5 minutes ago, GreenDragoon said:

I couldn't start watching the new season until today. Wow was the first doubleepisode bad, for so many reasons! Does it get better?

Yes, very.

56 minutes ago, flyboymb said:

At least one picture on the Wook of Mission Vao has ears on it. Maybe ears are just the equivalent to leg hair for Twilek females and so a lot of tape and a couple cones goes into covering them up?

I'm not sure where to begin with that sentence.

5 minutes ago, GreenDragoon said:

I couldn't start watching the new season until today. Wow was the first doubleepisode bad, for so many reasons! Does it get better?

Much better.

The first two episodes/double WAS awful, no matter what my mandalorian loving friend says. I still think mandalorians are the single most overrated thing in Star Wars (Boba Fett being the worst).

18 minutes ago, Captain Lackwit said:

Yes, very.

I'm not sure where to begin with that sentence.

Considering what Carrie Fisher had to go through in A New Hope, it certainly wouldn't be the first time such things were done in the Star Wars galaxy.

in regards to ears vs cones on twi'lek's, i'd rather they be regional variations (like the epicanthic folds on the eyes of humans, or the shape of the nose) than sexual metamorphism, to account for the eared females we see. or perhaps a slightly creepier explanation.. the ear is the default, and the cones are the result of deliberate body shaping for cultural aesthetic purposes, ala foot binding or Cranial Deformation used by some mesoamerican cultures.

either aspect would allow both ear and cone to co-exist, and expand our knowledge of Twi'lek culture a bit more (introducing different ethnicity's in the former, and cultural elements in the latter)

5 hours ago, Boba Rick said:

I thought it was cool that this guy showed up.

...and about as useful as his pilot card in-game is, after the immediate-post-launch-nerf. (I mean, he was never going to be great , but getting two actions during a TLT attack was at least something , given how common TLTs were back in the day)

4 hours ago, SEApocalypse said:

Uhm. I still prefer the Avenger over the Defender
And people will argue that the Gunboat takes that position instead of the defender anyway.
Besides, all the militarized fighters are more powerful anyway

So basically you are wrong on three different levels °_^

I assume you meant Missile Boat, not Gunboat.

And no idea what that third sentence even means. How is the Defender not a militarized fighter?

You assumed correct that I meant missile boat. Typing in the middle of the night cooking. And Freighter not fighter. Sorry about that, gonna edit it.

1 hour ago, mithril2098 said:

in regards to ears vs cones on twi'lek's, i'd rather they be regional variations (like the epicanthic folds on the eyes of humans, or the shape of the nose) than sexual metamorphism, to account for the eared females we see. or perhaps a slightly creepier explanation.. the ear is the default, and the cones are the result of deliberate body shaping for cultural aesthetic purposes, ala foot binding or Cranial Deformation used by some mesoamerican cultures.

either aspect would allow both ear and cone to co-exist, and expand our knowledge of Twi'lek culture a bit more (introducing different ethnicity's in the former, and cultural elements in the latter)

Yeah, I’d go with the regional variant/genetic dilution due to generations of space travel and dispersion

From memory it was established in the Clone Wars TV show that humans and Twi’lek can interbreed. Perhaps the ears are a product of human blood in the Twi’lek’s lineage and cones are pure blood.

7 hours ago, DarthEnderX said:

I assume you meant Missile Boat, not Gunboat.

And no idea what that third sentence even means. How is the Defender not a militarized fighter?

Honestly I'm... I'm not even sure SEA is doing anything but trying to goad you at this point.

Just watched the first episode of Rebels last night, and I'm rather enjoying it so far!

I do have one initial question, though (and please forgive me if this has already been discussed): are the long-necked Star Destroyers purely a stylistic choice for the show, or are they meant to be a distinct variant?

Some info on the new TIE Defender at 3:23

1 hour ago, JJ48 said:

Just watched the first episode of Rebels last night, and I'm rather enjoying it so far!

I do have one initial question, though (and please forgive me if this has already been discussed): are the long-necked Star Destroyers purely a stylistic choice for the show, or are they meant to be a distinct variant?

I'm fairly sure that it's a stylistic choice - given that they specifically clarified that small-winged TIEs were a stylistic choice - retconning early newcanon media that said the difference was real - smaller, thicker wings for landing on.

The Visual Guide said they were Imperial-I (same as Rogue One and ANH) - the differences are probably because, at the time, they were using an Imperial-II as the template, and only bothered to change a couple of things - tractor beam array (to match Imperial-I) and neck length (to match McQuarrie art).

The long necked ISDs are absolutely a stylistic choice. The Chimaera is evidence of that, canonically an ISD-I according to other sources in the new canon.

We're still banging on about the long necked ISDs in a show where the characters have eyes the size of Apricot cores?

2 hours ago, Captain Lackwit said:

We're still banging on about the long necked ISDs in a show where the characters have eyes the size of Apricot cores?

apricot cores are roughly eye sized though, aren't they?

4 hours ago, Captain Lackwit said:

We're still banging on about the long necked ISDs in a show where the characters have eyes the size of Apricot cores?

I wasn't really criticizing the art style or anything. Considering how many ships have multiple variants that are distinguished by much smaller differences, I thought it was a perfectly reasonable question.

I am rather glad that they came out and point blank said that the differences were stylistic. It was rather painful whenever the Wook would add another variant of Star Destroyer just because a comic book artist didn't painstakingly draw each ISD in order for it to be on the same scale as the movie models. Whoops, that one has a bigger bridge. We'll call it the Extraexcutiationer class Star Destroyer!

40 minutes ago, flyboymb said:

I am rather glad that they came out and point blank said that the differences were stylistic. It was rather painful whenever the Wook would add another variant of Star Destroyer just because a comic book artist didn't painstakingly draw each ISD in order for it to be on the same scale as the movie models. Whoops, that one has a bigger bridge. We'll call it the Extraexcutiationer class Star Destroyer!

Oh my god no kidding.

"OH THIS IS A TECTOR STAR DESTROYER"
"um"
IT LACKS A HANGAR"
"ok"

5 minutes ago, Captain Lackwit said:

Oh my god no kidding.

"OH THIS IS A TECTOR STAR DESTROYER"
"um"
IT LACKS A HANGAR"
"ok"

No hangar? Guess the empire really TIEd their hands when it comes to fighting...

Just now, FlyingAnchors said:

No star destroyer hangar? Guess the empire really TIEd there hands when it comes to fighting...

their* and pffft, I'll give you that joke.

Wook was really awful about this kind of thing though. I mean, they have an article about breasts. Breasts!

WE ALL KNOW WHAT THOSE ARE WOOK, THANKS.

2 minutes ago, Captain Lackwit said:

their* and pffft, I'll give you that joke.

Wook was really awful about this kind of thing though. I mean, they have an article about breasts. Breasts!

WE ALL KNOW WHAT THOSE ARE WOOK, THANKS.

Speaking of anatomy, how do we know the cones are actual ears and not decorative?

Just now, FlyingAnchors said:

Speaking of anatomy, how do we know the cones are actual ears and not decorative?

Sounds like a question for Hidalgo, but since all canonical female twi'lek thus far have had those cones we can pretty safely assume that's the case with them.

2 hours ago, Captain Lackwit said:

Sounds like a question for Hidalgo, but since all canonical female twi'lek thus far have had those cones we can pretty safely assume that's the case with them.

It's like how we know human females have metal bits and jewels somehow integrated with their ears - since every time we see one in a movie or TV they have some kind of metal on or dangling from their ears, well, it must be biological.

38 minutes ago, xanderf said:

It's like how we know human females have metal bits and jewels somehow integrated with their ears - since every time we see one in a movie or TV they have some kind of metal on or dangling from their ears, well, it must be biological.

Its more that every single cone matches the skin color of the Twi'lek with the cone. That's what produces the conclusion that, rather than being artificial decoration attached to headdress - it's flesh poking through hole in headdress.

The only times flesh color is not seen, is when something artificial is being worn over cones.

And there's at least one newcanon example of a headdress-free Twi'lek (nothing is worn on the head itself, only on the lekku) and they have cones, too:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Luta