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Comics The Last Jedi: DJ (One-Shot)

Discussion in 'Literature' started by Zorkel567, Oct 17, 2017.

  1. SilentGuy66

    SilentGuy66 Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    DJ struck me as the poor man's Lando in TLJ just without the moral change of heart, so this comic will have to do something very special to get me invested in this characters.

    Also I don't care what Hidalgo or the story group say, DJ is Ezra in my headcanon- it's after all the only way to justify his presence in the movie.
     
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  2. Jedi Princess

    Jedi Princess Jedi Master star 4

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    I do not understand this statement.
     
  3. BobaMatt

    BobaMatt TFN EU Staff star 7 VIP

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    Why isn't he justified? He's there for very clear, surface level plot reasons.
     
  4. JediBatman

    JediBatman Jedi Master star 4

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    Loving that Canto Bight has some OT and PT aliens instead of just all new aliens like it was in the film.

    Why don't we ask for the name of Yoda's species and planet why we're at it? Some things are better left a mystery.
     
  5. Vthuil

    Vthuil Force Ghost star 5

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    Honestly, I'd actually be okay with DJ being Ezra (it's a joke theory at best and a dark direction for his character, but as noted DJ does have some similarity to a certain old Weequay buddy of Ezra's), and I still think that statement makes no sense.

    I'm actually starting to get kind of bugged by seeing this in comics - not that it's a criticism of the art itself, but that it just keeps rubbing in how jarring the lack of preestablished alien species in the ST proper, or even Rogue One, is.
     
  6. Daneira

    Daneira Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Rogue One had, off the top of my head, Mon Calamari, Aqualish, Twi'lek, and even a Gigoran!
     
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  7. Vthuil

    Vthuil Force Ghost star 5

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    Rogue One was better about it than the ST thus far, for sure - I just meant that even there any given random crowd was much more likely to consist of humans, new aliens, and unidentifiable guys in masks and hoods than what we've been seeing in the comics and Rebels and so forth.
     
  8. FiveFireRings

    FiveFireRings Jedi Master star 4

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    Honestly, that's one of my only major gripes with the Disney-era films and kind of ironic given the heavy reliance on recycled ship design. I actually like many of the new alien designs, I just can't process that I haven't seen a single damn Rodian or Ithorian for three films now. It's... okay, I guess, but if SOLO doesn't up the quotient over R1 it's gonna seem really odd to me.
     
  9. Gharlane

    Gharlane Jedi Grand Master star 3

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    He is a subversion of Lando in that sense. Otherwise like Holdo and Poe, he is suppose to playoff Finn according to Rian Johnson in the TLJ artbook. But I think both of them probably weren't effectvie as Rian Johnson wanted.
     
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  10. Barriss_Coffee

    Barriss_Coffee Chosen One star 6

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    I thought DJ was supposed to tie into the Legendary Luke plot. Finn, Poe, and Rose wanted to find the miraculous "Master Codebreaker" and ended up finding some no-name bum-in-a-cell (we found... a... codebreaker...) because of circumstances beyond their control. Because that's what happens with legends. They're not real no matter how hard you look for them. And to rub salt in the wound, putting faith in DJ performing miracles wasn't just a mistake -- DJ himself was even adamant about not putting all your hopes on one dream.

    DJ's apathy in any cause is like the other extreme in the film's moral lesson -- some people believe too much in something to the point they become blind, whereas others don't care at all and basically get nothing done (or as KOTOR2 puts it, "Apathy is Death"). You've got to find that middle ground.
     
  11. themoth

    themoth Force Ghost star 5

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    I read the preview and I agree. DJ speaks like DJ. The stammering and phrases like ‘dandy calculator’. This is my favorite new character from the Last Jedi. Del Toro was magnificent.
    I’m fine with it staying DJ. It’s more mysterious that way.
     
  12. LelalMekha

    LelalMekha Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    The name's Dezra Jriger.
     
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  13. Yunzabit

    Yunzabit Jedi Master star 4

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    [face_rofl]
     
  14. FiveFireRings

    FiveFireRings Jedi Master star 4

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    It would be kinda odd for that name to be spoken on screen (or even in a sentence bubble), because those aren't actual letters in the GFFA, as conspicuously demonstrated by the man's hat.
     
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  15. LelalMekha

    LelalMekha Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    Well, the High Galactic alphabet (i.e. the real-life Roman alphabet) is still a thing anyway. That's what allows us to have A-, B-, X-, and Y-wing starfighters. Or R2-D2 and C-3PO for that matter.

    But yeah... given that the plaque on his hat uses Aurebesh, maybe he should have chosen "Dorn Jenth" as an alias.
     
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  16. Vthuil

    Vthuil Force Ghost star 5

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    Frankly, I think this is one of those things best brushed swiftly by with the acknowledgement that most SW creators are not (and shouldn't have to be) J.R.R. Tolkien.
     
  17. LelalMekha

    LelalMekha Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    Perhaps, but I still dream of the day when Star Wars will canon have a proper constructed language, like Trek has Klingon. Yes, I know what you're going to tell me: Mando'a was used in Rebels, so it is canon, but it certainly wasn't a very good Mando'a... It was as approximative and mangled as those instances in which Klingon dialogues were not written by Marc Okrand. (Ditto with the use of "Sith" in TCW. Why on Earth didn't they ask Ben Grossblatt to create proper phrases for them instead of the grammar-less mumbo jumbo they did?)
     
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  18. Daneira

    Daneira Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    It’s weird, no one writes anything in High Galactic but they all use High Galactic letters when abbreviating things. The Imperial Security Bureau is ISB and not Isk Senth Besh, etc.


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  19. LelalMekha

    LelalMekha Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    There are many in-universe documents that are written in High Galactic. Of course, it's mainly for the readers' benefit IRL, but still...
     
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  20. Supreme Leader Woke

    Supreme Leader Woke Jedi Master star 2

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    Oh man, Acker and Blacker wrote this part specifically to mess with us. I love it.

    [​IMG]
     
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  21. BigAl6ft6

    BigAl6ft6 Chosen One star 8

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    I'm glad they went for it because the guy stutters, it'd be weird if they didn't use it at all.
     
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  22. tatooinesandworm

    tatooinesandworm Jedi Master star 3

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    I really enjoyed this one shot. Much better than the Storms of Crait. But definitely for fans of the character.
    Also only covers the 12 hrs basically before The Last Jedi.
    This would have been a perfect book to release BEFORE the movie.


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  23. Yunzabit

    Yunzabit Jedi Master star 4

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    Their are 200 billion stars in the galaxy. Even if only 1% support intelligent life, that's 200,000,000,000 aliens to choose from
     
  24. JediBatman

    JediBatman Jedi Master star 4

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    Still, several species have been established as wide spread, and yet with both TFA and TLJ we've had two entire movies where other than Chewie, Nein Nunb, and Ackbar, all the aliens are ones we've never seen before.

    The best analogy I can think of: Let's say Star Wars was pure medieval fantasy, and it had fantasy races. You've got humans, you've got the standard fantasy races of elves, dwarves, orcs, ect. Occasionally to shake things up, in addition to the usual dwarves and such the tavern scenes will have other fantasy races in the background, like cyclopes or leprechauns. Now let's say that for several movies in a row, whenever our heroes entered a tavern, there was a HUGE variety of uncommon fantasy races neither they or the audience had seen before. People with four arms, animal people, people made of rocks . . . but not a single dwarf.

    At this point you couldn't blame the audience for thinking that our heroes moved to a distant land between movies, or that some calamity killed all the dwarves off, anything to explain why we used to see loads of them in the background, but don't anymore.

    Overall I'd like a balance. Too many familiar aliens makes the galaxy seem too small. Too many new aliens expands the galaxy, BUT in a superficial way. (ie leading to "This species appeared once in the background and was never seen again" stubs on wookieepedia). A good mix shows a galaxy that's familiar but also different.
     
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  25. iPodwithnomusic

    iPodwithnomusic Jedi Master star 3

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    I really liked the art in this issue and the dialog was pretty good, but I couldn't follow the story entirely. I got the basic idea of what happened but it felt like too much was happening with too many people and it lost me.
     
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