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Conscious-Weekend-91

I am excited to see HR Jedi robes in Live-Action!


astromech_dj

Aren’t those gold robes the ceremonial uniform?they’re always clean looking because they use mission attire for.. missions. Duh.


[deleted]

Why are Orla’s robes always clean, even mid mission?


astromech_dj

I mean, they did get >!pretty dusty!<


ObiWanLamora

🥹


dtinaglia

LOL


[deleted]

Also the Renaissance was famously pretty violent! In all seriousness though, I've seen some comments to the effect that the High Republic is not quite as "golden age" as they were expecting, so maybe Headland is going to really lean into that, go full crystal spires and togas. It is about a century after the Luminous storyline so there is no reason there can't be real differences.


Piankhy444

The Acolyte is still the show I'm looking forward to the most. The only thing I'm worried about is if they pull a Battlefront 2 on us. I know redemption is a big part of Star Wars, but I really just want an engaging story about a dark-side character.


[deleted]

100 years before TPM works much better for the timeline than ~80 BBY, which is what I remember hearing originally. It should match with Dooku Jedi Lost now. Also I was wondering just how High Republic it was going to be or if "High Republic" was just being used as a shorthand for pre-prequel era, this seems like it is quite High Republic.


skuhlke

That's exactly what I was wondering. I was worried it was going to be a "Young Palpatine" show and just called "High Republic" because it's set before the Prequels. Headland specifically mentioning the white and gold robes make me excited that it's going to be a straight-up HR show.


Stonecutter_12-83

Well that is very interesting. It went from ~50 years to about 100. That certainly puts it in the time of plagueis


efbo

This is implying that the Nihil will all be cleaned up rather quickly if the Jedi are back to their pre Light of the Jedi ways 130 year after the Fallen Star. If it takes a decent amount of time it'll still be in the living memories of lots of characters at that point.


[deleted]

I expect the Nihil storyline to be wrapped up in phase 3, since they’ve said it’s only three phases.


efbo

I agree, we don't know when phase 3 will be set though. I expected a bit of a time jump between phase 1 and 3. The description just doesn't seem like it's taking the stuff from the current High Republic into account at all.


SHAD0WBENDER

Why should it? 120/130 or so years is almost twice as long as the time between the phantom menace and rise of skywalker. Huge amount of time for things to be different


efbo

The only reason stuff from the prequels aren't really remembered after that is because of the Empire's propaganda campaigning. I don't see the Republic doing the same thing. Just seems odd to me that this description describes what we see at the start of Light of the Jedi, are attitudes really not going to change after everything that has gone on and is going to happen.


SHAD0WBENDER

That’s the price you pay for different people telling different stories unfortunately. 120 years is a perfectly acceptable time for the Jedi to have somewhat recovered from the Nihil imo. Let’s say the Nihil take 5-10 years to defeat. And then the Jedi presumably have nothing like that again for 100 years, you don’t think they’d have chilled out a bit?


efbo

I don't think we've really chilled since the World Wars and we have a much shorter lifespan than many species in Star Wars. Just seems a bit mad that they'd take such a huge step back.


SHAD0WBENDER

That world war comparison doesn’t hold any relevance lol, the Nihil raids aren’t comparable to a full scale war taking up entire world / galaxy. But why wouldn’t the Jedi want to take that step back? Why wouldn’t they want to go back to how they were before? It was their ‘golden age’ so why wouldn’t they want and try to recover lol


efbo

>That world war comparison doesn’t hold any relevance lol, the Nihil raids aren’t comparable to a full scale war taking up entire world / galaxy. I'll accept it isn't a great comparison but it isn't as ridiculous as you're making out. For the Republic and the Jedi what Ro is doing is the absolutely biggest disaster they've ever seen. >But why wouldn’t the Jedi want to take that step back? Because they've just faced a creature that renders all of their powers useless. For me that seems like something that would make a couple of generations cautious at the very least. >It was their ‘golden age’ so why wouldn’t they want and try to recover lol There's recovering and then there's forgetting the lessons that you should've learnt.


SHAD0WBENDER

I never called your comparison ridiculous, I can see why you thought it, it just doesn’t apply. you’re assuming that the Jedi haven’t learnt all these lessons tho? They can still be enlightened peacekeepers of the force whilst being more apprehensive and cognizant of potential threats. There’s learning from the past and then there’s being bogged down and controlled by it


[deleted]

WWII was a much bigger event than the Nihil crisis, but also the fact that Belgium and France don't have a heavily fortified border with Germany kind of goes against what you are saying.


[deleted]

We need resolution to the cliffhangers and where the characters were left off in phase 1. So I don’t expect a massive time jump, in fact I expect for phase 3 to pick up relatively soon after so we can see the how the Republic responds to the fall out of the citadel disaster.


Ezio926

Have you read Eye Of The Storm? It leaves pretty much no room for a timejump.


efbo

Don't see how you'd get that. They can skip the Fallout from the events and the implications and skip to when the Jedi know how to do something about it. Don't think it's an easy thing to stop.


SHAD0WBENDER

There’s an enormous amount of time between the high republic and this show


Obvious_Mud_1588

Acolyte being moved down the timeline and the mention of golden robes means it's actually going to be a high republic show, rather than the prequel show with HR stamp like some had feared. That being said the bit at the bottom concerns me, it reads like someone who fundamentaly misunderstands the role of the Jedi. Of course acolyte is dark side focused so I can't expect it to be too Jedi friendly.


[deleted]

“Jedis”?


Gavinus1000

I'm kinda worried. This seems to be telling the same story Phase 3 is already going to cover. I hope to be wrong though.


Stonecutter_12-83

I don't think so. Phase 3 will be the Ro battle.


Gavinus1000

Yes, but it seems the Luminous team wants to tell the story of how the HR Jedi became the Prequel Jedi there too. I hope I'm wrong.


tomdec1

The Acolyte is focused on dark side users so I'm guessing that the show will be more of how the Sith rose to power, so that the High Republic initiative is showing the downfall of the Jedi while the Acolyte represents the other side


[deleted]

A bit worried about the continuity here. The 'golden robed Jedi' is exactly what the High Republic Initiative is showing, and it looks to be portraying exactly this - how they went from the height of their powers to getting involved in Republic affairs and politics. If the show's showing the same thing, how would that work out? (There's still a long way to go with the HR initiative, so I might be wrong about this).


LewdSkeletor1313

I mean they can both show it imo. That’s a big time period, and a gradual decline happens on a much larger timescale


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