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Yesterday, 02:42 PMNo. Obi-Wan is on the Council and holds the rank of master. Obi-Wan was placed on the Council immediately following AotC. He replaced Coleman...433 replies | 15426 view(s)
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2024-04-18, 05:17 PMBy the end of the Clone Wars Palpatine had been in office for years beyond legally mandated term limits under the guise of a 'galactic emergency.' He...433 replies | 15426 view(s)
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2024-04-17, 09:41 PMAnyone who serves in a leadership role needs to know their subordinates and to assign them positions and tasks that are appropriate to their skill...433 replies | 15426 view(s)
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2024-04-17, 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...433 replies | 15426 view(s)
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2024-04-17, 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...433 replies | 15426 view(s)
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2024-04-16, 08:00 PMExactly, fictional narratives are biased towards statistical outliers, whether those are events, characters, or really any other element. A really...433 replies | 15426 view(s)
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2024-04-16, 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...433 replies | 15426 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,...433 replies | 15426 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...433 replies | 15426 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...433 replies | 15426 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...1336 replies | 118033 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...433 replies | 15426 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...433 replies | 15426 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...836 replies | 96568 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...615 replies | 15653 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...433 replies | 15426 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...433 replies | 15426 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...433 replies | 15426 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...70 replies | 2573 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...433 replies | 15426 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...433 replies | 15426 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...433 replies | 15426 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...433 replies | 15426 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...433 replies | 15426 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...433 replies | 15426 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,...433 replies | 15426 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...1508 replies | 149724 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...433 replies | 15426 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...433 replies | 15426 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...433 replies | 15426 view(s)
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