Star Wars: Episode IX - THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

[TheDucky]

If it's the one I think you mean, they moved to a new host.

https://primegeekculture.com/index.php?forums/

A veritable grime peak like many a forum. A hive of scum and villainy. A circle jerk, or a circle of jerks?

Whoever they are, they really don’t care much for some of you here. Calling you snowflakes, having to hide the sub so others won’t read it initially, what a fascinating rabbit hole. Like damn.

That Snikit dude wanted to fight people in real life? Death threats? Dissing on you Khev?

There were multiple splits and cliques on this site and multiple new forums formed?

About the movie section: “pretty much a group of 5 discussing the same stuff.”

Khev, JYE, Jaws, a-dev, ironwez, they talking about you?

A niche hobby, from a niche forum, had multiple feuds. Who knew.

Crazy.

 

[ironwez20]

, this place had like a split or something? A schism???



Damn, that wasn?t just a dig at me then, straight up insult

Didn?t think the ST could be any worse, but here we are with a force vampire

Yea pretty much. I don?t know what happened. Something about customs. So everyone sorta bounced. As for snikt..... yes your nothing like that guy. The boy was delusional and seemed to make stuff up. The other peeps that were mentioned seemed to think TLJ was an attack on make masculinity.

 

[ironwez20]

Whoever they are, they really don?t care much for some of you here. Calling you snowflakes, having to hide the sub so others won?t read it initially, what a fascinating rabbit hole. Like damn.

That Snikit dude wanted to fight people in real life? Death threats? Dissing on you Khev?

There were multiple splits and cliques on this site and multiple new forums formed?

About the movie section: ?pretty much a group of 5 discussing the same stuff.?

Khev, JYE, Jaws, a-dev, ironwez, they talking about you?

A niche hobby, from a niche forum, had multiple feuds. Who knew.

Crazy.

They like me but they don?t like jye and khev. I?m not sure what they did but yea. Crows told me to invite everyone but apparently things went south at that forum to. So he left. This is a toy forum so I don?t take it seriously at all but yea it was crazy how things were more lively but a divide happened and lots left.

I honestly think TLJ thread started it. Heated arguments there. That?s why it?s mostly 3 dudes defending the ST cause everyone else left lol. Khev and jye pissed them off but crows never said what they did. But a lot had to do with the custom rules.

 

[Bravomite]

A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY


N E R D W A R S

Like the PT it kind of started with a trade dispute! A certain IP holder was annoyed that a lot of 1/6 scale boot leg figures were being sold of their IP and they weren't getting the licence fee cheques for them. They looked to Sideshow to try and screw down on this activity as they were one of their legitimate licence holders in the 1/6 field in the US. This website used to be an affiliate of Sideshow and I believe used to receive sponsorship from them in the form of advertisement fees (the banner at the top of the page used to link to SideshowCollectors.com) ? once upon a time Sideshow reps even came to the boards to discuss figures but they were scared away by angry collectors critiquing their work. Sideshow flexed their muscles and told all affiliates (including this board) that if they continued to discuss these bootleg figures or advertised them in anyway then they would lose 'affiliate' status and the perks that went with that. There was a lot of confusion around what a 'bootleg' meant as this board used to a have a very healthy customs section (it was honestly awesome) and Sideshow seemed confused as well by what the certain IP holder wanted so they erred on the side of caution to ban all bootlegs and custom projects. Dave (the dude in charge of this board) did his very best to balance what Sideshow had 'requested' but also manage the removal of the customs scene (there were a lot of ongoing projects with a lot of money invested in them which couldn't just disappear over night otherwise people would be left high and dry) ? long story short Sideshow got spooked and pulled the 'affliate' status and this board suffered as a result (the customs scene was already gone by this point anyway so it was a loss a loss all round).

At the same time a massive nerd war was waging in the TLJ thread between those who legit loved TLJ (the misguided love anything Star Wars progressive feminist types) versus those who really hated it (the whiny basement dwelling self-entitled neck-bearded incel man-babies... of which I was one, frothing at the mouth as I posted here). The nerd war was like no other before it the mods swung their mighty ban hammers mercilessly (mostly... almost entirely.... ok 100%) banning only the most whiny of the TLJ haters in a bid to make the TLJ board a safe space for TLJ lovers.

A rival we hate TLJ page was started and for a time all was well again. No-one knows who fired the first shot but somehow the streams crossed. Before you knew it, we had TLJ lovers in the 'we h8 TLJ' thread spouting their fluffy love for it and TLJ h8rs spitting their vile bile hatred all over the 'we wuv TLJ' thread. The ban hammers were lifted and swung again … landing coincidentally only on the heads of the TLJ h8rs (bad luck I guess). The threads were locked down and again for a time there was peace. Then all the h8rs started to vent their anger in the legit toy threads where you were only meant to discuss upcoming figures. This tiny minority of haters kept getting larger despite the ban hammer culling their numbers.... it was a dark time indeed.

As a result of the customs schism a new custom boards were springing up all over the place. It was at this time that many of the h8rs angry at TLJ and the prejudice of the ban hammer left for this new pasture free to ridicule TLJ to their hearts content. I put a foot in the door for a time but I missed the passion of wuvvy TLJ lovers and their (sometimes) convoluted way of re-contextualising the OT to fit the ST... sad to hear the other place tore itself a part.

In the end a new TLJ thread was opened where the luvvers could talk mostly undisturbed. The odd TLJ hating weed would spout up but the TLJ triple threat of AJP (with his vast Star Wars knowledge and verbose but sound arguments), Khev (also with almost unparalleled Star Wars geek knowledge - though Khev flip-flopped on his luv for TLJ, often playing devils advocate to keep the discussion alive) and Jye (with his funny meme army) would annihilate them into submission ... mostly. And again for a time there was peace.

Then TROS came and the well drawn lines of wuv and h8 were thrown out of the window. AJP, once the staunchest defender of TLJ, did a heel turn casting aside his love for the ST but rather than hate he only had apathy towards it. Jaws returned from the unknown regions to fill the void left behind by AJP's absence, declaring his retrospective love for all things ST. Khev and Jye were overjoyed and too declared their love for all things ST. Alas there was no one left for them to battle. Like Grandmaster AJP, TROS had turned the h8rs and many of the previous wuvvers to apathy, hardly anyone legit cared about the ST anymore.

The force dyad of Khev and Jye led by new supreme leader Jaws every so often try to kick the PT hornets nest to have someone to debate with and so keep this thread and the ST alive, but the debates are tired. Everyone knows that the PT is superior in world building with more interesting characters and designs (and a better over-arching plot narrative) whilst the ST had Mark Hamill, Carrie and Ford, better acting and was a homage to the OT (read looked like and basically ripped it off).

Like BY, Mando has force heeled some and returned them to their former Star Wars love (remember before the ST we all used to like Star Wars, if not all parts of it, enough to be satisfied by it) but it seems it may not be enough to save all. The legacy of KK and the ST is not the force is female but the force is apathy.

 

[a-dev]

You have done well Lord Bravomite

 

[e30ernest]

A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY


N E R D W A R S

Like the PT it kind of started with a trade dispute! A certain IP holder was annoyed that a lot of 1/6 scale boot leg figures were being sold of their IP and they weren't getting the licence fee cheques for them. They looked to Sideshow to try and screw down on this activity as they were one of their legitimate licence holders in the 1/6 field in the US. This website used to be an affiliate of Sideshow and I believe used to receive sponsorship from them in the form of advertisement fees (the banner at the top of the page used to link to SideshowCollectors.com) ? once upon a time Sideshow reps even came to the boards to discuss figures but they were scared away by angry collectors critiquing their work. Sideshow flexed their muscles and told all affiliates (including this board) that if they continued to discuss these bootleg figures or advertised them in anyway then they would lose 'affiliate' status and the perks that went with that. There was a lot of confusion around what a 'bootleg' meant as this board used to a have a very healthy customs section (it was honestly awesome) and Sideshow seemed confused as well by what the certain IP holder wanted so they erred on the side of caution to ban all bootlegs and custom projects. Dave (the dude in charge of this board) did his very best to balance what Sideshow had 'requested' but also manage the removal of the customs scene (there were a lot of ongoing projects with a lot of money invested in them which couldn't just disappear over night otherwise people would be left high and dry) ? long story short Sideshow got spooked and pulled the 'affliate' status and this board suffered as a result (the customs scene was already gone by this point anyway so it was a loss a loss all round).

At the same time a massive nerd war was waging in the TLJ thread between those who legit loved TLJ (the misguided love anything Star Wars progressive feminist types) versus those who really hated it (the whiny basement dwelling self-entitled neck-bearded incel man-babies... of which I was one, frothing at the mouth as I posted here). The nerd war was like no other before it the mods swung their mighty ban hammers mercilessly (mostly... almost entirely.... ok 100%) banning only the most whiny of the TLJ haters in a bid to make the TLJ board a safe space for TLJ lovers.

A rival we hate TLJ page was started and for a time all was well again. No-one knows who fired the first shot but somehow the streams crossed. Before you knew it, we had TLJ lovers in the 'we h8 TLJ' thread spouting their fluffy love for it and TLJ h8rs spitting their vile bile hatred all over the 'we wuv TLJ' thread. The ban hammers were lifted and swung again … landing coincidentally only on the heads of the TLJ h8rs (bad luck I guess). The threads were locked down and again for a time there was peace. Then all the h8rs started to vent their anger in the legit toy threads where you were only meant to discuss upcoming figures. This tiny minority of haters kept getting larger despite the ban hammer culling their numbers.... it was a dark time indeed.

As a result of the customs schism a new custom boards were springing up all over the place. It was at this time that many of the h8rs angry at TLJ and the prejudice of the ban hammer left for this new pasture free to ridicule TLJ to their hearts content. I put a foot in the door for a time but I missed the passion of wuvvy TLJ lovers and their (sometimes) convoluted way of re-contextualising the OT to fit the ST... sad to hear the other place tore itself a part.

In the end a new TLJ thread was opened where the luvvers could talk mostly undisturbed. The odd TLJ hating weed would spout up but the TLJ triple threat of AJP (with his vast Star Wars knowledge and verbose but sound arguments), Khev (also with almost unparalleled Star Wars geek knowledge - though Khev flip-flopped on his luv for TLJ, often playing devils advocate to keep the discussion alive) and Jye (with his funny meme army) would annihilate them into submission ... mostly. And again for a time there was peace.

Then TROS came and the well drawn lines of wuv and h8 were thrown out of the window. AJP, once the staunchest defender of TLJ, did a heel turn casting aside his love for the ST but rather than hate he only had apathy towards it. Jaws returned from the unknown regions to fill the void left behind by AJP's absence, declaring his retrospective love for all things ST. Khev and Jye were overjoyed and too declared their love for all things ST. Alas there was no one left for them to battle. Like Grandmaster AJP, TROS had turned the h8rs and many of the previous wuvvers to apathy, hardly anyone legit cared about the ST anymore.

The force dyad of Khev and Jye led by new supreme leader Jaws every so often try to kick the PT hornets nest to have someone to debate with and so keep this thread and the ST alive, but the debates are tired. Everyone knows that the PT is superior in world building with more interesting characters and designs (and a better over-arching plot narrative) whilst the ST had Mark Hamill, Carrie and Ford, better acting and was a homage to the OT (read looked like and basically ripped it off).

Like BY, Mando has force heeled some and returned them to their former Star Wars love (remember before the ST we all used to like Star Wars, if not all parts of it, enough to be satisfied by it) but it seems it may not be enough to save all. The legacy of KK and the ST is not the force is female but the force is apathy.

I don't know why... But I read this in Olaf's voice.

 

[guyver1]

Finally a shot I found where I can see the whole hilt



It?s her staff and it?s a new era of lightsaber IMO

 

[ironwez20]

It?s her vibrator

 

[ironwez20]

A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY


N E R D W A R S

Like the PT it kind of started with a trade dispute! A certain IP holder was annoyed that a lot of 1/6 scale boot leg figures were being sold of their IP and they weren't getting the licence fee cheques for them. They looked to Sideshow to try and screw down on this activity as they were one of their legitimate licence holders in the 1/6 field in the US. This website used to be an affiliate of Sideshow and I believe used to receive sponsorship from them in the form of advertisement fees (the banner at the top of the page used to link to SideshowCollectors.com) ? once upon a time Sideshow reps even came to the boards to discuss figures but they were scared away by angry collectors critiquing their work. Sideshow flexed their muscles and told all affiliates (including this board) that if they continued to discuss these bootleg figures or advertised them in anyway then they would lose 'affiliate' status and the perks that went with that. There was a lot of confusion around what a 'bootleg' meant as this board used to a have a very healthy customs section (it was honestly awesome) and Sideshow seemed confused as well by what the certain IP holder wanted so they erred on the side of caution to ban all bootlegs and custom projects. Dave (the dude in charge of this board) did his very best to balance what Sideshow had 'requested' but also manage the removal of the customs scene (there were a lot of ongoing projects with a lot of money invested in them which couldn't just disappear over night otherwise people would be left high and dry) ? long story short Sideshow got spooked and pulled the 'affliate' status and this board suffered as a result (the customs scene was already gone by this point anyway so it was a loss a loss all round).

At the same time a massive nerd war was waging in the TLJ thread between those who legit loved TLJ (the misguided love anything Star Wars progressive feminist types) versus those who really hated it (the whiny basement dwelling self-entitled neck-bearded incel man-babies... of which I was one, frothing at the mouth as I posted here). The nerd war was like no other before it the mods swung their mighty ban hammers mercilessly (mostly... almost entirely.... ok 100%) banning only the most whiny of the TLJ haters in a bid to make the TLJ board a safe space for TLJ lovers.

A rival we hate TLJ page was started and for a time all was well again. No-one knows who fired the first shot but somehow the streams crossed. Before you knew it, we had TLJ lovers in the 'we h8 TLJ' thread spouting their fluffy love for it and TLJ h8rs spitting their vile bile hatred all over the 'we wuv TLJ' thread. The ban hammers were lifted and swung again ? landing coincidentally only on the heads of the TLJ h8rs (bad luck I guess). The threads were locked down and again for a time there was peace. Then all the h8rs started to vent their anger in the legit toy threads where you were only meant to discuss upcoming figures. This tiny minority of haters kept getting larger despite the ban hammer culling their numbers.... it was a dark time indeed.

As a result of the customs schism a new custom boards were springing up all over the place. It was at this time that many of the h8rs angry at TLJ and the prejudice of the ban hammer left for this new pasture free to ridicule TLJ to their hearts content. I put a foot in the door for a time but I missed the passion of wuvvy TLJ lovers and their (sometimes) convoluted way of re-contextualising the OT to fit the ST... sad to hear the other place tore itself a part.

In the end a new TLJ thread was opened where the luvvers could talk mostly undisturbed. The odd TLJ hating weed would spout up but the TLJ triple threat of AJP (with his vast Star Wars knowledge and verbose but sound arguments), Khev (also with almost unparalleled Star Wars geek knowledge - though Khev flip-flopped on his luv for TLJ, often playing devils advocate to keep the discussion alive) and Jye (with his funny meme army) would annihilate them into submission ... mostly. And again for a time there was peace.

Then TROS came and the well drawn lines of wuv and h8 were thrown out of the window. AJP, once the staunchest defender of TLJ, did a heel turn casting aside his love for the ST but rather than hate he only had apathy towards it. Jaws returned from the unknown regions to fill the void left behind by AJP's absence, declaring his retrospective love for all things ST. Khev and Jye were overjoyed and too declared their love for all things ST. Alas there was no one left for them to battle. Like Grandmaster AJP, TROS had turned the h8rs and many of the previous wuvvers to apathy, hardly anyone legit cared about the ST anymore.

The force dyad of Khev and Jye led by new supreme leader Jaws every so often try to kick the PT hornets nest to have someone to debate with and so keep this thread and the ST alive, but the debates are tired. Everyone knows that the PT is superior in world building with more interesting characters and designs (and a better over-arching plot narrative) whilst the ST had Mark Hamill, Carrie and Ford, better acting and was a homage to the OT (read looked like and basically ripped it off).

Like BY, Mando has force heeled some and returned them to their former Star Wars love (remember before the ST we all used to like Star Wars, if not all parts of it, enough to be satisfied by it) but it seems it may not be enough to save all. The legacy of KK and the ST is not the force is female but the force is apathy.

Damn so that?s how it went down. And lol at the last bit. Def true

 

[Asta]

Whoever they are, they really don’t care much for some of you here. Calling you snowflakes, having to hide the sub so others won’t read it initially, what a fascinating rabbit hole. Like damn.

That Snikit dude wanted to fight people in real life? Death threats? Dissing on you Khev?

There were multiple splits and cliques on this site and multiple new forums formed?

About the movie section: “pretty much a group of 5 discussing the same stuff.”

Khev, JYE, Jaws, a-dev, ironwez, they talking about you?

A niche hobby, from a niche forum, had multiple feuds. Who knew.

Crazy.

Yea pretty much. I don?t know what happened. Something about customs. So everyone sorta bounced. As for snikt..... yes your nothing like that guy. The boy was delusional and seemed to make stuff up. The other peeps that were mentioned seemed to think TLJ was an attack on make masculinity.

A few forums started up, and a couple are still going that I know of. Since this place didn't implode as badly as expected they've become a little redundant. Grime Peak became a sanctuary for a few like minded souls.

It?s her vibrator

 

[TheDucky]

A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY


N E R D W A R S

Like the PT it kind of started with a trade dispute! A certain IP holder was annoyed that a lot of 1/6 scale boot leg figures were being sold of their IP and they weren't getting the licence fee cheques for them. They looked to Sideshow to try and screw down on this activity as they were one of their legitimate licence holders in the 1/6 field in the US. This website used to be an affiliate of Sideshow and I believe used to receive sponsorship from them in the form of advertisement fees (the banner at the top of the page used to link to SideshowCollectors.com) ? once upon a time Sideshow reps even came to the boards to discuss figures but they were scared away by angry collectors critiquing their work. Sideshow flexed their muscles and told all affiliates (including this board) that if they continued to discuss these bootleg figures or advertised them in anyway then they would lose 'affiliate' status and the perks that went with that. There was a lot of confusion around what a 'bootleg' meant as this board used to a have a very healthy customs section (it was honestly awesome) and Sideshow seemed confused as well by what the certain IP holder wanted so they erred on the side of caution to ban all bootlegs and custom projects. Dave (the dude in charge of this board) did his very best to balance what Sideshow had 'requested' but also manage the removal of the customs scene (there were a lot of ongoing projects with a lot of money invested in them which couldn't just disappear over night otherwise people would be left high and dry) ? long story short Sideshow got spooked and pulled the 'affliate' status and this board suffered as a result (the customs scene was already gone by this point anyway so it was a loss a loss all round).

At the same time a massive nerd war was waging in the TLJ thread between those who legit loved TLJ (the misguided love anything Star Wars progressive feminist types) versus those who really hated it (the whiny basement dwelling self-entitled neck-bearded incel man-babies... of which I was one, frothing at the mouth as I posted here). The nerd war was like no other before it the mods swung their mighty ban hammers mercilessly (mostly... almost entirely.... ok 100%) banning only the most whiny of the TLJ haters in a bid to make the TLJ board a safe space for TLJ lovers.

A rival we hate TLJ page was started and for a time all was well again. No-one knows who fired the first shot but somehow the streams crossed. Before you knew it, we had TLJ lovers in the 'we h8 TLJ' thread spouting their fluffy love for it and TLJ h8rs spitting their vile bile hatred all over the 'we wuv TLJ' thread. The ban hammers were lifted and swung again … landing coincidentally only on the heads of the TLJ h8rs (bad luck I guess). The threads were locked down and again for a time there was peace. Then all the h8rs started to vent their anger in the legit toy threads where you were only meant to discuss upcoming figures. This tiny minority of haters kept getting larger despite the ban hammer culling their numbers.... it was a dark time indeed.

As a result of the customs schism a new custom boards were springing up all over the place. It was at this time that many of the h8rs angry at TLJ and the prejudice of the ban hammer left for this new pasture free to ridicule TLJ to their hearts content. I put a foot in the door for a time but I missed the passion of wuvvy TLJ lovers and their (sometimes) convoluted way of re-contextualising the OT to fit the ST... sad to hear the other place tore itself a part.

In the end a new TLJ thread was opened where the luvvers could talk mostly undisturbed. The odd TLJ hating weed would spout up but the TLJ triple threat of AJP (with his vast Star Wars knowledge and verbose but sound arguments), Khev (also with almost unparalleled Star Wars geek knowledge - though Khev flip-flopped on his luv for TLJ, often playing devils advocate to keep the discussion alive) and Jye (with his funny meme army) would annihilate them into submission ... mostly. And again for a time there was peace.

Then TROS came and the well drawn lines of wuv and h8 were thrown out of the window. AJP, once the staunchest defender of TLJ, did a heel turn casting aside his love for the ST but rather than hate he only had apathy towards it. Jaws returned from the unknown regions to fill the void left behind by AJP's absence, declaring his retrospective love for all things ST. Khev and Jye were overjoyed and too declared their love for all things ST. Alas there was no one left for them to battle. Like Grandmaster AJP, TROS had turned the h8rs and many of the previous wuvvers to apathy, hardly anyone legit cared about the ST anymore.

The force dyad of Khev and Jye led by new supreme leader Jaws every so often try to kick the PT hornets nest to have someone to debate with and so keep this thread and the ST alive, but the debates are tired. Everyone knows that the PT is superior in world building with more interesting characters and designs (and a better over-arching plot narrative) whilst the ST had Mark Hamill, Carrie and Ford, better acting and was a homage to the OT (read looked like and basically ripped it off).

Like BY, Mando has force heeled some and returned them to their former Star Wars love (remember before the ST we all used to like Star Wars, if not all parts of it, enough to be satisfied by it) but it seems it may not be enough to save all. The legacy of KK and the ST is not the force is female but the force is apathy.

Thanks for the fun backstory.

I regret missing the great TLJ battle.

 

[Otomofan]

I was flipping through my old "Magic of Myth" book today at work. That's the book that was sold at the Smithsonian exhibit back in 1998 when all the original costumes and props were on display. MAN that was so worth the drive to D.C.

Anyway, instead of just being a catalog of what was on display, the book is this snooty attempt to be all scholarly and compare Star Wars to ancient myths and the Joseph Campbell stuff. This was when only three movies existed too, so that's kind of cool.

It's all about Luke's hero journey and all the changes he and the rest of the characters go through over the course of the three movies. Nothing we haven't seen a million times in youtube videos. But as I was sitting there at work today, not working cause hey, there's a pandemic after all, so I'm just thinking about everything Luke went through and I just started getting pissed off all over again at how much I ****ING HATE REY.

What did she give up? What did she sacrifice? NOTHING. What did she learn? Nothing. She's the same character at the end of the last movie as she is when we first see her. Perfect, wise, powerful.

God I hate her so much.

Damn it. Didn't I say I'd stay away from this thread??

 

[JAWS]

Man you got to watch those films again. I don?t know what khev injected you with but this desperation to try and make the ST connect with anything is sad. Whatch the films again. Dooku and anakin was a well paced fight between two well trained Jedi.

Oh I don't think the Saber Duels in the ST have nearly the elaborate chorography that the PT does.. I don't think it connect with those.. I just happed to come across that gif when I was looking for the Luke Duel. I thought it was kinda funny.

The Anakin / Dooku duel is the best one in ROTS. Its a bit slower and much better shot then the Anakin / Obi Wan fight.
Having said that.. Since the sabers are more like Fencing swords in the PT.. The overhead move by Anakin is a bad one.

Until she called? On the force? You mean that ass pull? How the hell did she beat him with those moves is beyond me. Yes he was winning which is why it?s even more ridiculous that she won.

Until TROS I was there with you... I still don't love it but I guess Palpatine granddaughter + Staff training + Dyad + fighting injured Kylo who doesn't want to kill you + Calling on the force = Victory

But it mimics the OT and PT. So what? But she?s a palpatine! So what? Her fight style and lack of training is funny. The fights in the OT had twirling of the light sabers and fighting with one hand like kylo does a bit. Rey fights an idiot but it?s acceptable? .

What twirling are you talking about in the OT? The part where Luke spins in Empire? Or where Obi wan does the slowest spin ever in ANH? Again my friend you are the one who should watch all the saber duels again.


Also Rey fights one handed all the time / most of the time in TROS... Its actually one of my least fav things.. She is better with both hands.. My point about all of it is that its more in line with the OT... I posted one gif that showed both the PT and ST had some unwise moves.. But that's movies for you.

And watching these ST films saber duels again last night... She never really does well against Kylo accept for the one time when he is injured and trying to get her to join him and she calls on the force. All the other times he is toying with her and beating her.. So... Her lack of training and fight style do show up on screen.

But to act like the OT is some beautiful twirling choreography dance is way off. Like I said in ROTJ is Left Parry, Right Parry, overhead parry rinse / repeat.

Palpatine. Palpatine was more like yoda, he didn?t swing his sword like some dumbass​

Your right she is not as good as a CGI cartoon... But she looks better then Ian... Really man.. That Mace / Palps duel is the worst.. THE WORST

Rey does seem to have that thrust move that Palps likes to do.. Should have been the first hint that they were related.

 

[YoNoSe]

I memba when crows did his goodbye lap. He called me a jerk in dm.

I miss that little werewolfbeast.

 

[JAWS]

A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY


N E R D W A R S

Like the PT it kind of started with a trade dispute! A certain IP holder was annoyed that a lot of 1/6 scale boot leg figures were being sold of their IP and they weren't getting the licence fee cheques for them. They looked to Sideshow to try and screw down on this activity as they were one of their legitimate licence holders in the 1/6 field in the US. This website used to be an affiliate of Sideshow and I believe used to receive sponsorship from them in the form of advertisement fees (the banner at the top of the page used to link to SideshowCollectors.com) ? once upon a time Sideshow reps even came to the boards to discuss figures but they were scared away by angry collectors critiquing their work. Sideshow flexed their muscles and told all affiliates (including this board) that if they continued to discuss these bootleg figures or advertised them in anyway then they would lose 'affiliate' status and the perks that went with that. There was a lot of confusion around what a 'bootleg' meant as this board used to a have a very healthy customs section (it was honestly awesome) and Sideshow seemed confused as well by what the certain IP holder wanted so they erred on the side of caution to ban all bootlegs and custom projects. Dave (the dude in charge of this board) did his very best to balance what Sideshow had 'requested' but also manage the removal of the customs scene (there were a lot of ongoing projects with a lot of money invested in them which couldn't just disappear over night otherwise people would be left high and dry) ? long story short Sideshow got spooked and pulled the 'affliate' status and this board suffered as a result (the customs scene was already gone by this point anyway so it was a loss a loss all round).

At the same time a massive nerd war was waging in the TLJ thread between those who legit loved TLJ (the misguided love anything Star Wars progressive feminist types) versus those who really hated it (the whiny basement dwelling self-entitled neck-bearded incel man-babies... of which I was one, frothing at the mouth as I posted here). The nerd war was like no other before it the mods swung their mighty ban hammers mercilessly (mostly... almost entirely.... ok 100%) banning only the most whiny of the TLJ haters in a bid to make the TLJ board a safe space for TLJ lovers.

A rival we hate TLJ page was started and for a time all was well again. No-one knows who fired the first shot but somehow the streams crossed. Before you knew it, we had TLJ lovers in the 'we h8 TLJ' thread spouting their fluffy love for it and TLJ h8rs spitting their vile bile hatred all over the 'we wuv TLJ' thread. The ban hammers were lifted and swung again … landing coincidentally only on the heads of the TLJ h8rs (bad luck I guess). The threads were locked down and again for a time there was peace. Then all the h8rs started to vent their anger in the legit toy threads where you were only meant to discuss upcoming figures. This tiny minority of haters kept getting larger despite the ban hammer culling their numbers.... it was a dark time indeed.

As a result of the customs schism a new custom boards were springing up all over the place. It was at this time that many of the h8rs angry at TLJ and the prejudice of the ban hammer left for this new pasture free to ridicule TLJ to their hearts content. I put a foot in the door for a time but I missed the passion of wuvvy TLJ lovers and their (sometimes) convoluted way of re-contextualising the OT to fit the ST... sad to hear the other place tore itself a part.

In the end a new TLJ thread was opened where the luvvers could talk mostly undisturbed. The odd TLJ hating weed would spout up but the TLJ triple threat of AJP (with his vast Star Wars knowledge and verbose but sound arguments), Khev (also with almost unparalleled Star Wars geek knowledge - though Khev flip-flopped on his luv for TLJ, often playing devils advocate to keep the discussion alive) and Jye (with his funny meme army) would annihilate them into submission ... mostly. And again for a time there was peace.

Then TROS came and the well drawn lines of wuv and h8 were thrown out of the window. AJP, once the staunchest defender of TLJ, did a heel turn casting aside his love for the ST but rather than hate he only had apathy towards it. Jaws returned from the unknown regions to fill the void left behind by AJP's absence, declaring his retrospective love for all things ST. Khev and Jye were overjoyed and too declared their love for all things ST. Alas there was no one left for them to battle. Like Grandmaster AJP, TROS had turned the h8rs and many of the previous wuvvers to apathy, hardly anyone legit cared about the ST anymore.

The force dyad of Khev and Jye led by new supreme leader Jaws every so often try to kick the PT hornets nest to have someone to debate with and so keep this thread and the ST alive, but the debates are tired. Everyone knows that the PT is superior in world building with more interesting characters and designs (and a better over-arching plot narrative) whilst the ST had Mark Hamill, Carrie and Ford, better acting and was a homage to the OT (read looked like and basically ripped it off).

Like BY, Mando has force heeled some and returned them to their former Star Wars love (remember before the ST we all used to like Star Wars, if not all parts of it, enough to be satisfied by it) but it seems it may not be enough to save all. The legacy of KK and the ST is not the force is female but the force is apathy.

Great read..

Ya know I must have missed all the drama in TLJ thread... I was a hater there for sure but i can only hate on something for so long.. Khev and Jye loved it and I couldn't get them to change their minds so I left the sand box

I didn't know it got so weird.. Those members mentioned above Crows, Snikit etc.. I didn't have an issues with any of them.. Maybe because I was on their side back then IDK.. I don't recall threats.

I had a mod frustrated with me once and that's because I refused to enjoy The Hobbit movies and that mod loved those movies... But I was not disrespectful at all towards other members... I just posted why I didn't like them and that bothered him.

I was flipping through my old "Magic of Myth" book today at work. That's the book that was sold at the Smithsonian exhibit back in 1998 when all the original costumes and props were on display. MAN that was so worth the drive to D.C.

Anyway, instead of just being a catalog of what was on display, the book is this snooty attempt to be all scholarly and compare Star Wars to ancient myths and the Joseph Campbell stuff. This was when only three movies existed too, so that's kind of cool.

It's all about Luke's hero journey and all the changes he and the rest of the characters go through over the course of the three movies. Nothing we haven't seen a million times in youtube videos. But as I was sitting there at work today, not working cause hey, there's a pandemic after all, so I'm just thinking about everything Luke went through and I just started getting pissed off all over again at how much I ****ING HATE REY.

What did she give up? What did she sacrifice? NOTHING. What did she learn? Nothing. She's the same character at the end of the last movie as she is when we first see her. Perfect, wise, powerful.

God I hate her so much.

Damn it. Didn't I say I'd stay away from this thread??

I was so there with you for the first two films. IDK.. It seemed like she started to have more of a Hero's journey in TROS but by then it was the end.

 

[Khev]

Great read..

Yep great stuff Bravomite, lol.

Ya know I must have missed all the drama in TLJ thread... I was a hater there for sure but i can only hate on something for so long.. Khev and Jye loved it and I couldn't get them to change their minds so I left the sand box

I didn't know it got so weird.. Those members mentioned above Crows, Snikit etc.. I didn't have an issues with any of them.. Maybe because I was on their side back then IDK.. I don't recall threats.

I do remember SNIKT seemingly challenging those who disagreed with him to pick a time and place to meet in real life so they could brawl, lol. He was hard to take seriously and in all honesty I was sad to see him go. His passion for certain movies rivaled my own but he always had an "interesting" way of expressing it that I couldn't help but find entertaining.

I had a mod frustrated with me once and that's because I refused to enjoy The Hobbit movies and that mod loved those movies... But I was not disrespectful at all towards other members... I just posted why I didn't like them and that bothered him.

No way, really? Was it a mod who had "The" in his username? That's funny since IIRC you even came around to liking them when you went back and binged all three.

 

[Khev]

I memba when crows did his goodbye lap. He called me a jerk in dm.

That's awesome.

 

[Khev]

Rey does seem to have that thrust move that Palps likes to do.. Should have been the first hint that they were related.

Did you ever watch this video?



He did a really awesome job of making a case for Rey being a Palpatine and that was before even the release of TLJ! But he does mention her using the Palps thrusty attack and calls out how she seems filled with the Dark Side the way that she paces and stalks Kylo like Maul when he was separated from Obi-Wan by that force field thing in TPM.

If you want to go really off in EU land then apparently Palps' primary fighting "technique" was his ability to just mimic the style of whomever he was fighting. And so it was suggested that Rey had that aptitude too. I found it interesting that TROS almost suggested that she does *better* when she just relies on instinct over training as evidenced in that one early sequence where she just can't seem to outfight the training remote with her saber and instead has to kind of cheat with her staff.

Then when she finally has her big rematch with Kylo on the wreckage of the Death Star she actually does worse against him after years of training than when she had no training and simply relied on her own instincts and the Force. Of course that could also simply be attributed to Kylo being that much better himself, not wounded, and all that but I still thought it was cool either way.

 

[JAWS]

I do remember SNIKT seemingly challenging those who disagreed with him to pick a time and place to meet in real life so they could brawl, lol. He was hard to take seriously and in all honesty I was sad to see him go. His passion for certain movies rivaled my own but he always had an "interesting" way of expressing it that I couldn't help but find entertaining.

I remember liking him and Crows also.. I don't recall any of the real controversial stuff..

No way, really? Was it a mod who had "The" in his username? That's funny since IIRC you even came around to liking them when you went back and binged all three

Yep.. Is he still a mod? I have not seen him forever.

I have not watched those films since I binged them back then... Wonder how I would feel about them now.. I just don't have as much interest in Middle Earth as I use to.

 

[punisher1974]

A few forums started up, and a couple are still going that I know of. Since this place didn't implode as badly as expected they've become a little redundant. Grime Peak became a sanctuary for a few like minded souls.