You say that but its not like the Magic Story-line didn't involve killing characters during major conflicts to raise stakes. Heck I argue it was more Game of Thrones in the past after all even Urza died. So I think blaming it on Game of Thrones, is disingenuous to the extreme. I mean the end game against Yawgmoth resulted in all but 2 of the Nine Titans dying and most of the Weatherlight crew as well. Sealing the Time Rifts? Again more dead characters. More recently Venser Dead. Elspeth Dead. So MtG never had a problem killing major characters in the past but now the Gatewatch has unlimited plot armor.
The Gatewatch they go up against the Eldrazi and Bolas and lose not a single member. I can make a case for Bolas not killing most of the Gatewatch. Vess is obvious. Jace could be played on Ravnica since he is the guildpact. Nissa has a unique ability with her leyline stuff. After that though the case for keeping Gideon and especially Chandra around seems rather nonexistant to me. Gideon maybe cause Bolas proved his ability is useless and you want an idiot steering the enemy team as the leader. But what reason does Bolas have for keeping Chandra around?
That's one thing a lot of people hate, that winning over the Eldrazi was an "easy" victory, they were built up so much and so well in the first Zendikar block only to be turned into another generic villain to be killed in the BfZ block. And Hour of Devastation was barely even a setback, I think a lot of people were expecting half of them to die and the other half to be turned into Bolas thralls or at least one of them suffering from something that couldn't be cursed in one block.
They were built up so much and so well because you never actually saw them. It’s the Boba Fett effect, the moment you have to explain them they stop being cool. So the choice was either to literally never deal with them cause they’re too OP, or to make them more manageable. We still don’t know if there’s more to the story there, as Ugin flat out states.
Did you know that people don’t have to die for there to be stakes? There’s a really toxic attitude out there from grimdark fiction like Game of Thrones that is easily proven untrue by decades of genre literature never requiring it.
Plus the difference is Teferi seems like the main character or at least main non gatewatch character. He has got the packs, the big poster and the planeswalker deck. He has gotten resparked, the Weatherlight is owned by Tolaria, and he has got the family now? That is alot of ground to cover in Dominaria as opposed to Chandra who is only tied to Jaya. Plus WOTC knows fans will riot if they bring Jaya back and dont give her a planeswalker card at all.
Why do you think Teferi gets a planeswalker deck as well as a card in the set proper, whilst Jaya doesn't? Is it because Jace just got a planeswalker deck in Ixalan (and would have got one otherwise)?
I think it’s more a matter of them wanted to have balanced decks and they probably picked he planeswalkers last. White Blue screams Teferi, and then Chandra is probably in the story and they wanted to fit her in.
So graduated today and the keynote speaker was Bloomberg which to that I say Fuck Bloomberg, Fuck the NYPD and Fuck Stop and Frisk
It make no sense for Unkar not to sell Rey. I could see Unkar keeping Rey if had a way to train her so he could have his own pet force user but he doesn't even do that. He was going to send thugs to beat her up and steal BB-8 so there is no fucking reason for him not to sell her besides RJ saying screw JJ and Lucas, I do what I want. So I am just going to mostly ignore TFA and the OT and PT and retcon whatever the frak I want.
“Rey’s parents are not only just random junkyard people, they are horrible, horrible people who trade Rey for a ship off Jakku because the First Order is looking for Force Sensitive children, but Unkar Plutt does not sell her to the First Order. “
guess who’s going to be back on her Jedi!Finn bullshit
This guy works for the Guardian. Its confirmed I am sorry no New Trilogy for Rian Johnson and Disney must clean house at LucasFilm, Kathleen K Kennedy must go. Any POC in a management position at LF should resign as well. Star Wars now an Alt-Right wet dream never did I expect such blatant sexism, racism and disregard for George Lucas Canon in my fucking life.
i have never known fear like this before in my life
Poor Jhoira bumped off the pack for some Aven and a Benalish Knight? No Spark, No Packet Apparently. Teferi is back and Karn looks like Thanos.
Toyfair Reveals! Big news: Teferi is a Planeswalker again! Source: https://t.co/AC3nnf6Pgm
Yeah Finn and Poe need to be selfless meanwhile Kylo is the most selfish mfer in the entire galaxy. They have to be saints while Kylo can be the Devil and still get all the love sickening.
The moc getting hit/stunned by women isn’t subversive. Moc already suffer violence from their bosses (the way Leia treats Poe) and from antiblack women (the way Rose treats Finn). It’s literally just unjustified violence. And painting both Finn and Poes characters as anything but brave and selfless is truly regressive to anything we know about their characters in TFA. It’s interesting that this supposed growth in TLJ includes being pushed into “selflessness” and “bravery” (it’s none of these things) only comes about from having violence enacted on them. Last I checked that’s not growth, that’s just victims adjusting to avoid abuse/violence.
I brought it up for TFA but its funny when we get the first Black Male Lead in Star Wars suddenly the standard rules for how you treat a male lead no longer apply. I mean Finn is similar to Luke ignoring (Luke being the overall main lead and having the Force) difference is Luke never got beat up by his friends and while he did have some embarrassing stuff happen to him he still got to end ANH strong. Landing the final shots on the Deathstar. Finn meanwhile ends in a coma at RJ request and lost every fight including one to a stomtrooper (a first in Star Wars) and to Rey of course despite being top of his class in tie ins in comabt.
He then enters TLJ and opens worrying about Rey (who is making googly eyes at Kylo if the rumors are too be trusted) and getting tazered by Rose. Before getting demoted to the B-Plot which incidentally includes all the POC with no Force Powers in Finn, Poe, Rose, DJ and Paige Tico with less screen time then Kylo. And apparently the B-Plot wasn't all that interesting since everyone is gushing about Kylo, Luke and Rey. I mean sure it looks like he beats Phasma but there was no development between Finn and Phasma in TFA...there was between Finn and Kylo but does anyone really thing FInn will even the socre against Kylo like a real Male Lead? I dont.
Absolutely sickening this window dressing Diversity and the wide scale acceptance of it in the fandom and the press. Disney is lucky Black Panther is coming so soon or I be boycotting their products.
In none of the other 8 Star Wars films were any of the villains given more screentime and importance than the heroes, in none. Not even Darth Vader. So I am sorry, but I am going to call bullshit that when two of the three major heroes are men of color, suddenly the only other young-ish white dude who happens to be the villain needs to have more screentime than the actual male hero.
And before any of you Kyle fans comes at me “but he is the Skywalker of the trilogy!!!”, first of all, there are two other Skywalkers actually in the good side. Half of you are the same people who bend backwards saying how Rey should be a random because the trilogy doesn’t have to focus on a Skywalker.
But then suddenly it needs to focus on Kylo because he is one?
Yeah, you can’t have it both fucking ways.
This AU came back I guess...
Harder then KK and RJ sucks Adam (Kylo)’s Dick?
yall have no idea how hard i’m gonna be sucking jj abrams dick if he delivers an average film that isn’t a complete shitfest so long as we don’t have to suffer through re//ylo and the butchering/sidelining of all our beloved characters