i like the bucket head guys with the red suits, but endor is totally my favorite part of return of the jedi
also as a like 11 year old i would hypersexualize the dynamic between luke/vader/the emperor and id have dreams about luke being like yeah I’ll join the darkside and then he gets chained up in the endless death tube getting erotically zapped by the emperor
Return of the Jedi
is the exact mid-point between the first two movies and the prequels.
Well, fuck, Eunyoung Choi and Hiroyuki Imaishi are both making Star Wars things
is it really pronounced “on a may”?
Not in my America
One of my personal ticks is I have always pronounced it “American Style” even in Japanese.
Joke Answer: look don’t say gamer words on this forum.
Only acceptable pronunciation is “ah•nīm”, obviously.
wait til you hear about manga
I hate that that after I successfully stopped caring about Star Wars Disney commissioned an anime short with furries which was basically the only way to get me back to any real degree.
its the sort of hyper correction that also ended up with shin megami tensei 4’s english VAs saying “summer eye” for samurai.
saw someone describe the new soul eater manga translation as “more western” because it uses singular they/them for a character and drops honorifics. good shit lol
Adaptation editors fighting the good fight against terrible weebs
Franz Ferdinand Jedi USO Show
pretty accurate early 2000’s document. if anyone for any reason ever wants to know what i was doing those years ill just show them this
Luuuke was less contrived
every time someone reminds me of this (I still haven’t watched episode 9 in its entirety) I am newly baffled by the idea that a bunch of people sat down in a room and decided to make ian mcdiarmid into the narratively most important character across 9 star wars movies
He’s really good in the prequels though. In that case it makes sense, he’s like Christopher Lee when it comes to making ridiculous dialogue compelling. But even that is not enough to save tros
It’s a shame none of the serviceable production design from The Phantom Menace was referenced instead if they wanted to tie it back. The Coruscant rebellion art in the Trevorrow script is so inspired.
oh, speaking of star wars, i finally started watching the bad batch and… i don’t love it? the backgrounds and the animation of anything that isn’t a human(oid) is beautiful, but i feel like they are sticking too close to the clone wars look for this. it is a lot darker and more violent, and i think a riff on the style in the opposite direction of what they did for rebels would have worked better for this.
writing wise it feels like a few steps back to like early clone wars seasons where most episodes are just characters talking about what they plan to do, what is happening to them, or what they are doing at that moment, with extremely contrived “character development” bits occurring occasionally throughout each episode. except two of the main characters, tech and uh strong man, basically don’t have any kind of personality beyond their individual skills. it really feels like a premise that would have worked better as a video game!
i’m about halfway through the episodes that have been released so far, and it seems to be picking up a bit, but they have managed to take the worst aspects of the mandalorian (introduce at least one familiar character from some other star wars franchise per episode, end on a very contrived cliff hanger, etc) without applying much of the qualities that helped make that show, or even the later clone wars seasons/rebels, actually good
Yeah, my partner turned me into a Clone Wars/Rebels believer (the end of Rebels is conceptually my favorite Star Wars) and Bad Batch should have been a homecoming for that creative team but they seem to be spread over the live action shows now