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Bail Organa
The most nothing of nothing characters. He's just a guy who's there to explain why Leia is raised as a princess while Luke is raised as a dirtfarmer. I laughed when he appeared in Rogue One, like this was the MCU or something. I can imagine an alternate RotS where Bail Organa is more of an actual character, but it's not the one we got.

Star Wars ships vs Star Trek ships
I did this a bit already, but sure.

I looked up the sizes of the Millennium Falcon and the various Star Trek ships, and the Trek ships dwarf it by like 10-20 times, which is predictable. The Millennium Falcon is a private ship, more comparable to that ship Quark owned for one episode, while the Star Trek ships are operated by the military.

Star Destroyers are vastly larger, of course. I remember many years ago, when I was like nineteen, I found a website that compared Star Wars ships to Star Trek ships. It used citations from the EU to prove that the Wars ships are vastly more powerful. The problem with that is, I'm afraid, that it relies on Legends continuity. In the modern continuity?

It's definitely true that Wars technology is much faster, since they can travel the galaxy in days whereas the Federation's vastest ship needs 70 years to travel that distance (though you can argue that the Milky Way might be larger). Assuming that Wars shields function the same as Trek shields, you can't transport photon torpedoes onto the bridge or anything. But then, Picard laughs when someone shoots lasers at him, and Wars ships very explicitly used lasers and "turbolasers," so who knows? It seems like Trek is superior in every way about technology except FTL travel speed, but Wars has such an advantage there that a hypothetical war still favors the Empire over the Federation.

As for why Star Trek doesn't use fighter craft, well, I would have said that they just aren't useful in Trek's combat -- that the technology favors large phaser banks that can't be installed on small fighters. But thanks to DIS, we now know that all of the Federation ships actually are equipped with billions of robot fighter drones (or manned fighters, it's hard to tell), and it was just never mentioned until Alex Kurtzman told us, so I guess that's that.

Christopher Lee
What is it like to be a real actor who ends up doing shlock? That's what I was thinking when Charles Dance showed up in that horrible Dracula Untold movie. "Is he thinking about when he was in real movies?", I wondered.

Why the hell did Christopher Lee accept the role of Dooku? I have no idea. Lee is great in everything he's in except Star Wars. He's even good in the Hobbit movies! Although, honestly, he still comes off with a bit more dignity than the rest of the RotS cast.

On an unrelated note, I read that when he gets shot in LotR, he argued with Peter Jackson, saying that people who are shot don't react the way Jackson wanted him to act, and that he knew this because he'd fought in WWII. Jackson challenged him to show how Saruman would actually react to being shot, and Lee did like a face of surprise and slumped to the ground, and then Jackson forced him to do it the original way.

Quality actor, 10/10 guy.

Wilco (Album)
I listened to the album while playing video games. I don't know anything about music, but I know I hate this. This is just not my style, sorry.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
The original KotOR, damn. Been forever. I remember talking about this game in high school with my friend Adin, who was not a video game guy, but nevertheless had played KotOR.

KotOR is an adaptation of the Star Wars d20 ruleset, which I think is itself an adaptation of the D&D 3.5 ruleset? So we're talking about a copy of a copy of a copy, and it... works really well, actually. Gameplay-wise, this game is flawed but still really fun.

Plot-wise, it's fairly standard fare except for one detail. There's a Darth Vader wannabe, a Jedi who falls to the Dark Side, a cast of companions who are either Star Wars archetypes or Bioware archetypes, and an epic plot involving an ancient artifact and fallen empire. It's all very much what you would expect... except for the one plot twist that launches the game from "pretty good" to "holy crap."

I am talking, of course, about Revan. All throughout the game, you hear about Darth Revan, this legendary Sith asskicker, and how he'd totally kick all of your asses if he was here right now. And then, halfway through the game, it's revealed that you're Darth Revan, and the Jedi wiped your memories so you'd help them, and that's why you're so good at kicking ass despite ostensibly being a newbie Jedi. The game doesn't do a great job of exploring the identity issues or morality questions that this raises, but the twist by itself is like a top three video game twist of all time.

Great game, but I don't know if I'd call it a must-play.

Nien Nunb
AKA the pancake guy. Quick aside, the alien language this guy speaks is a real African language that they just used.

Nien Nunb works in two capacities. The first is to show how the Rebels have a bunch of alien species joined together against the Empire. The second is to give Lando someone to talk to, and it's telling how little Nien Nunb himself matters as a character that what he says in response doesn't matter at all.

RIP Nien Nunb, you're yet another OT character the Disney sequels pointlessly kill.

MauLer
Look, sorry, I'll watch a five minute video for this topic, but I'm not going to watch four hours of analysis videos for it. I can't rate a guy I've never watched before.

Space
The final frontier. Space is Star Wars barely even matters. In Star Trek, the physics and logic of space matter a whole lot. In Star Wars, not so much. The only time the physics of space matter is when General Grievous punches a hole in the window and flies out. Every other time, the heroes might as well be flying in an atmosphere. This reaches its zenith in TRoS, where people ride horses on top of a Star Destroyer. I wonder if JJ Abrams thought that would be cool? He must have known it was dumb, right?

TIE ap-1
I mean, this is a neat little design, but it's only in two games, neither of which I've played. As a design unto itself, it's... fine? It looks Empire-ish, at least.

r/equalmemes
Marginally better than the other ones, but not by any meaningful amount.


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Started: July 6, 2005