Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Posted on 01/19/2020 7:07:20 PM PST by Rummyfan
Episode IX, The Rise of Skywalker, is the last film in the Skywalker saga and for that we can all be thankful. The galactic Hatfield vs. McCoy force-feud is done. If I sound exhausted with it all, it’s because I am. I’m an OG Star Wars fan and saw the original A New Hope when I was six, and Han shot first. What was enthralling is now just mostly tiring. With The Rise of Skywalker we may see the death of Star Wars. Unless we rebel.
The original trilogy holds up well. The storytelling is tight, the characters are engaging, the world is built. The prequels told a planned and interesting story via terrible direction and some odd starting choices. A tedious trade dispute really set the whole rise of the Sith in motion? That makes it harder for anyone in our galaxy to care about anything that happened a long time ago in that other one, but ok, let’s go with it. They hand-waved away how Anakin was born. Jar Jar. But they did give us the podrace, Darth Maul and the amazing aerial battle above Coruscant in Revenge of the Sith, though. The “Duel of the Fates” is a great piece of music. So they’re not all bad.
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Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
“Hand waived”
An extraorinarily blythe pass given to a plot event that simultaneuously minimalized the significance of the force and offended Christian viewers.
Just let it go and be forgotten.
I’m rooting for The Empire.
Who are the complex and compelling characters here? Flawless Rey, Poe the guy who flies good, Finn the comic relief? Perhaps it's Kylo who is a man-baby with anger issues.
Or maybe, just maybe, since all of these characters lack any sort of growth and are exactly the same through all three movies, they are not compelling at all.
Nah, liked the first one but they screwed it up already by the second one when they decided to go with “the formula”. Didnt need cutesy, didnt need comic relief, didnt need a lot of what was in the sequels and promised to get worse with each one.
It all started to suck when that first toad burped.
Yeah that’s probably the best advice but not just Star Wars but all of big entertainment.
I eagerly await Jar Jar Abrams making a sequel to Lord of the Rings.
Sam Gamgee’s son must go on a quest to find the forge that forged the rings to stop Sauron from rising again!
They were not.
This whole he shot forst thing is a non starter.
He had a gun pulled on him and the guy holding it was going to shoot him.
Its a total bs argument offered up by someone who thinks they are making a big point here.
“I’m rooting for The Empire.”
Ha! Me too.
I suggest they just reedit the source material to something coherent.
Yes “retcon” the entire three films, but do it by taking George Lucas’s example of editing his creations to its next step and edit the heck out of those new films and put them into some form of coherent story.
Its probably possible for them to do. It would be an insult to the directors, but they already pooped anyway. It would be possible to do things like edit out the death of Han solo, reconstitute Episode VII and VIII. Never saw Episode IX, but I do know there are fan reedits out there on the dark web that have already done significant leg work in making them into more coherent stories.
Leave it to Hollyweird and its cast of birdbrains to KILL a fabulous franchise.
I LOVED that shot!
Rey was perfect in the first movie. She was a desert dweller who'd, as far as we have any reason to believe, had never flown a spaceship but she's instantly a better pilot than Han Solo, able to repair the Falcon better than him too. Then she uses force powers without being trained and defeats Kylo in a duel, also without training. Then she just gets better and more powerful for no reason in the subsequent movies, kicking Luke Skywalker's butt (again without training) and of course being over the top powerul in the third movie. Boring character who never struggles with anything.
Or Poe? He has no character so hard to say it changed. He was just "the best pilot" which we know because we're told that, and that's about it.
Finn? You could say if anything he regressed, in the first movie he was a weakling who found strength to stand and fight when he knew the odds were bleak (and he was struck down) but then he became dopey comic relief.
Those are the primary characters. I'm curious who you think changed and grew through these movies, other than just getting more powerful inexplicably because the girl power narrative needed one of them to be the most overpowered character ever.
Not sure what film "A New Hope Is," but I saw the first Star Wars film when it first came out in 1977 when I was 27. Then I saw the second one, not near as good of a film, and lost interest after that.
1.Star wars.
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. A New Hope
The brand went down the pooper after that.
That is the first film...released in 1977.
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
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