What's up guys and welcome to the weekly Q&A. I will announce the winner of last week's giveaway at the end of this video
but I'm gonna do questions first so just make sure you stay tuned to the end to find out who won.
Starting with Patron questions Andrew Signer wants to know what I'm most looking forward to in Star Wars in
2017 besides Episode 8 because that's obvious. Right now
I'm really excited about Rebels Season 3 because of that awesome trailer
we just got. The Thrawn book kind of building off of the whole rebels thing. The Darth Maul comic is coming out soon and
this is going to be the first year I'm ever at Celebration, so I'm really psyched about that.
I hope a lot of you guys are going to be able to go too. I'm definitely gonna host a meet-up
and I look forward to meeting some of you in person.
Matt Bordeaux wants to know when I think we're gonna get our first look at Episode 8 and
last year the first teaser trailer
for Rogue One came out in April like right after the release of the the Force Awakens Blu-Ray.
So I'm expecting it's going to be around that time as well and considering
Celebration is going to be in April this yea,. I have a feeling we're gonna get our first teaser of some sort at
Celebration. Adam Amaya asks if I have any sort of preference for the colour of lightsaber Rey will make if she makes
one or if I'm cool with her just keeping the blue one. I'm actually cool with her keeping the blue one because I think it
would be interesting if she kept fighting Kylo Ren over and over with this thing that he considers
to belong to him.
It's like an heirloom for him, but she just keeps fighting him with it. So if she were to build one I
still, now I'm just kind of used to seeing her with blue
so I think it suits her.
But it would be cool
if for the first time she turned her lightsaber on it was like a brand new colour that we hadn't seen in live-action yet.
So I mean I'd be up for almost anything. I don't put too much stock into lightsaber colour meanings.
I know that they're out there and that they exist, but like,
really whatever Rey has I'll be excited about it.
Building off of the whole lightsaber colour thing, Casey Miller wants to know
who could have had the power to bond with the Kyber Crystal and the Dark Saber to make it black?
Personally, and I don't know this because we know so little about the dark saber,
but personally I don't think there's a Kyber crystal in there.
I think that there's something else going on because it's so it's similar to a lightsaber
but it's very different in many ways. It sounds different, it looks different, it acts different.
I think that there's something else inside of there.
They've said that synthetic Kyber crystals aren't a thing
but maybe this is the case of something kind of man-made powering the weapon
but I have no idea. That's just my own speculation based on how it looks and feels
and I really hope we get to learn more about it at some point in the future.
Revan Card asks if there's any hope for a Star Wars Explained podcast in the future.
Yeah,
there's absolutely hope. It's something I've tossed around the idea for, not only just with myself but with other Star Wars YouTubers.
Right now for me, it's just a question of time balancin this channel with a full-time job and trying to keep a social life, so
it is something that yeah, I think absolutely will happen someday.
I just have no idea when right now. That's it for Patron questions.
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Onto YouTube questions Daniel S. asks what I thought of the Rogue One soundtrack.
Coming out of the movie the first time, I didn't really talk about the soundtrack. It just didn't really stand out to me.
So I thought it was adequate. And I mean that in a good way considering how little time there was to work on it.
Having seen the film three times now, on my third time
I definitely caught myself humming along with some of the themes so it's really starting to grow on me. I wish that
Giacchino had more time to work on it because
it feels like there was more potential to be explored and it was it was a rush job because
Alexander Desplat left kind of last minute. I don't know if I said his name right, but
it was like something where Giacchino -
I don't know if I'm saying his name right either - but he only had like four weeks to compose all the music and
I know he's a very talented composer, and I would have loved to see what he could have done with more time.
Kit Fisto wants to know if scout Shadow Troopers are now canon because one of Saw Gerrera's
partisans had a black scout trooper helmet.
When I saw that I did notice it. I got the impression that it was just painted black.
It was like looted from a stormtrooper, and then they painted it
to the partisan colors because the x-wing - the partisan x-wings - are painted black as well, so that's the impression I got but
it's only on there for a split second. It absolutely could have been looted from a
scout Shadow Trooper there's really no way to know yet, but I mean we know that Shadow Troopers are canon.
I think it's only a matter of time before] we see black armored
Scout Troopers as well. Not snow troopers because that would be counterintuitive, but scout troopers, why not?
Alex Boyajian, I hope I said your last name right there, but you got a great first name.
He asks if Admiral Raddus survived Rogue One. I don't know.
I'm gonna guess that, at best,
he's been captured, but Pablo Hidalgo made a tweet about his fate. Really he just tweeted this picture that I'll throw up.
So if I had to guess, I don't think it's looking very good for Admiral Raddus.
But on the other hand, I feel like he was big enough
that he deserved an on screen death of some sort, so
it could go either way. We just don't know at this point.
Speaking of Admiral Raddus,
Cravaack would like to know why Raddus is blue coloured when the rest of the Mon Calamari we've seen are more orange coloured.
Well, Raddus and his aides are from the polar regions of Mon Cala where it's colder and
Admiral Ackbar and the others, they're from the equator, so
it's just really a polar versus tropical kind of environment and that causes them to have different coloured skin.
Brainpop14 asks if I think we're ever going to see any of the other Legends superweapons again like the Sun Crusher or
Centrepointe Station. I've actually got a video about the Sun Crusher specifically coming out soon
but I really doubt it it.
I think that Legends was just
oversaturated with super weapons, so I feel like the new canon
understands that and they don't want to see Death Star after Death Star,
just like this increasingly more powerful super weapon every single movie. I think we'd all like to see some new threats come out
but I do think it's possible that
some of the super weapons got kind of an nod like
in the citadel when they're in the vault, and they're reading off those code names. One of them was black saber.
I think that has to be a reference to the dark saber from legends, and I've got some more thoughts on that.
I'm doing a whole video about that next week, so I
think that at best, we will get nods and references, but I don't know that
we're ever going to see like a film featuring the Sun Crusher
because I think people in general are tired of super weapons.
That's it for questions today.
If you want to leave a question for next week's Q&A just put it in the comments below or if you're a
patron or if you sign up for Patreon there is a weekly Q&A thread where you can ask your question there.
But now it's time to announce the giveaway winners. The Patron winner is Blake Martin and the YouTube winner is Gregory Springfield.
So congratulations to the two of you
I'm going to be getting in touch with you because I'll need some information like where to ship it and shirt size
and I think that much it but thank you so much to everyone who entered the contest.
Thank you to everyone who joined up on Patreon. It means the world to me
and I'm so glad that I could give something back to you.
I will definitely be doing another giveaway
when I hit three hundred thousand which actually might not be that far off at the rate that I've been growing which is
amazing and it's all thanks to you guys,
so I think that's all I have to say for
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