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The acclaimed artist discusses his history with Episode I and being called on to commemorate its latest milestone.

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Anybody read the Star Wars comics? I love them.

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The film will likely arrive in 2026.

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None of that is on-brand for Star Wars in any way. Yes, yes, "it's a setting," but it's also a style and a tone. Andor was pushing it a little, but fundamentally it was about finding hope and meaning, and being something better than your darkest temptations want you to be. Or, barring that, about sacrifice. I can handle some nuance, but there is nothing interesting to me about the hows and whys of an awful person's efforts to do awful things, or just being scared and seeing death for its own sake.

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It suffers from much of the same stilted dialogue, unnatural editing choices, chemistry-less acting, and violating of the "show don't tell" principle as AOTC. We were just ready for it, looking forward to certain plot events, and denouement is going to be more satisfying than the middle chapter. There are also a few very moving visual sequences.

Oh, also throw in the fact that George just decided to retcon entire interpersonal relationships from the OT and further shrink the universe by having Yoda and Chewie be old Army buds. Then, let's also not forget that Padme's entire subplot ended up on the cutting room floor.

Finally, and in conclusion, Buzz droids are very stupid, and The Twilight Zone did it better.

Twice.

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Read it. Just read it. Purple prose blending into faux Hemingway masculine terseness and back again, shallow asides that are tonally off from any of the movies, including ROTS, and beating you over the head with the relationship that AOTC failed to show us. It's trying so very hard, and it's just not good.

The daily hot takes will continue until morale improves... or until I run out of the ones I want to defend. Post news and your own opinions to drown me out! It would be sooooo terrible if we had a multitude of voices inspiring discussion on the Threadiverse.

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi is ridiculed for dismissing the groundwork of The Force Awakens, but it’s a great sequel that continues the story properly. Here’s why.

I'm on board with this article. If there was, as is famously repeated online, "no plan," then JJ should have conceded that Rian is a better writer and carried his threads forward.

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The first two episodes are a great start for the latest Disney Plus expansion of a galaxy far, far away.

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Contemporary network news stories covering the releases of the original Star Wars films. Among other things, it puts the lie to the urban legends that the movies were not well regarded or "for kids only" (look at them crowds!).

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I think it speaks for itself.

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Let's assume somebody gets there first with Padme.

Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are still there on Naboo, the three of them still end up on Tatooine, Anakin still becomes a Jedi.

Episode Two, he has that moment of "I haven't seen her in years, what if she doesn't remember me?" and finds out somebody got there first. Now he's surly about that.

Anakin doesn't get assigned to guard her; other-person guards her at the lake country and that whole thing plays out the same but with a different person.

Palpatine already has his hooks in Anakin, and -- knowing how he felt about her since he was a kid -- sows seeds of "she should've been yours."

Barring outside interference, Shmi still dies, Anakin still goes berserk on the Tuskans, but now has nobody's shoulder to cry on... except maybe Palpatine, who reassures him in all the wrong ways.

Episode Three plays out mostly as-written, up to a point.

Anakin still falls because Palpatine has been influencing him for years, the Jedi Temple still gets sacked...

...but now there's no Padme to follow him to Mustafar, and thus nobody for Obi-Wan to stow away with. The duel on Mustafar doesn't happen, and Anakin leaves Mustafar whole.

Luke and Leia aren't born, Padme doesn't die in childbirth.

Obi-Wan is still suffering from depression and PTSD but has no reason to bum around on Tatooine for the next 20 years. He tries to lay low but, much like Ahsoka, keeps getting found by Inquisitors. Eventually he stops putting civilians in harm's way and joins the Rebellion proper.

The Rise of the Empire happens as-written.

Padme continues to serve in the Imperial Senate, and she's the one who gets the Death Star plans after the events of Rogue One.

Vader -- not in armor at this point -- tracks her down. "You're a rebel and a traitor!" to old-Padme, not young-Leia.

He takes the Death Star to Naboo, not Alderaan. Despite also being from there, Palpatine doesn't actually care about the place at all and doesn't stop him from blowing it up.

Padme's husband (rather than Leia's brother) rescues her from the Death Star.

The Battle of Yavin happens. Luke "using the Force" in that pivotal moment was a huge moment of character growth for him, but not the only way to make the shot. He already said he could've done it ordinarily; "we used to bullseye womp-rats from a speeder and they're not much bigger."

Without Luke in the picture, Vader doesn't sense him, doesn't go out in his TIE Fighter during the battle.

Biggs Darklighter doesn't get shot down; he takes the shot.

The first Death Star is destroyed, with Vader aboard. Vader survives, but horribly injured, ending up in his iconic armor nineteen years delayed.

Without Leia in the picture, Han Solo never gets involved in the Rebellion. Most of the events of Empire Strikes Back just plain don't happen; there's nobody to go to Bespin, no big reveal to make there, nobody for Yoda to train on Dagobah, nobody for Vader to freeze in carbonite, etc.

The events of Return of the Jedi are an unmitigated disaster. The Second Death Star is, in fact, fully armed and operational. It's a trap, and now there's no Han Solo to infiltrate the ground base, and no Luke to turn Anakin back to the Light. Admiral Ackbar gets his ass handed to him in space, the ground crew walk into an ambush, and Ackbar is forced to flee with the rebel fleet in shambles.

Thrawn arrives on the scene, not to Sate Pestage and Ysanne Isard's Imperial Remnant, but the full might of the Empire. He doesn't need the stuff he stashed at Mount Tantiss because the Empire isn't in ruins.

(As my wife just pointed out) the Force is still seriously out of balance at this point. Would other Force-sensitive children be born to balance it? A new Chosen One?

What else happens? What else changes? What did I miss? Assume EU continuity not MouseWars.

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New photos reveal that Andor is going to be shooting at the location used for Naboo sequences in The Phantom Menace.

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In an important step for representation, Star Wars cast its first transgender actress.

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Looks like a proper star wars game not focused on jedi. Looking forward to more footage!

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To those that have migrated from Reddit or are brand new to communities like these, I just wanted to let everyone know that this is a community. I am listed as the "owner" but we can all post articles (the equivalent of a post on reddit), as well as microblogs (which are kind of like an extended comment section for the entire community, if that makes sense). I know kbin/the Fverse is in its early stages so no pressure to post or anything, just wanted everyone to know we can all post things!

Thanks guys! The trade federation will now resume normal activity.

ROGER ROGER.

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What's your favorite Star Wars-- thing? Cartoon, live action series, movie, what is it and why?