The Official DC Stupid Question Thread....

[Anubis]

Yeah, but they had flips, And cool new looks for the sabers like fencing sabers, and double bladed ones!!! But yeah, they lacked the heart. Not even the big fight with Ben and Anakin which should have been dripping with dramatic tension. Didn't hold a candle to Vader/Luke 1 & 2. Pretty though.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Kyle Katarn is the star of the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight video game series. He's also one of the first Jedi Knights of Luke's New Jedi Order and an all-around badass. Basically, picture Han Solo and a young Obi-Wan put together.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, a guy who embraced both the light and the dark, becoming a better kind of Jedi.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Indeed. He's a practical Force user--doesn't matter whether the power comes from the light side or the dark side to him, just as long as it helps him in that situation. I like that he's not one of the absolute most powerful Jedi evarr!!!11, too. We've got way too many of those, especially outside of the movie trilogies. Kyle's a moderately powerful Jedi who's made more awesome because he's great with a lightsaber and he's willing to accept and use all of the Force.

 

[BrianWilly]

Finally someone who has a knowledgeable comment on the topic.

Yeah I get that a lot.

I actually thought Palpatine was pretty ****ing awesome in the NT.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

His schemes were pretty masterful. But, on the other hand, just about everyone else was an idiot. Palpatine, Obi-Wan, and Mace L. Jackson's grape soda lightsaber made the NT watchable, at least.

 

[Manic]

The movie that made me want to reach into the movie and choke someone was Attack of the Clones.


A Jedi you thought was dead has bought an army in secret for reasons unrevealed, then went out of their way to make sure you'd never find the army by going into the Jedi database and removing the cloning planet from all of your records.

But hey, free army. Might as well take it anyway. Not like that's ever going to come back and bite us in the ass.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Hahaha, that's true. Desperate times, though. I could see why the Jedi did it.

 

[WompuM]

Why was that guy's backstory never given? Was it actually Palpatine?

 

[sto_vo_kor_2000]

Why was that guy's backstory never given? Was it actually Palpatine?

Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas

 

[Anubis]

Wow, didn't know they used that dudes blood on Grievous.

And speaking of Grievous, he was lame in the movie, but awesome on the clone wars cartoons. wtf was that all about?

 

[sto_vo_kor_2000]

Wow, didn't know they used that dudes blood on Grievous.

And speaking of Grievous, he was lame in the movie, but awesome on the clone wars cartoons. wtf was that all about?

George Lucas didnt write the cartoons..........thats right I went there

 

[The Question]

I would f*** a goat sideways to get a Kyle Katarn movie.

But I don't mind the s***ty lightsaber duels in the OT. They make sense in the context--Luke's a newb, Vader's a clunky cyborg, and Ben's old.

Plus, it's way more badass when Vader wrecks Luke with TK.

Hahaha, that's true. Desperate times, though. I could see why the Jedi did it.

I really don't see how it was the Jedi's call either way. They're, basically, a religious order of warrior monks. They have no say over military strategy. The most they can do is voice their opinions and either carry out military strategy or not.

 

[Anubis]

george lucas didnt write the cartoons..........thats right i went there

qft

 

[BrianWilly]

I really don't see how it was the Jedi's call either way. They're, basically, a religious order of warrior monks. They have no say over military strategy. The most they can do is voice their opinions and either carry out military strategy or not.

Mm, according to the Expanded Universe comics stuff, Jedi had quite a bit of say over what happens on and off the field. They were fully-ranked commanders and generals for the Republic armies. Part of why it was so easy for Palpatine to eventually convince the Senate to turn on the Jedi was because the Jedi held so much power over Galactic affairs at that point and, well, politicians being politicians...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, the clones were created for the Republic at the behest of a Jedi and we clearly see in the movies that Jedi hold most of the command ranks in the Clone Wars. It's like the best the clones or any normal Republic army personnel could hope to make was Lieutenant Colonel, if you go by US Air Force rankings, because all the full Colonels were Jedi Knights and all the Generals were Jedi Masters. The leaders of the Republic, for the most part, seemed to be limited to civilian oversight to the Jedi's military command.

 

[Prognosticator]

You guys know where to locate that old Aquaman online comic where he's being interviewed by the Hollywood executives for his own movie?? That short is KILLER and i'm always telling people about it, but I can't track it down?

 

[Bnightwing]

Could someone simply explain the other lights besides green in Green Lantern?

 

[sto_vo_kor_2000]

Could someone simply explain the other lights besides green in Green Lantern?

Other lights???

 

[Jordacar]

Could someone simply explain the other lights besides green in Green Lantern?

Do you mean other colors?

 

[Manic]

Jeeze. Do the Red Lanterns all spit their crap?

 

[yenaled]

I prefer the term other lights to other colours.

 

[Spike_x1]

Indeed. He's a practical Force user--doesn't matter whether the power comes from the light side or the dark side to him, just as long as it helps him in that situation. I like that he's not one of the absolute most powerful Jedi evarr!!!11, too. We've got way too many of those, especially outside of the movie trilogies. Kyle's a moderately powerful Jedi who's made more awesome because he's great with a lightsaber and he's willing to accept and use all of the Force.

Well, Kyle's still powerful enough to be the Battlemaster at Luke's academy, plus he beat Desann (sp), who had bested Luke. I prefer to think of Kyle as being the new Mace Windu of Jedi swordsmanship (ie: probably one of the more highly skilled swordsmen, but not beyond being challenged), while his major flaw is that he's not as powerfully skilled with the emotional aspects of the force, like Luke is.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, I guess Kyle is more high-power than moderately powerful. But it's his lightsaber skills that are his real strength, hence the Battlemaster thing.

Jeeze. Do the Red Lanterns all spit their crap?

Yeah, rage is supposed to replace their blood or some nonsense. I don't get why being angry means their whole corps is super-gross, but I guess that's just me.

The Blue Lanterns have some hot costumes. I didn't realize their costumes were so cool.

Anyway, to answer bnightwing's question:

Red = rage
Orange = avarice (or greed, if you want to be less technical)
Yellow = fear (this is the Sinestro Corps)
Green = willpower (it's sort of like the GLs are supposed to be emotion-neutral and, indeed, that's exactly what the Guardians are trying to force them to be)
Blue = hope (nobody's really sure what that means, but the Blue Lanterns have shown that they can supercharge other corps' powers)
Indigo = compassion
Violet = love (this is the Star Sapphire Corps)
Black = death (the Black Lantern Corps of resurrected dead characters)

 

[Spike_x1]

I know that the stronger a GL's willpower is, the stronger and more powerful their constructs can be. So, how would that concept apply to the other corps (or would it be able to be applied to the other ones at all)? I mean, is there some train of thought where the deader a Black Lantern is, the more powerful they are?