I felt this way after season one. Could not abide her, thought she was as bad as jar jar. Subsequent seasons show her weak sides and growth, so she's grown on me.

I want her to go dark side. She's had too much character development to stay a cookie cutter jedi.

It is generally accepted that aoe tends to screw jedi over, and barring their melee weapons the space marines weapons are all aoe or explosive in some way. The ceramite and other materials used in SM armor has been demonstrated (in canon and novels and in game rules) to be pretty much be proof against most sidearms, generally requiring an antitank rank to guarantee a kill. Also the 40k Exterminatus has a massive track record compared to the Death Star, so failing all else no one would escape the battlefield alive, and the Imperium accepts the scorched-earth policy when it comes to denying their opponents.

My initial thought was they were adopted. I am trying to find a quote from a CL forum that made it out that Word of God stated they were hybrids. Or I just misread it, but the coloration and stubby lekku made sense after reading it, tho.

There were half-clone/half twilek critters running around in Clone Wars season two...episode called "Deserter." Lekku were stubby and seemed thicker than the pure twilek kids, and mottled between the clone's human skin tone and their mother's Lethan red skin tone.

In terms of force use, Yoda was always as strong as he needed to be to for his writers to make the main characters looks like chumps (Obi-Wan and Anakin vs Tyrannous, various Jedi vs Sideous). As far as consistently displayed power the writers seemed to like to have him as a ham-fisted deus ex machina. In terms of quality of leadership, well he was probably one of the most awful beings to ever govern any body, military or political. I think a large part of that is tied in with how he was the canon's DM-hammer, but still, throughout the prequels and clone wars he makes some of the worst decisions possible and was likely one of the main reasons Sideous was able to play his game long enough to win. In defense of his clone-wars decisions, however, the writers were forced to sandwich their writing into GL's abominable storytelling so they probably did not have much to work with in terms of making Yoda less of a simpleton tool.

This is why a lot o folks prefer EU to GU. EU makes more sense, is more consistent, and would never have spawned a Jar Jar. Watch the making-of bits for both trilogies and you'll see such a marked difference in the attitudes of his crew. The original trilogy was much livelier and no one had the look of a deer that just smelled a predator, and the post-production screenings do not look like everyone just watched One Guy One Jar. GL absent a leash is an ambulatory storm of narcissism.

One thing to bear in mind about the canon/noncanon discussion is that for the first trilogy, GL had hordes of people constantly saying, "No George, you're an idiot, that is a stupid idea." The prequel trilogy is an example of a bad writer with unlimited funds and no one willing to gainsay his bad ideas. The EU exists in large part because the universe had so much potential that this one aspie manchild was wasting. No one would accept the Godfather movies being rereleased with dance numbers or LotR with orcs replaced with oompa-loompas, and even if someone wanted to do something like that, there are enough people to shoot those ideas down to prevent such travesties, something the SW IP did not have.

I watch the original trilogy as they were released theatrically. I watch the prequel trilogy in a foreign language with no subtitles so I don't have to listen to GL premeditated assault on pathos, drama, and dialogue.

Willingly exterminated a room full of children who trusted him. Exterminated a roomful of heads of state, likely leaving their cultures to plunge into chaos. Presided over the annihilation of Alderaan. Attempted to kill his extremely pregnant wife with virtually no provocation. Pursued a campaign of terror and oppression against nonhumans. Killed people at the slightest provocation with force choke, anyone around him without regard to rank or position. But it's totally cool because he saved his son after watching him be tortured for several minutes.

#1 GL's grasp on his own IP is inconsistent at best and berserk retconny as a norm, so even though this is "his" universe, subject to his insanity and hamfisted sand castle-building, anyone who plays in his universe will still try to make sense of it. Hence, the view that dark and light should be balanced, and not that balance is the absence of one in favor of the other. #2 (the spoilers for Darth Plagueis) Apparently that darkness that nerfed the Jedi's ability to do anything useful at all was a deliberate act by Plagueis and a young Sidious. The ripped into the force to create an effect that muzzled Jedi precognitive and sensitive abilities, which is how both were able to explicitly manipulate the Senate without discovery. #3 As an aside, considering the view that life=light side and death=darkside, you'd have thought that meat-grindering millions of clones would have an a far more adverse affect on the force than a pair of universe-equivalent neckbeards in a basement launching ddos attacks on Jedi sensitivity.

I take it you are running Carnage for pvp, yescek? I know kiba favors that spec but I find it too dependent on the crit buff to the scream to really work for me. I'm curious to try all three at 50 but for levelling, heroic groups, world pvp and pre-50 wz anni seems to kill faster and I seem to live longer. Massacre seems to be a better end tier feat than annihilate but overall the anni tree seems more fluid and dynamic. I guess it just begs the question as to whether any of the trees are superior or it is simply a playstyle issue that one tree favors one mindset.

Derp. I read that list one time a few weeks ago and subsequently only referred to the tree-specific sections and forgot about it. Strange that the dots are force attacks, they are listed as internal damage...the terminology seems counter intuitive, but it is hardly the only instance of it.

I had a question about which abilities counted as force attacks to receive the crit benefit from Malice. I am Anni all the way to the top with a few points here and there in carnage and Rage, and currently have Malice specced. A friend was telling me Rage-using abilities all count as force attacks, but I haven't noticed any real benefit from Malice. I don't seem to kill any faster, and obviously the lack of combat log makes it a pain in the ***. If it is only a benefit to things like Ataru strike and the fus ro dah I will drop it for something else, probably more Carnage. Also, OP, ****** thread. Made a huge difference for my marauder. EDIT: Good Lord the profanity filter is strong with this one.