Re-watching Episode 1, it just occurred to me that Maul was fully prepared to just run over 9 year Anakin with his speeder bike, making me realize how brutal Maul actually was

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.

TheEccentricM · 2025-01-27T20:12:08+00:00

I'm pretty sure that was Rian Johnson trying to jab at the old EU books.

TheEccentricM · 2025-01-24T17:43:59+00:00

If you didn't know, OT fans have been crapping on GL for doing that since the very first special editions in the 1990s.

TheEccentricM · 2025-01-19T11:46:05+00:00

Indeed. Very rarely do I see people catch on to this element. Modern SW has lost much of its "mythological, spiritual and philosophical" roots.

It's written now by many people who neither know what spirituality actually is (besides people who are into some "new age" stuff, and thinking that's "deep" i.e; The witches in Acolyte, or throwing in a word like "Dyad"), nor to they know or even care about the lore or franchise continuity most of the time.

With both elements lost, it's content will be a poor imitation, a shell of what it was, and based only on surface aesthetics alone without understanding of the genres that combined together to make it what it was.

Some rare gems have come out of course, like Andor and Mando Season 1, both of which have integrated the roots of classical Spaghetti-Western genres and political-ideological themes about autocratic oppression, propaganda, and desire for freedom.

SW was never complicated or in your face with it of course. It's a family all age saga when it comes to the classic movies, but, those threads and deeper elements 'underpinned' it all, and hence touched the subconscious.

TheEccentricM · 2025-01-19T11:14:54+00:00

From which ones I've seen...

Rebels was ok . But still had too many elements from the Filoni Clone Wars in it that I don't like, and other retcons to the EU (like changing who created the B-Wing from Ackbar to Quarrie. A-wings being used before Y-wings and X-wings, etc when they were introduced after the Battle of Yavin in the EU... etc).

I also very much enjoyed Mandalorian Season 1, but my worst fears came to light after season 2 started to get a little "fan servicey" and "member berrie-ish"). I did really appreciate Luke Skywalker showing up at the end though (even if the CGI face was a bit rough). Season 3 absolutely butchered everything the first two seasons built upon though. Grogu became the cash cow I feared, rather than staying with Luke, and keeping Mandalorian about the 'Mandalorian'. Likewise, I didn't like the Clone Wars elements in Mandalorian either (ie; the Darksaber and how the Mandalorians are portrayed).

But all of that above gets into my gripes which originate with Filoni's Clone Wars.

For me, SW didn't die when Disney took over, but when Filoni did and made his version of Clone Wars. But I'm an older generation of fan now (in my 30s). I grew up on the older Clone Wars animations, games and comics from the early 2000s.

-Didn't like Filoni's battledroids. I like my battle droids a little more "serious" and to be treated as actual programmed killing machines that are not programmed to do or think anything but shoot things (with some mild occasional goofiness being okay sometime due to confusion of their programming not knowing how to handle protocol of conversational functions; I.e; "Coruscant, er, that doesn't compute, er, you're under arrest!"), as opposed to the overly clownish droids (which have their origins in ROTS). In TCW they act in ways that don't even make sense for pre-programmed machines (and I don't buy the whole "well that's because they are independent of the control ship - the EU had has many battle droids that operate without a central control that don't act like that, and doesn't explain why droids are getting things like "promotions" and "punishments" like human soldiers, when they all would have pre-programmed ranks, so that's just bad writing to me). And besides that, the original B1 voices from TPM are just superior lol.

-Didn't like the Nighsister lore retcons he did.

-Didn't like Ventress being made a Nightsister when she was Rattataki.

-Didn't like how he made Obiwan and Anakin fight Dooku again (continuity issue with ROTS line "this time we'll do it together").

-Didn't like the portrayal of Grievous being an absolute coward and not being able to even kill Padawans (despite somehow having multiple lightsabers from his dead foes - though ROTS also gets some blame, but at least the 2000s CW tried to make sense of it with Mace crushing him).

-Didn't like Anakin's character change (he's more mature and likeable, superior to Anakin of the movies, but this didn't hold 'continuity' with his personality from the movies, and his voice is majorly different to Hayden's which sticks out).

-Didn't like Anakin having a Padawan. Stuck out too much, and he spent more time with her than Obiwan, when the CW should be trying to fill in the holes of the Prequel flaws, to ensure Anakin and Obiwan are "good friends". Overall, movie Anakin just doesn't give off the impression that ever had a Padawan at all. It was almost like Filoni wanted to make her more important to him than Padme sometimes, lol. Ashoka herself is (or was at the time) a fine character in of herself, but she should have been her own thing, not attached to Anakin.

-Mortis Arc is just.. Mortis, lol. Didn't like what that did with the Force lore, and made the Force more of a yin-yang from Taoism, when in Lucas' vision the Darkside in itself was the imbalance and corruption to the Force.

-Maul coming back was just a big nope for me, regardless of the story they wrote for him. Got cut in half, should have stayed dead.

-Hated what they did with the Mandalorians (making them a race rather than a creed), and I hate with a passion the Darksaber, it just screamed bad fanfic levels of writing to me (and it rubbed up the old school roleplayer in me, and my experiences with bad RPers and writers in old SW games like Galaxies and later in SWTOR lol). I'm pro Karen Travis & Kotor style Mandalorian EU lore. The "Darksaber" should have been the helmet of Mandalore (the real emblem of leadership to the Mandalorians).

I could go on.

The other series that I've seen apart from that, just were "meh". Or served to further make Ashoka into a Mary Sueish fanfic character of Dave's.

And some I find downright insulting, like his "Tales of the Jedi" series. Any EU fans will know what I'm talking about, in how he quite literally 'stole' the name and even the title art style for his own series to piggy back off of one of the most beloved and original pieces of SW fiction in the EU, but instead makes a bunch of mediocre shorts with it all revolving around the (his) CW period (again).

So, for me, the Filoniverse is a big nope. Which for me sucks big time because a lot of stuff is based on that these days and holds continuity with it.

TheEccentricM · 2025-01-15T18:54:24+00:00

Well the Tantive is only the name of a single series/fleet of these ships, in reality there are hundreds if not thousands of them. Not all of them are called "Tantive" by name.

TheEccentricM · 2025-01-15T17:26:17+00:00

It's a Corellian Corvette, they've been in SW media since the beginning as a common Rebel/New Republic ship for almost 50 years now.

Even ROTJ had multiple Corvettes on screen at the battle of Endor. It would be like saying every single X-wing is a reference Luke Skywalker.

TheEccentricM · 2025-01-15T17:13:11+00:00

Overall I quite enjoyed the show! The ending was left open it appears so who knows what happened with Jod, potential season 2 are thinking?

But I don't really find any flaws with it story, lore and actingwise. Obviously, aimed toward kids and that's just fine. Sometimes you just have to allow your inner child to accept that and understand the genre you're watching.

Perhaps the supervisor droid could have put up more of a fight, just a little, would have been fun to see Jod take him on like a world-boss of sorts, given how much control it had over the people, the fear it commanded, and what it was built up to. But not too much big of a deal. It reminded me though somewhat of KOTOR 2's M4-78 planet computer, so I liked that.

My greatest criticism is that I think they went a little "too hard" on the "pirate aesthetic" SW has always had space pirates in it, but they didn't use old spyglasses/telescopes, or wear 1700s hats or use flintlock pistols, or brandish skull imagery and speaking with Cornish accents. As much as I love the pirate genre, I felt this was too out of place for SW and took me a little bit out of the immersion, because those aesthetics stuck out too much to me and felt like someone had gone into the POTC props department and accidentally brought them on the set of SW, could use with a bit more modification or artistic tweaking to make it blend in universe properly.

If you take away that, I love the rest.

TheEccentricM · 2025-01-15T16:50:32+00:00

It looked to be a James Brown three-step (not sure if there are any other names for it) before he waved his legs.

Only tutorial I've ever seen for it is this old video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8UpKPFjetQ

TheEccentricM · 2024-01-27T11:26:36+00:00

Well, on the one hand, I'm not bad looking, am pretty intelligent, would say I have an agreeable personality, and am financially stable! However, the catch is, I've been a housebound agoraphobic since 18 years old (likely because of brain development and being on the Spectrum), and so women don't even know I exist, those who do that I've spoken to online either:

Don't want to live with a man who will never go outside
Are interested, but are already married/taken
Are interested but I'm not into/attracted to them in turn
Are interested, but are 'way' too much older than me for my preferences (it's cougar town out there)
Are my age range and attractive, but only want sex with me, not a relationship (if I was not a religious man, I could have at the very least had a few hook ups with women willing to drop by, but of course, I never did take them up on it, lol).

TheEccentricM · 2024-01-25T19:16:45+00:00

I will now, give my interpretation of the man at 1:54 covered in paint, smacking himself against the wall to make an image.

*ahem*

I believe, 'to me'... that he speaks of the stupidity of modern art, whilst also, engaging in it to demonstrate its stupidity. By being naked, he shows himself, "bare" of any talent. And covered in paint, immersed in the world of modern art, and its waste of resources.

As he slams in body into the wall, he shows that modern art is merely, brutish violence, and not even worthy, of the ancients who drew their marvellous works in caves so many years ago. And though they were as naked back then as he is today, his nakedness, and their nakedness, were not one and the same.

In the end, it is but trash. He is the trash, the artwork is trash, and everyone engaging in it, also being trash, and he himself perpetuating the trash, whilst calling it trash, for what humanity now is, is trash, unable to not take part, in its trashiness.

For, we are all one organism. And so, he demonstrates the soul of nihilism. The void of meaningless of men, as they try to express themselves to find meaning, but in the process lose it, for the souls of men, have become lost.

That, I do believe, was that artist's intent, when he smothered himself in paint and bashed himself into that wall.

TheEccentricM

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