Posted on 05/20/2018 8:33:07 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
To be fair, the idea that the dark side was meant to be “another side” was kind of promoted in the Prequel Trilogy and Return of the Jedi due to some of Obi-Wan’s dialogue (specifically, claiming “only a Sith deals in Absolutes”, essentially implying the Jedi don’t even hold to absolutes at all, and claiming that the truths we cling to depend greatly on a point of view, respectively). But I agree, JJ Abrams should NEVER have been allowed near Star Wars, or Rian Johnston (and Disney really shouldn’t have had control over Disney. With the exception of Rogue One and the SCAR trooper story, maybe also Bloodline, most of their additions have been complete crap.). Unfortunately, the only reason Disney has access to Star Wars at all was because George Lucas, despite his socialist rhetoric about not wanting corporations owning government, pretty much sold it so he’d be tax exempt when the Bush tax cuts were removed by Obama.
Yeah, of the Disney entries, only Rogue One regarding films was even remotely good.
I certainly though Star Wars: Rebels was just terrible, making the Empire look unrealistically incompetent (had they lost as many battles in reality as they did in that series, well, the Empire probably would have collapsed well before Return of the Jedi).
He also named one of the “heroes” in The Clone Wars Saw Gerrera (no need to guess who THAT is referring to).
Ironic that by the time they were finished, they had gone deep into American mythology: Luke was a midwestern farm boy in every way.
And of course, the Vietnam war was long since over.
And who would ever see America as a brutal dictatorship more than Vietnam? Star Wars was like Rocky if Rocky won! It (apparently unintentionally and ironically) inspired Red Dawn, Battlestar Galactica, etc. Oh, how Lucas must’ve hated that his movie helped propel Reagan into the White House! (BG’s dominant message was a rejection of Eastpolitick in favor of recognizing that you can never broker peace with an enemy sworn to your destruction!)
Pedro? ;-)
Che Guevara.
Yeah, pretty ironic. Would probably explain why ROTJ had the Ewoks (not to mention the more overt depiction of politics in the prequel trilogy).
Though to be fair, Lucas started penning Star Wars while Vietnam was still going on.
I lost interest when they hired
that HORSE FACED DORK
to be the spawn of Leia & Solo
Also ironic:
Looking back, there was a potentially brilliant political allegory in the fact that the Jedi had become villainous themselves and that they ruled by an anti-Democratic “deep state” shadow government that pulled all the strings, while the “free traders” were really working for the emperor despite all of their rhetoric about freedom.
Lucas just had to be be too overtly injecting politics by lines that deliberately echoed George W. Bush.
predictive programming
To go into detail would require me to try to remember the entire thing, which would be tortuous. However, here are two points:
1) The movie's plot was unnecessary. The Rebellion pretty much ends up at the exact same place at which it started.
2) There is a particular scene involving Leia which was just painful to watch -- it essentially involves her doing a Flying Nun routine to fly from a destroyed spaceship to another -- in the middle of space -- without a suit. The theater I was in just laughed, and that wasn't the reaction appropriate to the plot.
It was just a terrible movie all around.
There are only 3 Star Wars movies. None of the rancid sewage made since Return of the Jedi can rightly be counted as Star Wars movies. It is all disgusting trash. Each successive Disney movie upis getting worse than the last.
Star Wars died 30 years ago.
Star Wars died by the time Jar Jar Binks appearedin his first scene. Nothing after that was remotely salvagable as a Star Wars movie. The heart of the entire SW franchise stopped beating sometime before Jar Jar Binks uttered his first Jamaican line, mon.
Very true!
Yes, the SJW garbage you mentioned, and pretty much zero continuity with the previous 7 films (8 counting Rogue One) it was supposed to be a direct continuation of. It pretty much just destroyed the storyline and rendered the sequel trilogy meaningless as well as ruined previously established characters as well.
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