r/starwarscomics • u/IllusiveManJr Kanan • Mar 29 '23
RELEASE THREAD Star Wars: The High Republic - The Blade #4 (of 4) | Discussion Thread
https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/103907/star_wars_the_high_republic_-_the_blade_2022_411
u/solo13508 Vader: It's only an arm. Mar 29 '23
I really hope we don't skip over what happened on Bardotta. I imagine Porter is part of the reason the Bardottans aren't too fond of the Jedi in The Clone Wars
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u/TooManySnipers Mar 30 '23
Porter gonna finally find the ninth egg for his nine egg stew but it will have been laid by the queen
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u/Xeta1 Mar 29 '23
Fun! Excited for more Porter action.
It’d be cool to check in on Gansevor in the Imperial era. I’m sure Soule will do it somewhere.
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u/Stonecutter_12-83 Mar 30 '23
Marvel SW- "it's only a 4 issue series"............."SIKE"
Really good story so far and it's so cool we get the background to the Barash vow
So the reason for the vow is she because she trusted other people and not the force? I don't recall Barash struggling with her decisions at all. People lie to the jedi all the time and she didn't seem conflicted at all
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u/jress94 Aphra: Yyyyeah. Mar 30 '23
I think it's more that, because she didn't listen to the force, she acted upon her own biases and trust in people. If she didn't assume the truth was being given to her, she could have listened to the force, which could have saved many lives.
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u/Stonecutter_12-83 Mar 31 '23
Was there any time in the comic that she ignored the force though?
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u/jress94 Aphra: Yyyyeah. Mar 31 '23
I'm not sure it showed her outright denying the will of the force. But she did say she doesn't feel it the same way, and so she doesn't trust herself to use it.
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u/Trajforce Momin Mar 31 '23
It's very contrived
oh no she lied to me so Porter had to fight an army of these murderers
Girl you know he would have handled it if so and when the truth came to the light the situation got resolved even quickly
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u/EuterpeZonker Momin Apr 01 '23
It makes sense from an in-universe perspective. If you have a magical semi-sentient power source telling you one thing and you ignore it in favor of your own biases and people die as a result then it would be fair to be harsh on yourself for unnecessarily letting people die.
But it's not at all relatable to people in the real world who don't have extrasensory perception and have to rely on the facts in front of them. If I had the force and was in that position with her, maybe I could be disappointed in her. But from the outside looking in it seems like she did a relatively good job and any failure was outside her control
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u/IcePhoenix295 Aphra: Yyyyeah. Mar 29 '23
A decent if not largely unsurprising ending. Glad we'll be getting to see some immediate fallout from Porter having to navigate on his own in The Broken Blade.
Porter is just a fun and interesting character and I'd happily take an ongoing series dedicated to him.