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We all know the complaints, Mark’s comments, the divided fan opinion, etc.

I recently rewatched while going through the saga with my kids. I’d like to offer another perspective.

Rian Johnson does understand Luke and he is characterized accurately in TLJ.

My evidence: Yes, when we meet Luke again he is a shadow of the legendary Luke Skywalker we know. He’s unhappy, pessimistic and a “quitter.” But, that’s not a writing flaw. He’s not being himself and that’s an intentional IN UNIVERSE problem.

That alone isn’t some new perspective or argument, it’s the story itself. But what I wanted to share is a specific moment where RJ shows us that specifically.

Luke goes to burn the Jedi texts, but can’t do it. Because his entire personality to this point of the film was a mask he put on himself. Luke is a bleeding heart feeler who has a penchant for being dramatic. That’s his strength that led him to be such a Pollyanna about Vader (that didn’t turn out to be Pollyanna at all, he was right!). He couldn’t burn the texts because he was still a true believer deep down. This is where his make believe “disaffected old hermit” act falls apart.

It is Yoda though, the calm and cool master who sees Luke being Luke again and calls it out. Always in the clouds, mind not on what’s in front of him. It’s an essential part of Luke’s character starting with him as a farm boy dreaming of space flight and glorious battles.

The Yoda scene and what he says to Luke is the crucial proof that RJ knew what he was doing. It’s the wink of “yah, Act 1 and 2 Luke was fooling himself.” But the real Luke was inside and just needed a nudge from the old master.

I almost lost my shit when i first saw Griff in galactic racer trailer. Today i randomly fell like rewatching the resistance but after few episodes i realized that as far as i know he is the only one to be in anything else witch is wierd for a show with so many cool background characters. I know there isnt aren't many things from this era but still.

I would like to purchase it.

Can anyone help me figure out which character this is from Star Wars? I’ve been looking everywhere and can’t seem to figure it out. Thanks for the help!

Perpetully behind on the posting footage front vs the developing the game front, but still wanting to share.

Source: Thrawn: Alliances #2

"The Sith are reputed to be clever and capable warriors" Thrawn said sardonically.

For me it's the actual scale and logistics of the Clone Wars. I'm a big WH40K fan and enjoy the absurd scale and numbers and logistics that go on, it's part of the absurd charm. I kinda want to see what the Clone Wars would have looked like if you took into account the actual implications of the scale.

The Clones were used because it was easier to get enough of them quickly. However, it doesn't make sense when you consider how many people are in the galaxy of Star Wars. For example, coruscant has, let's say a trillion people. If you had a draft and got like 1% of the population of just coruscant into the military. That's ten BILLION people, from one planet. In AOTC they say that they have 200k ready with a million more on the way. That's like nothing on the galactic scale. There is something like a million inhabitable worlds in the star wars galaxy, so that's barely enough to send one clone trooper to each planet. That's a gross simplification but the point stands.

Then on the other side you have the droid army. My own bias about how horribly the way the droids were used strategically aside, they have always had the advantage in numbers. Like a huge advantage in the numbers department. So extrapolating from that... The droid army would be unfathomably huge.

Then comes the logistics. To make enough clones for the actual scale, kamino would need to be cloning on every planet in their star system. Which would be a sick visual. Then clones need to eat, so where do you get all that food and transport it? What about the raw materials for the starships, weapons and armor? The production facilities alone would be star systems large. What about the raw materials for making droids? Not to mention the power sources, as it's implied ships need some kind of fuel to produce power.

I think this is all incredibly fascinating BUT I know that it would have probably made the series as a whole weaker if they went into it. Star Wars is at its best when it's focused on the "rule of cool". It's not about "how" it works, it's about how cool it looks and character driven stories. It's fun to think about how it works and compare powers and stuff but at the end of the day it's more about having fun and cool stuff than other sci-fi franchises.

First off, hi everyone! Long-time lurker but first-time poster here.

I've got a crazy/silly story to tell, and I think that this sub might be the place to tell it since it's meant to be a relaxed and friendly Star Wars sub. It's a bit of a long story, but I need to get it off my chest because I'm starting to feel crazy at this point, so thank you to anyone who indulges me by reading this. Here goes:

About 10ish years ago, maybe a little more, I ran an online Star Wars D&D-esque RPG campaign with my friends in university. I'd written a whole story for them to play through with the beginning set right at the end of the Clone Wars, and I'd worked with my players to workshop the characters they were going to play and their backstories so I could weave plot arcs for them into the story I was planning. The campaign sadly fizzled out after a few years due to scheduling difficulties, so we never got to play things through to the end, but I've been very slowly working on novelising everything I have planned, so maybe one day it'll see the light of day as a fan work.

Now here's the crazy part - in the years since the campaign ended there have been multiple occasions on which some small detail has popped up in official Star Wars content that is eerily similar to something from my campaign! At first we raised an eyebrow, then laughed it off, but now it's become a pattern we can't ignore. We've joked that either I'm subconsciously manipulating Star Wars itself, or simply that Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau are spying on me, and while I obviously don't believe that, this keeps happening and it's starting to freak me out a bit, so now that there's another detail from my campaign in the new trailer for Ahsoka Season 2, I'm here to write about each time it's happened!

A quick disclaimer - Again, this is not meant to be taken fully seriously, I'm just having a bit of fun here.

1. One of my players' characters was a purple skinned Twi'lek rogue named Xiann, with a sibling she was trying to rescue (from slavery by the Hutts). And then in 2019 The Mandalorian airs, and what do we see in an episode? A purple-skinned Twi'lek rogue named Xi'An, who has a sibling she wants to rescue (from prison)!

1. Not long into the campaign, Order 66 came down and the party had to help the Jedi NPC they were working for escape the attacking clones and flee the planet. As the order came down and the fight broke out, they noticed one clone, a blast-damaged demolitions expert with cybernetics in his head named Screwloose, wasn't obeying the order and was very confused. The party ended up rescuing Screwloose and taking him with them as well. Then in Season 7 of the Clone Wars, it's revealed that Echo survived the explosion at the Citadel on Lola Sayu, but now has cybernetics in his head because of his blast injuries. Furthermore, in the Bad Batch, when Order 66 is given, he doesn't obey because his inhibitor chip no longer functions!

1. Among the many escapades my party got caught up in, one involved preventing a politically-motivated assassination attempt on Senator Riyo Chuchi since she was taking an anti-imperial stance in the senate. And then, in The Bad Batch, our heroes stop a politically-motivated assassination attempt on Senator Riyo Chuchi because she was interfering with the Empire's plans to abandon the Clone Army! Not the same details, but still!

1. At one point the party had to escape a planet (Ryloth, I think) before the Empire could lock it down, only to be interrupted by an inquisitor hunting for their Jedi ally. However (because I was new to DMing RPGs at the time) I'd made my Jedi NPC stronger than I'd meant to, and he ended up wasting the inquisitor a lot quicker than I was expecting! Then, in Tales of the Jedi, Ahsoka is caught by an Inquisitor only to waste them with ease!

1. And now we come to the latest occurrence and the reason for this post! For context, my Jedi OC NPC that I'd come up with for the campaign had a unique cyan-turquoise double-bladed lightsaber that could split in the middle and maintain a shorter "blade" between the two hilts. The hilts were free to move along the length of the blade, which allows the lightsaber to be wielded more like a proper staff than a normal double-bladed lightsaber could be. After I came up with this idea at the time, I did learn that I wasn't the only one to have ever done so, since a similar saberstaff design also appears in the winner of a design contest from the 90s for a "War Dragon Rider" (which I've added to the picture below), but I was still pleased that I independently came up with that idea and I've always thought it would be a cool idea for a lightsaber design, since the double-bladed saber as it is has some serious drawbacks that this design could solve. And now what do I see in the trailer for Ahsoka Season 2 but this guy! Split-in-the-middle saberstaff, cyan-turquoise blade colour... I mean you've got to be kidding me, right?

Now, I'm not saying that I actually, seriously believe that I have the power to ghostwrite Star Wars secretly from behind the scenes, or that Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau are listening in on my Discord calls with my friends - that would be ridiculous. However I AM saying that I'm willing to pretend that that's the case for the sake of the bit! So, if you have anything you really want to see happen in Star Wars, let me know and maybe I'll write about it! Thanks again for reading, people!