into service.We also know that Kylo didn't harbor the same hatred for his parents--and probably even loved them both at some point. He refused to kill Leia when he had the opportunity, and even though he did kill Han, we saw how difficult that was for him, and anyway, he later admits in The Last Jedi that he didn't hate him. It seems like any resentment he has of them is related to their consent in Luke taking him under his wing. Perhaps Kylo wishes they had stood up to Luke so that everything could've been avoided. Luke, in Kylo's mind, is responsible for all the terrible things that have happened in his life.Kylo believes he is past help, any yet he still feels the pull to the light. The only way for him to snuff this out is by "killing the past." But in The Last Jedi we see that this is not only impossible, but that it is not in fact what he really wants. Look at his despairing expression when Han's dice disappear from his hand. He suddenly realizes that he belongs to no one and nowhere. He has, in a sense, turned himself into Rey--looking for belonging and meaning, unable to find it. It is why they feel such an intrinsic connection. The only difference is Kylo had that belonging in his past, but he lost it. To him, Luke will always be responsible for that. via /r/StarWars https://ift.tt/2I33zUo