Star Wars Expanded Universe Thread
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Watched all of the first 3 of S2 and I get the complaints, but most of that didn't bother me. The formatting of this season is certainly going to feel rushed with each arc getting us 1 year closer to Rogue One, but the arcs themselves only taking place over a few days, or at least the first one anyway.
The setting up of all the Ghorman stuff is really interesting as that is the pivotal moment in Star Wars history.
The setting up of all the Ghorman stuff is really interesting as that is the pivotal moment in Star Wars history.
I honestly don't think it went too far. Obviously a heavy subject matter for Star Wars but it wasn't graphic at all and she stood up for herself and killed the guy. Hopefully Bix gets a happy ending out of all this because she's had it rough in this story.
Well, she wasn’t in Rogue One. So maybe she walks away, but odds aren’t in her favor.
I really enjoyed watching Dedra drop the hammer on Cyril’s mom. That was awesome.
Probably not a lot of happy endings in this story. I guess we know Mon Mothma survives. That's about it.
Was it a “slow plot” or were there just not enough things going boom? Not every episode needs or deserves to be breakneck, action-packed. Gotta let that pot simmer if you want your soup to develop more flavor.
Yes, but I'm not rooting for the bad guy. Bad people with power standing up to ****** people doesn't make them a hero. It just makes them more comfortable exercising that power against others.
Only previously known character for sure, but it certainly won't be without a cost. Unless she has some sort of staged public fallout with her husband and daughter, there's a good chance they end up dead or at least prisoners after she openly declares rebellion.
I have a feeling they are going to turn their backs on her at some point because they enjoy their posh lifestyle
I'm certain they don't feel they same way about the Empire as she does, but she does seem to still care for them. The Emperor would have no reservations about holding them as political prisoners just to hurt Mon Mothma.
I'm not sure how it will play out, but they've been setting up her husband as kind of an empire sympathizer from the start.
I get that. Probably more of a personal thing for me. I despise people like the mom who think they can boss others around and try to control someone else’s life.
Yeah, it was slow. Look, I loved S1 and actually my favorite parts weren’t really the battles. They were the prison and the Mon Mothma scenes and the ISB.
I just feel like some of the stuff was unnecessary or not really explained. Especially Andors arc. What is the significance of the tie defender? Why were they changing out pilots? I thought that they could have shown there was rebel infighting in a better way that having cassian tied up in a squabble between two small insignificant bands. Like have Saw there trying to keep the ship for himself or something.
Either way, I did like it even if it was a little slow. Excited for Tuesday. It’s just my opinion that if they’re going to take a year off between arcs, they should be showing things that really matter in the episodes.
I'm with you. Seeing an overbearing parent get put in their place is satisfying to anyone who knows or had a parent like that. They are humanizing Dedra and Syril by telling you why they are damaged and do awful things while also showing they are capable of caring for each other and standing up for each other. It will be interesting to see what they do with this cute little fascist couple.
She has significantly more power than Syril's mom and she chose to flex it. Humanizing her would be telling off the mom without essentially threatening the uncle. All she did was say was I have a big stick, shut up or I'll use. She's just as much as a bully as the mom and was that way to Syril before Ferrix. After he saves her, she gets all weak in the knees and decides that a fanatically devoted live-in booty call was something she was now ok with. Maybe we are seeing her line with the Ghorman project, but she's shown no reservations about taking whatever actions she deems necessary to keep Empire safe. Just because she doesn't kick kittens all the time, doesn't make her any less evil.
That line "I wish you were drunk" was brutal, she hates her. I do think there is a "breaking bad" type moment for Mothma this season where she has to give up the cloak and dagger approach and her family will sell her out to save themselves.
RIP big guy, the best moment of season 1 for me was when he was bashing imperials over the head with Maarva's brick.
I didn't say it made her a good person or forgives the bad things she has done, but I'm sorry, what they are doing with them is the very definition of humanizing them and making them relateable in the story.
