A wild casual post appears

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I have done largely nothing but sleep, sleep, sleep, and sleep in my free time, so I haven't felt very social and have barely made anything for tumblr (most of what I've posted was either scheduled ahead of time or made previously for easy posting), so I'm going to make an effort to get my head out of that space and be a little more social on this journal.

- I'm a little >:/ about tumblr pulling all these shenanigans this week, because on Wednesday the last issue of Dark Lord of the Sith comes out and I'm pretty sure I'm going to WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT A LOT. glompcat showed me Soule posted the first page of the issue on twitter and WHOA SO INTERESTING. It's beautiful, but also seeing Vader's spirit disconnect from his body, seeing it in the style of the earlier meditation, the possible implications (or is it just because it looks cool??) of what that place is--Ezra was able to step into the World Between Worlds with his physical body, to pull Ahsoka into that place with her physical body. Is it just that the Jedi who built the Lothal temple were better at it? Did they have help from the Ones? Is the Mustafar doorway still imperfect? Is this not the World Between Worlds?

I kind of doubt that we're going to get concrete answers, that's not Star Wars' style, especially not when we still have the looming question of what exactly Vader is trying to accomplish (as glompcat and sethnakht I think both have pointed out, Vader never confirms that that's what he's going there for) that has to be addressed, and to wrap all of this up with the themes that have been present in the story all the way through.

I am interested to see where this goes and I'll miss this story when it's done. Hopefully, I'll be able to spend more time catching up on the main ongoing, because I think that one gets some conversation going, too!

- January isn't that far away now, so the next Age of Republic comic will be the Obi-Wan one, which is one of the few (I think??) pre-AOTC stories we'll have and then a week after that, we're getting Pirate's Price (Hondo counts as a prequels character!), then the Jango Fett comic, then the Star Wars Adventures comic about Padme and Jar Jar, then the Age of Republic special with the three stories about Mace, Ventress, and Rex, then the Age of Republic Anakin comic, then the Age of Republic Dooku comic, then Star Wars Adventures has an Obi-Wan and Rex comic, then Queen's Shadow, then Choose Your Destiny: An Obi-Wan and Anakin Adventure, then the Padme and Grievous Age of Republic comics somewhere in there, and then Master and Apprentice. That's a really steady stream of prequels content over the next three and a half months, a lot of which focuses on Obi-Wan and it makes me wonder how much stock there was to that rumor that the Obi-Wan movie was supposed to have happened, the theory that we might have been getting it around the time all of this would be leading up to, or if it's just that the prequels are finally coming back into fashion.

All of this stuff takes years to plan out, so a lot of this would have been in the works for awhile, which means I can believe it's just that it took this long for the prequels stuff to come out, even though the tide has been shifting back in their favor for awhile OR I can believe it was supposed to be a build-up to an Obi-Wan movie that got put on the back burner because of Solo.

Either way, lots of prequels content! I'm SO NERVOUS about that Master and Apprentice book, but I guess I'm gonna have to read it anyway.

- I never watched much of Voltron: Legendary Defender beyond the first season, so I can't really weigh in on any of the discourse, I only reblogged pretty Allura fanart, but I think it's safe to say BULLET DODGED THERE.

To the point that, knowing a lot of the people who were involved in that fandom are going to head over to She-Ra fandom (along with some thorny personal experiences around the show), makes me sort of want to dodge that bullet, too.

Oh, well, Steven Universe comes back today AND I AM EXCITED. I hope to gif it when it drops, but also it might be nice to write up a reaction post where I'm not afraid tumblr will reblog it and scream at me for daring to just casually like something instead of hating it with the fire of a thousand suns.

Comments

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The amazing--and sometimes overwhelming--thing about all this content is that I've generally liked everything I've read so far! The closest I came to hating something was Thrawn: Alliances and even that generated a lot of really interesting discussion and had some cool things to pull out of it!

THERE ARE SO MANY REFERENCE BOOKS and they're fascinating, but they're so much harder to pore through for all those little details! Scum and Villainy is gorgeous and amazing, but it's not as easy to sit down with it and read it cover to cover, like it is with a novel. And so that adds EVEN MORE things to read!

I think we literally get something new from Star Wars almost every day? Or at least it certainly averages out to that. We're getting 2-3 comics a WEEK these days! HOW IS THAT PACE POSSIBLE???

It really is a golden age of cartoons right now! The ones you mentioned are all good, but also Over the Garden Wall and Hilda (also a Netflix show) and Adventure Time have all been stellar. Not that there weren't great cartoons before this, but it really has been rewarding to be a fan of cartoons lately. And that's even without getting into Star Wars animated series!

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Oh yeah! I can’t think of anything I’ve read so far of the new stuff that I’ve really disliked (at least off the top of my head anyway). I’ve not read that one just yet, so I can’t comment that 😁 but that doesn’t surprised me,

I know right? The reference books are always awesome, there’s always so many cool little things in them. I’ve not got Scum and Villiany yet, but the scans I’ve seen look amazing. I just got the new complete visual dictionary yesterday so I’m curious about what’s new in it.

Yeah it certainly feels like it, which makes it hard to keep up. That’s kinda how I failed at the comics, it became overwhelming pretty quickly early on.

Ohh cool, I’ll have to check them out. Yeah I love what I’ve seen of Adventure Time too, but I’ve only seen random bunches of episodes. Oh totally!

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I don't have the complete visual dictionary yet, I'm considering waiting until IX is out because you K N O W they're going to make an ultimate omnibus one for all 9 episodes and I can crib off others who have it in the meantime. ^_~

One of my favorite things is that even the reference books feel like stories these days! As much as I like objective narratives in them, we get plenty of those with the visual dictionaries and stuff. Getting some that are also in-universe unreliable narratives, but true for those specific characters? YES, GIVE ME MORE STORY! I love worldbuilding, but I understand why they're building it piece by piece the way they are, because they have to plan for decades of stories, rather than just the next five years. They have to allow creators at least some room to play!

I would absolutely recommend Hilda and Adventure Time (which is another slow starter, but it gets incredibly good and meaningful as it develops) if you have the time and inclination for them! I've heard good things about Trollhunters as well, though, I haven't sat down to watch it yet myself!

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*face palms* damn you’re right. Ah well, at least this one was half off. I’ve not read it too much but there’s some updated bits (Chopper is in there, Scarif is mentioned on Vader’s page and Jedha in the cantina section). It really annoys me though that OT Leia only gets two pages. (And in general that the it bit is so short. I know it’s cause the originals only had one dictionary for the trilogy but still they shoulda added more)

Me too! That’s why I really wanna get scum and Villiany causa that. I’m love both but I agree give us more! I’m always interested by stuff like that (and I also love the cross sections books, I really wish there’d been one for rebels and the rest of the Clone Wars). I’m curious about droidography because it makes Freemakers partially canon? At least that’s what I hear

Oh cool! Yeah I sometimes watch Adventure time, but the thing is, the channel that has it puts on 4 episodes at night at 11... and yet they seem random. Like there’ll be the first part of a two parter and the next one will be random. So it’s hard to keep track of the ongoing stories. I’ve heard good things too!

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Oh, yes, I wish we'd get more cross-sections, they're so fascinating and they're such great worldbuilding material! And not just ships, but give me buildings, too! Give me a floor plan for Padme's apartment! Give me an updated Jedi Temple crossection! Give me a canon-compliant Death Star crossection that tells me where the officer's lounge and stuff is!

I have NO IDEA what to make of Freemakers and Droidography--because I don't think it's at all possible that Freemaker Adventures, as they stand, could be canon, there's too much silliness and parody in them. But they did say that Freemaker Adventures would be canon-compliant back when it first started! So, right now, I'm assuming that whatever is specifically in Droidography is canon, but not everything that's in Freemaker Adventures. That's what I'm sticking with until the story group tells us otherwise! XD

I think you could get away with some watching of Adventure Time out of order, but not that much. Especially once you get into the later seasons, there are definite character arcs going on all throughout it. Can you record the episodes and save them up and find an episode guide to watch them in order? Though, that's probably a lot of work and it might just be easier to Google for where to watch them via Streaming.

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They really are! There is a cross sections for locations, but they could always do more (for Rogue One and Solo at least) so many cool places and ships need to be done (I wish the Solo guide had more cross sections in it like the Rogue One one).

I love the Freemakers (and all the Lego shows) because they are absolutely hilarious! But yeah, so much of it is just so wacky and silly that they don’t well like they could happen. So someone is going to have a job explaining that!

Yeah some Adventure Time eps I’ve seen are clearly standalone so that format is ok, but when they jumble up seasons (like one time they had Princess bubblegum being young, but either side were eps with her as her usual age). The annoying thing is that the TV guide lists the hour long block as being a general Adventure Time so there’s no titles in the description. Finding a streaming thing might be easier (I keep hoping Netflix or something will get them but..)

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I know the real answer is, "Don't take this stuff so seriously, don't worry about whether or not something is canon! Just enjoy the story or not!" but I can't help wanting to dissect this! Why do this at all? Why not just leave Freemaker Adventures as firmly not canon? I want to know that, too!

I don't think Netflix will be able to add Adventure Time to its lineup, because last I checked Hulu has the rights for it, which is too bad, because I think it would fit in well with their line-up! But there are probably other places online that a Google search would turn up. XD