2 hours ago, GrimmyV said:

Funny, I thought SW was about epic awesomeness and finding your way in a vast galaxy. The struggles of Luke, Han’s arc and Vader’s fall and redemption might seem black and white but it’s actually a lot of grey. Old Ben and Yoda even show that the ‘good’ isn’t always right, smart or even just, it’s just different points of view and values based on old belief systems and assumptions.

Yeah, Empire vs Rebellion is cast in GvE, but Tyranny is objectively cruel while resistance to autocracy and dictatorship is traditionally shown in a heroic light. But the character arcs were driven by spiritual concerns that eskewed traditional notions of good, evil, right, wrong, etc. Han, Lando, Boba, Jabba, even BoShek, they all exist on a spectrum of light and dark or between the two sides in the civil war. Sometimes these characters are strongly aligned with a faction or cause, and other times they are loners or even clear leaders of their own ‘3rd’ faction.

Find your own path, do what you feel is right, Love is stronger than hate, don’t be an *******. That was the point of the OT wasn’t it?

I disagree with much of what you said but again opinions yours and mine and everyone elses. It’s all good ? Lucas is not Socrates or Ghandi though. He really did make a good vs evil flick and some people like to give it an almost religious theme.

Han and Lando both were shown when good men do nothing tyranny wins. So their basis in neutrality is selfish so instead of being part of the problem they chose to be part of the solution. Good may not always be right and further movies have attempted to deepen a simple idea but light vs dark is the bottom line of Star Wars philosophy and I do not care for at all this idea of everything is grey. There are circumstances to real life but this movie was at it’s conception a space opera, a morality play.

Again if you enjoy it great there are those who do, just as there are those who don’t like it as I do. Star Wars is not my movie anymore and that is ok. In the grand scheme there are far better pieces of art that display inner reflection.

The DP20 is 120 meters of ugly. I don't think I could put that on the table, just for aesthetic reasons. It looks like a wine stopper procreated with a Mayan ceremonial head dress.

That said, include a K-2SO crew card and I'll buy four.

9 minutes ago, LordFajubi said:

In the grand scheme there are far better pieces of art that display inner reflection

Art? Yeah only SW and ESB could be considered art due to their nature as significant films. Everything else is ‘entertainment’. I’d say Dune, anything by Philip K **** or even Robert Heinlein and many more I can’t think of right now would be the type of actual sci fi philosophical stuff that can be deconstructed and studied. SW, yeah it’s admitedly Space Opera and a tribute movie turned into merchandising franchise. Oh well. I tried.

On 14.1.2018 at 0:08 AM, Punning Pundit said:

A couple weeks ago, I re-read Dark Empire, and I found a couple things from that comic that... well (this should be two links, not 1 link. Not sure why this is happening):

https://twitter.com/punningpundit/status/947309449013739520

So it seems like the new movies are just taking some _very_ old Star Wars ideas...

Nobody ever said the EU had only good ideas

@topic though, the simple problem of providing 3 new ships per wave will most likely continue to draw FFGs eyes towards the EU. So, Skipray fans, rejoice, we're going to get one eventually, right?

However, when it comes to the ones in the list above, I'm still baffled at times over just how large the chasm is between the designs of the movies and what the third party designers managed... (It's not all bad, but seriously, there's worn/ lived in and then there's ugly. Looking at you, DP-20)

I hope none of those make it to the game... They are some of the ugliest ships I have ever seen put into the SW Universe..