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  2. Big s
    Basically everyone you listed died and the rebels don’t seem to trust information from other factions easily. Kleya might end up the only one and she probably wouldn’t have been the one to break her or other prisoners out. Not only that, but who knows if Kleya survived much past this point. They could just as easily write her as KIA or just quit and ended up a death stick addict. and now he’s an undead force ghost with a cool, very much younger and fully intact body.
  3. davidwhangchoi
  4. renegadeleader1
    I can recall a certain character that that was a complete monster that killed children, carried out multiple genocides, executed, and tortured prisoners that somehow got a redemption arc. 😆
  5. Kalex3
    Kalex3 joined the community
  6. Seto Kaiba
    That's demonstrably untrue... even just within the context of Andor itself. Dedra Meero was an ISB supervisor who was in charge of multiple sectors and a major conflict zone (Ghorman). She wasn't quite a public figure, but she was someone that was under scrutiny by the Ghorman Front, by Luthen's agents, and by other rebel groups. As we know from multiple stories, most of those groups shared intelligence. There's also two years between the Ghorman Massacre and the events of Rogue One in which survivors of the Ghorman Front, Cassian Andor, and possibly K-2SO could share all their intelligence with the newly formed Rebel Alliance. Plus the Alliance also has Kleya, who knows all about Dedra Meero and many other top-ranking ISB operatives. Not only that, but the Ghorman Massacre was one of the Empire's worst public atrocities and individuals involved in it would naturally have been marked as war criminals that the Rebel Alliance (and New Republic) would wantt o bring to trial. (The briefing room scene where Cassian relays Kleya's message suggests the Alliance is well aware of who the ISB's supervisors are and what they've done.) So no... it's not like all information on Dedra Meero and her war crimes magically disappeared and she can be mistaken for a rebel spy. The very idea is ridiculous. Uh, no... no I did not. In fact, what I stated was the opposite. That Dedra Meero is a True Believer in the Empire and the ISB's vision of Imperial Justice. There is nothing morally ambiguous about her. She is full-on Lawful Evil. Two entire seasons of the series clearly show that she is not in any way conflicted about her role in the ISB. She's blase about mass arrest quotas and the detainees being worked to death in prison labor camps. She quite calmly advocates that a captured rebel pilot be murdered to avoid tipping off his compatriots that he had been captured. On Ferrix, she's shown to be enjoying herself watching Dr. Gorse torture suspected Rebel agents like Bix and Salman Paak to the brink of insanity with audio recordings of a genocide as a way of collecting intelligence and has no problem with the local prefect executing Salman by hanging afterward. She not only proposes a Final Solution to the "Ghorman problem" at Krennic's conference, she personally creates the conditions for the Ghorman Massacre to occur and then gives the order to start the massacre herself. She justifies the massacre to her boyfriend as necessary to advance their careers. The only time she's ever shown to be in any way bothered by what she does is when her boyfriend attempts to wring her neck after learning that she's actively trying to make the situation on Ghorman worse, and he ends up dead as a result. Her role in season two is a very overt echo of a real world war criminal responsible for a genocide. That's not moral ambiguity, that's genuine evil. Not the cackling melodramatic kind embodied by Emperor Palpatine, but unambiguous evil nonetheless. What makes you assume her thirst for revenge would be focused on the Empire? Remember, the Empire is what she believes in. What she has devoted her entire life to. What literally raised her, according to her own account of her past to Eedy. Her service to the ISB and the Empire is practically her entire identity and her faith in the Empire is practically absolute. The Rebels utterly disgust her, as we see on many occasions in the series. And remember, when Director Krennic confronts her in the ISB interrogation room on Coruscant, we see her put two and two together VERY quickly and realize that the person who stole her credentials and accessed the files about the Death Star that had been mistakenly sent to her was a Rebel agent and the person responsible for the leak. As far as Dedra's concerned, she's in that prison because a rebel spy broke into her files and destroyed her career. That's not likely to endear the Rebellion to her. Not to mention, of course, that a "redemption" arc would be a boneheaded reversal of her entire character arc across both seasons of the show. It's like proposing a redemption arc for Tarkin... he's a Complete Monster, those don't get redeemed they get destroyed.
  7. tekering
    I don't need Johah Hex enough to buy another Batman, but I sure love the Grey Ghost figure! Hopefully this next batch won't be as difficult to track down as the Bruce Wayne BAF wave has proven to be... 🤨
  8. renegadeleader1
    Like Krennic said, "You missed your calling as a rebel spy." I like to think that's forshadowing.
  9. renegadeleader1
    You're not really making a solid argument why it isn't a good idea. As you stated Dedra is a morally ambiguous character with a massive taint from her past actions who has had her entire world view shattered, lost her love, lost her freedom, and has been literally tossed aside like garbage by the entire thing she dedicated her life to. An unhinged thirst for revenge is a hell of a motivation, and lets face it Dedra is the type that would sacrifice a whole planet worth of Bothans to accomplish a mission especially if it means getting retribution against the establishment that she feels discarded her.
  10. Big s
    Unfortunately, everyone that knew of her crimes is pretty much dead. All they have on record is that she was a rebel spy that leaked information about the Deathstar, making her a rebel hero by mistake.
  11. Big s
    I’m really hoping it’s enjoyable. Love a good bad bit of Troma trauma
  12. sh9000
    Jonah Hex BAF wave.
  13. sh9000
    6/4.
  14. davidwhangchoi
    nice, i'm looking for new design/revision change on reviews as well
  15. davidwhangchoi
    i miss Hoffman Island, but this looks exciting esp from the Front Mission creator.
  16. MKT
    Just noticed through translation this additional little gimmick: Not sure if that purple diamond automatically moves out of way when speakers are exposed and goes back in position by itself when closed, or it has to be manually pushed in/out.
  17. sh9000
    Teaser 3.
  18. sh9000
    Honest Trailer.
  19. sh9000
    Bringing Dinosaurs to Life.
  20. sh9000
    Human Torch.
  21. sh9000
    Hot Wheels Premium GI Joe Combat Jet Skystriker x2.
  22. 505thAirborne
    So far season 3 is confirmed, not sure about 4 yet. Since they (the writers & producers) were going to change some things from the game to the TV series, killing off a main character right away is not a smart move (despite that's how it happened in the game), they could have changed his fate to another point in time, it's one reason game 2 has such mixed reviews. Whether it's the budget or other reasons, scenes like the one below not being filmed is a big miss for this series. I appreciate good acting & character development, but tense action scenes like these shouldn't be ignored either, at least that is my way of seeing it.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    Oh please no. That's so dumb and it would ruin her entire character arc. Meero's role in the story, like Karn's, is to show that the Empire emphatically does not care about anyone. The Empire's authoritarian desire for total control means that deviation from its edicts is seen as a challenge to its authority and punished without mercy, no matter how loyal or well-intentioned that person is. It's only ever a matter of time before the regime turns on and destroys even its most mindlessly loyal lackeys for some perceived or actual failure, mistake, or misstep. Dedra Meero was a true believer in the Empire and the ISB's particularly draconian idea of "justice". She all but unflinchingly ordered a genocide for the Empire's benefit. Neither her lifelong loyalty nor her professional achievements in the Empire's service mattered a damn once she finally made a mistake that affected the Empire's objectives. She wound up sent to be worked to death in the very same prison labor camps she spent her days shipping people to. That irony is the perfect end to her story. A redemption arc would be absolutely ridiculous... not only is Meero someone who absolutely loathes the Rebellion, there's no way the Rebels are going to overlook what she's done. Not only did she likely send many thousands of people to prison labor camps like Narkina to be worked to death, she literally orchestrated a genocide. The very genocide that directly led to the formation of the Rebel Alliance. There's already a better character for that role from the same period too... ISB Agent Kallus.
  24. Big s
    Kind of a rarity for Bandai
  25. Big s
    It is very possible she’d be broken out with the rest of the rebels. As I said a few posts back, she was listed as a rebel spy and there’s not many left alive if anyone that could even dispute that
  26. Mommar
    I would definitely prefer Plus. The Mac II game is the weakest of the arcade games IMO.
  27. PointBlankSniper
    Zeknova is turning out to be code for truck-sama lol
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