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#1533226
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'Rey Skywalker' (Upcoming live action motion picture) - general discussion thread
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That would be one way to go. But I think they’ve got two priorities to cover… for themselves rather than the audience I mean. Firstly they’ve got to establish the event movie again after watering it down so much. It has to be Episode X because that gives it legitimacy. It can’t be stand alone for the same reason. People have to be on board with the brand again before that ‘A Star Wars Story’ thing is wheeled back out. Secondly they have to recover from the mistakes of things like side-lining Finn and other characters. Which can’t be done if they cut ties to the previous movies. A lot of good will has to be regained (for commercial reasons) which means going down that road. Or at least that’s what I predict.

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#1533145
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George Lucas: Star Wars Creator, Unreliable Narrator & Time Travelling Revisionist...
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People repeat things like that so that their story is consistent, to deceive themselves and sound convincing, like someone in court. Then when other people repeat the same misinformation it seems more likely to be true as the story gets passed around. If you’ve heard it more than once it’s more likely to be correct, right? Same old human nature / memory function combo. Just look at how people talk when they argue over the Disney vs the George version of the saga, since he’s the one true creator.

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#1533140
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'Rey Skywalker' (Upcoming live action motion picture) - general discussion thread
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Unless they do some serious work to change how stupid the ‘I am all the Jedi’ thing was it will never work. What does that even mean? How did Palpy die exactly? How is Rey even alive if her power is from the connection to Kylo and a balance of light rising to meet dark? These things could be examined and developed… but they won’t be. Problems that should have been resolved to make the ST story stronger should have been developed in TROS… but they weren’t. Nobody seems able to write a character study or a basic fantasy plot these days, never mind address these kind of potentially interesting ideas.

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#1532944
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'Rey Skywalker' (Upcoming live action motion picture) - general discussion thread
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Perception of criticism has devolved into red vs green on a site which shows no distinction between good scores and mediocre ones. It all just gets lumped together and called ‘fresh’ which is odd when a 100% rating can be all disappointed 6/10 reviews. As for snobbery… well let’s just say TROS gets 52% critic and 86% audience. Do all these perspectives hold the same value? Will that same adoring audience rush out to buy tickets for Episode X: Everyone Loves Rey?

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#1532841
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'Rey Skywalker' (Upcoming live action motion picture) - general discussion thread
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It’s true that the general public probably doesn’t care as much. Many are probably happy with a fun adventure ending to the ST that had action and Palpatine stuff. We won’t know the reality unless it gets released and has a box office return to measure. That being said TROS made half the money that TFA did so this might not be good plan.

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#1532743
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'Rey Skywalker' (Upcoming live action motion picture) - general discussion thread
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If it really happens that’d be one thing, but if it’s a success that’s something else. Adding more layers to
‘somehow Palpatine returned’ is the whole end game of the current TV glut after all. People should be annoyed but Daisy walked out on stage and everyone clapped like a bunch of seals so…

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#1532713
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'Rey Skywalker' (Upcoming live action motion picture) - general discussion thread
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Yeah that is true, they will never actually admit failure in the same way they would admit the OOT exists in the vault. Also it feels like in the same way they wanted film releases to accelerate (for a while) they want the idea that older movies are becoming appreciated to accelerate too. Like the board said everyone likes the prequels now, given time everyone will like all our products, so why not just push it forward now.

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#1531968
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<strong>The Mandalorian</strong> - a general discussion thread - * <em><strong>SPOILERS</strong></em> *
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Honestly I didn’t mind this one. Terrible lighting and bad cameo actor performances aside (seriously why was the palace and the duel in flat daylight?) it was just a random adventure. It was fun unlike the slog on Coruscant. The last two parts will have to be amazing but y’know that was always the case.

They need to fire whoever allowed the alien voices in the opening though. You remember how in the original movies a lot of the local actors were dubbed over? This is why.

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#1531614
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How to Watch Star Wars, Part Two: The Special Editions Are the Movies, Get Over It
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I clicked on this out of morbid curiosity and soon switched off. Just the first few points he’s trying to make are kind of wild. We shouldn’t have the theatrical versions that the original artists won awards for because test screenings happened? What? The length of the video is also an immediate red flag. It’s just like that ‘Star Wars wasn’t really saved in the edit’ guy or the ‘Twin Peaks is Finally explained for real’ guy. They want to be right so much that they’ve lost sight of simple brevity. If the argument was so self evidently correct then it would be easier to explain and more satisfying to watch.