Darths and Droids V: Thread IV Was Eaten By Dogs

[ryuplaneswalker]

What a constraint. I smell character development.

I think that smell is coming from Luke's player. If I remember he never played Pen and Paper when he first started.

[Kantaki]

New comic

„He is... unpredictable.”
„Then there's hope.”
Spoken like a true roleplayer.

[stsasser]

Nice! First with the Ewocs and now aboard the Peace Moon II, the cross-talk improv of the NPC's shows the GM really upping his game.

[Kato]

It's quite interesting how different Palpatine seems to be here from the original... I wonder if the final confrontation will also take a very different path? It would seem like they play up to such a thing but it seems like it would be hard to do that.


Also: I wish I could do NPC crosstalk like that but talking to yourself as a GM is just weird.

[Kantaki]

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Okay... I guess Vader isn't that much saner than Palpatine.
But I'm not entirely sure what her little song is trying to tell us.
Is she rejecting the redemption Luke offers? Does she think she isn't redeemable?
And why has the world always hated her? (Okay, she was Jim’s character previously, but it wasn't that bad.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Annie's filking again. This time, it's a song Valjean sings in Les Mis.

[Benthesquid]

Annie's filking again. This time, it's a song Valjean sings in Les Mis.

Specifically the song is "Epiphany," wherein Valjean deals with the fact that someone has, completely against his expectations, offered him kindness and redemption.

It ends well enough for Valjean, although not before an awful lot more of Les Mis (at least the stage and film versions left out the elaborate musical number about the Bishop's household accounts). Although another character gives us a reprise of the song later on, and that ends less well...

[5a Violista]

After reading the comic, I felt bad because I didn't get the tune until the third speech bubble and because it's one of my favorite musicals.
Now I want to listen to Les Mis again. Haven't they already done another song from that musical, or am I misremembering? Great, now I need to go back through the entire archive to find all the musical pages they've done.

[Rogar Demonblud]

There've been two other songs. One an original by Annie she sang at her father's funeral, and then she did a bit of Let It Go during the speeder bike chase.

[Rockphed]

I read an unabridged translation of Les Miserables. I've seen snippets of a movie. Beyond "Can You Hear the People Sing?", I don't think I could pick out a tune in the musical. I could give you a plot summary if I had to, but I would probably forget something.

[aurilee]

After reading the comic, I felt bad because I didn't get the tune until the third speech bubble and because it's one of my favorite musicals.
Now I want to listen to Les Mis again. Haven't they already done another song from that musical, or am I misremembering? Great, now I need to go back through the entire archive to find all the musical pages they've done.

Annie sang a bit of "At the End of the Day" as part of a medley she did with Jim (also includes some Doors and Peter Gabriel/Kate Bush).

EDIT: Reading it again, it's not clear if they're actually singing, or just quoting the lyrics.

[Rogar Demonblud]

It has been noted that Annie has a good singing voice.

Okay, so Corey's future campaign involves 'Big Guns'. My first guess is Guns of Navarone.

[Kantaki]

I kinda agree with Pete. „Big guns” is a great concept for a campaign.
Although I hope, like Sally, that there will be more to it.

Speaking of campaigns and Sally, did we evere work out what her robot-utopia-campaign was?

[aurilee]

I kinda agree with Pete. „Big guns” is a great concept for a campaign.
Although I hope, like Sally, that there will be more to it.

Speaking of campaigns and Sally, did we evere work out what her robot-utopia-campaign was?

Westworld has come up a few times in this thread and on the IWC forums.

So far it seems to be the most well-accepted suggestion.

[Peelee]

So I think there's no more doubt that Pete is a lawyer.

[ThePhantom]

As, its that thing. I thought that was mostly over by now.

[Kantaki]

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I love the expression on the faces of Princess, 3PO and Chewie.
So full of expectation... that inevitably will be shattered by Han.
And of course R2/Pete finishes it in the traditional way.

[hamishspence]

Newest of the 50-comic-interval specials:

Pac-Mans & Power Pellets

[Ibrinar]

I just realized how near the end of the last movie is, kinda weird after following this comic for a long time.

[hamishspence]

Have they said whether they'll do TFA next or what?

[memnarch]

Have they said whether they'll do TFA next or what?

Last I'd heard from sending them an email asking whether they want to have someone do the "Episode VII challenge" (which is experience the movie via the webcomic first with little to no knowledge of the movie) was that they were thinking of waiting for Episodes 8 and 9 to come out first.

[Gez]

The List, updated

Looks like they skipped the one for 1350. Well it still averages to one every 50 since there were two for 300.

1. Harry Potter (50)
2. The Sound of Music (100)
3. X-Men (150)
4. Aliens (200)
5. The Wizard of Oz (250)
6. 300 (300 -- how appropriate)
7. Avatar (300)
8. Terminator (350)
9. Jaws (400)
10. Casablanca (450)
11. The Muppets (500)
12. Inception (550)
13. Pirates of the Caribbean (600)
14. Back to the Future (650)
15. Futurama (700)
16. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (750)
17. Forbidden Planet (800)
18. Ghostbusters (850)
19. Jason and the Argonauts (900)
20. Thunderbirds (950)
21. Indiana Jones (1000)
22. Jurassic Park (1050)
23. Bridget Jones's Diary (1100)
24. David Attenborough's The Life of Mammals (1150)
25. National Lampoon's Vacation (1200)
26. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1250)
27. Apollo 13 (1300)
28. Pac-Man (1400)
    

[Emperor Time]

Thanks for that list since it makes it much easier to read them.

[Rogar Demonblud]

I have to admit I stopped reading them a while ago. The list let's me do a catch up binge, then I forget about for another few hundred strips.

[Porthos]

Have they said whether they'll do TFA next or what?

As of now, they've decided to do Rogue One next, which I think is an excellent idea. And one, incidentially, I've been thinking about for a little while since screencapping TCW would probably be... impractical due to its length.

Their rationale is that they want to wait till they see Ep 8 before they start a meta-plot for THEIR version of Ep 7/8/9 (scroll down about halfway down the thread), which makes sense. RO should be screencappable by March/April of next year, which should be more or less OK for RotJ to finish.

And if they run a filler set of strips? Well, won't be the first time.

[memnarch]

Hah, that's certainly not something anyone could have guessed coming I think.

[ObadiahtheSlim]

Hah, that's certainly not something anyone could have guessed coming I think.

So who do you think it is?

[Lvl 2 Expert]

So who do you think it is?

A group of Pilots from Naboo? Sand people driven from their homes after they got too violent? The actual last remnants of the Trade Federation who brought the Ewoks their religion? Surviving jedi? Some vague elite home guard regiment of wookies mentioned by Sally ones just before the giant battle scene that got hold of some really good razors?

[Rogar Demonblud]

I can be a lot more specific in my guess. I wonder if they brought more blue milk.

[Keltest]

I can be a lot more specific in my guess. I wonder if they brought more blue milk.

It would be a bit late for that at this point methinks, but you never know. Regardless, I'm intrigued.