[-] HobbesHK@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

Enjoyed this one! I assume Sutekh is a new thing? I only watched stuff from the Eccleston era onwards, so not sure if this is from the older stuff?

[-] HobbesHK@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago

Something about the former Primarch really reminds me of Sarris from Galaxy Quest.

[-] HobbesHK@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

Did anyone else notice that the alien statues in 5x02 looked remarkably similar to the Batarians from Mass Effect?

[-] HobbesHK@startrek.website 4 points 11 months ago

As an open source alternative, I prefer a Jellyfin server and then using Feishin as a client. Nicer UI and options. Plex is a major no-no for me since they’ve started emailing people what they’ve been watching on their own servers. Privacy issues and required online login/plex-owned accounts for my own media? No thank you.

[-] HobbesHK@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Agreed! At first I wondered if they had mixed Lanter’s voice in there somewhere, to blend with Hayden’s during the initial transition. Don’t believe they did, but it was so nice to see a live version Anakin that wasn’t all petulant doom and gloom teenager. A bit of redemption for Christensen here too, which is well deserved in my opinion. The Obi-Wan show didn’t really give him much to work with, but this episode did a lot more.

[-] HobbesHK@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I had a look through the documentation and managed to fix the error.

[-] HobbesHK@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Aw, I feel honoured that my little threads are called “official”! Thank you! 😀

Honestly, Wednesday was a very busy day for me, so didn't get to watch it until yesterday evening. Thanks for opening the discussion up. My thoughts for the week.


Overall feeling I felt this episode was an improvement over last week's, but to be honest, given my somewhat scathing thoughts about that one, that wasn't difficult. There was actually something happening in this one. I'm still feeling conflicted about the overall tone of the show. Ahsoka hasn't really shown her fun side yet. It's all very dour and stilted still.

What show am I watching? Are we a Rebels Reunion show or an Ahsoka show? I would love the series to commit to one or the other. We have Hera, Jacen, Sabine, Ahsoka. But, we nearly got them together this episode, for them to be pulled apart yet again. And if we're going to bring the gang back together, where's my buddy Zeb? I refuse to believe he's just hanging around in that bar Mando met him whilst all this stuff is going down. It would've felt very natural to bring him into the fold as Hera flew off to go and help her friends.

“Anakin spoke highly of you.” “Funny, he never mentioned you.” This show needs to stop already with the “this person is a mystery reveal”. Who is this evil Sith? How did he know Anakin? Where did he suddenly come from in an era where Luke and Leia were the last hope? Filoni stretched the lore to its limits by sending Ezra to another universe and making Ahsoka a not-Jedi-Jedi to stay faithful to Obi-Wan & Yoda's conversations. Also, just, enough with the whole “mystery reveal”.

Those plot points have been done to death. In this episode, quite literally because, did Ahsoka just kill Mystery Helmet Guy? And he just… turned to dust? If he was being sustained to such a degree by the Dark Side, then, erm, hello? If this is indeed the end for that baddie, then, that's disappointing. I have faith in Dave Filoni, but we're halfway into the season and I feel like we're still busy getting started.

We're finally going places Took half the season, but it seems like we're travelling. Disappointed that Thrawn still hasn't appeared though, when the trailer first launched I thought we were in for an exciting season. It may still turn exciting, but can't escape the feeling we've wasted a lot of time to get there.

Anakin? I would love for Ahsoka to have a proper character moment with Anakin, aka the child-murderer. Which, erm, not sure how we're going to gloss over that one. But this very mystical World Between Worlds seems to be letting all sorts of people in lately. Maybe some Loth Wolves installed a revolving door somewhere?

We'll see where this goes, though. It's probably the way for Ahsoka to make it to the other universe.

Agency I think my main problem with the show so far, similar to the Kenobi one before it, is that a lot of stuff happens to Ahsoka. She doesn't take control of the situation or carve out her plans. She's responding to people, attacks, schemes, but her plan so far hasn't gone beyond “Let's go fly there and have a look.”

It feels very inconsistent with her character from before.

Also. Sabine handing over the map just like that? Cartoon-Sabine would've kicked her ass over that. No WAY, would she go against Ezra's sacrifice in that manner? Ezra did everything to get rid of Thrawn and helped end the war. Sabine, with her strong moral compass and iron will, would suddenly go, “Oh yeah, screw it, I miss Ezra so let's help out these baddies get Thrawn back.”

Unless this was part of the plan she made with Ahsoka all along….

….would've been great if there had been even a HINT of that, though, if it were the case.

6 / 10 for me.

Which, is painful. I love these characters, but they all seem to be wandering around looking for the plot. I hope they find it soon.

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Well. That happened.

I'm really not sure what to say about this one. I loved Clone Wars and I loved Rebels. But they were zingy, tight shows with a lot of life to them.

This episode... was not that.

There was a space battle between a ship and a few smaller ships.

There was some clattering of wooden swords between a Jedi and a non-Force-Padawan-because-erm... didn't we do the "Let Sabine be Sabine" story already on Rebels?

Oh. And there was something about Hera and the New Republic being ineffective. But we got to see her lovechild from Kanan. So wink-wink he wants to be a Jedi.

I don't know. I feel very conflicted because I desperately want to love this show. But... this episode felt very empty. Boring.

And why do I feel like I'm going to be proven right and masked-evil-Jedi-person turns out to be fallen Ezra?

That would be disappointing.

If this show is trying to tell an exciting story travelling across galaxies, finding Thrawn, adding new layers of mysticism to the universe, then... give me that show. Not this plodding stilted whatever-this-is.

[-] HobbesHK@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Amended the title to also include Ep 2, since they aired at the same time. Good call. 😃

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Well - it’s here! The first two episodes are on Disney+

Keen to hear what everyone’s thoughts are. Needless to say, there will be lots of spoilers in this discussion.

I really liked it. Felt like a solid continuation of Rebels, a bit slow at times, but overall a solid setup for what could be a very interesting and exciting series.

I feel like we should be able to guess the identity of the masked third Sith-esque villain. Don’t think it’s a fallen Ezra (too boring a plot line) but the stance and mannerisms seemed very familiar…

Also - great to see Kevin Kiner doing the music! Nice callback to some Rebels motifs here and there.

I would’ve liked to see Vanessa Marshall as Hera, I felt her voice was so uniquely matched. This Hera seems way too girly for a maternal older Hera. And where is her son?

Hoping for a Freddie Prinze Jr cameo.

Dave Filoni must be so happy to finally tell this story. Can’t wait to see what comes next!

[-] HobbesHK@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

As far as I can tell, it’s all there. Team Hide is definitely there. Loving the controller support, Larian knocked it OUT of the park. Changes the game into a 3rd person behind-the-player RPG yet somehow mapping all the complexities of KBM isometric RPG play onto the game pad? Heaven! Can strongly recommend this way to play.

[-] HobbesHK@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

8bitdo owner here - I’m having exactly the same issues. I’m playing on Linux, so I thought that might’ve been the issue but probably not then. As long as the controller is connected before starting the game, and I keep it awake during the game, all is good. Awkward, but I suppose we’ll have to manage for now.

[-] HobbesHK@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

I’ve been on Manjaro for about 1.5 years now too. I switched over to the Unstable branch a while back, which fixed this issue for me. This branch seems to be getting all packages at the same speed as regular Arch. Plus, I still get the Manjaro-specific kernels, access to their repos, integrated pamac, etc. For now, I’m sticking with Manjaro this way.

[-] HobbesHK@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

I love his stuff - thanks for sharing this one! I’ve been trying to put a build mode together for a looooong time and this helped quite a bit.

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Where is Chief Kyle?

I'm aware it could just be an actor-is-unavailable thing, but anyone know what happened?

Curious to see how his character could have been developed, particularly after the whole "Not Chief Kyle, he's so mean!" comment from season one as well as the impact of the crewman sacrificing himself to save Kyle's life.

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