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#1299376
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George Lucas: Star Wars Creator, Unreliable Narrator & Time Travelling Revisionist...
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George’s need to be the centre of attention seems to be at the forefront in most of this. I find it fascinating that he didn’t give Disney any stipulation to use his material, but now claims he’s been betrayed. He married a lawyer a couple of years back right? You’re telling me he cared at the time but didn’t want to at least make them start pre-production using these alleged story treatments? Did he really write anything or is something weirder going on?

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The Rise of Skywalker box office results: predictions and expectations
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The spin-off movies being put on ice may be a reaction to the recent box office results, but I think that the TV route is still their way of turning SW into one big series so that viewers feel seeing every piece is essential. Particularly now that all the shows under their umbrella have that veneer of exclusivity. I wouldn’t be surprised if the audience being hooked back in improves the status of the big screen releases.

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Han - Solo Movie ** Spoilers **
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BedeHistory731 said:

I’ve long thought that Solo is just the Star Wars equivalent of the opening scene from Last Crusade. It’s trying to explain everything about this character, all the while destroying the mystery surrounding his origins. While I like what I’ve seen of it, it’s got its problems and I think it would have been better served as a Disney+ series about the Star Wars underworld.

I guess that’s true. If only it was a setup for a similar arc like with Indy’s father or the cross.

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Similarities Between the Original Trilogy and the Prequel Trilogy
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The broad ideas of what Palpatine was doing are fine but the execution doesn’t really work when we’re supposed to believe that an entire army of clones was hidden, then used by the Jedi, then they killed the Jedi, all without anyone getting anything more than a “sense” something is wrong. Instead of some kind of actual hunt being shown. The Clone War should have been EPI, the purge should have been EpII and then the dark times EpIII. The whole trilogy should really have been re-structured to resemble a historical epic. The set pieces are there (chariot races and gladiator arenas) but the “Fall of the Roman Empire” style plot is complete shambles. And the wheel of time is again an interesting idea with a series about fated bloodlines and destiny etc but the way it mirrors the OT is far too sloppy. I don’t hate the PT… it’s just so boring and bad that it’s not watchable.

As for plot inconsistencies… I mean why are Luke and Leia in the films? Why is Vader’s resurrection? In fact why are characters like Yoda and Palpatine here? It should have been made to preserve all the twists and character reveals for new audiences but the toy line came first I guess. The OT had some much world building by referencing events and characters off screen, but here it’s all reduced down so that everything happens on Coruscant and Tatooine.