15 minutes ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:That would be an interesting character to bring back to Canon again.
If only to Canonize that side note that Grand Moff Tarkin was a passionate lover.
Yes, this was mentioned in the novels Jedi Search and Death Star.
I'm sure he was always looking forward to debriefing her
4 minutes ago, Audio Weasel said:I'm sure he was always looking forward to debriefing her
God Bless @Audio Weasel
12 hours ago, Odanan said:And that's why the Mouse shall be praised.
Because Suncrusher is dumb but starkiller base is ok?
12 hours ago, Odanan said:Now that's a time period I'm really interested.
Howso? The Empire is gone at this point - this would be years after the Battle of Jakku that ended the war.
So...early days of the New Republic? No real enemy to fight, so a series of just political posturing and bickering? That doesn't sound super compelling...
1 hour ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:That would be an interesting character to bring back to Canon again.
If only to Canonize that side note that Grand Moff Tarkin was a passionate lover.
Yes, this was mentioned in the novels Jedi Search and Death Star.
TRIGGERED
14 minutes ago, arkhamssaber said:Because Suncrusher is dumb but starkiller base is ok?
Because Starkiller is dumb, but Suncrusher is "OMG let's kill the franchise" bad.
13 minutes ago, xanderf said:Howso? The Empire is gone at this point - this would be years after the Battle of Jakku that ended the war.
So...early days of the New Republic? No real enemy to fight, so a series of just political posturing and bickering? That doesn't sound super compelling...
Exactly because of that. When you stop with the simplistic manichaeism, you can actually develop a story. Hopefully in shades of gray (not the 50, though).
3 hours ago, Alpha17 said:Because turning a planet into another Death Star that blows up whole solar systems was such an improvement.
Actually, Statkiller did exactly what it was built for, destroy the central government of the Republic and the bulk of its fleet. The FO starfleet would have been free to engage the rest of the Republic fleet that was spread thin around the galaxy. Starkiller was superfluous after its first shot beyond being a vague threat and one of many bases of operations
all the DS1 did was to allow a farm boy to embarrass an Empire and potentially allow a Grand Moff to rival the Emperor in power.
7 minutes ago, GrimmyV said:Actually, Statkiller did exactly what it was built for, destroy the central government of the Republic and the bulk of its fleet. The FO starfleet would have been free to engage the rest of the Republic fleet that was spread thin around the galaxy. Starkiller was superfluous after its first shot beyond being a vague threat and one of many bases of operations
all the DS1 did was to allow a farm boy to embarrass an Empire and potentially allow a Grand Moff to rival the Emperor in power.
And that makes it better as a plot point than the Sun Crusher? No, all that does is make it an in-universe reset button.
1 hour ago, arkhamssaber said:Because Suncrusher is dumb but starkiller base is ok?
They are all dumb... Even the deathstar...
STAR WARS IS DUMB.. and that's fine.
But the Suncrusher is the dumbest
2 hours ago, xanderf said:Howso? The Empire is gone at this point - this would be years after the Battle of Jakku that ended the war.
So...early days of the New Republic? No real enemy to fight, so a series of just political posturing and bickering? That doesn't sound super compelling...
Some of the Legends books touched on the idea as the Empire became less of a threat, old grudges and distrust came back between some of the members of the alliance. Old rivals and, new up and comers could turn from ally against something more dangerous to the more concerning enemy.
There is also room for other organizations trying to fill the power vacuum the Empire left, as well as the power vacuum left in the underworld by Jabba’s death.
It will likely be less all out war as previous episodes, but there is still room for battles, intrigue, and plenty of betrayal.
31 minutes ago, SabineKey said:Some of the Legends books touched on the idea as the Empire became less of a threat, old grudges and distrust came back between some of the members of the alliance. Old rivals and, new up and comers could turn from ally against something more dangerous to the more concerning enemy.
There is also room for other organizations trying to fill the power vacuum the Empire left, as well as the power vacuum left in the underworld by Jabba’s death.
It will likely be less all out war as previous episodes, but there is still room for battles, intrigue, and plenty of betrayal.
OMG, Game of Thrones in Star Wars?! Do. Want.
41 minutes ago, Odanan said:OMG, Game of Thrones in Star Wars?! Do. Want.
Maybe. Just less nudity and...well, not any more incest 
Neat! Okay, this might be really interesting.
8 hours ago, Frimmel said:So the intention with this seems to tell all the backstory they didn't bother with for TFA. They know they can't fix that pile of dren right?
Right.
Just like how Clone Wars was a TV show to explain the back story they didn't bother with for ANH.
What a terrible movie, am I right?
3 hours ago, Sekac said:Right.
Just like how Clone Wars was a TV show to explain the back story they didn't bother with for ANH.
What a terrible movie, am I right?
No, you're not right. You're actually worse than not right. You're not even wrong. Perhaps you could explain which part of ANH was incomprehensible because they didn't tell us all about the Clone Wars?
21 hours ago, Dpro said:I keep hoping it’s based off the xwing series. All new characters except wedge but they can get a wedge. Love to see rogue and especially wraith squadrons. Was hoping rogue one team was going to be put together like the wraiths were.
I would LOVE Wedge... I was so bummed he didn't return in TFA or TLJ; it would have been great to see him as a grizzled flight veteran. Easily my favorite OT character outside of the core heroes.
Really disappointed this isn't the Underworld series Lucas had started and was ready to film. Hopefully that still gets made down the road.
The timeline of this show is definitely curious. What's Star Wars without a "war"? Is this gonna be a SW political drama? West Wing in space so to speak?
Do we know when Luke started his jedi academy? I suppose that could be one aspect of the show. Could even bring Hamill back and just dye his hair like they did for the TLJ flashbacks.
12 hours ago, xanderf said:Howso? The Empire is gone at this point - this would be years after the Battle of Jakku that ended the war.
So...early days of the New Republic? No real enemy to fight, so a series of just political posturing and bickering? That doesn't sound super compelling...
The Imperial states are still around.
Technically only the Galactic Empire is gone by this point.
A successor state would technically be different so say Thrawn comes back, if he made his own Empire and waged a campaign it would still fit within the canon.
But to be fair, TV and Film canon outweigh book canon. If Favreau wants the Empire to come back as bad guys they'll find a way to make it happen.
4 hours ago, Frimmel said:No, you're not right. You're actually worse than not right. You're not even wrong. Perhaps you could explain which part of ANH was incomprehensible because they didn't tell us all about the Clone Wars?
The part where they mentioned the Clone Wars in passing, and I was all "Clone wars, what are those?"
34 minutes ago, Sekac said:The part where they mentioned the Clone Wars in passing, and I was all "Clone wars, what are those?"
You are right, the movies are practically jibberish without that context 
Not everything unexplained is a plothole.
Reports of this series' timeline have been greatly exaggerated.
Dan Casey, who broke this story, now says he actually originally misquoted Favreau.
It's set 7 years after Yavin.
So, a year or 3 after Endor instead of 7.
23 hours ago, Viktus106 said:So after Inferno Squad but before Resurrection.
Interesting. Hopefully it covers the rise of the First Order and explains why one man, General Hux, managed to gain such an army.
Nepotism. Lots of Nepotism.
10 hours ago, Sekac said:Right.
Just like how Clone Wars was a TV show to explain the back story they didn't bother with for ANH.
What a terrible movie, am I right?
No, because Obi-Wan's line does little more than serve as a throw away line to show the universe has some history to it. That there were other things that happened. TFA, and TLJ on the other hand have actively tried to avoid any kind of mention of political states of the galaxy or giving much of a feel for the rest of the universe to avoid the politics of the PT that they think people disliked. But they sort of did it poorly just effectively going with a "Well, just read the books, comics, and watch all the other material so you understand what is going on, how this group hasn't just been wiped out etc..." Since the First Order was some small threat that between Star Killer Base and their fleet was able to wipe out the New Republic and take over the galaxy in 3 days give or take.
20 hours ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:Just a note.. Poe is not the main character in Star Wars Resistance.
Even better! It gives them more freedom to really craft some detailed, unique characterizations with the new cast.
16 hours ago, arkhamssaber said:Because Suncrusher is dumb but starkiller base is ok?
It's dumb that a starfighter can destroy an entire solar system with one shot. It also happens to be impervious to every weapon known to man, and can ram its way through Imperial Star Destroyers.
But it isn't when you've a built a moon-sized supercannon in secret, so it does one thing, and consumes entire stars to do that thing. It's also not going anywhere really fast. That's a massive amount of effort to load and fire the weapon, over the incidental button-push of a neon-bright Mary Sue starfighter.