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Speculative bear-sized hypercarnivorous pack-hunting descendants of rats intelligent enough to have language and pastries:

Can also digest bone

u/Zestyclose-Scratch31 — 23 hours ago

I can't comment or submit art on DeviantArt. I sent a ticket to support, and they fixed it within the hour, but now the issue is back. I have been shut out for two days now, and I'm not getting any response to my current tickets. Why is this happening to me? how do I fix it?

I have tried everything. Making a new account, contacting support with tickets, with email. I don't know what to do.

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u/Zestyclose-Scratch31 — 12 days ago

Will we ever get a good guy pyke?

Art by Royce Penteghast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omEgw4sARcA

Star Wars overall has this tendency to put entire species into boxes. All pykes seen so far are gangsters, for instance. But newer Star Wars projects have been taking strides not to pull all members of a species under the same comb, like most notably Rotta in The Mandalorian And Grogu.

Thoughts?

u/Zestyclose-Scratch31 — 16 days ago

I keep thinking about how Rey should always have been "just Rey", but now "Justrey" sounds like a legitimate Star Wars name and I'm losing my mind. Like, imagine she was called "Rey Justrey" from the start. Would anyone have even noticed? Like, Obi-Wan Kenobi has two "Obi's" in his name and nobody-

u/Zestyclose-Scratch31 — 17 days ago

Tweaking The Mandalorian And Grogu (And Rotta)

I really liked the Mandalorian and Grogu. It was a very entertaining self-contained time. But I know it was mid to most folks, and I agree it definitely could have used just one more draft, to at least turn it from 'mid' to 'good'.

Here are my tweaks:

  1. The big one, the one's everyone's complained about. Giving Mando and Grogu more clear and satisfying character arcs. Seeing Grogu save his dad was cool, but it should be more defining. Mando should have an arc about letting his child bear more weight. Basically, make the title characters go through a change that makes the film feel like it was worth it. (It would also have worked way better as is if they weren't reunited until the end of Mando season 3, but everyone's fixed about that)
  2. Improving the pacing. The first half was very fast-paced, and then the second half really drags. You could have shaved at least 30 minutes off this runtime. There are plenty of small unnecessary scenes that could be cut or changed.. There are many examples like this, but these are the most egregious ones.
    • Rotta should save his entire life story for later than his first scene. Preferably when trying to convince Mando not to take him to Nal Hutta on the ship, so it feels less like exposition.
    • Also, cut at least one of Rottas two goodbye scenes. They restate the exact same dialogue beat for beat with a slightly different outcome. It's much cleaner if he's captured in the same scene as Mando by Embo. As for where they then would have gotten a ship to crash into the Hutt palace in the climax... I don't know man.
    • Mando fighting those Amani warriors before the dragonsnake. Why were they even down in that pit to begin with?
    • Trim Grogus by himself sequence. It serves a purpose, but lasts too long.
  3. Mando finally loses the helmet. When the Twins take his helmet, instead of immediately giving it back they keep it until the climax for money's sake. This way Pedro Pascal is in the movie more, and he can connect more with Grogu and the audience. Besides, his helmet-wearing clan now lives alongside non-helmet wearing mandalorians, so there's no need for that rule to be so emphasized. (Also, I really like the image of the Hutts pathetically bargaining for their lives with him, trying to throw the helmet back to him in a desperate bid, and him just kicking it aside and raising his rifle at them in silence). He can get it back after that, sure, but letting his own child see his face isn't really something he should redeem himself for.

Lesser changes I also think would work:

  1. Don't give Mando a new Razor Crest. It muddles the loss of the original ship, and serves no purpose that a U-wing can't besides as payment for his jobs. In that case, at least make it a different type of ship, maybe? Of course, it was his payment, so that would have to be tweaked a bit.
  2. Make Rotta look a lot sadder when he realizes the crowds at the fighting pit never actually cared about him. It would sell his arc about learning to fight for things that actually matter way better.
  3. Get rid of Zeb. He added nothing, could have been replaced by any old new republic grunt, and was frankly distracting as someone familiar with the character. (you could say similar about Embo and his dog, but they at least are cool, and serve the story as a darker mirror to Mando and Grogu.

These are just some ideas, but I'd love to hear more (only caveat is they have to stick to the plot)

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u/Zestyclose-Scratch31 — 23 days ago
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The Hutt designs in The Mandalorian And Grogu are actually great, and no one seems ready to have that conversation

Now obviously, the designs owe a lot to the original Hutt design in Return Of The Jedi. But they took their own spin on the species, and it really pays off for me. Take Rotta being the polar opposite of his father, which is reflected in his design. Where Jabba is obese, evil and cunning, Rotta is buff, kind and naive, though somewhat retaining that Hutt arrogance. It also helps make The Twins feel less like a Jabba retread, and more like a needed contrast to Rotta.

It also just makes sense if you think about it. Why would all Hutts be fat? Not all humans are fat.

I also love how much thought they put into the action scenes with them, and portraying how Hutts would fight. I love how Rotta uses his own body as a weapon, with tail slaps and rolls and crushing his opponents. And when they fight they don't look unnatural, they have proper weight and movement. I thought his one-on-two wrestle with The Twins was simultaneously epic and funny. They clearly based their moves on elephant seal fights, and it's very appropriate.

The only thing I don't understand is why Rotta's arms are like three times the size of every other Hutt we've seen. Are the rest of the Hutts arms just underdeveloped due to a lack of use? I don't know, I felt like they could have kept his arms small and still muscular.

u/Zestyclose-Scratch31 — 24 days ago

The YouTube kids channel clip-show where prince Zuko unnecessarily narrates everything has the most appealing art style in Star Wars animation.

I say that as someone who prefers the Clone Wars style

u/Zestyclose-Scratch31 — 25 days ago

HATED designs: Jormungandr (Ducktales 2017) and frankly any anthropomorphic snakes with limbs.

I cannot stand when artists take the unique body plan of a snake, and just discard it. The best kinds of snake characters like Kaa, Sir Hiss, Gary (Disney), Master Viper, Mr. Snake (Dreamworks) and Morley (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) get around the "no-limbs" thing in creative and unconventional ways to convey traditional action and emotion while retaining the limbless bodies. They are some of the best and most memorable ways to design a character.

That is why I take GREAT PERSONAL DISSATISFACTION with designs like Jormungandr's (and nearly all scalie-designs), because not only does it just look wrong, it's uncreative and lazy.

Oh, and if I get a single comment that says "Dude, cartoons don't have to be anatomically accurate" I WILL LOSE MY MIND THAT IS NOT THE POINT AAAA-

Edit: I can't believe I remembered Morley from Star Wars and forgot the GOAT Rattlesnake Jake from Rango. I am ashamed. I will go punish myself for this oversight. Sorry and thank you.

u/Zestyclose-Scratch31 — 1 month ago

Isn’t it convenient that this random guy just so happened to have an antidote for dragonsnake venom? This random guy who lives far out in the swamps of Nal Hutta where dragonsnakes are native and having the antidote for dragonsnake venom on-hand would be necessary just in case? Is that convenient?

(an actual critique of the movie by certain persons btw)

The real question is why such a large powerful predator even needs venom, tbh.

u/Zestyclose-Scratch31 — 1 month ago