Star Wars: A New Hope Comic Adaptation - Atop the Fourth Wall
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara start 2023 off late with the original comic adaptation of Star Wars!
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Originally released January 14th, 2023
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: Yeah, I don't see this franchise going anywhere.
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In the movie, when Luke asks about how his father died, Obi-Wan pauses briefly. Back when this was only one movie, it was probably Kenobi going “Oh crap, I have to talk about the massacre.” Now that we have the prequels, however, it’s entirety possible he was doing EXACTLY what Linkara joked about at 25:28 .
Also,
Luke: How did my father die?
Obi-wan: Uhhhhh…
Qui-gon’s Force Ghost: He fell down some stairs.
Obi-wan: He fell down some stairs.
The Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga game also had that joke where Obi-Wan nervously stammers.
Me: What? No, he didn't! He-
Obi-wan: Be silent! Or The Force may throw you down a flight.
Sorry, had to complete it.
It's a great example of when visual storytelling can save the established lore when retcons are involved.
That pause could be viewed back in 1977-1980 as Obi-Wan being unsure if he should share that Vader killed his father. But 1980-2005 changed how people viewed that moment, as Obi-Wan being uncomfortable telling the absolute truth to Luke that Anakin is Vader, most likely to keep him safe from possibly falling to the Dark Side. But 2005-onward added-to/slightly-changed the scene as a way how to view it as Obi-Wan still feeling regret about his failure towards Anakin, even though he had managed to come to terms with it.
So Nappa is a Jedi now? Sure, why not?
"Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
"He told me enough! He told me stairs killed him!"
"No......... What!?"
"I think what made the movie so good, is that Lucas was so scared that it would be bad. I think he obsessed over Star Wars to the point that he was constantly refining it and getting outside opinions on it from peopel he respected until he got it where he wanted it to be and having good sense of having someone rewrite the dialogue that he knew was bad. Basically, Lucas never as afraid of a movie failing than he was in 1977". - SF Debris
I love Chuck's looks at the movies. :)
@@erikbihari3625How are Disney "white slavers"?🤔
@@erikbihari3625 what are you in about
Ironically doesn’t that mean that fear is what lead to Star Wars being such a good movie? A “dark side” emotion?
@@PsychoEditor before the release of TFA Lucas criticized the film for being too safe and called Disney white slavers
"Too much pink energy is dangerous"
It's an old gag, but it checks out
I was waiting for that.
@@KenoshiAkaihello there
@@gabrieldevoogel6225 Haaaai
There is a simple explanation as to why people still come to the cantina despite the high death rate...
Bea Arthur... That is why they come back.
Honestly, she is one of the better parts of the Holiday Special.
I recognize that isn’t saying much.
@user-ic8yr7ku5o Diahann Carroll's song is another legitimately good thing (Bizarre Hologram projection notwithstanding).
Then again, Diahann Carroll could sing the names in a phone book and still sound enchanting.
Yeah I completely understand
Hells, yeah! She was the most watchable part of the Holiday Special.
TFS Trunks' internal screaming came to mind during those Luke/Leia moments.
Vader: Oh by the way Leia's your sister no harm telling you now damage already done
Luke: Oh my god I made out with my sister
@@Awells89 R2: *laughs hysterically in beeps*
I'm actually really surprised that the films _never_ addressed this.
@@Awells89 Vader: I killed kids but at least I'm not a pervert!
Same with Joseph and Lisa Lisa in JoJo and in booth instances trunks yelled and he didn't know why
15:43 I love how during his speech, Vader casualy grabs a cup of hot beverage with force. "See Motti?! Those are the powers you're messing with!"
"Everybody knows I have coffee when I watch rader, right?"
It led to a great running gag in the webcomic Blue Milk Special where Vader is constantly drinking coffee.
From a Star Trek mug.
All he needs is a straw lol!😂
@@CosplayingwithChad You mean an "emergency induction port"
@@legomaniac213Emerrrrrgency. Induction. Port.
"Why does a stormtrooper in a spaceship need a grappling hook as part of every day equipment?" Because they don't have any railings...
Also, they might just be required to have full gear for battle even if they are on the space station.
@@barryfraser831How would a grappling hook be useful in battle? 🤔
@adamdavis1648 Rappelling up a Building perhaps?
@adamdavis1648 Securing cargo, binding prisoners, maneuvering in zero-G when the artificial gravity fails; never underestimate the versatility of a hook and fifty feet of rope.
@@adamdavis1648 Gaining the high ground of course.
I love how the cat on the couch in Linkara's video keeps quiet. What a nice cat.
What you’re not seeing is the 10+ takes where they interrupt him just to say ‘Hi’, ‘I love you’, and ‘Feed me’.
My own cats do that to me all the time. 😀“ your filming is insignificant next to the power of my fluffiness.”
I always imagine the cats meowing at the end of every scene they show up in, as if to say, "You tell 'em, dad!"
my cat we only adopted her about 6 months ago, then she had kittens so shes still getting used to us. the way she shows affection is climbing on the back of the couch and laying behind out heads leaning against us and purring softly. she only meows at us if we are standing in the kitchen.... cause that's where the ham is
She has had most of her life to get used to the fact that one of Daddy's human oddities is that he regularly sits on the couch and yells at no one.
Luke Skywalker: How did my Father died?
Obi Wan: Uhhh…Family barbecue
Luke: How did my father die?
Obi Wan: Uhhh… we were doing a roast, and then things… got out of hand, two in fact, and out of legs.
i mean that is true… from a certain point of view
Luke: How did my father die?
Ben: He was burned to a crisp.
Luke: At the hands of Vader?
Ben: Uhhh...... yeah.....
Luke later asking ghost obi: now tell me how you fought him
Obi: ok he said he and the emperor made peace to the universe and I said na ah and he said ya ha and we kept going with na ah ya ha until he said what he did was right from a certain point of view I said it was the dumbest thing a heard and said let's make it more interesting with lightsabers and we fought and we at the end force pushed each other so hard he fell to the lava I still am puzzled how he survived that
(It happened in Lego star wars I am not kidding Lego is brutal)
@@ryanwebb309 yeah he fell to lava after force pushing someone who also forced pushed him and I'm pretty sure he is long dead in lego
My favorite part of Darklighter is it establishes that Skywalker is actually a perfectly normal name for Tatooine. Last names on Tatooine are all just protagonist names, and I love it.
At 28:09 interesting misread, It just saw hive of villainy but the line is so iconic that you read it as the movie version.
Everyone got bummed out when Gary Infernofist just died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 77.
Confirmed. In one of the Expanded Universe novels, there's a woman from Tatooine named Falynn Sandskimmer. It's just the local naming convention.
@@darwincandidate5645 whoa
My Star Wars character's last name is Andaros :D I bring this up cause she grew up on Tatooine with her mother. Her father had to leave for Jedi business when she was four, and he wanted to take her with him cause she was Force Sensitive but her mother didn't like that kind of life. She thought it was too dangerous and wanted both him and her daughter to just live like normal people. So unfortunately he wasn't able to take her.
Current story point right now is that she's looking for him.
Also she's apprenticed under a Tythtonian Knight :D
An elegant comic, for a more civilized age.
... goddamit this is such a wonderful comment.
Unlike Grievous who was "so uncivilized". 😉
Hokey writing and ancient comics are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid
The 70's were civilized?
' *more* civilized', turn on the News today. I dare you.
New headcanon: when Leia asked if Luke was short for a Stormtrooper, it was the first line of the world's clumsiest seduction attempt cause she figured "to hell with this if I see a ghost of a snowball's chance to rescue myself I'll take it"
Hiding Luke on Tataiween was a genius idea. Vader hated Sand why would he deliberately visit a desert planet.
Ah yes, the iconic Star Wars planet, Tataiween. Sounds like Tatooine’s name on Halloween, which is every day for Vader.
In his defense, it's coarse, rough, and it gets everywhere!
@@ryanwebb309god, if I was stuck in an awesome metal cyborg body and sand got into the deep slim crevices between the panels I’d be *pissed*
And it’s where his mom died, but that’s not as important as the sand thing
Don't you mean, "It's a lot macklunkier?"
"There is no death, there is only the OH GOD I WAS WRONG!! THERE IS DEATH AND IT'S INCREDIBLY PAINFUL!! THIS WAS A REALLY HORRIBLE IDEA!!" *sighs in relief."Thank the force that's over with. Where are my clothes?"
"I'll grow back like a worm, and then there'll be TWO of me."
Obi Tu Kenobi.
The stormtrooper that has an affair with Tarkin isn't even Legends, it's canon. That's the wildest part.
You mean Tarkin does it with a stormtrooper?!!! I didn’t know Tarkin was gay!
Missed opportunity: Vader looking for the tapes
Batman: Alfred! Get the bat space ship ready and bring me my lightsaber!
I found out that Darth Vader prefers VHS over Beta! That son of a b*tch has a new enemy now!
I find it interesting how the movie made Vader a pilot during the trench run. Lucas could have easily had him on the base with Tarkin or move out, but I think even before he made the Anakin/Vader connection there was always meant to be a part of Vader that mirrored aspects of Luke's character.
Its a common trope. Having the villain and hero parralel one another.
That crack about plugging a jedi up as a powersource to blow up planets is especially funny to me because Darth Nihlus is a thing. The dude ATE PLANETS.
And now I imagine Vader and his victim argueing over what was cooler - Katarr or Malachor V...
Star Wars Planets. Part of a complete breakfast.
He ate planets with a side order of bacon.
Also, the Starforge.
40:50 In the movie he corners them and they have to fight back just like in the comic. The reinforcements are green-screened in for the Special Editions.
I was hoping someone pointed this out so I didn’t have to. I’ll give Linkara a pass on it, but the nerd in me needed to be validated.
The comic seems to rely on the same version of A New Hope's script that eventually became the novelisation.
I read that book many years ago and watching Lewis' video, I recognized several lines of narration in this comic, for example the simile about the Death Star becoming a giant tombstone.
Who watches AT4W at 3 am?!
Me: Oh boy, AT4W at 3 am!
Meanwhile me in another timezone:
@@Truenofan86 me too 😂 it’s 9:25 am here
Now you know how I feel as a fan of the Yugituber DarkArmedDuelist living on the east coast of the US.
43:11 - “Heed my words.” And my brain immediately jumps to the MST3K retort from Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders: “Munch my shorts!”
"LOOK, MY REVIEWS HAVE DESTROYED WHOLE CITIES!"
@@AT4W
“Then the Cat’s flesh was roasted.”
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Considering one of inspirations for Darth Vader was Doctor Doom, him being green on that one cover is ironic in a funny way for me.
I love the callback to the Star Wars Infinities: A New Hope review with 'What about Kyle Katarn?'. That was amazing.
The green Vader is his saint Patrick’s day suit. He really loves the holiday
Vader getting himself a cuppa joe while lecturing the imperial officers is actually kinda adorable.
Love your co-star, Linkara. 😻🐈
...possibly co-stars, I can't tell if it's one or both cats who like to hang out during reviews.
Your co-star would go well with Nostalgia Critic’s co-stars Chaplin and Buster.
I can't wait for the Vader shot first version of this comic release
The year is 2031. Greedo and Han leave without any scuffle.
“The Force is a switch” is my new favorite thing.
Ugh... I hated how Force Push was only really useful for Pushing switches in The Phantom Menace video game...
About the "immortal gods of the Sith" line, I remember reading that there was a Sith god named Typhojem. He's mentioned in "Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side" as a thing the Sith used to worship, but it's never clarified as to whether he's real or not since he never appears in a story. They don't mention any other Sith gods, immortal or otherwise.
To expand, Typhojem was a god worshiped by the Sith-species, before the arrival of the exiled Dark Jedi, on Korriban. After the Dark Jedi arrived and took over, the Sith-species' priest cast, Kissai, awed by the power and skill they had in the Dark Side of the Force, declared the leader of the Dark Jedi, Ajunta Pall, as the physical manifestation of Typhojem.
Considering Vader met and killed the immortal god of the dark side, somehow I doubt he would worship any so called god.
@@barryfraser831 So Vader pulled a Kratos/Hulk, "puny god!"
@@barryfraser831 You mean those 3 personifications of The Force on Mortis?
11:24
"But we will still milk a disney + series or two out of them"
And thank god they did, because it was the best SW content in decades.
It's funny how Linkara can go into a a loud and proud rant over the anachronistic nature of the cybermen designs in the doctor who/star trek crossover, but whenever it's but whenever it's star wars related he's always "why can't you just roll with it"
He knows no one can be more nitpicky than star wars fans
31:53 He's Jabba's 'accountant', a Nimbanel named Mossep Bineed... He occasionally represented Jabba's interests in negotiations either too dangeous or too boring for the crime lord to deal with himself.
"So whats the Expanded Universe explanation for this Jabba"
Since you asked, he is Mosep Binneed, an accountant in charge of Jabba's finances, operating from Mos Eisley. According to the (excellent) novel Kenobi he would occasionally represent Jabba on official business and on those occasions be referred to as Jabba, since he was acting with his full authority.
I have something to say about the stormtrooper attack on the Jawas, the Statement actually makes sense. When Obi-wan says "Look at these blast points.", he is referring to scorch marks on the vehicle. Since Blaster Bolt don't go through people, the marks are from all the shots the Troopers missed the Jawas with.
30:23-30:34 - To be fair, Linkara, given that lightsaber was both Luke's and Anakin's AND given Owen, Beru, and Shmi were almost certainly buried there, it may not be as disrespectful as you think for Luke's symbolic resting place to be with the members of his family he'd feel the closest connection to.
I do feel like that scene would've worked better if Ben's Force Ghost popped up alongside Luke and Leia... And that the final shot showed Rey and BB-8 rejoining Poe, Finn, and Chewie on the Falcon before taking off.
This has been your daily interjection from a TROS defender.
To be fair Star Wars takes place in the distant past, while Star Trek takes place in the future.
*something something incredibly obscure melancholic Gavin Free bit here*
"Darth Vader, dark lord of the Sith, tightens his fingers on the rebel officer's throat... prompting the officer to respond with 'Harder, daddy'."
27:45 - You joke, but if ep. 6 of the Obi-Wan series is any indication, Owen and Beru did not go down easily.
38:49 - A pretty cool homage to the cover of Fantastic Four #49.
Fun fact - General Tagge would later go on to play the Rogue Simulant with the scary voice from the Red Dwarf episode "Beyond a Joke".
Not so fun fact: that scary voice was the result of late stage throat cancer, which he ended up succumbing to not long after that appearance.
@@AlexSeverinski i remember Dena “Cybercat” Natali mentioning that in her Red Dwarf videos
Seeing early Star Wars is always a fun treat, it's always dated goofyness , dated madness or dated both.
My heart goes out to the artist for this comic, who retroactively ended up drawing several incest kisses. Gotta wonder how they feel about it after the fact
@@CatComixzStudios They weren't the only one, to be fair. The official Novel Adaptation of A New Hope has those same kisses in it, too.
@@alexandersturnn4530 They get even more hot and bothered in the "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" novel, that was going to be the original sequel to "A New Hope".
Additionally when the comic series continued after this adaptation they really played up the love triangle between Luke, Leia, and Han for a while. I think they were probably told to knock it off eventually because if memory serves correct they stopped a while before Empire came out.
It doesn't really peak until we get the rabbit. Jax and company were the best thing to come out the first Marvel run. :)
Ah Roy Thomas, never one to just let the image stand without adding even more dialogue in. Yet this oddly worked for the time.
Hey, for once he was right about a comic’s potential where Stan Lee was wrong. And the payoff was very profitable for Marvel
@@benwasserman8223 For once? Roy Thomas knew his shit
Nice to see you go to the Original Trilogy, hoping you cover the comic adaptations of The Thrawn Trilogy.
It'll happen eventually - want to go through the original trilogy first.
@@AT4W I kinda figured that I mean, you've finished most of the other comics and honestly TTT is a sequel that really deals with the fallout of the Original Trilogy so it's best that will actually work out.
BTW, REALLY looking forward to your Rise of Skywalker review too with the ending of said film being something I hope will be a real highlight. XD
@@AT4W P.S.
Just a quick question but I was wondering if you had anything planned for Pride Month this year? As a trans woman I was hoping if you would be taking a look at Dreadnought or Dreamer over on Supergirl. Given all the crap certain people are giving us it would be nice to see someone point to heroes WE can related to show how awesome we can be.
@@Winter-The-Masquerade He can't review Rise of Skywalker as he myself once said because there is currently no comic book adaptation as the intended series got canceled due to the pandemic which just started at that time.
There's a comic adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy?
It makes sense Alec Guiness's the only actor with a nice portrait... as he, and Peter Cushion, were the only famous actors to star on the film.
54:20 Luke, Han and Leia: STAR WARRIORS, MOVE OUT!
Chewbacca: Rrrruuuurrr.
C3PO: I completely agree Mr. Chewbacca.
“I haven’t gone by Obi-Wan since before you were born.”
Except for that one time, and we all agreed never to bring it up again.
Kinda surprised Linkara didn't make a joke about DARTH VADER having the same HATRED of VHS Tapes as BATMAN (or having VADER be pro-VHS & him hunting down the tapes cause the Rebels recorded the Death Star plans on BETA tapes, possibly even framing Vader's antagonism with the REBELs being due to their BATMAN-like anti-VHS philosophy)!
Grappling hook is not standard equipment for a Stormtrooper stationed on a space station, it is standard equipment for all Stormtroopers. So if you have the standard Stormtrooper kit, you have to have the grappling hook and be happy about it.
Gotta love the FORCE having MICROTRANSACTIONs joke, especially considering the whole microtransaction debacle with Star Wars: Battlefront II!
41:23 - "Why does a stormtrooper who works on a space station need a grappling hook as part of their everyday equipment?"
Stormtrooper: "Because ... I'm BATMAN!"
I would absolutely love to hear your thoughts on Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars (aka "Episode IVa: May the Ferb Be with You"). It's essentially the Star Wars equivalent of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and I love it for that. It might just be the best thing to come out of the Disney era of Star Wars.
'insurance fraud is a hell of a thing.' ..explains why he aged sixty years in twenty.
This was one of your funniest reviews in a while. I laughed my ass off at the "Disney+ series" gag.
Also, in retrospect, why DIDN'T Vader sense Han sneaking up on him in the Falcon? Was ghost Obi-Wan doing that too? Because that would actually make a lot of sense, and lend credence to him becoming more powerful in death.
He was laser-focused on taking down Luke, to the point of tunnel vision. Remember, he said that he sensed that the Force was strong in him. He wanted to take him down at all cost, was just about to finish him off and neglected to 'listen' to his surroundings since he was so caught up in the hunt.
That lines up with what happens later, too. Vader was absolutely obsessed with hunting down Luke after the Battle of Yavin, even before he learned that Luke was his son, to the point where he chased after him even when it meant giving up chances to seriously harm or even destroy the Rebellion.
It's actually cheaper to give all the stormtroopers grappling hooks than to put in railing.
And if they're expendable if they do die.
@@eamonndeane587 Actually now thinking about it, granted it would be a in hindsight thing and doubt it was Lucas thought of before, but considering this was originally built by the geonosian’s and since they can fly stuff like rialings would be pointless to them, also since the separatists army consist of nothing but droids they were seen just as expendable.
Me: "First!"
* gets shot *
Han Solo with smoking blaster: "No, I'm first."
I'm with the Han shot first crowd.
23:51 pretty progressive of the comics to have Bail take his wife's last name
25:45 And this is why it baffles me that people give Obi-Wan shit for "liying" to Luke. How the hell do you lay ALL THAT on a teenager?!
It's IMPORTANT to note: Back in the 70's the promotional material like this comic, the color folio book etc all mentioned Vader was a "Dark lord of the SITH" but we had no idea exactly what a "sith" was for like a decade. Seriously, Lucas forgot to fill in that detail to the public. Even by the end of Jedi the word "sith" was never ONCE spoken on screen. Also: We legit thought a full body strike from a lightsaber must disintegrate you. Kenobi was the only person to take a full body shot.
Interestingly, when the Thrawn Trilogy came out, the Author Timothy Zhan wanted to name the Noghri - the Alien Assassins fanatically loyal to Vader - Sith precisely to answer why Vader was called a 'Lord of the Sith'. But Lucas shot that idea down.
Zhan said a while ago that, in hindsight, he's glad Lucas did that, even though he was disappointed at the time.
I would love to see Linkara review the Phineas and Ferb Star Wars Episode 4A, May The Ferb Be With You. I want to see him make jokes about the jokes that are in this crossover. It's even better than the Marvel crossover and was my first introduction to Star Wars. Make it happen, Linkara!
He might as well also do the special Mission Marvel at that point. Which was a crossover (Yes. A freaking crossover episode. And one of the few times Phineas got mad)
I did do that one! ua-cam.com/video/zjs-UAoLx8Y/v-deo.html
@@AT4W Will you do Phineas And Ferb Star Wars? P.S. What would Phineas look like as a stormtrooper, his triangle head couldn’t fit in one of those helmets.
@@lucasgibbs4050
If you patron it, it will be done.
@@AT4WHave you heard the news about the Phineas And Ferb revival?
Surprisingly, Uncle Owen looking pissed about Luke mentioning Ben Kenobi seems more in-line with how Owen told Obi-Wan to stay away in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series. Maybe the writers for the Obi-Wan series were reading this when writing the series.
And at least one comic where Ben attempted to get Owen to let him train Luke. A scene which actually made me feel a lot of sympathy for Owen and his wife.
Happy 15 years of Atop the Fourth Wall, Lewis!
There was a deleted scene from A New Hope where the Imperial Officer who was worried about how well equipped the rebels were, says "this Sith Lord sent by the Emperor will be our undoing"
49:35 - That's one of my pet peeves with A New Hope too, we see Luke training with the lightsaber and obviously set up a duel between Luke and Vader, but it never happens. But on the flipside, there's not really any way you could organically fit a duel into the plot. It's weird.
It also would have been kind of ridiculous that Luke, having had less than a day of training, would be able to go up against Vader for more than a couple of seconds.
@@johnmcclure40 It's a good thing that no Star Wars movie has ever made that kind of blunder.
I saw the prequels first so I remember being really confused that Luke never encountered his father in this film
@@johnmcclure40 He seemed to be able to fly a X-wing fighter fine despite never being in space before R2 and C3PO came about.
@@brandonlyon730 technically speaking he did practice with sky hoppers. While not X-wings, they probably have a similar interface so it’s not out of hand that he could adapt that skill and apply it elsewhere. The same thing happens with Anakin flying pod racers and later piloting Naboo star fighters in episode 1.
>Bail Antilles
Wait a minute, so *WEDGE* is Luke's sibling too in this canon. Man, he really piles up the unknown siblings, doesn't he?
Linkara's darth Vader mask is everything. 😎
I'd like to address this issue of Luke's burial, specifically the charge that it seems disrespectful or ruins the moment/message/whatever you call it.
It is clear in A New Hope that Luke hates his life on Tatooine. But it isn't that straightforward. We must ask why he hates his life there to assess whether burial there would ruin it.
We know that Owen is keeping him from the Academy, partly because he needs help on the farm, but also to shield him from the true identity of his father. It is really the restriction of Luke to a nowhere planet that Luke hates. Give him one or two semesters at the Academy, and his tune about Tatooine could change.
I myself hated where I lived when I went to college, but once I had a couple years of schooling, I was ready to return "home." And yes, I stayed at my school over the summers and holidays.
Luke's attitude also shifts a bit once he sees the massacre at the farm. He doesn't say "fine. I've had it with this place. I always wanted to be gone." It's simply "there's nothing left for me here. I want to follow the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father."
These are not the words of a young man harboring animosity for a world or home. There was something about being kept on Tatooine that he disliked.
This attitude continues in Return when he and Han are on the skiff. He says "there's nothing to see. I used to live here, you know." It's not "There's nothing to see. This place is just a sand dump. Totally worthless."
Luke's attitude has grown a bit from the first time we see him. Simply put, there's nothing in his demeanor to suggest he has an absolute hatred of Tatooine anymore.
The other issue is simple. Even if he did, would Rey have known that? Would it be reasonable for her to understand this? Would her action therefore be disrespectful? Maybe. Maybe not.
I do believe that last scene of Rise is the most misunderstood scene in the entire sequels. And it is partly earned. There are themes at work that are supposed to be fulfilled there. It just isn't always clear.
But to say Luke's burial on Tatooine is somehow disrespectful or harmful is much like the criticisms of Luke's behavior in Last Jedi. It really only works if you adhere to a certain belief about Luke, in this case, the idea that he hated Tatooine completely. It doesn't hold up too much when you step back and really look at the big picture.
Fun fact about the comic calling Darth Vader the "Dark Lord of the Sith" even though the term is never spoken in the trilogy.
As we saw from looking at The Star Wars, there were a ton of rewrites about what a Sith is. In official statements, Darth Vader was referred to as a Sith Lord, but there was next to nothing about what that meant. Similar deal, it was explained in supplemental materials what the name of Luke's father was (we even saw some pre-Empire Strikes Back comics featuring flashbacks with him and Darth Vader depicted as two different people).
Since the term Sith didn't get much use before the prequels, evil users of the Force were frequently called "Dark Jedi," including Vader and the Emperor.
There is a deleted scene where General Tagge refers to Vader as the Sith Lord sent by the Emperor.
9:53 "Despite 3PO's whiny objections" is something you could say of any time 3PO has to do something involving danger and/or shenanigans.
The comments are going so fast, no one will see my hatred for the current Spider-Man run
It's like the writers want us to hate it.
I will always see your hatred. Let it fuel you.
@@lightningmanmatthew good, good,I feel your anger, makes you stronger
Use your agresive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you!
@@tonycorona8501 yes my master
uncle owen worrying about luke being like his father still without the anakin and vader twist. Given anakin would have still died young and uncle owen would be worried that may happen to luke.
43:33 Did Vader just used his lightsaber to lift the cloak? How does that work? I'm pretty sure the cloak would be cut rather than lifted XD
Maybe he turned it down to the same setting that padawn training sabers are set at
Nah, it's just a glow stick.
This video is officially certified by the Recommending Ones & Zeros.
Vader enjoys a good cup of coffee nice 🙂. The best part of waking up, is darkside in your cup ☕
I had a trading card of R5 back in the day. According to it, he blew his own motivator as a means of keeping R2 and 3PO together.
Yeah, there's a comic about that
Sigh.
Star Wars has a pathological need to make everything deliberate. No coincidences or triviality are allowed. Everything must have a backstory.
37:08 "One of the stormtroopers was having a secret love affair with Tarkin."
😳Wait, no foolin'? I seriously thought that was just a goofy side-story to ANI, the Star Wars parody musical. 😂The extended universe really IS wild!
This is right up there as one of my favorite of your reviews. Just pure joy here joking about the comic and the continuity (Luke x Leia romance is so gross in hindsight). Also, what you said in the end credits about Luke observing the battle over Tatooine contrasting with him watching the Battle of Endor would've been so *chef's kiss*
Fantastic job! 🤩
There's a letter from a disgruntled fan in one of these comics that complains that Luke and Leia "act more like brother and sister than young sweethearts".
So obviously at least one prophet walks among us.
@@SonofSethoitaestrong with the Force this one was
Would you say that it was a little..."maclunkier"?
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I'll leave.
Missed a opportunity to have linkvader go "noooooooo" after being told he's not cool anymore at 16:18
Cover Vader looks like the hypno toad
It’s so odd how the theme song and the cantina song go so well together.
Ok, now I wanna see a cut of ANH that just adds all of Anakin's TPM space battle lines, but in Vader's voice. *heavy beathing* "I'll try spinning!" *breath* "That's a neat trick!"
Oh boy Linkara at 3:30 am!
14:25 The "Encounter at Farpoint" clip made my day.
I could have sworn Linkara already reviewed these comics. One of them had something about a spacer graveyard and creating Wookie porn? Guess I am imagining things.
Too much blue milk is dangerous.
Spoony reviewed them as a parody of Linkara. This is the real guy doing them.
As a Star Wars fan from childhood in walking distance from a library, I read this book so many times growing up and it is wild seeing it get a review. Also love the shout-out to Tarkin and TK-421
Yeah, both this comic and the original novelization are interesting looks at what would come with the film. The novel actually spelling out the Droids names instead of just the letters and numbers.
Small edit mistake in the credits: you said Leia was too tall, not too short, for the medal on Chewbacca. And this makes me think of a Rancor-sized Leia.
29:01 Funny thing is he HAS been cutting people's arms off in bars since before Luke was born given what he did to Zam in Episode 2.
On that note about Star Wars' need to just not let mistakes be mistakes? What's weird about that explanation you mentioned is that they actually had a much better one that was way simpler which was that R2s were so common in the galaxy that the term "R2 unit" just became a genericized term to refer to an astromech kind of like how we refer to any tissue as a kleenex or how we use the word "Google". It's simpler, works for the universe and also doesn't feel like the universe is just breaking its back trying to rectify a simple mistake.
It's good to know you en joyed the Obi Wan series too. Makes me really hope somebody patrons you to review it at some point.
Happy 2023 everybody!
I enjoyed the Vader cutaways they crack me up 😂
A fine review, nice start to the year and I'm always glad to see older comics on this show honestly. So really, great job Linkara. It's important to see how Star Wars evolved over the decades in all forms of media, I think it does us well to recognize how strange and wonderful this weird little kid's story about space wizards really is.
The hysterical thing about that "Rebels have won their first victory against the Galactic Empire" part of the crawl is the game Star Wars Rebel Assault is edited to imply that "victory" was just shooting down a few TIE Fighters. So it plays like the rebels are ecstatic that they shot down two planes and went home.
I mean it’s a small victory but a victory nonetheless
This was great and cool to see Biggs more. Rip Porkins if only he was in a y-wing also the cat is a very nice co-host
The design for Jabba the Hutt was never actually finalized until Return of the Jedi, before that he was alternatively the alien we see here and a guy who looked like an extra from Conan
OMG, I have binged your atop the fourth wall from episode one till this episode, I love your content! You're amazing and I hope to see far more in the future. Keep up the amazing work!
In the 2006 video game “Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy” you play through a recreation of the Original Trilogy with each movie getting six levels dedicated to them. I bring this up because this comic’s format is near identical to how the game handled A New Hope
Chapter 1: The Boarding of the Tanative IV and Leia sending the droids to Tatooine
Chapter 2: Luke searching for the droids and meeting up with Ben Kenobi learning about the Jedi
Chapter 3: Meeting Han and Chewbacca in the Cantina then escaping Tatooine on the Falcon
Chapter 4: Disguising as Stormtroopers to rescue Leia
Chapter 5: Escaping the Death Star and Kenobi’s death
Chapter 6: The Battle of Yavin
Makes me wonder if Traveler’s Tale took inspiration from the comic adaptations to structure their game
I don't think I've ever been this early to a vid before, a neat experience, can't wait to see the rest of the video later
I know why Jabba didn't look like a slug in this comic- no one really knew what he was supposed to look like when the movie was made. The scene where Han Solo talks to Jabba outside the Millennium Falcon originally had a tall chubby guy dressed in a barbarian getup act as Jabba. The actor was just a stand-in for what Lucas originally planned to replace with whatever design they were going to go with, and the comic artists, after being told that the barbarian guy was supposed to look more like an alien, took a creative liberty and made Jabba an alien Chester Arthur. The slug form as we know him was designed in preproduction of "Return of the Jedi," but by that point the Marvel comic was around for years so Alien Chester Arthur is the Legends Jabba.
Is it really that unbelievable that the space equivalent of a redneck teenager with a hero complex would carry around a grappling hook just cuz he thought it was cool? I knew plenty of kids who did stuff like that.