What Does Everyone Here Think of Star Wars? — Page 2

Star Wars, later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope,[7][8] is a 1977 American epic space opera[9][10] film written and directed by George Lucas. The first installment in the original Star Wars trilogy, it stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, and Alec Guinness. David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker and Peter Mayhew co-star in supporting roles.

So do I.

Q: What does everyone here think of Star Wars?
A: I don’t think of it.

Q: Are We Not Men?
A: We Are Devo!

generalfrevious said:

Is Star Wars going to end up in the same category as politics and religion now?

What are “Things Not To Talk About On A First Date”?

DuracellEnergizer said:

NeverarGreat said:

As if anyone ever watched Star Wars and Empire then said ‘yeah, I’m fine with this cliffhanger ending forever’

I would’ve preferred that over Death Star 2: Electric Boogaloo, Palpatine’s Saturday morning cartoon method of proselytization, the Empire’s finest troops succumbing like bitches to stone age teddy bears, and Vader’s “get-out-of-jail-free card” redemption.

Well that’s what retconning is for: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/STAR-WARS-EPISODE-VII-JEDI-DAWN/id/15757

Summary version: In ROTJ, Palpatine (who is safe on Coruscant) is using an unstable clone of himself and some disposable troops to lure the rebels into a trap on Endor. The second Death Star is a second chance for the engineers and officers who failed to build an impervious Death Star the first time, and if it fails, all of these engineers will pay the ultimate price for their failure.

The rebels, realizing this scheme, assemble a hastily promoted B-team. It consists of an irresponsible commander who abandoned his troops after the Hoth debacle, a smuggler who planned on leaving the movement, and an ex-princess who shirked her duties to save her boyfriend with a man who sold out the rebels to the Empire. Along with this ‘elite’ commando unit, they send a few modified civilian space cruisers, outdated medical frigates, and lightly armed blockade runners in addition to some miscellaneous fighter squadrons. While the B-team is engaged on Endor, the Rebels launch their main attack force against Coruscant. When Palpatine is threatened by this attack, he recalls his starfleet from Endor.

generalfrevious said:

It’s interesting that SW’s “glory days” lasted only three years.

As of May 24th, 1983, there were only two Star Wars films. So if you’re saying the “glory days” are the years in which only Star Wars and/or Empire existed, that’s six years (1977-1983). That’s if I understand your intent correctly. If you intended to say Empire sucked all the glory out of the franchise, then you just go right ahead saying three years.

generalfrevious said:

TFA was literally built on elements solely from ANH & ESB.

Sigh, I wish that were so. There were still a few WTF moments in TFA, where I was taken out of the film by some prequelism. The mention of “clones” as something that actually might still happen as opposed to ancient history, and the mention of “Sith” as if we were supposed to know what the heck that was. Then for Jedi references, there’s Vader’s melted mask, for example. There were also some more buried prequelisms, such as prequel flags, etc, but yes the larger point is that is was almost exclusively OOT or original elements, which certainly helped it immensely. You could argue that “clones” was an OOT element that was just bizarrely anachronistic, and that “Sith” was a reference to OOT source materials and EU stuff that predates the prequels, but nevertheless they felt off to me (and they were both completely frivolous to the plot and should have been excluded to avoid WTF reactions).

Wait a sec… did I just out-Eeyore generalfrevious?

DuracellEnergizer said:

CatBus said:

Wait a sec… did I just out-Eeyore generalfrevious?

No. To do that you’d have to say that the OOT will never, ever, ever be released on Blu-ray/Ultra HD Blu-ray/Holographic Ultraviolet/Infrared 4D-ray, which will directly lead to Trump becoming dictator-for-life of the entire world, whose regime will almost certainly accelerate global warming a trillionfold, causing the Earth to go supernova and destroy one-third of the whole galaxy in the process.

I’m sure he regrets saying one-third.