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  1. MercenaryAce

    MercenaryAce Chosen One star 6

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    The shipping has already begun!
    From here:
    http://alexkolesar.tumblr.com/post/85032349400/why-you-should-be-excited-for-star-wars-rebels

    Which also gives us this analysis of Star Wars TV:
    If ever I have seen an opinion more opposite of the one here...I don't really know how to finish that. But it is really interesting, isn't it?
     
    MercenaryAce, May 21, 2014
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  2. Jedi Ben

    Jedi Ben Chosen One star 9

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    As Laika's been mentioned, all of you can go and buy and read this:

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    And then bawl your eyes out! Because it wrecks everyone who reads it. It's quite brilliant.
     
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  3. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    Merc -- oh, I've found Ahsoka is thoroughly liked by folks who aren't us. She's hugely popular, and not just among insipid tweens who wouldn't know good taste if it was hurtling down from the heavens on a silicon-iron astral fragment.


    I still can't understand if they all watched the same show, but whatever. I'm not terribly exercised that a bunch of fans are wrong. I mean, most fans think that the end of ROTJ is supposed to be happy! Patently absurd.


    Missa ab iPhona mea est.
     
    GrandAdmiralJello , May 21, 2014
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  4. DigitalMessiah

    DigitalMessiah Chosen One star 6

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    Yeah regicide is a terrible crime.
     
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  5. MercenaryAce

    MercenaryAce Chosen One star 6

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    GrandAdmiralJello : Oh no, my gelatinous friend, I am afraid that is you who is mistaken. About a great. Many. Things.


    Regicide is a virtue actually.
     
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  6. CooperTFN

    CooperTFN TFN EU Staff Emeritus star 7 VIP

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    Hay guys I finally found a version I didn't like!


    Well here's the thing about that arc--by the above standard, it was good. I rooted for Ahsoka and felt her betrayal when she decided to leave the Order. The problem was every single stupid decision by every other character in order to get her to that point. I felt for Ahsoka in that arc because she was the only person acting remotely rationally. It was the Truman Show of Star Wars stories.
     
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  7. Revanfan1

    Revanfan1 Force Ghost star 6

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    Well, I already did that. Demi Lovato's version. I'm sorry, I just don't like it. Did it fit with the credits? Yes, perfectly. But outside of the credits, as a standalone song, I cannot stand it, personally. Elsa's, though? I'll sing along every time. :p

    Funny, because I've also heard it said that Ahsoka was acting totally ridiculous in the whole thing and everyone else was acting rationally. Me, I take a middle ground. Ahsoka did some stupid stuff, but so did the others. They all made mistakes, and Palpatine and Tarkin just benefited.
     
    Revanfan1, May 21, 2014
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  8. Gamiel

    Gamiel Chosen One star 9

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    Not only is he astonishing, Cosmo's HeroClix figure is an excellent support character and has a good-looking model :D
     
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  9. anakinfansince1983

    anakinfansince1983 Skywalker Saga/LFL/YJCC Manager star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    MercenaryAce : The only time I ever gave a **** about Ahsoka's fate was when it seemed she might add to Anakin's character development.

    That ended early in season 3 or even late season 2, when she started getting showcased on her own, and by that final arc of season 5, she could have taken her whiny self-centered ass on a tumble down the Temple stairs and twenty stories further and I probably would have laughed.

    CooperTFN : I never gave much thought to which character was acting more ridiculous, but it was a poorly planned arc in the context of the overall story, and the only planning that did go into the arc involved setting up every character to behave in a way that would make Ahsoka look sympathetic.
     
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  10. CooperTFN

    CooperTFN TFN EU Staff Emeritus star 7 VIP

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    Yeah, basically. [face_dunno]
     
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  11. DigitalMessiah

    DigitalMessiah Chosen One star 6

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    It was the shroud of the dark side or something
     
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  12. anakinfansince1983

    anakinfansince1983 Skywalker Saga/LFL/YJCC Manager star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    "The shroud of the Dark Side" is becoming the best PT-era punchline since "It's all Obi-Wan's fault."
     
    anakinfansince1983 , May 21, 2014
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  13. Barriss_Coffee

    Barriss_Coffee Chosen One star 6

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  14. anakinfansince1983

    anakinfansince1983 Skywalker Saga/LFL/YJCC Manager star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    Waiting for the Disneyfied version of Breaking Bad myself.
     
    anakinfansince1983 , May 21, 2014
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  15. Gamiel

    Gamiel Chosen One star 9

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    I am thinking more along the line of Fox Animation Studios
     
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  16. Barriss_Coffee

    Barriss_Coffee Chosen One star 6

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    So........... like a Family Guy spinoff? The Cleveland Lannister Show?

    Y'know......................... I'm gonna ask.:p
     
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  17. Havac

    Havac Former Moderator star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    JUSTICE.
     
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  18. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    Any version of Let It Go that's not Idina Menzel is terrible. That said, I did still like the past ones we've talked about (google translate, African tribal, etc)

    Please. I'm re-reading HttE right now, and it's prettying a perfect indictment of why Endor was a tragedy. It's kind of hilarious how easy it is to construct a narrative showing how terrible and petty the Rebels are.

    And mercs wouldn't know virtue if it hit them in the face. You only care about getting paid.

    Kinda like your mom. But I guess that explains where you came from. :)


    (PS I bought a fan in imperial yellow with a bunch of emperors and their seals on them. I also got a tea set in the same shade with the imperial dragon all over it. Obviously nobody cares bc this is all tourist stuff but in my own mind, I'm making a statement. Or something.)


    Missa ab iPhona mea est.
     
    GrandAdmiralJello , May 22, 2014
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  19. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    Any version of Let It Go that's not Idina Menzel is terrible. That said, I did still like the past ones we've talked about (google translate, African tribal, etc)

    Please. I'm re-reading HttE right now, and it's prettying a perfect indictment of why Endor was a tragedy. It's kind of hilarious how easy it is to construct a narrative showing how terrible and petty the Rebels are.

    And mercs wouldn't know virtue if it hit them in the face. You only care about getting paid.

    Kinda like your mom. But I guess that explains where you came from. :)


    Missa ab iPhona mea est.
     
    GrandAdmiralJello , May 22, 2014
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  20. Lugija

    Lugija Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    What about dubs? Try the Finnish vetsion "Taakse jää". For some reason even though we are a republic we have many very royal-sounding actors. Elsa's is one of them but I don't know how it shows in a song. The First Time reprise is her best work.

    I have often heard that Finnish is a beautiful language to sing but hard because "These long words how do they rhyme?" Wonder how it is in Latin?
     
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  21. Gamiel

    Gamiel Chosen One star 9

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    I have hard that Grant Morrison gave Emma Frost her "secondary mutation" of turning into diamond because he could not use Colossus. Do anybody know if this is true or false?

    I think it is more because it belongs to a different language family than most other European languages, also I fully agree on the beautiful language part
     
    Gamiel, May 22, 2014
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  22. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    Somebody tried to do it in Latin but they were like a second year student and their grasp of grammar and idiom was atrocious.

    As for the Finnish version, I'll have to wait until I can access youtube. First Time reprise is my favorite song, though.


    Missa ab iPhona mea est.
     
    GrandAdmiralJello , May 22, 2014
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  23. Gamiel

    Gamiel Chosen One star 9

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    Family Guy is made by Fuzzy Door Productions and Fox Television Animation; Fox Animation Studios is the company that made Anastasia, Bartok the Magnificent and Titan A.E.
     
    Gamiel, May 22, 2014
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  24. Arawn_Fenn

    Arawn_Fenn Chosen One star 7

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    And Scaroth in City of Death!
     
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  25. Praenomen Cognomen

    Praenomen Cognomen Jedi Master star 4

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    And Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only!
     
    Praenomen Cognomen, May 22, 2014
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