Random Star Wars Thoughts

[Darth Tepes]

For me it's Star Wars, Marvel/DC, and Middle-Earth (though the last has kinda faded because of how long it's been since I read the books).

  I got Marvel/DC too..... Honestly its a source of pride and shame on how much useless shell I know lol   If only I had put that effort into other areas of my life.

[Darth Logos]

  I got Marvel/DC too..... Honestly its a source of pride and shame on how much useless shell I know lol   If only I had put that effort into other areas of my life.

I used to be incredibly versed in Gundam lore.

[Darth Tepes]

I used to be incredibly versed in Gundam lore.

Never got into Gundam...not a huge "Mech" guy.  Voltron, Zyurangers and Pacific Rim is about it.

[Darth Logos]

Never got into Gundam...not a huge "Mech" guy.  Voltron, Zyurangers and Pacific Rim is about it.

Gundam spoke to me because the machines, for the most part, were realistically designed. So I got a tech-boner from watching it and trying to figure out how to design one.

The same mentality is why I loved SW for so long......at least until KK's regime #$%&ed it all to hell.

[Darth Tepes]

Gundam spoke to me because the machines, for the most part, were realistically designed. So I got a tech-boner from watching it and trying to figure out how to design one.

The same mentality is why I loved SW for so long......at least until KK's regime #$%&ed it all to hell.

Similar but opposite for me.  I prefer Magic and Melee to tech.  Honestly if Star Wars didn't have The Jedi and Sith it would hold little to no interest for me.  It's why I prefer the more mystical approach to the Lightsabers..even if I'm not 100% on how they did it.   One of the things I like most about The Dragon Prince is they have whats basically lightsabers...but pure magic based.

[Darth Logos]

Similar but opposite for me.  I prefer Magic and Melee to tech.  Honestly if Star Wars didn't have The Jedi and Sith it would hold little to no interest for me.  It's why I prefer the more mystical approach to the Lightsabers..even if I'm not 100% on how they did it.   One of the things I like most about The Dragon Prince is they have whats basically lightsabers...but pure magic based.

But as I said before, for me, the Force was enough. It didn't have a set of rules or rituals that had to be just right to perform some feat. One merely had to have a connection and a clarity of vision to manifest the reality. It's my opinion that things like comics and TV, things that had to have flare and not solid story in order to sell on a regular basis, that ultimately led to people thinking that all this fluff was necessary. Like the whole crystal bleeding to "demonstrate one's devotion to the darkside". You really think the Force cares what color your saber is, or that you even use a saber, or what "side" you affiliate with? The Force is the Force. There is no light and dark side, there is power and how one chooses to use it that determines good and evil. I don't care what George says. The realm of his story has grown far beyond the limits of his initial vision, and taken on a life of its own, through the minds of the fanbase.

[DarthRondoudou]

Never got into Gundam...not a huge "Mech" guy.  Voltron, Zyurangers and Pacific Rim is about it.

I love you.

[Darth Tepes]

But as I said before, for me, the Force was enough. It didn't have a set of rules or rituals that had to be just right to perform some feat. One merely had to have a connection and a clarity of vision to manifest the reality. It's my opinion that things like comics and TV, things that had to have flare and not solid story in order to sell on a regular basis, that ultimately led to people thinking that all this fluff was necessary. Like the whole crystal bleeding to "demonstrate one's devotion to the darkside". You really think the Force cares what color your saber is, or that you even use a saber, or what "side" you affiliate with? The Force is the Force. There is no light and dark side, there is power and how one chooses to use it that determines good and evil. I don't care what George says. The realm of his story has grown far beyond the limits of his initial vision, and taken on a life of its own, through the minds of the fanbase.

The bleeding is the main part I'm not 100% on.  As far as the fluff I agree...but when you think to RL Religions and Martial Arts they are always full of Ceremonies and the like that may have a basis in something but isn't really necessary.  The Jedi and Sith I wouldn't think would be much different.

I love you.

LoL ... Fellow Sentai fan eh?

[Saso Is-kor]

I don't care what George says.

*Ahem*...that's heresy. 

[Darth Tepes]

*Ahem*...that's heresy. 

Uncle George allowed a bunch of highly talented writers to play in his sandbox and some of them built amazing works that took his creation into new heights.  His vision of how The Force works is why Revan and Bane (EU Version)  did not show up in The Clone Wars.

[Saso Is-kor]

Uncle George allowed a bunch of highly talented writers to play in his sandbox and some of them built amazing works that took his creation into new heights.  His vision of how The Force works is why Revan and Bane (EU Version)  did not show up in The Clone Wars.

I'm a little confused, why would Revan or the EU version of Bane be in the Clone Wars in the first place? I mean you're talking about Clone Wars the show, right?

[Darth Logos]

*Ahem*...that's heresy. 

*Double AHEM* If Georgie wanted to control that universe, then he should have pulled a Tolkien and been the sole writer. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut, he didn't.

I'm a little confused, why would Revan or the EU version of Bane be in the Clone Wars in the first place? I mean you're talking about Clone Wars the show, right?

Funny enough story, after my second viewing of the end of S6, I was not as displeased with Darth Bane as in my initial viewing. Not one thing he told Yoda differed from the EU story. This made it easier for me to swallow that what Yoda saw was an interpretation of Bane's spirit through the Force; which I won't argue, Bane was a terror.

[DarthRondoudou]

The bleeding is the main part I'm not 100% on.  As far as the fluff I agree...but when you think to RL Religions and Martial Arts they are always full of Ceremonies and the like that may have a basis in something but isn't really necessary.  The Jedi and Sith I wouldn't think would be much different.


LoL ... Fellow Sentai fan eh?

I am x)
Love Jetman and Zyuranger (and Liveman). Though I first saw Zyuranger as power rangers... Had to wash my eyes with bleach after learning what they did with saber tooth tiger persona... xD

[Darth Logos]

The bleeding is the main part I'm not 100% on.  As far as the fluff I agree...but when you think to RL Religions and Martial Arts they are always full of Ceremonies and the like that may have a basis in something but isn't really necessary.  The Jedi and Sith I wouldn't think would be much different.

Missed this eariler.

I fully understand that "ritual" can help focus the mind, but I don't hold to the mysticism. Like the "majicks" of the Nightsisters, it is just the Force. Superstition and ignorance in the society have built the belief that it's magic.

However, I will concede that some rituals actually DO have purpose. Case in point: creating a Sith sword. (Been watching a lot of Supernatural lately.) It is my belief that an enemies spilled blood would in fact be imbued with a touch of the dark side from their feelings of animosity toward you. Focusing your own mind on the dark side bolstered by the dark side within the blood would therefore enhance the Force properties of the blade.



This, of course, isn't totally necessary, but it does make the ends easier to produce. Vodo Siosk Baas (Exar Kun's Jedi master) preferred to use a Force imbued staff to fight with instead of a saber. Not clear on how he did it, as from what I have read, Jedi may be big on rites and ceremonies, but not too much so on ritual.

[Saso Is-kor]

Funny enough story, after my second viewing of the end of S6, I was not as displeased with Darth Bane as in my initial viewing. Not one thing he told Yoda differed from the EU story. This made it easier for me to swallow that what Yoda saw was an interpretation of Bane's spirit through the Force; which I won't argue, Bane was a terror.

Yeah I liked that too, wish we had more to Bane in Canon than just that little tidbit, especially considering the EU book trilogy was so bloody fantastic, but I'll take it... for now.