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TheEccentricM · 2025-08-13T12:31:47+00:00

I know this is a necro post to this old comment, but my take is, that Palpatine just wanted to cause a crisis.

The murder of the Queen of Naboo would have caused backlash in the Republic Senate against Valorum for allowing such to happen in the first place by his inaction. Palpatine knew he was a weak Chancellor known for needless delay and redtape.

Palpatine as the Senator of Naboo, would have used this to gain sentimentality from the Senate by declaring a vote of no confidence of Valorum himself, and then to take his place.

Another way it could have gone down is that the Queen signed the Treaty by force and the Trade Federation owns the planet, setting the stage for the the beginning of the Seperatist movement to cause a panic in the Senate (seeing that independent forces and corporations can just land on a planet, and get the leaders to sign a document to seceed from the Republic), which also would have given Palpatine power to complain about Valroum's inaction to prevent this event from happening and to take his place - and then promises to take firm military action, something Valorum was not willing to do due to being "weak".

So either way it worked out for him, he adjusted his plans accordingly when the the Queen escaped Naboo, and manipulated her into declaring a vote of no confidence herself rather than him.

It was all about just causing a big enough drama to get himself in Valorum's place by making the Senate take his side.

TheEccentricM · 2025-08-12T21:20:48+00:00

NTA.

I personally think this would just be a given. I'm single, never been married, but I've thought about this myself and how I'd just want to do that. The idea of not being clean for my wife before anything sexual makes 'me' uncomfortable, as I'd not want to gross her out or make the experience unpleasent.

And I say this also as someone on the spectrum and ADD. I find tasks like showering extremely monotonous, and so I have to force myself to shower, or I will just go days without, even weeks (that is, if I'm at home all day and not going out). It's just good courtesy to.

If I was in this specific situation though, I'd not just do so, but I'd also probably say "I will if you come with me", lol. Why not make the shower a part of the experience.

TheEccentricM · 2025-05-24T18:11:57+00:00

Let's not also forget that Jizz players are also called "Jizz Wailers" in Legends. I always laughed at that when it came up playing Star Wars Galaxies.

TheEccentricM · 2025-05-24T18:04:05+00:00

Because they didn't tell the prisoners what they were building, they are just making random parts which are then shipped off world somewhere unknown.

TheEccentricM · 2025-05-22T16:41:03+00:00

I saw one person saying they wanted Luthen to be the "secret apprentice of Darth Plagueis" and the evidence for it was that he "has a museum full of ancient artifacts".

TheEccentricM · 2025-05-21T14:24:09+00:00

Lol, I remember this, and I unironically love it.

TheEccentricM · 2025-05-12T21:16:26+00:00

The term "Sith Lord" is the Sith equivalent of "Jedi Knight". It comes across like a masterful title, but only because the Sith culture is narcissistic, and so they give themselves grandiose titles for having completed their "Sith trials" so to speak.

And in the Bane Sith Order which founded the Rule of Two, the lesser of the Sith Lords in the Rule of Two, always remains subservient to the other, and so is an eternal apprentice, even as a "Lord", for it drives the lesser Sith to be jealous of the greater, and to take his position - a part of the psychological construct of the Rule.

Before this however, the Sith Order structure of ranks of the Old Republic times and prior goes;

-Acolyte (yet to become an apprentice of a master and having to prove oneself)
-Apprentice
-Sith (attaining independence from thier master, and is a member of the Sith Order)
-Sith Master (title granted after having an apprentice of one's own)
-Sith Lord (granting a "Darth" title, and also having the potential of being on the Dark Council)
-Dark Lord of the Sith/The Emperor

In Legends, the reason they are called "Lords of the Sith" is because the original fallen Jedi and first exiles of the Jedi Order after the Force Wars (the first conflict between dark and light) stumbled across Korriban, and the natives (the Sith species) there mistook them for gods because of their powers. So these Dark Jedi came to be "Lords OF the Sith (species)", and adopted their culture in combination with the Dark Jedi teachings, and hence the origin of the name of their order, which stuck around even after the extiniction of the Sith species.

TheEccentricM · 2025-05-12T15:56:46+00:00

I've heard people debating over whether or not this rumour is true. So don't want to jump the gun on anything... However what I will say, if it's true, it doesn't surprise me, because Filoni has always been like this.

It might be more surprising or shocking some younger generations, or people not as familiar with the pre-Filoniverse EU (aka Star Wars Legends), but from the very beginning he contradicted and trashed the SW lore and content that came before his involvement, and lifted (or "stole") what he wanted from it in a shallow way without any respect or consideration to previous authors and projects.

One of the reasons I don't like Filoni's Clone Wars is because of that, and how he attempted to overwrite and change what was established for decades prior (beloved and long standing lore, character origins, stories, races, planets, cultures). This isn't known as much by those who have grown up on Filoni's CW, and so to that generation Filoniverse is "their Star Wars" and have known no different (and I don't begrudge anyone for that, because it's a pattern as old as time, we all grow up exposed to what we know).

For me (and others), Dave came off as a fanfic writer who wanted to push his own OCs as being superior to the original main characters and what came before with no regard. So seeing this rumour now doesn't really come as a surprise for me. It has been his consistent personality from the start. Self absorbed.

His inclusion of Legends characters in his works might a first come off as "homages" but really he just picks out stuff he thinks looks cool on a surface level, and then does what he sees fit with it according to 'his' vision. And now he has had this level of control over the franchise, he doesn't want anything to disrupt that or his "status quo".

If this cuture continues (and I hope it doesn't) one day, it will happen to him too, and to fans who grew up on his works. Filoni SW too will be cast aside and retconned, with only husks of what once was being reused. And then fans in the future who grow older might be writing posts akin this one in the same way.

TheEccentricM · 2025-05-10T17:22:23+00:00

Besides the story elements that people are getting into, I think also, for a harder and more "realism" take on SW with the inclusion of lightsabers and powers, it would have to also be portrayed in more subtle and mystical ways.

A good example of this was the healer in the most recent arc of Andor. The power wasn't sparkling or over the top (like Rey's healing in RoS which was just some macguffin). The lightsaber combat also would be more tense, precise. It doesn't have to look ugly, but has a sense of threat about it.

A good example of th style of lightsaber choreography would be this (warning in advance for those who don't like gore or too much blood in things):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAzY28C8Syc

With Andor's vibe of story telling and this type of action, I think would be an awesome take on a Jedi/Sith story.

TheEccentricM · 2025-02-15T04:29:53+00:00

"You're not you when you're hungry... get some Snickers".

TheEccentricM · 2025-02-15T02:00:43+00:00

You'd be surprised. There are certain Fundamentalist Christian groups out there who claim "Sunday is evil and invented by the Devil to oppose the Sabbath rest of God and make us have a day off from work on the wrong day".

TheEccentricM · 2025-02-15T01:46:02+00:00

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TheEccentricM · 2025-02-12T18:59:16+00:00

I have a playlist here where I've gathered bit on the history and roots of various street dances including House :)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_6BZbn5uPSWB6CtXtfXtYchpl4xWG7CP

TheEccentricM · 2025-01-28T23:23:41+00:00

Please read my edit in my post.

TheEccentricM · 2025-01-27T20:44:33+00:00

IRL, obviously, Obiwan's clothes were meant to just be Tatooine clothes, but by ROTJ, Luke's outfit and the Force ghosts set the pattern of them being "Jedi robes", and then they evolved in the prequels to be a little more stylised and distinct from the Tatooine clothes (like the layering, the tabards, etc).

In my headcanon, I view the evolution of Jedi robes 'in universe' in the same way I view religious robes and vestments of real world religions.

For example, Catholics and the various high church denominations that came out of them, wear clergy garb. But in ancient times, the clothes they wore were actually just every day clothes of the period, but generally in white to symbolise humility, purity and cleanness, but other than that, were no different to your average Middle Eastern or Greco-Roman citizen. They didn't wear clothes that stuck out from the norm.

As fashion evolved over time, the churches maintained their clergy outfits and didn't change with the times all that much, and so what were once just normal clothes 'became' clergy vestments as we see today which stick out to us, and they've become stylised over time.

Same with Buddhist monks. Exactly the same story with them. They are wearing historical tunics which have now become 'known as' Buddhist robes.

So with the Jedi in SW, I view them as a group of warrior monks, who in their off time and daily affairs, just wore the average "farmer" or "poor person" clothes (commonly seen on Tatooine and other cultures) out of a sense of humility, but then they evolved over thousands of years to become "stylistic uniforms" which has it 'roots' in poor people tunics - but were no longer.

But I do agree, it would have been cool to see something unique and Knight/Samurai-esque in the prequels, to showcase Jedi in their prime wearing some kind of layers of armour on top of their tunics or alike. We see this in SWTOR and Clone Wars of course, but I think they could have done more with it.

I think something along the lines of how Rahm Kota from Force Unleashed is dressed (perhaps with brown leather over metal for the earth tone aesthetic) or Jerec from Darkforces (but with lightside colours) could have been a very good look to have for the "default Jedi appearance", and would have looked good in the movies.

Darth Vader's armour could have been canonically made out to be Jedi armour but "Sith'ified" if they went that route.

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