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  1. Reverend

    Spoilers All Things STAR WARS - News, Speculation & Spoilers Thread

    I mean it's neat, but they both look waaay too old in that. It's clear they're using RotJ Leia footage, where the smarter choice would have been to use footage of her in 'Shampoo', since she's about the right age there. Also; Ezra looks like he has a five o'clock shadow. :lol:
  2. Reverend

    Spoilers Andor - Season 2

    Dedra is a straight-up psycho. This arc shows that the real fundamental difference between Cyrill and herself is that for all of his many many many flaws, at his core he's an idealist. He believes in doing the right thing as he sees it (very rigidly, and obsessively.) He's a believer in what the...
  3. Reverend

    Spoilers All Things STAR WARS - News, Speculation & Spoilers Thread

    This may just be me, but if a creator I like and follow starts posting clickbaity thumbnails and titles, then I'm unfollowing them. I have little time for pandering of any kind, and if they're misrepresenting their actual content just to drive engagement, then that's actually worse as I just...
  4. Reverend

    Spoilers Tales of the Underworld

    It's worth remembering that being Dathomirian is like being Corellian or Coruscanti. It's not a matter of species so much as it is of nationality (planetality?) Hence; Maul is a Dathomirian Zabrak. As for what species Ventress is; I think given that she has the same alabaster complexion as...
  5. Reverend

    Spoilers All Things STAR WARS - News, Speculation & Spoilers Thread

    Thank you for reminding me what the ignore function is there for. There! Now I'll have much less blather to scroll past in every damn thread.:lol:
  6. Reverend

    Spoilers Andor - Season 2

    Unbelievable. This show has achieved the impossible! I don't know how they did it; indeed I suspect there may be a Nightsister in the writer's room since it could only possibly be done with the aid of witchcraft. For three whole seconds . . . They made me feel sorry . . . for Eedy Karn . . ...
  7. Reverend

    Spoilers Tales of the Underworld

    Neat little detail I just came across; Cort, the ticket seller person in the first episode was voiced by Tudi Roche, who also voice Mika Grey in 'Resistance'. This feels like a very deliberate casting decision! For those that don't know; Mika Grey was at one point going to be Asajj Ventress (at...
  8. Reverend

    Spoilers All Things STAR WARS - News, Speculation & Spoilers Thread

    Just got done watching The of the Underworld. Very good, overall, though just like the previous two seasons it's main weakness is it's brevity; it just leaves you wanting more! That said, I think this time around they may have struck just the right balance between serial and anthology...
  9. Reverend

    Spoilers Andor - Season 2

    The former makes more sense when you consider the shooting location for D'Qar is within driving distance of Pinewood where they're based (as is the Yavin 4/Base One hangar location, so I'm sure they went back there too.) Plus it's already in the lore that D'Qar was an old abandoned Alliance base...
  10. Reverend

    Spoilers Andor - Season 2

    The Naboo Queen seems anything but a figurehead. For one thing, they couldn't force a settlement without her. We saw her command troops into battle, speak on behalf of her world in the Galactic Senate, forge an alliance with an until then belligerent neighbour, and had enough sway over her...
  11. Reverend

    Spoilers Andor - Season 2

    I'd call that a highly slanted interpretation of the text. A slightly less loaded way of putting it, is that the Republic allowed a well established and highly regarded religious order (with a millennia long history of service and compassion to the galaxy at large) to offer the parents of those...
  12. Reverend

    Spoilers Andor - Season 2

    Was anyone else getting serious 'Allo Allo' vibes from this one? Just me? Okay then . . . (I mean come on! They even mentioned helping a downed allied pilot! All that was missing someone trying to smuggle a stolen masterpiece by Space van Klomp.) Anyway; another great arc that covers a lot of...
  13. Reverend

    Spoilers Andor - Season 2

    Even that is worlds away from the state it was in only a year or two prior. For a start, they are actually talking and organising instead of doing their own thing and only occasionally cooperating when it suits a cells' needs and wants.
  14. Reverend

    Spoilers Andor - Season 2

    It's a fairly clear metaphor: They're close to what the Alliance will become (figuratively and literally) but they're not quite there yet. They're still lost in the forest, fighting amongst themselves.
  15. Reverend

    Spoilers Andor - Season 2

    I don't see anything in Lucas's ideas that even remotely lines up with this. So far as I understand it, his ideas for the Whills are mostly based in microbiology than pure mysticism. The "ghosts" in Star Wars aren't really ghosts at all; that's just a shorthand for how they appear to us the...
  16. Reverend

    Spoilers Andor - Season 2

    You're trying to apply a moralistic Abrahamic cosmological viewpoint to what is explicitly based on a Buddhist concept of spiritual enlightenment. I suggest you go read up on Aṅgulimāla, and you might have a better grasp of the subject. That's not at all what was happening. Those scenes weren't...
  17. Reverend

    Spoilers Andor - Season 2

    I think it more likely that nobody would really care, so long as they're vaguely discrete about it, and discerning in their targets. I mean there's a reason he chose an undocumented worker, isolated out in the middle of nowhere. Tarkin would likely kill him for it, but not out of concern for the...
  18. Reverend

    Spoilers Andor - Season 2

    So far as I'm aware; the closest they've gotten before now is in the novel 'Bloodline' that covers Leia's connection to Vader being outed as a means of discrediting her whole political career as a New Republic Senator. It's not even a depiction or anything, but a discussion between two of her...
  19. Reverend

    Spoilers Andor - Season 2

    That conversation wasn't about defending Syrill, or putting his mother in her place; it was about establishing lines of demarcation, and commoditising her access to Syrill as a way of restricting how much she can disrupt their very very (obsessively) ordered lives. She wasn't negotiating on his...
  20. Reverend

    Spoilers Andor - Season 2

    I think it's pretty clear from their dynamic that Syrill is more of a pet or houseplant than an actual boyfriend. Ian McElhinney probably wouldn't be a difficult get, so I'd say chances are high. Though I think General Draven is even more likely, given he's going to be Cassian's direct superior...
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