#A FUCKING RAD LIGHTSABER BATTLE

[221bshrlocked]

Ahsoka Ep. 5 was such a fever dream. How am I supposed to go about my day and attend class when the episode has been replaying non-stop in my head?

#can't believe we got different versions of Anakin #darth Vader #LIVE ACTION REX #live action siege of manadlore #GAR SAXON #JACEN DISPLAYING HIS ABILITIES #A flipping mention of kanan jarrus #Purrgils doing the thing snd lighting up #YOUNG AHSOKA OMG #white robed ahsoka #A FUCKING RAD LIGHTSABER BATTLE #temura morrison's voice #we were fed this week yall #fed #star wars #ahsoka #ahsoka series #ahsoka spoilers #ahsoka series spoilers #anakin skywalker #captain rex

[the196thbattalion]

random au idea #143

the sith realize sometime during the middle of the war that they are all just pawns for sidious to fuck with (without actually knowing who he is) so they stop taking the battles seriously.

they start doing shit like decorating the droids and sending them off into battle? also combining droids together to make super droids? kind of like adult murder children playing with legos. anakin literally steals parts off the battlefield because the designs are rad as fuck.

in the middle of one lightsaber duel, count dooku starts talking snark, and the mannerisms remind obi-wan so much of qui-gon he has to stop and sit down.

bonus points if he goes “holy shit is this my fucking grandmaster?”

when anakin and ahsoka are sent after general grevious and ventress, it ends up with anakin asking a bunch of questions about grevious’ robot body and him being all salty but answering, while ventress and ahsoka teach each other cool gymnastics moves.

AHSOKA AND MAUL TALKING SHIT ABOUT KENOBI YES I AM HERE FOR IT.

master windu walks in on anakin building something and he’s like “skywalker if this is another bomb i swear to kenobi-” but anakin reassures him that it’s just a prototype rocket arm for the murderous droid general.

clones and droids just vibe in the background, and guess what? the clones discover that the droids have major meme potential, so somehow fives and hardcase manage to sneak an entire fucking droid into the barracks. they name him clanky. anakin is estatic.

the 104th stole one, painted armour and designs on it, then gave it to plo as a present.

he has another son now.

#star wars #star wars the clone wars #swtcw #anakin skywalker #obi-wan kenobi #count dooku #ahsoka tano #clone troopers #hardcase #fives #asajj ventress #general grevious #mace windu has an aneurysm pt 43 #plo koon #other hc

[3wisellamas]

Hey, remember my pet cracktheory that Darrell is a clone of Laserblast, or is somehow connected to him in some way?  I finally cleaned up and sorted out my full list of weird things I’ve noticed that they both have in common, or that otherwise support that, or are just weird about this stupid robot in general.  Because I wasn’t fucking joking about there being a lot of it.  Probably not gonna actually amount to anything, especially with not much series left, but meh.  It’s fun.  Enjoy.

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Appearance/Body:

(Okay, I admit most of this section was pretty much killed by Darrell's canon human form in OK AU, which looked NOTHING like Laser at all.  But just in case...)

-Identical body shape/proportions to LB/SF, with wider torso/hips and very thin waist -- maybe a little smaller because he's a teen (and a robot)

-Very close head shape to LB/SF/PV:  square jaw (when it’s not exaggerated to make him cuter), similar rectangular shape and proportions if you include the braincase (since it would normally be inside his skull)

-LB's mask looks a LOT like Darrell's head, with the entire top half and most of the sides of his head covered and with circular ear...things

-That mask also tends to be quite expressive, almost functioning as a single eye sometimes

-Their big heavy boots are also kinda similar (Though honestly Darrell's boots look slightly more like Chip Damage's...)

-LB is based off of the superhero Cyclops, and Darrell is literally a cyclops

-Only robot that really seems to have an organic, human brain, and has human feet too along with Shannon -- even for just the feet, someone's DNA has to be cloned to make him, and not necessarily Boxman's.

-Darrell can grow stubble, according to that one tiny joke shot in Let's Watch the Boxmore Show; his face may be organic just like his brain and feet.  Also worth noting, the specific spots on the side of the jaw where LB's/SF's stubble shows are covered by metal for Darrell -- when comparing Darrell and LB, each character's most distinctive visible features (one eye and brain, cheek stubble) are covered up on the other!

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Costumes:

-Darrell seems to enjoy dressing up as a HERO -- when he's in cowboy mode he plays a sheriff, and when the bots play Golden Statues he always plays the museum guard, both specifically hero roles!

-In fact, the costumes in general -- he definitely likes pretending he's someone else, rather than just being fashionable like his siblings.

-LB and SF both hide their eyes, and may have something unusual/distinctive about them, especially with Laser because of his eye-based powers.  LB!SF in particular would hide his if there was something that might immediately get him recognized as his former identity.  Perhaps only having one eye (hence the visor acting as one on occasion like I pointed out)?  (We got to see behind LB's mask once in Gar's fear sequence in Face Your Fears, with one red eye showing where the mask was broken, but there it did look like he had two.  However, Gar would never have seen what was ACTUALLY under there...)

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Habits/Personality:

-LB was an anti-hero, willing to do some fucked-up things in the name of good, while Darrell is an anti-villain, who focuses more on just doing his job, having fun, and trying to make his father happy than crushing the heroes out of malice

-Darrell's also just a terrible villain in general.  Of course, he's directly killed another villain (or tried to anyway), and his idea of doing the most evilest thing was reporting Boxman's lies to the board and stopping him, AKA doing the RIGHT thing -- even with the betrayal, not very villainous of him, huh?

-Weird shared oral fixation?  There's a very unusual emphasis on food/mouth things with Darrell (his lowkey obsession with eating, spitting Boxman into the spitoon in his office, brushing his teeth), and LB's trademark was always having that lollipop in his mouth.

-Hugging soft cute animals, like Rippy and Fink

-Darrell writes in concrete in You're Level 100, and LB does the same using his eye laser in Glory Days (in the POINT theme song)

-Neither one is a big fan of new members of their respective teams right away.  LB refused to take junior members with him in both Glory Days and Let's Take a Moment, and doesn't seem to think much of them in either episode at all, aside from Silver Spark (and then, he still left her behind as one of his lookouts).  Darrell...just freaking HATES new siblings at first, having a problem with every single one he gets, at least the ones we've seen (we didn't get to see his and Mikayla's introduction).  He's also like this to siblings he considers inferior to him, to a point -- he and Shannon both got pretty jealous when Boxman started praising Jethro's "new moves."

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Boxman stuff:

-Timing is correct, Darrell and the others were created right after LB disappeared according to Lad and Logic, since Boxman only drew the first three members in his original plans to attack POINT, and Gar was already building the plaza by the time Boxmore was opened.  This means the Boxbot quadruplets and KO were actually born around the same time, making them all 6-11 years old, roughly the same amount of time that's passed since the Sandwich Incident.

-Boxy was obsessed with POINT at that time (and still is, since he's kept the coordinates for POINT HQ memorized), and possibly LB himself (given his later attraction to PV)

-Boxman may also have some POINT tech and connections of his own?  First off, access to a huge supply of glorbs, the easiest and closest source of which Foxtail and Carol have been protecting and heavily monitoring, and are normally very hard for non-heroes to get their hands on.  Second, those boxes he sends the robots to attack in might use the same wormhole tech as POINT Prep's bus, since it looks a little similar both in transit and emerging at its destination, plus its driver sounds exactly like Ernesto.  And speaking of Ernesto, that one time he straight-up drew a POINT drone as part of a family portrait…

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POINT stuff:

-There were six members of POINT before the Sandwich Incident, and LB was one of the original three, and seemed to function as co-leader alongside Foxtail.  There are six Boxbots, and Darrell was one of the original four, and kinda leads them in battle alongside Shannon, especially once he becomes CEO.

-And coincidentally, the original six members of POINT also share colors and in some cases roles with the Boxbots -- Shannon and Foxtail are orange, Greyman and Ernesto are purple, El-Bow and Jethro are blue, Rippy and Raymond are green, Silver Spark is...difficult but her hair is pretty distinctive and works with Mikayla for yellow, and of course, Darrell and Laser are red.  The robots' colors and relative ages even match POINT'S senior/junior members, with Greyman, Laser, and Foxtail representing three of the older Boxbots, and then Rippy, Silver Spark, and El-Bow representing the two newer ones and Jethro, who only recently was able to show his true personality/potential.

-"Junior Members" = "Junior Deputies"

-"Code Vermillion."  I made an entire post on this a while back, but to summarize, Vermillion is a bright, slightly orange-y red, and in most episodes is Darrell's exact color.  And Vermillion, as a red pigment, tends to darken over time into purple and black -- and SF and PV have connections to both glorbs (which Code Vermillion refers to), and to LB as well.

-Darrell has a bunch of weird similarities to Chip Damage as well, who is basically Laser's replacement at POINT, minus being the Charisma discipline rep:  Robots made right after LB got iced, green powers, special limited-edition costumes/POW cards, similar dark gray boots, the remote controls (Wisdom class blackboard for Darrell, Final Exams for Chip), possibly both made with actual brain tissue (The flashback to Chip's creation had a brain on one of Greyman's screens), etc.  Also, a dumb one, but...remember those Double-Dipped (KO and TKO?) Laser Chips (self-explanatory), that are "probably just a limited-edition" (Darrell).

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Other assorted weird things:

-Darrell’s laser eye attachment shown in Stop Attacking the Plaza -- still being worked on in the episode (and it looks like it has been for a while, since it had been some time since Boxman was in that specific lab...), but used by a Big Darrell in the opening, where it produces a very similar (green) copy of LB's beam.

-Darrell is right-handed, in a left-handed family -- he's shown eating with his right hand in Stop Attacking the Plaza while everyone else is using their left, looks like he’s wielding a lightsaber right-handed in Plaza Film Festival, and draws with his right hand in Villains Night In.  Left-handedness is often associated with villains in fiction, so he may not be a full one?  (Definitely not as sinister as the rest of them, hehe.)  Though, some instances of Darrell using his left hand too, and other bots using their right, so I dunno how strong this particular point is.

-Line to keep an eye on:  "Just reboot yourself into a new body!  I do it all the time for funsies!" from Rad Likes Robots.  Related, Darrell reboots by exploding himself, which is how LB may have "died" and took on a new identity (if he's SF)

-Weird shit from Let's Not Be Skeletons:  Potato demonstrates a skeleton remote wearing a cowboy hat, and in addition to turning people into skeletons they remove powers, just like that red orb, and they also left Rad's and Enid's boots intact for some reason.  Darrell's also one of the biggest customers of the remotes, using his foes' weapons against them ("What do you say we snag more of them before they fall into the wrong hands?  We could even use them against our foes!")

-When we first saw TKO's power manifest in You're Level 100, it was while KO was trying to defeat a giant superpowered Darrell.  When we first saw TKO in physical form in Face Your Fears (as KO's "evil burp"), he was sent out to defeat a giant superpowered Laserblast head.  When we next saw TKO in, well, TKO (as his true self for the first time), he defeated another giant superpowered Darrell!

-Really dumb one, the letter right before C and D is B, so the acronyms LB and LCD may be a thing?

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Turbo/SF/TKO connections, just in case those turn out to be related to Laser as well:

(Under the cut, since this is long enough already!)

-SF hints that negative emotions, particularly anger, fuel Turbo powers.  Darrell has quite a few jealousy and anger issues in general -- "Gets flustered by petty insults," HATES new younger siblings (or existing siblings showing him up and getting more of dad’s attention), etc -- and seems to be way more capable of mayhem than usual when running on these emotions.  They even gave him the power to defy his programming and (attempt to) kill Boxman!

-He can also have his power boosted by a ton in a very short amount of time, from level -4 up (down?) to level -100 and able to destroy the plaza in one shot, and for as brief as that level -100 thing was he STILL has yet to be topped as the most powerful villain in the entire series!  But, Boxman doesn't do it often -- even regular Big Darrells are implied to NOT be that powerful normally.  Perhaps he's holding Darrell back for a reason?

-A lot of emphasis on his brain, similar to TKO: the visible brain is obvious, he has the most noticeable hivemind, and he pilots Big Darrells from inside their braincases similar to how KO and TKO controlled Big KO (even the name's similar!) in TKO's House

-Also, he doesn't have to glitch or change colors with his mood like Shannon does, he can make decisions and go against his programming all on his own -- perhaps he runs mostly on that meat brain?  Or maybe his brain is actually a mass of pink glorbs like Jethro got in I Am Jethro that unlocked his intelligence and potential?  

-SF's speech to KO in TKO: "Everyone holds you back because they're afraid of your raw, natural ability.  They want you small and nice, blissfully unaware of your true potential."  Darrell in Lord Cowboy Darrell:  "Nobody's gonna hold me back."  Shannon to Darrell in Plaza Film Festival:  "Where do you think you got all that natural talent?"

-TKO ultimately came out of wanting recognition from his boss.  LCD ultimately came out of wanting recognition from his boss.

-That VERY noticeable purple glow in the "I'm the Daddy now!" scene in Lord Cowboy Darrell.  Like, to the point it seemed specially painted for emphasis, rather than the normal animation.  

-Also, Junior is pretty heavy evidence that Turbo powers do not necessarily = purple, as Junior's powers were all green (and so were Chip's Turbo-ish powerups!)  Darrell also has green powers (that even carried over to his human alternate in OK AU, despite Shannon and Raymond getting Enid’s and Rad’s exact same powers and colors), and is sometimes surrounded by Turbo-esque greenish lightning when he's angry, the best example being at the beginning of Legends of Mr Gar after being trash talked (remember that he can't take petty insults; he was PISSED there!)

-(If it looks like I’m insinuating Darrell’s secretly got more power under the hood than even he realizes, I absolutely am.)

-Darrell still has his dark hooded cloak from the pilot, which looks a little like SF's.

-Darrell's the only one who wasn't invited to Junior's funeral, and doesn't give half a shit, instead using it as an opportunity to betray people and take on a new identity.  Possibly like LB faking his own death, therefore not attending his own funeral, and taking on a new identity as SF?

-Sneaking through the vents = sneaking through the pipes (SF, maybe how LB survived given that pipe in Let's Take a Moment)?

-Weird broken halo imagery shared between both Darrell and SF in TKO.  (Not my observation actually, pointed out by @david-yells-about-cartoons )  Darrell's cloud halo thing in that episode also looks almost exactly like the clouds swirling above KO as he shoots a power fist for the first time at the end of Let's Be Friends…

#ok ko #ok ko let's be heroes #ok ko darrell #ok ko laserblast #ok ko shadowy figure #emtheories

[su-crit-blog-for-nerds]

To celebrate star Wars day I'm gonna fix the problem I have with Rey

So Rey is shown as some all powerful force user in her first moments even knowing the force and Jedi exist. As it stands now Rey is some super powerful Jedi we are told this but not really shown. So let's fix that.

First step replace the hereto unknown force mind fuck Rey gets with a simple set of sound design borrowed from star wars rebels. Just have Rey hear the force sounds leading her to the Skywalker saber. Less cinematic but more impactful. Instead of Awakening some odd vision she is drawn to it by some unknown force, Sorry not sorry.

Next is after she gets kidnapped by Kylo and needs to be free. Have her thinking back on Jedi stories she may have heard. She calls the guard over and goes for the old Jedi mind trick, he then falls to the floor mind broken. With a sigh and a shit she then starts trying to lift his keys to free herself. Once free instead of cutting away leaving her fate unknown till Han and Finn show up have her getting a handle on things she can do causing chaos on Star Killer as she Solid Snakes around fucking with Stormtroopers. This serves to show her growth and power instead of just saying how powerful she is. Along with giving her experience with the force.

Now we have the Force Awakens ending with an actual person who developed her skills instead of reading the script. Two simple additions. You want a third to fix the whole movie tho? K

Finn has force sensitivity. You add a throw away line from Kylo about how the Empire used to just toss away force sensitive recruits and something about Midiclorians as a joke. Have Finn and Rey meeting with that previously proposed force sound (if you want extra juice have Rey be the one to notice Finn with it playing). Replace the scene with Finn needing to see Rey being taken by Kylo with him sensing her gone when Orange Yoda (forgot her name lol) gives him the lightsaber. Have the audience think he's gonna be our Luke. Then when we get to that Forest fight he fucking dies. No bacta suit, he just fucking dies. That way he actually gets his arc Rose robbed from him. He spends the entire movie up to the battle at Orange Yoda planet trying to run, and in the end he gives his life defending the only chance the resistance has, Rey. Having just recovered Rey having lost both a mentor and friend gains full control over her connection to the force. If you want to add a bit of better music scoring parallels when she's chaotically swing and stabbing have a subtle nod to Luke when he was wailing on Vader in RotJ and then when she's backed up and has her "use the force Luke" moment have the force theme swell in the back.

Look if y'all who follow this blog should catch anything about me it's my ability to see the "what should have been" and the "aww this would be fuckinG RAD" in anything I like even a little bit. Rey as she is written by these hack Hollywood frauds is as much of a Mary Sue as Little orphan Annie is a Gary Stu. It's never a bad thing to be critical of things you love. Star Wars started my love for sci fi that led me to stuff like Steven Universe (topic of the blog if you can't tell). Watching Disney not only repeat the mistakes of George but amplify them is fucking painful. I can only hope the Game of Thrones crew's trilogy learns from the folly of JJ and Rian. I'm gonna stop I'm starting to make myself depressed

Happy Star wars day and May the Fourth be with you!

#star wars #star wars day #may the force be with you #may the 4th #may the fourth be with you #sw #sw tfa #the force awakens #star wars the force awakens #Rey #maRey sue

[thebibliomancer]

Legends Liveblogging: Star Wars: Dark Empire #5

Are you all ready for sexy Palpatine?

BOOK 5: EMPEROR REBORN

As the Emperor’s World Devastators continue to savage the Alliance, Princess Leia and Han Solo embark on a quest to free Luke Skywalker from the grasp of the Dark Side.

With Chewbacca and C-3PO, Han and Leia journey to an ancient spaceport moon, refuge of Corellian smugglers. There they encounter bounty hunter Boba Fett, who survived being swallowed by the Sarlacc on Tatooine.

Thanks to Han’s old friends, Salla Zend and Shug Ninx, the Millennium Falcon and its crew escape to hyperspace aboard Salla’s Starlight Intruder - a hot rod freighter licensed to haul military cargo to the Deep Galactic Core.

Boba Fett pursues the Intruder, but meets disaster over Byss - the Emperor’s throne world - when he attempts to sneak past the planet’s security shields.

Once in port, Leia uses her Jedi powers to guide the Millennium Falcon to the citadel where Luke now reigns as the Emperor’s protege. A vicious fight ensues, but according to plan, Ninx and Salla save the Falcon - and Leia, Han, Chewbacca, and C-3PO allow themselves to be captured.

Brought at last into the presence of Emperor Palpatine and his Supreme Commander Luke Skywalker, Leia makes a valiant attempt to save Luke, using her intensifying control of the Force.

But the Emperor cannot be overcome so easily. He gives Leia a painful demonstration of his ever-expanding power, crowing in triumph that he has finally captured the last of the Jedi!

Well, that’s not even remotely true.

There’s Vima, a dude we’ll meet in Dark Empire II, the guy that becomes Darth Krayt, K’Kruhk and his sweet hat.

Anyway.

We start off with Salla and Ninx. They’re hiding the Falcon inside another freighter called the Hyperspace Marauder. Who taught these smugglers how to name ships.

Salla receives a call from Han requesting pickup but before the Falcon can take off, its detected by an Imperial Hunter-Killer. Which is like a probe droids but huuuuuuuuuuuuuge.

Salla and Ninx try to get away but the Hunter-Killer swallows the Falcon in its hellishly red glowing stomach.

So much for the secret getaway plan.

We cut to Leia being brought to Palpatine’s quarters.

He tells the guards to screw off because he has secrets he can only share with a Jedi.

And that secret is... a glowing cube of vast import!

Also known as a Jedi Holocron.

Jedi Holocrons are cool. Despite being ‘primitive hologram technology’ it seems way more advanced than a lot of stuff in Star Wars. Because a holocron is a record of Jedi history and teachings and also sort of an AI of the Jedi Master that recorded it. The recorded Jedi judges what a person is qualified to hear. In the Jedi Academy trilogy, Luke even remarked that a holocron was withholding stuff even from him, the masteriest Jedi Master in existence.

Leia says that the holocron is a Jedi teaching device and Palpatine has no right to it. Palpatine disagrees. He is currently the master of all the Jedi. As in, Luke and Leia. Womp womp.

Anyway, he puts the holocron back in its holocron pedastal, next to his uncomfortable space bed. And since it doesn’t stop glowing, you’d think that would make it hard to sleep. Because sleep is what he intends to do.

He has Leia ‘help a dying old man into his bed.’ And then pays her back by talking shit at her. He explains that the Dark Side has given him the power to body surf. Although he has used this only to enter his own clones, he can do this to anyone and overshadow their soul.

Strictly hypothetically, he could soul surf into say... yeah. Her unborn child.

(+1 to the womb obsession tally)

Leia reacts predictably to a creepy old man telling her he is going to possess a fetus.

Oh and because she’s rad, she also swipes the holocron on her way out.

Han may be the scoundrel but Leia is the one who rolled a rogue.

There’s seriously nothing funnier than Palpatine laying on the floor in a heap and smirking that all is transpiring as he has foreseen before realizing Leia fucking robbed him.

Anyway, our less rad twin is getting a hand out. Oh, also suppressing information that someone sabotaged three of the World Devastators.

Also, he has jammed R2 full of data. I wonder what in the world devastating data could it be?

Oh and Leia shows up and tells Luke that its been fun but they seriously need to gtfo. She doesn’t mention that she’s been taking everything not nailed down but I think it goes without saying.

But Luke insists that he totally knows what he’s doing. Oh also, her presence helped break the grip of the Dark Side on him. So hey, not a wasted trip!

‘Luke you idiot, the Emperor is toying with you’ she says in not so many words. You can’t become an accessory to a genocide and keep your alignment, probably. I’d have to check the dungeon master’s guide.

But Luke agrees that they can go. He stuffed the master control code and the Emperor’s priority battle plans into R2 so they just need to gather Han and Chewie and find some way out of here.

Meanwhile, in the detention level, Han is cracking an ingenious escape plan. They may be twelve stories up in a doom tower but if Chewie will only let Han shave him, they could braid a rope out of his fur and escape out a window.

But before they can enact that thrilling escape, a Hunter-Killer droid shows up.

The very same one that ate Ninx and Salla in fact! And in fact in fact, the two somehow got inside and hot wired the droid off-panel. They might even be approaching Leia levels of competence.

They use the droid’s weapons to blow a hole in the side of the tower so Han and Chewie can escape. But what a coincidence, Leia and Luke have just shown up too.

... And Leia has another lightsaber? I was joking about her stealing everything not nailed down but damn I think she really did just rob the Emperor blind.

Because I just went and checked. SHE DID NOT HAVE THE LIGHTSABER WHEN SHE WAS TALKING TO THE EMPEROR.

Anyway, Han assumes the worst when he sees Luke but Leia stops him from shooting. Luke promises that with the information he has stolen, the Empire will be finished forever but Han wonders why they don’t just take the Emperor out, y’know, as long as they’re in town.

They don’t get the chance because a security patrol arrives. Ninx sets the Hunter-Killer to auto-fire and everyone escapes on the Falcon just as the tower defenses hit the droid.

But once the Falcon escapes Byss, Luke reveals he pulled a fast one. See, he was never really on the ship. It was but a ruse. He is still on Byss.

He still has one task to accomplish.

Which is why we find him in the Emperor’s clone lab. He’s here to stop the Emperor from moving into a fresh body.

So the Emperor kills himself so he can respawn before Luke can Attack on the Clones.

He does manage to kill all but one though. Although it is that last one that is a problem. A sticky, naked problem.

I had hoped this day would never come but here it is. The lightsaber battle between sexy naked Palpatine who looks like David Bowie and weirdly evil looking Luke.

(Things Palpatine did not think his clones needed: a dick, toes)

Anyway. Maybe he’s too distracted by sexy Palpatine or maybe he’s just not a bad enough dude to beat a sticky newborn in lightsabers but Luke loses. The Emperor knocks the lightsaber out of his hands and knocks his ass to the ground.

But he’s not going to kill him. He’s still betting on Luke submitting to the Dark Side.

But for right now, the Emperor is going to put on some pants, get in his hot rod/war crime, and go get Leia so he can get back his holocron and get him some of that destiny fetus.

Its good to have goals?

#Star Wars #Dark Empire #legends liveblogging