Superweapon VII

fmalover said:

Shopping Maul said:

I just wonder if the whole concept of ‘cute 9 year-old transitioning into evil warlord’ was too much for Star Wars to handle whilst keeping things family friendly. It’s one thing to have it all implied in the OT, but it’s another thing to actually attempt to depict it.
For example my other favourite movie, Conan the Barbarian, does it perfectly. Conan, as a 9 year-old, sees his parents and kin slaughtered by an evil cult, is thrown into slavery (real slavery, not the suburban TPM version!), then sold into gladiatorial combat before being freed as an adult. Throughout this experience he is entirely driven by vengeance. There’s your Anakin. There’s a guy who legitimately could become Darth Vader. If Obi Wan had met that guy on Tatooine and they’d established a friendship, and then Anakin had been forced to choose between revenge and Jedi pacifism (maybe the guy who had slaughtered his parents had seen the light and become a Jedi Master for example), right there you’d have the perfect catalyst for a clash of ideals between legitimate friends/allies. But it would be dark stuff…

Making a movie aimed at children with dark elements is something nobody seems willing to do these days. The Neverending Story and The Dark Crystal are examples that come to mind. Those movies wouldn’t get made today.

What you get when the Helen Lovejoys of the world make the rules. Which is why I’m adamant on introducing any kids I have to horror and softcore porn before they hit double-digits.

Guy who did all those horny covers for Marville.

Channel72 said:

I’ve read so many comments online lamenting how the Sequels ruined Star Wars and all that. This is kind of funny to me, because I’m like, yeah welcome to the club. I don’t like the Sequels either but from my perspective, Star Wars was pretty much irrevocably damaged in 1999. Truthfully, at this point Star Wars is like 90% crap, with A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back really standing out as the only truly great movies. But despite this, every now and then a small miracle occurs and we get something like Andor, which apparently was written by people from a different Universe where entertainment companies actually give a shit about story and writing. I still can’t believe that show is even real.

Pretty much my perspective, too.

I do receive some small pleasure that the supercilious PT/EU fanboys now get to experience what we OOT fans have had to feel since at least 2005.

The Star Wars films are mythologized retellings of historical events, which each succeeding trilogy being less historically accurate than the one previous.

The OT is the trilogy that most closely recaptures the actual events, though there’s still a gradient. SW is the most accurate; the timeline’s compressed, and some of the superficial details (lightsaber colours, for instance), are wrong, but you can be assured that you’re not being grossly misled. TESB is murkier; Anakin & Vader were actually separate individuals all along, and the timeline’s even more compressed this time around. ROTJ is the most mythologized; Luke & Leia weren’t siblings, and there never was a second Death Star, though there probably was a climactic battle between Imperial & Rebel forces which occurred concurrently with some encounter between Luke, Vader, and Palpatine.

The PT is heavily mythologized. If the Jedi ever had a Chosen One prophecy, it was applied to Anakin/Vader retroactively. Anakin/Vader had a human father. The Clone Wars were multiple conflicts involving several disparate parties which were condensed into a single major war with two sides. The Jedi rebellion/Jedi purge were longer/more complicated events. Boba Fett may or may not have been the son of Jango Fett, who may or may not have been a clone template, but he wasn’t a clone himself.

There’s virtually nothing about the ST that matches actual history. It’s just a nth-generation retelling of the OT. There probably was an Admiral Holdo who died in a kamikaze attack in some battle with Imperials, but that’s about as close to historical accuracy as it gets.

Jaxxon by Mike Mignola

“Erectile tissue … it’s all a matter of swollen tissue and secretion; a confession before extreme unction. Semen smells nasty to me. I have a very keen sense of smell, and I stank like rotten fish when I was fertilized.”

Spuffure said:

Also, yikes, this thread has a LOT of broken file links!

Time, destroyer of worlds and URLs.

of_Kaiburr_and_Whills said:

(Also, not sure if this thread is specifically dedicated to meme-like images since that’s what I’m seeing the most of. Either way wanted to share these. I think Cooke was a great cartoonist and its a shame we lost him.)

There’s another thread for SW art:

https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Awesome-Star-Wars-art-pic-heavy/id/47273

I doubt anyone minds, though.

Spuffure said:

Nowadays I don’t mind some sexualization as long as it’s not Frank Miller levels of it. Sexualization is a spectrum and it’s all really about intent.

Yes, thank you. As a sex-positive feminist, I get pretty fucking sick to death of sex-negativity from “the left”.

Elan Sleazebaggano is the Jesse Pinkman of the SW Universe.

“I may not say this right because I am new to English, but she has tremendous breasts, yes?”

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang alternates between dreadfully tedious and painfully annoying. It’s a quite nice-looking film, though; that’s the only thing elevating this shitty film to mediocrity.

Francielle Mattos

Spuffure said:

Wouldn’t it be great if we could delete bad memories at will?

Bad memories are some of the worst things ever.

A part of me agrees. A big part. On the other hand, we wouldn’t learn nothin’ if all our memories were positive and affirming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLzJAebfEIg

So I bit the bullet and watched Andor. As someone who initially loved Rogue One but found it weaker with each subsequent watch, and as someone who’s been turned off by everything else Disney’s had to offer thus far, I didn’t think I’d ever touch this show, but the continual praise convinced me to take a leap of faith.

I thought the first half of the season was a bit on the boring side, but once the proceedings on the sheep planet were through, I really came to admire the show. Though I love certain EU stories more, this is definitely the best thing to come out of the live-action/television corner of the SW Universe since 1980.

I give it a tentative 9/10. Here’s hoping Season 2 keeps the flow going strong.

StarkillerAG said:

Spartacus01 said:

a movie so poorly written as AOTC.

Yeah… No.

“Just being around her again is… intoxicating.”
“Attachments… FORbidden.”
“I’m haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating, hoping that that kiss will not become a scar.”
“Don’t leave. Your presence is soothing.”
And of course, the ultimate example:
“I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything’s soft… and smooth.”

I’m sorry, but if you can’t see how crappy half the dialogue in AOTC is (especially whenever Anakin’s on screen), you’re delusional. And the extremely subpar directing doesn’t do it any favors either.

I was around sixteen when I first saw AOTC. Even at that age, when I unironically liked lots of subpar crap, I found Anakin’s dialogue on the cringey side.

There’s no legitimate defense of that movie.

Stargate SG-1 is Star Trek for conservatives.

NeverarGreat said:

I legitimately wish something along these lines had occurred in the PT. I’ve long felt Padme would’ve been a stronger character if she’d been the Lady MacBeth-type.

I’m a “man”*, and I’ve rarely ever “directly said what I want.” Chalk it up to my restrictive upbringing, but I was never open about my feelings when I was younger, and still rarely am.

*Non-binary, if you want honesty, though I identify mostly with my biological sex, so whatever.

I prefer to call it SW or SW '77. ANH if I’m referring to any of the SEs, maybe.

JF_Sanderson said:

If Vader was Luke’s father in 1978, was he Anakin at that point? The whole “Obi Wan never told you… Etc… I am your father” does not entirely preclude the possibility that he, as a separate guy named Darth, sired Luke with Mrs. Skywalker.

I imagine Lucas was keeping his options open at that point.

Tarantino’s best film is his R-rated Star Trek film. And don’t tell me that it never got made; I don’t care.

Like Maul, Grievous only works for me as a piece of concept art.

I used to think I liked the Beatles. Then as I grew older and started listening to music other than what my parents listened to/was on the radio, I came to realize I really didn’t.

I don’t much care for '60s-'70s rock in general anymore. Except Gerry Rafferty; he’s the main exception.