Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

[Creep3r]

Even Wired seems to be losing faith.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/star-wars-aint-what-it-used-to-be.118426/

Courtesy of @NotJewishWario

Before we continue, a moment of clarity. Yes, WIRED participates in May the Fourth as much as any media organization and has for as far back as I can remember (in a galaxy far, far away … ). Also, there may be people out there who are much more excited about Obi-Wan than my feeds indicate. But my broader point is that, since The Mandalorian, maybe even since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the future of the franchise has felt like watching the Millennium Falcon go into hyperdrive: lots of bright lights and action, but hard to see where it’s going.

I guess they're starting to realize that there's nothing to look forward to and that all these spinoffs simply exist to stall for time since there's really nothing they can do afterwards except Reywank which no one wants (especially since the majority of Reyfans were Reyloshippers) and there's no exciting new adventures awaiting Luke and the gang in the end, its all just aimless filler for the same dreary ending.

Also there's a new Baby Yeet cereal and the box just looks depressing.

and that General Mills would be releasing a Baby Yoda cereal.

They could've at least had the little motherfucker smile in these.

Anyway, the article even has Wired admitting that Star Wars just needs to stop and that they're just pumping out too much aimless shit at once.

There’s also something to be said for the fact that all of these sort of ho-hum releases have come during much different times than previous ones did. Rise of Skywalker ended up being kind of a whimper for the more recent trilogy of movies to end on, but it also happened in December 2019, just months before Covid-19 hit. In the intervening years, there’s been the 2020 US presidential election, Black Lives Matter protests, a war in Ukraine, and countless other massively impactful events. While the franchise may have served as a distraction at times, it also seemed far less attention-worthy than the chaos of the real world. During a week in which a leaked draft opinion suggests the US Supreme Court could vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, an Obi-Wan trailer doesn’t feel that impactful. Star Wars has persisted in all sorts of sociopolitical climates, but at a time when it seems like the franchise could, frankly, use a break, now might be the time to just let it coast.

Also Bob Chapek and most of Disney's upper ranks just keep putting their foots in their mouths since all this DeSantis drama began. Courtesy of @Godzilla@1989

Disney vs. DeSantis: Chapek's 'Don't Say Gay' fumble a warning to CEOs, says Harvard professor

As Disney grapples with the aftermath of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis revoking the company's special tax district, business leaders around the globe are contemplating their own company values as political issues take center stage.

finance.yahoo.com

Disney tells investors Florida’s attempts to repeal private district are unlawful | Florida | The Guardian

Move could thwart state’s retaliation against company’s opposition to ‘don’t say gay’ law

amp.theguardian.com

And Disney subreddits are worried about that and Disney stocks to the point where they're hoping Kenobi restores faith in Disney. Many on twitter are even asking Elon Musk to buy the company which seems unlikely but amusing nonetheless.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40elonmusk%20disney&src=typed_query

Twitter users suggest what Elon Musk 'should buy next,' including Disney, History Channel

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter elicited a number of suggestions for what the business magnate should prioritize as his next move.

web.archive.org

 

[God of Nothing]

thank god for auralnauts

 

[Calandrino]

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They could've at least had the little motherfucker smile in these.

He looks like he has razor sharp teeth and lives under your floorboards and drinks your blood at night

 

[BONE_Buddy]

Oh God. Are they bringing those dumb spinning lightsabers to live action? They were bad enough when they were cordoned off to the shitty cartoon Rebels (or whatever it was).

 

[Creep3r]

Oh God. Are they bringing those dumb spinning lightsabers to live action? They were bad enough when they were cordoned off to the shitty cartoon Rebels (or whatever it was).

Yep...

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

thank god for auralnauts

One thing I wondered is why Obi-wan looks like that. He ended RotS with a short beard and short hair and started ANH the same way.

 

[God of Nothing]

Yep...
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I liked that it was just an intimidation thing to fuck up the padawan and untrained Jedi survivors.
then it became a means of aerial transportation

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

Luke in A New Hope: *Is a naïve kid who hasn't had much real experience with the war and has to be told by Kenobi what a lightsaber is*

Kenobi Leaks: "So, Reva takes Kid Luke and his family hostage with a saber to his throat before redeeming herself..."

 

[Creep3r]

Disney’s "Don’t Say Gay" stance wasn’t the first time it betrayed its LGBTQ fans

Disney Gays have learned to love Disney, even if Disney hasn’t always loved them back.

www.vox.com

Well I guess this explains why so many of the usual consoomer drones I know have been more critical of Disney Wars lately.

Disney’s “Don’t Say Gay” stance wasn’t the first time it betrayed its LGBTQ fans​

Disney Gays have learned to love Disney, even if Disney hasn’t always loved them back.

“I felt like I was just robbed,” Francis Dominic Garcia, a social media content creator who promotes Disney, told me. “I’ve given them so much blood, sweat, tears, and money. I also do influencer work for them. And now it almost looks hypocritical — all of a sudden, this company is like, ‘No, we’re not about that life.’ But they make literally so much money off of us!”

 

[King Dead]

Disney’s "Don’t Say Gay" stance wasn’t the first time it betrayed its LGBTQ fans

Disney Gays have learned to love Disney, even if Disney hasn’t always loved them back.

www.vox.com

Well I guess this explains why so many of the usual consoomer drones I know have been more critical of Disney Wars lately.

My God, the unwarranted self-importance of that faggot.

News flash, asshole: Disney does not make a lot of money off of gays. They make it off of children and families. You are not, and have never been, the primary audience. Considering that the best estimates for the amount of gays in the population are roughly 5%, while children make up about 22% alone, you're at best one fourth as valuable to Disney as their primary demographic. Shut the fuck up and cry into your pile of Funkos, you overgrown consoomer manchild.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

My God, the unwarranted self-importance of that faggot.

News flash, asshole: Disney does not make a lot of money off of gays. They make it off of children and families. You are not, and have never been, the primary audience. Considering that the best estimates for the amount of gays in the population are roughly 5%, while children make up about 22% alone, you're at best one fourth as valuable to Disney as their primary demographic. Shut the fuck up and cry into your pile of Funkos, you overgrown consoomer manchild.

Well, children and families are also cucked audiences. What are they going to do? Not go to Disneyland? If Disney is going to get their money from families no matter what, why shouldn't they take them for granted and go for ESG score?

 

[Screamer]

Calling it: Ben Kenobi will meet a plucky, sassy little girl who’s BIPOC and force-sensitive. He will realize that SHE’S actually the Chosen One but she’ll refuse to do the Jedi thing because “my Body, My Choice” or the equivalent and she’ll come back in another series or movie as… Mara Jade.

Edit: bonus scene of her upstaging Luke in some way. She’s a better pilot, farmer or whatever. Maybe she’s Trans. And Mark Hammil will cheer on Twitter that this is GOOD.

Obi-Wan will lament that he can't train the real chosen one, Leia. He will meet with Bail Organa and discuss how he doesn't trust himself to train someone as powerful as Leia.

 

[Ishtar]

Which is even more hilarious given that Leia never...demonstrates any powers of substantial note(at least not in the Disney verse) and uh dies as we all know anyway.

 

[Lodoss Warrior]

Disney’s "Don’t Say Gay" stance wasn’t the first time it betrayed its LGBTQ fans

Disney Gays have learned to love Disney, even if Disney hasn’t always loved them back.

www.vox.com

Well I guess this explains why so many of the usual consoomer drones I know have been more critical of Disney Wars lately.

These guys don’t seem to get that the marketing branch has always thought of them as living advertisement exclusively for the west.

Instant they want that Red money, Star Wars is as straight as can be. There are no lesbians in the galaxy—certainly none who kiss and tell, Poe and Finn are just good friends, and Finn deserves only to be poster-dressing.

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

Well, children and families are also cucked audiences. What are they going to do? Not go to Disneyland? If Disney is going to get their money from families no matter what, why shouldn't they take them for granted and go for ESG score?

Isn't Disney catering more and more to millennials without children anyway?

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I recently had a discussion about Star Wars and man this franchise lost the mysticism it once had. The fact that TV is basically carrying it is honestly sad.


Like the Sequel Trilogy itself had no real cultural impact and are ultimately very forgettable films.

The Force Awakens was just a boring retread of A New Hope full of JJ's mystery boxes.

The Last Jedi compared to the other two seemed to want to introduce new ideas but is held back by how no one bothered to address continuity from TFA and a lot of scripting issues.

Rise of Skywalker is easily the worst of the movies since it's the most soulless Star Wars movie out there that clearly wanted to have the same amount of praise that people had for Avengers Endgame.

It's impressive how all of the characters in the Sequel Trilogy ended up becoming more shallow to the point of really not being characters excluding the OT characters and maybe Kylo Ren

The fact that you barely remember the names of the planets really shows the lack of creativity since the only memorable of the new planets were just Not!Tatooine, Casino Planet, Salt Planet, and Sith Planet. There were other planets but without certain structures, they wouldn't be any different from certain places on Earth.

I can't really blame the directors since JJ is good when other people tard wrangle him, and Rian Johnson is fine without connection to other people's stuff or being tard wrangled. Years later, it's abundantly clear that Kathleen Kennedy and Disney are at fault for these shallow character-less films since Kennedy just went against what George Lucas wanted and hired an incompetent story team, while Disney just didn't care and let Kennedy do whatever cause they thought it would be Marvel levels of success.

 

[Kramer on the phone]

There was no "bigger universe." There were just realistic-looking props and little throwaway dialogue lines to set the stage in a movie. A percentage of fans just never got tired of reading some B-tier pulp fiction writer make up a new story about a different prop or throwaway line, while most people never cared because Star Wars never made the jump from "fake" to "real" in their minds.

while thats true, you could say the same thing about John Wick; thats why people, including george himself loved the old film serials. its that hint of something bigger, lurking just beyond the camera. that if you followed any other group at a cantina the adventures would be of similar quality. people with different names and occupations yet just as important overall.

thats part of why fans hate the "skywalker saga" once you include the EU they are as important to the overall plot as Rob Lowe is to the West Wing. Wedge is an extremely minor role with only a handful of lines in the OT, but if you went into the EU, he's more important than Han Solo.

Neither do Westeros or Middle-Earth.

People, even if they’re a significant minority, will certainly act like a made up world is still a world with history and things to explore.

the past is a made up world with a history and things to explore. If you never saw Andre the Giant but only heard of his exploits you'd assume he was made up. same with Sir Francis Drake.think about the holocaust, for jew children its something their great-granparents talk about right up there with "going to school and back up a hill both ways" or "fighting a bear with my bear hands" its not only going to be 100% accurate. and will include a lot of fictional concepts. But as a kid and for most adults, those stories their grandparents said will be a huge influence on their whole life.


But let's be honest, your grandparent could say they were in the concentration camps or served in the clone wars. it would all be just as truthful and interesting for you.

@Mississippi Motorboater

I need a meme edit of this post where someone reads it out like it's the Battlefront 2 War Diaries. "The journey back to the subreddit was silent. We all knew what we were facing. No matter how much distance we put between us and the bad content, we always return to the salty comments about the Sequel Trilogy. Whether out of duty or weakness, I can't tell you. War never leaves you."

its crazy how great that entire campaign/storyline is. you take it for granted, but the concept of war diaries and that somber tone for ostensibly a kids game is insane

 

[Ishtar]

Maybe unpopular opinion but I like the skywalkers in the old EU being cosmically important, and having a century of history revolve around them. Maybe it’s the crypto-aristocratic vibe, I dunno?

 

[Sneed F91]

@Doctor of Autism
100% agree with everything you said but:

JJ is good when other people tard wrangle him, and Rian Johnson is fine without connection to other people's stuff or being tard wrangled.

[citation needed]

Maybe unpopular opinion but I like the skywalkers in the old EU being cosmically important, and having a century of history revolve around them. Maybe it’s the crypto-aristocratic vibe, I dunno?

The mainline movies being about the Skywalkers was never a problem and people who argue that it is are mostly full of shit. I don't know how I feel about them being deemed "cosmically important" in-universe though, mostly because I don't think they're supposed to be (other than Anakin). That, and it reminds me of TLJ's dumbass strawman arguments about the Skywalkers and the Jedi in that movie.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

@Doctor of Autism
100% agree with everything you said but:

[citation needed]

I liked Looper and Knives Out. For JJ, I liked Super 8 and some of his TV shows are decent. But JJ should stick to being a producer, he's clearly better at that.