Star Wars Discussion

yeah, people are suggesting maybe Palpatine has a clone.

years ago, DC comics had a comedy character named "Johnni DC, Continuity Cop" Lucasfilm certainly could have used her services.

I have relatives who want to see them, so as long as they're paying I can do reviews on them.

Otherwise, it'd be a hard pass for me as well.

Awakens; Fun until you realize it was a soulless rehash of Episode IV with elements of Episode VI and turned Han Solo into a dead-beat dad. It did it's job at making a hell of a lot of money and getting people to talk about Star Wars with anticipation for the future.

Rogue One; Actually a good film, if one that missed out on a lot of possibilities moving forward. It's box office performance wasn't brilliant, but this probably has more to do with it not being something most people would go back to see again.

The Last Jedi; A film in which they carefully took a look at the franchise, the stories, the plans JJ had set up for the rest of the franchise, the characters and logic and threw them into a toilet and crapped all over them. This was followed by crapping on and name calling anyone who said it wasn't the best film they had ever seen. Box office performance was somewhat better than Rogue One, although higher production costs mean it actually made less money, and 60% lower than Awakens.

Solo; A film no one wanted, no one asked for and which they decided to allow the writer and one of the actors to start screeching about a characters sexuality a week before release; Presumably because they hadn't virtue signaled enough for them to get their 'Woke' points for the month. The film tanked beyond belief, costing Lucasfilm something in the region of $200 million.

Episode IX; A film not that many seem all that interested in, but will probably pull in numbers somewhere between Last Jedi and Awakens. If it does worse than Last Jedi....

Youtube Channel FixItInPost has created a revamped version of Scene 38 in SW A New Hope. The Iconic showdown between Darth Vader and Obi Wan Konobi.



It IS Epic! Way better than the original and better than the Prequel Trilogy.

The original was pretty tame due to limits of film making tech of the day. However it has some tech issues that have never been fixed, even with the many "upgrades" to the film over the years.

I will say that this revamp does introduce some continuity errors with the story telling.

Given the less than positive reaction to the last season of Game of Thrones, and that even most of the actors seem embarrassed to have been part of it. Well Disney seems to once again be looking at a black pit filled with excrement at the bottom of which lies Star Wars.

Benioff and Weiss have been heavily criticized for the abysmal writing and ignoring George Martin, himself an experienced screen writer, in how many seasons it would take to do the story justice.

Now they are meant to be writing the next Star Wars Trilogy with serious questions being asked as to how good they actually are when they have to think for themselves and don't have an existing story to adapt.

So once again it looks like Disney has somehow managed to hire someone for an important role/position who starts off by alienating a chunk of the audience. At least this time you can't really say that Disney should have known better.

The question now is if Lucasfilm will continue to move forward with B&W's trilogy, knowing that a huge number of people will refuse to watch anything they produce from now on. Or if they quietly let the two of them go and look to find a new writer.
That of course is assuming they can find any half decent writers who want anything to do with that MUST be viewed as a toxic, dying franchise.

Thinking about this, I think my issue with Rogue One is while it is a descent movie, the story was already told and told much better. There were a number of things put out over the years one of them, the computer game Star Wars: Dark Forces introduced Kyle Katarn who has been a reoccurring character in much SW over the years. Like Ep 7, they took established stories and characters, threw them in a bin, pissed on them, and then insulted anyone who questioned what they were doing.

By trying to make Star Wars more mainstream, they basically gave a big middle finger to the people who made Star Wars into what it is today.

I think that WVs ideas are about the same as yours TLW.

Yes basically they trashed the whole of the Expanded Universe and set off on their own course, now some writers of new Star Wars material,try to,sneak EU references past the Disney bigwigs when they can, Of and of course they reissued all the discontinued EU books like Splinter of the Minds Eye as Legends.

Random SW thought: Why do they call them X-wings, Y-wings, B-wings, A-wings, etc. All the letters used as the descriptions are all come from the Latin alphabet. Since this happened a long time ago , in a galaxy far, far away, the Latin alphabet will not even be invented until LONG after the SW universe ended, let alone get insanely long distance to there. They do not and have never used the latin alphabet, so they would have no idea what an X, Y, B, or A even is, let alone use it as a ship description.