Drifter

It's... certainly going to take some getting use to...

He was the emperor of an evil empire... and was more powerful than Vader (because Vader was his bitch)... nothing more was needed because we knew nothing. It was also a logical assumption: there was an evil empire, so there had to be an evil emperor, and that was all that was needed. Then his wrinkly pale face got screen-time and we get more, but because of what we learned in the previous films we knew more about him and what he did and what he was, and that was all we needed. But because of what was established in the first three films the prequels HAD to show his rise, didn't have to focus as much on him as they did, probably shouldn't have, but eh, fuck it. But now for a Demigod Snoke to show up AFTER all the crap that went into deposing the emperor. Where the fuck was his withered and gnarly ass hiding all this time? As for screwing over the previous films, all the new films have really succeeded in doing is negating the struggle of the previous films. Not even because of what's transpired on screen in the new films even, but before the camera even rolled the galaxy had gone to shit, with the first order one dead system, one death ray or accidental supernova away from conquering the galaxy all over again, implying that nothing was made better by the heroes of the last series. The happy ending was a lie. And what's worse is that these aren't even new fucking struggles. Nothing changes. Why fight at all? Fucking grim-dark sci-fi bullshit.

"It's all there in the supplementary material." Still, Grievous and Darth Maul could have been assumed to have been picked up by the big baddies as followers, they fit into the one word description of Disciple, Expert, Consultant, Bodyguard, Assassin... archetypes that don't require much of an explanation because they could have always been in the background and you'd have never noticed before if they were... Supreme Leader and Dark-Side Powerhouse kinda need more of a backstory to justify his presence, especially when the last series of films were about the rise and fall of his predecessor. Had he been some knowledgeable but weakly-powered imperial bureaucrat under the last emperor it would make more sense, but he's a fucking force flinging demigod... what the hell? ... And so far, we've got nothing, and it's annoying, and the people who write this crap know it's annoying the fans and are milking it as some self-righteous commentary of modern fandom when it's really just them being pissy at being called out for bad storytelling and wanting to remind the audience who wears the lightsaber in the relationship of author to audience. Still makes them disingenuous pricks and bad storytellers dangling an annoying plot hole in front of people.

As my wife put it before: "They've gone through too much shit for THAT to be their happily ever after." I've posted before on the problems of how the new films were crapping all over the old ones, betrayal might be too strong a word, but this modern nihilist cyclical bullshit in sci-fi is getting out of hand. Nobody's efforts pay off, not even the bad guys, it's fucking right there in a character's goddamn name, "DJ stands for 'Don't Join' you dumb shits," it's depressing when the director makes a point about the pointlessness of ethical struggles and the gray areas of morality in a fucking fantasy setting with the most obviously diametric representations of good and evil in the modern history of film. The only character I want an explanation for is Snoke. Who was this fucker and how did he come out of nowhere to rule over the imperial remnant as a dark-side godling? Seriously, he makes no sense what so ever, you can't even make a reasonable assumption there. Everybody else has, if not simple purpose, then a one worded explanation for their existence, soldier, pilot, pirate, slicer... Dark Side Demigod? Where the fuck was he hiding, the emperor's summer empire? Were they ruling parts of the galaxy in some kind of time-share? I don't even mind that Rey was a nobody, democratizing the Force is fine if not a good thing. It was getting a little annoying with everybody being blood relatives; with the Jedi lineages were getting as convoluted as the European Monarchy. But who the fuck was Snoke? I'm still shipping for him being Ezra from SWR.

I have no idea how this would work. At the end of the second movie they've pretty much become living demigods; their music supposedly solving all social and environmental ills and allowing meaningful communications with all forms of life on earth. Not to mention they have solved several of creation's most important metaphysical questions because their band includes actual space aliens and death itself... and to top it off Rufus is dead. Sigh, I hope it's fun at least.

Overheard at my local gaming shop where I play DnD: No, the name of the anime is Neon Genesis Evangelion; not Pastel Revelation Episcopalian! You're just saying that to annoy me!

I play a mean english flute (aka recorder), I also had played clarinet in middle school... I'm sure there's a joke about playing a mean skin-flute in here somewhere

It happened to George Carlin too back in the late 70s, he wasn't able to get clear till the late 90s. Sadly, I don't think Stan has another 20 years in him. I say unleash the internet upon the ne'er-do-wells. Stan has an army of fanboys who would do anything for him. If people are ripping him off and he makes a public plea, heads will roll, accountants will be doxed, businesses will be ruined. Unfortunately, while there may be justice but there will most likely be collateral damage, so... yeah...

here we go

wasn't there a Scooby doo murder mysteries parody aside on family guy or some such with the actual voice actor for Fred declaring they 'were dealing with one sick son of a bitch'? I'll try to find the clip when I get home.

you're fucking shitting me...

ah yes, the face of a grizzled prison guard bucking to make NYPD Detective... a solid backstory with perfect casting.

history was kind because he wrote it...

well April and Casey were adults in the 2003-2009 series so it's been about a decade with young teen humans.

ah, so the cure to leukemia is to be raised by an T-800, gotcha.

because they are the two most iconic weapons from the franchise ... and this april, regardless of ethnicity, looks too much like 80s Irma for my taste.

so in the new timeline she didn't die from breast cancer... or did she fake her own death in the main timeline... I don't remember... I barely remember 3.

hah, the 80s perm, right up there with the jheri curl... ah, memories

whoa, raph with tonfas, weird