Fanclub We are not droids! *The official General Grievous fanclub v2.0*

Hello. Recently when joining this forum I noticed that there is no fan club for my favourite character. The old one was locked in 2010 and has never reappeared.
In order to redress this I would like to open the

General Grievous Fanclub 2.0​

Here you can express your appreciation or liking for this visually stunning but rather divisive character.
I would also like discussion on his character, as long as it doesn't become too heated or negative as has happened in the past. If that happens, then open a thread elsewhere and tag me and I can link it here.

I, KaleeshEyes, being the most prominent feature of the great cyborg himself, am your president.
To join you just need to say so, although liking the OP would be nice (nudge nudge hint hint)

Lastly, thanks to Mace Windu is Awesome for his blessing for this thread.

Oh and that's my hundredth post. Hopefully I can raise that to the power of two.

 

CIS Droid DarthCricketer It's here.

 

KaleeshEyes, please use the edit feature to avoid double posting.

 

Bardan_Jusik
It wasn't a double post, but should I be not making two posts in a row?

 

This is gonna be fun, thanks for creating this thread KaleeshEyes

 

CIS Droid
You're welcome. I prevaricated quite a bit on it, but I wanted it to be my hundredth post. Hence my lack of activity last night (your morning).

Members
1: KaleeshEyes - Chief annoying person
2: CIS Droid

 

Oh, and if you do decide to be a pain and comment negatively, somebody will come from above and behind, attack you, and have you signed up to the same weight-loss program Darth Maul was added to by Obi-wan Kenobi.

 

Hey, considering the context of the previous posts that could be a personal attack on someone! Are you in too DarthCricketer

 

Sure!

 

Anyway, the current wrap up of GG threads on the boards is as follows shortly (very shortly, there's only two)

Here! Here! to Grievous in the PT subforum. Watch the grammatically rubbish thread go from simple posting to clothing semantics to a very long and passionate discussion between me and CIS Droid, in which we actually manage to agree on a couple of things (I haven't done that in a long). Watch the thread continue in a more lighthearted but still serious fashion. Opens page 6.

What's Grievous' actual backstory?, same place. Take a gander at this more specific and more detailed thread go from back and forth points about what we already knew to (correct) criticism of GG's character handling, and with a bonus amount of wishes and good humour thrown in.


Oh, and don't try arguing with DarthCricketer. If you make one slip up he'll shred your argument like Viv Richards.

Current members: Me, CIS Droid, DarthCricketer

 

As I don't actually fully understand the function of these threads, I'm going to make a post relevant to my user-name.

According to the Star Wars website, General Grievous' stature is 2.16 metres or 7' 1", making him the same height as Pakistani fast-bowler Mohammad Irfan.





I'll bet you didn't know that before! You might even be able to say that he is shorter than you expected.

Oh, and cut out the flattery, please. It's kind of embarrassing for me.

 

Would love to see these two facing each other. Anybody up for some cricket/SW photoshop?

You don't have to reply to your own posts. Although a lot of people I've noticed go for the re-state the argument even though it's been comprehensively destroyed routine, or use irrelevant fallacies.

 

Posting twice in a row is double posting so use the edit feature. If the edit window has elapsed, wait for another member to respond before posting again.

 

Damn. I hope you haven't been reading the rest of the threads I've commented in. whoops. etc

Also what if I have a lengthy post, not related to the previous, outside the edit window etc, but another member has not replied?

 

Then you wait either a reasonable length of time (several days at least) or until someone has replied. This is a discussion forum, not a monologue forum.

 

I'm in on this thing! Grievous is the second best character (after Mace Windu).

 

I want in. I want in. I want in.

 

Heh!

1: Me
2: CIS Droid
3: DarthCricketer
4: Mace Windu is Awesome
5: KnightOfRen
Discuss away guys!

 

Grievous's worst moment: the fight with the Gungans in Shadow Warrior from TCW.

 

I think that's a 'goes without saying' moment that one. Shredded what was left of his dignity and strength as a character. The Chinese think four is an unlucky number and season 4 episode 4 of TCW certainly didn't help with that perception Can we de-canonise the episode?
I have wondered whether that episode was intended to make us like the Gungans more though. Made me hate them more, the most annoying race in Star Wars walking over my favourite character.
It was the way it was done as well. We needed reminder that the Gungans were originally mini-siths, so Electricity ex machina!!!! (yes I know it was used in earlier episode. Not that much though).
And then they go and stick their staffs through all his joints. Now RotS gave us the important information that GG can feel pain (the 'ow' when he gets his hands cut off), so one thinks this may have hurt a teensy bit. Right out the 5th Century B.C. that moment. Then they drag him away, his screams seeming some of the more genuine in a series with many non-genuine moments. His eyes too had terror very well portrayed, simply through the use of contrast, positioning in the frame, context and angles (George: you don't need exposition to create emotion in your characters).
Then we get to the prisoner swap. Most embarrassing/least dignified moment for a major SW character except for slave Leia in RotJ. At least that enhanced her character and the plot, this didn't. It ruined what was left of an already ill-treated character, and didn't even have a good arc behind it.
I suppose we are supposed to feel sorry for Anakin, but I can't. He was less whiny in TCW but was insufferably smug at points.
I only felt sorry for one character, and it wasn't Anakin or Tarpals.

Anyway, rant over. God I hate that episode.

Oh, and here's somebody else's humorous take on what happened to Grievous' character. Would be funny if it wasn't true/didn't hurt so much.

 

Sign me up, please Grievous is GOAT

 

6: Deliveranze. Thanks.
PS My autocorrect function really doesn't like your username but I don't want to turn it of, cause I'm a rubbish typist.
Oh and does GOAT stand for greatest of all time?, because I thought Nathon Lyon was (only DarthCricketer will get this one) (it's a cricket related joke)

 

LOL it's all good man

Yes sir. That's exactly what GOAT stands for...

As far as cricket goes, I'm American so I'll leave that between you and him.

 

GOAT Baaaa-ah!

I do sometimes wonder whether my posts are a bit forthright though. And lengthy. I suppose I haven't been banned yet so it's alright
I just feel like I have to rebut some people's posts completely and utterly sometimes. And throw in a joke or two as well
SW is one of the first things I have been really passionate about though.

Edit: Sometime I'd like to post a post about how I can to like GG. Might be something for the weekend though. It'd be a bit of an essay

 

Its indeed the weakest Grievous has ever been portrayed, but i disagree that its a godawful episode. Maybe thats just because, while Jar Jar could be annoying at times, i never had a problem with the rest of the gungans. And maybe its just me, but i liked Tarpals as a character, and i did feel bad about his death. He was my favorite gungan

Now, heres where i have a problem with the episode. Its rushed, extremely rushed. The duel with Grievous should have been longer, and with more Gungans dying to more clearly show that Grievous is vastly stronger than them.

The gungans joining the CIS in taking over Naboo should have had more build up, every single droid getting deactivated should have been shown. This episode desperately needed to be a two parter.