• Lauchs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Oh heck, Thrawn’s in the newest series? Is this incarnation awesome, meh or something in-between?

        • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
          31·
          2 years ago

          Having Thrawn get no diffed by a space whales and a kid with a lightsaber slingshot kind of killed my interest in the character tbh.

          Especially because he seems to have lost his Star Wars superpower:

          Knowing basic space physics and using it to win.

          • Lauchs@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Knowing basic space physics and using it to win.

            Ahaha, well put!

            I am kind of tempted to reread the Zahn books but am worried that either A) jaded old man Lauchs won’t read them with the same suspension of disbelief, sense of awe and childish imagination or B) be really annoyed we didn’t get those as the new movies.

            Kind of a no win scenario I think.

          • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            And that was why I loved the rogue squadron series as a kid: the main characters weren’t Jedi. They were just regular people, whose superpowers were just weaponized competence. No handwavey space magic, just a T-65 and decades of starfighter combat experience.

  • freamon@feddit.nlEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I’m guessing this is from the latest episode - if so, this Community is becoming my primary source for knowing when a new episode drops.