That was an interesting read! I especially like the bit about Wedge not being at the battle of Scariff. It never occurred to me, but it’s kind of a hilarious little retcon that the “cut the chatter, Red 2” line is now more of a “yeah we know, WE all saw this thing a few days ago and where were you? Now get to work.”
Not Boba Fett. That’s definitely the Mandalorian in the third faux Lando poster.
I’m reading the script (about 20 pages in) and, yeah, so far I think this would’ve been better than what we got. Granted, I have a somewhat fuzzy memory of Rise of Skywalker since I’ve only seen it once back in December. While I didn’t hate it, it didn’t really do much for me either. This seems like a better ending imo. Keeping palpating (lol, autocorrect. Palpatine.) dead is a big plus already.
Yeah, I just wish there was enough of a voice from the consumer base that these companies would actually stop doing this kind of thing, or at least give the consumer the choice of which version they’d prefer to watch.
I thought this article was noteworthy because, while it touches on the Star Wars issue, it was written with a much broader scope (and more important issue) of digitally revising history and the dangers it presents.
An interesting article about Disney altering and censoring films for its Disney+ streaming service. Maclunkey gets a mention but it’s more about a Tom hanks film that they’ve cgi’ed out a butt. The cool thing about the article, though, is they actually comprehend and articulate the danger this trend presents to history. This kind of writing needs more support and broader attention in the public eye!
EDIT: oh right, RotS is what’s bad
^This guy got it!
As for my personal opinion, Rogue One and The Mandalorian are both just fantastic, TFA is pretty good but flawed, Solo is better than it had any right to be and I’d say is like one of the better Star Wars comics brought to life, and TLJ is uneven with some very high highs and some very low lows but still enjoyable overall (the ending saves it for me). And they are ALL better than RotS!
The only exception is Rise of Skywalker but that’s only because I haven’t had a chance to see it again since my one time at the theater in order to form a more solid opinion of it, good or bad. I really wanted to see it again but I was so busy over the holidays I never got to. And haven’t had a chance since it came out on video.
This newest episode is the best Star wars content I’ve seen since Revenge of the Sith. Apparently the siege of mandalore arch is a movie split into 4 episodes.
Ah, so you’ve not watched anything released since RotS. Got it.
I’ve seen links but haven’t watched any yet. I see he did one for the imperial TIE shuttle thing from ESB. Does he give credit to the people on theRPF.com? There was a thread years ago where a guy was researching that ship and figured out it was likely a TIE bomber with the wings flipped around.
Genuine question: does the FOV of the shot indicate that Yavin IV would be visible from the Death Star? An observer watching from a third point in space (like the camera here) might be able to look on either side of the Yavin gas giant to see both objects, but they might not be able able to see each other nonetheless.
This is probably correct, especially considering how objects in space (especially in Star Wars) can be hard to judge w/r/t/ distance.
Looking at the tweet that .gif came from, apparently someone made the case in the responses, too
https://twitter.com/Nexahs/status/1247571888462848002
Eh. I don’t know. For me the most questionable thing in the shot is how the gas giant behind the X-Wings looks like it’s made of play-doh.
But if you really pay attention, you can deduce that the Death Star does, indeed have a clear line-of-sight shot in that… shot. Yes the camera pans around and whatnot, but look specifically at the relation of Yavin, the ships, and the Death Star to one another. Thanks the the way the camera does move, we can see that the ships appear to be traveling in a straight line, that Yavin is directly behind them, and that the Death Star is directly in front of them. Connect the dots and you have a straight line from Death Star to rebel base with no pesky gas giant to block the laserblast…
Yeah I don’t know what the requirements are now, but when the site first opened they would only approve an account there if you had an account here on OT.com with a certain amount of participation/history. And you had to use the same handle.
Did you follow the rules for creating the account? They have very specific requirements for getting approved from what I remember.
Yeah. While I really like the idea of the rebellion being small and struggling and only really gaining wider support after their victory at Yavin, nothing in Rogue One is too hard to rationalize into the OT.
The Profundity and Admiral Raddus are the only Mon Cal bits we see in the rebellion at that point. While less romantic, it’s not hard to imagine (and perhaps more “realistic”) to think he leads a small band of Rebel sympathizers/supporters that are highly controversial on his home planet and his movement only gains wider Mon Cal support after Yavin. Heck, it’s obvious in the film that the Rebellion’s relationship with many planets/systems/cultures is very strained and tenuous. If I remember, don’t a number of the groups from the big debate scene where they’re deciding whether or not to raid Scariff storm off to go back to their homes rather than risk being more deeply involved in what’s about to happen?
That’s the impression I came away with, anyway: That the Rebellion was losing what little support it had as the debate over the Death Star drug on and then when Jyn and her crew go rogue (ha!) and head to Scariff without full support, its only the really die hards that either join the fight or stay at Yavin to see how it goes. The wafflers all tucked tail and ran.
Man they really bottled lighting with these designs, didn’t they?
Bah! Get that prequel garbage out of this thread about real Star Wars! 😉
Bounty Hunter was actually really good. It was the only prequel related thing that actually felt like genuine Star Wars at the time. And it’s one of the only prequel related things I can think of that I’d actually be willing to pay money to revisit.
There are numerous head on or tail on shots of the Falcon in the OT. Most are very fleeting as the camera, ship, or both are moving. One notable longer shot is the Falcon entering the Death Star hangar bay. It lasts several seconds and is dead on the nose just like the Ohrai poster (although the stylized version of the Falcon in the poster looks a bit more “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” which makes it feel a bit more exotic and UFO-ish imo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHFhp594RlU&app=desktop&persist_app=1
I agree! My personal favorite was X-wing Alliance. I can absolutely see arguments for X-wing or TIE Fighter being the better game, but the story mode combined with the better (at the time) graphics and capped off with the excellently simulated Battle of Endor (complete with diving through the Death Star II in the Falcon!!) really clinched it as my personal fave. GREAT game series and a true shame we haven’t gotten a modern sequel or remake of some sort!
As for the original topic, it’s a tough choice. The X-wing is obviously the sexier choice. But the Y-wing is almost like a flying tank that’s so ugly it’s beautiful. The wanna-be fighter pilot in me makes me ultimately pick the X-wing but I’d absolutely wouldn’t be above taking a Y-wing for a spin from time to time!
@ray-afraid: please. Life is too short to waste my time forcing myself to watch something that is abundantly clear I don’t enjoy at all. The amount I watched was more than enough to inform me what the film was like and whether I’d enjoy watching it or not.
@yotsuya: first, thanks for understanding and not rushing to judgement just because I don’t share a common opinion. Second, thanks for the explanation. Makes sense. I guess the academy has always been a bunch of stuffy, out of touch buffoons. I never have understood why people put so much stock in those awards ceremonies…
What am I missing that everyone thinks Annie Hall is so great? It was just whiny and pedantic and miserable at every turn. I just don’t see the appeal. I’ve never really paid any attention to Woody Allen, but if this is his typical brand of comedy it clearly isn’t for me.
I saw Annie Hall was on amazon Prime so I thought I’d give it a watch. This dreck beat Star Wars as best picture in 1977? WTF!?
It was so awful I couldn’t finish it. Turned it off after about 20 or 30 mins. And that was being generous. I wanted to stop after about 10 mins but tried to give it the benefit of the doubt.
But geez. It’s basically a pathetic, miserable man being pathetic and miserable and making everyone around him miserable too. What was wrong with people that they would vote for this trash over Star Wars?
It matters less how many people care and far more about setting a precedent in court. A legal determination in his favor could prove a huge deal to film history.
I work in the travel industry and this is turning out to be a devastating blow. I’m not convinced that this extreme reaction was truly necessary, but at this point that’s moot. This is where we are and it is having an insanely negative impact on my career field. The fallout remains mostly unknown at this point but it’s almost certain that pay cuts and layoffs are coming in droves.
I only hope the company for which I work survives this episode and that I make it through without losing my job.
And that audience has gotten amazingly, shockingly, rewardingly GREAT at servicing itself over the past 15 years, too.
So I’m rewatching the show and it just occurred to me, we never find out who it really was that went back for the body of the dead assassin lady on Tatooine, do we?
I tried pausing it and it really does look like it might be Mando but it’s impossible to tell for certain.
Well, that’s the ROTS Vader suit, maybe that’s a place to start?