Jedi Rocks is absolutely horrific. Whenever I watch ROTJ I mute my television out of embarrassment when Rocks comes on.
> not watching the theatrical cuts
Legends Sith Lords also make the most of the “cool evil name” trend: Sadow, Darth Ruin, Tenebrous, Nihilus, Phobos, Vengean, Desolous, etc.
You forgot the best one: Darth Millenial.
You know, to be fair, they named this one before the word Millennial got associated with the generation.
In TLJ, there’s a scene where they reuse an OT soundtrack for a little bit. Not a motif, not a phrase, an entire track. I bet that this was a test run, and that we’d be seeing a lot more of that in the future.
In Solo, there’s an entire scene whose entire purpose seems to just be reusing OT soundtracks. Then in TRoS, the entire movie reuses OT and PT soundtracks the whole time.
I didn’t mean to say all movies are equal, just that people are more forgiving of flaws in the movies they like, for whatever reason, but more critical of similar flaws in another they may not be a fan of, for whatever reason.
Hot take, the memes aren’t funny.
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RotS the worst and most soulless of the three prequels
TPM and RotS are opposites: TPM is super cringe, but at least has a decent story. RotS isn’t (that) cringe, but its story is barely even there.
Not sure which of the prequels is the best/least-bad. RotS is the easiest to swallow, but TPM has the actual story. And as for AotC, well, it’s cringier than TPM and only barely has more of a story than RotS, but it has some cool action scenes and the Obi-Wan part of the movie is kind of cool.
The Force Awakens wasn’t super radical, but it didn’t have to be. Their goal was to prove that one, post-buyout Lucasfilm was capable of making movies, and two, that the prequels didn’t kill Star Wars. It was a safer movie to bring people on board to future movies. It looks like it did its job, because most of the criticism made against it is done in retrospect.
The Last Jedi was the radical one, and that was a good thing. Episodes 8 and 9 were the ones that had to pick up the slack story-wise for the sequel trilogy, and the Last Jedi did its part. I really liked its story. It can be a little bit of a “good story, weird execution”, though. The bathos goes way too far in some places. But overall, its story is good.
I think though inevitably because TLJ tried to take Star Wars in a new direction, that was going to turn some people off. Not because they want Star Wars to stagnate, but because when you go in a new direction, that new direction might not be the direction they were wanting it to go in. And you kinda have to respect that.
It’s hard to take some criticisms against TLJ, like how it’s a complete cinematic catastrophe, or how the plot makes zero sense, or that Rian Johnson’s a hack, seriously at all. Because it’s not a catastrophe, the plot’s fine, and you KNOW Rian Johnson’s not a hack.
The Rise of Skywalker I don’t think picked up the slack at all. I think it reacted too hard to criticisms made against TLJ, and it ended up suffering for it. Bringing Palpatine back was dumb and Rey Palpatine was dumb. The plot of the movie is super uninteresting, and the characters have really lost any and all uniqueness they had in the former two sequels, except maybe Kylo Ren.
I think there’s a lot of people who were on board for the first two sequels, but TRoS kind of ruined the trilogy as a whole. That’s fine. But personally I just kind of put a wall between TLJ and TRoS. It’s the sequel duology and the weird bad one that came out afterwards in my mind.
The first two sequels do a lot of work in bringing back the fundamental things that make Star Wars Star Wars that the prequel trilogy threw away, and if they didn’t, I’d probably just consider myself an OT fan instead of a Star Wars fan. They don’t go so far as to outright contradict the prequel trilogy, because Rian Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy are big fans of the prequels, but they fix some of the damage the prequels did.
Snooker please come back
Do you think you could upload a sample?
Except, again looking at Star Wars/A New Hope, they mention an Old Republic. What happened to that Old Republic? Why is there a senate to be dissolved if this Republic has been gone for so long? Is the Empire new? How’s it gain so much power so quickly?
Snoke doesn’t undo anything of the original trilogy. Palpatine not being defeated does, but a new threat coming from the Unknown Regions does not.
It’s not any more or less established in universe, your need for every answer coming from a 30 year gap is not the same as a flaw in storytelling.
Imagine in Episode V’s crawl opened with the New Republic many years after the defeat of the Empire. It wouldn’t make any sense and would make ANH feel pointless in retrospect.
I mean… Until a sequel was announced, most people just kind of assumed that the Death Star getting destroyed meant the Empire was gone too. They put all their eggs in one basket, banking on this Death Star thing so hard they dissolved the Senate that was so critical to their control of the galaxy, and it all fell apart.
If Star Wars 2 had such a wildly different setting I don’t think it would have worked, but not because the setting doesn’t make sense.
A few years back, there was an “Erasing the Prequels Entirely” thread, where I made something like that by masking out the Episode Numbers.
The people in the thread thought it would be a better idea to have no episode title in the crawl at all, and to change the logos. I agree that would be a better idea, but doing that with Blender or something like it kind of always makes it look out of place. At least in my opinion.
Maybe I’m just not an audiophile, but I don’t think I could tell the difference in quality.
I don’t plan on continuing to update this project. It took way longer than I thought to do, and at a certain point it kind of outlived the novelty it had after Endgame came out. If you want to take over and have me to give you everything I had made for it, I will, but I don’t think it’ll be super impressive.
As for the inconsistencies, yeah, the MCU is held together by a thread. I just kinda made calls for whatever I thought was right when there was a contradiction, which happened a lot especially with Phase One stuff. That’s what I recommend you do as well.
Writing should focus on story and character first, I don’t even know if I’d put filling out Wookieepedia pages as secondary…
That’s really what it comes down to, isn’t it? The fandom’s obsession with lore for lore’s sake.
Lore is only interesting or cool or valuable in service of a story. Neutering Snoke just for the sake of some technical backstory is a horrible idea.
Marquand as a director is a lot like Gareth Edwards. Good with action and special effects, lackluster on characters. Return of the Jedi has that aspect to it that I don’t think would have been there without him.
Then it iris wipes to a ska rendition of the main theme.
Does it really need an explanation? Mustafar has trees now, after all.
A contradiction needs an explanation for the story to be coherent and consistent. Also, it was never implied in TRoS that, that specific planet was Mustafar, it was only stated in ancillary material.
Even so, it’s a big planet. Not all of it’s going to look identical to how it does in Revenge of the Sith.
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade is my favourite film of the trilogy.
Not ‘as’ controversial as saying Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is, but I’ve honestly never seen someone say that was their favourite over Raiders or Temple.
Definitely not my favorite Indiana Jones movie, it’s the worst of the four, but I still like Crystal Skull a little bit.
I’ve heard a lot of people say Crusade is their favorite, though. Not as many as Raiders, but still.
Well, it’s not like a fanedit has to adhere to canon anyway lol
Or perhaps dub only dialogue that comes through Fett’s helmet, regardless of whose.
Good possibility
Would despecializing Mando Season 2 be viable?
-Pre Special Edition footage of the Death Star
-Redub Boba since he’s inevitably going to talk (definitely difficult, probably impossible)
-There’s a third Special Edition thing but I don’t remember what it is lol
Fortunately the Krayt dragon scream is more similar to the pre-Special Edition one.
INT. TEMPLE OF MORTIS - NIGHT
Kylo feels the very thing that destroyed Anakin. But doesn’t
make him feel weak.
He looks at Rey’s outstretched hand…and TAKES IT.
THE LIVING FORCE FLOWS BACK INTO HER.
Both light and dark swirl within Rey as Kylo is reduced to an
empty shell. A man without power. A frightened boy.
Kylo and Rey collapse into one another, each propping the
other up on their knees.
Rey is close to him now. Their foreheads touching.
He is weakened, spent. In the last moments of his life.
KYLO
McScriff.
Rey is stunned to hear her name. Distant, like a memory.
KYLO (CONT’D)
Your name.
(last breath)
Rey McScriff.
Those words are Ben Solo’s last.
Gotta give some respect to one of the OGs
Replace all 3PO dialogue with text to speech
This was a pipe dream in 2011, but in 2020 this might actually be feasible. It would be an assload of work, but it’s absolutely doable.
I really get the impression from taking into account this, George’s conversation with James Cameron, and the Yoda arc that they’re Immortal beings who study and watch the events of the mortal beings and they are the Force. They created Anakin to combat the growing threat of the Dark Side which took the Force out of Balance as it may have always been told by a central Whill. It makes me wonder if part of the journey of the Sequel Trilogy would’ve been about the grandchildren of Anakin discovering their deeper connection to the Force. Similar in a way to the Ones on Mortis. They’d become the embodiments of Light and Dark to maintain long term balance with Anakin serving as Father.
Thank God we never got George Lucas’s sequel trilogy
I’m a fan