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  1. The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite movie, and my favorite on-screen Star Wars, overall. (Controversial, I know ) The Clone Wars is my favorite show. (The Mandalorian was closing in on it for a while, but the last four episodes of TCW were fantastic and re-secured its place as my favorite.)
  2. But Marvel pretty much was the EU for the first decade of "the original Star Wars". (Along with Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the Holiday Special, and the Droid and Ewoks cartoons.)
  3. I don't believe there are non-Nite Owl female Mandos shown in The Clone Wars, but "The Armorer" on The Mandalorian has the same visor design (with respect to her eyes / visor), and she has no known affiliation with the Nite Owls. Sabine Wren, from Rebels, does as well, although in her case it could still be attributed to clan affiliation -- although she personally was not a Nite Owl, her mother was a member and Sabine's helmet design is generally evocative of an owl. Various unidentified female Mandalorians allied with Clan Wren (clearly using cut-and-paste character designs for larger battles), but again not explicitly identified as Nite Owls, were the same.
  4. Other than Revan, I don't think any of the characters actually present in the plot of SWTOR have gotten a nod in Canon yet, but two who are referenced through armor and/or codex entry, Darth Andeddu and Exar Kun, have gotten Easter Egg references in the Canon: The Sith Eternal's Fifth Legion is the Andeddu Legion (just like the Third Legion is the Revan Legion), and some RPG supplement / behind-the-scenes material also references Exar Kun. Obviously these references in the Canon don't mean that anything about the characters' stories, personalities, etc. are necessarily going to carry over to a Canon counterpart, and they may never expand beyond the current obscure references.
  5. This was certainly my least favorite of the Sequel Trilogy. I'd probably rank it a bit below RotS and well below any of the OT and Rogue One, but still above AotC, TCW (theatrical movie, not the series as a whole), and TPM, and probably about even with Solo. Without getting into spoilers, the first half or so just felt like a jumbled mess where they were ticking off plot points without quite bothering to tell an organic story to string them together or justify the characters' behaviors / attitudes most of the time. The second half was better than the first, but still had some problems with both characters and plot that kept it from fully recovering, IMO. It was still fun, often exciting, well-acted, emotionally resonate, and beautiful both in terms of effects and cinematography, and I was ultimately satisfied with how it resolved "the Skywalker Saga," but grading on the curve of Star Wars films, it didn't really measure up for me. Getting into spoilers: Number of other random observations: So, overall, I didn't love it -- especially relative to the bar set by the other Sequels -- but it also wasn't my least favorite Star Wars movie, and I thought it had a number of solid elements to it.
  6. /disagree I've enjoyed the New Canon's updated "takes" on many Legends / old EU characters, locations, etc., such as Thrawn, TIE Defenders, Death Watch, Ilum, and so on. I think this game introducing a Legends-continuity take on some of the new content from the Canon is an excellent opportunity to put a potentially interesting spin on those elements. I'd love to see a Legends iteration of something like Ardennians, Tarre Vizsla, or Bracca.
  7. Random musings: So I always rolled my eyes ( / crossed my fingers that they wouldn't go that route) at all the "Rey is gonna be Luke's daughter", "Finn is gonna be Lando's son", etc. theories that were knocking around before TFA released -- but with the Mandalorian, I wonder if LucasFilms might actually pull the trigger on something like that. I could see them doing a "bounty hunting is the family business" twist and have Temuera Morrison show up in the last episode of the season as the Mandalorian's father as the hook for S2.
  8. I'm not particularly disappointed in the decision to have a set character (including species, gender, etc.) for the player character, as it makes sense with the "everything is canon" approach going on now. It was, for example, rather awkward the way stories had to contort to keep Revan's gender and appearance ambiguous before they finally bit the bullet and set them both within the G-Canon (and up to the end still dodge the question of what his name was before becoming "the Revanchist"). I didn't have a problem with Iden Versio, with all her defined characteristic, as the set main character of Battlefront II, either. What does dampen my enthusiasm a bit, however, are the choices they made for what that set main character (and the principle antagonist) is going to be in Fallen Order. Cal Kestis and Second Sister just ... well, they just look like about the most generic hero and villain I've seen in a while. At least Second Sister seems to move in a halfway interesting manner, so it's possible the virtual performance of the character will make her stand out and come across as interesting. I'm afraid I haven't seen anything that gives me much real hope in terms of how interesting Cal is going to be.
  9. It's been reported that (at least one of) Lucas's plans for a sequel trilogy at the time of the sale was that they "were going to get into a microbiotic world. But there's this world of creatures that operate differently than we do. I call them the Whills. And the Whills are the ones who actually control the universe. They feed off the Force. If I'd held onto the company I could have done it, and then it would have been done." If that's even remotely true, then I have to say I'm pretty glad that Kennedy/LucasFilms/Disney/Whoever ended up going in a very different direction -- even if Lucas did feel "disappointed" or even "betrayed" by the move.
  10. Okay, I think I follow -- you're saying she's not an example of a 'typical' Mandalorian, so looking at her doesn't give the audience a real sense of what it means to be Mandalorian? She's not simply an archetypal Mando. I agree with that, there's a lot more to the character than her being an answer to "What are Mandalorians like?". I also agree that we haven't gotten a 'clean' in-depth view of what Mando culture is like in the new Canon, the way it was laid out in some of the Legends novels, but I think a pretty robust picture can be pieced together between the Deathwatch stuff in the Clone Wars and the Mandalorian Protector and Clan Wren stuff in Rebels Seasons 2 through 4.
  11. How is Sabine not a Mandalorian? She's a member of Clan Wren, part of House Vizsla, grew up on Mandalore, and was trained by Mandalorian Protector Fenn Rau (in addition to whatever Mando training she received prior to or concurrent with her Imperial Academy training). On the topic of the trailer itself -- I think it looks great and I'm very excited for this series. The production value alone looks amazing for a series, the trailer looks like it could be showing scenes from a AAA movie. Plus it looks like they've got a lot of fantastic talent involved both on screen (Carl Weathers, Giancarlo Esposito, Werner Herzog) and behind the scenes (Dave Filoni, Jon Favreau, Taika Waititi (who is directing at least one episode in addition to playing IG-11)).
  12. I think that's very unlikely. I just don't see JJ coloring that far outside the lines, particularly after there was a vocal backlash about the risks TLJ took (and given how, just from the previews it looks like JJ might be walking even those risks back -- repairing Kylo Ren's mask and the Skywalker lightsaber seem like pretty big thematic signs in that regard). The possibility might have been introduced into the SW universe in Rebels, but I can't see them going down that path for "the end of the Skywalker Saga".
  13. At this point, I'm not sure we should be expecting any sort of deep-dive into Mandalorian culture. The series looks to have a strong Western vibe, so I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be a 'Man With No Name' sort of situation / trope, where the main character is simply widely known (maybe even only known, even to close allies and the audience) as "The Mandalorian" as part of his mystique / notoriety -- the way, for example, the main character in the Western-influenced El Mariachi / Desperado / Once Upon A Time In Mexico trilogy is only known as "El Mariachi". Heck, it may end up being the case that he's not even a "real" Mandalorian, but is just known as that because he uses Mando armor and weapons.
  14. Resistance didn't really grab me right at the start (though to be fair I didn't find some of the first few episodes of Rebels or Clone Wars that great, either) but Season One ended really strong IMHO. I'm looking forward to this, but kind of disappointed Season Two is going to be the last for the show -- I hope that means they've plotted out a tight, self-contained story. The action in the trailer looks great, Tam's situation is intriguing, I'm looking forward to seeing the new dynamic with the Pirates, and I love how -- like Rebels -- it looks like they're really expanding beyond the single world where S1 was focused to start exploring the galaxy and the wider conflict with the First Order.
  15. Overall, I still prefer Legends, but the new Canon is closing the gap all the time, IMO. For me, it comes down to this: so far, Canon has consistently put out higher quality works, where they've ranged from great (TLJ, Lost Stars, Doctor Aphra) to, at their worst, merely mediocre or forgettable (Heir to the Jedi, Rebel Rising, Resistance). Legends, on the other hand, had a number of great works, too, but also its fair share of outright bad ones, so the average quality was lower. The reason I still prefer Legends is that over the decades of books, comics, and games in that continuity, the accumulated weight of stuff that I liked / loved built up to a level that the Canon hasn't reached (at least, not yet). The average quality among Canon works is higher, but the sum total of good stuff in Legends is still greater right now. I just sincerely wish they had continued the Legends continuity as an 'alternate universe,' using that imprint to distinguish between the two continuities (something like the old "Ultimate" Marvel line).
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