I had this idea after watching Ep 3, and I’m curious what other people think about it.  Hear me out here guys: what if it was hidden and came to be known as a treasure planet because it’s a giant reserve bank vault?

The show implies At Attin has been hidden since the High Republic era and this is connected with Chancellor Soh’s Great Works projects.  We also get a reference to mines, a focus on economic concepts in their school system, and we see kids being pushed towards careers that would fit well in the finance sector.  The show doesn’t outright tell us why Wim’s credits are so much more valuable than New Republic credits, but the logical reason is that they’re actually made from valuable metal.  Now, as I understand it, High Republic credits were backed with precious metals, much like the gold standard, which means they had to have physical reserves of those metals stored in one or more places.

Naturally, this creates a lot of temptation for thieves so security needs to be tight.  Really, what better way to secure your currency reserves than to hide them so well that the rest of the galaxy doesn’t know the hiding place exists?  That would explain why there are no old records of At Attin or how to get there, only legends about a fabulously wealthy planet with no evidence to suggest it is or was a real place.

I was hooked when I first saw Finn in the Force Awakens trailer. That teaser trailer was amazing btw. While I don't like the concept of The First Order, I love the concept of Finn's character. Rey is a ripoff of Luke in just about every aspect. While they could've done something decent with her character if they played their cards right, proper treatment of Finn, especially as the center of the trilogy, would've yielded much better results. This makes me much more angry with the fact that he was sidelined so hard in the second and third movies. By the end of Ep. 7, I was expecting Finn to be the second most important character in the series, right behind Rey, and if he'd taken that role, I wouldn't be disappointed. I have no idea why TLJ's writers decided not only to reduce Finn's importance but also to make him an idiot who seems incapable of making meaningful contributions. At the end of the day, I just don't get it. The sequels had so much potential, and they managed to let it go so wrong that the franchise is forever stunted by its' legacy.

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It's honestly hilarious how whenever someone critizes the pacing of Andor, Star wars fan immediately say "Oh you only like dumb mindless action like Kenobi or Ashoka!" Or "you only hate Disney star wars!"

I definitely agree that Andor has much better cinematography, set design, etc than shows like Kenobi, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have its own issues

The issue is that Andor genuinely has bad pacing and can be extremely boring at times. Episodes 1-3 were so slow that they could have been tightly squeezed into 1 episode. It doesn't help that Cassian, and the other characters in general, aren't that compelling or interesting to non star wars nerds. It also doesn't help that many of the pay offs feel rather miniscule compared to the extraordinary amount of time spent on the set up

And it isn't like Andor is my first drama show. I like shows like sopranos, wires, boardwalk empire, prison break, etc. These shows weren't "mindless action". These shows build up just like Andor, but bave pacing that's is so much better than Andor due to having tension in their scenes, more interesting characters, etc.

The one thing none of these shows have is uncompelling characters talking to each other about things that ultimately don't matter with no action, excitement or tension to engage the viewer, unlike Andor.

Picked up this guy at my local Ollie's, I don't know too much about him. But I love this figure.

It could be interpreted in many ways, one could be that in that very moment he knows that Vader is his forever, another one could be that seeing his pawn in a futile display of anger-fueled strenght is amusing to him, and the one I think carries more weight it's that the smile itself is the culmination of everything that he's been working for since the beginning, that's some I could come up with, what's your take on that scene?

I really love the secuel trilogy, but always have felt something weird in the way the story is presented and finally managed to point what is. Hear me out: In OT and precuels they start telling you a story and the characters are introduced when the story gets to them. For example Luke is not introduced in the story until he meets the droids, so until that point the main characters was technically R2D2, and then he passes the torch to Luke. Anakin is not presented until the Jedis get to tatooine, until the story get to him. In that way nothing feels like just a coincidence (even if it is), it feels like a natural course of things that are happening. In Force awakens they introduce Poe and bb8, but then suddenly jumps, with no apparent reason, to a new character. To the actual main character. And here I think is this weird thing happens to me, in this order: Why are they showing me this? - “Oh she met bb8, so they new they were going to met, that’s why”- “so they knew all this was going to happen”- “of course they knew it’s a script”. So in a way the “coincidence” becomes more evident, and breaks the illusion. The characters are introduced before they are of any value to the story they were telling, so you can see the guy moving the strings. And in some way I think this whole trilogy is like that, character driven, relies a lot on the charm of the whole cast, and less in the storytelling. So in FA, Why the story do not follow bb8 and when he bumped into Rey, she is introduced in a more natural way? I think obviously the writers thought about this, but a decision was made to put the focus on Rey, even if that makes feels the story as something that is not happening, but was predesigned, and they and us knew it was. They are not trying to hide the magic trick.

What was the deal with the prequels? I heard some many fans saying that og trilogy should be the only Star Wars films. Why did they say that? Because of the father and son relationship on the screen was awesome? Or the "love" for Jar Jar Binks when showing up in episode I was enough for not paying attention to the prequels?

Personally I don't like the new trilogy. I was waiting to see the story of Han and Leia's children. Gave a try to what I saw in the trailer for episode VII. It was ok but the next 2 episodes killed the story for me!

I noticed that the animation short series, Forces of Destiny, was removed from YouTube in United States. An example is Season 2, Episode 1: Hasty Departure. Disney's upload shows it as private, and the playlist has been deleted altogether.

Does anybody know the reason, and where can the series currently be watched?

Edit: The entire series is available for free on Disney's website.

I saw it reintroduced years ago on a map. As much goes with modern Star Wars I get amped that something is coming -> 8 years later nothing that I can tell.

Was this just an Easter egg for Kotor fans?

i’m 100% convinced that this show is a Star Wars version of Treasure Island. Jod Na Nawood (Jude Law) reminds me of Capt. Flint, obviously At Attin is Treasure Island itself. I’m still unsure whether Fern or Wim is Long John Silver, but i have a feeling that the personality of both will be that representation. With all that being said, I’m thoroughly enjoying this show.

These cannisters came out a couple years back. There were a few more I couldn't get that I wish I had bought. 🤦‍♂️

And yes, they all still have tea bags in them.

Finally got my Kessel Sabacc set and the deck holder in the mail. I gotta hand it to Mike and Emily at Hyperspace Props, they rock. Great quality cards and dice and great customer service. I can’t wait to play with friends and family over the holidays.

Hello, I'm a long Star wars fan but kinda lost my interest over the years. I've watched all the 11 theatrical releases, Clone Wars, Rebels, Madalorian Season 1 and 2, Book of Boba Fett, Kenobi and the first season of Bad Batch as well as Tales of the Empire and Tales of the Jedi. However I want to get back into the story and really get invested, so I'd like to know if someone can give me a list of the most important books and games and when to read/watch them. I'm watching The Acolyte right now and it's fine, after I plan on watching The Phantom Menace as well as reading the book and do so with every movie. I also want to watch the TV shows in between. Thank you guys for your help and I'm so excited to come back :D

Hear me out. Yes, Palpatine was molding Anakin to join the dark side for a long time, and it was going well. However, Anakin was sill on the fence. Deep down he wanted to be a force for good. I'm not saying he would have never joined the dark side, but it might have taken longer, and maybe he wouldn't have joined Palpatine when he was battling mace.

But then his mother died a slow, painful death. Which was 100% preventable if the Jedi weren't such lazy f***s. You're telling me NOBODY from the entire freaking Jedi Order could save a woman? I hear excuses like they couldn't find her. Anakin found her in a few days. They're whole "you mustn't hold deep feelings" is the reason why they died. And it's immensely hypocritical of them. If a senator/governor/queen is in trouble, Jedi show up like lightsabers swinging. For for a lowly slave/ex-slave? F*** her, I guess, right? And what the hell was Obi doing? Great mentor there. This could have all been prevented if someone, ANYONE went there after the 1st movie, bought Shmi, and got her a house on some Republic planet. And Yoda KNEW Anakin was unstable. He didn't think that him finding out his mother was tortured to death MIGHT turn him towards anger and hate? But nope.... full on idiot ball it is.

Edit: Forgot something important. The Jedi didn't allow Anakin to see his mother because of their rules. But their rules also said that Anakin shouldn't have been trained to begin with. So the Jedi DO break their own rules when they think it can benefit them. More hypocrisy.

When I was younger (probably around 2008 or 2009), I was involved in this online Star Wars RPG homebrew that was run out of a super primitive HTML chatroom. There was probably about 100 players or more across it's lifetime, and I'm wondering if anyone here was a part of it? Here is the website it used to be operated from. You can tell how old it is because it had a four character URL! lol It even had character profile pages with inventory and skills management.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080820074212/http://tsws.net/

When I heard the theremin in the soundtrack for SC ep3 I registered it as a fun new experiment in Star Wars music, but then started thinking about how it’s interesting how it was seemingly never used before in Star Wars despite its status as the ‘alien instrument’. From the (little) research I’ve done it seems the theremin was starting to be used as a sort of leitmotif for cinematic extraterrestrial activity around 1950, but I guess I can kinda understand how Lucas didn’t use it since Star Wars plays in an established and ‘known’ world whereas the theremin was more in use for the ‘unknown’

Anyway, excuse my yapping. Was this episode really the first theremin action of Star Wars?

First I really liked the show a lot! Second I know I'm late to the party I have had a lot of stuff happening in my life and just never got to check it out plus I rewatched Rebels. Now overall I thought the show was super awesome! The cast was fantastic and the cgi and action scenes were fantastic! I was so happy about the clone wars and rebels stuff they did in the show and Ray was a fantastic villain. I thought the story was pretty good and the writing was solid, but I did have some issues.

While the Idea of the Night Troopers was super cool and I was excited to see something like the Death Troopers from the book on screen. I was a bit let down and just was disappointed with how uninteresting they were. It was cool to see, but just overall wasn't amazing. I also wasn't a fan of Sabine in the show. I know that's probably been beaten to death as a judgement but I really didn't like her.

She was just kinda an aggravating character to listen to and got on my nerves a few time throughout the show. I thought the actress did a fine job with what she had but the writing was where it fell short. One thing I absolutely adore was Lars Mikkelsen as Grand Admiral Thrawn wow! He was fantastic and his writing was great. Also Hayden was fantastic as well and I loved the sequences of him fighting Ashoka!

Overall I give the show an 8.3/10 a great show that really could have been even better if it had more fleshed out Ideas. Now onto Skeleton Crew!

With Zahn using them across 5 books, do yall think they will become prominent? Will they become the next villain? from the books, by the time of Thrawn Treason, they seem to be well into their conquest...