I admit, the communicator is stupid.
Bail was able to hid his involvement with the Rebellion, and yet somehow drops both Owen and Tatooine in his message and this communicator just happened to be dropped. Oh, and despite being damaged, that part of the message is perfectly fine.
Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength I gain power.
Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force shall set me free.
–The Sith Code
yeah it's one of the laziest and most transparent mcguffins I can imagine in recent memory lol
Guys, come on.
Even I can come up with a reasonable plausible explanation of why Reva survived that even I can agree with
The problem is - I don't see it in the show.
And no one of you have come up with it.
She might be a cyborg. After that first stab at the temple. They found her alive fueld by rage, fixed her with cybernetics and a bacta tank - and bam - Vader stabbed her into cybernetics and she is still kicking because well, it's all cyber there.
Same for GI, as I mentioned much much earlier he did say in Rebels right before finally dying - "there's worse fate than death" (c) paraphrasing.
But we don't see that in the show. If GI was just picked up by a trauma team off screen and fixed up. Reva is shown as WOUNDED. So no cybernetics in her chest.
We saw cybernetics in Fennec resurrection, Cobb resurrection, even Cad Bane is probably cybernetically alive still.
So this is a thing now. But not for Reva.
That's just lazy sensational strong woman of color writing.
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All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
Again; genre conventions.
Stories are not reality. Dialogue isn't written or presented naturally in most cases (it can be, but it stands out when it's done, and usually is only done so intentionally). People position themselves in certain ways so the camera can get them both in the shot. Whether it's movies or TV, the visual medium is used to tell a story, it isn't meant to be live footage of real events, particularly as live footage of real events is often confusing or unclear, and that's a cinematographic failure unless that confusion is the intent.
Complaining about genre conventions doesn't make you a better audience member. It's ignoring the basic premise that you're experiencing a story. It's the equivalent of complaining that your parent pauses every time they have to flip a page while reading you your bedtime story. Or why all the voices sound the same because it's only your parent doing them.
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Jesus Christ. Right to being racist about it, eh?
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
If this were Vader's story, maybe.
But it isn't.
Also; you can't really do a tragic story arc where someone starts out bad and then dies for being bad. That's not "tragedy". Reva's still someone who casually murdered an innocent child earlier just to prove a point. That she's more complex than an empty puppet doesn't mean she's a good person or is more gray than black.
Reva's not accidentally surviving. Vader intended to leave her alive. Everything happened exactly as Vader intended, other than Obi-Wan escaping. This is pretty standard Sith stuff; in Vader's view, either Reva will let vengeance fuel her as she climbs back out of the gutter he's left her in, and in so doing becomes powerful enough that Vader can make proper use of her, or she'll die in the attempt and he's no longer got to worry about wasting time on her. Sith don't want their underlings to love them. They want their underlings to hate and fear them. To constantly be trying to get the upper hand and take them out. That's the Sith way. Reva's actions weren't a betrayal, they were an indication that, unlike the Grand Inquisitor, she might actually have potential.
If you want a tragedy, this is setting up a spin-off series starring Reva, and if she turns back to the Light as I think she's gonna next episode, and goes to try and take Vader out, we know she's gonna fail at that. There's your tragedy. The long walk back to the Light, but nevertheless inevitable failure.
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Thinking there's a "diversity agenda" at all is.
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
This isn't Reva's story either though! It's Obi-Wan
Anyway, it's possible it could lead into a good redemption story. But that's betting on a future we don't know about. Personally to me, at this moment, I think showing the stakes of the universe with Vader just killing her outright after humiliating her would make this whole "Jedi Purge" era much darker and scarier and real. It would also help paper over some of the cartoonish stuff and aid future shows by demonstrating there are actual stakes in this universe, not just literal beskar plot armor and the like!
Edit: oh also, build up Luke since he is the Chosen One and the whole point in this arc! Helps make it clear that nobody else can defeat Vader, certainly not random youngling upstarts. They all try and fail and die.
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All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
One, cybernetics in Star Wars can feel pain. So the fact she is wounded would not mean she does not have cybernetics there. Luke's hand was shot in RotJ and he reacted to that shot with pain. Now you could argue that it was the fake flesh over the injury that felt pain, but then I could easily say, maybe Reva has fake flesh over her cybernetics.
Two, we know already she is near a bacta tank currently. While it was last shown empty, I don't think they would have taken the time to load major medical equipment onto the shuttle and therefore bacta may be nearby available to her.
Three, the reason we don't have enough to show she will survive or how is that is literally the end of the current episode. Do you expect them to take time to spell it out on how she will survive for you while they are setting up the threat to Luke?
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Could it? Maybe, but they have done at lot of odd story choices and we kind of already seen a better version of Reva's story with Trilla in Fallen Order.
Also, Luke is not the Chosen One. Anakin is. Luke is just the only person we know of that could redeem Anakin. We can assume Padme or Leia could as well.
Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength I gain power.
Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force shall set me free.
–The Sith Code
I'm pretty sure the big finale is Kenobi's conversion of Reva. We'll find out on Wednesday.
Vader's the Chosen One. Luke in the OT is essentially an ambulatory Maguffin who exists to trigger his dad's parental emotions. This is literally the point of the finale of RotJ and what made that finale such an interesting take. That Luke could only beat Vader if he tapped into the Dark Side, losing himself to the Emperor in the process. Luke could not win.Edit: oh also, build up Luke since he is the Chosen One and the whole point in this arc! Helps make it clear that nobody else can defeat Vader, certainly not random youngling upstarts. They all try and fail and die.
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They also included a line about leaving everything you didn't need and getting on the ships.
I'm sure that's gonna apply to the Bacta tank. I also think it's gonna turn out to have applied to that case of lightsabers that Kenobi briefly noticed and got melancholy over. Especially that, because it's a weird thing to throw into Ep 5 if it's not clear foreshadowing/planting a Chekov's Gun in the scene.
Things I assume happen in Ep 6 (all speculation, obviously, so not bothering with spoiler tags);
1> Reva grabs a saber, fires it up, lighting her face in blue, foreshadowing a future turn to the Light Side.
2> Reva hunts Obi-Wan down on Tattooine, tracking down Luke knowing she can use him as she used Leia.
3> Reva and Obi-Wan fight. She's definitely trying to kill him. Obi-Wan is trying to talk. This plays out as a reflection of the Vader/Reva fight which was a reflection of the Obi/Anakin sparring flashback; Obi won't even use his saber for much of the fight, and it PROBABLY ends with him disarming her rather than harming her.
None of that's particularly odd; it's genre trope stuff combined with fairly obvious (to me at least) foreshadowing. That's not where they'll end it, but I'm not speculating about how they wrap it up, just some scene elements I fully expect to see come up because they seem so obvious to me.
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This is basically my problem with it. Storm Trooper can be shot literally anywhere in the armor, like even near the shoulder and they die. But other folks are impaled and non-the-worse-for-wear. While 3 Jedi Masters are hit in the guts and immediately die. There's no consistency, and they rely too heavily on the "you just thought they died", trope.
That said, I'm better with how they handled it with Reva, since they showed she wasn't dead, and was moving around and what not, but like how they did the GI was dumb. Being shot or stabbed in the gut doesn't "knock you out". So if they fall and are unresponsive, that informs us they are dead. So that brings me to Annie Wilkes complaint in Misery. You can't show us something in one episode to inform us something happens, then in the next episode be all like, "ha we tricked you, the thing didn't actually happen".
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That basically agrees with the statement that the show is Reva's story, since we are watching her journey. Were you intending to agree with the person you quoted, or were you saying Obi-Wan converting her makes it back to OW's story?
"Take the time to sit down and talk with your adversaries. You will learn something, and they will learn something from you. When two enemies are talking, they are not fighting. It's when the talking ceases that the ground becomes fertile for violence. So keep the conversation going."
~ Daryl Davis
It's the end of Obi-Wan's story, and the beginning of Reva's. That conversion has as much to do with Obi-Wan coming back to being a teacher and leading people to the Light as it as to do with Reva, and Reva's story isn't going to get tied off here, whereas Obi-Wan's will.
She's still a part of this story, and it's part of her story, but she's not the protagonist, she's the important secondary character that's gonna get spun off into her own story.
The dialogue in the show is so bad that when paired with the acting is a tough watch.
"I need you to do this thing."
"I'm sorry. I can't do that thing or the Empire will come after me".
"Please, I need your help."
"Okay, you got my help."
Ugh. It's like written by 7 year olds.
What I mean is that the entire premise is that Kenobi is protecting Luke because he is the only one who can destroy the Empire (thinking of the Obi vs Maul fight in Rebels, which was great). Making Vader more of a badass makes Luke and the Rebellion and the original chars more awesome too! He ruthlessly trashed everyone for 20 some years. Awesome!
Gotta sell that, not have a jillion random survivors here and there or its less meaningful imo.
A better way to think about Casual v Hardcore: https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...asual-Hardcore
"Take the time to sit down and talk with your adversaries. You will learn something, and they will learn something from you. When two enemies are talking, they are not fighting. It's when the talking ceases that the ground becomes fertile for violence. So keep the conversation going."
~ Daryl Davis
That's what I've said about Vader in the past - actually in this thread too, I think. He gets hit with the Worf Effect a lot. To the point where he stops feeling like this terrifying force of evil and more like just another Stormtrooper in black who can do neat magic tricks.
I guess part of it is just the constant need to expand the SW universe, to add more characters and more stories, and in doing so always have the scrappy protagonists succeed in the end. So he just has to constantly keep losing, keep getting clowned on, even when he's throwing his power around he's still just endlessly outmaneuvered, outwitted, or just plain out-lucked.
It makes the whole original story with Luke and the gang less meaningful, and makes Vader less of an imposing character in the end.