The High Republic era is coming to an end later this year after 4 years. Has anybody been keeping up with it? What did you think of it?
Star Wars The High Republic
Why would I want to read 'We have the Old Republic Era at home' when I could just read Zayne "Please be patient I have a force learning disability' Carrick bumblefuck across the galaxy from Legends?
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That cover sums up my opinion pretty nicely.
I'm more interested in what they follow this up with than this bland era of Star Wars.
Still seems silly to me that all their hype for this big multimedia push for a new era of theirs for stories just amounted to some comics and books and a single live action show.
Like a whole animated series set during it would have been nice, or some video games to go with the era, or anything.
They're all so ugly.
I didn't keep up with it since it uses the Disney+Star Wars formula:
create sequel after sequel whether or not sales are good
what happened previously won't be summarized, see: the Ahsoka show
despite (originally) being a male-targeted franchise all of the main characters will be female
all the male characters will be useless, emasculated, and/or evil
Disney should've put out a book or two to see if there was any appetite for the High Republic before committing to 3 phases with like 9 books each.
Mostly mediocre, some cool ideas in the lore that weren’t fully developed.
The anger from Force-worshipping religions as the Jedi slowly achieved cultural dominance over 600/700 years of the Republic.
The Republic/Hutt war where Jedi were dropped in with Judicial Forces to support local armies.
The Nhil raiding and counter-piracy works.
Some of the deliberately retro-OT/PT designs.
biggest markets are majority white (USA) or east asian (China)
majority of characters are black or middle eastern
Not to mention that heroes are defined by their villains and there doesn't seem to be any good villains in the Hiiiigh Republic's lineup. Just a bunch of donutsteels.
I think that The High Republic should've been broken up into several different series depending on the demo. You've got books for adults, YA, and kids all under the same label. As if they're all part of the same book series.
It came out? I thought it was cancelled or something since I heard nothing about it after the initial pitch.
The Acolyte was the the biggest High Republic related project, highest budget of any Star Wars show, and it became so critically panned by critics and fans, alongside low ratings that it was cancelled after one season.
Like a whole animated series set during it would have been nice
Young Jedi Adventures has multiple seasons.
or some video games
The yet to be released Eclipse. There's also Jedi: Survivor which not only had flashbacks, but also the bad guy was a High Republic villain frozen in stasis. You didn't even pay attention to what you're complaining about.
It's being talked about being renewed now due to digital metrics. It's higher than Obi-Wan, Boba Fett, and Ahsoka. People talking smack about it may unironically bring it back to life.
highest budget
That would be the flop known as Andor, actually.
It's being talked about being renewed now due to digital metrics. It's higher than Obi-Wan, Boba Fett, and Ahsoka. People talking smack about it may unironically bring it back to life.
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I've never seen this huge amount of copium in my life.
It was all boring and cringe shit. No one will miss this slop.
The Acolyte was the the biggest High Republic related project, highest budget of any Star Wars show
Which is funny since the best use of the HR was in Jedi: Survivor. Dagan Gera is probably the only character from that time I know by name and he is at best a cool looking but very shallow boss in the game. Also clearly inspired by Elric.
Guess you're the same dude notnpaying attention to what was released seeing all you had to do was a simple online search. Even SWT was seething over it.
Has the exact same single-double-dual switching style as the protagonist
This is never explained or explored
God, Jedi Survivor sucked
it did but not for that reason
all I've seen is a sourceless rumor that was probably made up by a Twitterfag for clicks
You remind me, it's so odd how the grifting faggots like the nigger you posted end up with a sizeable audience of people like you and end up creating fools that actually believe in "hate watching", ironically being the only people doing such looking at all the flops you're ilk defend
It did for many, many reasons including that one
why Cal switches between multiple styles isn't addressed in JFO or JS either, it's just something people can do apparently
hate watching
The Acolyte is the best live action Disney has done. Theory literally had to lie about just to shit on it.
Then you didn't look hard enough. Which makes sense since a whole 48 episode cartoon passed you by.
How does the protag carrie all those weapons but without a bag or any visual cue
Goddamn you aspergs it's a game, you don't need to justify everything. I bet the fact he can change his hairstyle/beard/clothes at will bugs your mind too.
He restored his master's double bladed lightsaber from its damaged state and then modified it further to separate, giving himself an extra tool in his arsenal because Cal is a survivor and driven by the need to adapt rather than adherence to tradition. It's a natural extension of his character.
That isn't who Dagan is, and having him use dual/double bladed attacks despite being one-armed looked retarded. Just a bunch of half baked ideas thrown into a terrible villain who fails at capturing everything he's supposed to represent.
YES
IT'S A GAME
IT DOESN'T NEED TO JUSTIFY WHY THE VILLAIN DOES THE SAME THING AS THE PROTAGONIST
actually Dagan using two lightsabers with one arm was rad as hell
that doesn't explain why he's so proficient in three completely different styles of combat (five in JS), it just explains why he has access to different lightsaber styles
What did you think of it?
I'm amazed that despite all of Disney's money they managed to still be out done by The New Jedi Order series.
Reused assets probably, also there is a limit on how you can fight with any weapon, lightsabers have like 7 styles that everyone uses. What kind of different thing should Dagan do? Spin more?
anon was complaining Dagan has the same one-two-double switching thing as Cal (which is admittedly pretty unique) and it isn't "explained"
I've seen a lot of oddly contrarian opinions on Anon Babble today, it must be a full moon or something
That's pretty common in SW media every time someone uses a double bladed ls they will at some point break it down into two. I'm reading the old Darth Bane trilogy (pretty good btw) and one of the Sith masters do this in the first book, it's just a cheap "WOW" moment writers love to use in SW.
I'm pretty sure it's all one guy desperately trying to be Anon Babble's main character of the day.
It's dumb. Why even take his arm if he doesn't even seem to notice?
He's not really that proficient though. He's lucky, getting the drop on his enemies most of the time who he should absolutely outclass, and any other force users he fights are fucked up shells of who they used to be. He gains the upper hand via being emotionally willing to move on from the past and through adaptation, the style switching system is indicative of this, especially the one that's just using a fucking gun.
It's also supported by never posing a threat to Vader. He's hard outclassed by the power levels on display in the mainline movies, and that's to the character's direct benefit.
nooo you can't like what i don't
Cope.
This is the only thread I've posted in all day.
A very mixed bag. I haven't read any of the comics but I've read almost all the novels
great
The Rising Storm
Light of the Jedi
good
Path of Vengeance
Into the Dark
A Test of Courage
decent
Convergence
The Eye of Darkness
Defy the Storm
mediocre
Midnight Horizon
Out of the Shadows
Path of Decepit
bad
The Fallen Star, which is shocking because I love Clauida Gray
garbage
Cataclysm
What kind of different thing should Dagan do? Spin more?
Presumably if you're a professional creative working on Star Wars: Sekiro 2 you are excited to come up with a cool answer to this question that makes your super cool villain from a weird mysterious part of the universe's past that's more interesting than some middle manager going "what will reuse the most assets, saving us the most time and money?"
Damn, it's been 4 years already?
I wonder if Disney will ever become desperate enough to reboot Star Wars.
A fun idea with some pretty middling to decent execution. I tapped out of the main book series pretty early on because the children's bookline crossed over into the "adult" bookline, and the children's book character subplot was boring as shit, and the characters were altogether just lazy. Also the Nihil as an overarching threat suck ass and they had to do "The Nihil would never be smart enough to do this... OH SHIT" like three times to justify why this band of retarded pirates can consistently go toe to toe with the Jedi.
Some of the High Republic comics are actually pretty fun. I thought The Blade or whatever the hell it was called was fantastic and is pretty much exactly what I wanted from the High Republic era. It's fucking funny how badly Disney planned all this shit though. The whole point of the era was that it WASN'T the prequel Jedi, and the only bit of content the majority of SW fans will see from that era is a TV show that goes out of it's way to be the pre-amble to the prequel era.
why did the video game series that is an amalgamation of other popular video games with a TV actor picked solely to backdoor the studio into streaming money not do something more original
cmon man
Why do characters in leftist slop never look happy to be there?
Having no expectations for a piece of media has no effect on whether or not it sucks, it just changes your tolerance for the shit on display.
The way a Jedi uses their lightsaber has always been an extension of who they were as a character. Every good piece of SW media featuring Jedi captures this. Hell Jedi Survivor captures this with Cal, Bode, and Cere. They had a blank slate with Dagan and got fucking lazy. It shows, I'm not going to pretend not to notice.
Inoffensive with some good ideas but a codependent multimedia clusterfuck that didn't have a strong central story to hook people. It just wasn't as accessible as it needed to be. The comics were self-contained enough to be coherent, but not sure-footed.
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I liked Fallen Order's story more, but Survivor is still a fun game. Even as a story it holds together better than a lot of SW material (including the old JK games) but that's not saying much. I didn't care for Dagan at all.
FAGGOT SHIT
I just read a bit of the summary of the great and good you posted, they all sound like generic shit
because it makes him visually distinct and gives him a unique fighting gimmick
I never liked how the Jedi Order felt more like a gang of superheroes than space cops/monks.
It's literally not unique if it's the same fighting style as Cal. His dual saber strikes don't even communicate that one of the sabers is being levitated telepathically, it snaps to where it would be if it was held by his missing arm.
Dagan having to fight with a style that incorporates his missing arm *would* be unique because he's the only force user missing an arm.
It's unique in that a) no one else uses one hand to wield a double-bladed lightsaber, b) no one else uses the Force to wield a lightsaber in a "normal" fighting style, and c) he does that saber orbiting thing while attacking with a single hilt
midnight horizon that low
didn't read the comics
Retard. MH is the epilogue to the Star Wars Adventures comic and is the best book in Phase 1.