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timdiggerm said:

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.

Just seeing another side of a previously-established planet is cool enough on its own to justify it, honestly, even if Cantonica isn’t a very interesting planet.

I can barely tell the difference between 1080p and 4k. Part of that’s just me, but increasing resolution seems to have diminishing returns for home media. I don’t think 8k will be a thing, at least not for a very long time. I genuinely predict we will see a re-release of the unaltered OT before we see the SE OT on 8k.

Looks interesting but I’m not going to struggle through reading this guy’s le quirky writing style

Anakin Starkiller said:

Kylo Ren and Snoke act exactly like Sith, though.

I’d argue they’re Sith of a non-Baneite lineage, but I’m sure Canon will contradict me on that.

Well thanks to TRoS, I guess you can say they’re Sith of a Banite lineage, if Palpatine trained Snoke.

I used to think that Rick McCallum was Ric Olie’s actor.

RicOlie_2 said:

To all y’all complaining about Dave Chappelle, keep in mind that humour usually involves making fun of people and it doesn’t make people anti-whatever-they’re-making-fun-of:

https://www.quora.com/What-s-the-deal-with-Dave-Chappelle-and-Netflix-recently

To all y’all complaining about complaining about Dave Chappelle, this is a blatant marketing stunt. Netflix is not exactly a socially conservative company, they wouldn’t have put this on their platform if that wasn’t the point. Fabricating a controversy = Very opinionated people watch a mediocre comedy routine they otherwise wouldn’t.

Pretty interesting. That’s less headcanon and more just the logical consequence of what we’re shown

yotsuya said:

The first time we see Jedi in slasher mode is in Return of the Jedi. Then again in The Phantom Menace.

I wouldn’t really call that slasher

Servii said:

Padme was cut down because Natalie Portman was asking for more money than George wanted to give her, so I wouldn’t be surprised if most of this plotline went unfilmed.

Wait, really? Where did you hear that?

I guess I’m making assumptions. In 2017 there was a leak of an earlier draft of Revenge of the Sith where Padme had a much bigger role, but was cut down because Natalie Portman was asking for more money. Happened before with Anthony Daniels in ESB. But I don’t actually know that that has anything to do with the deleted scenes, or that anything from that draft was filmed, so I shouldn’t have made that assumption.

I don’t know, I still feel like it’s definitely new for Star Wars that they’re trying to entertain us with Slasher Vader. We don’t see Slasher Vader in the OT, and it’s not a coincidence. They could’ve treated Hoth like the Rogue One hallway scene, but they don’t.

An important theme in the OT, which is somewhat continued in the PT and ST, is that the dark side isn’t badass. It isn’t spectacular. It’s deranged and pathetic. It’s definitely a little different that Rogue One and Mando focus on both heroes and villains murking mooks.

Do they? The only deleted scenes I can think of that actually improve the prequels are the Padme scenes from RotS. Giving her more agency is a good thing, but they don’t go anywhere. Maybe there could be more deleted scenes which give the Delegation of 2000 more purpose that we just haven’t seen, but I kind of doubt that. Padme was cut down because Natalie Portman was asking for more money than George wanted to give her, so I wouldn’t be surprised if most of this plotline went unfilmed.

Most of the other deleted scenes were cut for a reason. TPM and AotC are far better off without any of the deleted scenes (that we know about I suppose), and that’s including the ones that were re-inserted on re-releases. I feel like re-inserting deleted scenes would just be bloat.

Hal 9000 said:

As the death star prepares to fire on Alderaan, edit in real world footage of violent atrocities being committed on the planet’s surface in order to make it more understandable that the empire would want to destroy them.

If this was actually in the movies you’d have teenagers talking about how deep and complex it makes Star Wars

This convo is now like two weeks old, but I wanna say that I have never, ever heard a good criticism of a character being a Mary Sue or Gary Stu, and this has nothing to do with gender, Star Wars, or Rey.

Bluto said:

Funny this thread should come up - I was just wondering this the other day. I’ve mostly called it ESB, probably because that seems to be the more common abbreviation, but realise this is inconsistent with the other films. For example, people tend to include the “T” in “TPM”, “TFA”, “TLJ” and “TROS”.

If searching on Google for things related to Empire, “ESB” is far more lucrative.

I think the reason why TPM, TFA, TLJ, and TRoS caught on where TESB did not is because the first four only have two words if you exclude grammatical particles, but the Empire Strikes Back has three. Same thing with A New Hope, because if you can exclude “the” you should be able to exclude “a”.

I kinda don’t see how it would improve the PT enough for it to be worth the effort

I don’t think I’ve seen it called TESB in a good part of a decade

I forgot what thread I was in for a second and almost had a stroke

Have Rian write and JJ direct if they’re gonna collaborate. I often see it the other way around, but TLJ was the best written one and TFA was the best directed one, so I feel like it would work better that way around.

Servii said:

This one might be a little spicy.

Luke’s characterization in TLJ isn’t really about him being depressed. He’s not on the island because he’s depressed. He’s on the island because he made the rational decision that the galaxy is better off without him, and also he just so happens to be depressed.

I don’t know about the bunny girl

Anakin Starkiller said:

Omni said:

Yeah, not a flaw at all. Complaining about Carano’s firing should be a major red flag.

Strongly diasgree. What she said may have been really stupid but it wasn’t dangerous, and I’ve had with this cancel culture.

It’s not like she was fired because Disney didn’t like what she was saying, Lucasfilm chose not to re-hire her after her contract ran out because her transphobia made the lead actor not want to work with her.

CarboniteSolo said:

Vader was only trying to get the plans that were stolen. All these people were in his way shooting at him, it’s either sit there and let the firing squad kill him, or mow them down with a lightsaber. I myself, in that situation would have done the same thing.

Because if he loses the plans, he has to face the Emperor and the consequences for failing.

Darth Vader’s a fictional character though, justifying a story decision with in-universe facts doesn’t work. The writers could have just not had that be the case.