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Andor was planned meticulously. It’s the opposite of how Disney usually approaches Star Wars. Well done on Emmy wins, even if awards are usually nothing but money spent and politicking to get said awards. A lot of artists and craftspeople had to construct those sets and costumes. I regard the fact they did not fake everything in cgi and the volume very highly, in terms of the way the show looks and the production design. Vs a show like the Book of Boba Fett and that fakery of the bikes chase. And the poor writing.

Yeah, but they had the High Republic era and project luminous and after five years they’ve abandoned it. On the heels mind you, of the Acolyte being cancelled. There are no films in that era. I don’t see what placing a film at the Dawn of the Jedi, how that somehow miraculous fixes the fan discontent with Disney. The lack of adherence to canon, or any sense they’ve planned or outlined anything, have finally figured out how to build out a story and do world building. and aren’t just throwing stuff at a wall to see what sticks. Like a blindfolded person throwing darts trying to hit a bullseye.

They always do random things then try to get the comics writers and novelists to fill in the blanks, or to get the story group to claim it all makes sense. Of course we have a plan, right. I don’t believe that with somehow Palpatine returned.

I feel bad for the Disney EU writers who have to retcon or make sense of one of the bad movies. Where the director didn’t do his homework. And the story group allowed them to do whatever they wanted. With no regard to the legacy of SW, or its characters, or its own separate internal laws of how it all works.

Happy 59th Anniversary to Star Trek. Its been a long road getting from there to here. and the less said about New Trek the better.

I disagree I’d like to see another Star Wars within my lifetime. Who knows if I have decades left, god willing. But I may not. I’d like to enjoy life and smell the roses, so to speak, while I still can.

I’d also like an X-men film I don’t have to wait another ten years for, and can we please get a Star Trek film.

If they aren’t making that Rey movie please let Daisy know and stop gaslighting the fans, and KK please retire.

I’m somewhat pleased there was a new Superman film, can’t wait for a Supergirl and Wonder Woman movie. And another James Bond. I’m even looking forward to the Hunt For Gollum but have no idea what to expect with Andy Serkis not Peter Jackson directing. Looking forward to Avengers doomsday, maybe I’m setting myself up again, Disney is known to disappoint. With few exceptions Like Alien and Predator, and Planet of the Apes franchises. Fox films.

Will there be another JJ Abrams Star Trek, that is as nebulous as Disney and The Rey Skywalker movie. I don’t hardly trust Simon Kinberg with anything that is not X-men related. Even there he had his hands in X-men The Last Stand and Dark Phoenix and 4-Tastic. With Star Wars and Star Trek, please.

Star Trek Lower Decks. It’s well-made, but the comedy is not up my alley. It turned me off completely. I don’t think I will finish watching it.

I also started watching season 2 of the Frasier remake. I don’t know if it will finish that either, I think I prefer watching the old episodes.

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I’m watching Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex Second Gig.

Section 31. I love Star Trek films. I couldn’t get into this. It was bad. It might be the single worst Star Trek ever made.

I’ll gladly watch Generations, Insurrection, Nemesis or Star Trek V the Final Frontier over this and I don’t like any of those films.

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Spider-Man 2 Superbit DVD. I forgot how much I loved Raimi Spider-Man, and the DTS mix is quite good. Picture quality is nothing to write home about. I mean DVD-9 and Mpeg-2 video, just how good can it look.

DVD always looks pixelated on a 4K tv set.

Leia was visited by Anakin Skywalker in The Truce at Bakura. Leia ends up coming to terms with her father being redeemed, a part of that was naming her son Anakin, Anakin Solo. and seeing the good in him. Tatooine Ghost. Her son died in the Vong Wars, New Jedi order.
Her other son became the next Darth Vader, Jacen Solo/ Darth Caedus, and her daughter Jaina who was trained by Boba Fett had to kill him in a personal duel to the death. Jacen had murdered Boba Fett’s daughter. And Jacen did not join the Jedi afterlife, he was not redeemed. But Leia and Han adopted their evil son’s daughter as their own. Allana Solo.

The Next generation of Jedi would be Allana Solo, Jaina Solo and Ben Skywalker, the son of the slain Mara Jade Skywalker. Mara was murdered by Jacen Solo, it was his ascension to Sith apprentice. And Ben was the son of Grandmaster Luke Skywalker.

Jacen’s Sith Master was none other than Lumiya/Shira Brie the Dark Lady of the Sith. And he had been corrupted by Vergere who was also a Sith. He wanted Ben Skywalker to be his apprentice. But Tahiri Veila ended up being his agent and assassin and sort of apprentice.

Of course this is now legends.

Isn’t the Rey movie episode 10 in all but name. But they are tiptoeing around it. I guess you can consider Starfighter to be episode 9.5 since it is post Rise of Skywalker.

And Mando and Grogu is Mandoverse.

Well the more cgi they use and the more amount of shots a film has, the worse the quality is going to be.

You look at all the television and films that use cgi. Effects houses are stretched thin. CGI has gotten noticeably worse but not in all cases. What I worry about is the application of AI, over actual human artists who do the cgi, if you can even call it art.

This is more about the advent of its use as a lazy catch all like everything digital, we’ll fix it in post.

I wonder what it must be like to be on a set that is nothing but bluscreen and greensceen, and actors being shot separately as elements like in Avengers Doomsday.

The Deleted scenes in Attack of the Clones humanize Anakin, when he meets Padme’s family. But of course those scenes were cut.

I wonder if there was more material with the Lars family than what ended up in the film.

The Tatooine scenes are strong in my opinion, that whole part of Anakin going to find his mother and him at her funeral.

I feel like the Tatooine and Naboo scenes were strong. The scenes on Kamino much less so, and the least engaging material in the entire film is on Geonosis.

Sith is very rushed and Anakin does not really have all that much to do except fall to the dark side. You have this happy expectant father and the fear of losing his wife. Then he tries to kill her which never made any sense to me but, I get Lucas saying Anakin lost his humanity in selfishness. His bargain with Sidious was like the literary act of selling his Soul.

He even goes to literal hell planet to kill the separatists and where he gets sliced and diced by Obi-Wan. His eyes turn red. Suggesting Anakin became a demon.

The one consistent thing in the three films is Anakin’s fear of loss. In part one he is afraid to leave the safety and comfort of his mother and he leaves her behind. His dreams lead him to her in episode II, only for his fears to be realized when the Sand People torture her to death. He promises himself, he will be strong enough to stop his friends and loved ones from dying. Then in Episode III, his fear of losing Padme and his unborn child is his complete unraveling.

I think Anakin would have worked better if he was portrayed differently. He is so unlikable. So unrelatable. A problem of the prequel is there no Luke Skywalker to latch onto. No real central protagonist, even though Anakin is supposed to be that. Is he supposed to be an Anti-hero? Lucas didn’t seem to know where he wanted to go with the character.

Hayden acts like he is portraying dark and conflicted/selfish and arrogant. But where is the good friend and star pilot. Damn fool who follows old Obi-Wan on an idealistic quest.

You don’t have a believable through line of the Anakin who wants to use power to restore order to the galaxy, because he has zeal for justice, but the ends justify the means. And the more he uses the dark side, the more he digs himself into a place where he can’t escape and The Emperor is waiting to grab a hold of him.

That is what I wanted to see the Shaw Anakin become Darth Vader. The Horror Gargoyle in the Mask, the machine man.

He is a slave to the Sith as much as he was a slave on Tatooine and a slave to the Jedi. He really is an undeveloped person and a pathetic and pitiable wretch. Frankenstein’s monster, and a terror to the galaxy.

And Padme’s dreams and Anakin’s ambitions they all are manifest in their children.

People dislike that, but apparently that was what George wanted a scared kid trapped in a machine body. A young man who lost his mother and his wife. And his true sin was not in his evil acts, it was his desire to hold onto them selfishly.

Condemned to live as Darth Vader because he tried to change fate based on a vision of the future. Like Oedipus trying to outsmart the oracle. If he accepted the nature of things and dispassionately let them fade into the force, he would have been a good Jedi or so the films attempt to say. Letting people stay slaves is fine too, it’s not the mandate of the Jedi to free them.

So like what. Anakin finally accepts his role and becomes a true Jedi when he kills the Emperor in Return of the Jedi. He dies and saves his son, does something loving and unselfish. And that is fulfilling the prophecy of doing away with the Sith? Bringing Balance to the Force.

Final Fantasy VI is better than Final fantasy VII. If we need to go there. I like each one Up to Final Fantasy X and XII. XIII is where it went off the rails. And now they are bogged down in remake of VII I have no idea how many millions of dollars and how many years it will take to remake, and how many games.

The series means a lot to me, and I love the music of Nobuo Uematsu.

Final Fantasy IX is also one of my favorites. I do like VIII and VII. VI was legendarily good on Super Nes and so was Final Fantasy IV. Released as Final Fantasy II and III on US SNES.

I really don’t want a season 3 with them ticking off member berry boxes, keep it clean, no Ewan as Kenobi. No flashbacks of Hayden as Anakin. No young Leia.

I know there is desire for some fans, to set up and show everything that lead up to the opening of Star Wars. It’s not necessary showing everything and dotting every single thing. The early rebellion is quite well done as is.

You have Rogue One and two seasons of Andor.

Cautiously optimistic. Talented director and the casting is quite good.

But we’ve been done this road before. With the sequel trilogy. Casting and directing is not the issue it’s the writing.

I’d say the same about MCU and Kurtzman Star Trek, nobody can write worth a damn anymore, well except for Tony Gilroy on Andor.

I have zero interest in Mando and Grogu but this has piqued my interest a slight amount, I’d say a bit less than Rogue One or the Han Solo a Star Wars story did. But it’s not zero interest, I’m intrigued to see more.

It’s not the hell yeah I want this film, like I felt about Rogue Squadron. Having read those X-wings books for years and loved them all.

It’s not a, should they or shouldn’t they like the Rey Skywalker movie, this will be well within the spinoff territories tiptoeing around the sequel trilogy and its negative impact on Star Wars and the fandom.

I’d say go ahead and do it since The old Star Wars is gone and never coming back, Carrie is gone, and Mark and Harrison are done. What do they have to lose. some fandom menacers who were never going to watch it anyway.

Time to rip off the bandage and move beyond key jangling and member berries. If they dare.

oojason said:

Star Wars (1977) Filming Locations - Then and Now

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVxJEJsm02g - a 13 minute video form the gluecement youtube channel.
 

The blurb: ‘Pretty much every filming location from the original (“Despecialized”) version of Star Wars. Big shout-out to https://www.starwarslocations.com for finding and documenting many hard-to-get-to places.’

 

I love the shot matching ‘then-and-now’ comparisons - a cool video that brings a smile to the face. Kudos to the amount of work that went into making this.
 

Reminds me of the old David West Reynolds Star Wars articles.

Terence Stamp. Zod from the Donner Superman films, Lester Superman film. He was also Chancellor Valorum in Episode I the Phantom Menace. He was 87.

Mocata said:

Unfortunately general audiences might not see it that way. Just look at how many of them seem annoyed that people even talk about their desire to get it released. Like, how dare we even think about messing with with George’s true artistic vision etc. They’ve been fed that idea for so long now; if respect is due it’s not to SW 1977 and the ground breaking award winning original film… it’s respect for George or nothing; especially in the Disney era where they can say his story has been “ruined”. Despite all of the content he added between 1997 and 2005 being utter crap.

I don’t know if It is general audiences, but the EU Lucas devotees and the prequel kids from youtube seem to be completely incensed by the idea of the original getting released. The fact it would be Disney and KK is seen as heresy.

For some its the Saga of Darth Vader, they see Hayden Christensen as the icon.

I don’t see Star Wars that way at all being older. Star Wars was the Adventures of Luke Skywalker and Mark Hamill, it was the Star Wars Saga. David Prowse was Darth Vader imho. It may well be just a generational divide.

I hope you get a response; I also miss the content but not the watermarks.

I used to love that. Star Wars lost worlds, timeline gold. The Jedi Bendu Script Site.

They were meant for DVD. Why Lucas thought they were good enough for Blu-Ray, I really have no explanation. Not to mention further changes. And fixes.

Just to think even the 2020 UHD only happened because of the 3D release that was cancelled and those scans.

We had the same HD master on DVD, HDTV, and Blu-Ray for what 15 or 16 years.

Leia Vs Vader in the Third Law in Marvel comics, and Leia getting caught up with Vader in the radio drama. Welcome Princess Leia to Ralltir, once again you show up where Rebel activity is rampant. You should be more prudent. You might come to harm someday. - Darth Vader voiced by Brock Peters.

Let us see what they do. What trilogy, what characters, what story. What timeline in SW.

If it is not episodes 10, 11 and 12 and not the story of Rey Palpatine what is the plan.

I thought it would be crap because of Seth McFarlane but i’ve heard the film is actually good. Though the producer of the originals went on and on about how he thought the remake was garbage and did not make his film.

There is a market if you live in Japan have an 8k television set and NHK television which broadcasts 8k movies like 2001 a Space Odyssey. I don’t think that is Disney’s demo.

As for my personal opinion about higher than 24fps I saw the Hobbit in 48 frames per second and it looked horrid like video. I was generally unimpressed they chose to shoot on digital for 3D over film in any case since Lord of the Rings was shot on Super 35.

Honestly anything over 4k seems like overkill for consumers anyway. You can scan higher for sure if your final output is 4K.

Then the EU he had a wife in Russ Manning strips, and a mistress in Daala in the 90s EU. In some short story in Disney Star Wars which I haven’t read, it is supposed to be his lover is TK-421. He still is a fascist and still dies on the death star.

I liked Lynch Dune part I more than Villeneuve. There is no Lynch part II to compare part II to. I liked the second part I know people complained about the changes to Chani from the book.

I also liked the sci fi mini series all those years ago and the Children of Dune follow up.

Return of the Jedi is where the prequel rot started to set in, i still enjoy the movie but not the rough patches. And Darth is way weaker in that movie than The Empire Strikes Back and Han and Leia have pretty much nothing to do. The rescue of Han Solo makes no sense but i enjoy the movie serial silliness of it. All except the whiffle bat lightsaber that causes no damage to the aliens Luke is fighting over the pit of Carkoon. No one loses an arm or a hand or a head.

There are some impressive set pieces Jabba’s sail barge, Jabba’s palace. The Death Star II. The Ewok Village. Then you have unbelivable fake stuff like the Matte painting of the Falcon in the Rebel Hangar. Instead of a full size built Falcon.

The Redwoods provide a unique setting for the rebels to chase stormtroopers on Speeders and you believe in the action that they could crash into a tree.

The Space Battle. at the end still hasn’t been topped. I like the chorus and and the part with the lightsaber duel and Luke fighting Vader, but it has nothing on the duel at Bespin, and Vader fights like a weak and already defeated opponent. He is only winning when Luke refuses to fight. The fight is very one sided.

The version with Leia as Queen of her people and Han dead would have been poignant, but would have angered parents and disappointed children and you can’t sell dead Han toys. Leia ends up alone, Luke ends up alone. They both find their duty is separate from their circle of friends. No screenplay for this version exists, we but rely on Gary Kurtz recollection of the early idea for the third film. Han died in his attack on an imperial base. He survived Carbon Freezing just to bite it. As a kid I would have felt cheated if Han killed in such a lame way, I felt the same way in Force Awakens.

The film is an incomplete experience without Lapti Nek, Yub Yub or Sebastian Shaw as Ghost Anakin. I refuse to watch the later versions. I intensely dislike the version with Hayden at the end. I hate Jedi Rocks, and Victory Celebration sounds like an incomplete temp track piece. The Ewoks singing is much more mythological and fits with Threepio storytelling earlier in the movie. They’ve added themselves to the story by helping to fight the Empire.