Star Wars Black Series

That ARC trooper is cool. Yeah, not a must, but for Clone fans, it's cool.

AceofKnaves said:
Yes!
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Right? The Cantina one was cool and I liked the Palace one as well, but the highs of the Bounty Hunter book were better than any of them.
AceofKnaves said:
YES. And I hated that they made him some weird evangelical prude, like I’m glad he didn’t SA Leia but bleh.
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Ah man, I forgot about that. Just... weird.
AceofKnaves said:
Indeed. Don’t care about a Han/Boba rivalry at all, it was just a job, man.
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Exactly.
AceofKnaves said:
lol he downloaded his brain into Death Star II. I laughed so hard and almost didn’t keep reading because that was so lame.
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The IG-88 ones remains the only Kevin J Anderson thing I think I've read, and obviously didn't get me excited to read more. I appreciated that he explained the broken IG droid on Bespin though!
 
I guess that's about right. At least in my neck of the woods, most Black Series are $27.99. Your mileage may vary, of course. I've been wrong before, but this is one that I can definitely see going on sale, as long as it sticks around.
 
docsilence said:
So after being on that panel about media literacy on Friday I have a split mind on the Slave-1 change and it's caused by the fact that Star Wars is both an old property AND a living property and that doesn't happen too often.

Because the first questions you should ask when being media literate is who wrote this, why was it written, and WHEN was it written, because the when informs a lot about it (how often do we see babies on the internet trying to cancel book from 1937 or something instead of turning a critical eye about the state of the world when it was written). So on the one hand, Empire came out in 1980-ish. It was a different time. Boba was framed as an unrepentant villain. We had no other context for the character. Naming his ship Slave, when his entire job is capturing people who don't deserve it and dragging them back to people with money and power? That actually is some social commentary. 1980 Boba Fett is very likely a LITERAL SLAVE CATCHER.

But then if you have a critical eye to these things you can then go okay, the character is part of a living, breathing franchise that iterates a LOT of time. He's not the same character he was then. The storytellers still need that ship; IT WILL STILL BE A TOY IN TOY STORES. So to grow with social awareness, you change the name of the ship.

So I think it's a perfectly understandable, even smart decision to do so, but also I hate when we lose context because when we lose context we lose the opportunity to grow from reading about that context. But it's also a fucking Disney IP, so none of it really matters in the end, it's about Legos more than about social issues.


This is weirdly more accurate than I expected it to be, because while they have done Cad Bane's origin story and it gives him reasons for his actions, the writers have been far more effective at making sure Cad Bane is a fucking bastard and doesn't get a redemption arc. He gets glimmers of humanity that make him more interesting, but in the end he's ten times scarier than Boba Fett because they didn't swap him from villain to anti-hero. His Tales of... arc is so fucking dark.
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The ARC 3-pack looks good and if it is $80US that isn't too bad considering Hasbro's current pricing. Also nice to get different colours rather than say 1 ARC Trooper and a couple of Clones in similar colours.


Because I'll probably never be in a media literacy event.

I have to ask if there was any discussion about historical portrayals in modern media and what it might mean for both accuracy and societal acceptance of history? Maybe even with fictional portrayals of real people/socities?

Meaning does changing a real persons ethnicity by actor, or a societies real history by omission (say not wanting to portray Nazi's in full in a movie) do damage to our understanding and acceptance of history?
 
Alt said:
Yeah I thought they were going to do that.

I mean at the very least Hasbro could just give me Sophie Thatcher with or without her moped. I'd call it square then.
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I still want figures of both of them:

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scottg10 said:
You are not the first person I've seen who has had an issue with Amazon approving a delay. Don't know if you tried a computer versus a mobile device, but if not, try that if it happens again. I think that was the solution for some.
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Just a follow up, I received a delay approval today. Web site did not work on any devices, but the mobile app did. Keep in mind for future use, much better than having to deal with Amazon’s customer service.
 
A trucker and his dog used their their truck to take out the supposed most powerful guy in the Galaxy while he was in his state-of-the-art badass fighter jet, but a dude learning about community in the desert and then wanting to try and bring that into the new era of organized crime ruins the franchise for you.

All right.
 
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