JadedSkywalker

Disney wanted all one canon. Just so you had to buy every comic, book, video game and watch every show. Its cross merchandising. Its like when Lucas didn’t show the clone wars on the movies and expected you to buy into all the other ancillary material to know about them. Its cynical and driven by profit. Not so good for story, but great for corporate driven interests.

A consistent canon is only possible through editing and retcons. Like in Tolkien for instance.

There is another kind of internal consistency though like the rules of the universe can’t be broken like you can’t Hyperspace skip, can’t lightpeed a ship into another, and can’t lightspeed through shields or go to lightspeed in a planets gravity well. You can’t teleport objects, force heal like a videogame. You can be a Jedi if you have the aptitude and apply yourself and you don’t need midichlorians.

It isn’t really lost 70mm Empire, Lucas considered it a rough cut, ironic he views the entire theatrical OT as rough drafts.

Have 3 different directors but have a general outline for all 3 that each director agrees on. Or at least have them be all of a piece and not stand alones, or a duology and one standalone. I’m not gonna single out Rian, the trilogy would have been better if Duel of the Fates was made. Because you would have had 3 distinct visions. They course corrected too hard on 9 and if that Rey movie is made they have to deal with the consequences of that.

The Mini Death Star canon was a neat idea like a mini nuke and totally believable. Starkiller base was just another death star, and Star Destroyer death stars was ridiculous maybe one Super Destroyer or two might have one but a whole fleet, not believable.

I’d love to see the cut with them escaping with the plans on the beach and the Imperial Walkers. The scene where Vader was supposed to show up in the battle.

Or you could just watch the Blu-ray from the new master. If your region includes it with the 4K.

1. OT
2. Prequel Trilogy
3. Sequel trilogy

OT is fundamental, prequel is supplemental and sequel is live action Expanded Universe.

The only one in my mind that is essential is the OT. I don’t love the sequel but force awakens if goofy fun in places, and i like aspects and not the whole of the last jedi. Rise of Skywalker is an acquired taste and i’ve seen it a few times on cable tv, i mean its watchable. Its a better experience with the novelization and Shadow of the Sith, but supplemental material shouldn’t be necessary.

I’m rating them as whole trilogies as stand alone films Empire would always come out on top. And Last Jedi is easily the best of the sequel movies. The prequel is tough i have real nostalgia and love for the good parts on Phantom Menace and its being the closest to Return of the Jedi in quality. I’d have to pick that as my favorite but Sith is always going to be the top rated just for the last third of the film. Attack of the Clones was the worst in the Saga until Rise of Skywalker. I’d personally probably still rate it dead last.

I prefer the animated shows.

1. Droids just for pure nostalgia
2. Clone Wars Micro Series
3. Filoni Clone Wars seasons 1-5 were great. 6 was so disappointing, and i never saw seven since its only on plus.
4. Rebels

Not gonna rate the others until i rewatch or see them all which probably will be never with how Disney keeps refusing physical releases of their content, i mean i’m only getting to see Mando finally in good quality because they had the sense to release the first 2 seasons in time for Christmas.

People holding out for the originals are gonna be disappointed they haven’t been touched since the laserdisc master in 1992. The restoration was the 1997 edit. No restored OT exists.

The best you can hope for is team blu. I can’t fathom the mind of George Lucas on this nor will i try to psychoanalyze it, its just so bizarre.

Added Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning part 1 digital.

Added Neon Genesis Evangelion rebuild 3.0+1.11 Thrice Upon A Time Gkids Blu-ray

I also added the last of the SAO sets because Righstuf is dead and closed.

Added Maoyu Archenemy and Hero Sentai blu ray. English Subs only no Dub. Its enjoyable but it never really develops, the mild fanservice and harem element is standard and overdone. Its like a not as good Spice and Wolf. With politics and economics. The backgrounds and animation are quite good for a show that came out a decade ago.

I saw live action Aladdin on tv, which i had been avoiding seeing for years because of all the negative reviews, and i was surprised how much i enjoyed it. So while i didn’t like Beauty and the Beast, i did enjoy Cinderella and Aladdin. And i haven’t seen any of the others.

Added Japanese Definitive Collection with making of trilogy laserdisc set. This is the most expensive Star Wars set i’ve ever purchased. At a whopping 200 dollars US. Real value is closer to 160 or so and i had to pay for shipping and tax so it came to 225. It is a set i’ve wanted for close to twenty years. Had a milestone Birthday and so that was the gift i bought myself with the money my father sent me, which was a surprise since the last 3 years before that he gave me nothing.

I doubt they ever do a 4K remaster. They are going to continue to repress the same blu-ray. Deep Space Nine and Voyager are never gonna happen. DVD only.

The only 4K show is going to be Strange New Worlds.

I mean they are doing a second edition of Picard to fix a visual effects shot that made it to print that wasn’t the correct one but that is for Picard season 3 Blu-Ray.

Rightstuf is closing and being absorbed by Crunchyroll. This is the death of cheap anime and manga. R.I.P.

I wonder if someone ever preserved the DTS tracks for the Star Trek films.

Added Lowry Indiana Jones Full Screen DVD. It is only the trilogy and a bonus disc.

I know i have the widescreen somewhere but i haven’t been able to find it. I just don’t feel like digging out 3 different closets of boxes to find it.

I also have added Forbidden Planet. A somewhat weird less common earlier release in Letterbox from Japan on Laserdisc. In CAV format. I don’t even know if it has digital audio or not.

He seems to be very human. He gets afraid and angry. He even loves Artoo, in his own way.

Lucas wrote him that way. Though i don’t know if Tony feels the same way about Artoo. He seems to have been genuinely annoyed. Actor Vs character, the actor and the character aren’t the same.

Superweapon VII said:

I still like Star Wars … from a certain point of view.

Same. My response is another galaxy, another time. To paraphrase the opening of the Star Wars novelization.

I have no idea either there are a lot of works up there that aren’t supposed to be there. I’m not talking about long out of print or dead media that may still be in copyright, but things like the new Indiana Jones movie.

I’d be excited if they announced a director and it had a chance of getting made. Which is zero until the strike is over. Which is also true of the Rey movie, and Dawn of the Jedi all effectively dead and shelved or put off long down the line projects.

I wonder if Alden returns as Han Solo, i would pretty much guess no. But who knows.

I refuse to subscribe. But i will support physical releases. I will despite my limited income support the Blu-Ray release of Mando season 1 and 2. Will get them for Christmas. Even if the price is too high, the 4k is separate and not bundled in and there is no digital copy. But by their own decisions they are driving piracy. 50 dollars a season is insane. Even discounted to 40 its too much. Steelbook or not.

Knowing Star Wars fans though it will probably sell out. The pre sales are encouraging for Disney.

The colors on the 1997 prints are great. Just wish they hadn’t changed so much. The clean up work was welcome. Original non reissue prints of the original trilogy are really bad. My own experience is that Empire was the worst of the lot. I used to collect film. Like trailers and super 8 and stuff like that. I came across some Empire reels, awful. Almost no color left. Someone else bought them.

Great showrunner for the animated shows. His successes are writ large, only failure was Resistance. Which was getting interesting when it was cancelled.

Not sold on him being a film or live action director, and i think people wanting him to have Kathy Kennedy’s job is insane.

Emre16O1 said:

Superweapon VII said:

Midi-chlorian microverse trilogy. How the fuck anyone could think that’d ever have been good, I fail to understand.

Yes, it seems so strange. As well as him going to make Leia be “The Chosen One”, and it no longer be Anakin. I guess that would be quite divisive for Prequel fans, and fans on Anakin.

I do have a weird curiosity to learn more of how George thought he was going to pull those ideas off, although I am glad we will never see them.

I would have been interested in his ark for Luke only. But it is clear to me he wanted to make a sequel to the Star Wars prequels which Disney didn’t want to do. The biggest issues i have with what we know, Darth Maul as the new Sidious i don’t like it and i don’t find him a sufficient threat for Luke or the New Republic. I don’t like having Talon in the wrong timeline or her inclusion at all. Maul should have died in Phantom Menace. While i like what Clone Wars and Rebels did with him, its almost a different character. George also wanted Boba to survive the Sarlacc and ultimately Disney resurrected him. I’m against this as well except for in the Expanded Universe. Characters who die should stay dead.

I think Joe Johnston is an underrated director.

Wish he had directed more movies.

The Making of Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan. When i unboxed it and unwrapped it i noticed how thin the book was and was disappointed. I was hoping for a JW Rinzler size making of book, oh well.

I haven’t finished it yet apparently they did new research using Meyer’s papers and had access to deleted scenes the original making of book didn’t. They make remarks on them.