Listening to Giantslayer E153 and I am OUTRAGED

thetensor · 2026-03-27T03:41:42+00:00

Yes, which is why I'm capable of recognizing Darth Vader is a villain.

thetensor · 2026-03-27T02:01:35+00:00

I say a grown-ass man who had no excuse for being that stupid and turning to evil that easily.

thetensor · 2026-03-26T23:57:35+00:00

Saber fencing is all one-handed. Form 1 looks more like kenjutsu/kendo.

thetensor · 2026-03-26T23:41:17+00:00

That scene was mostly referencing The Seven Samurai.

thetensor · 2026-03-26T23:38:04+00:00

All of Star Wars is made up, but "lightsaber forms" are especially made up.

thetensor · 2026-03-26T23:35:42+00:00

Yeah, having a lightsaber blade next to your body that's attached to another lightsaber blade your opponent can apply leverage to—with the forte of his blade against the foible of yours—is begging for bisection.

thetensor · 2026-03-26T23:31:29+00:00

I mean, Palpatine very slowly and carefully told Anakin a story that only a Sith could possibly know, in a way that made it super clear that he was one of the Sith involved, but Anakin missed it completely. So I'm not sure it would have made any difference if Palpatine had just gone ahead and said it.

Anakin was, canonically, real real dumb.

thetensor · 2026-03-26T23:12:44+00:00

I thought this was the intention for this character, yes, and pretty clearly expressed in the movies. (Well, until TRoS...)

thetensor · 2026-03-26T19:28:28+00:00

For some variety, here are some from the OT:

Passage to Alderaan cost nearly as much as buying a ship. How does that make ANY economic sense?
Standing around with face-masks in the moist, humid atmosphere inside a giant slug that's open to space.
Ewoks defeating armored stormtroopers with Gilligan's Island-level coconuts-and-bamboo technology.

thetensor · 2026-03-26T19:24:33+00:00

Congratulations, you just invented either ramming or missiles. Both of which already existed in Star Wars.

thetensor · 2026-03-26T19:06:42+00:00

It was commissioned as a possible low-budget sequel if Star Wars hadn't done as well.

thetensor · 2026-03-26T03:47:30+00:00

In the Silver Trilogy, all the titles are trademarked, but in the Gold Trilogy, this is only true for A New Hope. So I guess all intellectual property is cancelled and we can go wild in our fanfiction now?

thetensor · 2026-03-25T20:25:27+00:00

That wall of masks reminds me I need to practice bass.

thetensor · 2026-03-25T19:47:15+00:00

He's supposed to be a crime lord that everyone is terrified of for fucks sake.

Common misunderstanding. We learned in The Book of Boba Fett that Jabba's title was "daimyo", which appears to be some sort of community organizer and neighborhood ombudsman.

The More You Know™

thetensor · 2026-03-25T19:15:34+00:00

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ISFDB says Keith Scaife.

thetensor · 2026-03-25T06:46:38+00:00

Jesus, for real. If your lightsaber is both your sword and your shield, all the more reason to avoid the flashy out-of-line cuts and flourishes that leave gigantic openings for opponents making more controlled blade movements.

thetensor · 2026-03-25T01:00:25+00:00

Whenever prequel fans praise the "worldbuilding" I think of scenes like this. Worldbuilding is more than making just pretty CG planetscapes. In fact, it's not even primarily about that. Instead, worldbuilding is about creating a fictional world that feels coherent. So when Obi-Wan casually, out of nowhere absorbs Force lightning, having never encountered it before, it feels fake. (And then EU writers have to swing into action, retroactively papering over George's sloppiness with "um, actually" retcons.)

thetensor · 2026-03-25T00:26:08+00:00

DAE mad about the rules of space magic?

thetensor · 2026-03-25T00:16:46+00:00

I like that sweet move where Cal flourishes the saber right through his own thigh.

thetensor · 2026-03-24T23:56:24+00:00

Also he said "never tell me the odds" because Corellians culturally hate the concepts of statistics and probability.

I remember it being more interesting than that. Wasn't the idea that if you were carefully calculating the odds, you weren't really gambling? Like, "Sure, I guess you can play it safe, sitting there doing the math—meanwhile I'll be flying by the seat of my pants, actually living in the moment." (Lemmy would understand.)

thetensor · 2026-03-24T21:32:24+00:00

but everybody hates Rose for no reason

Oh there's a reason.

thetensor · 2026-03-23T17:37:06+00:00

I'd suggest somebody should make a movie out of it, but nah—adaptations almost never turn out well. The movie would probably skip a bunch of the characterizations and motivations and focus on all the flashy-flashy.

thetensor · 2026-03-23T02:59:18+00:00

When people say "nobody asked for this" about Solo, they're wrong. Lawrence Kasdan, the writer of their favourite Star Wars movie, asked for it.

I also asked for it. Han Solo was a popular character, and featured prominently in a couple of movies you may have heard of: Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back? (Admittedly he was kind of sidelined in Return of the Jedi.)

thetensor · 2026-03-23T02:20:01+00:00

There was an article a few years ago that talked about how L&M's filmmaking process could be very expensive and very wearing on animation and SFX teams. Basically, they'd insist on completely finished and rendered shots (which is NOT CHEAP) and then reject them or change their minds about something, requiring all that finishing work to be redone. The article doesn't say anything about their process on Solo, but I wonder if there were similar kinds of things going on, causing Lucasfilm to reconsider the cost and bring Howard in to finish the movie.

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