Surlyboi
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Also: Stormtrooper with a flamethrower? Seriously?
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Furiously
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10 million views already on that trailer. It's almost like Disney realized Star Wars was a license designed to print money.
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DraconianOne
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Also: Stormtrooper with a flamethrower? Seriously?
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eldaec
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Also: Stormtrooper with a flamethrower? Seriously?
I had the same thought. Maybe the flamethrower has little lightsabers that pop out of the nozzle. Solves a lot of issues Stormtroopers have with aim. |
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Evildrider
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I don't see a problem with flamethrowers. It's still a very effective weapons against civilians and unarmored soldiers. Hell no one complained when Jango Fett was shooting a flamethrower at Obi-Wan.
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Cyrrex
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It is also a good terror weapon, which is half the point of stormtroopers in the first place. Also, I assume their flame-throwing technology to be superior to whatever we have.
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Surlyboi
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Flame is also very hard to defend against using the Force. You can't block it with a lightsaber and you can't force-push it away. Like the Jango reference above, the only defense Mace had was to jump off the balcony.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Lantyssa
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Also: Stormtrooper with a flamethrower? Seriously?
Can you think of a better weapon to fight a Jedi with? It's kind of hard to deflect a ball of fire with a laser sword. |
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Draegan
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You know there is some EU book out there where all a jedi has to do is create a force bubble or something and they win.
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Bunk
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I am quite ashamed that my first thought on seeing the crashed Star Destroyer was "Are they tying this in to Force Unleashed?"
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Soulflame
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How does a Star Destroyer crash into a planet without 1. fragmenting to shit and 2. killing everthing on the planet.
Something that large crashing into a planet should be an extinction event.
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HaemishM
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Well, the planet does look pretty much like a desert.  |
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01101010
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Well, the planet does look pretty much like a desert. That was my thought. That planet was probably Dagobah. |
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Draegan
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How does a Star Destroyer crash into a planet without 1. fragmenting to shit and 2. killing everthing on the planet.
Something that large crashing into a planet should be an extinction event.
I guess the empire built shit to last. Also, it probably didn't crash into the ground at full velocity. It probably crash landed. Just look at any plane crash wreckage. |
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DraconianOne
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How does a Star Destroyer crash into a planet without 1. fragmenting to shit and 2. killing everthing on the planet.
Something that large crashing into a planet should be an extinction event.
I guess the empire built shit to last. Also, it probably didn't crash into the ground at full velocity. It probably crash landed. Just look at any plane crash wreckage. As seen in at the beginning of ROTS - if you managed to stay awake that long (and couldn't help wondering why Coruscant had a lengthy runway when most ships seemed to have VTOL capacity. And no wheels.) |
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Maven
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How does a Star Destroyer crash into a planet without 1. fragmenting to shit and 2. killing everthing on the planet.
Something that large crashing into a planet should be an extinction event.
Sci fantasy, rule of cool, take your pick. |
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Lakov_Sanite
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How does a Star Destroyer crash into a planet without 1. fragmenting to shit and 2. killing everthing on the planet.
Something that large crashing into a planet should be an extinction event.
Also we're assuming it's a crash. It could literally be a planet where they dump all the old imperial ships that were rendered non functional in the war. |
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DraconianOne
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It's a crash. The Battle of Jakku was a post Endor event according to stuff coming out of Anaheim. Also the OT X-Wing in the foreground.
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Cyrrex
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I guess that Battle will be playable in the new BF game as well.
But leave it to you nerds to complain about a crashed Star Destroyer.
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K9
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You know there is some EU book out there where all a jedi has to do is create a force bubble or something and they win.
Yeah, but then the EU is like some probability vortex where if look hard enough, you'll find anything. Case in point, lightsaber knees |
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Riggswolfe
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You know there is some EU book out there where all a jedi has to do is create a force bubble or something and they win.
Yeah, but then the EU is like some probability vortex where if look hard enough, you'll find anything. Case in point, lightsaber knees I'm so glad Disney came in, looked at the EU, and said "Lol. Yeah, no. None of this is real." |
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MediumHigh
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Am I the only one not excited by this trailer.
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I'm not excited by it either, mostly because I have an immediate hate-reaction to being openly manipulated by fan service. I have been enjoying reading people get way overhyped for it, though. I only wish I still had that sort of optimism for things.
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murdoc
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I am way overhyped and am totally cool with that. I like this feeling of 'hey, this might actually be awesome' and i am going to hold onto it for as long as I can.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Lakov_Sanite
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Making any star wars movie set in roughly the same timeline as the originals is by definition fan service.
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Samwise
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I'm not excited by it either, mostly because I have an immediate hate-reaction to being openly manipulated by fan service.
Maybe that's what's killing it for me. When I can see the grubby fingers reaching out to push my buttons I reflexively flinch away from them. One of those fingers invariably ends up someplace I don't want it to be if I don't keep my guard up. |
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Draegan
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Some of you are broken. Let the temporary hope flow inside you and allow yourself to dream again. Call it shit around Christmas time when you're in the usual holiday spirit.
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Malakili
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It's much easier to just assume everything is garbage until proven otherwise.
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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I know they're pushing my buttons. George Lucas forgot why people liked his movies, or thought he had 'grown' beyond such plebian fare. The fact that they even know these particular buttons are there, and just how to push them, is what gives me hope.
I went to a special screening of Phantom Menace, and didn't even bother to see Attack of the Clones until years later on cable. In fact, I could not even remember the damned thing's name just now, I had to look it up, that is how badly Phantom Menace disappointed me. And in spite of that, I still see these teasers, see how far they went with practical effects and live action backgrounds instead of CGI, and I really want to see this movie.
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Some of you are broken. Let the temporary hope flow inside you and allow yourself to dream again. Call it shit around Christmas time when you're in the usual holiday spirit.
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Venkman
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I get the skeptics. 50% of the series has been sub-optimal /Obama. But god damn these two trailers rocked. I'm 8 years old all over again. And wondering about Star Destroyers crashing on planets? Really? Didn't you all see Independence Day? If you can solve interstellar* distances and artificial gravity, you've got the metamaterials to ignore reentry gravity crush-depth  * Btw finally saw that. booorring. Like i was watching 2001 again. Also, complete waste of space on the O'neill cylinder, dedicating, what, 20% of the usuable space to a baseball diamond? Come on... |
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lamaros
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Those trailers doesn't show much of anything?
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