Nonsensical casting. Khan in "Into Darkness" is an example.
darklordoftech said:
Everybody, what is your greatest fear for episodes 7-9?
An hour-long fight sequence with an older Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa leading a troop of new Jedi carrying a rainbow of lightsabers to take on a half-robot SITH MEGALORD (who has been hiding all along) with ten arms, each of which has two hands holding its own lightsaber, who is hell-bent on wiping all of the Jedi from the universe.
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darklordoftech said:
Everybody, what is your greatest fear for episodes 7-9?
Lens flares. It may not be the greatest fear but it is surely the most justified.
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I might be one of the only people on here who no longer cares enough about new Star Wars material to have fears about it. My only fear is of Disney or Lucas ramping up efforts to stop fan preservations of the original unaltered trilogy, in the name of copyright law.
That some fans will dislike it no matter what.
ANH is such a wonderful and deceptively simple movie. For whatever reason I watched it with somewhat fresh eyes when I caught it on TV last night (SE, of course). It feels big, as a movie should, while feeling intimate despite being a space adventure. I fear that the new movie will feature something like the dreadful Yuuzhan Vong. If the PT did anything right, it was in not trying to be more serious, dramatic, or menacing (only phantomly) as many works of sci fi are (though it drifted listlessly that way in ROTS). So I hope the executives don't think Star Wars needs to be modernized, dramatic, menacing, or in the direction of the better-received ROTS.
The blue elephant in the room.
Reegar said:
Nonsensical casting. Khan in "Into Darkness" is an example.
More nonsensical than casting someone of Spanish descent?
The blue elephant in the room.
Mrebo said:
Reegar said:
Nonsensical casting. Khan in "Into Darkness" is an example.
More nonsensical than casting someone of Spanish descent?
Or indeed a Canadian as a Scottish Engineer or an Englishman as a French Captain. I think Star Trek has always operated by 'Connery's Law' e.g. "If your performance is good enough, nobody cares if your accent is wrong".
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darklordoftech said:
Everybody, what is your greatest fear for episodes 7-9?
DominicCobb said:
That some fans will dislike it no matter what.
Really?
My worst fear of this is the movies turning out to be worse than the PT and that was bad enough :(
What’s worse George Lucas changing the OT or selling the rights to Disney
Mrebo said:
Reegar said:
Nonsensical casting. Khan in "Into Darkness" is an example.
More nonsensical than casting someone of Spanish descent?
How was casting someone of Spanish descent nonsensical?
Reegar said:
Mrebo said:
Reegar said:
Nonsensical casting. Khan in "Into Darkness" is an example.
More nonsensical than casting someone of Spanish descent?
How was casting someone of Spanish descent nonsensical?
Aside from the Asian name of Khan Noonien Singh, I don't see why Cumberbatch would be a nonsensical casting choice. And Spanish is different from Asian.
The blue elephant in the room.
You're equating name origins with visual consistency between actors who are supposed to be playing the same character? I guess, if you want.
And if you're planning to eventually paint this as something that it's not (we both know what I'm referring to; and I'm not accusing you, but only saying): You mentioned race first. My original post was conveniently vague.
ray_afraid said:
DominicCobb said:
That some fans will dislike it no matter what.
Really?
Not really. AntcuFaalb already covered my fears. So I wanted to say something different. This isn't a fear so much as a dreaded inevitability. Of course, I'm operating in optimist mode because I do believe this will be good. I suppose on the other hand if it's bad the fans that love it anyway would annoy me just as much.
I fear that it will be awesome, but continue to reference midichlorians and other small things people hate from the PT, in a way that makes them nearly impossible to edit out because they are made narratively relevant.
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3: L8wrtr
4,6-9: Hal9000
5: Adywan
nightstalkerpoet said:
I fear that it will be awesome, but continue to reference midichlorians and other small things people hate from the PT, in a way that makes them nearly impossible to edit out because they are made narratively relevant.
Win.
That sounds like a Twilight Zone-esque scenario, but at the same time a distinct possibility.
We do have a Trek thread in off topic people. ;)
Where were you in '77?
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My worst fear at this point is that the plot will pick up on and continue the idea of a Chosen One prophecy.
I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently.
DominicCobb said:
ray_afraid said:
DominicCobb said:
That some fans will dislike it no matter what.
Really?
Not really. AntcuFaalb already covered my fears. So I wanted to say something different. This isn't a fear so much as a dreaded inevitability. Of course, I'm operating in optimist mode because I do believe this will be good. I suppose on the other hand if it's bad the fans that love it anyway would annoy me just as much.
Yeah, it's gonna happen no matter what. Hatters gonna hate, lovers gonna love.
I don't really have any "fears" toward the ST. Doesn't matter to me if it's good or bad anymore than I care if the next EU novel is good or bad. If it is good, then great! if it's not, it won't make me like the original any less.
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the pictures are fake, but the article is real apparently.
John Williams score to Return of the Jedi Remastered/Remixed:
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AntcuFaalb said:
darklordoftech said:
Everybody, what is your greatest fear for episodes 7-9?
An hour-long fight sequence with an older Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa leading a troop of new Jedi carrying a rainbow of lightsabers to take on a half-robot SITH MEGALORD (who has been hiding all along) with ten arms, each of which has two hands holding its own lightsaber, who is hell-bent on wiping all of the Jedi from the universe.
This reminds me of:
On a more serious note: you're not afraid that the script will consist of little more than weak set-ups for predictable "surprises", cringeworthy fan service and lifting stuff from the previous movies? That they're going to play it safe with Ep VII is pretty likely, plus you can't get more safe than that, and Abrams has already done it with that new Star Trek movie.
Something else I don't want to see in the sequel trilogy: an "evil can never be destroyed" theme. Too dark for Star Wars.