1/6 Hot Toys Rogue One: K-2SO

[darth dennis]

You mean to say you don't really know?

https://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Don-Wan_Kihotay

Oh, to be a kid again and fall in love with the covers of the comics only to be confused by the internal story...

 

[Asta]

I think I've still got all those original comics.

They were simultaneously the stuff dreams and nightmares are mode of.

Even as a child some of the stories and characters seemed a little out of place.


Then The Phantom Menace happened, and they didn't seem all that weird after all.

 

[Tinman2000]

Early reviews from Rogue One say K-2SO is one of the characters that steals the show; anyone else besides me taking off from work on Friday to see the movie?

 

[FlyAndFight]

I've got my tickets for Friday!

 

[Asta]

I'll await the bootleg.

 

[Futurion]

I'm going to see the movie on Thursday. It was clear from the trailers that K2SO HK like droid will be that amusing part.


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[Tinman2000]

...yeah, I don't understand the bootleg thing; that's not for me on several levels.

 

[darth dennis]

I'm going to wait for it to come to TBS in 24 months but will be super mad at spoilers until then...

 

[Asta]

I just can't stand the idea of cinemas and booking a time to see a film. I've had blu-rays for months waiting until I'm in the mood to watch them.

 

[Tinman2000]

I've never booked tickets online to see a movie, just walked up the counter. I may try booking tickets for this one but not sure its necessary cause we have two theaters, literally across the street from each other, showing the movie.

 

[Asta]

I'm not fussed about seeing any movie. Especially all these new Star Wars movies, which are essentially just curiosities compared to the OT.

I find the figures more compelling, because they can have whatever existence you imagine for them. Jyn and K-2SO could just as well be from a Brian Daley or L. Neil Smith novel, which, for me, were the pinnacle of non-OT Star Wars.

Those were stories told before the Star Wars franchise exploded into the enormous market-driven megabeast it is today. Hard to imagine now that 1985-1995 was a decade devoid of figures. Then the beast awoke and hasn't slept since. And it's difficult, at this point in time, to imagine it going away again.

 

[wadeit0ut]

I'm not fussed about seeing any movie. Especially all these new Star Wars movies, which are essentially just curiosities compared to the OT.

I find the figures more compelling, because they can have whatever existence you imagine for them. Jyn and K-2SO could just as well be from a Brian Daley or L. Neil Smith novel, which, for me, were the pinnacle of non-OT Star Wars.

Those were stories told before the Star Wars franchise exploded into the enormous market-driven megabeast it is today. Hard to imagine now that 1985-1995 was a decade devoid of figures. Then the beast awoke and hasn't slept since. And it's difficult, at this point in time, to imagine it going away again.

My OT hipster sense is tingling.

I don't care if people torrent stuff. I do it all of the time. But don't try to justify it, just do it in private like most of us.

 

[Asta]

My OT hipster sense is tingling.

I don't care if people torrent stuff. I do it all of the time. But don't try to justify it, just do it in private like most of us.

I'm not trying to justify anything, and I don't know the first thing about torrents. Wouldn't know where to start.

I've just hated the idea of cinemas since Terminator 2. As I said, I've had Blu-rays and DVDs for months, sometimes years, before the mood strikes enough to watch them.

Movies pop up in high quality on certain sites. If they turn out to be really good, then that does justify an official purchase of a shiny disc in a pretty case.

 

[wadeit0ut]

I get it. But I would imagine most people who understand what Rogue One is would be completely baffled by your explanation. Rogue One is about as OT as anything you will ever get again in your lifetime.

 

[Asta]

I get it. But I would imagine most people who understand what Rogue One is would be completely baffled by your explanation. Rogue One is about as OT as anything you will ever get again in your lifetime.

The OT finished in 1983.

Rogue One is a contemporary film set just before the OT's time period.

In that respect it's further away from the OT than TFA, because TFA was made earlier.

It's like that expression about capturing magic in a bottle. Lucas managed that between 1976/77-1983, yet failed to repeat it 1999-2005, because films are a product of their time and of changing times.

 

[Hoody999]

K-2's too tall.

Those legs were just asking to be sliced off with a lightsaber.

If only he'd have been regular sized companion, rather than a head on a crane.

Yeah, but it's survival of the fittest. Looks like the K-2 robots won out against the Jedi.

 

[Asta]

Yeah, but it's survival of the fittest. Looks like the K-2 robots won out against the Jedi.

Or the last of his kind?

Following on from my previous post, and tying back to the Star Wars Weekly comic...

I remember buying the first Star Wars comic at the newsagent on the way home from infant school as if it were yesterday. It's funny how certain memories stick so sharply.

I went into the shop to buy the local paper for my parents as I always did on the way home. And before I stepped over that threshold I hadn't even heard of a film called Star Wars. But there was an excitement in the shop, with kids talking about the comic and the film. Intrigued, I spent the newspaper money on the comic instead of the newspaper. And got told off when I got home, because money was really short back then.

After the telling off I read the comic, all the while feeling guilty!

And that was how my fascination with Star Wars began.

 

[Hoody999]

Cool story !

 

[Tinman2000]

I don't know, maybe I'm easy to please and enjoy most everything Star Wars...barring the Ewoks, Jar Jar, Anakin in general, etc. It's unfortunate I work with people that don't know the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek because it looks the same to them, or haven't been to a theater since the first Jurassic Park.

 

[Asta]

I don't know, maybe I'm easy to please and enjoy most everything Star Wars...barring the Ewoks, Jar Jar, Anakin in general, etc.

Most things Star Wars are easy to enjoy, even the PT (excluding Jar Jar, of course). But only some of it holds a special place, being the earlier things.

The mid-1990s were an exciting time with the imminent return of the action figures. Then the anticipation for The Phantom Menace, the beginning of the prequel trilogy that I'd first read about in the Eagle comic (maybe in 1982 or 1983) that reported Lucas' planned nine film series. Yet the reality of TPM was one of disbelief. All those years of waiting culminating in something that I barely recognised. It's taken quite a few years to finally accept the PT.

It's unfortunate I work with people that don't know the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek because it looks the same to them, or haven't been to a theater since the first Jurassic Park.

That recent?

1991 for me. Quite a few films that year, before I lost interest in the pay once, see once format. Haven't set foot in an active cinema since.