Solo - Chewie whipping Han in the muddy cell
Solo - Han winning the game of Sabaac against Lando at the end
Solo - Han saying "I've got a good feeling about this" during the Kessel Run
Solo - Darth Maul
Solo - the Imperial officer bestowing the name "Solo" on Han

Rogue 1 - Rebel corvette driving the dead-in-the-water Star Destroyer into a second Star Destroyer
Rogue 1 - Unused footage from Episode IV during the Rebel attack on Scarif of Red and Gold Leaders
Rogue 1 - X-Wings diving through the shield generator
Rogue 1 - Grand Moff Tarkin's first appearance
Rogue 1 - Princess Leia at the very end
Rogue 1 - Darth Vader choking the life out of Krennic
Rogue 1 - Darth Vader killing Rebel soldiers like he's slicing butter
Rogue 1 - K2S0 - There's a problem on the horizon ... there's no horizon
Rogue 1 - (fan service) Andor bumping into a couple of familiar thugs on the streets of Jeddha
Rogue 1 - K2S0's "death"
Rogue 1 - The Death Star blasting Jedda and the resulting explosion reaching very nearly to the DS in orbit
Rogue 1 - The original Red Five's death

Mandalorian - from the first episode, Mando carbon freezing his mark
Mandalorian - from the first episode, IG-88 blasting away on the street outside where they'll find baby Yoda
Mandalorian - the dude who says "I have spoken"

Clone Wars: these are too vague to include but that show has some battle/war scenes that are better than anything put on film in any of the movies.

R1: when K2SO catches the grenade and asks Jyn if she knew it was really him.

Agreed. Chills.

Makes me miss the early days of the ST when all we had was those amazing teasers/trailers.

Lucasfilm is great at manipulating my emotions. G'damnit.

So basically this series will cover the "official" formation of the rebellion? Sign me up.

Don't get me wrong, I'm excited for this. But where is my damn Obi-Wan news?

Better have me some GD Jimmy Smits as Bail Organa, and if he's in, you're going to se R2 and 3PO.

I can see Kanan showing up and still not show the force or any light saber because he is still hiding it until he meets Ezra. If they do decided to do to include the force i wouldn't be opposed to it at all though. id love to see chopper along with K2... that would be amazing!

While I am actually excited about this its hard to separate knowing their faith and knowing that whatever occurs in the episode that they will get out of it outside of a couple of redshirts. I think it could still be awesome if done well.

What news are you expecting? They said a few months ago that filming had been pushed from summer 2020 to early 2021. Likely to come out at some point in 2022. They have a new show runner and are currently rewriting the episodes. There's really nothing else to announce or say at this point.

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Today's random Star Wars thought:

Are Episode 1-9 about the Skywalkers or about the rise and fall of Palpatine?

Speaking of this are the 9 episodes about the Force ending the Skywalker line as it is "unnatural"?

If you had to write a one sentence summary of Episodes 1-9, what would write? I am really leaning towards Nine movies that chronicle the rise and fall of Emperor Palpatine.

It's hard to say that a 9-movie series is about a character who isn't in 3 of the movies, and is in a 4th for about 25 seconds.

Any chance they'll announce a Rebels sequel on May 4th?

Gangnam Style said:

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Any chance they'll announce a Rebels sequel on May 4th?

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We're getting a lot of Mando hype on May 4th so I don't know how much more they'll spin up for Disney+.

Casting, plot details, number of episodes, release date, a tweet, a picture, a piece of concept art...I'll take anything at this point.

Basically, I just want to know that it's still happening.

For something not filming until early 2021/not releasing until 2022, it's probably going to be a while. I would expect news to ramp up this fall.

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It's hard to say that a 9-movie series is about a character who isn't in 3 of the movies, and is in a 4th for about 25 seconds.

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49 minutes of total screen time out of 1,230 minutes total.

Ulrich said:

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MuckRaker96 said:

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It's hard to say that a 9-movie series is about a character who isn't in 3 of the movies, and is in a 4th for about 25 seconds.

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49 minutes of total screen time out of 1,230 minutes total.

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I knew it was small, but not that small. But still it seems like he is the whole character whose storyline runs through all nine movies. And it ends with his granddaughter setting the destiny of the force.

I know I am wrong, but it just feels off saying the nine movies are about the Skywalkers when their destiny was controlled by Palpatine(s).

Edit to add: Maybe this is just an odd response to 7-9 not adding much to 1-6 other than Rey and Palpatine's jarring return.

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It's hard to say that a 9-movie series is about a character who isn't in 3 of the movies, and is in a 4th for about 25 seconds.

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49 minutes of total screen time out of 1,230 minutes total.

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I knew it was small, but not that small. But still it seems like he is the whole character whose storyline runs through all nine movies. And it ends with his granddaughter setting the destiny of the force.

I know I am wrong, but it just feels off saying the nine movies are about the Skywalkers when their destiny was controlled by Palpatine(s).

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He's the only one who is "alive" for the whole thing, and he's around pulling strings most of the way, he's just not a very active character. I spent a few minutes trying to come up with an answer, but I don't think there is one.

1-3 are about Anakin and the rise of Empire and fall of the Jedi
4-6 are about Luke, Vader, and the fall of the Empire
7-9 are about Rey, Kylo, and the going away of various bad things

Ha, your edit kind of hit on the same thing as my summary of 7-9. They don't have much of an arc.

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Ha, your edit kind of hit on the same thing as my summary of 7-9. They don't have much of an arc.

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Yeah. Great minds!

I agree with your summaries of the movies.

It just seems like movies 1-9 are Palpatine's Xantos Gambit to get a Sith Empire that failed because of Rey has free will? But we only see it from everyone else's perspective.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XanatosGambit

Which discusses the same thing, so not a super original thought.

While the virus may kill this, there is a Celebration planned for the end of August. IF, and I mean a big IF, it isn't canceled, I'd expect any big announcements to happen then.

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While the virus may kill this, there is a Celebration planned for the end of August. IF, and I mean a big IF, it isn't canceled, I'd expect any big announcements to happen then.

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They'll do some sort of virtual Celebration and still announce stuff there, I'd imagine.

https://collider.com/star-wars-original-trilogy-posters-florey/

Where is my Best Star Wars Moments tourney?!

It's on my punch list right behind a 65,000 word book on entrepreneurship, a 15,000 word ebook on cash flow, an 18,000 word book on Puerto Rican culture (co-written with a former A&M basketball player), and 17 SEO-friendly articles on antivirus software and password managers. And homeschooling my kids every day from 12-4 p.m.

That's it?