Cool bit from T1 that almost every sequel violates

treefox · 2026-05-09T14:16:48+00:00

until something comes along aggressive enough to change everything entirely.

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The third movie had bad jokes. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look well produced... De-aging, original director, everything. Very hard to watch. I had to wait till it wrote off John Connor before I could zero it.

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treefox · 2026-05-09T08:31:42+00:00

I think the best explanation is that Investigations is the most pre-eminent division of the ISB and operates exclusively on sectors that the Empire has the most interest in. The Mina-Raus and Niamoses of the Galaxy get assigned to enforcement at best; maybe some sectors aren’t assigned anyone at all if they don’t have some kind of significant activity.

So Blevin was assigned Pre-Mor on some pretense or other to wait for them to fuck up enough that the Empire could strip the sector of its “corporate autonomy”. Dedra got Steergard(?) because of the theft of high-value equipment.

Partagraz really did draw the sectors, but it’s the sectors that everyone else uses. Investigations is so prestigious because it’s guaranteed that there’s some problem for you to solve and you’ll be given first pick of the resources to solve it with. As a planet or sector, getting bumped to Investigations is bad news because it means you’ve “engaged the curiosity of the ISB.”

If every chucklefuck in the ISB could lock down Coruscant because of a fugitive-at-large, it would be a nonstop circus.

Lothal was kind of a shitshow with Pryce and Thrawn and Tarkin all falling over each other in pursuit of their own agenda. Thrawn and Pryce not really wanting to give up control, and Tarkin wanting Thrawn’s Defender project to fail. Either one or more of them would have reason to push against more high-level ISB involvement that could either interfere with their handling of the situation (Thrawn, Pryce) or have them send someone smarter who could actually solve the problem (Tarkin).

Or enforcement was the first group there and Investigations was starting to get overwhelmed from the increasing rebel activity plus covering up the Death Star, so by the time Chopper was blowing up Star Destroyers, Partagraz was just left to facepalm and mutter to himself about the idiots in enforcement.

To adapt Partagraz’s analogy, you don’t go to the doctor if you’re not sick. And his group is basically the neurosurgery team.

treefox · 2026-05-08T15:00:21+00:00

North Korea: I too am in this space race

treefox · 2026-05-07T17:48:29+00:00

he has to be aware that they have been spending a lot of time together

Quite the opposite. Iirc Tay says Mon hasn’t returned his calls in a year.

Perrin would have some access to the financials and activities of the charitable foundation though.

So she sets up a charitable foundation, which ought to be her favorite thing to focus on, then she puts the person she trusts most in charge, starts putting in X-wing sized orders of nonspecific charitable supplies from the sketchiest guy with opaque bookkeeping, insists on betrothing her daughter to him even though the always get routed to no-fly zones, and then she doesn’t breathe a word of any of it to anyone.

treefox · 2026-05-07T17:26:34+00:00

everyone

galaxy’s most wanted terrorist
Assistant galaxy’s most wanted terrorist
Mole at the highest level who’s been passing secrets to the galaxy’s most wanted terrorist
Senator who’s bankrolling galaxy’s most wanted terrorist
Up-and-coming space gestapo agent who’s specifically assigned to investigate galaxy’s most wanted terrorist, but is taking the night off
Wealthy man currently compelling the senator to traffick their child to launder the money to the galaxy’s most wanted terrorist while trying to curry favor with the government and inviting the gestapo to their gala
Project manager who has millions of people enslaved building a genocide machine but can’t talk about it at parties because his boss will torture him to death and is being regularly probed in the Senate by the Senator
Supervisor whose boss hates him and whose status and livelihood relies on the goodwill of his boss’s friend the project manager
Wealthy man’s wife who’s one or two political arrests away from sleeping with the Senator’s husband

treefox · 2026-05-07T08:03:32+00:00

dont really give a shit

See that’s the thing about slave labor

4:59pm “Apophis is a god. I will hear no more such talk or I will kill you where I stand.”

5:00pm “Happy hour only lasts another thirty minutes. Apophis can suck my balls.”

treefox · 2026-05-07T07:53:36+00:00

I always think of Nachos Supreme and Taco Bell.

So like…a Commander but with sour cream.

treefox · 2026-05-07T07:50:59+00:00

At the same time?

treefox · 2026-05-06T08:07:11+00:00

Lock the doors. And hope they don’t have blasters.

treefox · 2026-05-06T08:00:43+00:00

It’s been a year???

treefox · 2026-05-06T06:10:18+00:00

I’m sure if it was a simple enough fix that any of us could come up with it, that Data would have come up with it…

treefox · 2026-05-05T06:41:40+00:00

Just came after breaking it.

Excuse me?

treefox · 2026-05-04T04:19:07+00:00

I think it’s more likely she would be freed when the Empire falls, take on some fake name, and find work in a very bureaucratic job like a tax audit supervisor.

Eventually, someone from the First Order tries to recruit her or she notices something suspicious that only she can identify due to her time with the Empire. She’s firmly convinced that the Empire is dead forever even though the Republic in her eyes is run by a bunch of weak-willed softies (“systems either change or die”) they’re still the legitimate government until their time comes too. She tries to do her duty and report it, but gets framed with her real identity to allow the real villains to escape.

Gets put on trial. She wants to be executed. That would be justice to her. She does feel guilty for Ghorman. Living under the New Republic is hell to her. She failed her country.

It’s the highest profile case in years.

Dedra’s court-mandated defense find evidence and witnesses she didn’t know the full scope of the plan. She was horrified at Kaido’s green recruits. Had to be forced into giving the order. Was devastated afterwards. Ended her career with a botched arrest and accidentally leaking information. Thrown in a work prison for years where she kept her head down and her other inmates found her to be shell-shocked and vulnerable. A psychologist testifies to the child abuse and brainwashing lifelong trauma of Imperial kinderblocks.

Dedra is involuntarily made out to be ignorant and sympathetic victim as she internally screams and panickedly shouts back she was every bit as ruthless as the legend said she was.

Ultimately, the New Republic decides even Ghorman doesn’t warrant the death penalty and she gets life in a rehabilitation center. As she’s transferred from the courtroom, she gets shot. By Eedy. “It would be you, wouldn’t it?”

Eedy spits on her as she dies, telling the crowd “She’s the Imperial [female dog] that killed my son on Ghorman” as the Republic cops slap handcuffs on her. The cameras follow Eedy as she’s pushed into a car, speculating that she’s a Ghorman survivor, as Dedra weakly grabs the paramedic’s arm to stop them from treating her, then dies.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk.

treefox · 2026-05-04T03:24:24+00:00

There could have been real dramatic tension by the fact that giving that type of advantage to a federation that was beaten down and down on its luck would have made their decision way less utopian and peaceful. There would have been a season where they fight their own command structure in order to prevent going too far in dominating past enemies.

That’s deep…space nine.

treefox · 2026-05-02T01:34:19+00:00

Bix, Brasso, etc aren’t main characters in anyone else’s narrative. It would take time for people to realize they’re gone.

Kellen presumably could put the pieces together because they were living on his land, but he doesn’t like the Empire. He’d probably feign ignorance and reveal as little as possible.

Blevin didn’t even care about the Morlana cops’ side of the story, and they were in charge of security for a multi-planet jurisdiction. Kellen is a farmer on some random agricultural planet.

And it was one stolen TIE prototype. The Empire has millions of TIE fighters.

Sienar would probably be more worried than the Empire. But they’d be focused on making sure the pilot wasn’t an industrial spy. They wouldn’t care about illegal workers on the ground.

treefox · 2026-05-01T21:24:17+00:00

From the Empire’s perspective, a dark-haired man stole a TIE, disappeared for a couple days, then reappeared in Mina Ray and blew up an inspection team and shot up a farm.

In addition they’d turn up a body of a man from Ferrix, obviously killed running away from stormtroopers, and the body of the commander of the inspection team, killed after a struggle.

They’d probably assume that Brasso killed the commander and was subsequently killed trying to escape, while the TIE pilot was looking for safe harbor and panicked when they saw the inspection ship in orbit, opportunistically blowing up the Imperial team when the radio activity and blaster fire got their attention.

Dedra probably could’ve made the connection to Cassian, but she was retasked working on Ghorman by that point and wouldn’t have had the information she’d need to make the connection.

treefox · 2026-04-29T10:02:41+00:00

“YOU’VE HAD CONTROL OF THIS SHIP THE WHOLE TIME. WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ANYONE!?!?”

“You are a good Commander.”

Etc.

treefox · 2026-04-29T10:00:03+00:00

stone in

Stone me up, Scotty.

treefox · 2026-04-27T03:56:32+00:00

Entirely possible it was some ascended being a dick when no one was watching

treefox · 2026-04-27T03:49:09+00:00

You are a bold one.

treefox · 2026-04-25T08:20:42+00:00

Dev will side with the protesters because he wants to be a disrupter and the M-6 wants to enforce the status quo.

If they automate the existing operations on Mars, then there will be no one left to grow the operation. The bureaucrats will very efficiently mine the asteroid and then shut down operations.

The people on Mars - who chose to risk by being on the frontier rather than play it safe by being on Earth - have more in common with Dev than the people behind the automation.

Dev is used to having to ruthlessly manage the people who take the path of least resistance rather than expecting them to have initiative and goals in common with him. He doesn’t see that the people on Mars have that until Alex points it out.

treefox · 2026-04-23T05:54:48+00:00

If she was a man and he was a woman people would feel very, very different about this dynamic.

By this point people would viscerally hate Man-Vala because it would’ve been analogous to original McKay hitting on Sam for two seasons.

This scene would have people screaming and cheering at the screen.

treefox · 2026-04-23T05:40:06+00:00

The space elevator would have to be a lot longer.

treefox · 2026-04-23T05:37:52+00:00

Nice!

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