I just don't care. I never wanted or saw the need for a Han Solo movie. Unless you're going to recast and remake the OT, it feels unnecessary to recast Han and Lando. The Last Jedi was so terrible it killed my interest in Episode 9 and what little curiosity I had for Solo too. I also greatly prefer the AC Crispin and Daley Solo Trilogies. I love those 6 books. The trailers for the Solo movie have been mediocre at best. ---------- Of course I don't begrudge anyone who is anticipating the movie.

Your comment is factually incorrect. Ellen Ripley from the Alien franchise is one of the coolest, toughest, and most beloved females in Sci-Fi films. When you break down the demographics for the Alien franchise the majority of its fans are male. Sarah Connor from Terminator is held in the same regard. Again, mostly male fans. Wonder Woman was just released and made over 800 million world wide. Comic book movies are a mostly male demographic. Samus Aran from Metroid? Lara Croft from Tomb Raider? Gamers are mostly male. Captain Janeway from Star Trek Voyager? The lead of the tv series? The vast majority of Star Trek's audience are males. Princess Leia from the original Trilogy, comics, and the expanded universe? Star Wars is predominately made up of male fans. Even the demographics for the Last Jedi prove this yet again. Mara Jade is a huge fan favorite. Again the large majority of Star Wars fans reading the comics, buying the books, buying the action figures are all male. I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing with the original post, but the idea that men don't like strong women in fiction is statistically and factually incorrect when the majority of fans for Sci-Fi, horror, and comic books are males and they determine whether these particular properties are successful. The numbers and continued success of these female characters directly contradicts your version of reality. I could go on and list even more strong females that are adored by male fans if you like.

This is a gorgeous looking flashpoint, but I have a few criticisms. For the SOLO Mode version I played yesterday on my jugg tank: 1. The amount of trash wouldn't be a problem but the amount of CCs/Flashbangs/Immunities they have makes killing them a chore. If I'm not having fun killing enemies on a SITH, JEDI, and BOUNTY HUNTER you've seriously failed at game design. I shouldn't dread having to kill mobs when I have a lightsaber. That needs to be fixed. 2. WAY TOO MUCH BOSS HEALTH - For a solo mode flashpoint the enemies generally have about 50% too much health in my opinion. Tweak these two things and I think you'd have a winner on your hands. ------------------------ And for anyone trying to use the analytic, mathematical, number model argument - you fail. I don't need any of that to tell me I didn't have FUN running that SOLO Mode Flashpoint yesterday, and I don't think I'm the only one. The "Fun Factor" trumps everything else in a video game.

When there's more information and the direction it's going to head is announced, we'll get excited. Right now there's nothing to talk about.

Duh. That's exactly what I posted above...so why are you quoting me?

I love Redletter media, but I disagree. I always come back to one of my favorite Star Wars books Tales From Jabba's Palace. It's a book of short stories with no force users. I love the weird aliens and creatures of Star Wars more than the Force stuff. There are lots of great stories to be told in animation, comics, and movies that have nothing to do with Jedi and Sith.

So you want us to grind CXP and then you nerf one of the best ways to grind CXP? Okay...makes sense...I guess?

Selling a much wanted item directly is a good thing. I personally find the cost to be a bit too pricey for what I'd be willing to pay (I'm personally not interested in this item anyway), so I'm curious what the end result will be. I'm happy for those fans who can get this if they want it.

Considering Disney hasn't made any Star Wars movies or televisions stories yet, I'd say no. Disney buys successful companies and as long as they remain successful Disney adopts a hands off policy. Disney owns Pixar - Pixar makes their movies, not Disney. Disney owns Marvel - Marvel is making their movies, not Disney. Disney owns Miramax, Dimension Films, Touchstone, etc. They each make their own movies. Disney owns Lucasfilm - Lucasfilm is making all the Star Wars movies and television series, not Disney. The decision to wipe the expanded universe was made by the Lucasfilm story group and Kathleen Kennedy. Disney had nothing to do with it. Disney didn't make The Force Awakens or Rogue One. They didn't write them, cast them, or come up with the ideas for them. Lucasfilm is the same company that made the original trilogy and prequel trilogy. It's still the same company and people minus George Lucas. Blaming Disney is incorrect and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the Star Wars property. If you don't like the new stories, blame Pablo Hildago, Dave Filoni, Kathleen Kennedy, Simon Kinberg, and Lucasfilm. If you're blaming Disney, you're blaming the wrong company. You people need to educate yourselves and wise up if you're going to complain.

No. I find the prequels to be fairly incompetently made movies from an acting, writing, and editing perspective. The originals are actually good movies. [Note: I don't hate the prequels, I just find them to be bad movies.]

Technically it's George Lucas/Old canon. All the lightsaber Kyber crystal stuff from the Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels was from George Lucas' original ideas. Filoni and crew have just been implementing them. I believe it was mentioned in one of the Rebel Recons. It's also been brought up in interviews recently that Kyber crystals might be playing a part in Rogue One as well due to the Death Star and the jedi planet Jeddha. I personally prefer the old expanded universe version, but the discussion of the current lightsaber crystals is being incorrectly attributed to Disney and the new Lucasfilm management, but it's based on George Lucas' original ideas according to them.

I've never really ranked the SW novels, but Outbound Flight is probably my favorite top two or three? Purely for the sheer amount of Thrawn we get. I'd definitely throw Shadow of the Empire, the Thrawn in Trilogy, Tales from Jabba's Palace, Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina, Darth Plaguies, and Path of Destruction in there as my top favorites. Particularly Tales from Jabba's Palace. Man, I love the cover to that book. It just invites you to read it.

It's Kenobi. The twin suns is obviously Tatooine, the key to defeating the Sith refers to Luke, and Dave Filoni loves to bring back voice actors he's worked with in the past; and this gives him the opportunity to bring back James Arnold Taylor as Obi Wan. Seeing as how he's already gotten Matt Lanter and Ashley Eckstein, I don't see how he can pass up an opportunity. Aside from that, within some circles there's this obsession with bringing back Obi Wan and this would be one of the better ways to do it. Assuming we get a confrontation, and assuming it takes place on Tatooine, it calls back to the original "Old Wounds" comic where Maul fought Obi Wan in a rematch. I'm curious where this would lead, because the one thing I have zero interest in is seeing Maul vs Obi Wan again for the third time? Fourth time? The Maul/Obi Wan story was essentially done when Kenobi refused to give in to hate and depair and continue his feud with Maul after the murder of Sabine. If they're going to have another confrontation I'd prefer it be a philosophical one and not a physical one, but this a cartoon for children...so probably another fight. We'll see. I'm looking forward to where Maul goes from here.

Outbound Flight is one of my top 5 favorite SW novels. You learn some about Thrawn in that novel, but not as much as we do about Maul over the course of TCW and Rebels. Thrawn is a chiss, he has a brother, they don't get along - but we don't get a lot of details. We get enough to satisfy us though. We learn some about the Chiss empire and political structure, but not a lot about Thrawn himself necessarily - other than his belief in preemptive strikes against an enemy. Thrawn gets some backstory filled in, which I love, but we don't get a lot of development or character evolution for him - which I like. Thrawn is a fully developed person and character. Maul due to his situation and the two animated series that span 20 years has actually grown and adapted as a character and his motivations have changed somewhat. We know from Filoni and Witwer the Rebels Maul is still craving power and dominance, but he knows it's not going to be an empire. He's aged and he's looking at a legacy now. I personally find it interesting to see how Maul has evolved over the course of 30 some years from the TPM, TCW, and now Rebels. But that's me, and I understand it's not everybody's cup of tea.

I tend to agree that he'll probably not make it out of Rebels. If that's their plan, I want him to die fighting Darth Vader. That way the prophecy is kept intact of the Chosen One destroying the Sith (Vader took out Palpatine and Dooku).