I think it might be a good idea to treat your fanedits like a Cinematic Universe, of which this is the third installment. If you plan on making movie edits of all these upcoming shows, they’re going to have about that level of interconnectedness.
I own stock in big mask so I’m happy with the pandemic continuing
Pretty pissed rn because I got thrown in the Pits of Grick
I do think the sequel trilogy feels like a strange add-on to the saga because Anakin’s story ended in ROTJ and you’re just repeating a conflict which already happened. What I would have done it market it as a new saga. You have the Skywalker saga, TPM-ROTJ, and then the sequel saga, whatever it would be nicknamed. Even though I’ve never been fond of George’s idea of the correct watching order and like to view the original and prequel trilogies as separate entities.
But at the same time, it’s not really fair to the OT to try to retroactively frame it as just “the second half of Anakin’s story,” when it’s a lot more than that.
Not sure if you’re arguing against me, but that’s kind of my point. The OT isn’t the second half of Anakin’s story, it doesn’t work as that in the first place and treating its other aspects as side plots kind of undermines the OT.
- Creating a Sequel Trilogy doesn’t make any sense, no matter who created it. The Star Wars story is the story of the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker, Anakin is the protagonist of the Saga. The moment the protagonist dies, then the Saga ends and there’s nothing more to say, there’s no need to continue.
I really don’t agree because of how much of a slap-job the Story of Anakin Skywalker is. 1-3 sort of work as the first half of the story of Anakin Skywalker, in the sense that it’s not a hard sell to say it is, 4-6 do not work as the second half. I’ve got pretty mixed feelings on the ST, which seem to be souring over time, but I’ll never really be upset about them up-ending a unified Star Wars saga when the possibility for that to exist was already nuked from orbit almost two decades before them. Probably even further back.
Here’s a contribution to this thread of my own: Solo is pretty mediocre and the people are interested in Solo 2 not because there was a good story worth continuing, but because they end the movie by implying something interesting might have happened behind the scenes. I don’t hate it, and it doesn’t bug me like it used to, but it’s way overrated.
Mocata said:
Anything after 1983 doesn’t really matter.Not saying everyone should like everything, but nothing after 1983? That sounds so bleak. Not even The Mandalorian?
I think they mean nothing after 1983 should count toward the question at hand
There should be
The prequel fandom is less a fandom around these three movies and more a fandom of the internet headcanon these movies spawned.
Well, that’s the sequel fandom, too.
Yeah
Also, “tricks”? That’s a weird label to put on someone else’s opinion and perspective.
Can’t speak for BedeHistory, but I feel like a lot of defenses of the prequels have little to no basis in the movies themselves. It’s like they’re doing Lucas’s work writing for him. The prequel fandom is less a fandom around these three movies and more a fandom of the internet headcanon these movies spawned. Which isn’t a crime or anything, and movies are subjective anyway so it’s no big deal. But it makes for an unconvincing defense and it feels a lot like a hack or a trick.
I’m sure I’ve said something like this to you before in a not-super-friendly way, sorry for that
Rasputin was extremely difficult to kill, he was poisoned, shot, beat up, chained up and thrown into a river. His cause of death was drowning.
Nah, this isn’t because he was difficult to kill, but because his executioners were nerds with no experience. They shot him in the wrong spot, the poison was too low a dosage, etc.
What if Palpatine in TRoS is just a personification of the dark side, and not Palpatine himself? It takes the corporeal form of Palpatine just because of the galaxy’s shared trauma of this one dude.
The movies say it was in a galaxy far, far away though
Finally got banned from a Discord server I’d been on for years. They grew tired of my wrongthink. Why are woke people so mean?
Based off the story you told, it sounds like you were in the right. But I do not believe for one second that you were telling the whole story. Especially based off of your history on this issue, there is no way in hell that you were simply “wrongthinking” and got banned over it.
I’d recommend you kept Teth. It’s a big planet, no reason it would all look like that.
No personal canon. I exist in the badlands where all Star Wars media may or may not have happened. A New Hope and The Freemaker Adventures are on the same level of canonicity.
When the moon’s on the horizon and looks bigger than it actually is
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Not to be that guy, but to make that possible you’d have to cut ESB down to about 6 minutes
Add clouds coming out of Vader’s mask, because his suit is a massive THC vape
I’m sorry man but the fact that he was writing treatments a year before submitting treatments doesn’t change my mind that he was spitballing for the 30 years leading up to that
Can never get over the line of thinking that because Lucas had multiple ideas for the sequels that means he had x number of alternate versions, the creative process aside along with the fact that these are three movies we’re talking about already, this is the guy obsessed with intercutting multiple stories.
We know for a fact that the one he submitted in 2012 wasn’t the microscopic one, or the one with Darth Maul, and an older one which isn’t the one submitted in 2012, the microscopic one, or the one with Darth Maul. It could be that the older one was just spitballing, the one submitted in 2012 was catering to Disney, and that he had one main idea with the microscopic ideas and Darth Maul coming back. But I find it more likely he was spitballing the whole time and never had one, single ST idea.
Not true. Check out this interview with Jett Lucas from 2013. He knew in 2011 that George was writing for the Sequel Trilogy.
There is literally nothing in this video regarding the content of what he had written and submitted to Disney other than that it focused on passing the torch to a new generation of protagonists. What exactly is your point?
Can never get over the line of thinking that because Lucas had multiple ideas for the sequels that means he had x number of alternate versions, the creative process aside along with the fact that these are three movies we’re talking about already, this is the guy obsessed with intercutting multiple stories.
We know for a fact that the one he submitted in 2012 wasn’t the microscopic one, or the one with Darth Maul, and an older one which isn’t the one submitted in 2012, the microscopic one, or the one with Darth Maul. It could be that the older one was just spitballing, the one submitted in 2012 was catering to Disney, and that he had one main idea with the microscopic ideas and Darth Maul coming back. But I find it more likely he was spitballing the whole time and never had one, single ST idea.
Robert Rodriguez said:
Wait until you see what’s coming. It’s going to blow your mind. That’s all I can say. I can talk it up all I want, because I know it over-delivers. It way over-delivers. People are going to be so pumped when they see it.
This may be true, but surely this is also how he talks about every project?
No way the show can live up to that bar alone, him having said that gives me less confidence in BoBF
Some of them may be more implied or more Neverar’s interpretations, but half of them are outright said in the OT. Obi-Wan being a reckless crusading idealist, Anakin speaking hopefully of his child becoming a Jedi, Anakin being the best star pilot in the galaxy, I don’t know how to miss that from the OT.