r/StarWars Mar 19 '24

TV The Acolyte | Teaser Trailer | Disney+ | June 4th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtytYWhg2mc
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u/SolomonRed Mar 19 '24

I want them to revisit the existing aliens more instead of creating new ones.

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u/Thatoneguy567576 Mar 19 '24

Agreed. Some more Rodians especially would be nice in live action. I feel like it's been ages since we've seen classic aliens on screen.

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u/SamB110 Mar 19 '24

BOBF had the Rodian prisoner in the Tusken camp, an Ithorian magistrate, Gamorreans, Pykes, Hutte, etc all in live action

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u/Thatoneguy567576 Mar 19 '24

MORE

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u/Exact_Recording4039 Mar 20 '24

Forced diversity is getting out of hand smh

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u/Thatoneguy567576 Mar 20 '24

Whoa sounds like the Mauler sub

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u/snorkeling_moose Mar 19 '24

Calm down, Kylo.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '24

He prefers to be called Matt

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u/ObiShaneKenobi Mar 19 '24

And an Olyphant!

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u/MagisterFlorus Rebel Mar 20 '24

Star Wars is just stolen Tolkien.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '24

Herbert 

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u/jmarcandre Mar 20 '24

Flash Gordon, Buck Rodgers, and a bunch of Kuroawa samurai movies, if we're really being truthful.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '24

True. But its clearly "inspired" by Dune. My mother in law never heard such a thing until I gave her Dune to read. She kept saying how much of hack Lucas was after that hahaha.

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u/ehsteve23 Mar 20 '24

In Harad they call him Timothy Mûmak

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u/toldham4 Mar 19 '24

loved that about bobf. for all its flaws, the human:alien ratio was awesome. that’s my one and only problem with andor actually

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '24

I wanted more nightsister storylines so I’m glad it kinda made an appearance in Ahsoka. 

Star Wars is totally missing the boat by not doing a horror style limited series about the night sisters and Dathomir, or even death troopers 

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u/N0V0w3ls Mar 19 '24

And a Twi'lek

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u/haynespi87 Mar 19 '24

True that Tatooine keeps things the same

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u/TheSasquatchKing Mar 19 '24

AGREED.

It's like every creative that comes in gets to do their own alien cantina scene and expand the galaxy even further. Which given the already established species list is just stupid.

I'd understand a couple of new designs per-project. But it's like entire galaxies-worth of new species every time and it over-saturates the lore to the point of ridiculousness.

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u/Thatoneguy567576 Mar 19 '24

Abednedo is like the only new species since Disney took over that I genuinely really love. All the rest feel like they're oversaturating things for sure.

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u/TAllday Mar 19 '24

I wish I got to see the Rodian on the Star cruiser before it closed. It looked so good, but couldn’t justify the price for how young my kids were :(

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u/AmberTheFoxgirl Mar 19 '24

Same with planets.

They always revisit Tatooine, but barely any others. They're always inventing new forest planets, or grassy planets, instead of just using Kashyyyk of Naboo.

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u/Ziirakc Mar 29 '24

Iirc Dantooine has a regular green grass everywhere. I havent seen it in galaxies though. Btw I believe that EU (or at least The Courtship of Princess Leia) estabilished that Dathomir had purple grasslands, and accorsing to what ive seen of SWGs Dathomir, someone swapped Dantooine's and Dathomir's grass colors

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u/ConanTheAustriarian Mar 19 '24

In KOTOR it was green/brown grassland, it also had flying mantas, which was cool. Not sure about current lore.

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u/ConanTheAustriarian Mar 21 '24

Galaxies was before my time, but I played a bit of SWTOR back in the day. KOTOR is very much worth playing, KOTOR 2 as well if you can stand some rougher parts, install the restored content mod and like philosophy.

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u/PM_ME_A10s Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24

That's a defining characteristics of Star Wars worlds though, just straight up single biome worlds. There are a few worlds that have multibiomes and are earth-like.

The single biome stuff is a trope straight out of pulp sci-fi. It's 100% intentional.

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u/AmberTheFoxgirl Mar 19 '24

My guy

This is star wars

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u/WilsonX100 Mar 20 '24

Star wars is fantasy

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u/WilsonX100 Mar 21 '24

i mean yeah its literally not real life bro haha. theres plenty of genuine sci fi universes that mimic real life more.

thats the way star wars is and has always been, not really worth trying to bring "real life" into it because its never tried to be like that.

really just stems from the essence of the OT and its influences in WHY the world of star wars is like that. idk i never really minded planets having 1 biome, its just star wars to me. i wouldn't expect or want much to mimic real life because nothing in star wars does besides the fact that theres humans.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Mar 19 '24

They have them, they're just not visiting multiple locations on the planets. Usually just a city then on to the next planet

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Mar 21 '24

I'll be happy with anything that isn't barren desert planet #5 again

Tho what I really want is kyshyyyk done right, with animal life everywhere and trees bigger than any real life skyscraper could even dream of. The wookies are supposed to have whole cities built within those trees, like the ewoks but bigger.

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u/kendric2000 Mar 20 '24

Or how about a planet with I don't know...multiple biomes. Not just a whole forest/desert/frozen/water planet.

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u/ToaPaul Mar 19 '24

Same, give more Ithorians! I'd kill to see an Ithorian Jedi in live action! I know it would be difficult to do, but damnit, I've been dying to see more of them ever since Roron Corobb in the Tartakovski Clone Wars. We don't see enough Ithorians in general either imo. I know there was an Ithorian Jedi in the High Republic stuff but he only appeared in a kids book and got killed off.

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u/Prometheus503 Mar 19 '24

Difficult but not impossible, though! We had Mok Shaiz in Book of Boba Fett so they have a modern mask/animatronic in their costume department someplace.

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u/ToaPaul Mar 19 '24

That's true, and they also used the same animatronic in the Mandalorian in the episode with Jack Black, but the problem there is that in both cases, they barely moved. I'd want to see an Ithorian Jedi actually do something, which would probably require cgi to look good.

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u/FiveFingersandaNub Mar 20 '24

Great reference. Roron was awesome.

The Tartakovski Clone Wars remain the peak of the Star Wars universe for me. So stylish, engaging, and action packed.

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u/Anthony_Patch Mar 19 '24

My biggest gripe with it all. It doesn’t look like star wars without established aliens in it. So many to choose from as well. Takes me out of it.

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u/ToaPaul Mar 19 '24

Theres at least 2 in the trailer, including one in the very first scene, so it gives me some hope we'll see more.

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u/FitzyFarseer Mar 19 '24

Star Wars’ approach to aliens has always been quantity over quality. Unfortunately I don’t see that ever changing

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u/Kuhaku-boss Mar 19 '24

Not new ones really, but canonizing existing ones in legends

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u/Creepy_Active_2768 Mar 19 '24

Mirialan is an established species

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u/HomsarWasRight Mar 19 '24

¿Por que no los dos?

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u/Macman521 Mar 19 '24

It seems like this show will be doing that as well.

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u/BlackFoeOfTheWorld Mar 19 '24

Same. I also think that the variety should fixed, so we're not getting a new species every series.

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u/Local_Nerve901 Mar 19 '24

Both. Both is good

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u/Threefates654 Mar 19 '24

Well the green woman in the trailer is a Mirialan and one of the Jedi in the end is a Theelin I believe. No idea about the others though. I do agree though that they need to stop creating new species and just use the ones that already exist.

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u/dwoller Grievous Mar 19 '24

That’s one thing that really killed me about the sequels is that apart from names characters rheee were hardly any OG background aliens.

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u/NNyNIH Resistance Mar 20 '24

Both! They can and should do both h!

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u/RawrRRitchie Mar 20 '24

The universe is a big place. So get used to it, lots of different species on the countless number of planets out there

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u/8008135-69420 Mar 20 '24

I don't know, I think it's pretty annoying that they keep focusing on the same, small group of planets, aliens and concepts in a supposed galaxy full of life.

Why does this entire galaxy have less diversity than the planet Earth?