Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

[Zardnaar]

Inherent British cynicism. We took superheroes and turned them into Judge Dredd, D&D and turned it Warhammer, and Star Wars we turned into Blake’s 7 and WH40K. NuWho heavily dials back the cynicism to sell to the American market.

British don't have the budget so focus on the story.

More money means it's better right (paraphrasing The Boys).

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Where's the Disney equivalent of Thrawn or Revan that's not a Legacy character?

As in a fan-favourite character? Mando/Grogu?

That said, I think it's very noteworthy that neither of the figures you mention is from TV/movies and both are villains. Revan isn't really even a character. He's just a mysterious background figure. He doesn't even really have a personality, just a history. Filoni's Thrawn is basically identical to book-Thrawn in all the ways that matter and it just doesn't work as well on TV - even in the cartoons he only has a fraction of the same appeal.

EDIT - If you're looking for book characters, I only know the High Republic books from the post-Disney era so can't comment as well.

Inherent British cynicism. We took superheroes and turned them into Judge Dredd, D&D and turned it Warhammer, and Star Wars we turned into Blake’s 7 and WH40K. NuWho heavily dials back the cynicism to sell to the American market.

That would make sense, yeah.

"We" also took Star Wars and turned it into Andor, which is really exactly the same transition (and quite similar to Blake's 7 on a number of levels).

I don't think nuWho dialled it back for the US market (though I would be open to an RTD comment supporting such a position), because it hit the ground like that, rather I think RTD was an inveterate Usenet Who fan (I mean I know he was) who argued and thought about Who constantly for many years and was very much on a specific "side" of discussions of Who (again I know he was). Specifically that grey/dark/less-what-parents-think-is-child-appropriate Who was the wrong direction, particularly the Sylvester McCoy era (whereas that was the era that people like me grew up in). End result is the same though.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Specifically that grey/dark/less-what-parents-think-is-child-appropriate Who was the wrong direction, particularly the Sylvester McCoy era (whereas that was the era that people like me grew up in). End result is the same though

I’m more of a Pertwee era person. The Mind of Evil is a good one. Where we have UNIT, the organisation the Doctor works for, charged with hiding an illegal chemical WMD on behalf of the British Government, whilst hosting an international peace conference. Oh, and the government is also experimenting with lobotomising convicted criminals.

 

[Scribe]

Inherent British cynicism. We took superheroes and turned them into Judge Dredd, D&D and turned it Warhammer, and Star Wars we turned into Blake’s 7 and WH40K.

And God looked and said "It is good."

 

[Maxperson]

(way too few Jedi understand that lightsabers are thrusting weapons as well as slashing ones, I swear)

It still aggravates me that Mace Windu pulled back for a wide swing to kill Palpatine. It gave the Sith time to do something(never mind Anakin). His lightsaber was a fraction of an inch from Palpatine's neck. All he had to do was move it forward two inches and wiggle it around a bit.

 

[Maxperson]

Well I wasn't sure on Thrawn Duology being first appearance of Cortosis.

Cortosis/Legends

I Jedi was the first one, Visions of the Future was the one I remembered.

Didn't like I Jedi barely remember it. Read it once 97/98 maybe.

I'm not salty towards the Empire of the Hand in Thrawns Revenge. Getting whacked by them and Zsinj (as the Empire).

I don't remember it in I Jedi.

 

[Maxperson]

Umm, what danger?

As far as he knows, Dark Helmet is dead.

And, sorry, but, you don't get to pretend stuff happens just because you want it to happen. If it doesn't happen on screen, it didn't happen. They have no idea that the person they came to meet is dead or not. And Sol just leaves.

A Jedi could have gotten away from those things. Sol wouldn't assume that a Sith strong enough to take out several Jedi at once would die.

 

[Zardnaar]

I don't remember it in I Jedi.

Neither do I but I'm reasonably sure it wasn't in Thrawn Trilogy.

I Jedi was one of those books I read once circa 97/98. Mate had it. There was 3 or 4 of us buying the novels and we shared them.

 

[Maxperson]

It's not as though she divined that information through some form of special or unique ability. If she knew, chances are they all knew.

Yep. I just rewatched the episode and she tries to arrest Mae for the murder before ever seeing the wookie dead. Plus, people are running around with his lightsaber.

 

[Maxperson]

The Jedi know cortosis exists. You only had to add ONE line of dialogue in the show. "Beware, he is armored with cortosis."

Instead, you have youtube video after youtube video trying to "explain" it to everyone who never encountered the EU.

You just said that show, don't tell is a primary teaching tool. They showed us the cortosis effect. They showed us that they knew the wookie Jedi was dead without having seen him. They showed us that the Jedi were confused as to why their sabers stopped working when hit by the cortosis. And 10 to 1 says that they will explain cortosis next episode.

Back before the age of the internet we had to wait until the next week for explanations for things that popped up. We didn't get to run to Google and forums to find out what happened.