Posted on 12/19/2017 9:12:23 AM PST by EdnaMode
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” has become quite the controversial entry for certain fractions of “Star Wars” fandom, so much so that an online petition is currently circulating asking Disney and Lucasfilm to remove “The Last Jedi” from official canon. The petition, started by Henry Walsh of Georgia, has well over 13,000 signatures and counting.
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Star Wars, get a LIFE
To be fair, the old Expanded Universe elaborated on that bit: He had C-3PO melted down because of being forcibly reintroduced to his bad past, but after Chewie saved him, Vader, in a surprisingly nice moment for him, ultimately allowed Chewie to repair him (something that was implied in the film when C-3PO’s remains were supplied to Chewie from what was essentially a doggie door).
Don’t know about the Disney EU, though. Apparently, the SCAR comic didn’t have Vader recognizing C-3PO at all despite the titular unit interrogating him [and succeeding to such an extent that they actually wanted him to shut up, though I haven’t fully read that comic, to be honest so I might be mistaken.].
Lol
With the possible exception of Luke Skywalker, every man in the movie is portrayed as a reckless hot-shot who constantly makes dumb, risky mistakes and has to rescued by the much wiser and intelligent women around them. Come to think of it even Luke Skywalker was portrayed as inferior to Rey in both skill and wisdom....
Heck, forget Phantom Menace, he forfeited any moral sense the moment he decided that the so-called “heroes” be based on the Vietcong while the so-called “villains” are basically American soldiers, all in an attempt to flip the bird at our involvement (and what makes it worse is that the first film was released around the time the Boat People were fleeing, many Vietnamese refugees arrived in California, the whole reeducation camps in Vietnam were being reported on, and then there’s the whole Khmer Rouge business that was all the rage in 1977, meaning by that time, he obviously should have known better than to base the Rebels on such an awful group, or to make us the bad guys.).
And honestly, even though Disney is largely responsible for the many screw-ups in Star Wars via Rebels, the Aftermath Trilogy, Battlefront II, and The Force Awakens, among others, I STILL blame George Lucas for what ultimately transpired, and his sale was all so he could ensure he was tax exempt by 2013 should Romney be elected to office in anticipation of higher taxes, and this is DESPITE making clear he was an Occupy Wall Street type of person.
Yep.
No, he didn’t. R2-D2 is the one who said he belonged to Ben Kenobi. C-3PO said he had no idea who that was or what R2-D2 was talking about.
They did bring Thrawn back as a character on the “Rebels” cartoon, so he is at least back in the canon in some fashion. I think he appears in some of the new books too.
In the first Star Trek, little annakin skywalker shows c3po the droid he is building and almost finished with except for the skin.
correction:
In the first Star WARS, little annakin skywalker shows c3po the droid he is building and almost finished with except for the skin.
“Obi-Wan should have remembered the droids. That is a plot hole.”
Well, technically, we don’t know that Obi Wan didn’t remember them. All he says is “I don’t remember owning a droid”, which is true, he never owned R2, because R2 was Anakin’s droid. I do think that Lucas never really planned the prequels that far ahead when he wrote the dialogue, but it’s not a direct contradiction.
Actually, in the comics he did. Or so I’ve heard.
Might have been a novelization.
Lots of star wars stuff out there. I only watched the movies. Never did any of the reading.
I’m getting the feeling that the people most disappointed are the loons that actually think there is something to this “force” stuff. Seriously.
From what I’m reading in the articles, it sounds like it’s a good movie. Sometimes if certain people don’t like a movie it means I will like it.
I called empire, “star wars for grownups”. The characters were not so two dimensional. Sounds like that is happening even more with this one.
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