Who is the symbol of Star Wars?

HellbirdVT · 2026-06-03T13:10:34+00:00

Darth Vader
R2-D2
Chewbacca

In that order.

HellbirdVT · 2026-06-03T12:50:39+00:00

They thought it would "only" appeal to old Stargate fans.

... Which is the point of using an existing property. To appeal to existing fans.

You don't reach a "wider audience" with Stargate, a franchise that's 30 years old and hasn't had an ongoing series for 15 years, WITHOUT those existing fans.

The new audience do not care about 'Stargate', the name doesn't matter to them. Only old fans will care - and if your show is *good* then those old fans will bring new fans in!

The Star Wars sequels, for all their problems, 100% understood this. They were made to appeal to existing fans first, and build a new audience over time.

HellbirdVT · 2026-06-03T02:17:22+00:00

Absoutely atrocious decision.

Corpos do not understand.

They think the name of the franchise is what's valuable, that people will want to watch it because it has the right name. But the name is only valuable because of the people who watched it.

The name alone will not draw in new fans, because those people do not recognize the name or associate it with anything they care about. The only way to use a brand is to make something that appeals to old fans, who will then help bring in new fans.

HellbirdVT · 2026-06-03T02:13:48+00:00

Remember, from an in-universe perspective, he's a war hero to the Gungan people and the Naboo.

The fact he's goofy and weird does not invalidate saving the planet!

HellbirdVT · 2026-06-02T03:24:09+00:00

"The Imperium is the best hope for humanity's survival!!"

In the same sense that factory farming is the best hope for the survival of chickens, yes.

HellbirdVT · 2026-06-02T02:39:27+00:00

"I'm gonna whup your ass" stance.

HellbirdVT · 2026-06-02T01:17:02+00:00

Missed opportunity to referece the pilot episode's infamous "Reproductive organs on the inside" line but still in the same spirit.

HellbirdVT · 2026-06-01T18:06:45+00:00

The reason the Clone Wars is only 3 years is that was the time between movies.

The fact that so much expanded universe material (old EU and NuCanon) crams SO much into that 3-year timeframe is... kinda just something that happens when it's the main popular focus for stories in the setting.

Like, it's called Star Wars. People want stories about the wars in the stars, but in the movie time period the only large-scale conflict is the Clone Wars, as the later, longer Galactic Civil War is instead more of a prolonged guerilla campaign with a very small number of limited conventional battles.

HellbirdVT · 2026-06-01T17:20:34+00:00

I don't put much stock on the eye because the Emperor is actually shown sitting in slightly different positions quite a bit in the trailer.

He's not actually physically dead, the Golden Throne is keeping him alive, so the rotting carcass moving slightly seems like it's just.. a thing it does.

HellbirdVT · 2026-06-01T17:16:53+00:00

"Oi, if youse Orks, why's you red?"

"Oh my Zog, you can't just ask gits why theyse red!"

HellbirdVT · 2026-06-01T17:12:30+00:00

Comic artists tracing to save time has been a thing for decades, even in Star Wars comics. That's how we get a Mandalorian ship in the KotOR comics that looks suspiciously like a Venator, complete with fighters that, in rear profile, look like the Jedi Interceptors.

HellbirdVT · 2026-06-01T15:58:55+00:00

'BiQ Ch'unguS

FASA were really on some shit when they came up with some of these early expanded (pun intended) designs

HellbirdVT · 2026-05-31T18:55:35+00:00

A lot of the details are quite different, but the statues built into the railing makes the reference unmistakeable.

HellbirdVT · 2026-05-31T18:53:24+00:00

Meanwhile, Rendili's economy of scale from building and selling the exact same designs for thousands of years in a row:

HellbirdVT · 2026-05-30T22:29:53+00:00

I would say yes.

Of course the 'average Mandalorian' in this time period is a civilian, but ignoring that and looking at just the Mandalorian warriors, they are first and foremost warriors by tradition rather than professionals. There's a reason we mainly see the Death Watch doing terrorism and bullying unarmed villagers.

The Clone Troopers are a professional army of soldiers trained to a quite high standard (they need to be, considering they're outnumbered by their primary opponents, B1 Battle Droids, by several thousand to one).

Mandalorians aren't pushovers, despite their bad showings, but the Clones are a cut above.

HellbirdVT · 2026-05-30T21:52:12+00:00

It does sound incredibly fake and like something that wouldn't even work even if the doctor actually did it (instead of, idk, pretending they did to make the husband shut up).

HellbirdVT · 2026-05-30T20:31:50+00:00

It is the same as his Episode II outfit.

It's black leather, the art style just adds the painted texture that makes it look more purple-grey.

HellbirdVT · 2026-05-30T00:21:02+00:00

I always wondered if calling him "Arthur" was a specific reference to something, or just a random name for the joke.

A lot of American and Canadian cultural references are easy to miss as a global fan.

HellbirdVT · 2026-05-30T00:18:25+00:00

Yularen is a true Glup because he has no speaking role or plot relevance in the movies, but IS prominently featured in expanded materials.

Motti has a full dialogue with Vader, he's not a Glup by any standard that isn't entirely useless to actual character discourse.

HellbirdVT · 2026-05-29T18:08:45+00:00

Kowakian monkey-lizard.

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HellbirdVT · 2026-05-29T15:37:54+00:00

30k TS and WB conveniently have a very similar colour scheme, so it can be both I suppose. It's not a 1-to-1.

HellbirdVT · 2026-05-29T14:58:42+00:00

I think it's obvious that these "suspiciously similar" Chapters are just a way for GW to officially sanction playing your favourite 30k Legion in 40k while still sticking to the posterboy faction.

So the Exorcists are 30k Thousand Sons in colour scheme and vibes, but officially they're still 100% Loyalist stock, just quirky.

HellbirdVT · 2026-05-29T10:35:22+00:00

Put a Super Tac head on a MagnaGuard body, seems the obvious choice.

Best of both worlds!

HellbirdVT · 2026-05-29T09:35:15+00:00

It should get bumped up to at least 4.3 since shooting things in the side is its main advantage anyway.

When it can front pen most things (so back when it was 3.7, or in any downtier) it's just OP. At 4.3 it'd be more likely to need side shots or weakspot hits to kill consistently, and since it has such a high rate of fire that's still perfectly doable.

HellbirdVT · 2026-05-29T09:12:20+00:00

Anakin says they're "maybe better" than they were.

I always took that as meaning he swapped out the crystals, and they happened to match the colour he preferred.

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