dreamwars | Entries tagged with topic category: non-movie content

Hi!

Since since nine of the planned twelve episodes have aired, maybe you'd like to talk about the second season of Andor?

Are you watching? What do you think of it so far?

Have you rewatched the first season and if yes, what was that like - discovered something you've forgotten, changed your mind about something,...?

annathecrow

Hi!

This week, the topic is "Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear", a novel by Alexander Freed that focuses on the first year of the Empire as experienced by Bail Organa, Mon Mothma and Saw Gerrera.

This is a very fresh book: it was released this February. Have any of you read it, or plan to?

Alexander Freed is an established Star Wars writer with several well-received SW novels to his name - would that recommend or detract from this book for you?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

(I'm back!)

The topic of this week is Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, the 2019 computer game, and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, its 2023 sequel.

Have you played either of them? Would you like to? Or maybe you've watched a Lets Play of it - which one? Would you recommend it? Do you have a favorite character, scene, ship, fanwork...?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week, our topic is The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem - an adaptation of Rogue One and the Original Trilogy in the style of Odyssey and Beowulf.

...yes, really.

Have you heard of it? Have you read it? What do you think about it, whether you did or not? Come and discuss!

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week it's time for non-movie, canon media, and I'm going to dip into the archive and bring up a topic from around this time a few years ago: "movie novelizations".

As far as I know, every SW movie got a book written from it - some even multiple, if we count comic adaptations and books for younger readers. Have you ever read any? What do you think about novelizations as a concept - do you enjoy them, find them a valuable source of canon, or would you rather they didn't exist at all?

And how much canon do you actually consider them? I'm not quite sure how much does Disney consider them canon (but admittedly I didn't search too hard).

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week's theme is "Star Wars: Fun with Nubs". I'm sorry. I went looking for some as-yet-not-discussed piece of canon media, sorted the Wookieepedia canon timeline by release date, and this thing's episodes were mixed in with The Acolyte. Which... oh my god. I love this media property. (At least it wasn't something hyper-serious like Andor.)

Now I need my brain to stop giving me Happy Tree Friends associations.

annathecrow

Welcome to the _mumbledyday chat corner!

Since this week the category is non-movie content, lets do the obvious and make it Star Wars: The Acolyte, the newest offering in Disney's live-action TV shows. Are you watching? Do you have thoughts?

Please, be kind to others and put spoilers under a <details> tag:

For people avoiding spoilers, remember that <details> tags will not work in emails or DW inbox.

Also! I should probably mention this more often, but if you want to use the comm for posting about The Acolyte, or really anything else SW-related, feel free! (Comm info, some history.)

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

The topic for this week is "Star Wars: Tales of the Empire", the recently aired animated miniseries - or, technically, the second season to Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi.

Since the series has been only recently aired, please hide any spoilers under a <details> tag, like this:

Which will then look like this:

spoiler for the 3rd episode

...I haven't actually seen the show yet.

So, have you seen the series? If yes, did you like it, and would you recommend it? If not, are you planning to?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week's topic is "Star Wars: Kanan", the 2015 comic series that shows the backstory of Kanan Jarrus, one of the protagonists of the Rebels TV series.

You probably know the drill by now. Have you read it? Did you like it? Would you recommend it?

Wookieepedia helpfully informs me that events in this comic now contradict with the animated series The Bad Batch, which is interesting, on a meta level if nothing else.

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week, lets return to the animated TV show Bad Batch* Do you watch it? Do you like it? It feels like Disney is following two directions with its TV shows: animated for younger audience and live-action for older viewers. What do you think about that? Which of these approaches do you like more - or do you enjoy both equally? (Or perhaps neither?)

* I know, I know, the second season aired in the spring, the hype is deader than a dead thing. I have reasons! I try not to bring up shows that have just finished airing in the main chat post to avoid spoilers.

If it were something I was actively watching I would make a separate post for it (like we've done with The Book of Boba Fett back when it aired) but er, I don't really have the batteries to watch SW stuff as it airs anymore.

Maybe that's not ideal, though? Would you prefer I bring up things as they air? If you have a preference please weigh in, I'm happy to change my approach if it will work better for you.

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week, my choice of canon media is a little questionable: the three movies announced by Disney this April - one by James Mangold, to be set in the far history of the Galaxy Far Far Away, one by Dave Filoni, meant to tie into his TV shows, and the last, by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, which is supposed to continue Rey’s story as she rebuilds the Jedi Order.

…okay, so I opened my trusty timeline of canon media, found the Mangold movie as the first item, and went “wait, what?”. I am not the most well-informed of fans. I figure you might not be either - or you might enjoy speculating about projects that might never see the light of day (still waiting on my Rogue Squadron movie, Disney!)

What are your thoughts?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

(Well. It’s a Monday chat corner in spirit.)

The topic for this week is Star Wars: Darth Vader (2015), the Marvel comic book series written by Kieron Gillen. It’s given us some memorable quotes (“You killed my father!” “I’ve killed very many fathers. You’ll have to be more specific.”) and some very memorable characters (like the intrepid Doctor Chelli Lona Aphra, who has since spawned multiple series of her own).

Have you read it? What do you think?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

I’m back ~~on my bullshit~~ trawling through the Wookieepedia timelines, this time the Timeline of canon media, and for this week’s topic I bring you the earliest media piece now included in current canon that isn’t the movies or the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV show: Star Wars Journeys: The Phantom Menace, an iPhone app that… honestly, I’m not sure. Recaps Episode I, I guess.

Is there anything to talk about? Probably not. Will that make me drop the gimmick of “first ever” and look for something more interesting? Definitely not. Go forth and discuss whatever vaguely topic-related you can find.

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week’s topic is the Young Adult novel Rebel Rising, which tells the story of Jyn Erso, before the events of the Rogue One movie. Have you read it? Would you recommend it? If yes, who would you recommend it to? “You will like this book if you like [X and Y], but dislike it if you like [Z]”…

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This is a current canon week, so lets revisit a topic we’ve talked about before: the miniseries The Book of Boba Fett.

More than a year after it aired, what do you think? Did it stick in your memory, or are you glad to forget it? Have you watched the whole thing, gave up mid-way, or avoided it entirely?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week, the topic is “Dark Disciple”, the unused TCW script turned novel about Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Voss.

You know the drill by now: have you read it? Did you like it? Any other thoughts?

As an alternative discussion topic (I’m aware I’m dragging out increasingly obscure stories as times go on): characters that appear across different stories, and how they (don’t) change. Do you have any feelings about that? R2 is in everything (oh the implications), the Sequels are sure a thing (and so is the entire post-OT EU, of course), and I’ve just learned there’s an EU book where Anakin Skywalker teams up with Nejaa Halcyon and excuse me, that’s a trip.

(This is of course inspired by Quinlan Vos, AKA the SW patron saint of getting a complete personality transplant via adaptation.)

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week, the topic is the book “Brotherhood“ by Mike Chen. Its protagonists are Anakin and Obi-Wan just after the start of the Clone Wars and interestingly, by word-of-creator it is in continuity with the otherwise officially non-canonical EU novel Labyrinth of Evil.

Has anyone read it? What are your thoughts?

Otherwise, something a bit meta: most of us have EU stories we hope will make it into the new continuity or regret loosing. But, do you have stories you’re glad to be rid of?

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week the topic is supposed to be some canon, non-movie content. The third season of The Mandalorian would be the obvious choice, but I’m wary of spoilers in the main discussion. Besides, there’s only been one episode so far!

(thanks

fleurviolette for reminding me it’s a thing, by the way, I’m impressively out of the loop :D)

Therefore, lets be a bit ~creative~, and talk about Star Wars Rebels, AKA the TV show The Mandalorian is mining for continuity. Do you like it, do you dislike it, how do you think the newest bit of SW media will tie to it? (Or will it at all?)

annathecrow

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

The topic for this week is “Bloodline”, the novel by Claudia Gray, which focuses on Leia and takes place between the original and sequel trilogies. Have you read it? Did you like it?