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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 26, 2018 0:02:41 GMT
Obviously, if Applelight had commissioned it, then Pinkie would have also been fat in that last panel.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 24, 2018 1:41:14 GMT
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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 23, 2018 16:07:32 GMT
I read his comic series "The Clone That Got Away" a bit ago. It's about one of the Pinkie clones from "Too Many Pinkie Pies" who didn't get rounded up like the rest and ran away to Manehattan instead. And he wrote this months before "The Saddle Row Review" had that random Pinkie clone cameo.
Interesting that he draws five of his humanized mane six with hourglass figures, but still mixes up their proportions enough that they don't look like palette swaps of each other.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 31, 2018 19:00:48 GMT
MLP reference spotted in the new Ducktales cartoon:
The ducks run into a pair of kelpies, voiced by Andrea Libman (doing her Fluttershy voice) and Tara Strong (doing her impression of Fluttershy).
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 24, 2018 16:02:27 GMT
Tapirs truly are the least respected mammal.
(That's a bit of a running gag in my family.)
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Post by Mezzaphor on Mar 24, 2018 2:23:14 GMT
Did you see the tapirs?
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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 23, 2018 22:51:16 GMT
Yeah, those do look nice.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 15, 2018 5:21:47 GMT
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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 13, 2018 2:58:33 GMT
Yeah, the concept of "aliens from outside the galaxy, who aren't connect to the Force, so even the Jedi are at a loss for how to deal with them" is the important part, I think. Their appearances are negotiable, and I'm not a huge fan of all their ships being organic/biotech.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 12, 2018 21:43:29 GMT
Ugh. Sorry to hear that.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 12, 2018 3:37:36 GMT
From what I heard, the original Yuzhaan Vong story arc had some issues, but the Vong themselves are a great concept for an enemy faction, and they'd definitely be epic enough to support another whole trilogy.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 11, 2018 20:13:57 GMT
Droid liberation would be interesting, but a bit awkward and super easy to mess up. Droids are pretty much slaves in the SW galaxy. The movie heroes to date have treated their own droids well, but are still totally okay with the institution of owning a sapient lifeform just because it's mechanical. The movies get away with it now because they just ignore that fact. If they try to actually tackle that in a movie, they'd have to acknowledge that all our Star Wars heroes have been complicit in a system of droid abuse and exploitation on a massive scale ... and there might be temptation for the writers to just uphold the status quo and make the droid liberation movement the bad guys.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 10, 2018 17:07:06 GMT
Yeah, I think it's something like that. One of the Lucasfilm continuity gurus posted something on Twitter, how all living things are connected to the Force, so anyone can tap into it to a minor degree, sometimes without even realizing. Like, someone with a sudden string of good luck was subconsciously using the Force to influence events in their favor.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 9, 2018 6:55:53 GMT
So, a lot of digital ink has been spilled about how midichlorians ruined the Force in the prequel trilogy, and how Rey being the daughter of "nobody" traders is fixing the mistake that the prequels made. And the argument I see the most is that midichlorians made your ability to use the Force dependent on having the right genes, destroying the idea that the Force was something mystical that anyone could tap into if they just tried hard enough. And then Rey, being completely unrelated to any prior Force-users, somehow made the Force egalitarian again.
And I think that entire line of thinking is completely off-base.
See, even in the original trilogy, the Force was never presented as something truly egalitarian. Maybe you could interpret it that way in A New Hope, but even there, Darth Vader's line that "The Force is strong with this one," already implies that affinity with the Force varies from person to person. Then in The Empire Strikes Back, there's the exchange between Obi-wan and Yoda: "That boy is our last hope." "No. There is another." Right from the mouths of the Jedi masters: out of an entire galaxy, only one person (or maybe two) could possibly become strong enough to defeat Darth Vader. That's complete nonsense if you believe anyone could become a Jedi with the proper training. And then Return of the Jedi introduced the idea that Force affinity could be genetic, when Luke says outright that, "The Force is strong with my family."
So the introduction of midichlorians changed the nature of Force the much less than people think. The bits everyone complains about were there in the OT all along, just glossed over at the time. What's funny is, while the PT rubbed the concept of genetic Force strength in all our faces, it also seemed to debunk the idea of Jedi bloodlines. Attack of the Clones established that the Jedi aren't supposed to form attachments, giving the impression that they're an order of celibate monks. If Force strength were purely genetic, and the most prominent order of Force-users were celibate, then how are there still Force users around after thousands of years? I think we're supposed to come away with the impression that the majority of Jedi Knights were like Rey: Force-sensitive children born to completely ordinary parents. (The Extended Universe later clarified that the Jedi are only forbidden from emotional attachments, and casual sex is totally okay. But George Lucas has frequently given the impression that he doesn't care what happens in the EU at all; I think if he wanted us to believe that the Jedi Order perpetuates itself through casual sex, the movies would have said so.)
Now, midichlorians definitely changed the flavor of the Force. I can't begrudge anyone who just prefers "a mystical energy field that binds all things in the universe together" over "your connection to the mystical energy field is mediated by single-celled organisms in your blood". And I think giving the Republic Jedi a way to numerically quantify someone's Force strength is a bad idea. Unless you're going to show that the Jedi had lost their way when they relied too much on cold numbers like that—something the PT never explored deeply enough.
So what did the sequel trilogy change about our understanding of the Force? I don't think they really changed much at all. Some people are just naturally gifted in the Force, either because of good genes (Luke Skywalker, Ben Solo) or because It's space magic, I don't gotta explain nothin (Anakin Skywalker, Rey). But if you don't have some baseline strength in the Force, you're just outta luck. It's like what Anton Ego said in Ratatouille: "Anyone can cook" doesn't mean that everyone can cook, but that a great cook can come from anywhere. Only this time, we're cooking with lightsabers.
I think Rey does shake up the status quo, but just on a meta level. She's yanking the narrative away from the Skywalker family. You can make a main-series Star Wars movie without a Skywalker as the main protagonist now! And if Kylo Ren dies without leaving any kids, we'll see main-series Star Wars movies without any Skywalkers at all, soon enough.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 5, 2018 5:46:31 GMT
Upon further thought, I suspect Solo is going to be exactly the sort of by-the-book story that the loudest detractors wish The Last Jedi had been. And those same people are going to hate it.
EDIT: Another, longer trailer dropped. This one makes the movie look a bit better.
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