So was Revenge of the Sith

More like Attack of the Clones, who knew Padme had a fetish for boys who supported tyranny, kill innocent people including children and is vengeful.

I hate sand. It's coarse and irritating and it gets everywhere.

Shhhhh. *Whispers* We don't talk about Twilight

Yup. That's the first two rules of Twilight Club.

AND what's wrong with the Twilight Club .

Do you really want me to answer that question?

A grave betrayal has happened here...because a person here posted a link to a certain YouTube video about Yoda singing about seagulls. I've been haunted by that song so much that I broke down and bought that song from Amazon digital music and now its on my cell phone and laptop in my MP3 player taunting and laughing at me .

Younglings is one thing but those dirty Tusken Raiders had it coming! They tortured and kllled his mother!

Lol, apparently there is a right way and a wrong way to kill for revenge

Battlefront II story mode clip!

Wow. The graphics looks great! The story, however, was leaked. Parts of it anyway. Not too excited about that.

https://youtu.be/U5T5dC24U6A

I finished reading Phasma last week. It was good. But it was a little odd in that the titular character was not a pov character. While the book is about her, it is told from the points of view of several other characters around her. It tells her story, but at the same time keeps an air of mystery around her. I have always imagined that if I were to ever write a Persephone story, I would do it the same way.

It is good. There is lots of star wars action. But as fits a villain, it is pretty dark and grim. Most of the story is set on a world dying from a nuclear disaster, and abandoned by the corporation that had colonized it. Life is hard, and fleeting, and with fewer and fewer children being born (and later surviving to adulthood), the few people left can smell their own extinction.

In comes Brendol Hux of the First Order, and Phasma basically uses him to escape the planet and gain a new life by joining the First Order. Then afterward she started covering up her past, by killing everyone who knew where she came. Again, maintaining her mystique.

She comes across as a utterly ruthless and entirely self-centered individual. She clearly does not believe in the First Order's ideology. She is just there for her own personal gain. This jives with why she was willing to shut off Starkiller Base's planetary shield. In the end, she is all about herself.

But I was disappointed. Not by the book, but rather by the movie. In the book she is a warrior, which one would expect in the film. But she does not even put a fight in the movie. I think that was a mistake, as it makes the character so much less menacing.

Hopefully in the new film she'll have more action. I've read the reviews of Phasma. I might pick it up later.

Honestly, Khajiit is somewhat surprised she took part in as much action as she did. She's not just some common stormtrooper officer, after all. She's the commander of all of the First Order's stormtrooper forces. That's a pretty big deal. Definitely not someone Khajiit would want enemy forces taking potshots at if he was Supreme Leader.

I finished reading Leia: Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray today. It was really good. It does not have space battles or gunfights or super Star Wars action in it. But there are some action moments. Its focus is on characterization, specifically on 16 year old Leia taking her first real steps into adulthood, and into the Rebellion.

It adds a wonderful amount of much needed color on Alderaan and its culture and customs. It feels like a much more real place now. For example, elaborate braids are part of Alderaanean culture. One style is even intended to help wear the crown. The book begins with Leia performing an official ceremony that all heirs must undergo, in which she sets 3 challenges for herself to perform in order to prove herself worthy of being an heir. A challenge of the body, heart, and mind. For her challenges Leia vows to climb Mount Appenza on Alderaan, to join the Apprentice Legislature (sort of a junior Senate), and to perform the Mercy Missions of humanitarian aid Darth Vader referred to in A New Hope.

One thing that is really well done is that Leia's family life is not as happy as one might think. In fact, it is under great stress throughout the book. Not only her father, but her mother Queen Breha get a lot of attention besides her. Neither of them wanted Leia in the Rebellion, and in fact hid their own involvement in it from her. Instead Leia has to fight to earn their trust and her place within the Rebel ranks. Really the entire book is her struggle to not only prove herself, but also to overcome her parent's natural desire to shelter her from harm.

It is not easy. Leia makes mistakes, that don't look like such until after the fact. She is far from perfect, even though she of course tries to be. It is clear that her life has never truly been her own. She lives to serve Alderaan, and the galaxy at large.

One new character that really stood out (besides Queen Breha of course) is Amilyn Holdo. She was very fun. She reminded me a lot of Looney Luna from Harry Potter. She is a wacko. Her head tends to be in the sky most of the time. But she sees to the heart of things. She is going to be played by Laura Dern in The Last Jedi, which I am greatly looking forward to.

The author also did a nice job of tying things into the rest of the Star Wars universe, with plenty of links to other characters and places. Some from her previous books, some from others'. The worlds of Pamarthe and Birren from Bloodlines are featured. Chief Panaka from the prequels makes an appearance as the Imperial governor of Naboo. Tarkin is the most visible big bad, and in fact in this book we see how they first meet. There is also a reference to white uniformed Imperial who is undoubtedly Director Krennic. At one point Leia was trying to hire a ship for a discreet mission (avoiding Imperial entanglements), and she narrowly missed a "YT-model ship that had looked promisingly run-down and probably in need of money for repairs, but it took off before she could even reach it."

Finally, it ends with an ominous note:

My parents, Leia thought. My friends. My world.

These are the things the Empire can never take away.

Bought my last Star Wars ship The Ski Speeder. Kinda looks like modified B-Wing.

Oh how wrong she was! Sounds like a fun read.


Lol, it does look like a B-wing. Weird.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was. One thing I've learned about the Star Wars Universe is people finding parts of destroyed starfighters and making new ships out of them.

OMG!! Anyone saw the new trailer?? It looks so, so good!

I know it could be editing but that last scene!!

Could Rey and Kylo. . . Join forces?

Perhaps Rey experiences both extreme sides of the Force, the light and the dark, to bring true balance?

Woooow!!!

Kylo is so awesome!

Khajiit is going to have to look it up on You of tube tomorrow.

*Update*
Just saw it. Hmmm, Khajiit is not sure Rey was actually talking to Kylo when she said that. It could've been taken out of context.

It looks like they've edited for dramatic effect to me. Not sure what it is that's falling behind Kylo in the next shot, but there's no sign of it when we see Rey. I'm guessing she' talking to Luke there, trying to get him to teach her.

Gotta say though, nothing in that trailer that particularly interest me. Had to roll my eyes at Luke's comment about raw strength, more escalation, what a surprise.

I started reading From A Certain Point of View today. 40 short stories. All seem to take place during A New Hope. The characters are all the 'little' people you see all around the film. From Captain Antillies, the stormtrooper who stunned Leia, the guy who didn't shoot down the escape pod with Artoo and Threepio, one of the Tusken's who knocked out Luke, Aunt Beru, and so on. So far so good.

I saw the new trailer---I can't wait to see the new movie. How about we celebrate with the last film The Force Awakens .

My favorite part of the trailer is seeing Finn fight Captain Phasma with a Stormtrooper riot baton. Hopefully he'll have a stronger showing than in Episode 7, now he's got a weapon he's presumably been trained for years to use. Plus after his repeated misfortunes in the previous film, the poor guy needs to win a fight for once.

Lol, agreed! Dude was trounced hard in Ep.7.

Its a finger puppet.

SOLO

Directed by Ron Howard.

A behind the scenes pic

Woooo!!

That's not a behind the scenes pic! Here's the true behind the scene pic , in fact it might even be a spoiler to the film.

Spoiler of one's digestive system maybe

Not really .

So today I learned that Georgio de Luca’s eldest daughter was an MMA fighter. Heh.

lololol

Try typing sbcmarine81, the results are quite amusing .

Sabine tho


THAT HAIR MMMMMMMMMMM

Khajiit likes her graffiti covered Mandalorian armor!

Where would be the worse place to live for an average person, 3rd Era Tamriel (Oblivion Invasion) or the Star Wars galaxy under the rule of the Empire?

Galaxy under the Rule of the Empire.

3rd era Tamriel dealt with the Oblivion Crisis for but a period. The galaxy dealt with the Empire for over twenty years. Plus, there are many different ways to becoming a “better” person in the ES universe. In Star Wars, only a handful are Jedi. In the Empire’s period, well, that gang of Space Monks are nearly gone.

You can always escape the Empire. . . By visiting the Outer Rim territories. In Tamriel, there are many ways to face the music!

Khajiit thinks both places would suck to live in. Even when there's not an Oblivion Invasion going on, bad crap is always happening in Tamriel regardless of era, and then in Star Wars you could get your planet destroyed at anytime. This one is thinking that Tamriel might be worse though. As you pointed out, you could potentially slide under the Empire's radar, but in Tamriel you've got to worry about a whole host of problems, from vampires and werewolves, to rogue spellcasters and evil spirits.

Tamriel. More specifically - somewhere in The Rift of Skyrim. So beautiful there.

You could always become a powerful spellcaster, witch, or werewolf or vampire. . . Except you’d have to worry about a host of problems like degenerate witch-hunters like the Vigilantes of Stendarr and other hunters. So it’s totally a dangerous place to live. They don’t call Tamriel the “Arena” for nothing.

http://www.starwars.com/news/rian-johnson-...mc%7C1147744441

Hnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggg

That is interesting. Not just that they are giving this guy an entire trilogy before the one movie he has already done has hit the theaters. But set in a corner of the galaxy Star Wars has not been before? Wonder if this means something focusing on The Chiss? Or Tython in the Dawn of the Je'daii era?

Great Hyperspace War?!

What was so great about it?

Schism between ancient Jedi and Dark Jedi might be cool too.