A/V STAR WARS REBELS (show's over, spoilers allowed)

Well... two things:

First, it's John Hickman, the Marvel writer I was referring to. Him and Rick Remender usually top lists of favorite potential writers for Star Wars comic.

And Margaret Weis turned down writing a Star Wars novel years ago, because she hated how Vader ended up.

" I don’t even recognize Return of the Jedi as existing." - Margaret Weis

 

Hickman's too busy with whatever the hell is happening to the Avengers.

 

Lucas couldn't make up his mind about anything regarding the Separatists - who they consisted of, what role the Separatist Council played...

 

The Trade Federation as well.

 

Fett did kill a couple of Jedi and a monster before Windu sucker-punched him....

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After getting run over by a Space!rhino no less. I think anyone would find that disorienting.
And that Windu was either the best or the second best lightsaber guy in the entire order, so that matters too.

 

Yeah, I found Jango's death kind of strange. What did he think was going to happen?

 

I think he thought he was going to fly away while shooting at Mace like he did to Obi-Wan earlier, only he didn't realize his jetpack was broken. You can see the jetpack spark as Fett was backing away from Mace.

 

Next time, try walking Jango

 

Jello.

You are talking TCW, a show which managed to make the prequels less terrible. That doesn't mean it was great in and of itself; if you put a stick next to a turd, of course the stick will look wonderful.

 

I think that is one of the problems when someone's only defining personality trait is evil - they just do whatever pisses off the author today, regardless of any kind of consistency.

And it is really funny considering the novel for A New Hope had people complaining about him over-regulating and nationalizing companies.

(I mean, it can work and the EU did make it work by presenting it as him favoring pet companies over their competitors, but still)

 

If anything Palpy would absolutely favour tariffs and not free trade.

 

I was under the impression that Palpatine had the banks deregulated as part of a plan to later regulate the banks moreso than ever before. Season 6's Clovis arc seems to support my theory.

 

Yes but that was when people who understood neither commerce, economics, banking or politics wrote the scripts.

Strictly speaking Jello is correct. In order to fund the massive military budget associated with keeping the Empire going, tariffs would have been the most effective way as they form a taxation on the flow of goods without really appearing to tax ordinary citizens. Remember, you have to create an environment where someone like Han Solo, a smuggler, can flourish.

 

But wait, didn't you hear? Thanks to Disney, Keldabe will be replaced by Jangoville. A space theme park dedicated to the best totally-not-and-never-was-a-Mandalorian to ever don that stolen armor!

And Boba Fett will be the Mayor. Or a clown. Or both.

 

Still better than the Mando stuff in the books.

 

Oh I know (though he only killed Coleman Trebor and that pretty much by shooting him in the back) but I just find the disdainful face Mace is making way to amusing to not post it.

 

My theory on the whole deregulation thing is that due to the Ruusan Reformation, banks were forbidden to provide significant loans for a Republic military. Such regulation would have been designed to give the Senate less means to fund an army, therefore drastically limiting the possibility of the Republic starting another full-scale war. So if such restrictions were lifted, that would remove one less obstacle towards letting the galactic corporations contribute to Palpatine's military-industrial complex.

 

Holonet News is back! (As Rebels promo)

http://holonetnews.com/

 

The Rebels presser is going on right now, and the liveblog on the OS has some nice tidbits. Apparently, everyone in the recording booth acts like their roles: Vanessa Marshall, who is Hera, is the maternal one checking that everyone has snacks and drinks, and everyone picks on Taylor Gray, the voice of Ezra. And they all agree that Vanessa is the biggest nerd on the cast. Also of note: lightsaber fights will be rare occurrences, meant to have impact like the fights in the OT. Link for the curious.

EDIT:

They're certainly getting their money's worth having Steve Blum in the studio.

 

From the audience QA: Audience member: "Can we expect any Clone Wars characters to make cameos?" Filoni: “A lot of people ask me that. I super appreciate it…All I can say is that, let’s be honest, it would probably be insane for me to create that show and for absolutely nobody to show up. But at the same time I feel very strongly that these new characters need to stand on their own…”