this was some MEGA anti-rebel propaganda

The rebels have no plan beyond "smash the Empire" so fuck those guys.

We can't all just dance with giant cannibal teddy bears forever after the government collapses.

Call "Judas" if you want, but I didn't see the original trilogy until the special editions came out in theatres. There were a couple reasons for this: I was born in 1982, so basically the trilogy was finishing up, and VHSs of the movies were either impossible to find or really shitty quality because they'd been watched probably thousands of times. So anyway my initial exposure to Star Wars was TIE Fighter for PC, so I've always been an Imperial man. I mean, sucks about Alderan and all, but still.

wow IZ we're like twins!
I also was born in 1982 and played tie fighter 1st. I never played X-wing (the game that came out before)
Did you play tie fighter with the mouse? I did some crazy scrolling playing that!

I think I tried it with the mouse.. it was weird. Back then aiming with keyboard just made so much sense. Now every game has mouse aiming! You were onto something!

Fuck yeah, Empire rules. Rebels were just monarchist counter-revolutionaries, anyway.

Oh no, our 1,000 year-old theocracy just crumbled because it was decadent and ruled by a bunch of simpering chumps! Quick, let's all flock to the True-Born Princess and her merry band of hypocritical space-Jesuits, yeah, we'd be much better off throwing our lot in with them than with Darth fucking Vader and the 501st.

Don't get me wrong, I love Yoda, but after he died there was no reason to mark for the Rebels anymore.

I can't abide genocide. I don't agree 100% with the Rebel Alliance but change must be brought about! My allegiance is to the republic, to DEMOCRACY!

I will do what I must.

I'm an anime dickhead, so I can explain that one. This production was heavily influenced both visually and musically by a 1980's anime called 'Macross'. In Macross you hear that wailing guitar shit all the time during the battles.

TIE stands for Twin Ion Engine, and thats what those two panels on the side are.

I liked the music given the context: this is more of an homage to Macross and such, where metal music like this was common. It just happens to be in the Star Wars universe instead of wherever those animes took place. I don't see the original soundtrack working at all with this, but prove me wrong if you like with a youtubedoubler that actually works.

That fucker ruins everything.

Yep, same guy.

Didn't he say it every minute of footage took him a YEAR to animate?

Woah! That one's incredibly awesome too. He said that the TIE Fighter one took four years working mostly on weekends, so it wouldn't surprise me (I actually think the Dr. Who one's a little more impressive). That's some serious dedication. Whatever he's not doing on his "weekends," he should seriously be working for an animation studio.

Yeah, but why rip off all the sound effects but not the music?

Not enough bitching guitars, that's why.

Frimminonthefrimfram

Makes me feel like I'm playing Guilty Gear

Armor is worthless on aircraft in Alpha Centauri; IIRC, the needlejets and copters use attack values to compute defense, not armor values, and at any rate the way the cost algorithm was set up, adding even small amounts of armor to an air chassis made your unit prohibitively expensive.

As for TIE fighters, there are the following points to consider. First, the expendability of TIE fighters is what makes an animation like this so compelling; humanizing a group of gritty heroes who, let's face it, are usually always written off as faceless, emotionless blaster-fodder. Second, this demonization is itself a problem, as almost all Star Wars media is written as propaganda justifying the actions of the victors - the so-called "Rebel" Alliance. By challenging the racist, dehumanizing attitude Star Wars writers have traditionally taken towards the brave men and women who flew in the Imperial TIE Fighter Corps, this animation is being remarkably progressive and avant-garde! Finally, you have to remember that TIE Fighters were NOT pieces of crap. They had notoriously poor armor, that's true, and particularly later in the war, losses of men and material were staggeringly high. But the fighters themselves had great maneuverability and performance characteristics, making them ideal for dogfighting and carrier-borne space superiority missions. To use a realworld analogy, they were similar to the planes of the Japanese Imperial Navy, particularly the A6 Zero - all bite, no bullshit. Their increasingly poor performance later in the war was the result of a creeping shortage in skilled pilots, similar to what befell both the IJN and the Luftwaffe. The Rebels, with their slower but much more heavily armored X-Wings (think American F4 Corsairs or P51 Mustangs) were able to wage a war of attrition against the TIE elite, many of whom (I suspect mustache guy, for example) had been flying since the Clone Wars.

The TIE pilots were samurai, cherry blossoms on the solar winds.

To mature with your comrades only to watch them die, one by one, all the while struggling with the crushing guilt of being the only one to survive suicide mission after suicide mission. To be driven, despite all this, by the code of bushido and to live with the mantra "I will fight until I die, I owe it to those that fell before me." This is to be more than flesh and bone. This is to be a TIE FIGHTER.

I will add my tears to those solar winds my friend, I owe it to thise that fell for me.

"cherry blossoms on the solar winds"

Leave the stupid cartoons for kids and leave Star Wars for mature adults.

Why make it Star Wars then? He might as well have done any other anime universe. Star Wars and 80's anime are both pretty neat but this crossover needs tweaking in order to get the feel right IMO.

Also I'd rather have a Roger Rabbit live-action with cartoons style movie over everything being blue-screened in ANY DAY OF THE FUCKING WEEK.

The Ewoks cartoon is better than the original trilogy?!?