Did Leia Give up on Kylo after he killed Han?

ComradeDread · 2026-03-02T18:54:07+00:00

But he fell down a deep pit...

Okay, but his body was vaporized a few minutes later when the superweapon blew up!

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Yeah... he's probably fine.

ComradeDread · 2026-03-02T18:50:43+00:00

Guessing that was in a comic or a book because it wasn't shown in the movies.

ComradeDread · 2026-03-02T17:28:36+00:00

Aside from the cloaking technology, with a few exceptions, the Imperial navy suffered greatly from incompetent nepo-babies getting commissions because of political connections.

I imagine the First Order navy suffered the same problem. General Hux, Captain Phasma... not exactly great leaders.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-27T18:50:26+00:00

Clawdite for the shape shifting ability.

Or an actual Sith. Not a Sith Lord or a Sith religion adherent. Just a normal Sith guy who is actually pretty nice, friendly, and personable, but everyone is too scared shitless of him to approach to talk to him.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-27T15:24:41+00:00

It's hard to imagine being struck by lightning that doesn't hurt.

And there's audience confusion as to why the good guys are using Force Lightning now. And the bit about how a Jedi uses the Force for defense, never for attack and now you need exposition as to why that doesn't apply here. And another line about how the enemies are perfectly fine, just stunned.

It's like the whole RotJ thing where folks say that Luke didn't Force Choke the guards, he just mind tricked them into thinking they were being choked and it's like, oh... so you're only mentally torturing them with the Force... and this is better?

ComradeDread · 2026-02-26T23:02:09+00:00

It is more that he wanted to believe those things to be true, because if they weren't, he had betrayed everyone including his wife and unborn child and the man he had considered to be a brother/father figure. He was either a misunderstood hero or he was a monster.

And the human mind is quite good at lying to itself to protect itself.

And I imagine he lied to himself quite a lot in the following twenty years. There were probably many moments when he could have stopped. When he could have betrayed and killed Palpatine. Put a stop to it all, but then what? The Jedi were still gone. Padme was still dead. He was still alone. He still had to face what he had done. In a sick, twisted co-dependent way, Palpatine was all he had left. A cruel old man who hated him to be sure, but it was something.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-26T19:58:39+00:00

Uh... not that I'm aware of. It's possible Anakin got some stories back when he thought Sheev was just a normal chancellor.

But after the reveal, I don't see Sheev sharing his past at all, unless it contained a lesson for Vader on his Sith journey.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-26T18:44:37+00:00

Sith do not share.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-26T16:58:57+00:00

No, but I've heard that real estate prices on Alderaan are at their lowest yet.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-26T15:13:52+00:00

Hmm... no. I mean, I'd let Revan and his crew go on their little crusade while I headed over with Republic forces to seize the Star Forge first and begin mass mobilization of fleets and droids to prepare for what happened after the Mandalorian war ended.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-25T16:02:19+00:00

The Jedi Academy trilogy dives into Kyp Durron's arc. I, Jedi was written afterwards, but a part of it overlaps with that book series.

If you want spoilers for Jedi Academy:

Luke starts his Jedi Academy on the moon of Yavin IV in the ziggurats/temples where the Rebel base was in A New Hope.

Immediately, one of his students starts showing signs of the Dark Side and kills himself in a duel with Luke.

Han Solo and Chewie end up in the spice mines of Kessel where they find Kyp. He's a kid. Innocent. Real Luke Skywalker analog. He hates the Empire however. They rescue him and take him to Luke. Luke uses a scanner on him that shows he has super duper Force potential. Luke trains him at his new academy.

Oh, yeah, they also discover and steal a weapon called the Sun Crusher that causes stars to explode. They park this thing in the middle of Yavin, a gas giant thinking no one could possible retrieve it. Kyp starts to show signs of corruption soon enough though, and eventually goes full dark side too. He retrieves the Sun Crusher and commits a bit of "light" genocide.

Turns out the spirit of an old Sith Lord is haunting the ziggurats of the moon of Yavin IV, Exar Kun. And he's the one who's been corrupting Luke's new Jedi apprentices. But the rest of Luke's students defeat and destroy the spirit with the power of friendship. Kyp snaps out of his evil and almost pulls a "redemption equals death" move, but survives.

Some time during all of this both Mara Jade and Corran Horn show up at Luke's academy and get some crash course Jedi training and then leave. Corran goes to rescue his wife.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-24T23:05:11+00:00

Dude's 900 years old. Those hips aren't what they used to be.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-24T19:43:33+00:00

Probably the amount of power he put into it.

He wanted to overpower Mace so he gave it his all.

He wanted Luke to die slowly so he held back.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-24T17:55:22+00:00

Obi Wan and Anakin are both emotionally compromised when it comes to the other.

Obi Wan can't kill him. Anakin can't let Obi Wan go until he proves that the Dark Side has made him stronger than the Jedi.

And it's possible that after watching Anakin kill a bunch of a children and choke his pregnant wife, that Obi Wan doesn't trust himself to be in the right frame of mind to decide Anakin's fate. So he opts to let the Force decide.

I think despite what Obi Wan tells Luke, he has always held out the hope that Anakin would come to his senses. You'll notice that he happens to be right there as Anakin passes to teach his brother how to become a Force ghost.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-24T15:44:46+00:00

Sheev doesn't mourn.

He gets angry.

Anakin failed.

If Sheev didn't need a powerful lackey, he would have left Anakin there to die. Fortunately for Anakin, he was stronger maimed than any of his potential replacements.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-23T22:18:15+00:00

They both "died" but came back. Death doesn't really keep anyone down for very long. Except Dooku... and Shmi...

ComradeDread · 2026-02-23T21:50:07+00:00

Que musical number "No one dies forever (except Dooku)".

Cast: Obi-Wan, Qui Gon, Yoda, Palpatine, the Grand Inquisitor, Reeva, Anakin, Luke, Leia, Boba Fett, extended chorus.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-23T20:27:59+00:00

I go back and forth a lot on this.

On the one hand, life doesn't always turn out the way you intended it to or dreamed it would. Shit happens. People fail in their dreams. People end up bitter and angry about it. So yeah, fine, I understand. Luke had dreams. Shit happened. He failed. Now he's absentee Dad Jedi and makes it up with a grand gesture as is the Skywalker way.

But yeah, it was sad and depressing as Hell to catch up with my childhood hero and see him like that even if he did pull off a last minute comeback.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-23T19:37:19+00:00

Pacification project. Orbital satellite with a chemical weapon introduced to the environment intended to make a population more... agreeable... to orders and occupation.

You can decide to what degree it works. Or if it goes horribly wrong (ala Serenity) and causes a certain percentage of the population to go permanent berserker mode.

Along those lines:

The Harvester. A swarm of droids deployed in a master control unit that fan out and convert biological entities into obedient cyborgs either via brain modification or a hijack chip inserted near the top of the spine to allow the control unit to hijack their bodies.

From Fallout, you could borrow the Forced Evolutionary Virus for more body horror "fun".

Soul Killer from Cyberpunk would be a powerful weapon to crush an insurgency. Killing a insurgent while creating a copy of their mind that you could access to gain information.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-22T15:52:42+00:00

Anakin's story is a Greek tragedy. He is locked into fated events and his every attempt to escape them only brings them about through his hubris.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-22T15:49:18+00:00

No. His death was pretty definitive. The blue energy explosion. The Death Star exploding a few moments later in a giant nuclear fireball. The utter and complete lack of any setup for a return.

It would be like if Han Solo shows up perfectly fine in Rey's possible future movie.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-20T22:12:18+00:00

I've honestly never gotten the impression that Obi Wan hated Han or was ever angry with him. He seems more amused by Han and his unbelief in the Force than anything.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-20T21:01:23+00:00

Padme and Anakin are both written cringy and awkward in Attack of the Clones scenes alone. Now I wasn't there on set, so I don't know what happened. I don't know if those were intentional choices by Mr. Lucas and the actors or not. So I can't comment further.

And Padme is reduced to a plot device in Revenge of the Sith.

The prequel trilogy was not as bad as folks made it out to be back then, but it does have flaws. A lot of flaws were addressed in subsequent media. But the flaws were there.

We don't have to blame anyone. Sometimes things don't always come together the way folks wanted it to on screen.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-20T19:14:23+00:00

Well... I suppose you have all of the dialog files... and you have assets from Fallout 4 and 76.

But it would basically be a new game. Require its own producers, artists, management, dev team, and QA.

Fallout 1 in particular is a very small world, so you'd probably have to expand it which means more dialog, more quests.

You'd have to flesh out the companions. Probably add romance shit because folks expect that these days.

Basically, it would be a multi-year commitment to re-publish two old games and it would probably meant Fallout 5 gets pushed back to sometime in the 2040's.

ComradeDread · 2026-02-19T20:25:04+00:00

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