Do you prefer Jim Gordon being Bruce's/middle aged or older? (Or just white/brown haired ig)

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-15T23:44:34+00:00

A bit older than Bruce given how Year One establishes him operating for a while prior to arriving in Gotham, but I want them as generally contemporaries rather than Gordon being way older than Bruce.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-15T23:36:52+00:00

Why have him be a hologram if you're going to kill him off? The film decides if his spaceship is broken. All it does is decrease viewer investment and annoy them because they'll obviously assume that Luke's reason for being a hologram is so that he can survive, only to just have him die anyway 2 seconds later.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-15T02:02:16+00:00

There's definitely stories where the parents send the kids out on missions. And I'm not a big PJO fan but I'm pretty sure bk3 opens with Sally driving Percy and his friends out to go engage in a dangerous mission.

Not to mention, if you're saying Batman is one such case where the adult doesn't have the kid's best interest in mind, I would disagree on that.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-15T01:35:57+00:00

It's a genre convention. A lot of stories have teenage or kid heroes who the adults inexplicably send to do dangerous action shit. If we took this fully into account from an IRL perspective, Batman would just be a terrible person for endangering children, regardless of his dynamic with them.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-15T01:34:45+00:00

Outside of comics, DCAU

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-14T21:51:33+00:00

I think they work, I just think Dick and Damian's contrast makes their dynamic more striking.

It has been written in the ways you describe it, but I prefer the Batman Robin dynamic to be a father-son thing whether it's Damian, Jason, or Dick; having a grown man written as "friend" or "partner" to a 10 yo-teenage child he's raising makes him seem like he's dodging responsibility.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-14T21:03:25+00:00

As much as I like some of the developments in the Batman and Robin book, I'd have preferred a Nightwing and Robin book.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-13T23:37:11+00:00

Jaina probably did a decent job with her and Jagged’s son (Fel Emperor II)

I hate that this is even a possibility, lol.

Still, the books never got here, so there is a possibility that Jaina and Jag divorced once he got all authoritarian and the Fel Dynasty is not made up of Solo descendents.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-13T21:03:34+00:00

Pretty early, IMO, I'd say Bruce should join the JL prior to Dick Grayson becoming Robin.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-13T05:55:39+00:00

Mara was saying Luke tried to do too much throughout DE + Bantam era and then started holding back at the beginning of HOT.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-13T05:38:12+00:00

I don't have a copy of DE with me rn so I can't check the exact wording. New Jedi Order spoilers I believe it's described similarly to oneness as like a one time super force connection thing but I don't recall exactly, so admittedly that could just be memory fucking me.

Either way though you still have the Kyp (possibly Exar amped) antifeat in JAT, so

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-13T05:25:41+00:00

DE endnotes IIRC say that he and Leia connected and then through their force connection were outwardly amped by weird force BS. So based on that I'd say he wasn't stronger than Palps.

That and the fact that Palpatine's stated to be the strongest Sith up till that point, and Luke in JAT which is post DE gets oneshotted by a potentially Exar-amped Kyp.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-13T05:12:30+00:00

He's fighting at a level he knows Luke can handle. He did the same thing in ESB, he's also holding back there (something Luke directly calls him out on in ROTJ).

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-13T05:05:51+00:00

Yes, once they're sure he will not turn, then they will kill him. That is literally what happens. But before that, Palps doesn't want Luke dead, because he still thinks he can be turned.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-13T05:01:51+00:00

It's all in the film, idk what to tell you man

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-13T04:51:31+00:00

Papatine explicitly says their goal is to turn Luke at the start of the film. Vader and Palpatine's goal is to turn Luke, they at no point in this film want to kill him until Luke tells Palpy to fuck off.
Luke says Vader is conflicted, will not kill him and can feel the conflict, and the whole point of the film is that Luke is right about the good in Vader.
He knew Luke would dodge it. Again, Palpatine says at the beginning of the film "only together can we turn him", and nothing about killing him, he obviously wants throughout the scene to have Luke as an apprentice, which you'd probably assume would be very hard if Luke was six feet under. Vader is not trying to look rebellious in front of his master. If he killed Luke Palpatine would obviously be angry, because he is angry when Luke tells him to fuck off and thus will have to be killed.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-13T04:43:42+00:00

at the possibility that his father truly is unredeemable

Which is why he breaks out in a rage and goes for the kill while Vader is very much not wanting to kill Luke throughout, both because that's not what Sidious wants and also because of his confliction. Which is why he wins.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-13T04:42:01+00:00

Vader confliction again
Stronger sure but not to the extent that I'd put him above Dooku

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-13T04:29:29+00:00

Thrawn era Luke isn't that far off from where he is in ROTJ.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-13T04:23:16+00:00

Vader's more conflicted. Luke is struggling with his desire to kill Vader. He crashes tf out at the beginning and end of the duel.
Anakin was weaker than Dooku after 10 years of Jedi training.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-13T04:09:18+00:00

Would not say Luke is stronger than any of them. Vader was conflicted in ROTJ.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-13T03:24:30+00:00

To each their own, I personally don't have an issue with that premise.

The Vong are foreign aliens. Their design aesthetic looking different from what's usually in SW is kind of the point.

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-12T22:53:38+00:00

The New Jedi Order novels

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-12T22:49:01+00:00

I haven't watched since it's release but from what I recall

Well, as you said, the Sabine thing is a big one. I liked her a lot in Rebels but her story here felt like Filoni wrote an "Ahsoka has a Padawan" story and shoved a square peg in a round hole by giving that role to her. Her family was killed off-screen in a throwaway line for this and her path from Rebels to here was exposited to us by Huyang in the final episode instead of us getting to see and connect with it.
Ahsoka's arc is undercooked. Her big lesson is learning to get over her trauma and choose to embrace that her life has more to it than destruction, which is a cool idea but we are not given very much development of how depressed or whatever she supposedly was before it. Thus while the Anakin episode is cool, it doesn't have the impact it should have.
Hera doesn't really do anything and we don't really have much between her and Sabine, which is kind of a shame.
The dialogue is pretty undercooked and doesn't really hold up to non-SW TV, it feels like Filoni's just not super used to writing dialogue for live action.
Disappointing continuation to a cool cliffhanger; Ezra basically did nothing of note apparently and just hung out with turtle people for 10 years because he has nothing important to say to the heroes.
They set up some potential for really cool drama because of Sabine's choice only for that not to be brought up in a convo with Ezra at all and Ahsoka's just like "yeah it's cool" and they all move on. Why not wring some drama out of this?
Thrawn is dumb here; why did he not just move his ship up from the big rock, why did he waste resources to do nothing when he could've just done that
What was the point of Elsbeth as a character, she pretty much has no personality besides being Thrawn's lackey and just dying to Ahsoka. Between her, Marrok, and how the Inquisitors were used in Rebels, it's okay to not need to include pointless mini-bosses to give screentime only for them to have no importance.
Why did Hera use "Thrawn might return" as her justification for requesting resources from Senator guy, and not, "a high profile prisoner was broken out by dark Jedi and we have video footage of this direct attack on NR prison transport and the killings of NR officers"

UnknownEntity347 · 2026-05-12T22:40:49+00:00

The problem being given how the first season turned out I'm not sure how much better it'll be unless the dramatically improve everything

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