User blog:NovaHawk/Random Star Wars blog

I was going to go add some Shop descriptions/images to our pages since we're hilariously behind, but my Internet's being dumb and uploading/downloading+cropping+uploading cropped images/loading up Shop descriptions is proving difficult. So, I've decided to do something completely off-topic: making a blog dedicated to Star Wars discussion, because I don't want to clog up other blogs. It'll probably just be full of me talking to myself and writing dumb rants, but if you've got any opinions/comments/whatever vaguely related to Star Wars (LEGO-related or otherwise), feel free to post below :)

If you're talking about Rogue One, please warn people about spoilers at the top of your comments.

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NovaHawkLegendary Brickipedian

94 months ago

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Minor Aftermath: Empire's End spoilers

I'm about a quarter of the way through this. So far the main story is pretty much what you'd expect if you've read the other two books (except for one thing but won't give away that spoiler in case there's a 1/1000000 chance someone else here intends to read it). But one of the big highlights for these books for me has been the interludes- mini-chapters that have nothing to with the main story but give a snapshot of what the Galaxy's like after the New Republic's just been established.

One of the things the EU failed to address was what ever happened to Jar Jar? I actually thought this was a pretty big issue because he was pretty much the only main character from the movies that never had their fate revealed. I figured that it was because of all the randoms hating him so they just decided to leave it alone. This interlude, while only 4 or 5 pages, finally answers that question. It's set on Naboo, Jar Jar's getting old, he's an outcast from both the Gungans who still don't like him, and also the Naboo, who thought that he was in league with the Empire. He spends his days as a clown, performing for all the refugee children who have come to Naboo, and centres around him becoming friends with a child who's been prettty badly deformed from an explosion he was in during the war. (The kid's injuries do actually sound a bit like how Snoke looks- I know it's unlikely he turns out to be Snoke, and I really hope he doesn't, I wouldn't want this interlude ruined like that.) Anyway, it was just a really nice way to finish off Jar Jar's story, I couldn't possibly have imagined a better way to end it.

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Rock-O-JelloNovice

96 months ago

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I actually thought Rogue One was boring and confusing

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NovaHawkLegendary Brickipedian

96 months ago

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Catalyst/Rogue One spoilers

Knew Catalyst was going to be a good book, because it had "James Luceno" on the front. It did a really great job of giving us Krennic's, Galen's and Lyra's backstories. I think when I see Rogue One again those scenes between these characters are going to be a whole lot more meaningful- knowing that Krennic and Galen were friends growing up at the Republic Academy, then reading about how exactly later in life Krennic delicately manipulated Galen for 5 years to develop the Death Star's superlaser while he thought he was working on a project for sustainable energy for underdeveloped worlds I think will add a whole new dimension to the characters that we didn't get time to see on screen. Also Krennic pretty much always hated Lyra for meddling with his plans for Galen but tried his best not to show it. Can definitely see why he killed Lyra instead of just stunning her now.

Also the relationship between Krennic and Tarkin was fun- both of them trying to undermine the other for years, and towards the end of the book Krennic set a trap to try and (best case scenario) kill Tarkin or (worst case scenario- which is what happened) force Tarkin into a months-long battle that meant Tarkin couldn't spend time on advancing his career/undermining Krennic, and also made him look bad for using so much time and so many resources for what was meant to be a very quick mission. I can definitely understand the obvious hatred the two have for each other in the movie much better.

The last couple of paragraphs were pretty sad. It was written from Jyn's point of view (who was 5 by the end of the book)- pretty much it was like "I don't know who the Empire is, but Mama and Papa don't like them so they must be bad. But at least I have a new friend now, yay!" (the "friend" being Saw). I dunno, knowing how Jyn turned out, it was funny and sad at the same time.

Really wished I read the book before the movie, but I was told it would have movie spoilers so I stayed away from it (it didn't have any spoilers at all, it just featured some of the characters from the movie)

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BerrybrickLegendary Brickipedian

96 months ago

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I finally saw Rogue One like all of the other cool kids. So spoilers?

First off, all of the trailers paired with this were for reboots or sequels. I'm not bothered by sequels as much as some other people are, but it was weird how most of them sort of had this transtextualism going on, trying to get you to guess what the franchise was. Not all of them did that (and really, Kong was the only one especially annoying about it), but I thought it was interesting because then the movie sort of did the same thing. Blue milk because Star Wars, the Force because Star Wars, it's a trap because Star Wars, I have a bad feeling because Star Wars and we are going to keep saying "hope" because Star Wars. I thought it would bother me.

A side note on the trailers the background music in that Transformers trailer is something special...the music they chose for the first part describes what the screen is showing (like a shot of Optimus Prime floating in space, and the song says "We are floating in space")...it was kind of lovely.

But on being bothered because Star Wars. It sort of did bother me. But then we got to the last act and, well, that puts the "War" in Star Wars. Disney has started to earn my respect with the way they are handling the franchise, I think, in ways they haven't in other places. The "because Star Wars" still bothers me (especially because TFA pretty much did it too by redressing ANH) and that's something they'll have to move on from before I get totally on board, but that they ended the movie the way they did earned them a lot of points. It did a lot to setup ANH too (even cleaning up a plothole or two). It's a different galaxy without the space knights jumping around, and I think it's good of them to show that.
Even the setup for ANH is because Star Wars though, I think; the movie probably wouldn't work if it weren't a Star Wars film, but that's not necessarily a bad thing
The story was better than TFA, but I don't know if I'd say I like Rogue One more just because I think that Finn and Rey were better characters. It's not that I didn't like the cast here though, they just weren't as well developed, and I at least respect Rogue One more for being different.
I am glad that people like it. I liked it.
I could tell Tarkin was CG; maybe I wouldn't have realized if I hadn't heard beforehand, but going in knowing, it was sort of obvious. Some of the movements he made came off as uncannily well controlled; to see a real actor manage that might be surreal. Leia I actually didn't realize, but I think that's because she wasn't even on screen for three seconds.

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NovaHawkLegendary Brickipedian

96 months ago

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Rogue One spoilers

Yeah, I get what you mean about the "because Star Wars"- especially the overuse of the word "hope" and all the talk about the Force. I mean after reading Catalyst I get that Lyra was a big Jedi wannabe, but I don't really see why they felt like they needed Chirrut and Baze to be Jedi worshippers. And bringing something as big as the Whills into the new canon in a movie without Jedi seemed very strange. Also Vader at the end just seemed a little like "we have to have a lightsaber and the Force in the movie somewhere, because Star Wars" too. But really, overall it's pretty minor for me, was still very happy with this movie and after being very worried about the future of Star Wars when I saw VII, my faith has been somewhat restored :)