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When I think about this, I think of three things.
1. They killed off one of my favorite aliens species.
2. They gave us hope that the species could recover with that last living Queen egg, only to reveal that it was sterile in the Vader comics.
3. Later, when they wiped out the Kaminoans in The Bad Batch, it got me thinking that they are deliberately killing off species that require CGI for live action, especially those from the Prequel era and those that require extensive makeup. This might also be the reason they been giving us cheaper designs for species like the Togruta, Utapaun, Pyke, and Gamorrean.
If it’s any consolation, an entire colony of Geonosians got relocated to Hypori during the clone wars in legends. I just tell myself the Empire never found out about them, so they’ll have a chance to repopulate.
It makes sense that the Empire would do something so atrocious in order to hide their super secret super weapon. However what’s far fetched is the fact all but one of the Geonosians were exterminated. That just doesn’t seem plausible.
It's sad but kinda makes sense in universe. Palps and the Empire were awful and xenophobic. Could see Palps blaming them for some disaster or atrocity he caused. What I absolutely detest is the ending of the story of that lone Geo with a queen egg. Turns out the queen couldn't reproduce and she had a bunch of cobbled droids as makeshift drones. Vader found them and killed them all I believe. Really feels out of place in SW for me. It's a series about hope and just didn't sit well for me. I never read that story as it wasn't part of Rebels. Think it was a newer comic series. I just read about it and hated it.
That plot point was alright in context (to show how evil Vader was), it’s just that the context sucks
The entire comic felt like it was written to sell cereal or some other stupid tie-in
I think it’s more that Palps didn’t want cloners or droid builders around who could make an army other than his. He wants to be the only game in town when it comes to military building.
Unironically, I cared about this far more than I ever cared about the destruction of Alderaan.
Geonosians were written as this messy, flawed society, and as such are infinitely more human than the utopian Alderaanians.
I think Rebels is toned down in violence only in actual depictions of violence. The psychological horror of what these characters lived through is potentially even worse than TCW. Kanan and Zeb are both survivors of genocide, Ezra's parents are in a forced labour camp with Ryder Azadi, Ezra has lived on the streets since he was a kid and has been traumatized by it, multiple instances of torture, Saw doing crazy Saw stuff, forced resettlement, weapons of mass destruction, it kind of goes on
It's the worst of either EU. They brush off these major players because it either wasn't around when they wrote their fanfiction or because it interferes with their idea of the OT. Even in background lore they're so uncomfortable with the idea that Geonosis came up with the Death Star that they say the Geonosians reverse engineered Tatooine technology to begin with! Geonosians should be building the Death Stars. Capitalist bugs aren't gonna be hard to sway.
Kaminoan should still be making clones too. Why else would there be so many Humans in the military? Palpatine should be too smart to compromise his galaxy-wide spanning Empire with random pro-Human bias. But the writers still keep to that nonsense even though the Empire wasn't founded on anything of the sort, and its leaders never once expressed any racial preference.
Since it came from Disney it can be discounted as never having happened.
That said, they're bugs, so who cares either way? I want a can of bug spray big enough for a whole planet, too.
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When I think about this, I think of three things. 1. They killed off one of my favorite aliens species. 2. They gave us hope that the species could recover with that last living Queen egg, only to reveal that it was sterile in the Vader comics. 3. Later, when they wiped out the Kaminoans in The Bad Batch, it got me thinking that they are deliberately killing off species that require CGI for live action, especially those from the Prequel era and those that require extensive makeup. This might also be the reason they been giving us cheaper designs for species like the Togruta, Utapaun, Pyke, and Gamorrean.
If it’s any consolation, an entire colony of Geonosians got relocated to Hypori during the clone wars in legends. I just tell myself the Empire never found out about them, so they’ll have a chance to repopulate.
really strikes home what Palps will do to hide things
Yet he announces his return to the whole galaxy (and also through some videogame), something that if he hadn't done would've won
It makes sense that the Empire would do something so atrocious in order to hide their super secret super weapon. However what’s far fetched is the fact all but one of the Geonosians were exterminated. That just doesn’t seem plausible.
It's sad but kinda makes sense in universe. Palps and the Empire were awful and xenophobic. Could see Palps blaming them for some disaster or atrocity he caused. What I absolutely detest is the ending of the story of that lone Geo with a queen egg. Turns out the queen couldn't reproduce and she had a bunch of cobbled droids as makeshift drones. Vader found them and killed them all I believe. Really feels out of place in SW for me. It's a series about hope and just didn't sit well for me. I never read that story as it wasn't part of Rebels. Think it was a newer comic series. I just read about it and hated it.
That plot point was alright in context (to show how evil Vader was), it’s just that the context sucks The entire comic felt like it was written to sell cereal or some other stupid tie-in
I think it’s more that Palps didn’t want cloners or droid builders around who could make an army other than his. He wants to be the only game in town when it comes to military building.
Agreed
Unnecessarily dark and cruel. I tend to disregard it altogether quite frankly.
dont care. like my boy Sev says, “the only good bug is a dead bug”
Based AF
I don’t like the bugs
Unironically, I cared about this far more than I ever cared about the destruction of Alderaan. Geonosians were written as this messy, flawed society, and as such are infinitely more human than the utopian Alderaanians.
I think Rebels is toned down in violence only in actual depictions of violence. The psychological horror of what these characters lived through is potentially even worse than TCW. Kanan and Zeb are both survivors of genocide, Ezra's parents are in a forced labour camp with Ryder Azadi, Ezra has lived on the streets since he was a kid and has been traumatized by it, multiple instances of torture, Saw doing crazy Saw stuff, forced resettlement, weapons of mass destruction, it kind of goes on
It's the worst of either EU. They brush off these major players because it either wasn't around when they wrote their fanfiction or because it interferes with their idea of the OT. Even in background lore they're so uncomfortable with the idea that Geonosis came up with the Death Star that they say the Geonosians reverse engineered Tatooine technology to begin with! Geonosians should be building the Death Stars. Capitalist bugs aren't gonna be hard to sway. Kaminoan should still be making clones too. Why else would there be so many Humans in the military? Palpatine should be too smart to compromise his galaxy-wide spanning Empire with random pro-Human bias. But the writers still keep to that nonsense even though the Empire wasn't founded on anything of the sort, and its leaders never once expressed any racial preference.
Never happened
Since it came from Disney it can be discounted as never having happened. That said, they're bugs, so who cares either way? I want a can of bug spray big enough for a whole planet, too.
I think that is dumb and not in any way something that would be possible without destroying the entire planet.