Darths & Droids IV: Not in Numerical Order

[Keltest]

Dwarves haven't mined down far enough to find that bar.

Is that when their kingdom gets destroyed by the Bar-rog?

[Kantaki]

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Isn't Kylo just the image of stability and reasonableness?
"Tell me everything you know about that droid."
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"Shut up about the droid. It isn't important."


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No, no, he's pretty much throwing a tantrum.
At least here the Nute GunrAI thing offers some justification.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Probably checking that it wasn't R2.

[theangelJean]

New comic. I'm guessing keybounce is having a holiday break, while it seems the Comic Irregulars aren't. Although I thought I saw one more commentary than there had been before, so maybe you're catching up?

The scene in the most current comic - I currently watch the first half of this scene, every second day as a cutscene in, of all things, the teeth-brushing-timer/distraction app we use with my daughter. Add that to the list of things to avoid, I guess, spoiler-avoiders - Oral B Disney Magic Timer. Easy enough if you haven't got an under-10-year-old kid, I imagine.

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I saw it an hour or so ago, and mused on how they'd render it in comic - just in time, I guess. It's the scene where Finn gets BB-8 to tell Rey they're going to the Arlenium system, and BB-8 hesitates because Finn obviously has no idea, adding to BB-8's mistrust of Finn. It's crucial to the character dynamics in the movie, not to mention the exposition dump, and none of it comes across in the screenshots - the subsequent flamelighter thumbs-up is now interpreted as positive rather than menacing and ironic. Love it.

[Rogar Demonblud]

The scene you're thinking of, memnarch, is when the Falcon is busting out of Tatooine at the start of A New Hope. Han lists some of the reasons you want to let the navigation computer finish the calculations.

[memnarch]

The scene you're thinking of, memnarch, is when the Falcon is busting out of Tatooine at the start of A New Hope. Han lists some of the reasons you want to let the navigation computer finish the calculations.

Aha! It was Episode IV then, thank you. The other scene I'd thought it could be a part of was the asteroid field escape with the space worm, but wasn't sure where exactly it would have happened there.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Yes, it would have been difficult to work that in, given that a broken hyperdrive was just a bit of a plot point right then.

[keybounce]

In answer to your question in the comments, keybounce, may I point you towards Jim's scheme with 'Fredo/Greedo/Han' in Eps 4 & 5?

Sorry, now that I am caught up on commentaries, and catching up here, what question was this again?

[keybounce]

Sounds a bit spoilery to me since unspoiled readers have no idea who or what a Snoke is, but hey.

All I know is that "Snoke" apparently means "fish" and the C.I.'s are familiar with the "Jar Jar Sith" idea, and Jar Jar might not actually be dead.

Oh, and apparently we see this character briefly in 8 and fully in 9.

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Alright, those of you that have seen the movie, and know what scene is coming up:

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WTF? What The Film? Where They From? Why They [redacted]?

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[Rockphed]

All I know is that "Snoke" apparently means "fish" and the C.I.'s are familiar with the "Jar Jar Sith" idea, and Jar Jar might not actually be dead.

Oh, and apparently we see this character briefly in 8 and fully in 9.

You have no idea the ride you are in for. *Laughs in Mon Calamari*

[Narkis]

Alright, those of you that have seen the movie, and know what scene is coming up:

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WTF? What The Film? Where They From? Why They [redacted]?

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Oh boy, are you in for a wild ride if that tripped you up. Better strap your seatbelt.

[137beth]

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Alright, those of you that have seen the movie, and know what scene is coming up:

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WTF? What The Film? Where They From? Why They [redacted]?

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I knew Han was coming back because I had seen a segment on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, showing a highly fictionalized account of how J.J. Abrams and Stephen Colbert convinced Harrison Ford to be in the movie. They actually had Abrams and Ford film it.

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Abrams tells Ford that, if Ford refuses to be in TFA, Abrams may have to cast Stephen Colbert as Han. Colbert then annoys Ford enough to convince Ford that he would rather be in another Star Wars movie than see Colbert take over his part.

[Narkis]

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I knew Han was coming back because I had seen a segment on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, showing a highly fictionalized account of how J.J. Abrams and Stephen Colbert convinced Harrison Ford to be in the movie. They actually had Abrams and Ford film it.

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Abrams tells Ford that, if Ford refuses to be in TFA, Abrams may have to cast Stephen Colbert as Han. Colbert then annoys Ford enough to convince Ford that he would rather be in another Star Wars movie than see Colbert take over his part.

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This is more interesting than the truth

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which is that Disney signed him a check with lots of zeros

[Rogar Demonblud]

Sorry, now that I am caught up on commentaries, and catching up here, what question was this again?

From 1935:

Or... actually, have we seen any of the other characters act in a questionable manner?

[Kantaki]

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Heh. The Falcon and it's... awesome condition are always comedy gold.

[Rogar Demonblud]

It'd be a retirement gig to be selling them duct tape for a month.

[Anonymouswizard]

I'm guessing we'll see Jim's replacment character soon.

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Who clearly gets eaten by the tentacle beast I remember turning up about here, leading to the GM bringing back Han Solo for him to play. Assuming I've remembered the order of events right, I last saw the movie when it was out in cinemas.

Really, the main problem with the Falcon is that you can't tell the duct tape keeping the ship together apart from the duct tape that serves as navigational aids. At this point I'd be more comfortable adventuring with Serron than in this ship, at least the Legacy won't fall apart.

[Morquard]

I'm guessing we'll see Jim's replacment character soon.

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Who clearly gets eaten by the tentacle beast I remember turning up about here, leading to the GM bringing back Han Solo for him to play. Assuming I've remembered the order of events right, I last saw the movie when it was out in cinemas.

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No, Han is arriving first. He should appear within the next two comics I guess. He's the one transporting the tentacle beasts,a nd the bounty hunters want him to pay his debts, so he unleashes that thing. Of course it could be that he's one of those bounty hunters and on the hunt for Han (you know to steal, I mean inherit, his former PCs stuff. And things go a bit wrong

[Rogar Demonblud]

Really, the main problem with the Falcon is that you can't tell the duct tape keeping the ship together apart from the duct tape that serves as navigational aids. At this point I'd be more comfortable adventuring with Serron than in this ship, at least the Legacy won't fall apart.

Not with Quercus on the job.

[Kantaki]

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Why Chewbacca uses a crossbow?
Because he always did.

Also, I love how Jim calls his own plan (both times) stupid.

[memnarch]

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Why Chewbacca uses a crossbow?
Because he always did.

Also, I love how Jim calls his own plan (both times) stupid.

Anyway, who wouldn't want use a legendary(?) plasma crossbow?

[Dire_Flumph]

Man, reading the commentary I envy you guys. I found out via press release more than a year before seeing the film and it just wasn't the same.

Stupid spoiler culture.

[SirKazum]

Why Chewbacca uses a crossbow?
Because he always did.

Incidentally, the main reason why I always knew Chewbacca used a crossbow, more than the movies, is Super Star Wars for the SNES. A not insignificant portion of my Star Wars memories are actually from that game; if I hadn't re-watched the whole OT and PT in anticipation for the ST, I'd have trouble separating what's from that game (or maybe also the X-Wing / Tie Fighter flight-sim-style series) and what's from the actual movies.

And the lightsaber was completely busted in that game. An absolute pleasure to use too.

[The Glyphstone]

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He's apparently 234 years old. So basically the Wookie equivalent to early 40's.

https://www.fandom.com/articles/chew...e-wookiee-lore

....does this mean Han is just the latest human-pet that Chewie adopted to hang out with, since his relative lifespan is that of a dog?

[Rogar Demonblud]

Man, reading the commentary I envy you guys. I found out via press release more than a year before seeing the film and it just wasn't the same.

Stupid spoiler culture.

Considering this scene was in every trailer and commercial, including the ones for the weekly reruns on TV, I'm surprised they were surprised. That's some impressive dedication to coming in clean.

[Rockphed]

I repeat my previous assertion. *Cackles in Gungan*
*Chortles in Mandalorian*
*ROFLs in Wookiee*

[Xihirli]

Stupid spoiler culture.

I don't know how much you can really blame the culture for spoiling the trailer. It's... the trailer.

[Anonymouswizard]

Considering this scene was in every trailer and commercial, including the ones for the weekly reruns on TV, I'm surprised they were surprised. That's some impressive dedication to coming in clean.

To be fair, you can miss a lot by just not paying attention. It's entirely possible that one or both of them have seen a trailer for the film but made sure to bury themselves in a book as soon as they raised what it was.

Plus, honestly, when I saw the film I expected these two to show up a lot later. I went in knowing they'd appear, but was expecting them in like the last few scenes to throw in a new plot thread going forward.

[Rockphed]

To be fair, you can miss a lot by just not paying attention. It's entirely possible that one or both of them have seen a trailer for the film but made sure to bury themselves in a book as soon as they raised what it was.

Plus, honestly, when I saw the film I expected these two to show up a lot later. I went in knowing they'd appear, but was expecting them in like the last few scenes to throw in a new plot thread going forward.

A great plot-writer JJ Abrams isn't.

[Anonymouswizard]

A great plot-writer JJ Abrams isn't.

No, but it's not exactly hard to throw anther mystery box in here. Near the end of the movie Han and Chewie show up, tracking down a gungan Force Adept who's in possession of something very important to the Rebelliance. Maybe as a transmission in the last scene saying they've found them, and then allowing Film 8 to maybe jump back ten minutes to open with the Falcon landing on the planet...

Okay, Abrams would very much not write something like that, he'd more likely have Chewbacca show up twenty minutes in looking for Han, but have not actually decided what's happened to the smuggler. But I had no experience with Abrams at the time beyond the two Star Trek films he did, I've not even seen Lost.