#oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit

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Nobody is allowed to call Starkiller OP when Anakin fucking Skywalker blew up the Vuutun Palaa at the ripe age of 9 while having only ever piloted fucking pod racers before. So none of you can call Galen a Mary Sue.

I can though. Hope this helps!!!

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Why do folks care if their faceless voiceless blank OP player character Mary Sue Revan is canonically female in KOTORemake. Why does it matter. When did it matter that Revan was canonically male in Legends except for the Revan book (that I thought we all agreed was bad) and the SWTOR story) that I'm fairly sure we all agreed was stupid). Satele and Theron can still exist as long as Bastila survives in the canon ending bc their connection to Revan is literally meaningless even in situations where they literally encounter Revan. Regardless, canon changes won't change SWTOR's story as SWTOR isn't canon.

I mean, there are definitely things that we should actually be concerned about for KOTORemake (especially since not all of the VAs are with us anymore), but Revan's "canon" gender ain't one of them.

#star wars #star wars: knights of the old republic #kotor #kotor remake #oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit #there's no point in even trying to have a good discussion about the game anymore #bitches complaining about the writers or it being ''too woke'' (as though the original wasn't super political #and didn't feature star wars's first canon lgbtq+ character) #like let's talk about the combat changing!! the graphics!! the likely (and needed!!) changes to dark side dialogue options!! important shit #and also quit complaining about the high republic game just bc it's the high republic era and you're too much of a dumbass to see #for yourself that it's a different era than kotor and therefore *not* a ''tor ripoff'' (as tho kotor isn't a tales of the jedi ripoff 🙄)

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Rip to all you Rebels stans who had to contend with dumbasses shitting on your excellent show throughout its entire run and now that it's *finally* getting love you're still not allowed to win :( Truly the strongest of us all

#star wars #oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit #saw someone say the grand inquisitor was ''revenge'' for rebels' yoda and anakin designs which sent me but yeah #also rebels!thrawn gets so much shit but that was a MUCH better use of the character than any of tcw's legends transplants #tcw! quinlan? ventress? mandalorians? unrecognizable from the source material in so many ways #meanwhile rebels!thrawn is literally just a younger thrawn who hasn't slept with pallaeon yet #ANYWAYS rebels is really good and is in many aspects a better representation of sw than tcw and hera syndulla deserves literally everything

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I want more of my comps to start arguing with me again lmao

Like, easily one of my favorite parts of KOTEF/KOTET was Koth, who can abandon your DS V ass and steal your ship if he doesn’t like your moral choices. Having Koth around was great because he actively spoke out against the shadier shit that Lana and even Theron were totally cool with going along with, and so it 1.) made conflict! And conflict is interesting! and 2.) made that particular Outlander way more cautious and shrewd when making choices regarding Zakuulans.

Koth got significantly less screentime in KOTET (except for the mission where it was obvious that had you done The Thing that had gotten him to leave, he would’ve been back to either be killed or cause drama), and while I overall liked ET more the FE, it definitely felt weaker when it came to character interactions and different character development options (EXCEPT for Torian/Vette because. well. you know). Koth and Senya’s interactions were cool, for example, since it showed that they actually agreed on a lot of things and approaches when it came to helping Zakuul (which makes Senya’s “betrayal” and Koth’s reaction all the more tragic imo—Koth was so pissed off about her because he hadn’t wanted to be right about her choosing herself and her family over everyone else, he hadn’t wanted to go back to hating her). Koth was also practically nonexistent in the entirety of the Iokath/Nathema/Zildrog arc except for the final cutscene, which is ridiculous seeing as how the motherfucking Gravestone--yanno, the ship he basically claimed as his own, modified by himself, put his crew on, can possibly betray your ass and steal--blew up, with his narrative role instead being given to Hylo.

Some of the shit is fine, of course. Quinn can betray you (again because LS SWs will actually never fucking get a break and exist only to suffer) and so can Elara, Bey’wan can retire due to mixed feelings, all of your Imp/Pub recruits can send you letters about their misgivings if you side with their opposing faction, etc., but none of it has so far gone to the extent that it could. I get that this is partly due to the 180 the game went through from KOTFE/ET to the good ol’ Space Nazis vs. Shitty Space Politicians, but it also feels so...half-assed?

On one hand, I can see why it wouldn’t be a great idea for you to lose half of your comps due to them being aligned with the opposite faction, especially since your DS Imp loyalist IA has had T7 around for a few years now, and for certain characters, it actually makes sense for them to be okay with switching loyalties. Guys like Aric and Theron, for example, are obviously still loyal to the Republic, but they went through some pretty shitty experiences during the five years the Outlander was napping, and so they have more reasons to be loyal to the Outlander/Alliance as they were the ones that brought results and got rid of the Zakuulan royal brats problems. Likewise, comps such as Pierce and Quinn are going to be loyal to their original class PC (in this case, the SW) no matter what, which can be seen in how Quinn can still join the Alliance even after he betrays you if you side with the Republic. But this is where stuff gets gray and gray can still get a bit too black-and-white for some of these characters.

I fucking love T7, and even my more DS-inclined Outlanders are quite fond of him. At the same time, I’m just not sure how it makes sense for T7 to be working with an Imp loyalist who’s working with the guy who killed T7′s old master under any circumstances.

I actually liked the idea of gray/third options in KOTFE/ET, but the game just doesn’t seem to be structured in a way that makes that work. Neutral!Smuggler is still the Republic’s lackey come Ilum, Darth Imperius is on the Dark Council at the end of their class story, and you have to sit on the Eternal Throne no matter what at the end of ET. The game has never been interested in the gray area despite all of the little tidbits thrown in here and there (like WHO THE FUCK IS ISAACS WHAT THE FUCK BIOWARE), and so it just seems...well, jarring that the story is still acting as though that’s still (or ever was) an option.

#bioware wanted an rp-driven mmo at launch but that tyrned out to be extremely fucking expensive #so they switched to single player come kotfe/et (really became apparent duruing sor tbh) and that didn't work bc it still was an mmo #and then they switched back and now it's all fucked #anyways this is just my ramblings nkt trying to start shit or anything lol #star wars #swtor #star wars: the old republic #oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit

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It's kinda fucked up that the Sith were originally just one of countless species in the galaxy who were very active in the original Je'daii Order but that schism after schism caused the Jedi to grow so afraid of the Dark Side that they refused to fix their own problems (i.e. Ajunta and his followers) and those Jedi-caused problems led to the Sith eventually growing extinct and their name forever being affiliated with the people (aka ex-Jedi) who conquered them. 

#star wars #star wars eu #star wars legends #the sith #the jedi order #ajunta pall #oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit #like ik it's kind of. like. a recurring motif for the jedi to bring about their own downfall due to their fear #but the sith were literally casualties of that #like it isn't the sith species's fault that the jedi fucked up when it came to ajunta and his actions #tbf it's mostly ajunta's fault for being an arrogant bastard but i'm p sure you can fairly lay blame at the feet of the people who made him #bc ajunta was just a product of the order of the time #just like those who fell before and after him

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Not sure what's up with the current Slave-1 discourse. Selling a LEGO set of Slave-1 as "Boba Fett's Ship" makes sense bc Boba Fett 1.) is a more recognizable name to customers and audiences (especially children) than Slave-1 and 2.) is trademarked. Until canon material (such as a comic but preferably something more concrete like The Book of Boba Fett) calls it something else then the Slave-1's name hasn't actually been changed.

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I'm just now learning that new canon calls female Sith Lords "Sith Ladies" and I'm gonna froth at the mouth.

#star wars #sith order #it's so fucking stupid #''lord'' has always been gender neutral in the context of the sith order #this of course doesn't include lumiya and those like her who specifically went by lady #but overall sith women used lord (gender neutral) #hence lord zash and fem!lord wrath (if playing a female sith warrior) #virtually any high-ranking sith below darth is a lord #idk maybe i'm just being petty but i think it's a stupid decision #and it takes the title away from the original sith language #jedi don't have different titles depending on gender why would the sith have them? the sith literally split off from the jedi #and they only care about power not gender. a sith being sexist would be an individual thing and not something shared by the order #after all zannah was literally bane's successor #oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit

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One thing that demonstrates my growth as a person since I was 14 is that I now understand that Rebels!Ahsoka design is peak Ahsoka design. Anakin and Yoda still are cursed af but Ahsoka looks perfect.

#star wars #ahsoka tano #cw could've won but the final season decided to give her fucking blue lightsabers #idc if there's a lore reason for why they're blue it's still stupid and i hate it #enough of the blue lightsaber oversaturation already #oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit

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Oh wait remember that one chick from The Battle for Endor who was hot and could turn into a bird for some reason? Because I do.

#star wars #oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit #the most willow-esque of lucas sw media

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Love that Ajunta Pall is canon but Mara Jade isn’t, Disney makes the wisest possible decisions regarding Legends and canon <3

#star wars #star wars legends #ajunta pall #mara jade #also THIS IS A FUCKING JOKE i love mara and want her to be canon #it's just funny that ajunta is technically more canon than her rn even tho she's always been infinitely more popular #oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit

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It is an absolute crime that X2 and 1138 never met.

#star wars #starkiller #galen marek #x2 #star wars x2 #they would've just been vibing #like ''yo so you're a clone of one of kota's dead apprenticed?? and there's also an evil version of you?? same bro!!" #and then they would've instantly been best friends #oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit #except this is not pointless this is actually one of my few good star wars takes okay

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Freedon Nadd was actually kind of cool for a Jedi-turned-Sith despite his stupid name: he (in spirit form btw bc he’s been dead for over 400 years at this point) 1.) used a dying Ommin to distract the Jedi while he gave Aleema and Satal Keto certain Sith artifacts, ensuring that Sith practices would survive even after his followers’ deaths and his imprisonment in his tomb; 2.) took Ommin’s spirit when the guy was still trying to attack the Jedi bc while “maybe one or two” of that Jedi group would fall to the Dark Side, the rest were supposed to continue to serve the Light and Nadd could respect that; and 3.) then gave the politest “fuck you” to a Jedi Master (who had just threatened to imprison his spirit, which would actually happen right after and Nadd knew this) by pointing out that the Jedi still lost despite winning Onderon and defeating him bc the Sith are destined to return by the will of the Force, which said Jedi Master even admitted to his student that the Jedi holocrons foretold as well. Freedon Nadd really encapsulates what I love the most about the pre-Banite Sith: powerful and manipulative but also wise enough to recognize that as long as the Sith Order survives, then the individual Sith never truly “loses” in the long run. Fucking Chad.

#star wars #star wars eu #star wars legends #star wars: tales of the jedi #freedon nadd #the sith #oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit

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The most upsetting thing about being a SW fan in my experience is that on tumblr a certain SW character's tag is also used by as a ship name by the HP fandom so I have to see that shit every time something new is posted under the tag.

#star wars #galen deserves so much better than to be buried under shitty hp ship drabbles #oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit

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"George Lucas intended X" or "George Lucas meant X as Y" look buddy I don't know how else to say this but I don't think everything George Lucas did regarding Star Wars was amazing or good for the franchise. The reason why we got the OT was bc he listened to a lot of people and allowed other creators to tweak his original ideas (hence why ESB was directed by Kirshner and ROTJ was directed by Marquand and why Kasdan was involved in the writing of both screenplays to name just a few exanples). The reason why we got the PT is bc George did the writing and directing p much entirely on his own.

Other creators did a lot for the franchise as we know it. Obvs people will bring up Filoni, but Timothy Zahn basically defined the original EU with the Thrawn Trilogy. Dozens of authors and hundreds of books/comics/etc. were building upon the OT and Zahn. The reason why we have double-bladed lightsabers and a Jedi Council is bc Tom Veitch and Kevin Anderson made them for Tales of the Jedi. P much all Mandalorian lore was fleshed out by Karen Traviss.

I'm not trying to dismiss George Lucas or anything like that, but idk why people keep bringing him up in discussions about characters or lore bc 1.) he's not involved in Star Wars anymore and 2.) odds are most of the lore and even some of the characters you're talking about probably only look the way they do bc of other creators. "George viewed the balance as the Dark Side being defeated" doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.

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Being a Star Wars fan is great bc it's just silly space movies and it's stupid fun and both the canon and the Legends stuff can be enjoyable but whenever I see anything refer to Korriban as Moraband I want to throw my phone at the wall.

#star wars #''it sounds too much like coruscant'' george you literally had the planets TATOOINE and DANTOOINE in the same fucking movie! tf were you on! #i'm not even salty bc korriban is still canon it's just the old name #but korriban just sounds sexier than moraband #oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit #star wars legends #star wars eu

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No offense but the Mortis arc is kinda really stupid. I think it has good moments and ideas (Sam Witwer as The Son anyone???) but overall I just don't think it breaks any new ground when it comes to portraying the Force or the concept of the Balance.

#also what was the point of cutting the scene with revan and bane???? that at least would have provided some nuance to the dark side #like at what point is the dark side its own entity and at what point is it just a cycle of bitter assholes manipulating people and events? #star wars #star wars: the clone wars #tcw watchthrough #oimoi rants about pointless star wars bullshit