But the fans also hated them jumping and running around and spinning their lightsabers at the same time
They'd still have to explain where Snookie and the First Order came from. That and they'd never let Luke get in the way of Rey saving the entire universe singlehandedly.
That's what Disney is for.
See above.starborn427614 said:
No. And the only "Ben"s are "Old Ben" Kenobi and Ben Skywalker.starborn427614 said:
I doubt Jay and Mike put much thought into this sort of thing.
Kevin Smith cries and claps at everything..
Well that's because Kevin Smith is an insecure little bitch who hasn't made anything good after 2010 (fuck you, I liked Cop Out).
Please don't feed the loweffort gimmick trolls.
I will die on the hill that TPM was a wasted episode number, and in a very real sense we should have never had the Prequels to keep the mystery. That said...
Disney is trying to not piss off Florida any more than they already have, and probably don't trust the token bulldyke to able to play diplomat with DeSantis/not dig the hole deeper in a fit of pique.
The funny thing is after the "don't say gay bill" (what a dumb name) they kept the lesbian kiss scene in that stupid Buzz Lightyear movie because taking it out would make them look like hypocrites after all the LGBTABCDEFG pandering they did, even though they've done it in the past *cough* rise of skywalker *cough*, which cost them profits from China and the entire middle east. Now they're getting BTFO by Top Gun.
TPM could have been a flashback in AOTC, but George doesn't like flashbacks and he's not lazy like JJ and Rian when it comes to that stuff. Seeing flashbacks in the sequels was so jarring.
Reshoots are pointless when you have to follow up a pile of garbage like TLJ, which followed up another pile of garbage. The story was always terrible from the very beginning.
"You know, unfortunately, it's just, it was Solo that changed the direction of the system. I like Solo, personally, but it hadn't made a lot of money. It is crazy in some ways to think about it, how it [was directed by one] of the best filmmakers working today. But, just because it didn't hit a certain number, they just had to rethink."
Honestly, I don't think Chapek is at fault for a lot of Disney's current problems. He's just stuck holding the bag and doesn't really have the force of will to shut down the SJW activists in his company. Which I can sympathize, HR is always a cancer on large companies filled with SJW activists making all kinds of ridiculous policies that make it hard for people to work together. I hold him responsible for not telling his employees to go fuck themselves and get back to work, not these series of green-lit productions that are about the Message first and entertainment third. Second place goes to virtue signaling.
Eh, I'm of the opinion that even TLJ could have been salvaged if the main OC characters were allowed to grow beyond the traits they started with. The problem is JJ is not good at character writing. I'm so convinced of it that I'm sure he stole Regarding Henry from a classmate. His later work does not reflect or show evolution from that script. All his stories are about some special effects cataclysm and the spectacle is what drives his stories, not his characters, plots, or even themes. That's the most baffling thing I find in the Sequels regardless of the Star Wars brand; the utter lack of character writing and development. That is a basic creative writing skill.
It's supposedly "in question" for a Chinese release.
They can't remove it without looking homophobic, but the movie is a box office bomb so they need all the money they can get so they'd be smart to put it in China. But as of now they haven't removed the scene and China hasn't approved it.
My problem is the sequel characters stopped progressing halfway through TFA. Rey was established as a Mary Sue who learned the force in a day. Finn has ZERO conflict about defecting after the first act and acts like a buffoon/simp the entire time. Poe is "Han Solo Lite", and who the hell knows what Kylo is supposed to be. JJ is interesting because he's clearly gotten worse as a filmmaker as time goes on. He stopped trying after he realized people will clap at references and big special effects over a good story. TLJ would have to be a soft reboot of TFA in order to work, but a lot of it just doubled down on the stupidity.
The more I look at Luke willing to kill Kylo Ren, the more I think that it fits Han's character a lot better. Han is the cynic who only partially believes in the Force because his friend seems to be able to do it. He's not really a "Redemption at all costs" kind of character. But because Harrison Ford noped out of Star Wars for the foreseeable future, they couldn't use him and making Leia willing to kill her own son would make her utterly irredeemable, so they have Luke do it; the one character that would not under any circumstances.
Han should have progressed as a character since ROTJ, but he didn't. I can't buy that he'd walk up to his own son in an attempt to "bring him back to the light" *autism sigh* without doing something in-character like having a backup plan or clever trick up his sleeve. He just died like a complete idiot and that's the best they could do for such an iconic character. I think Han would only kill him as a last resort. The whole set up feels so forced.
It’s not just Han. Luke and Leia should have progressed as characters since ROTJ. I can’t buy into their shitty excuses to why they let Crylo fuck the Galaxy over for no reason.
That's fair. I'm just saying that if they had to have a scene like that, they chose the exact wrong character to do it with and regular people that aren't Jay Bauman picked up on that bullshit immediately.
Jay was too awestruck by Daisy Ridley's charisma to pick up on things like that.
At least the Kenobi show established how much of a worthless fuck up Luke always was, while Leia was a failure at life who never really failed at anything considering how much the men around her screwed everything up, and she was the real last Jedi the entire time.
How much charisma can a plank of wood have?
RLM's takes on Star Wars are honestly pretty milquetoast, the best thing they have is the Plinkett reviews of TPM & AotC because those films are still completely riddled with problems but everything else just betrays the fact that they don't care about the films beyond them being a solid trilogy of action-adventure films from their childhoods whilst discounting all the deeper aspects. They'll probably say that Empire is the best film in the franchise, which is all you need to know on the matter.
