Lit Hego Damask in new canon

I've been watching the entire run of Friends again. It's super dumb, but it's also consistently funny, lots of very whitty one-liners and narrative joke payoffs, and the cast is a blast and has fantastic chemistry. Which is how I also tend to think of HIMYM.

And here's the obligatory relating-this-to-Star-Wars GIF

 

Ah people we all know that there is only one true current sitcom anyway that just puts all others to shame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicious_(TV_series)

 

You want an intelligent sitcom? Frasier. 'Nuff said.

And no, I don't feel that this is derailing this thread, because there's nothing to derail. Someone saw a mention of the name Hego Damask in Ultimate Star Wars and wondered what it meant; the only possible answer that fits is the one that was given already: we just don't know. The rest is just us talking among ourselves about nothing.

Would I LIKE it to mean more than it does? Of course I do, because the Plagueis novel is one of the few EU novels that, I believe, could still be applied to the current canon; just remove the stuff about Darth Maul, which was largely unrelated to the central Sidious-Plagueis character dynamic in any case, and perhaps a couple other things, and there's no reason why it still couldn't work. Such an adapted version would probably be as much like the source material as, say, the Zygerrian arc on TCW was like the comic on which it was based - in other words, 20-30% different, 70-80% the same.

But we DON'T know that that's the case as LFL sees it, and so there's nothing really to comment on, except how much you'd like, or not like, to see Hego Damask returned to the canon. That's it. Ba-DUM-tssh.

 

...So, Hego Damask, huh?

 

I'd rather talk about Frasier.

 

I would too; good show.

Can someone change the title to something like "Kelsey Grammer rumored to be in upcoming Star Wars Media Project" so we can keep this on topic?

 

Kelsey Grammer as Hego Damask? Yes, please.

 

You heard the rumor too? Isn't that going to be awesome!?

 

This'll be on Schmoes Know in about two hours.

 

Then it must be true. Those schmoes know their movies!

 

Then we all get banned for posting spoilers without tags.
Would be worth it.

 

We can all laugh about this, but I think Sideshow Bob is pretty conclusive proof that if they WANTED Kelsey Grammer to do an evil voice for Damask, he could do it.

 

Given Palpatine made Plagueis drink himself to death, you can take any sitcom and apply it to their love-hate relationship's ups and downs, no?

I mean, think about it, if you go back to Friends, Plagueis is Ross, and Palpatine his Rachel, who he keeps trying to make work as his apprentice, but it's just not working, since Palpatine goes and finds someone better in Maul.

 

I'm trying to come up with a way to use Ross' classic "We were on a break!" line in a Star Wars context, but... I got nothin'.

 

What does it tell us about a show, where the producers think the audience dumb enough to need taped laughter to identify the punchline?

 

I noticed this as well, it got me excited haha. Can't say they are the same character yet though. However, I feel like it's only going to be a matter of time before that book is brought as fully into the new canon as it can get, which I would be really excited about because it's my favorite Star Wars book.

 

Thinking on this again, it might be an easy matter of retconning the "Hego Damask" name by passing it off as one of Plagueis's many aliases. I had been under the mistaken impression after watching ROTS that Plagueis was a fellow who had lived a very, very long time... longer than the average Muun or whatever George intended him to have been. Someone who had been prolonging their life. And under that assumption it would make sense he had probably had various false identities over the years. (I suppose he could have had false identities with a shorter lifespan, but I sort of like this notion of a really old, master-of-disguise ultra-powerful Sith Lord who gets taken down by the seemingly unassuming and comparatively young Palpatine...)

 

Which opens the door to San Hill once again being one of those aliases too.

 

(Not sure if referring to Friends or Frasier, but both shows were taped in front of a live studio audience...)

 

They should just make it canon.

 

Agreed. Just cut out some of the iffy parts like Palpy forsaking his first name and it would fit perfectly. Plus, LFL and Luceno could make a killing by having two different versions floating around.

 

Making a killing by having two different versions you say?