Reti4 - Drinking game to be had with this one. Take a shot every time I say "Appreciate" in one form or another. In my defense it was 04:00 in the morning and I hadn't slept at all, but still...
Fanalysis Aw dude reti! I got 5 beer in mu fridge still ima do dis! I wish i could download you guys so many more should be listening to this your guys show is extremely thought well and beautifully said
Traj lol good one, Bane would definitely win tho because of his precognition. And if it’s bane in his prime, he could just mind rape Lando and get him to do whatever he wanted.
in that scene i only wondered how they would display the sabacc game - as a game. I expected them to play the version with the changing values but i guess like in rl there are many ways you can play it. Also Bane played it 1000+ years before Lando.
Ive warched the holiday special over 5 times in one sitting, you guys should watch it. I could imagine you guys just talking about how this could fit into the the new canon
First in TCW, then in rebels, now in a movie, next probably in his own series, and after that his own movie. Then maybe they'll FINALLY put the dead pulp back in its grave FOR GOOD. Then in 2030 they'll dig the skeleton and give his movie a sequel.
*Please do a livestream of watching the holiday special now it's not just bad it is nearly unwatchable it's essentially 2 hours of Wookiee talking to each other with no subtitles*
I liked Solo okay. There were things I liked (I thought Donald Glover was the best part of the movie). There were things I had criticisms of. But Solo continues to prove my belief that the anthology films are better than the main narrative films (concerning the Disney-made films). Solo is a fun movie. And I like fun movies. My biggest critique is Emilia Clarke. I just... outside of Game of Thrones, she doesn't seem to be that good of an actress. She seemed really wooden and not subtle. I don't know if it was her or the writing, but every time she was on screen, I kept going to myself "betray him already. Betray him already. Betray him already."
The only thing Disney is managing to do is burn bridges. In other words they're destroying anything that could be good from the old canon. Spoilers don't matter for this movie. No one cares. And that's the saddest part. 13:17 And there it is!
Fanalysis could you do a new coment section machop, were you cover some machups like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker vs. TCW Maul and Sevange Opress, or Shaak Ti vs. Darth Maul (TPM)? if you could, that would be great.
The problem is that this is a story I was never interested in, you know. I mean, I just could not make my self care. At all. Also: Driden Vos?!Really?VOS?!
The part of The movie I really hated was how Han got his last name my mouth dropped opened and I shielded my eyes also it's kinda stupid to make an origin story for a character they killed off it already makes me not inclined to enjoy it
Leia: "When do I meet the Solos?" Han: "I was orphaned at a young age. I don't know what my parent's last name was." Leia: "Wait, how did you get the name 'Solo?'" Han: "Some Imperial recruiting station guy gave it to me. This was before I left the Imperial military." Leia: "So you kept the name that some Imperial gave you after you deserted and later fought against them? Why?" Han:...*shrugs* Leia: "Let's hope our son drops it when he gets married." Ben: "I'm Kylo Ren." Han: "Bet you were wishing he kept the name, huh?"
Although you have touched on pretty much every party of the movies throughout all your videos, I would really enjoy seeing all of you (including Matt) do a Fanalysis on the original trilogy.
Also the Aura Sing and Jabba references really infuriated me. I'm sorry, but I have trouble believing that Beckett killed Aura Sing. Also, Beckett calls Jabba a "local crime lord." If memory serves (and I could be wrong), Jabba was one the most powerful crime lords in the entire galaxy, if not the most powerful.
Honestly, Aurra has been such a fan-favorite character for so long that she deserved a much better send-off than a cheap way to make the new guy legit. Like, she was never shown to have died in Legends and like Asajj Ventress, her fate remained unknown. They were saving her for something. Now it looks like in order to prop up their new characters they have to kill the old ones. It's not a very good strategy if they want to keep hardcore fans. This and the Jabba bit just proves that Joe Johnson has no understanding of the Star Wars universe and its lore except from the brief summaries taken from either UA-cam or the Wookieepedia page.
@Grand Admiral Thrawn And the sad thing is, I do like those references. It makes the movie feel more cohesive to the entire Star Wars universe, rather than just sticking to the movies (for example, I really REALLY liked that Qi'ra said she knows Teras Kasi). But the Aurra (thank you for proper spelling by the way) thing really pissed me off. I mean, if Beckett was established or written better (hell, if Woody Harrleson gave a better performance... it felt like he was phoning it in), I might think differently. But as it stands, I just can't take seriously that this guy took out one of the greatest (not the greatest, but definitely closer to the top of the list) bounty hunters of the Clone Wars era.
Sir Jedi Sentinel I liked the Teräs Käsi reference too for a few reasons: 1) it's a legitimate martial arts form in Star Wars that's been around forever (pretty sure since the fighting game), 2) it explains Qi'ra's ability to fight in the movie and provides some background to what she was doing between the time jump, and 3) it helps to establish her character. When I first saw that scene I thought that she had been trained by Echani, but I was pleasantly surprised to hear her say that it was Teräs Käsi. Beckett's killing of Aurra irks me in that this guy is a thief and a smuggler; that's what we've seen him do in the movie. Sure, he's a fighter but that's just part of the life. He's not a bounty hunter or a mercenary whose job it is to track down and sometimes kill people. And he's a new man on the scene, so this was just a cheap shot.
1:25:25 As of today/this comment (30th November 2019) there are 11 comments requesting a Fanalysis for Star Wars: Holiday Special in some form - which I'd also like to see - so please, please do it for the Christmas season next month.
Thankfully I noticed some classic aliens in Solo which is also what I’ve been wanting from the new films, however not enough. I noticed that Rodian in Enfys Nest’s crew.
1:07:00 The battledroids are kind of expected to be one note. They are made on the cheap so anything in both hardware and software that could be considered superfluous is not added.
I disagree on people being fine with K2-SO if he were in L3's role. The main thing is that K2-SO was actually funny and the best crew member of the film whereas L3's overall character is the worst.
Apparently Scarface's desk is made of a tablet from the temple of Exar Kun. Atleast thats a good thing this movie brought along. Exar is now canon. Wonder if they are ever gonna us him or just let people hope his comics are "on the whole" canon.
11:00 All the militarizes are like that, every able body that is reasonably mentally sound can join the academy. However most just won't make it to the end
Reti4 - You tend to have background checks, basic qualification requirements and fitness tests prior to admittance though. And you definitely don't just walk up to a random desk in an airport or port to sign up. It's a very strange scene.
They are nowhere near as stringent as many people believe. Also when the army was expanding rapidly like during times of war it did go like that. Background checks aren't really needed if you are a citizen of the nation. Many nations actually still have it in their constitution that it's citizens have the right to fight in the army. What are "basic qualifications" is pretty lose. It usually just means good vision and decent health. A strong and fit young man like Han is ideal recruit material so they just let him. Today the size of armies is shrinking because of improved technology and it's increasingly more about quality than quantity. So since the army actually wants to decrease in number the requirements for new recruits are very strict. However if the army wants to expand the requirements are loosened. When the empire was establishing itself it needed to expand it's army quickly. Though you are right in that there usually is something like a paper you need to fill in but that's usually about it. Lying about your background in an official military paper is the same as lying under oath and therefore punishable by death.
I'll admit the new aliens in solo look a lot better and more interesting compared to a lot of the aliens we see in the Sequel Trilogy. Would like to see a Togruta and a Chiss though.
I wonder what droid manufacturer thought it was a good ide to make droids be able to feel oppressed or even hurt. Kind of kills the reson to create droids. They are suppose to be able to work and be treated like tools, because they are. It feels like the droids with personalities should be outliers, that not a majority of droids have feelings at all. Just slaves to their programing and owners. Giving them the same ability to think like a human will make them slaves when they are tools to be used. So why make them people? Outside of having unique characters for the audience to follow.
Droids tend to gain personalities the longer they go without memory wipes. R2 retained much of his personality and even became very sneaky due to never having a memory wipe. According to Lando, he couldn't memory wipe L3 because she was the best navigator in the galaxy, which I find hard to believe since astromechs are used in that regard. Also you can separate a droid from their memories and download them into something else. You are right though in that they are tools and can be turned back on.
It is kind of magical how they manages to get personalities just because the don't do a memorie whipe. How does a programing change without external help to some personality to them becoming a full blown person? It almost feels as if the programing is ment to do that, i'm just left wondering why.
I enjoyed the film, although I had absolutely no expectations going in. The film did completely lose momentum in a few areas though, like when I3-37 was introduced the film began to become far less enjoyable. It was a fun summer movie but I agree, it did not blow me away in any capacity.
I thought Mimban sounded familiar so I looked it up. Its the planet which Splinter in the Mind's Eye! I think that is a general trend in this film, the fact that they name dropped and used planets that are pre-established planets in Legends, if only for the name.
This was a weird one for me. Cause i was always kinda meh on the eu solo origin books. Like they were fun but i was never in love with his backstory. The same kinda goes for the movie. I enjoyed it and there were things i even really liked, but i still wasn't the most invested. So this is a case where i don't have strong feelings on the eu vs canon
Reti4 - Likewise. It was just a meh film covering insignificant subject matter for me. Only for some reason they decided to throw Maul into the mix. Again.
Reti4 - I've also seen his stuff, he and Jen share a lot of similarities in style. As for the realism of the two Universes it wouldn't be much of a debate. 40K is obscenely ludicrous by design. Star Wars is just the archetypal science-fantasy.
Okay this was just my take, but I did kinda suspect that the whole line about aurra sing, could have been a lie. Like maybe she's not dead, and Becket was just kinda playing up this rumor cause it gives him more cred
in regards to your discussion point at 1:58:00ish regarding Han and Jabba. This movie does take place 10 years before a New Hope, so it is entirely likely that Han will work for Jabba for years, only to have Jabba get pissed at him right before the events of A New Hope
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Solo. It will definitely have a place on shelf once it's released. As much as you guys hate seeing Maul post TMP, if you invert that it's how much I love seeing him. My favorite Sith of all time. But I do have to admit the lightsaber thing was cringe worthy.
I'll be 100% honest I have no interest whatsoever in seeing this film and Im actually happy that its struggling at the box office. It's my personal hope that with Solo's disappointing results, that Disney will learn that you can't rely on just the original trilogy when it comes to Star Wars. It just feels like this film is there to feed off of nostalgia. Really hoping we get that Obi Wan Kenobi with Ewen McGregor or what I think would be special would be a Mace Windu trilogy. Say what you will about the Prequels as films, but at least they were willing to try something new and expand George Lucas's world. I completely understand that Disney is reluctant to do anything Prequel related due to past mistakes by Lucas, but to ignore that Era is both foolish and disrespectful. There are a generation of people that were introduced to SW because of those films (myself included), surely Disney realizes that The Prequel Era (before it became legends) had stories that were just as good or dare I say it better then the original trilogy era. I am in absolutely no way trying to bash the original trilogy (very very far from it) but as great the original trilogy characters are they cannot (and should not) carry the entire SW universe all by themselves. It was quite a treat to hear all of your thoughts on this film Fanalysis. I'd also like to give a shout out to you Reti4 for giving your opinions on very little sleep. You have gained an enormous amount of respect from me as talking about the film could not have been easy. Treat yourself to something nice and once again, thank you all. :)
Reti4 - Unfortunately he wasn't able to watch the film prior to our recording slot. If he wants to cover it we'll be doing a one-man video for him as we did with Jen for The Last Jedi. Not sure if he'll be interested though, he had about as much enthusiasm for Solo going in as I did.
Did you guys know that George Lucas had a hand in the closet scene? When Han throws the cape he was holding back on top of the rack he was initially meant to hang it back up properly, but Lucas suggested he just throws it on the rack.
Grand Admiral Thrawn Ha yeah, I think Kennedy’s story group was petrified about letting Lucas near Star Wars considering they keep pandering to the original trilogy fans who loath the prequels and almost everything about them and so gave Lucas just a tiny amount of influence.
As insignificant as it was, I feel like it certainly did more to capture the spirit of the Han we see in the original trilogy. It would have been interesting if Lucas was the one who came up with the general story idea for the film while leaving the dialogue to others.
When you said you didn't necessarily love Kiera(?)'s character, but Emilia Clarke made it stick out - that's kind of like Harrison Ford as Han Solo The Generic Space Cowboy, in ANH. And next we're gonna get a Kiera origin story...
Reti4 - If people needed to explicitly state in words every time they're voicing an opinion life would be very tedious. And needlessly aggressive language attached to ordering someone to do what you want is worse than potentially blurring subjectivity with objectivity anyway. That's just my opinion.
ohhhh! Jesus Christ William! No need to curse and state what isn't true. He knows his opinion is opinion and not fact. That's been said on several podcasts before this one.
Lmao it's not even worth the effort now. He can't even spell and thinks that I don't have a right to be in a conversation on a public platform. Your very commenting on this video means I have a right to participate in discussion. If you didn't want people to butt in on your conversations, the two of you should've DM'ed, but you didn't, so screw you :)
LMAO Gods you're a triggerable fuck. Sorry for doin this to the Fanalysis comments guys. People like this just make me laugh when they think no one has a right to discuss anything on the Internet.
Disagree with Jensaarai that Mauls development doesn't make sense. Maul is a Sith, and he's a dependant personality who has been through a trauma, so he's falling back on the Sith Code that he knows, and the Sith Code tells him to get revenge and seek power because in the eyes of your master you are dead and have been replaced. Plus even in Darth Plagueis Maul is shown to be gradually realising that he isn't being trained as a "real" Sith Lord and that Palpatine isn't being straight with him, so he's leaning towards that path even prior to TPM. Also, I think that Mauls presence indicates that they likely will indeed be making an Obi-Wan film somewhere down the road...but for better or worse, Maul will be the villain of that film and the Rebels death scene will be undone and play out differently (or at the very best, will be given a live action retooling). The "Crimson Dawn are evil" thing I think is meant to be that yes, they "know" that Crimson Dawn are bad guys, but it is a different thing when you are faced with the actual victims of their crimes and can't pretend not to be part of the problem. You think you can keep your hands clean because you are just a smuggler and thief and not involved in the really deep stuff, but in reality you are the bad guy as much as any of their other lackies. And according to Ehrenreich, they are thinking of doing a Lando film, and he himself is signed up for multiple movies but doesn't expect (or want) to be doing Han Solo 2 so much as, yes, a series of loosely connected films where he is more of a supporting player in future. Of course, now that Solo has BOMBED...
It had a production budget of $250m+ and worldwide it has made back just over $312m. That might seem like a minor profit, but then you have to factor in additional marketing costs, which was another $150m, meaning its TRUE cost was over $400m with a lost of $88m at least. So yes, it counts as a bomb, and certainly no where near as widely successful as Disney wanted or needed it to be.
No, I was looking for to say you don't mind that like a normal person. I asked this question in get a real grip on what kind of people what these videos. So far you seem decent and don't want to get into a conflict by submitting. I respect that sir. Good job.
The movie is a monumental fucking failure and flop in every major level! There, I just saved everyone 2 hours and 3 minutes of having to watch this video.
Reti4 - Drinking game to be had with this one. Take a shot every time I say "Appreciate" in one form or another.
In my defense it was 04:00 in the morning and I hadn't slept at all, but still...
Fanalysis that ship alarm scared the hell out of me
Reti4 - Apologies, blame Connor for spoiling early :)
You’re face more like qui-gon jinn face
Are you going to talk about Rebels?
Fanalysis Aw dude reti! I got 5 beer in mu fridge still ima do dis! I wish i could download you guys so many more should be listening to this your guys show is extremely thought well and beautifully said
A drunken episode on the holiday special? Yes please!
Them getting drunk prior or taking a drink whenever they mention something that's bad about it... that might make Last Jedi interesting.
"You were whelmed." I'm using that now. Thanks Antoine.
Macklin Butcher young justice!!
Reti4 - Young Justice for the win. Though I'm not sure Antoine has seen it, so it may have been an unintentional reference.
Fanalysis season three next year
Fanalysis tell him to start watching so he can catch up before season 3! (If he hasn’t seen it lol)
In the words of Count Dooku...
"I've been looking forward to this."
Solo took the box office beating that The Last Jedi deserved to take.
It wasn’t an amazing film but it didn’t deserve to bomb so badly.
Dear Fanalysis...yes please please please do the drinking to holiday special thing!!!! lol
Reti4 - We'll see how many people ask for it. I certainly don't look forward to seeing that monstrosity again...
i dont blame you there lol
Please go for it. The alchohol might ease the pain.
No drink green alien milk.
Imagine Sabacc Versus Series - Darth Bane vs Lando
Traj lol good one, Bane would definitely win tho because of his precognition. And if it’s bane in his prime, he could just mind rape Lando and get him to do whatever he wanted.
THIS HAS TO HAPPEN.
in that scene i only wondered how they would display the sabacc game - as a game. I expected them to play the version with the changing values but i guess like in rl there are many ways you can play it. Also Bane played it 1000+ years before Lando.
Is it bane of dessel. If its dessel, Than its 50 50. If its bane than bane.
hmm. pretty cool
"He doesn't have enough red face paint to bring him back." Roasted.
>drunken holiday special
Palpatine: "Do it."
I love the icons next to your names. They show your character affiliations. Smart.
Reti4 - Thanks. Once we started using them in the other franchises I figured we needed some consistency with having them in Star Wars as well.
After watching this I'm totally saying you guys need to do that livestream of the holiday special whilst drinking. I'd be down for that.
I always saw Corellia is being somewhat like Texas is. Large, wealthy and with a strong sense of identity.
#LetMaulRest
I want to see more togruta's in live action.
I look forward to you guys discussing the Revenge of the Sith novelization!
Reti4 - It's next on our Star Wars list don't worry.
Ive warched the holiday special over 5 times in one sitting, you guys should watch it. I could imagine you guys just talking about how this could fit into the the new canon
I want to see you guys get hammered and watch the Holiday Special.
Reti4 - I have a bad feeling about this...
About the Hoilday Special while drunk I say.......DEWWIT
First in TCW, then in rebels, now in a movie, next probably in his own series, and after that his own movie. Then maybe they'll FINALLY put the dead pulp back in its grave FOR GOOD.
Then in 2030 they'll dig the skeleton and give his movie a sequel.
I miss the Lady Luck 😓
That is a ship more suited for a man of Lando’s taste and class
Hell same with the later “Loooove Commander”
Alexzander1989 lady luck is canon
Reti4 - I love that ship. It's no Falcon, but damn if it doesn't have style.
*Please do a livestream of watching the holiday special now it's not just bad it is nearly unwatchable it's essentially 2 hours of Wookiee talking to each other with no subtitles*
Guys the beards are *so* working for me.
I liked Solo okay. There were things I liked (I thought Donald Glover was the best part of the movie). There were things I had criticisms of. But Solo continues to prove my belief that the anthology films are better than the main narrative films (concerning the Disney-made films). Solo is a fun movie. And I like fun movies.
My biggest critique is Emilia Clarke. I just... outside of Game of Thrones, she doesn't seem to be that good of an actress. She seemed really wooden and not subtle. I don't know if it was her or the writing, but every time she was on screen, I kept going to myself "betray him already. Betray him already. Betray him already."
Finally a star wars film that doesn't divide the fanbase!
Almost. Almost didn't divide the fanbase. Though not nearly as much as Last Jedi :)
The only thing Disney is managing to do is burn bridges. In other words they're destroying anything that could be good from the old canon. Spoilers don't matter for this movie. No one cares. And that's the saddest part. 13:17 And there it is!
Fanalysis could you do a new coment section machop, were you cover some machups like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker vs. TCW Maul and Sevange Opress, or Shaak Ti vs. Darth Maul (TPM)? if you could, that would be great.
Would love to see the holiday special review.
Dew it!
The problem is that this is a story I was never interested in, you know. I mean, I just could not make my self care.
At all.
Also: Driden Vos?!Really?VOS?!
The part of
The movie I really hated was how Han got his last name my mouth dropped opened and I shielded my eyes also it's kinda stupid to make an origin story for a character they killed off it already makes me not inclined to enjoy it
Leia: "When do I meet the Solos?"
Han: "I was orphaned at a young age. I don't know what my parent's last name was."
Leia: "Wait, how did you get the name 'Solo?'"
Han: "Some Imperial recruiting station guy gave it to me. This was before I left the Imperial military."
Leia: "So you kept the name that some Imperial gave you after you deserted and later fought against them? Why?"
Han:...*shrugs*
Leia: "Let's hope our son drops it when he gets married."
Ben: "I'm Kylo Ren."
Han: "Bet you were wishing he kept the name, huh?"
Mr Chaz Making a movie about Han feels especially hollow because of how TFA reversed all his character growth and made him a deadbeat dad POS.
SolarDragon007 EXACTLY
Glad someone else thought Xizor would have been a better secret villain.
Although you have touched on pretty much every party of the movies throughout all your videos, I would really enjoy seeing all of you (including Matt) do a Fanalysis on the original trilogy.
Also the Aura Sing and Jabba references really infuriated me. I'm sorry, but I have trouble believing that Beckett killed Aura Sing. Also, Beckett calls Jabba a "local crime lord." If memory serves (and I could be wrong), Jabba was one the most powerful crime lords in the entire galaxy, if not the most powerful.
Honestly, Aurra has been such a fan-favorite character for so long that she deserved a much better send-off than a cheap way to make the new guy legit. Like, she was never shown to have died in Legends and like Asajj Ventress, her fate remained unknown. They were saving her for something. Now it looks like in order to prop up their new characters they have to kill the old ones. It's not a very good strategy if they want to keep hardcore fans. This and the Jabba bit just proves that Joe Johnson has no understanding of the Star Wars universe and its lore except from the brief summaries taken from either UA-cam or the Wookieepedia page.
@Grand Admiral Thrawn And the sad thing is, I do like those references. It makes the movie feel more cohesive to the entire Star Wars universe, rather than just sticking to the movies (for example, I really REALLY liked that Qi'ra said she knows Teras Kasi). But the Aurra (thank you for proper spelling by the way) thing really pissed me off. I mean, if Beckett was established or written better (hell, if Woody Harrleson gave a better performance... it felt like he was phoning it in), I might think differently. But as it stands, I just can't take seriously that this guy took out one of the greatest (not the greatest, but definitely closer to the top of the list) bounty hunters of the Clone Wars era.
Nope. Even in Legends Jabba didn’t solidify that title until just before Return of the Jedi.
@Antoine Bandele Thank you.
Sir Jedi Sentinel I liked the Teräs Käsi reference too for a few reasons: 1) it's a legitimate martial arts form in Star Wars that's been around forever (pretty sure since the fighting game), 2) it explains Qi'ra's ability to fight in the movie and provides some background to what she was doing between the time jump, and 3) it helps to establish her character. When I first saw that scene I thought that she had been trained by Echani, but I was pleasantly surprised to hear her say that it was Teräs Käsi. Beckett's killing of Aurra irks me in that this guy is a thief and a smuggler; that's what we've seen him do in the movie. Sure, he's a fighter but that's just part of the life. He's not a bounty hunter or a mercenary whose job it is to track down and sometimes kill people. And he's a new man on the scene, so this was just a cheap shot.
1:25:25 As of today/this comment (30th November 2019) there are 11 comments requesting a Fanalysis for Star Wars: Holiday Special in some form - which I'd also like to see - so please, please do it for the Christmas season next month.
if there's no mention of Paradise Snare, then what are you guys doing?
Connor.... Please do the Christmas special. Please. I will bring the beer.
Reti4 - Connor's friend Kevin. Only you can convince him to bear this burden. :)
Excellent commentary. Subscribed!
Reti4 - Thanks very much, welcome to the madhouse!
The name of the last planet is mentioned in Visual Guide, also there is a cool TotJ easter egg in it.
Do the drinking game, that movies funny as it is when you and some friends can bounce off each other, so I can only imagine it while drunk
Thankfully I noticed some classic aliens in Solo which is also what I’ve been wanting from the new films, however not enough. I noticed that Rodian in Enfys Nest’s crew.
1:07:00
The battledroids are kind of expected to be one note. They are made on the cheap so anything in both hardware and software that could be considered superfluous is not added.
Are you guys supporting Star Wars Theory's Vader Fan film?
I disagree on people being fine with K2-SO if he were in L3's role. The main thing is that K2-SO was actually funny and the best crew member of the film whereas L3's overall character is the worst.
Another 40k reference made, 40k video hype.
Reti4 - We'll get to it eventually.
Apparently Scarface's desk is made of a tablet from the temple of Exar Kun. Atleast thats a good thing this movie brought along. Exar is now canon. Wonder if they are ever gonna us him or just let people hope his comics are "on the whole" canon.
I actually really liked this movie, overall, despite L3 the pointless "droid rights" character.
Totally on the same page as Reti about that battle scene and not wearing stormtroopers armor.
Reti4's voice sounds like that of Darth Maul. Reti, if you're reading this, could you please grant a fan's request and quote him in the next Video?
Reti4 - Okaaaaaaaay... *Raised eyebrow of confusion* I'll do my best.
I’ve been looking forward to this
Reti4 - Twice the expectations, double the disappointment.
11:00
All the militarizes are like that, every able body that is reasonably mentally sound can join the academy. However most just won't make it to the end
Reti4 - You tend to have background checks, basic qualification requirements and fitness tests prior to admittance though. And you definitely don't just walk up to a random desk in an airport or port to sign up. It's a very strange scene.
They are nowhere near as stringent as many people believe. Also when the army was expanding rapidly like during times of war it did go like that. Background checks aren't really needed if you are a citizen of the nation. Many nations actually still have it in their constitution that it's citizens have the right to fight in the army. What are "basic qualifications" is pretty lose. It usually just means good vision and decent health. A strong and fit young man like Han is ideal recruit material so they just let him.
Today the size of armies is shrinking because of improved technology and it's increasingly more about quality than quantity. So since the army actually wants to decrease in number the requirements for new recruits are very strict. However if the army wants to expand the requirements are loosened. When the empire was establishing itself it needed to expand it's army quickly.
Though you are right in that there usually is something like a paper you need to fill in but that's usually about it. Lying about your background in an official military paper is the same as lying under oath and therefore punishable by death.
As someone who attempted to join the Navy, Reti's right on this one. It took me almost a year and a half to get to basic.
Didn't you hear what I said? It's harder now than ever.
Misread the comment. That's what I get for reading without May glasses on.
I'll admit the new aliens in solo look a lot better and more interesting compared to a lot of the aliens we see in the Sequel Trilogy. Would like to see a Togruta and a Chiss though.
I wonder what droid manufacturer thought it was a good ide to make droids be able to feel oppressed or even hurt. Kind of kills the reson to create droids. They are suppose to be able to work and be treated like tools, because they are. It feels like the droids with personalities should be outliers, that not a majority of droids have feelings at all. Just slaves to their programing and owners. Giving them the same ability to think like a human will make them slaves when they are tools to be used. So why make them people? Outside of having unique characters for the audience to follow.
Droids tend to gain personalities the longer they go without memory wipes. R2 retained much of his personality and even became very sneaky due to never having a memory wipe. According to Lando, he couldn't memory wipe L3 because she was the best navigator in the galaxy, which I find hard to believe since astromechs are used in that regard. Also you can separate a droid from their memories and download them into something else. You are right though in that they are tools and can be turned back on.
It is kind of magical how they manages to get personalities just because the don't do a memorie whipe. How does a programing change without external help to some personality to them becoming a full blown person? It almost feels as if the programing is ment to do that, i'm just left wondering why.
Hey it's the original lineup
Question for the Council. Are you guys going to support the Darth Vader Fan Film?
I enjoyed the film, although I had absolutely no expectations going in. The film did completely lose momentum in a few areas though, like when I3-37 was introduced the film began to become far less enjoyable. It was a fun summer movie but I agree, it did not blow me away in any capacity.
This will be a fun watch later on!
Reti4 - I hope you enjoy!
I thought Mimban sounded familiar so I looked it up. Its the planet which Splinter in the Mind's Eye! I think that is a general trend in this film, the fact that they name dropped and used planets that are pre-established planets in Legends, if only for the name.
This was a weird one for me. Cause i was always kinda meh on the eu solo origin books. Like they were fun but i was never in love with his backstory. The same kinda goes for the movie. I enjoyed it and there were things i even really liked, but i still wasn't the most invested. So this is a case where i don't have strong feelings on the eu vs canon
Reti4 - Likewise. It was just a meh film covering insignificant subject matter for me. Only for some reason they decided to throw Maul into the mix. Again.
They just can't let him rest XD
I DEMAND FOR THE STAR WARS DRINKING SPECIAL RETI!!!! It's a better movie than the last Jedi. :)
Watch it while drunk!
Wait....Jensaarai knows who Arch Warhammer is??? I want to see a debate between him and Arch as to which universe is more realistic.
Reti4 - I've also seen his stuff, he and Jen share a lot of similarities in style.
As for the realism of the two Universes it wouldn't be much of a debate. 40K is obscenely ludicrous by design. Star Wars is just the archetypal science-fantasy.
Fair enough. I just really want to see him and Arch sit down and do a livestream.
1:49:57 Well that's now come true.
Jensarri1 when i saw the ww1 planet all i thought was imperial guard from 40k espcially what with the officers were saying
Reti4 - Your job may be thankless, but if you're willing to give it your all, you might just buy enough time for the Astartes to take all the credit.
So true. The Guard are the true heroes.
You guys should do mandalorian reviews.
Okay this was just my take, but I did kinda suspect that the whole line about aurra sing, could have been a lie. Like maybe she's not dead, and Becket was just kinda playing up this rumor cause it gives him more cred
Noel Rose he just pushed her and gravity killed her
i suppose. Idk i'd just like to think it was an exaggeration. I mean this is star wars, people have walked off worse XD
One can dream. Her fate remained unknown in Legends just in case someone wanted to use her down the road.
If that were the case he’d make the story more thrilling. Simply saying you pushed her makes the story sound authentic because he’s not playing it up.
that's totally fair lol. Alright rescinded :)
After I read the legends han solo trilogy
And seeing solo kinda disaponted and really curious what the Lego bros movie would have been
in regards to your discussion point at 1:58:00ish regarding Han and Jabba.
This movie does take place 10 years before a New Hope, so it is entirely likely that Han will work for Jabba for years, only to have Jabba get pissed at him right before the events of A New Hope
Reti4 - For sure, we just want them to definitely have that be the case. You can't expect them to get anything right these days...
true true, episodes 7 and 8 proved that for a fact
Connor, have you found the Emperor's Light?
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Solo. It will definitely have a place on shelf once it's released.
As much as you guys hate seeing Maul post TMP, if you invert that it's how much I love seeing him. My favorite Sith of all time. But I do have to admit the lightsaber thing was cringe worthy.
This movie isn't bad it isn't good it's in the middle for me it ranks along as maybe episode 3 at best for me
Well his sabercane was created from inquisitor one.
I'll be 100% honest I have no interest whatsoever in seeing this film and Im actually happy that its struggling at the box office. It's my personal hope that with Solo's disappointing results, that Disney will learn that you can't rely on just the original trilogy when it comes to Star Wars. It just feels like this film is there to feed off of nostalgia. Really hoping we get that Obi Wan Kenobi with Ewen McGregor or what I think would be special would be a Mace Windu trilogy. Say what you will about the Prequels as films, but at least they were willing to try something new and expand George Lucas's world. I completely understand that Disney is reluctant to do anything Prequel related due to past mistakes by Lucas, but to ignore that Era is both foolish and disrespectful. There are a generation of people that were introduced to SW because of those films (myself included), surely Disney realizes that The Prequel Era (before it became legends) had stories that were just as good or dare I say it better then the original trilogy era. I am in absolutely no way trying to bash the original trilogy (very very far from it) but as great the original trilogy characters are they cannot (and should not) carry the entire SW universe all by themselves. It was quite a treat to hear all of your thoughts on this film Fanalysis. I'd also like to give a shout out to you Reti4 for giving your opinions on very little sleep. You have gained an enormous amount of respect from me as talking about the film could not have been easy. Treat yourself to something nice and once again, thank you all. :)
GrayJedi is missed
Reti4 - Unfortunately he wasn't able to watch the film prior to our recording slot. If he wants to cover it we'll be doing a one-man video for him as we did with Jen for The Last Jedi. Not sure if he'll be interested though, he had about as much enthusiasm for Solo going in as I did.
How would you guys rank the new disney films? (Like TFA, R1, TLJ, Solo) not which is batter but which do you like batter as an opinion.
Reti4 -
Rogue One
Solo
The Force Awakens
The Last Jedi
Fanalysis !XD! Well after seeing your thoughts on TLJ I'm not suprised at all.
Fanalysis LMFAO!
That was hysterically funny.
TFA
RO
SOLO
TLJ
Did you guys know that George Lucas had a hand in the closet scene? When Han throws the cape he was holding back on top of the rack he was initially meant to hang it back up properly, but Lucas suggested he just throws it on the rack.
That was the part where Lucas had a hand in? Geez, how underwhelming.
Grand Admiral Thrawn Ha yeah, I think Kennedy’s story group was petrified about letting Lucas near Star Wars considering they keep pandering to the original trilogy fans who loath the prequels and almost everything about them and so gave Lucas just a tiny amount of influence.
Reti4 - Truly an addition for the ages.
As insignificant as it was, I feel like it certainly did more to capture the spirit of the Han we see in the original trilogy. It would have been interesting if Lucas was the one who came up with the general story idea for the film while leaving the dialogue to others.
Well Han didn't really like Lando at this point.
When you said you didn't necessarily love Kiera(?)'s character, but Emilia Clarke made it stick out - that's kind of like Harrison Ford as Han Solo The Generic Space Cowboy, in ANH. And next we're gonna get a Kiera origin story...
It's a very lukewarm dishwater film, an example of mediocrity.
Reti4 - Indeed.
Reti4 - If people needed to explicitly state in words every time they're voicing an opinion life would be very tedious. And needlessly aggressive language attached to ordering someone to do what you want is worse than potentially blurring subjectivity with objectivity anyway.
That's just my opinion.
ohhhh! Jesus Christ William! No need to curse and state what isn't true. He knows his opinion is opinion and not fact. That's been said on several podcasts before this one.
Lmao it's not even worth the effort now. He can't even spell and thinks that I don't have a right to be in a conversation on a public platform. Your very commenting on this video means I have a right to participate in discussion. If you didn't want people to butt in on your conversations, the two of you should've DM'ed, but you didn't, so screw you :)
LMAO Gods you're a triggerable fuck. Sorry for doin this to the Fanalysis comments guys. People like this just make me laugh when they think no one has a right to discuss anything on the Internet.
British guy, please turn up your mike, my volume is st max before I can here you.
Disagree with Jensaarai that Mauls development doesn't make sense. Maul is a Sith, and he's a dependant personality who has been through a trauma, so he's falling back on the Sith Code that he knows, and the Sith Code tells him to get revenge and seek power because in the eyes of your master you are dead and have been replaced. Plus even in Darth Plagueis Maul is shown to be gradually realising that he isn't being trained as a "real" Sith Lord and that Palpatine isn't being straight with him, so he's leaning towards that path even prior to TPM.
Also, I think that Mauls presence indicates that they likely will indeed be making an Obi-Wan film somewhere down the road...but for better or worse, Maul will be the villain of that film and the Rebels death scene will be undone and play out differently (or at the very best, will be given a live action retooling).
The "Crimson Dawn are evil" thing I think is meant to be that yes, they "know" that Crimson Dawn are bad guys, but it is a different thing when you are faced with the actual victims of their crimes and can't pretend not to be part of the problem. You think you can keep your hands clean because you are just a smuggler and thief and not involved in the really deep stuff, but in reality you are the bad guy as much as any of their other lackies.
And according to Ehrenreich, they are thinking of doing a Lando film, and he himself is signed up for multiple movies but doesn't expect (or want) to be doing Han Solo 2 so much as, yes, a series of loosely connected films where he is more of a supporting player in future. Of course, now that Solo has BOMBED...
But Solo didn’t bomb. It just didn’t do as well as the previous films.
It had a production budget of $250m+ and worldwide it has made back just over $312m. That might seem like a minor profit, but then you have to factor in additional marketing costs, which was another $150m, meaning its TRUE cost was over $400m with a lost of $88m at least.
So yes, it counts as a bomb, and certainly no where near as widely successful as Disney wanted or needed it to be.
This movie was a sloppy mess. I'm happy Reti and Connor tore it a new one.
I personally enjoyed the film. It had problems, but I still found it interesting. How does that make you feel.
It makes me feel like the world is caving in on me.
Why. Why does my opinion make you feel like the world is caving in on you.
Cause that's what you want me to say.
No, I was looking for to say you don't mind that like a normal person. I asked this question in get a real grip on what kind of people what these videos. So far you seem decent and don't want to get into a conflict by submitting. I respect that sir. Good job.
The movie is a monumental fucking failure and flop in every major level! There, I just saved everyone 2 hours and 3 minutes of having to watch this video.