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Today, 07:55 PMThere's a very bad tendency in Star Wars media to make Jedi characters Jedi Masters rather than Jedi Knights to make them seem important. This is...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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Today, 05:42 PMBroadly I agree, and there's the additional and highly salient point that the Jedi Council is obligated to push back against Palpatine attempting to...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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Yesterday, 08:00 PMExactly, fictional narratives are biased towards statistical outliers, whether those are events, characters, or really any other element. A really...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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Yesterday, 06:56 PM'Abducts' is inaccurate and pejorative. Children who become Jedi Initiates are not illegally taken from their parents by force. They are willingly...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-15, 10:38 PMThey should have divided their efforts, which, based on what we know, would actually have been more effective. The Jedi are, with few exceptions,...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-15, 08:25 PMThey can lose less badly. If the Jedi refuse leadership of the Clone Army, it still fights - it's far too large to conceal once brought off Kamino...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-15, 06:47 PMThe Jedi Order created an exception to the rules in choosing to train Anakin. Their failure, following this, was not recognizing that he would need...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-15, 04:51 PMConsidering how dangerous Thotep 'a simple vozzler' manages to be, and how the Dreen seem to be similar high-dimensional entities only with a...1333 replies | 117364 view(s)
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2024-04-15, 04:41 PMThe Republic has no army. More than that, it specifically has a law forbidding it from having an army. The opening scene in AotC is of Padme arriving...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-14, 09:49 PMI only got as far as Light of the Jedi (the first book) when it came to the High Republic, but it was very, very clear from the start that the people...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-13, 06:02 AMWar of the Worlds does operate with the conceit that the aliens are from Mars, making it an interplanetary rather than interstellar war, and...834 replies | 96267 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 06:44 AMMechalich replied to a thread Stormcloaks Or Empire (One Of The Three Certainties Of Life) in Gaming (Other)Okay, but by that standard the Empire has no leash on anyone operating in their territory. Skyrim is absolutely bursting will all kinds of hostile...563 replies | 14421 view(s)
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2024-04-11, 03:42 AMIt's not that they don't, it's that they can't. Sith philosophy doesn't exist in a vacuum, it's a framework for how they relate to the Force. In Star...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-10, 07:21 PMThe Force Ghosts do! Jedi who are sufficiently in tune with the code transcend death and achieve oneness with the Force. The Jedi Order is a...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-09, 10:42 PMTPM is quite clear that things have gotten bad, like really bad. The Trade Federation not only openly blockades Naboo, when the Jedi arrive on a...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-09, 06:20 PMIn my experience phrases like 'the end of science' or 'the end of discovery' are generally thrown around only with regard to particle and quantum...69 replies | 2426 view(s)
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2024-04-09, 06:06 PMIf you extend from this, it pushes a lot of fault onto Qui-Gon. By the time Anakin arrives on Coruscant, the Council is in a huge bind. Anakin is...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-08, 08:12 PMOrganizations that have rules enforcing celibacy/chastity often have really huge problems addressing them because it's hard to handle something that...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-07, 04:28 PMTarkin was, arguably, highest ranked official with any degree of operational independence in the Empire - various imperial advisors like Sate...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-07, 02:19 PMMas Amedda probably could in the event of Palpatine's death, execute Order 66. The likelihood that he would do so, however, is very low. Amedda is a...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-06, 11:15 PMIf the Jedi stay alive, they will save the Republic, period. You are absolutely correct that, from a logical, balance-of-power perspective that...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-06, 09:21 PMHe's almost won at that point, though it's an extension of the wins he's been accruing since before TPM. However, the way the Force influences...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-05, 05:22 PMThere's something of a disconnect in the franchise. The PT-Era Jedi Order is absolutely the worst iteration of the Jedi Order. It's as flawed,...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-04-05, 02:50 AMMechalich replied to a thread Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here in WebcomicsReading someone's dissertation - which is what Clinton says he did - would be kind of creepy, mostly because a dissertation averages 250-300 pages in...1502 replies | 148821 view(s)
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2024-04-01, 09:07 PMIt's not unclear in the slightest, it's just economic and political and therefore cannot be explained on this forum. Suffice it to say that even...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-03-29, 09:58 PMThe point I was making is that Godzilla Minus One is a very bad example of trying to do things cheaper in Hollywood, since it's not a Hollywood...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-03-29, 06:01 PMGodzilla Minus One was made in Japan by a Japanese studio. There are various economic and labor reasons why it was possible to make that film as...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-03-28, 04:20 PMCaptain America: The Winter Soldier, cost $170 million dollars to make (in 2014 money, so around $220 million now). The most recent MI movie, Dead...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-03-26, 07:53 PMThere are actually quite a few smaller and more personal Jedi stories, though you do have to calibrate 'small' to at least mid-level supers. Even I,...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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2024-03-25, 04:34 PMFiloni is the most familiar of with Legends of the various TV writers, but relentless plundering of Legends is common throughout other Disney canon...368 replies | 13423 view(s)
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