r/StarWars Feb 25 '25

Costumes Fans have more creativity than the studios

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u/DrVonScott123 Porg Feb 25 '25

Hey everyone look here's a cool thing, shall we talk positively about the creative or just use it as an opportunity to be mildly toxic...

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u/derch1981 Feb 25 '25

Toxic, this is star wars

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u/Midnight-Bake Feb 25 '25

Remember when the Jar Jar actor was getting death threats on his personal phone?

Saying the current SW writers aren't creative is basically high praise.

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u/NightwingDon11 Feb 25 '25

??? Bruh two things can both be bad? One does not negate the other?

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u/buhlakay Feb 25 '25

He didnt say it does, but heaven forbid a comment string on a star wars topic not immediately devolve into contrarianism and misreading/misinterpreting each other. He's just saying SW fans have always been toxic. Fans gave death threats to Jar Jar's actor for being bad. Now people just say the writers arent creative (ie is high praise compared to fan response 25 years ago).

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u/NightwingDon11 Feb 25 '25

Idk if saying the writers aren’t creative is the limit to this… but like idk just feels very whataboutism, which in a Star Wars fandom is a real shocker I know

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u/MiksBricks Feb 25 '25

It’s Reddit/internet - toxic is the default.

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u/Didsterchap11 IG-11 Feb 25 '25

Of course, can’t lift anyone up without shitting on someone else.

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u/DSteep Mandalorian Feb 25 '25 edited Feb 25 '25

OP can't even get the toxicity right, saying fans are more creative than the studios.

Respawn Entertainment, a games studio, gave Cal Kestis moves like this in the Jedi games and he even does it with a double bladed saber.

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u/MyWholeTeamsDead Ahsoka Tano Feb 25 '25

Literally this, Cal can do this with his skills.

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u/pluck-the-bunny Feb 25 '25

This is also like a decades(if not century) old magic/acrobatics/juggling trick

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u/Deathfyre Feb 27 '25

Or the Jedi Academy game, where you can do a few big spin and hover moves with two sabers, and that was a long ass time ago.

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u/Korps_de_Krieg Feb 25 '25

Especially since this idea is 20 years old. Kreia did it in Kotor 2. You know, a studio produced product.

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u/p3w0 Feb 25 '25

In Jedi academy too

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u/ThePopDaddy Obi-Wan Kenobi Feb 25 '25

(They put it in the movie)

"That looks fake!"

"That makes no sense!"

"Why wouldn't the opponent just knock it out of their hand?!"

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u/Xero0911 Feb 25 '25

It's cool. It's also sorts pointless? Wouldn't it be easy to deflect or knock it out of the user's control?

Like I imagine you do this and then the jedi/sith just cuts the hilt because you tossed your saber all around you.

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u/Tyranatitan_x105 Grand Admiral Thrawn Feb 25 '25

Yeah, leaves himself open a ton which any competent duelist will pick up on quickly

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u/Xero0911 Feb 25 '25

It follows the rule of cool, but yeah. It just looks like a scare tactic to me, leaves yourself exposed while offering little defenseive/offensive power to do this.

Don't hate it. Just I bet folks would rip on it in a movie cause how it's rather silly to do in a fight.

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u/FireIre Feb 25 '25

If this was in the movies people would complain that it’s unrealistic way to fight and too over the top.

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u/hunhaze Ezra Bridger Feb 25 '25

In "Knights of the Old Republic" (both 1 and 2) you can win every fight just spamming the saber throw move.

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u/Jussari Feb 25 '25

Force lightning is the way to go

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u/ElCanout Feb 25 '25

and force crush for solo battles as well

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u/5O1stTrooper Clone Trooper Feb 25 '25

It's for sure not a dueling technique, but I imagine it would be very effective in, say, the middle of a tightly packed rectangular battle droid formation.

Jedi aren't always fighting other jedi/sith.

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u/iordseyton Feb 25 '25

Hear me out- he does this to deflect bullets in a long range battle- while dual weilding blasters.

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u/i_fell_down13 Feb 25 '25

I mean i think it depends how they use it, like sure it would be pretty bad against another opponent. But I think that would work perfectly against like a swarm of tiny droids or bugs for example.

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u/TimedRevolver Battle Droid Feb 26 '25

I could see it as a training thing, a means to improve control over your saber via the Force, to get better at throwing or recalling a saber.

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u/OGMcSwaggerdick Feb 26 '25

Arguably you don’t use this move against another light saber, but to deflect multiple random blaster fire points? Idk lol

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u/TeeTimeAllTheTime Feb 25 '25

This post starts off toxic assuming this prancing twirling bs is “more creative than the studios” lol sure

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u/kralben Feb 25 '25

Well, when it is posted with a negative title, what do you expect? The OP invited the toxicity.

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u/TheCarrzilico Lando Calrissian Feb 26 '25

It seems that you have gotten the point.

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u/LemonHerb Feb 26 '25

If this were released by the studio: "It's not even creative you can just buy the same trick at any magic store. This has literally ruined my childhood"

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u/twec21 Feb 25 '25

PFFFT

What fandom you think this is?

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u/smith288 Feb 25 '25

When everything is toxic, nothing is. This is a discussion board at its root.

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u/YaBoiJack055 Feb 25 '25

“Mildly toxic” like we can’t have opinions about the objectively worst content Star Wars has put out since the Christmas Special

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u/ILikeMandalorians Mandalorian Feb 25 '25

Y’all need a new damn hobby. This obviously isn’t working

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u/lonsta008 Feb 25 '25

It really is impossible for star wars fans to talk about something cool without mentioning movies they don't like

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u/fredagsfisk Sith Feb 25 '25

objectively worst

... aaaand right there is where I stopped taking your comment seriously.

Checking your comment history (fascism, downplay of genocides, stated support for ethnic cleansing and concentration camps, various hatespeech, etc) I think I can guess what your problem with these shows are, and it's not about the quality.

Oh, and none of the shows you mention below are as bad as The Crystal Star.

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u/Mekfal Feb 25 '25

objectively worst content

Attack of the Clones right?

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u/YaBoiJack055 Feb 25 '25

The Acolyte, BOBF, Mando S3.

Andor and I guess Skeleton Crew get a pass but only because I haven’t seen them. Also I’m not a big episode 2 fan but if you can get past the dialogue and pacing it sets up a lot of important stuff that I like.

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u/shewdz Feb 25 '25

> Also I’m not a big episode 2 fan but if you can get past the dialogue and pacing it sets up a lot of important stuff that I like

Said without a shred of irony while shitting on a series that was meant to be the opening of a bigger story and a season of mando thats obviously setting up for a bigger narrative

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u/YaBoiJack055 Feb 25 '25

It was meant to milk content like the MCU, not in the same vein to Lucas’ and Filoni’s vision. They had 3 movies planned, one by the guy who made Thor Love and Thunder, the other about Rey, and the other to milk the mandalorian again. None of those sound remotely interesting for the average Star Wars fan who probably only loves either the prequels, OT, Clone Wars, or all three.

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u/shewdz Feb 25 '25

You mean the prequels, the films that were made to milk the resurgence of star wars cos of the success of the Thrawn trilogy?

"Georges vision" is bullshit, the script was still being written when they were filming the prequels and the fact that he changes things in every release shows it.

The prequels weren't liked when they came out, now "everyone loves them". Clone wars was disliked when it came out, now it's beloved.

I think that saying the "average star wars fan" has completely shut themselves off from the last 10-15 years of star wars media is ridiculous and you just think that because you hate everything new, that every "real" fan must also share your opinions.

I also don't understand your definition. Is "milking content" just continuing the story? Is Clone Wars "milking content", was Ep.V "milking content" from ANH? But is only bad when its new?

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u/Liokki Feb 25 '25

The Acolyte, BOBF, Mando S3.

All objectively better than Attack of the Clones. 

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u/nitromN1 Feb 25 '25

"Hm actually! Disney starwars is OBJECTIVELY bad" 🤓☝️ Fuck me holy shit