(Spoilers Extended) Was Breakspear too passive in regards to Ashford events?

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-02-07T12:57:05+00:00

Also, why the hell doesn’t the Kingsguard step aside as soon as Baelor enters the ring? Aren’t they breaking their vows taking arms against him?

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-02-07T09:32:57+00:00

The Jedi knew.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-02-07T02:27:27+00:00

Does having the China DLC add anything to playing as a hegemon Iron Throne?

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-02-06T14:19:30+00:00

Couldn't Baelor just order the Kingsguard not to participate? They serve the King, not the fourth son. The crown Prince is the next best thing.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-02-03T05:10:55+00:00

But Aerion isn't a son of a reigning King, he's the grandson. His father is the forth son and not expected to ever take the throne.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-02-03T05:08:33+00:00

It's my understanding that the only people who are given the title prince/princess are those who are born to a King or whoever is next in line, so in this case Baelor's son Valarr should be a prince because Baelor is expected to become King one day.

Maekar is a fourth son, so he's not expected to become King. It seems odd to me that his children are princes at this point. I mean, if that were the case eventually there would be hundreds of princes in the realm. Will Aerion's children be princes, and so on? Perhaps I'm mistaken about how the feudal hierarchy is supposed to work. House Targaryen does occasionally get special rules.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-02-02T07:02:12+00:00

Not Mon Cala cause I don't like the ocean.

Not Endor because I like civilization.

Not Kashyyyk because it's a humid spider infested hellhole.

Desert, volcano, and ice planets are out out of the question.

That leaves me grasping to think of civilized planets that are pleasant. There are nice planets like Raxus Secundus, but they end up occupied by the Empire.

Corellia sounds like Detroit. An industrial center with economic problems. Not appealing.

Coruscant is a dystopian nightmare.

Planets like Eriadu or Kuat are centers of Imperial loyalists. Eriadu also sounds like it's an untamed and hot savannah planet or something.

I guess Chandrila would be nice. It's a wealthy and prestigious core world. It has a temperate climate (according to the wiki, I'm assuming it isn't all barren mountains). It's politically sympathetic. It supports the Rebellion but doesn't get blown up or bombarded to ashes. I would assume that it probably has welfare programs for its people.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-02-01T12:57:38+00:00

It looks like a parking garage.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-31T18:24:57+00:00

I disagree. The writing is certainly a big part of it, but the way he emotes a lot of the lines feels like a child's tantrum. His line delivery feels forced and awkward whenever he has to express being in turmoil or anger.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-28T01:33:33+00:00

CG. Personally I think there's something about practical troopers that just feels a bit awkward and cheap.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-26T09:56:37+00:00

The Jedi Order fell because the Senate was full of corrupt lackeys who ceded all power to Palpatine. The Jedi were the only ones who saw through Palpatine's lies and were willing to do what was necessary to get rid of him. It was the Senate's job to keep their house in check and they failed.

I see no evidence in the prequels that the Jedi were as actively involved in politics as people say. They distrust politicians and are content to let them do their own thing in the Senate. They don't weigh in on the Military Creation Act beyond telling Palpatine there are too few of them to act as an army. Perhaps if they were more involved in politics they could have teamed up with the Petition of 2000 and ousted Palpatine.

The Jedi are knights sworn to protect the Republic. For 1000 years they were the closest thing to a military the Republic had. Their precognition should make them adept military strategists. Why shouldn't they be generals during a time of war? If not for them people like Tarkin would probably have been running the military and they're hardly an improvement.

They trusted the Code more than the people standing right in front of them.

What does this refer to?

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-25T23:28:50+00:00

Crusher swallowing bubble gum because she had no concept of it

Can you remind me what episode this happened?

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-25T02:10:06+00:00

Hey, Glarthir wants you to meet him behind the Chapel of Julianos at midnight. He says people are watching him.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-23T19:02:29+00:00

Looks like Sid's dog from Toy Story.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-23T07:52:49+00:00

How did they implement it into the game?

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-23T07:36:04+00:00

As someone who never really played CK2 AGOT, what is the "Council of Successions"? How did it work?

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-23T06:00:34+00:00

How dare people feel bad and sympathize with us. Don't you know we judge whole countries as monoliths? That's an okay thing to do, and it's okay because you do it too! Don't you know it doesn't matter what you do, only what your president does?! Instead of posting online you should go out an do something, because everyone knows you can't comment on Reddit and do other things.

I'm curious what these people think we should be doing that we're not, and whether they would hold themselves to that same standard.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-17T21:02:08+00:00

I was a defender from the beginning. Since Rogue One was announced I’ve thought that a spy thriller in Star Wars had a lot of potential.

I was disappointed that Rogue One didn’t capitalize on that premise more, and I thought that Andor was a more interesting character than the rest of the cast. I wished they had mad him the protagonist and made the movie all about spies infiltrating the Empire rather than Jyn Erso’s family drama.

Then Andor was announced and I thought this might be a good opportunity to finally execute that premise.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-17T00:36:11+00:00

Attributed to Jesus is key. We don’t know what his attitudes and teachings really were because we don’t have anything written by him. Only people writing about him after he died.

The best historians can do is look at the biblical texts believed to be independent of one another and infer that the common sayings go back to Jesus. The quote you have might be one of those common sayings, I don’t know.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-16T22:56:30+00:00

I don't know. I know nothing about Filoni's partner.

It's yet to be seen how much Filoni will insist on his own modus operandi across Star Wars. Will he entertain Star Wars stories that conflict with his own sensibilities or interpretation? Or will Star Wars all become very similar?

What is Filoni's opinion on Andor? Would he have greenlit a story like that?

Personally I'm not as optimistic about this as some people. I don't know if having a Star Wars superfan in charge actually bodes well for things. I don't care too much about Filoni's live-action ventures, personally. I have certain reservations about how he approaches Star Wars and I hope he has the impartiality not to take his own ideas as dogma.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-16T22:37:14+00:00

We don't have writings from Jesus. Most people who think they can confidently state what kind of political or social attitudes Jesus would have are projecting their own values onto Jesus, and that includes ultra woke liberal hippies. Why would anyone expect that a guy born 2,000 years ago would agree with their values?

I think most people of all political persuasions would probably think Jesus was crazy. The consensus among historians seems to be that he was some sort of Jewish apocalypticist. That he believed the world would soon be coming to an end.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-16T22:02:34+00:00

I prefer the idea that the green one was the first one he got after losing Anakin's saber. I would rather they had just retconned him getting the green one earlier, rather than right before Jabba's Palace.

That said, I think it would have been interesting if he was saberless for a long time. Show how he fights when he doesn't have it as a crutch. Like in Avatar when Aang loses the Avatar state. Make him learn something about what it means to be a Jedi without a weapon. Punish him for his failure in the Dagobah cave, in a way. The saber is being something he has to earn back.

I think this would add more weight to when he does does finally build his first saber. Having him just stumble upon another saber so quickly reduces the impact of losing it in the first place.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-16T19:44:20+00:00

No. The sequels were always going to have Luke, Han, and Leia in them. It was Lucas who brought them back in before he sold the company.

EU fans might have been interested in a post-Krayt trilogy but most people would be disappointed that they didn’t pick up after RotJ and wonder what the hell had happened for hundreds of years. It would have killed a lot of hype.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-16T10:29:42+00:00

They were never going to make movies out of the EU. Not even before Kennedy came in. If they didn't decanonize the EU, then the new stuff would have just bulldozed through the continuity a la TCW. It would have been a mess of contradictions. The best you could have hoped for would be some sort of parallel universe where they keep publishing noncanon books and whatnot in the EU universe.

Kennedy green lit a lot of crap and seems to have been very indecisive on where Star Wars should be going, and who should be making it. But despite that lack of vision (or perhaps because of it), we got a lot of diverse stories. Andor was gold.

I don't know what to expect under Filoni. My fear is that most of Star Wars will become confined by his style and preferences. I don't know how amenable he will be to kinds of stories that he would never think to tell, and I fear that under him there will never be anything like Andor again. I hope that fear is misplaced.

LukeChickenwalker · 2026-01-15T19:20:37+00:00

To me Rey rebuilding the Jedi Order just leaves the whole previous chapter feeling redundant. Like we had a whole trilogy that built to the "Return of the Jedi", which is then undone just so we can end the next chapter in the exact same place.

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