2 hours ago, Senjius said:

PS: How stupid is to have a map involving a big chunk of the galaxy and don´t know "where" that chunk is to find Luke. The complete film is just ridiculous.

A big chunk of the galaxy is a lot of space to cover... besides, the way I understand it, some places are not easily reachable by hyperspace.

19 minutes ago, TauntaunScout said:

No it does make sense: that map was made by One-Eyed Willy so it was pretty well encrypted with riddles in Spanish. Plus you need a special 300 Credit token with holes in it to know where to look on the map.

And don't kid yourself. The First Order knew better than to go poking around diners owned by the Fratelli Syndicate.

34 minutes ago, FSD said:

And don't kid yourself. The First Order knew better than to go poking around diners owned by the Fratelli Syndicate.

I just saw a Fratelli brother in a new Netflix mafia movie. Typecast much?

4 hours ago, costi said:

A big chunk of the galaxy is a lot of space to cover... besides, the way I understand it, some places are not easily reachable by hyperspace.

Yeah without knowing exact coordinates it would take decades or even centuries for a fleet to search an area that size for a single planet. Unlike the Rebel base in ESB luke didn't have a massive shield generator running or any discreet hyperspace traffic to and from. Even if the first order sent out probe droids (which I'm sure they were doing anyway while they also tried to find the map) and happened upon it the probe would have to closely investigate a single island waay out in the ocean to locate Luke.

On 3/15/2019 at 3:50 PM, KommanderKeldoth said:

Yeah without knowing exact coordinates it would take decades or even centuries for a fleet to search an area that size for a single planet. Unlike the Rebel base in ESB luke didn't have a massive shield generator running or any discreet hyperspace traffic to and from. Even if the first order sent out probe droids (which I'm sure they were doing anyway while they also tried to find the map) and happened upon it the probe would have to closely investigate a single island waay out in the ocean to locate Luke.

One more reason why he’d sink the x-wing.

how much time are we talking about needing to do all of this searching?

Oooh, maybe Luke used the force to help him hide. How many years did Yoda hide out?

What is not to like about the 'Solo' movie, afterall. it has the mother of dragons in it. 🤔 Wait a minute, I think I am mixed up

"Star Destroyers At Sunset"

- Tomasz Jedruszek

3 hours ago, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:

"Star Destroyers At Sunset"

- Tomasz Jedruszek

I don't know.. I think that picture is just plain Lothal.

The Old Republic Trooper

On 3/21/2019 at 3:03 AM, Imperial Advisor Arem Heshvaun said:

The Old Republic Trooper

Never liked the look of these guys. They look too derivative of the clone trooper even though they are supposed to be thousands of years older.

On 3/14/2019 at 2:14 AM, KommanderKeldoth said:

Let the past die, kill it if you have to

The best episodes of the Clone Wars are when Dooku slaughters the Nightsisters; Maul and Oppress kill the leaders of basically every dumb Scum cartel; and when Yoda realizes pretty much every Jedi is going to die, and he has to go learn how to become a force ghost so not all knowledge is lost when that happens.

17 hours ago, KommanderKeldoth said:

Never liked the look of these guys. They look too derivative of the clone trooper even though they are supposed to be thousands of years older.

That is the issue I have with anything set in the old republic era games (kotor, tor) it is all too derivitave and predictable.

11 hours ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

That is the issue I have with anything set in the old republic era games (kotor, tor) it is all too derivitave and predictable.

For over a thousand years, we didn’t change fashion or develop new and better equipment

14 hours ago, Derrault said:

For over a thousand years, we didn’t change fashion or develop new and better equipment

The old Dark Horse comics did a good job with the aesthetics in their Old Republic series. Made everything slightly archaic and medieval looking but still star warsy. I hope the GoT guys strike a good balance with their trilogy.

On 3/24/2019 at 7:25 AM, Derrault said:

For over a thousand years, we didn’t change fashion or develop new and better equipment

Much of that had to do with pre industrial technology at the time. Which doesn't exactly apply to Star Wars.

The issue is that if you didn't know the source of the aforementioned armour, most would probably assune it is clone armour. The concept artists, heck the artist team in general, decided to be extremely lazy. They decided to make it clone armour with a bunch of greeble-ish parts all over it and call it a day.

9 hours ago, KommanderKeldoth said:

The old Dark Horse comics did a good job with the aesthetics in their Old Republic series. Made everything slightly archaic and medieval looking but still star warsy. I hope the GoT guys strike a good balance with their trilogy.

I'm hoping, as the current canon has established organic beings (purgil) as progenitors of hyperdrive, that we get a show that uses them for locomotion. ****, a show about one of the first sentient created hyperdrive capable ships could be fun.

On 3/24/2019 at 7:25 AM, Derrault said:

For over a thousand years, we didn’t change fashion or develop new and better equipment

Clothing and armor is always changing. But it's also always repeating old forms, because the human body underneath it is a constant.

These types of issues are exactly why I think SW is way better off not "officially" turning over too many rocks like this. A lot of things that were well established by 1985 couldn't possibly hold up if you really started shining a light on them, they shoulda have been left to the imaginations of the fans. But that ship has sailed, alas.

On 3/24/2019 at 9:25 PM, Derrault said:

For over a thousand years, we didn’t change fashion or develop new and better equipment

If you mean in terms of our own world history, that is absolutely not true. Technology and fashion changed constantly (indeed, there is quite a lot of medieval art which lampoons changing fashions), just not as noticeably often as the post-industrial world.

15 minutes ago, srMontresor said:

If you mean in terms of our own world history, that is absolutely not true. Technology and fashion changed constantly (indeed, there is quite a lot of medieval art which lampoons changing fashions), just not as noticeably often as the post-industrial world.

I think they were referencing Obi-Wan in ANH with the “over 1k years” thing.

But you’re also right. I have never yet delved deep into a time period without running into recorded intergenerational bickering about what’s appropriate to wear.

1 hour ago, TauntaunScout said:

I think they were referencing Obi-Wan in ANH with the “over 1k years” thing.

But you’re also right. I have never yet delved deep into a time period without running into recorded intergenerational bickering about what’s appropriate to wear.

Bingo on the reference. Seriously though, Jedi fashion has been the same robes pretty much since Obi-wan rocked it in ANH

41 minutes ago, Derrault said:

Bingo on the reference. Seriously though, Jedi fashion has been the same robes pretty much since Obi-wan rocked it in ANH

My apologies. That's just down to misreading your statement.

15 hours ago, srMontresor said:

If you mean in terms of our own world history, that is absolutely not true. Technology and fashion changed constantly (indeed, there is quite a lot of medieval art which lampoons changing fashions), just not as noticeably often as the post-industrial world.

The more you come down like a ton of bricks on a narrow time period and place, the more you realize fashion was changing quickly at all times. It had more regional changes though: the equivalent of different things catching on in different high schools at the same time now. Many of these are lost forever and we can't say what they were but they undoubtedly existed. Petty things like, everyone in that county was wearing lots of green for a couple years because of that cool thing that happened at the baptism of Prominent Person's kid. A new colonel might take over a regiment and switch the black neckstocks to white because he wants a clean and soldierly appearance. Then a new colonel is in charge and says the white neckstocks show dirt too easily, everyone has to get black ones... People living at the time could have looked at old photos (if photography had existed) and known, like we do, "that must have been taken at least 20 years ago if she has that bag but definitely not more than 25 years ago because look at the hat that guy's wearing..."

In a couple hundred years people (outside of academics) probably won't be able to tell the difference between 1960's fashion and 1990's fashion even though we all can instinctively do so. People in a couple hundred years won't realize that the bellbottoms go in one distinct era and the midriff shirts with finger length sleeves go in another. They probably won't realize those shirts were only worn by women either! Historical hobbyists and theatrical costume designers get the gendered details of past clothing wrong all the time.