What did you think of the first chapter?
What did you think of the first chapter?
Ethan Long
Jason Sanders
it was good
Carson Barnes
Gavin Bell
I'm into it. Infact, I'm really into it.
It makes me optimistic to see this completely untouched pillar of the Star Wars universe and all of the bells and whistles that come with it. The first chapter alone is full of so many new and mysterious concepts it reminds me of watching the prequels for the first time again.
>Hutt Armada
Like actually what the fuck? The hutts had a god damn armada? Really hoping we see more of that
Noah Hughes
the hutts could be trying to become an empire again during this time
Xavier Richardson
>Set 100 years before Phantom Menace
>So everything the heroes do will end in failure and the Republic is doomed
I don't get why these guys keep on going back in time hoping they'll erase the stink of Star Wars
Ian Hernandez
Maybe we will see some sort of small scale war between the republic and the hutts that ends in them retreating and creating hutt-space. That section of the Galaxy is specifically not mentioned with the others so I'd bet it doesn't exist yet
Carter Price
I mean, the story is specifically about the catalyst that turns the republic into the corruption we see in Episode 1. Nobody is going into this expecting a happy ending
Jack Allen
200 years idiot
Zachary Ortiz
plus we know that atleast one of the Jedi will fall and become a lost 20
William Young
I hate the aesthetics, it makes the Jedi look like an order of chivalric white-knights instead of the taoist warrior-monks they actually are.
Colton Nelson
John Davis
Lucas Richardson
I love everything about this
Ryan Ortiz
William Green
Meant for
But I love the lost 20 thing too
Alexander Moore
I can’t wait to read the adventures of perfect woman warrior who is perfect because she’s a woman and don’t you doubt she can be a warrior because she’s the most perfectest warrior ever EVER because she’s a woman but through the course of these adventures she’ll learn she’s even more perfect than previously thought!
Charles Smith
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOOT THE WOOKIE JEDI?
Evan Howard
Jackson Murphy
Same here.
Kevin King
I don't really get what's so special about it
Landon Long
She's for sure falling to the dark side
Henry Hughes
I just never seen, read or heard of a Jedi wookie. I would kick myself in the nuts if an Ewok jedi exists.
Jordan Cruz
they should just make a old republic new series, set 10.000 before the movies.
its ancient times their actiond will have consequences to their time period as the bronze age had in our time line.
Eli Kelly
Fuck the high republic, if they're showing off events prior to TPM, I want to see the hundred year darkness.
Jaxon Reyes
You don't know about my man Gungi? He was a request by George in TCW
Christian Hill
Avar is going to fall dumbass they keep building her up for a fall
Nathaniel Foster
This isn’t Zig Forums in any way
Easton Jackson
I haven't seen all the episodes of TCW, I must have missed this wookie.
John Howard
Zachary Bell
We will get old republic stuff eventually. Right now it's time for a different era
Daniel Walker
Its a comic publishing event with a tie-in novel to kick it off
Parker Collins
I kinda hate these forced connections just to make everything canon. Every new character has to be retroactively inserted into everything going forward, it's so campy.
I don't know, maybe I'm just old and bitter but I feel like things in the old EU were more organic. Like, someone would just make a character that went on their own adventures in their little corner of the galaxy, and maybe if some other writer thought it was cool he would put in a cameo in his own work as a nod. Now it just feels like everything has been carefully planned in a writers room to make sure that every new product fits into the grand narrative of Disney Star Wars in some way or another. It doesn't feel like writers exploring the universe, it feels like a universe being systematically stretched to sell products.
I know, Star Wars has ALWAYS been commercialized, from its inception, but I think there's a difference from a writer wanting to create something in the SW universe and getting sanctioned to go ahead, and a team of writers getting hired by execs to flesh out a company plan. Everything just has that feel of movie tie-in product that just wasn't there before Disney.
William Rivera
Lincoln Moore
Why do you keep posting these?
Cameron Garcia
Just a matter of taste. I personally much prefer the way the canon all ties back into itself. It adds a satisfying twist to keeping up with the books and comics when you don't know who might pop up. The EU often felt like each book was set in its own continuity
Jason Johnson
Justin Russell
I don't want him to stop. It's neat.
Landon Barnes
Lucas had a rule that a Wookie Jedi was too powerful as a concept, he lessened it over the years but it remains a convention.
Noah Gray
Evan Campbell
He's the one who wanted one in TCW. I think it's fair to say he stopped caring entirely
Brandon Kelly
These long-sword hilts are especially shitty. I don't know if they're trying to westernize SW so they don't fall prey to "cultural appropriation" accusations but I think the erasure of the original asian influences is even more offensive than any appropriation they might have done.
Oliver Mitchell
The Nameless is another threat besides the Nihil
James Lopez
This isn’t Zig Forums in any way shill blow your faggot brains out and stream it
William Sanchez
Ian Reyes
>it reminds me of watching the prequels for the first time again.
The prequels fucking sucked, though.
Levi Murphy
Seethe I guess. You seem to care quite a bit more than anybody else
Nathaniel Long
I get that, but I think that works best when you're working on a smaller scale type of thing, like a super-hero comic. Star Wars is an entire galaxy, having all these characters lives' connected to each other makes the universe feel incredibly small to me. In the EU Star Wars felt like a fantasy setting anyone could explore, in the Disney canon Star Wars feels like a narrative that we're just consuming.
Wyatt King
Sure but the world building still invoked a sense of mystery that is hard to come by
Gabriel Bennett
>lost 20
I can't help but think the whole lost 20 thing is stupid. It just seems like far too low a number given the extended history of the Jedi.
Gavin Allen
Nicholas Nguyen
I think it's cool to have this era have a clearly different influence. Its a different time in history afterall.
>I don't know if they're trying to westernize SW so they don't fall prey to "cultural appropriation" accusations
That's a silly take and you know it
Justin Cooper
Comic book from Marvel incel kun
Luke Parker
and Idw
Asher Jones
I'd agree with you more if it wasn't for stuff like Chewbacca showing up in the prequels. The force binds people together not only figuratively, but also literally. That's why the same cast of characters is always running into each other.
This has been true not only in canon, and the EU, but also according to George himself.
Landon Powell
This. It always sounded like in-universe revisionism to me.
Ayden Lee
Superhero comics are multiversal and ions old wtf are you talking about?
Carter Myers
I can already tell this one will be such a slog but it is what it is. Really can't stand the IDW SW stuff
Jordan Edwards
Adrian Thomas
That’s not what this is now is it?
>i-it kinda is
No it isn’t.
Jaxon Ward
I think the lost 20 is something specific, not the only 20 Jedi to ever fall to the dark side
Jason Murphy
Just like the TROS trailers pretended that Rey might fall to the Dark Side
Liam Nelson
STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC – A TEST OF COURAGE
Long before the Clone Wars, the Empire, or the First Order, the Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in a golden age known as the High Republic!
Vernestra Rwoh has just become a Jedi Knight at age fifteen, but her first real assignment feels an awful lot like babysitting. She’s been charged with supervising twelve -year old aspiring inventor Avon Starros on a cruiser headed to the dedication of a wondrous new space station called Starlight Beacon.
But soon into their journey, bombs go off aboard the cruiser. While the adult Jedi try to save the ship, Vernestra, Avon, Avon’s droid J-6, a Jedi Padawan, and an ambassador’s son make it to an escape shuttle, but communications are out and supplies are low. They decide to land on a nearby moon, which offers shelter but not much more. And unbeknownst to them, danger lurks in the forest?.
Asher Bennett
Because it is
Jace Richardson
It exactly is. What are you still doing here?
Oliver Campbell
William Moore
here
This is the kind of thing I'm talking about, it just feels like they're compacting Star Wars into this easily digestible narrative that is easy to follow and every branch is set in stone and will then be further explored by tie-in products. There's no room for interpretation, it's like it was all carefully made to be easily read in a wiki-page.
Like this High Republic initiative, it seems like a push for a prequel narrative, not just for an expansion of the setting. They're looking to specifically tell a story set in the past, they're not looking to expand the past and THEN tell a story in it. Every novel and comic and game that will be set in the High Republic era will revolve around the same plot points and characters, we won't really get to see how things work in this era beyond the scope of the main narrative. Like the Darksaber suddenly showing up in a bunch of different media, this lost 20 thing is yet another plot point that serves to bait people into thinking "wow the universe is all connected" but that if you think about it too much instead makes the SW galaxy feel incredibly small.