General star wars talk/discussion/complaining

[Zardnaar]

Starfighters are very easily gamified. Starfighter games are older than Star Wars.

Thrawn does not use a lightsabre or fly a starfighter. He is all about large scale strategy and tactics. Having just rewatched Sink the Bismarck!, this is something I would like to see more of in Star Wars. Some TCW episodes manage to pull this off. Much of the action takes place in the war room over several days, and focuses on where to allocate resources.

Lightsabres and spaceships are part of that setting, but this was a story based game focused on a strong narrative and detailed world building. It didn't just give us different coloured lightsabres because they looked cool, it assigned meaning to them. It also created the Sith code and other elements of Star Wars lore that we now take for granted.

The old Star Wars X-Wing books are well regarded and around 6-8 popular games.

KotOR is getting a remake as well. That era also ties to The Old Republic MMO (still going), its popular and ties to Tales of the. Jedi stuff as well.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The old Star Wars X-Wing books are well regarded and around 6-8 popular games.

They didn’t really focus on space battles though. They were basically a revamped Biggles, with lots of pulp adventure and spy stuff.

 

[pukunui]

I’d love an Old Republic episodic series about a jobbing Jedi Master and padawan who go around solving problems and occasionally running into Sith baddies but there’s no big “save the galaxy” metaplot. It’s more just “day in the life of a decent Jedi”.

I suppose modern audiences might find that boring but I’m sure they could make it interesting without resorting to making the Jedi out to be bad guys who deserved to fall, like the PT and The Acolyte did.

I’m pretty sure there was a Visions episode or two that was what I’d like to see more of. I’d even be happy for it to be animated. Clone Wars and Rebels both had elements of it but they were small stories within the larger war stories.

 

[Zardnaar]

They didn’t really focus on space battles though. They were basically a revamped Biggles, with lots of pulp adventure and spy stuff.

Starfighter thomg is very stark wars and consistently well executed.

Movie next year.

Mandos next week damn.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I’d love an Old Republic episodic series about a jobbing Jedi Master and padawan who go around solving problems and occasionally running into Sith baddies but there’s no big “save the galaxy” metaplot. It’s more just “day in the life of a decent Jedi”.

I think a lot of people would like an old school self contained problem of the week series (with hour long episodes) in the Star Wars universe. It wasn't that the Acolyte was bad in itself, it just wasn't what the audience wanted or expected. And the Mandalorian became less popular when it was trying to tell "big" stories rather than simple bounty hunts. Streaming seems to have imposed a "you must tell a single story in ten chapters" format on practically everything, just as all pervasive as the "22/23 episodes per year" format was in times past.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Movie next year.

The "Starfighter" movie isn't about starfighters. Read the synopsis.

 

[pukunui]

I think a lot of people would like an old school self contained problem of the week series (with hour long episodes) in the Star Wars universe. It wasn't that the Acolyte was bad in itself, it just wasn't what the audience wanted or expected. And the Mandalorian became less popular when it was trying to tell "big" stories rather than simple bounty hunts. Streaming seems to have imposed a "you must tell a single story in ten chapters" format on practically everything, just as all pervasive as the "22/23 episodes per year" format was in times past.

The Mandalorian stopped being about simple bounty hunts after the first episode, but I get your point.

 

[Gradine]

I regret to inform everyone that the Babylon Bee actually made a funny joke

 

[payn]

I regret to inform everyone that the Babylon Bee actually made a funny joke

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Ive seen a few re-postings that made me chuckle. No way im going to the actual site tho. Maybe im wrong and its not a Trojan horse for certain philosophy, but im not gonna find out.

 

[Gradine]

Ive seen a few re-postings that made me chuckle. No way im going to the actual site tho. Maybe im wrong and its not a Trojan horse for certain philosophy, but im not gonna find out.

You are not in fact wrong!