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  1. She knows a lot of stuff outside of the Death Star plans. It's a prison and prisons always have corruption. Part of the manifesto is about how hard it is for the Empire to control everything. It's a pointless risk to let her live, much less be around anyone else. Cassian had just said he was going to walk away when she left. He had a right to know about the baby. Said it above, but it's just a pointless risk. She knows a lot of stuff that isn't about the Death Star too. As for her motivation, she's been burned by the Empire. She feels she did nothing wrong. That's all the more reason to snitch.
  2. If she was in solitary, it would make more sense I think. I can see the punishment of imprisonment being worse than death, and a good bookend to her story, but she's clearly an intelligence risk with everything she knows just outside of the Death Star. Going to have to disagree on Krennic. He doesn't hesitate to murder Erso's engineers. Tarkin is certainly even more ruthless, but Krennic is keen to immediately blow up a full planet, not just Jedda city.
  3. They actually were already building the second one before the first was completed IIRC. And it must use different power sources/fuel since they made such a big deal of needing all that stuff for the first one and not being able to find enough.
  4. Thanks. That definitely explains that part of it, but it still seems that Perrin would have been in jail. It's not like the Empire is known for leniency.
  5. Yes it was but she deserved it.
  6. I'll go the other direction, audiobooks where the narrator makes it worse. 1) Jefferson Mays on the Expanse and Capitve's War. Some may like it, but the way he draws out certain words, the whole cadence, drives me nuts. I largely still listened to the expanse but I nearly turned off The Mercy of Gods. I'll be reading the next one. 2) Dick Hill - the Acacia trilogy. I read somewhere one some list that this was a really great series, so I decided to give it a try. I don't know where Hill is actually from, but he reads it in what seems like an over exaggerated attempt at a middle ages English accent. It killed me. Maybe I'll read the remaining two books, but I barely mnmade it through the first one. 3) Scott Brick - The Shannara Chronicles - dude just gets WAY too excited and over emphasizes things. I enjoyed the first book, bit desipe having bought a couple of them, I haven't been able to listen to anymore.
  7. That's a good take Rimbo. I just binged it this past week. Agree with most of what's been written about Syril. Really a great character and added a lot of depth to the show IMO. The first three episodes were killing me, even if I got the point of what was going on. While I really did enjoy the show, a few other notes/questions: 1) I don't get the scene with Perrin at the end - After her speech, Mon Mothma is a fugitive, public enemy #1. Yet a year later, Perrin is just partying around Corusant at the end, banging the crime dude's wife? They would have locked him up 5 seconds after that speech and probably exectured him shortly thereafter. Am I missing something? A shot of him in a jail cell makes more sense. 2) Dedra - It's so incredibly important that the Rebels have no information about the Death Star that in Rouge One they send out Vader to recover them from the Rebel command ship and as a last ditch effort they vaporize the Sacriff base and thousands of otherwise just normal Imperial personel, while Dedra's incompetance is what leaks the Death Star existance in the first place and all she gets is prison? Given Krenik's propensity to pretty much kill anyone and everyone that doesn't perform adequately, and Tarkin's too, that seems highly unlikely. Her before a firing squad at the end would have been more accurate. 3) Bix is a selfish cunt. Assuming of course that baby is Cassian's, which it seems is implied, after going on several times about making choices and even scolding Cassian for not making his own choices, she denies him the right to make a choice about whether he wants to help raise his kid or keep fighting? All because some Force healer thinks he has a destiny. Screw her. That was for Cassian to decide, not her. And why go back to Mina-Rau? She's illegal, no visa there, and while it HAD been 8 years since the Imperials came around to do an inventory when things went to shit, there's no guarantee they will wait another 8 years. Seems she should have gone elsewhere. But again, she's a selfish cunt so screw her.
  8. The Expeditionary Force books would not be near as funny without the way the guy does the voice of Skippy. Going back to the original post, I listened to the first Thrawn book (I think it was the first one) and the way the guy kept doing "Double Vision" made me nearly turn off the damn thing. Not sure what was worse, the author writing that or the guy performing it.
  9. Finally finished book 5 of the Stormlight Chronicles. I like Sanderson, but I really feel this whole series was way too wordy. He does an amazing job of world building but damn, this last book was a beatdown at times. Onto Gateway, Book 18 of Expeditionary Force, then I'm trying something new. My brother recommeded Dungeon Crawler Carl.
  10. On reddit, a couple users were going back and forth about how they should spoof what Disney did with CGI Tarking and Leia. Basically make it really bad CGI and splice in lines from the original for him that sounds off, then have some scene where they say "That's not barf! That's just a crappy CGI emulation of him!"
  11. Fuck ET3 if true. I'm OUT!
  12. This show is a guilty pleasure. I loved the books, and fully expected major changes. I did not expect a lot of what's been discussed in this thread. That said, looking forward to binging the first three episodes.
  13. I listened to the Silo series last year. I really liked it. Have you listed to his Sand series? I just finished the second book and enjoyed it. 3 Body Problem is on my list as well, but I've read that the translation isn't great. Not sure how much that will bother me. I too only made it halfway through Red Mars. Fantastic detail but just got BORING.
  14. RIP Buddy. Glad you got so much time with him. I've been there and it hurts as much as losing any other family member.
  15. I've considered that. I think I only got through the first 2 or 3 books when I read them 10 or 15 years ago. How far do the original books go?
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