Superweapon VII

“Me sucky sucky.”

Mocata said:

I think that specific idea would be a slight problem when they get to ROTJ.

True. Though it wouldn’t be any more contrived than the retcons Lucas actually pulled.

JadedSkywalker said:

I hate Star Wars becoming the Saga of Darth Vader rather than the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, I hate Luke being supplanted and replaced by Vader becoming the lead character. We are supposed to root for a wife killer and child murderer is that it?

Lucas totally lost his sense on the prequel, virgin birth, chosen one prophecy, rules on attachment, midichlorians, Whills, how can people take any of that at face value.

He destroyed Star Wars there was nothing left for Disney to destroy.

While I agree with your points overall, I wouldn’t want Star Wars to JUST be the Adventures of Luke Skywalker. The SW Universe is bigger than any Skywalker, Luke or Anakin.

I sometimes ponder what if Lucas had decided to make Mon Mothma Luke & Leia’s mom going into the prequels. If you’re gonna make Anakin’s lover a senator, why not use the female senator character you’ve already created who goes on to play a crucial role in the Rebellion?

JadedSkywalker said:

In Baum just like Middle Earth it exists as a real world, or like Wonderland does in the Alice books.

It’s been a spell since I read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass, but I’m 99% sure Wonderland exists only in Alice’s dreams, albeit possibly as a transient sub-reality, if the speculation that Alice herself’s a part of the Red King’s dream is anything to go by.

Mocata said:

Diminished force powers don’t account for the lack of basic thinking.

Somewhat of an aside, but this is another element in the prequels I really wish was shown rather than told to us. And it could’ve been easily done, just by making the Jedi less powerful than Luke and Yoda were in the OT, with Anakin as an outlier. Instead Lucas uses Bizarro logic.

William of Ockham is a bitch. There, I said it.

“The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.”

— Simone Weil

The nation-state is a bad idea and nationalism utter brain rot.

Neither. I was a teen when the prequels were being released, so I was lacking in enough taste to think I liked them at the time. That’s more than I can say of the sequels, I guess? I disliked TFA right off the bat and never finished TLJ. I want to live in a world where neither trilogy exists.

JadedSkywalker said:

Is it unpopular to pretty much hate everything that happened after Vision of the Future. I like Luke and Mara settling down together maybe they have one or more children based on Vision of the Future, I even like Ben. But all the grimdark stuff from the Vong, to killing Anakin Solo, making Jacen Hayden Skywalker and killing him, and killing Mara I despise.

I share the same opinion, for what it’s worth.

“You know, if you weren’t so intensely self-absorbed, you’d realize that all of life is a balance between the emptiness of eternity and the need to make art … to remind ourselves we were here.”

“I had an epiphany like that once. Then I mercilessly beat someone until it went away.”

Heh. I’ve long thought that Adrian Paul would’ve made a pretty good Exar Kun in a TOTJ film, but never considered him as Anakin, though I can imagine him easily pulling it off. He also had black hair, which is what I imagined Anakin’s hair colour to be prior to TPM’s release.

“I was so gay, but I couldn’t tell anyone.”

fmalover said:

Channel72 said:

the main characters are given arbitrary leadership roles that don’t suit their previous story-arcs

Lando being promoted to General in no time sticks out like a sore thumb.

Yeah. Though there was some precedent for this in TESB with Luke having the rank of commander only three years after joining the Rebels with no military training beforehand. Like, him blowing up the Death Star doubtless was cause enough to bump him up a rank or three, but still, realistically, he shouldn’t have a rank higher than petty officer.

“Earl, did we just catch ourselves some kind of beautiful man-fish?”

“Let’s feast on his flesh!”

Tobar said:

My apparently unpopular opinion judging by past reactions:

I think they should have used Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors in Shadows of the Empire instead of creating Dash Rendar and Leebo. Kyle and Jan were already mercenaries working for the Rebellion with big accomplishments under their belts and they were active during that period. Instead we got a Han Solo wannabe that was as interesting as a slice of bread.

I think that’s an unfair analogy. A slice of bread can be quite interesting depending on the type.

“Are you wearing mascara?”

“Uh, it’s eye paint for men!”

The Water of Life makes terrible lube for triple anal.

This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!

Anakin has a doctorate in Darth Plagueis the Wise Studies

“That’s never going to heal if you don’t stop picking.”

That trailer is a nice showcase of everything I dislike about Force-based characters and modern fight choreography/cinematography. Hard pass.