The Star Wars Thread v2 - *NO SPOILERS*

[Return_of_the_STAR]

What the hell are you all talking about, gatekeepers, gamergaters and franchise tourism?

[Tafdolphin]

What the hell are you all talking about, gatekeepers, gamergaters and franchise tourism?

You don't want to know.

[Moggy]

What the hell are you all talking about, gatekeepers, gamergaters and franchise tourism?

They are the names of the Knights of Ren.

[Cuttooth]

What the hell are you all talking about, gatekeepers, gamergaters and franchise tourism?

They are the names of the Knights of Ren.

[Return_of_the_STAR]

What the hell are you all talking about, gatekeepers, gamergaters and franchise tourism?

They are the names of the Knights of Ren.

Bloody house of mouse ruining Everything!

[Tomous]

At what point can you claim permanent residency as a tourist?

I’ve see all the films, played Episode 1 Pod Racer on the N64 religiously and have read a couple of books from the EU. Where do I apply?

[Tafdolphin]

At what point can you claim permanent residency as a tourist?

I’ve see all the films, played Episode 1 Pod Racer on the N64 religiously and have read a couple of books from the EU. Where do I apply?

Psh. You're not even a day tripper. The Star Wars equivalent of Judith Chalmers.

Definitely not a True Star Wars Fan.

[Tomous]

I’m going to get “The Star Wars Judith Chalmers” printed on business cards

[Moggy]

have read a couple of books from the EU. Where do I apply?

IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT HERE THEN MOVE TO FRANCE. TRAITOR!

[Gemini73]

At what point can you claim permanent residency as a tourist?

I’ve see all the films, played Episode 1 Pod Racer on the N64 religiously and have read a couple of books from the EU. Where do I apply?

Psh. You're not even a day tripper. The Star Wars equivalent of Judith Chalmers.

Definitely not a True Star Wars Fan.

I see you've once more been successful in rallying the troops to your cause. Oh, and you've even managed to bring out the Gamergater card! Awesome.

Keep up the good work. Must be incredibly tiring standing on the sidelines of the internet barking at the world whilst not actually doing anything of any real merit beyond those borders. Thumbs up for you, pal.

[Skarjo]

[Tafdolphin]

I was going to go for



Yours was better

[Parksey]

If we're going to argue about a science fiction series, please do so within the confines of its films, books, TV shows etc., not whether one poster on an internet forum has anymore ownership of a set of publically-released movies consumed by millions of people since their creation 42 years ago.

Ta.

[Tafdolphin]

[Knoyleo]

Come back to me when your knowledge of Star Wars extends beyond a handful of movies, there's a good chap.

But Star Wars is a handful of movies.

[Jenuall]

And only a relatively small sub set of those movies are even any good.

[OrangeRKN]

Come back to me when your knowledge of Star Wars extends beyond a handful of movies, there's a good chap.

I've been trying to get into it more but am not sure where to start - would you recommend the original series or DS9?

[Robbo-92]

Extended universe isn’t even classed as canon anymore is it? Not that it stops them being good books of course. I’ve only read a handful of the books though, don’t find myself reading the books I currently have anyway so getting more kind of defeats the object of buying them to read rather than sitting on a shelf just waiting to be read.

I just look extensively on Wookiepedia for all my (lack of) Star Wars knowledge

[Tafdolphin]

The old EU is now Star Wars Legends, essentially the equivalent of those What If episodes of Friends.

Doesn't stop Admiral Daala being bae though

[OrangeRKN]

The old EU got turned into an alternate canon called "Legends", so they could have free reign over the new films with only the previous movies being considered new canon.

Unfortunately they then immediately started jamming a multitude of new EU material into the new canon, which to me seemed to ruin the whole "clean break movies only" approach they were supposedly going for.

What's worse is that the new films are the most reliant of the whole series on EU awareness. The old films stand alone and can be understood in isolation even with the old EU spun around them, while the new films are missing vital world building that has been relegated to supplementary material.

The whole thing has been mishandled.