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#1065081
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The Force Awakens: Official Review Thread - ** SPOILERS **
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Alderaan said:

7 of the last 10 reviews on IMDB:

  1. “The Worst of the Very Worst, Should be Forbidden”
  2. “This Movie Is Stupid”
  3. “Leaves A Lot To Be Desired”
  4. “The Fart Awakens And Stinks up The Galaxy Far Far Away”
  5. “So bad I had to create a review account”
  6. “Imagine if someone gave you money for presenting someone else’s work/script/idea”
  7. “Not terrible, not great either”

Which one is your favorite?

7, because unlike most of the others, it avoids histrionics.

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#1064637
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What is wrong with... <strong>Attack of the Clones</strong>? - a general discussion thread
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IIRC, the Sith extinction that led to Darth Bane and the Rule of Two and blah blah blah was mostly caused by in-fighting. The genocide stuff mostly applied to earlier* Sith extinctions.

*Yes, earlier extinctions. The EU had the Sith go through a hundred extinctions before the PT era and as many afterward; it was stupid that way.

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#1064617
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What is your Star Wars?
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^Best post in thread thus far.

As for my Star Wars, in a nutshell it’s these

  • The original, theatrical version of Star Wars
  • The original, theatrical version of The Empire Strikes Back
  • The casual reference to the Clone Wars in SW and all the imaginings that inspired
  • Luke in ROTJ reaching up, grabbing, and igniting his green lightsaber for the very first time
  • The Tales of the Jedi comics, with their strong “sword-and-sorcery” vibe; gritty, archaic technology and architecture; non-celibate Jedi; and non-Darth, non-red-lightsaber-wielding Sith Lords
  • Marvel’s original, pre-ROTJ comics with their wacky stories and often off-model art styles (I’m including Alan Moore’s SW stories here, too)
  • The newspaper comic strips by Archie Goodwin & Al Williamson
  • Kyle Katarn and the Seven Dark Jedi
  • The Thrawn Trilogy, which introduced Grand Admiral Thrawn, Joruus C’baoth, and Mara Jade
  • The Corellian Trilogy, which introduced Leia’s awesome red lightsaber