Brickadeer

I had the impression that this time, the story was much longer. I can't wait to read to chapter 8 The builds are, well, the usual brilliant builds

I have to agree that this explanation doesn't sound very convincing. It simply isn't plausible that he could survive and escape from Naboo without any help. Actually, I prefered the scenario that we was raised from the dead by some sinister mist mojo.

Would you mind to share what they think and how they argue?

Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.

Thanks, I think I know them. Until now, I have not gotten a light sabre blade without any bubbles. These bubbles are larger though and in the plastic.

There are scratches, but only a few. I'm talking about the small "dots". On Bricklink, there is a close shot of the canopy from set 7163. If you look closely, it seems to suffer from the problem I described here; you can see a lot of reflections caused by "dots", that is irregularities of the surface.

Thank you. They are very small, but everywhere. More precisely, they are part of the surface of the inner side of the canopy. Their concentration seems to rise from the edge to the center of the inner side of the canopy. I can feel them when I move a finger over the surface. To seem them clearly, I have to hold the canopy against a source of light, otherwise they are hardly recognizeable.

Well, if you like Ventress, you might wish to read this interview with her voice actor Nika Futterman. As for the Ahsoka, Rex and others, I wish there'd be a re-written TCW version of "Revenge of the Sith", but it doesn't seem very likely

Maybe it is. I think that in season 5 she will change, although I have no idea into what direction. As for Maul, I think that the events surrounding him might be concluded in an arc of season 5. But then again, may all open ends will be concluded in the final episode. My greatest concern it Ventress; I hope that her development is not yet finished and that she'll make it into season 5.

Against the dark background, you can see little light dots. They are not dirt, but so to say part of the material itself. The picture may give you a wrong impression; the dots are everywhere. It's just a bit difficult to get the pictured. I bought them as "new", but they don't seem "new" to me.

Hi, I have a question about this part from set 7676. I recently bought them via Bricklink labeled as new. When I hold them against the light, the material looks, well, "pigmented", as if the material contains a lot of small dots or very small bubbles. Is that normal?

That was a pretty good guess I never believed he had survived this, but I was wrong.

Great find again

I think it was a rumor. I think the surprising ally will be Ventress (Dooku seems to be unlikely). He would not need such a surprising ally if he'd defend the Jedi Temple since there should be several Jedi to join him.

I agree that Maul has the strongest motive for revenge, so apparently, the title of the episodes refers to him. But although Obi Wan is a Jedi, he has a motive for revenge as well, although I do not suppose it to be very likely that he is driven by this emotion. Ventress has a motive for revenge since she considered Opress to be a traitor. I'm not sure if she'd allow that emotion to control her actions, though. Anakin's motives for revenge are a bit more abstract since he was neither directly harmed by Opress nor Maul. But clearly Dooku has a strong motive for revenge. With Dooku intriguing, it might not only be Maul who wants revenge, but others as well; so I'd say there are a few possibilities to give the title a second meaning.

Well, in one week, we know more The one character that unites the four episodes of this last arc is Mother Talzin. It has not become clear yet what her plans are, what roles she assumes for Ventress and Opress, why she sent Opress on his quest to find Maul, and why she didn't tell Ventress about Opress' quest when she returned to Dathomir at the beginning of episode 19. I suppose these question to be at the center of the final episode, which would Ahsoka's death make a bit arbitrary, although surprising. If I remember correctly, Chris Taylor said in that the writers are already done with the plots for season 6. Since TCW is probably the last opportunity for Lucas to clarify open questions of the prequel triology and to examine aspects of the Star Wars universe that he feels need to be explored, my current guess is that there'll be rather 7 than 6 seasons.

The snake reminded me of Jar Jar. I was pretty pleased when she died, too.

I wouldn't call it rediculous. But considering that Ahsoka didn't play any role in episode 19/20 and only had a cameo in episode 21, I'd be pretty surprised if she played a major role in the finale, let alone letting her die. Ventress death on the other hand appears to be more likely and, keeping her recent development in mind, more tragic. Besides that, I think we'll see 2-3 further seasons, so Ashoka and Rex are good candidates for the final seasons.

I agree that Opress' quest for Maul is not particularly interesting or spectacular; I liked the final location, though. I don't believe that all the storylines can be given a satisfying solution in just 20 minutes, so I think that the finale might become the prelude to season 5.

Anyone else having problems with BL?

I have to agree that the Balugans didn't behave smart. Basically, their relevant attribute is "mass". But I'm not interpreting this as sign of bad writing. Ventress could not defeat the Balugans with her fists. There were too many. That's why she drew her lightsabres. Now, she performed better, but there were still too many of them. After Dengar was thrown off the train, she used her force powers to get rid of the Balugans. That didn't work very well as well. She asked for help and Boskk was ordered to come, but he did not arrive since he was overwhelmed by the Balugans: Ventress was on her own, it was she and her powers agains an indefinite number of enemies. In the beginning of the episode, Ventress tried to hide who and what she is: she lied when she said that the lightsabres were stolen. She said she had no name. She didn't use her force powers while Dengar was present. She let it happen that the Bounty Hunters forced her into a situation. In order to prevail against the Balugans, she had to accept who she is. So I think the lesson she learned is that she may pretend to herself and to others that she is someone different, but she cannot lie so to say to the galaxy. At least, the story can be read, it functions on this level of interpretation, and keeping the motto of the show in mind, I think it's a plausible one. So of course, the Balugans could have been designed more complex. But in keeping them simple and primarily defined by one attribute, it is easier to identify their function with regards to the development that Ventress goes through. That's why I'm a bit reluctant to blame the writers of the show of bad story writing: until there is no better evidence, I'm tending to say "not guilty"

Again, that is your opinion. You think that the displayed behaviour should have been different because it didn't match your standards of cleverness. Is there any factual evidence that applying these standards is a good strategy to understand and to evaluate events and characters in Star Wars? The opposite is the case: Measured by the same standards not blasting the escape pod in ANH was stupid. It was terribly stupid. But I would not say that Star Wars would have become better if the officer in charge would have been smarter and simply ordered blasting the escape pod. I think in this case, the implications are clear. Measured by the same standards not letting the Star Destroyers attack the rebel fleet in ROTJ was equally stupid. But I would not say that Star Wars would have become better if the Emperor would have been smarter and simply ordered blasting the rebel fleet away. It only would have made ending the story incredibly more difficult. In stories, certain persons need to make mistakes simply because otherwise the story simpy ends. Applying common sense may tell you how you would have behaved if you were in the situation of the person you observed. But the fact that you would have behaved differently doesn't give you a clue why the writers let these characters act like they acted. Consequently, in order to understand what the writers did and to understand the story, you have to apply different standards. If you don't you're not dealing with the question how the story functioned, but how in your opinion it should have been. A review that has deserves it's name is concerned with what is, not with what ought be. And a review is more than just an arbitrary enumeration of equally arbitrary aspects. If you had ten seconds to tell someone what was important about the episode, would you say, "oh, it was a bad episode because it's physics was totally unrealistic, I mean really TOTALLY, and some characters behaved stupid!"? I hope not, since these are unimportant details: if you are threatened by a man with a gun you may not wish to point to the sky and say, "haha! Birds!", simply because it is a comparatively unimportant detail of the situation that might give you no clue for the question how to deal with the important aspects of the situation. If you write a review and if you post a link to this review, I think it's safe to say that you want others to read your review. If I read a review I want to know what is important, what is special. I want to know what I missed. I don't want to be given the impression that some guys just need a platform to spread their opinions.

Good luck If possible, I'd try to keep orders open as long as possible. The reason is that there's a pretty good chance that you'll be able to complete more lots (= getting all parts of a certain kind). This part is the most expensive of the parts; I you are really willing to complete the project, this is what you want

If you don't like the show, don't watch it, or simply say that you don't like it. But please, don't say it "wasn't really good". I for myself think that what you wrote is pretty retarded, but I'm too polite to tell you because apparently, you think differently. Live and let live. And maybe, only maybe, you should spend more time asking yourself why the episode was created precisely in the way it was created and not in the way you think it should have been created. That might help you to distinguish things that are important from things that are not important. As for your praise of realism, I'd like to point out that Star Wars is a space opera. It was never meant to be realistic. It never cared about physics. So with introducing realism as a criteria to make judgements about the quality of the episode is to make judgements with regard to an arbitrary reference system: You could equally say that it was a poor episode because of it's clear lack of vampires, but you had to be equally aware of the fact that it never claimed to be a vampire story. The same is true for what you think about the character's behaviours: apparently, what you think is totally irrelevant for what they did. Maybe you should keep in mind that Star Wars in general is about storytelling, and that the recent arc in particular was about Ventress' story. Saying that a booby trapped box (= dead girl) or a biological weapon (= no girl) would improve the story is pointless: in either case, there would have been no girl and no changed Ventress', which would be pointless as well since, as I said, this arc is about Ventress and nothing else.