Posted on 09/28/2013 11:23:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If you haven't seen it, a design company in Portland has created a video called 4 Rules to Make Star Wars Great Again. They've also set up a website and a petition which they are hoping 1 million people will sign.
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I like the video. It's very well produced and I'm sure the creators will get a lot of traffic. That said, I think you can boil all of these rules down to one underlying concept. The Star Wars universe was driven by a realistic sense of capitalist enterprise, specifically the idea of secondary and black markets that exist outside the Empire's control.
Without the underlying gradient of economic necessity almost none of the connections in the first 30 minutes of Star Wars would happen. Luke Skywalker lives on a moisture farm in the middle of nowhere. Early in Episode IV, Luke purchases two droids. Why? Because they are needed for work on the farm. Now what Luke wants to do is go to Toshi station to pick up some power converters, but he can't because he has to work and get the droids ready for work.
By the way, Luke's family buys the droids from the Jawas who are essentially junk collectors making a meager existence off whatever they can collect in the desert, fix up and resell. They are all capitalists trying to survive in a tough environment.
When he does have spare time, Luke spends it flying his beat up T-16 Skyhopper and his beat up X-34 Landspeeder. The reason his stuff is old is not because there is no new stuff in the Star Wars universe, it's old because Luke is broke. Used stuff that he rebuilds himself is all he can afford....
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Hmm.. I think the time is now...Ha. Sorry, the times are so close.
Get Robot Chicken to make the new ones.
If the next movies are in any way PC, Disney will likely lose big time over this. They paid something like $4 billion dollars for the whole thing.
If you throw in the cost of making the films, each film is going to have to make a billion dollars and they are going to have to make at least 6 films to get their money back.
Its here.
PING! PING! PING!
You have GOT to see this.
Instead we’re going to get CGI/Green Screen everything, gay/bi/lesbian/transgender characters, leftist propaganda plot, and there’s going to be a 10:1 ratio of aliens/minority character to every white human one.
Now what Luke wants to do is go to Toshi station to pick up some power converters …And all this time I thought it was Tosche Station.
Will star wars ever be free of token cute/comedic relief characters like jar-jar Binks, ewoks, etc?
Jar-jar wasn’t well received and George reacted as if people had insulted his first love.
Ewoks were introduced to appeal to children.
Which got ridiculous.
“Emperor’s best” elite troops defeated by bug eyed teddy ruxpin toys.
And the trashing of canon.
Vader wanted more power, became a sith: episode 4.
Vader wanted to save Padme, became a stupid dupe: episode 3.
Already accomplished pilot when I met him: episode 4
Pod racing plastic toned kid whose great piloting accomplishment was “do a barrel roll”: episode 1
R2-D2 was cute. And the Jawas. Some people find Yoda cute.
In episodes 4,5, and 6, R2,the jawas, and Yoda served real purpose.
Jar-jar and the ewoks?
Not so much, they seemed to be afterthoughts inserted in at the last second.
Focus group brainchildren seemingly.
The rest of it was mostly crap. Did George Lucas even see the first two films?
Anyway, J.J. Abrams treatment of Star Trek has been respectful without being slavish, and it hasn't really been filled with PC junk; typically he and his writers are interested in a good story more than a political line (although, Person of Interest was unfortunately in weird territory from time-to-time in Season II.)
We'll see. One out of three original Star Wars movies were good. The rest were awful. That's not a very high bar.
The beginning of the end: “Star Wars Holiday Special”
Incoherent, the holiday of “life day” is never explained nor actually made into anything the viewers should care about.
And..the treatment of Chewbacca’s entire family: one huge comedic insert with Art Carney to boot.
The only “good” thing that came from the SWHS was... Bona Fett.
It was his first appearance.
Riding a dinosaur in mud.
Boba Fett you stupid auto correcting smortfoan!
The money is going to be in licensing: toys, theme park attractions and more. The films are just commercials.
I just assumed Bona was the momma Fett.
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