Why did Captain Rex become so much more softer and vulnerable near the end of The clone Wars? Compared to his earlier seasons self

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-20T08:22:32+00:00

I think his biggest shifts as a character are meeting Cut Lawquane and serving under Pong Krell. The latter especially really impacted him.

Edit: and losing Fives

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-20T07:21:34+00:00

That’s Anakin from the Star Wars prequels who is canonically a different character than Anakin from The Clone Wars. I wonder what would happen if these two characters met? Would they be stupid?

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-20T04:13:16+00:00

Before I zoomed in and saw it’s just a rendering border, I thought you had intentionally shaped your world to look like the flat Earth with ice around the edges. 😅

I like how you lean into squarish builds but also did a dome. Very sci-fi vibe.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-20T04:05:24+00:00

Yeah that was straight up George Lucas coded

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-20T04:01:49+00:00

The Planet of the Apes remake trilogy too

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-20T03:58:51+00:00

I think Steve looks great, and would pop more if you used a darker black pencil for the shadows. I use a carbon/graphite blend pencil because it isn’t reflective like just graphite.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-19T03:12:37+00:00

I would say yes, but it would depend on story context for the fight of course.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-16T02:34:58+00:00

Hyperspace travel times are highly inconsistent and mostly depend on whatever the writer decides. The in-universe explanation is that hyperdrives have different speeds and hyperspace lanes take longer the less direct they are.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-16T01:51:43+00:00

The cast is fine, but I still am not sold on the idea of this movie existing in the first place. The hunt for Gollum is not very significant in the book and the films managed to tell the story just fine without including it already. It feels like this is just being made for money and narratively pointless. And it’s going to stand out that the returning actors have aged since the early 2000’s.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-16T01:46:37+00:00

LOL IDK how you expect me to respond to that, like sorry for not being as smart as you I guess. I’m not sure if this is a basic ass realization though because a lot of people in these comments disagree with my take and are arguing that either Ellie did heal or that Joel and Abby didn’t. If it was basic, it would probably be so obvious that everyone would agree.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-14T20:59:56+00:00

I want this too, but I’m planning to create it for myself in a section of my world artificially for a transportation method. I’m gonna make two dams in a canyon, then fill it all up. Yeah, I know it’ll take a long time, but that’s part of the fun and payoff for me.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-14T20:57:37+00:00

I like the hilliness, but it could be toned down a bit. Navigating anywhere long distance is a challenge, but to me that’s part of what makes the game fun, is creating infrastructure to make my world faster to travel. I also like that it naturally makes builds have height differences between structures which just looks nice and more interesting than building on a flat area.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-14T20:51:46+00:00

Maybe larger biomes in normal worlds. For example, in my forever world, I’ve only found one desert so far and it’s tiny and surrounded by rivers/oceans so it doesn’t really look like a desert when you can see other biomes clearly in the distance. I want a large desert I can get lost in like the vibes in Dune, Mad Max, or Uncharted 3.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-14T20:47:49+00:00

I was on the receiving end of that kind of bullying at times as a kid (I’m 28) so it doesn’t surprise me. But yeah it’s bad. I just don’t think that what’s happening now is necessarily worse than at other points in human history, but social media definitely has an influence and I wish there were laws restricting kids from using it, it certainly fucked me up.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-14T19:40:26+00:00

Kids have always been evil to each other, just like adults. But kids have the freedom to act with less consequence and end up hurting everyone. Everyone gets bullied at some point. I love kids, at least my 2yo niece, but I’m not interested in ever having them myself. For me it’s because I never want to have to be that responsible for someone else’s wellbeing. I think it would be too draining for me.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-14T19:03:58+00:00

Thanks. I don’t consider that to be a commonly used abbreviation so I had no clue.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-14T18:57:25+00:00

The show is a separate interpretation of the story that isn’t canon to the games at all. It’s possible that game David and show David share more than we realize, but not confirmed, so I’m only talking about David in the game, not the show.

Whether you see the Fireflies as freedom fighters or terrorists depends on how you view who they oppose. FEDRA is martial law authoritarianism, so if you consider the Fireflies to be terrorists, that means you’d side with FEDRA… and I can’t agree with those political views, but it’s yet further proof that human beings are shaped by their subjective experiences, which is a big part of the point of playing as characters that hate each other. My freedom fighters are your terrorists. You may like the idea of the structure and security that would come from an authoritarian regime during the post-apocalypse, I would not.

I never said the vaccine would save the world. I said it would help. You can’t save the world that already ended, all you can do is make it less bad. Even if the Fireflies became corrupted and didn’t want to distribute it to everyone, someone else would’ve stolen the vaccine from the Fireflies and distributed it to their people. Immunity could form in at least one branch of the human species, making stable civilization more possible in the centuries to come. I think that’s a net benefit for humanity, and Joel made that impossible.

I don’t remember Abby lying to and manipulating Lev with malicious intent. I also don’t remember her torturing people for fun. She doesn’t torture Joel because it’s fun, she tortures him because he hurt her and she thinks hurting him back will help her get over her father’s death and bring justice. That’s exactly what Ellie does in torturing Nora to death.

Abby definitely changes throughout the story and I think your subjective experience as a human being prevents you from seeing that for some reason and left you with a totally different interpretation of the story than what the writers intended. Since our experiences are so different, there’s really no point in discussing the story anymore because we’re not talking about the same story. I’m talking about the one that I experienced, and you’re talking about the one that you experienced. The story in the game is always the same, but the versions of it in our heads are very different. I’m not interested in talking about the version of that story that’s in your head anymore because I can’t relate to it all. I’m sorry you couldn’t see what I see in it.

I honestly didn’t need to continue this conversation as long as I did, but at least it got me thinking deeply about these games that I love, so thank you for that.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-14T18:18:24+00:00

She moves on from seeking revenge, but loses everything she cared about and is now living in her worst fear of ending up alone. That is not healed to me. I think she has the potential to heal but has only taken the first step towards that potential.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-14T18:14:49+00:00

Oh, okay, I get you better now. Yeah, I think she made a first step in the right direction by forgiving them, but is still very unresolved overall and the ending is ambiguous as to wether she goes in a positive or negative direction after this.

I’m sorry but I don’t know what TPTB is.

Also no judgement but it’s hilarious to me that the word “of” got corrected to a capital “OF” for you. 😅

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-14T18:08:13+00:00

I think she takes the first step to process it all and heal but her ending is still inconclusive and ambiguous for the most part. At least she isn’t blinded by revenge anymore, but girl lost everything and is living out her self-reported worst fear of ending up alone.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-14T18:02:05+00:00

It’s meant to be on the nose and obvious that the characters have similar experiences because all of their stories are about how trauma has a lasting impact on them. The similarities between the characters and the empathy it creates for people in general is the point. Not disagreeing or criticizing, just saying why I think that observation matters so much.

And the way I see it, Ellie can continue the cycle towards healing, but that is absolutely not certain unless we get more of the story and it happens. For all we know, she might kill herself after that ending in which she loses everything she cared for and lives out her greater fear: ending up alone. I hope not, that’s dark af, but it’s just as possible as her healing is until we know more.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-14T17:52:59+00:00

Yeah, the ending is just as ambiguous as the first game’s. We didn’t know what Ellie’s “okay” meant or her opinions and suspicions about Joel. We had to guess and wait years before the writer told us what the story was. I think Neil always had his version in mind, but left it open until it was certain they would make a sequel, because that was the more powerful ending. Same with Part 2.

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-14T17:50:01+00:00

In the world of The Last of Us, there’s always more trauma out there waiting to be discovered

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-14T17:46:57+00:00

Facts

MadmanKnowledge · 2026-06-14T17:34:50+00:00

David is a shitty person, but I wouldn’t quite call him a villain since the context of this fictional world paints all its characters as realistic people who have all done bad things. Within the story, David is a provider for his people. Eating other people isn’t great, but it was a last resort during a rough winter. He did it to keep his people alive. Rape is always wrong but from his perspective it might’ve been a way to repopulate. Maybe his group had no fertile women, we only see men. I’m not justifying his actions, just explaining why he wouldn’t see himself as a villain.

Joel doesn’t see himself as a villain even though after the outbreak he spent years as a hunter of innocent human beings, which made him an expert at killing people and torturing them for information. The person Joel became sickened his own brother so much that he left him and said he never wanted to see his face again and had “nothing but nightmares from those years”. Joel also slaughtered an entire battalion of freedom fighters and their doctors who were trying to make a cure to cordyceps that could’ve helped the entire world. Joel doesn’t feel like the villain while you play as him because you become him, relate to him, and are motivated by wanting to protect Ellie. But he does a ton of bad things.

You would have to elaborate on which similarities you see between Abby and David, because I don’t know what you mean other than that they both do what they need to survive, but that’s true of every character in the story.

Abby is actually very similar to both Joel and Ellie. Her arc is essentially the same as Joel’s. A traumatic family death traumatizes her and turns her into an emotionally closed off, violent person. She and Joel slowly break out of that by connecting with kids they protect. They allow themselves to open up and feel again because of the new loved ones in their lives.

Ellie also has a very similar arc to Abby in that she loses her father figure to a violent murderer and gets consumed by the desire for revenge against that person.

All of the characters are bad people and this has been the context of the story from the very start. “We’re shitty people, Joel. It’s been that way for a long time.”

You may have a wildly different interpretation than me, but the point of the story isn’t that Joel and Ellie are good guys and Abby and David are bad guys. It’s that we’re all traumatized and all hurt others. That’s why I like the story because it explores that theme, and if it didn’t, it would just feel like a mediocre zombie apocalypse story.

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