Same! Granted, it took me to the halfway point of Season 2, but dear god what a catastrophe that was. I was desperate for it to finally find its footing, but it was rotten to the absolute core.
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Same! Granted, it took me to the halfway point of Season 2, but dear god what a catastrophe that was. I was desperate for it to finally find its footing, but it was rotten to the absolute core.
The design is much older than "Solo."
So it's not good? I haven't seen it.
Season 2 is also 12 episodes, split into 3 episode arcs. So I'm guessing every 3 episodes covers a year.
I know that. I was saying Andor wasn't the first modern production to use it.
It's great.
Which is not something every fan thinks about. It's mythological in its approach, that some things are not explained. They just exist in the world. It's a more childlike way to approach the story, and less logical. Now, obviously as you get older there may be the tendency to question it, like even the basic text of the story at the beginning.
But, not everyone approaches mythology that way. I think Andor does a good job of taking out some of the mythology and working in a grounded way but that isn't everyone's approach to Star Wars.
IIRC, Lucas himself actually said as much on the DVD commentary for AOTC.
On episode five. This is fucking good shit, right here.
This series went from great to even better in no time.
I was really shocked they killed Maavra, I expected her to play a bigger role in inspiring Casian to join the Rebels.
Poor Be, the scenes with him after her death were just heartbreaking.
The deeper we get into this, the more convinced I am that Luthen will be end up getting killed before the series is over, I just can't see his story ending any other way. And with him being such a big player in the Rebellion, him dying would also explain why we never heard of or saw him before/after this.
Poor Be, the scenes with him after her death were just heartbreaking.
The deeper we get into this, the more convinced I am that Luthen will be end up getting killed before the series is over, I just can't see his story ending any other way. And with him being such a big player in the Rebellion, him dying would also explain why we never heard of or saw him before/after this.
OMG, don't bother! Please! If I can spare one person the heartbreak, agony and disappointment, it would have made the pain I endured (almost) worthwhile.
Yeah, in Lucas' mind, the stormtroopers were clones. At least for a little while, anyway. He said he was "explaining" the origin of stormtroopers. Also, check action figure offerings from the early 2000s. Stormtroopers that had removable helmets had clone heads underneath.
https://galacticfigures.com/figureDetails.aspx?id=24715
This is true. As late as the turn of the decade before last there were Temuera Morrison head sculpts under the helmets of Snowtroopers and TIE Pilots as well as regular Stormtroopers.
Yeah. And then SW started backing off that concept and kind of split the difference, saying that SOME stormtroopers were still clones, others were not.
The Force Awakens explicitly had a line of dialogue where Hux said, "Hey, we could make a clone army if we want!" to make it very clear to the audience that First Order stormies were not clones.
Not sure if the gradual move away from "stormtroopers are clones" began with Lucas or not.
Picard has received mixed reactions from fans. Anyone who claims to know how others will react and anyone who feels that they know better one way or another is wrong. We all have our opinions. Mine is: I’ve generally liked the series despite its many flaws.
Still, form your own opinion. Don’t let others decide for you.
Picard season 2 suffered for having too little story to spread over too many episodes, resulting in a lot of filler and side plots that go nowhere. However, there is much to like. Every scene shared by Patrick Stewart and John Delancey is pure gold. The Agnes character gets to shine in a way I never expected. And, at the end of the day, I was satisfied with the conclusion.
And the Agent Wells thing went nowhere. I mean, okay, he ended up letting them go because he remembered some Vulcans had landed on Earth for a covert surveillance mission around the time of "Carbon Creek(ENT)" and one melded with him?
Yeah, what a waste.
Yeah, what a waste.
The original Battlefront 2 story mode had Clones as Stormtroopers until a clone rebellion on Kamino, then they started being phased out after that.
I think some of the EU lore had the Empire switching to multiple clone templates as well as regular conscripts.
In the new canon there are still Clones used in the early days of the Empire, as with Crosshair's elite operations strike team in The Bad Batch that dress in grey or black armor. But by that time the TK Troopers are being phased in which seem to be recruits with no genetic connection to the Jango Fett template.
But when was that first novel written?
I think the new understanding is that clones were phased out pretty quickly at the dawn of the Empire (as depicted in Bad Batch) and that, ten years later, the only clone you're likely to see are ones like the homeless guy in "Obi Wan."
