Glad to see the video is back. Thought I had a stroke or something when I went to watch this yesterday and could only find part 2.

"The episode breakdown no longer appears on our scopes!" "Impossible! No critique that eloquent has a cloaking device." *LittlePlatoon floats safely off towards the viewing audience*

​@@AngelsLancesame, I was very confused ! Hopefully KZfaq gods will be merciful on this one.

Yess ThelittlePlatoon on top 🗣🔥🔥🐐

Leave assoka alone.😂😭 You destroyed them enough Platoon.

Syndrome was right, along with Thanos.

It is like they never bothered to think about the WHY of the things that were written in the OT. The Jedi Order existed, but to have a story, a relatable, relatively contained story, they had to be trimmed down to a remnant. Same with the Sith, limited to 2. Disney is too dense to even give it a thought.

@@Kyle-sr6jm People like [thing] so let's flood the screen/story with [thing] is about as far as they go with the thinking process.

Syndrome was a true visionary. Dude was ahead of his time.

actually, if everyone is force sensitive, then everyone would be.

She can look smug! Wait, is that just another form of pout?

I’m not sure she can even pout.

Look good in a pair of pants?

That's an overall criticism I have with the actors on this show. Not so much the actors themselves, but rather the training they were put through by the studios. It's very clear they weren't prepped for the physical nature of these roles. Just look at Rosario Dawson's saber-work for proof.

@@Uzarran It's funny watching Hayden do it better than her, so many years after he learned it.

I couldn't agree more, this is what the show needed and would have solved so many issues. Plus we needed a better writing team than what the show had, for all Dave Felloni's supposed character knowledge (he developed these characters) he could not have written them in a worse way.

The concept is better, but they would just butcher it in a number of other ways

Jacen is male though, Disney does not build UP male characters, only bring them down, Jacen dodged a bullet.

@@darkdwarf007 yes with the current writing team most assuredly.

@@George-um2vc agreed, that is the current trend and how Disney Star Wars is always playing out.

I can't really see Mothma being that whiny. Also, it would require _this_ Mon Mothma to be the same character (or at least _have_ the same character) as the Mon Mothma of _Andor._

The daugher seemed pretty happy about it, honestly. She was a spoiled princess marrying a spoiled rich kid. But that was a weak argument by a fucking GENERAL. Leia lost her ENTIRE FUCKING HOME PLANET and took it better.

Hera:... Hera:Still this affected *me* .

That would require Dave Filoni reading anyone else's script or understanding star wars

@@DannyEastes Filoni new name for me is Dave Baloney. Because he is full of it. Anyway... DAVE BALONEY: I mean... should I really be made to read others works to write a story in *MY* universe.

I’m jealous you got to play it before it was wrecked!

I keep hear how that was the quintessential Star Wars game and I hate that I never knew of it until a few years ago.

SWG was not only a GREAT game, but a game that shows exactly how to make things work in an MMO. Perfect economy, player builts cities, space warfare and most importantly, a rich sandbox environment. If only I could get my Legends launcher working again. The game was best after Trials and NGE completely destroyed SWG.

Yuuuuup was a BH too. Then dropped it like a hot rock

Haha I look forward to this dropping than the actual episodes, just like I was waiting for CharlieHopkinson to drop his NotObiWan videos of obi/qui/anakin reacting to the shows and movies

The long awaited sequel, Longman 2:The Lengthening

That's what she said! Uh, I mean HE said, I guess. Whatever makes you happy.

"Again with the squeaky shoes?"

"Just because someone gets stabbed with a lightsaber, doesn't mean that person is dead."

Kung pow lol. It all makes sense now. In kung pow a man can survive with his entire "stomach plug" punched out so the light saber thing follows logically if it is the same universe. 😂 All we need now is Sabine to say " I'm just a horny little honey weooo weooo" and it be perfect

True

I caught that too and couldn't help but grimace. You just know Dave thought he was being so clever and cool with that one. Also yeah, the Ronin line is very stupid as well. Seeing as how it's Jedi knight, Thrawn should call her an errant. That's closer to what Ahsoka actually is considering she's still heroic and follows an ethical code. Ronin were more often than not rather shady as they had to do something to lose their status as Samurai and then usually do more shady things just to survive.

The dialogue in this series Legitimately comes across as a first draft with no revisions. Would be even worse if they found a way to shoehorn the title of the series, if it weren’t the titular characters name. Ex: The Show was called Star Wars: World Between Worlds Anakin Skinwalker: “Live Or Die” Ahsoka: “Anakin?!” “Anakin: Don’t you get It snips?! You are the world between worlds!!”

This is even worse than the game "Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi", which means "Steel Hand" in Finnish, but at least that wasn't an actual existing thing so.... pass I guess?

so, Ahsoka's katana-like hilts didn't tell you the direction the show was heading? 🤔🤷🙇

@@thefilthyrhombus3856 Well, that isn't true at all. Many Ronin did nothing at all. Some higher up could get mad at your entire clan, and there you go.

I’m reviewing Ahsoka. Of course I want to die.

Jokes on you, I want to die and I haven't even seen this show. @@TheLittlePlatoon

@@jonbaxter2254 Hahahaaha There, you got your chuckles. Now go to therapy, please.

Injure yourself.@@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access

maybe dont put a butt in the thumbnail🤷‍♂️

​@@nobodyspecial4676but the show is ass

@@nobodyspecial4676maybe shut your lousy trap 😮😮😮

It's good when that happens though because it lets you know that he's doing something right that is scaring the studio.

@@treylo1995 ?

Let's be real, Dave's Magnum Opus was TCW, and that was due to the creative filter that was George Lucas

@@corruptangel6793this was marketed as Dave's Magnum Opus as it was the first thing he had more or less unencumbered creative control over

@@davidcatabui2018 He didn't have that with Rebels?

@@corruptangel6793 I have no idea whether he did or not it just seemed from what little I heard from the commentariat and news coverage that Ahsoka was the first of its kind

Sad that Dave himself doesn't seem to remember things he wrote years ago for The Clone Wars animated series.

Before NGE and a certain point, to become a Jedi or unlock force powers was kept secret. Upon creation of a character, 4 randomized professions had to be mastered before you could go that route. The devs were extremely tight lipped about it. There were in-game mechanics that were hints but I don't think anyone knew or were initially told what item or event gave the hint to the one profession to grind to unlock it. The ability for players to join a faction (Empire or Rebel) or a guild to join a faction and the player based economy (most items, made by other players such as weapons, healing items with a marketplace) made things very unique and great. I joined Empire and got to summon a stormtrooper, higher level and faction affinity you could call an AT-ST in. It really loaned itself to a certain level of natural roleplay. I left before NGE as I had IRL stuff going on and figuring out the economy was a bit confusing for some. I think you wanted to mine for materials and become a tycoon in that if nobody had done so, yet. It was very innovative in these regards. Cheers.

Someone should make a remake of it in its old version.

@DuplexWeevil337 There are several! Look up Star Wars Galaxies 2023, some of note are Legends and Stardust. There's Restoration of course but it's a tiny bit toxic

Offcourse she has cat iam not surprised

Calling it “cat” shows you have no clue about her anatomy…

@@cambelloroxy9420to be fair, wtf is her anatomy?

@@seafoam6119 well she is a Togruta and the montrals atop of her head and the lekku that sprout downwards are important ( just like the lekku are important for Twi’leks)

You think if the helmet was simply huge it would require less resourses? Less air, for example?

I dunno if I could add much there. But The Phantom Menace turns 25 next year…

@@TheLittlePlatoonI am looking forward to that video

I wanted to a character wandering around Tatooine or a member of Jabba’s court.

I wanted to be a Scout trooper, speeder bikes and sniper rifles, hell yeah lmao

I just own a shady bar with questionable guests

@@alexpowers5117 💯💯💯

Wanted to be C3PO of all things. If you know everything there's no need for school.

Sadly my first (and brief, and only) experience with SWG came after the NGE release. Loads of planets, hardly any people left.

​@TheLittlePlatoon the game defined my childhood. 5 years until the day it shut down. SWG legends is an active emulator that started with the games final update. It still sees developments and updates, running on donations with a consistent population around 2k. It's not the same, but it's nice to go back sometimes

I played for a short while since its release and before NGE. If I'm remembering correctly you could tip the musicians / dancers in the cantina? It was very interesting. Along with the player driven economy and I cannot remember what the principle benefit of not joining a faction at all were, but being able to call in stormtroopers or an AT-ST (at some point) was cool. I think the base game pre-NGE had lots of interesting concepts that have gone mostly untouched since then.

I’m unspeakably jealous of everyone who got to play it back when it was good!

@@TheLittlePlatoon Oh, and fun fact: the launch method for becoming a Jedi was hyped by being a big secret- and it turned out that you just had to master something like 25 professions on your character. Which, while dumb, was kind of brilliant in a way because if they TOLD us that, everyone would just grind out professions as opposed to us just choosing and playing the professions we were interested in. Hence folks like me having multiple characters- a crafter, a healer and a dps type.

"Originally" they were lasers. People keep saying this but no one has yet to point me to where this is discussed in episodes 1-6.

​@@billjacobs521I think in ep3 the big guns on the ships have actual ammo of some kind

To be fair, Luke was just bitch slapped by a yeti beforehand. I've been knocked out, and the moments just after regaining consciousness aren't the easiest.

I remember the actor in his role as Wisdom on The Venture Brothers. He was great in that too.

Fun fact: Asians of various cultures believe that if the mug is too hot to hold, the tea is too hot to drink.

At this point saying that Andor is the exception is sounding like a broken record but christ, the quality of that show is lightyears ahead of what we're getting with the rest of the shows. Even rewatching the Mandalorian is painful, its just so much filler and / or nothing.

@@Highweaver2 andor is just on another level, I really hope the guys who made it get more power at disney

@@Highweaver2 I Liked the first 2 seasons of Mandalorian tho but yeah

It can be argued that Thrawn's trilogy started the Expanded Universe and renewed interest in the Star Wars universe. A geeky interest to be sure, but a welcome one. And *that* is why he's important to the Disney Star Wars creators now. Not because because of anything they've had him do in the new stuff, but because Timothy Zahn wrote an amazing character that brought money back into the franchise.

@@PebkioNomareyeah, the reason Thrawn is a significant figure is all meta. The Empire is awaiting his return for meta reasons, because in a different story, he was a memorable antagonist. In the old canon, before Thrawn united the Imperial Remnants, the Empire was fracturing into different fiefdoms led by warlords. Thrawn united their resources, gave them unity of purpose, and brought in a bunch of extra resources besides. In this new canon, they apparently have a sense of unity, purpose, and all the resources Thrawn will end up using. So there’s absolutely no reason they should be waiting on him, they should be actively fighting the Republic. And the Republic we’ve seen is absolutely ripe for conquest, so they would have an easy time. It’s all so poorly done.

Really? I thought the show got significantly better over time when I was actually engaged in the story.

@@Undependable3 There was barely any story here.

​@@Undependable3what story?

@@Undependable3 then you accidentally clicked on a different show. The dead give away was you were watching something with a story....

@Undependable3 lol. You must have watched something else because it got worse. It all boiled down to basically Ahssoka’s entire quest meant nothing because they didn’t stop the bad guy and were barely an inconvenience. Sabine and Ahssoka got left on a planet with no way back. The whole thing is one contrivance after another.

This is how the modern Woke audience views children and parenthood.

".5 past lightspeed" sounds like he's saying "1.5x the speed of light", which would not allow you to travel between planets or stars in any survivable amount of time. If you wanted to get to a system that's 1 Lightyear away, travelling at 1.5x lightspeed would chop your journey from 1 year down to 9 months

@@TOONYBOY From the original Expanded Universe: The superluminal speed of a hyperdrive was rated on a decreasing scale; the faster the hyperdrive, the lower the rating. These ratings were generally referred to as "Classes" and provided a quick, although often inconsistent or inaccurate, idea of a ship's hyperdrive speed. It was based on an asymptotic scale with Class 0.0 being infinite speed. In 30 BBY. By the end of the Clone Wars most military starships were using Class 3 or Class 2. During the Galactic Civil War, military capital ships and starfighters were generally equipped with Class 1 or Class 2, industrial freighters and haulers with Class 3 or Class 4, and civilian starships with Class 5 or above. Many vessels mounted backup hyperdrives of much higher-that is, slower-class than their primary hyperdrive. Some starships, such as the Millennium Falcon, underwent after-market modifications to achieve ratings of Class 0.5, and Dash Rendar's Outrider also had a hyperdrive Class 0.75, which was also achieved by modifications, although tampering with the generally stable technology of a hyperdrive was considered a dangerous activity. Boba Fett's Slave I had a class 0.7 hyperdrive. Hyperdrives built by those outside the sphere of the Galactic Republic, Galactic Empire and New Republic, such as the Hapan Froond-class hyperdrive, were not classed in the standard system, as controlled comparisons were difficult to attain.

@@LordVader1094 That's all interesting, but what does ".5 past lightspeed" mean in that context?

It means EXTREMELY fast because its rated as a .5 engine when traveling past light speed (ie in hyperspace). If he had said "it'll make one past light speed" that would be slower (but still VERY fast in comparison to lightspeed as all hyperspace travel is far far faster)

Jesus Christ ! 😂😂

Sounds a lot like the eve model but swg didnt check themselves before they wrecked themselves.

Exactly. It's why TLJ's "Everyone can have the Force, you don't need a special bloodline" was so funny to me. Because, YEAH, I know! Jedi weren't allowed to marry! Neither Yoda, nor Windu nor Obi-Wan came from some super special bloodline.

Well, in the EU, Jedi were forbidden from having attachments but were not forbidden from having kids. The old Jedi knew all to well that Froce sensitivity was an inheritable trait. So a jedi could have a "friend with benefits" minus the friend part. Any child born of the union that showed potential would be taken into the Order and trained. The rest of the kids were left with their normie parent or given up for adoption of both parents were Jedi. This lead to a rather hilarious character in SW:TOR. The head of hte Order in the game, Satele Shan, hooks up with this Commando she is seen fighting with in the promo cinematics. Their kid wasn't Force sensitive, so he grew up and joined the Republic as an operative... And OH BOY did Theron have mommy issues out the wazoo. The game did not in any way, shape, or form shy away from the psychological damage having a "proper" Jedi parent would inflict upon their kids. He had a massive chip on his shoulder and deep insecurity issues. Although that was all thousands of years before the movies. The practice had liked stopped entirely by them because of how... messy... it was. Jedi would be tempted to fall/leave the Order and the non-sensitive parts of the family would be extremely upset over the distant parent/partner. Honorable mention to Jolee Bendo from KOTOR 1. He became a Grey Jedi (left the Order/doesn't follow the Council) because he fell in love and started a family. He asserted that love isn't wrong and can strengthen a Jedi. Here is the quote: “Love doesn’t lead to the dark side. Passion can lead to rage and fear, and can be controlled...but passion is not the same thing as love. Controlling your passions while being in love... that’s what they should teach you to beware. But love itself will save you, not condemn you.” And going even deeper into the Deep Lore shows a time before the Council was even a thing and Jedi were free to have families. A powerful Sith engineered a massive Force Spell that left a massive ripple through the Force hit all the Jedi in the galaxy, tempting/confusing many to the Dark Side. In the aftermath of this attack, the Jedi as a whole grew ironically fearful and began impossing draconian methods to "protect" their Order from "Corruption." This is where the rules about only taking in young children, forbidding attachments, and strict adherence ot the Council and their teachings were enforced. Those that thought the Council were overreaching their authority or pointed out the deep flaws in their practices became the first Grey Jedi. That said... no, the series was never overly concerned with bloodlines either. The OT did follow a father/son dynamic, but the focus was much more on the story of overcoming generational trauma than the whole "space wizard dynasty" aspect. Just look at Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Ol' Creamy Sheev: none of them were apart of the Skywalker Dynasty nor any other known bloodlines. They simply were Force Users presumably sprouting up from any random family. Which is more or less tacitly confirmed within the Prequels. That huge Jedi Temple didn't deny Anakin because he was some dirty mongrel slave from an unimportant backwater: he was denied largely for being too old. And while some of the Jedi came from rich families, like "Count" Dooku, there was never an emphasis on dynasties and bloodlines. It was tacitly understood, by people with functioning brains, that a Jedi could be anyone from any family. While Force sensitivity was more likely to arise in certain bloodlines, it was never a hard requirement or even the norm. Most Jedi just arose from the faceless masses... Especially since the Jedi regularly shot themselves in the foot by largely forbidding Jedi, known carriers of the rare gene, from having kids. They were effectively placing a negative selection pressure against their own kind by taking most of their prime breeding stock out of the game. Which could have created an interesting parallel to explore within the Sith Empire. Of the EU, that is. The Sith were obsessed with bloodlines and could even have participated in state-sponsored breeding programs or otherwise heavily encouraged Sith to "go forth and multiply." This would, on theory, give themselves more numbers than the Jedi... except for their brutal training methods and cutthroat politics internally culls most of their potential members. Thus, rough parity would be achieved due to different methods reflecting the unique philosophies/world views of both factions... with deliberate emphasis on how horribly flawed both sides approached families. Jedi just never had kids because "attachments bad" and even lose members who chose family over the Order. Sith would have tons of kids only to see the families tear each other and themselves apart. Only the strong and cunning survive, so fellow students would murder each other, brothers would plot against one another, and children would usurp their parents. Effectively culling their greater numerical advantage while also effectively killing any hope of true cooperation between Sith.

@@duncanlutz3698 Though I don't think those old Sith Bloodlines were particularly strong. There were certainly some very powerful, old Sith, but the idea of "let's breed strong Sith to create even stronger Sith" that didn't quite work out. But their "Only the strong survive" mindset might have also been part of the problem.

@@johannesseyfried7933 I never said "breed better Sith." I was suggesting they simply breed MORE Sith. The genetic factor is rare, but it most definitely is genetic. So why wouldn't a militarist empire that sees their Force users as living weapons want more of them? In TOR period, the Sith Empire mandated all Force sensitives MUST be sent to the Academy for training. Anyone found knowingly harboring or hiding said Force Sensitive from the authorities would be summarily executed. I don't remember anything about Sith Lords/Ladies being encouraged to have children... but that might have been something the authors were deliberately trying to avoid due to... reasons. Especially the "Sith Lord and his harem of pregnant slave girls" one.

@@duncanlutz3698 You're probably right. I first thought about how elitist the old sith were, but then again.....by the time of the Sith Inquisitor they even let slaves into the Academy on Korriban because they were short on Sith.

Tibanna is what they fire if I remember correctly I think this is elaborated on in Thrawn Treason and I think alliances Sorry if you already knew this

I tend to give a pass for explosions upon impacting a target even in instances where it wouldn't happen because it's more visually interesting and adds visual weight to what would normally just be holes/tears appearing on a surface. Even a large, lingering explosion when a vessel detonates in space is somewhat excusable for the same reason. But lasers detonating around a target as some kind of flak-style weapon? No amount of leeway makes that make sense.

It's chips... Someone actually made that excuse... I don't think he knew what chips are meant for... He thought they programmed in smoke into it... Jesus christ, I need to find that comment and copy and paste it... You might think I'm lying or I was trolled and I can't be that stupid to remember...

​@@ForeverLaxxyou can excuse long lasting explosions because a huge amount of oxygen is escaping from the ships and we don't know what the shields are made of, it's when they remain on fire without shields that it strains my believability... I'm looking at you star cruiser redemption... My goodness, star cruiser redemption must have been ruin johnson's bed room wallpaper... Everything it did in that episode was just kicked up to eleven in TLJ...

@@johnnycrown5097 The oxygen would burn up almost instantly with no atmosphere unless there was a pipe or something feeding more into it (and that would likely just burst anyway). It doesn't make logical sense for an explosion that lasts, but I ignore it because otherwise the scene would be relatively dull. Flak lasers are just dumb, though.

Luke did say he can't EVEN see so its slightly different lmao

true! ty@@prestigemultimediagroup6436

💯💯. Pretty much.

The entire game was a bit complicated and people were figuring out the economy. I was gearing towards being a bounty hunter aligned with the Empire to kill Jedi but I hadda give it up due to IRL stuff. Seems like I dodged a bullet. I think my uncle was hanging on to it and I vaguely remember him cussing about "that damned patch, damned SOE!"

I had to eat five ash trays but if Harrison can do it, so can I.

Listen to it now, I'm late to work but what can you do.

Thank you very much!

Definitely. They all deserved better.

@@Cmdr_Sinclair_B5IKR!

I'm ready to bet Filoni did stuff to Arianna while she was in Asoka costume. He checks all the boxes to be that kind of guy

Years later, those child actors will consider it a stain in their career... Unless they retire early, that is.

@@vee-bee-a 💯💯. They’ll probably hate it but probably also be happy they were in Star Wars

Clone Wars show was average but decent at best.

@@chasehedges6775 Looking back at it, I agree. Would still argue that the show has a few gems that I would consider above decent.

💯💯💯. THIS

Maybe they keep trying, and it's why they always miss.

“Maybe he’s Jake Skywalker.” - Mark Hamill

Yep!

Considering it's "Jacen Syndulla" instead of "Jacen Jarrus" does he even know who his father was? Really went full Force is Female on that one.

One of the plots of all time.

I fear your comment will go underappreciated by the majority. You're spot on, though.

You're correct of course but this is all fantasy. None of it could work in our actual universe with our actual physics.

It'd be even worse if relativistic lights peed were used. It'd be centuries or more to outside events. Hyperspace at least tries to avoid the relativity aspect

That's the worst explanation of relativity I've ever heard and I thought high school physics... Time does not stop and start because your traversing space fuckwith... your confused and thinking of time dilation and redshift.. Moving from one place to another doesnt alter the passage of time... Alien worlds may have different timekeeping systems but time itself except in very rare instances like ftl travel or parking near a black hole is like the speed of light and pretty well constant dipshit

@@RadeFoxxy Unfortunately any FTL communication or travel inevitibly implies time travel, something else that isn't taken into account in any sci-fi with FTL. I'm allowing that one though because FTL is necessary for almost any of these space programmes, and time travel would just screw everything up. Want warning about that upcoming attack? Just FTL yourself a message into the past. Gah.

Cue Bart Simpson singing the Bastard song.

Four words bruh. "The Force is Female".

I think they turned off C-3PO because he was being annoying. But you're right. Although that was because they were trying to blend in to space trash, not a forest.

You are absolutely correct, I wrote the comment on my lunch break and have since gone back to check. Thank you! And I do agree that it makes little sense in this context even had I been correct, being a forest rather than some space trash@@billjacobs521

Even still, Star Wars doesn't seem to understand how FlaK works. That being it doesn't need to hit you, it just have to go off near you. It's why flak jackets existed for bomber crews, to reduce crew death by the shrapnel that peirce through the thin skin of the bomber. In a space environment, FlaK actually be useless in achieving that same destruction against most smaller ships bigger than a fighter due to the design needing to be space worthy in the first place, aside from damaging exposed important systems like the engine.

@@strategicperson95 Flak can be very useful in a space environment, as it punches holes in the hulls and therefore causes the ships to decompress. Punch enough small holes or one really big hole in the hull and you get explosive decompression that causes possible structural failure to the degree that the integrity of the hull can no longer be sustained and the ship starts breaking apart.

It could be a physical interaction ... but, it wouldn't be lasers. Flak against an invisible "energy" dome/sphere is ... contrived. Anything longer than a few seconds, the audience doesn't understand the risk or danger, nor do they think the enemy is a threat, or the situation has risks. They can't even trip over and fall on the ground. There is an in-universe explanation that the Blasters are equivalent of a phased plasma gas or PPG rounds, i.e. superheated gas that is magnetically energised and propels itself out of the barrel to "Melt" the other person's flesh/armour. But, you'd have to also use Turbo-Blaster or Turbo-Cannon for the austerity / Anachronism to hold. The problem sort of comes along because the Lightsaber doesn't make sense, and weapons don't have recoil in star wars, until the Clone Wars/Prequels came along. And, the lasers tend to "explode" into fireworks or burn marks, while a standard laser is a beam that switches on and off. it attaches to the destination once projected. it can also disperse or scatter. Very little of Star Wars carries an immediate sense of danger if you don't reduce it down, or make it seem 'realistic' i.e. by making the weapons look like conventional weapons, sic. But that has the problem that you also can't make the danger too alien or too stupid. The audience isn't going to understand the colors or the size/shape/speed unless it's given context. Blasters are conventionally slow compared to a bullet. They're almost the speed of an arrow bolt. Good for visual language, bad for threat / sense of danger. Visually, Blasters are quite slow, about 20x slower than a bullet, but it's more likely designed to cause injury to metal and energy-ablative materials via heat/plasma. This also make it nearly recoil-less. But, it's all to serve the continuity of having White Armor that looks like plastic. And, to have 'bullets' you can see on screen against a black background or white background. Bigger Blasters = Bigger Explosions = Bigger Danger. If you remove the explosion, blasters don't have that same danger or reaction. That anachronism is important. It's why you don't see many horses in space, or toothbrushes, conversely, because it has to maintain the element of fantasy, but also the sense of reality. Hence why Jedi always wear desert robes, because Obi-Wan was wearing robes. If he was wearing flip-flops/thongs with socks, all Jedi would be. That anachronism or 'understanding' based on convention, is a double-edged sword. The world-building and VFX problem of Sci-Fi is that you're visually showing danger, instead of using literature in which the audience can infer subtext or knowledge, or have it 'imparted' to the audience who might not have the sense of threat / risk of how much damage and risk there is. It's also why we don't often compare bullets by their MJ energy output or kinetic energy level unless the audience has a metric/comparison from one kind of danger to another. Damage has to mean something. The Visuals also have to be anachronistic to "Danger". VFX teams are important for this level of Threat/Danger/Damage, especially because audiovisual language teaches the audience to have some suspension of disbelief, but also to care about the situation. They need an analogue or an anachronism to turn lasers into bullets. Blasters on the small scale have a 'travel' speed, which gives the distinctive visual streak. The problem with doing the same thing in space, is that space tends to be a lot bigger than a corridor. The impact / projection has to be Bigger. If you nerf the Bad Guy so your hero can walk into laser fire, if you get stabbed and it doesn't matter, you lower the stakes and the audience loses cohesion. You lose verisimilitude. Gravity in space, can also risk this suspension of disbelief, because gravity in space is hard to show. If someone jumps in space, they won't "land". they'll clamp. And you'd need to "hear" the clamping, despite the silence, so people have an association. You remove the danger, and you remove the conflict. It seems awesome for the fantasy, but if your hero is able to survive lethal attacks, there's no danger, and no action. it's just an effect that resembles danger, threat, suspense. The dumbest part is that you can't nerf ship-mounted blasters to make them miss or hit, because the hits have to actually do something or they lose purpose. If you're hit by 50 arrows, but you make a single shot and kill with the same weapon, you end up coloring the reality of combat into fantasy combat i.e. Only Headshots Count, or Only The Hero Wins. The conceptual problem is lasers don't have a lot of mass, so you don't have recoil or inertia, they won't be affected by gravity or warping of spacetime, and they wouldn't go 'off-course' either. When a laser hits, it has to impact. If it hits an invisible shield ... and the invisible shield 'smokes' or shows debris, then there's a visual anachronism. Once you have mass, there's a visual distortion, there's inertia, friction and impact/recoil of firing the bullets. You are no longer going pew-pew-pew, it's boom-hiss-boom-hiss-boom-hiss as there needs to be a loading and unloading time between shots. It could be a blaster, i.e. plasma bolts of some hyper-excited gas/plasma reaction... but that would have other consequences ie Plasma bolts would have mass, but also require cooling down of a mass driver or coil armature to hold the superheated plasma away from a barrel.

@@Toliman. You point out some interesting side-effects/consequences and I agree those would make the Star Wars Universe certainly much more complicated. I think it's safe to say that George Lucas went for simplicity out of necessity, mainly because he didn't have the technical abilities that directors have now at his disposal and the financial aspect would probably have played a role as well. There are fans who argue that the whole "cowboys in space" vibe that characters like Han Solo and settlements on different worlds give off are also based on keeping things simple and as cheap as possible. Like I said, sci-fi writers have "solved" the Flak problem on paper, but then they don't have to worry about immense cooling system for cannons that fire plasma bolts, so the "keep it simple" mantra is far less relevant in writing. And besides that: the beauty of sci-fi is that a writer can say that it's safe to assume that certain technologies will be invented in the future, so creating a warp- of FTL (Faster Than Light) or maybe even a super-cooling system for plasma cannons doesn't need to come with a technical explanation on it's working. One of the most obvious examples of this are the "compensators" that many sci-fi writers use to overcome technical problems: encounter a problem today's technology can't solve? Introduce a compensator that has solved the problem in the future.

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I don’t mean to be mean but you did pull those numbers out of your ass after 20,000. And yea u can suck at math let’s say but if you have never done math and I teach u addition then the next time we meet we are doing adding fractions of course you are going to be lost. Not defending the show in the slightest tho or trying to insult you

@@santi_super_stunts2573 He makes a reasonable point; if "20,000" is off the charts, what are "the charts" usually depicting? Clearly not just 18k or 15k, it'd have to be much lower. Sure, in theory, maybe most Jedi are "12-15", but if that's the case, I think the reaction to 20k would be less "it's off the charts" and more "your scanner is broken, master."

These comments just reminded me of the myriad of problems midichlorians create. For instance, as you point out, 20k is considered off the charts, well since midichlorians live in the blood stream does that mean you could transfer midichlorians and as such increase your count and as such your strength in the Force? Let's say a Jedi with a count of 9k gets a blood transfusion from someone who's count was 7k does that mean the initial Jedi's count is now 16k? Does the donors count decrease? Will the midichlorians just go back to the donor to maintain the initial levels? Is it just blood in general or do specific blood types have specific midichlorian types? God damn George really screwed up with that one.

@@thefilthyrhombus3856 If Mando season 3 is to be believed, you could isolate which cells have midichlorians in them and then transfer them to another host. You can also clone midichlorians too since there's no way The Client (holy s#*@, he actually doesn't even have a name) and Dr. Pershing pulled enough blood out of Grogu to make 12 Gideon clones that were capable of using the force in the short amount of time that they had him, especially without killing him. Why is Sidious wasting all of his time slowly taking over the galaxy? "Cloning, secrets only the Sith knew." Dude could disappear 10-20 jedi, transfer their midichlorians into him and then basically be on-par with the Mortis trio or Darth Nihilus. Damn, I just reminded myself of good Star Wars. Now I'm sad.

@agroed I hate to do this, but I'm going to make you even sadder. So this now brings up the question: Why has no one ever thought to do this until now? If we go by the expanded lore (what is supposedly canon that isn't referenced in the films), the Sith and Jedi have existed for at least 10,000 years. I couldn't find how long cloning technology has existed in Star Wars, but seeing as we're on the verge of it now in real life, I'm gonna assume it's been there awhile. So, in all that time, neither the Sith nor the Jedi thought to do any experimentation with the midichlorians, and cloning, etc.? That's what you're trying to sell us, Lucasfilm? Christ, it's the Holderp maneuver all over again. This is why you can't just throw random bullshit into Star Wars. The galaxy has been around for 20,000 years. Any sort of technological development has to be explained why it hasn't existed in the previous 20k years. We give a pass to the Death Star because it's the Death Star, and it's not impossible to head canon a reason for why it wasn't invented earlier. Hell, given that nothing on the scale of the Galactic Empire had existed before and their access to resources alone is what enabled them to create the Death Star is enough. The Death Star, however, is an exception. Disney Star Wars has now introduced hyperspace ramming, hyperspace tracking, Force cloning/midichlorian manipulation, and now extra-galactic travel. Any one of these is universe breaking, and we have all four. Ridiculous.

There is an alarming lack of comments bringing this up