I consume SO much Star Wars shit leading up to TFA/TLJ. October 2019 is gonna be me reading as many Star Wars books, re-watching all the movies like twice over and just gobbling up as much Star Wars stuff until December.
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Star Wars |OT| New Canon, New Forum [NO IX SPOILERS]
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The Kylo Ren igniting the saber in forest shot sent hype through the stratosphere
Woke up 5:30 am for it
Christ
Not to mention the logistical arguments of its function as well lol
I needs dem Christmas laser swords. Of course a little less crazy at work this season is kind of a relief, but still...*twitch*
Randomly watching ROTS deleted scenes, I really think the movie could do with an extended cut just to reinstate the Padmé/Rebellion subplot. It's a shame George took the politics criticism to heart and pretty much excised it from ROTS. It's the most important of the prequels, setting up the Rebellion seems pretty damn pivotal, no? Especially moreso now with (Young) Mon Mothma and Bail in Rogue One. They're not 10/10 scenes, but they're better than some of the other ones that remain in the movie.
If I had to backseat direct ROTS, my biggest change would be Anakin just going all-in on his disillusionment/contempt for the Jedi due to his own ideals, to the point of flipping Padme off entirely from his radar way before Mustafar.
Would've made his turn more dastardly + spared us more Lucas' romance writing.
Would've made his turn more dastardly + spared us more Lucas' romance writing.
They should have definitely leaned far more into Anakin's paranoia. Would make more sense when he bellows "LIAR!" at Padmé on Mustafar. Imagine Sidious managing to convince him that a group of Senators were in league with the Jedi to overthrow the Republic.
One interesting thing I thought of just now is in addition to the deterioration of their romance, what about an ongoing Anakin vs. Padme dynamic as well on an ideological sense?
Although that probably only works better if Lucas had maintained Padme's more stern attitude from Ep I.
I love that theres a Mon Calamari... This group is also in Clone Wars, right? There were a few Senate-centered Episodes
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I watched every trailer and teaser from the last couple of years just the other day.
Whilst there were many senate based episodes, out of that group only Bail and Mon Mothma appeared in them, with TCW preferring to mostly create new characters for use in those episodes (although the Mon Calamari senator did appear in the Mon Cala-based arc, but had nothing to do with any organised opposition to Palpatine).
i still kinda choke up when i see the force awakens trailer and han is like "it's true, all of it" then then music swells, the falcon goes into lightspeed then cuts to black and it shows "this christmas". Mannnnnn, what a time.
And of course John Boyega's reaction was fucking priceless lmao
Can't wait for that IX teaser trailer.
And of course John Boyega's reaction was fucking priceless lmao
Can't wait for that IX teaser trailer.
I hope its ok to ask this here, but in talking about EP7 hype I'm really curious what you all think about the hype + performance leading into EP9. I'm a little worried that because EP8 is so divisive online (I still see negative comments on anything related to star wars on the wider youtube) that it will lower peoples excitement of whatever EP9 will bring.
Will it just take a super hype trailer? will it take the creative team to remove what some people don't like in EP8? Will none of it matter much at all like how EP1 seemed like the end of star wars?
I'm one of those strange people that basically has enjoyed all star wars media I've ever seen and how badly EP8 is considered and the low performance of Solo has me wondering what the future will bring.
Will it just take a super hype trailer? will it take the creative team to remove what some people don't like in EP8? Will none of it matter much at all like how EP1 seemed like the end of star wars?
I'm one of those strange people that basically has enjoyed all star wars media I've ever seen and how badly EP8 is considered and the low performance of Solo has me wondering what the future will bring.
I think even the ep 8 haters will come out hyped cause it's JJ coming back and I imagine the way Disney will market the film as "the end of the saga", no matter what kind of SW fan you are, there will be considerable hype to go around.
If JJ undoes the creative decisions made in VIII, then I think im done with franchise.
I don't think that will happen tho.
I don't think that will happen tho.
John Williams cue. Narration by Mark Hamill. The Knights of Ren. Jedi doing Jedi things. "This Christmas... The Conclusion to the Skywalker Saga"
Star Wars fans are fickle fucks. They will be hype no matter what. General audiences I have no idea about. I hear all sorts of mixed things about the reception to TLJ beyond the sphere of obsessed Internet dorks. Toy sales are down. Box office and Blu ray sales are down as well, but in line with drops from previous middle entries. The Cinemascore was very high. Solo did terribly, and nobody has really nailed down why. Anecdotally, I saw it opening night in an audience full of kids and families, and everyone adored it. Everyone I know liked it. Other people say everyone they know hated it.
I think JJ's imperative is to make it a crowd-pleaser. I think he can do it without tearing up Johnson's work. All it takes is some heavy-handed prequel references and worldbuilding to shut the nerds up. Wider audiences are a tougher nut to crack, and I'm not even sure that nut needs to be cracked. At the end of the day, TLJ made $1.3 billion.
Thats what im thinking too, I mean as much as EP1 was disliked people still came out for EP2 and EP3 (Myself included!)
I dont think I can ever be done with Star Wars but I will be somewhat let down... even if I would understand why they would do it.
I think most big fandoms are fickle from what I have seen lol. I think one thing EP7 did really well before and after it came out is general audiences were indeed hype to see it, I know that's mostly because it was Star Wars coming back and EP7 did have its backlash (that's seemingly forgotten now funny enough) when it came out but I think the overall feeling from GA was positive more positive that EP8 at least.
Toy sales have been doing down since RO if I recall? Its been a glut of stuff that's out there probably isn't helping much. The box office being 1.3Billion but still being down is funny to think about... I often feel that's the saving grace of how GA must feel about the movie, I thought I recall reading the Blu-ray sales were high for EP8?.
Everyone I know that's seen Solo really enjoyed it (that is they are not hardcore SW fans) and it's not surprising its a fun film I really do feel if it was coming this Dec it would be doing much much better than it did.
I really don't think this will happen, especially with something like Rey's parents. All of that had a two movie arc and I can't imagine JJ will want to spend another movie revisiting that.
I do think we're gonna get a lot of Luke being more OT-style which some will feel is him going against Rian since people seem to forget that that's what he was at the end of TLJ.
I know you say you don't think it will happen, but still, there's literally never been any reason to believe this will or would happen, and it's always been a super absurd belief to me. So many TLJ fans preemptively angry at JJ because...?
I was responding to the above post about winning back the "fans" by changing narrative decisions made in VIII. That seems dumb to me and unnecessary.
TFA is in my top 4 SW movies. So I am excited for JJ return.
might have misread his post
I mostly asked because I see so many negative swipes in comments on star wars content still, just hope people move on from it.
Im not angry at Jj at all in fact I really like him and TFA I'm just worried about the pressure on the dude.
Im not angry at Jj at all in fact I really like him and TFA I'm just worried about the pressure on the dude.
But they gotta commit to the motif beyond simply coloring the title, though. Don't know if that's JJ's style.
They're gonna make it plain white. Calling it now
(Obviously not that logo, but you know what I mean)
Don't believe his lies.
Boris probably thinks Lucas is still in charge of Lucasfilm. He's ignorant about most things. The Ireland shooting rumour has been circulating for a while so I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be true at some point.
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Good episode of Resistance this week. Decently mature, and surprisingly tied in nicely to an episode from earlier on which now feels a lot less like filler. It was good to get some more racing in this episode, it's been lighter on it than I expected (I'm actually really surprised how restraint the show has been in introducing the other Ace pilots).
The nod to the post-Empire military disarmament act was cool, as was the appearance of the Guavian Death Gang from TFA.
Don't listen to anything that peddler of bullshit and lies says.
If Boris Johnson were a politician in Star Wars he'd of gone over to the FO instantly, eager to relive the 'glory days' of the Empire.
The nod to the post-Empire military disarmament act was cool, as was the appearance of the Guavian Death Gang from TFA.
Don't listen to anything that peddler of bullshit and lies says.
If Boris Johnson were a politician in Star Wars he'd of gone over to the FO instantly, eager to relive the 'glory days' of the Empire.
Wife and I are in the hospital, we're gonna have our first baby. Wearing one of my favorite t shirts. It's chewing sitting at the campfire bout to eat a porg while the porg looks on. Kiddo will be well aquatinted right off the bat lmao. Bout to be a proud star war papa ;D
Edit it's this image :D on the shirt
Edit it's this image :D on the shirt
Congrats man! Hope everything goes OK.Wife and I are in the hospital, we're gonna have our first baby. Wearing one of my favorite t shirts. It's chewing sitting at the campfire bout to eat a porg while the porg looks on. Kiddo will be well aquatinted right off the bat lmao. Bout to be a proud star war papa ;D
Edit it's this image :D on the shirt
Wife and I are in the hospital, we're gonna have our first baby. Wearing one of my favorite t shirts. It's chewing sitting at the campfire bout to eat a porg while the porg looks on. Kiddo will be well aquatinted right off the bat lmao. Bout to be a proud star war papa ;D
Edit it's this image :D on the shirt
Congrats! May the Force be with all of you!
Wish you and your wife all the luck in the world with the kid :) Make sure to film it when it gets revealed that Darth Vader is Lukes father
Wow, man! Congrats!Wife and I are in the hospital, we're gonna have our first baby. Wearing one of my favorite t shirts. It's chewing sitting at the campfire bout to eat a porg while the porg looks on. Kiddo will be well aquatinted right off the bat lmao. Bout to be a proud star war papa ;D
Edit it's this image :D on the shirt
Man
Somebody really started the countdown at 390 days lmao. Come on let's get under a year at least. My heart cannot take the wait.
Somebody really started the countdown at 390 days lmao. Come on let's get under a year at least. My heart cannot take the wait.
Congrats man. Wishing your family the best. :) Great t-shirt.Wife and I are in the hospital, we're gonna have our first baby. Wearing one of my favorite t shirts. It's chewing sitting at the campfire bout to eat a porg while the porg looks on. Kiddo will be well aquatinted right off the bat lmao. Bout to be a proud star war papa ;D
Edit it's this image :D on the shirt
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