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Hal 9000

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#931180
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The OT era is apparently the dumb era
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What’s even being said here? That, in-universe, the OT era saw censorship and hushing of knowledge? Or that the era seems dumb to you as a viewer?

The “dark times” pushed free thought underground, and burned space books about the Jedi.
But it is the backdrop of one of the greatest set of films ever made.

Also, whether you mean to or not, and you probably do, you come across as baiting.

EDIT: This was the first thread I opened today. Yeah, you know what you’re doing.

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#929094
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Ranking the Star Wars films
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Unrelated: If we are talking about the novelizations as books without respect to anything else, just them in isolation, I’d say ROTS was far better than TFA.
I like the broad story, but the whole PT was brought about with compounding bad decisions.

For me, my edits are the definitive PT. And the novelizations are sort of an expanded version, so I can still have all the extra and different stuff to consider, as a separate incarnation of the story. Sort of like the book vs. movie if relationship of the Space Odyssey series.

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#929085
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Ranking the Star Wars films
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I think what some are getting at is that Luke as a macguffin feels tacked on compared to something like Spock in The Search For Spock. We get the map to get the ball rolling, but SKB takes over the show as the new macguffin halfway through the movie without being set up beforehand. It came across to me as somewhat arbitrary, and didn’t feel like an organic part of the story.
Not sure whether introducing it earlier would help, or tying it more closely into the Luke thread.
SKB is the thing that stuck in my craw the longest coming out of TFA.
Then again, I remember that the Search For Spock also had a tacked on, rehashed doomsday device, didn’t it.

Fascinating.