Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

Well whoever does have the backbone to risk billions of dollars to let go of an IP would have to listen very hard at the complaints of the audience and fanbase. In the case of SW, a majority of the fans despise the Disney-era.

I meant to add in the "when does Disney slip up enough to want to take action".

But yeah most of my personal circle forgets Star Wars was ever a thing even under Disney, it's gotten to the point whenever/if ever it's brought up, they'll wish not to be reminded about it any further because TFA just bored them to tears.

The mental gymnastics of the Disney Drones over Episode IX is going to make CNN's spin zoning look rational in comparison, and that's saying something.
 
It would have been great IMO for Han to have gone out with the Falcon in a way that echoes him showing up to save Luke at the end of the original film. Maybe the ship gets blown up and he patches one last message to Leia, to be answered with "I know."
I still think the best way for his death was going down with the Falcon in the Starkiller Base trench run sequence. It actually makes the thing relevant to the movie (instead of just giving Poe something to do/being an obvious knockoff of the original), it gives Han a very fitting death, and it lets Disney give Rey a new ship which they can sell a lot of toys of. Everyone wins.
 
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Well, that's it! We're done here. Nothing is ever going to top this!

You win the thread good sir.
 
It's :optimistic: as hell but maybe 9 will flop hard enough that they will put a stop to this and go for a hard reset of everything they have done or just pretend it never happened and do something not terrible.
They could, if they decide to be stupid, delay Episode 9 to May 2020 to cut back on the hype train.
 
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There are times when I think what if it had been Leia that had lightspeed-rammed the ship into the fleet instead of Holdo as a character death send-off. Nonsensical as it is, it at least looks pretty cool and it would have been a brave way for her character to go out instead of Disney propping her corpse up for IX.

But then I remember, probably after listening to the Plinkett commentary, that when you look at the shot of the rebels pulling away, that you can see extras talking to each other and not even giving a shit about the sacrifice that just happened seconds ago.

Nothing could save TLJ. Ruin Johnson's direction, contempt for the fans, and overall incompetence made the product terminally ill the moment he signed his first contract.
 
The thing that bothers me the most about this whole disaster is the complete and total wasted potential of what star wars used to be.

Agreed. Even if Disney wasn't too keen on the EU that existed before its acquisition of Lucasfilm Limited, it still had endless possibilities for new adventures. Pick one or a limited number of existing characters, send them on an adventure where they explore the unfamiliar and encounter new friends and foes in the process, and have them report back to their colleagues about what's going on. The combinations and possibilities could be endless with the right creative mind(s). Better yet, this could be used for new trilogies, stand-alone films, or other media such as books, comics, etc. with the right planning and plot/character development.

Instead, we get bland retreads of the OT and supplemental material that includes non-stop obsessive fart jokes and made up SJW pronouns. Worse, the decision to move away from the older characters and write them out was done in the most cold and impersonal way possible instead of letting said characters have a chance to leave the franchise with some sort of dignity or pass the torch, so to speak, to their new counterparts.

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Remember Star Trek: Generations and how Picard was stunned and a little in awe of James Kirk?

And I'm the point where I'm saying I wish these films were more like Star Trek: Generations.
Only problem is Luke can already show up as a Force Ghost so they don't need to drag him out of that weird energy stream or whatever Kirk got sucked into. Or will they? Maybe in Episode IX (or god forbid the sequel trilogy to the sequel trilogy) they'll go into the Force world and drag Luke out of there for one last go. Or hopefully Rey instead so the now grown-up kid from TLJ can drop a bridge on her to send her back where she belongs (i.e. a shitty Star Wars fanfic).
 
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For Mark's sake, I really hope he's not in the next movie. I think he's suffered enough, and should be just left alone to do his thing and remember better, happier times.

But of course we all know he'll be dragged into this. I don't even know for sure what humiliations he's going to be put through in this next movie (my bet would be discount Alec Guinness - without the dignity or good writing), but I already hate Jar Jar Abrams and that cunt Kennedy for it.
 
For Mark's sake, I really hope he's not in the next movie. I think he's suffered enough, and should be just left alone to do his thing and remember better, happier times.

But of course we all know he'll be dragged into this. I don't even know for sure what humiliations he's going to be put through in this next movie (my bet would be discount Alec Guinness - without the dignity or good writing), but I already hate Jar Jar Abrams and that cunt Kennedy for it.
Hopefully he isn't considering he didn't know 3PO is a wookiee now, although that could also just mean that his scenes were filmed separately and were incredibly short. But then again, Jar Jar will milk IX hard for nostalgia while mixing it up with his own predictable formulas, so Mark will probably appear regularly throughout the film as a force ghost quoting shit from ROTJ while Rey and pals go around doing "better versions" of what the OT heroes did in the third movie...
 
The thing that bothers me the most about this whole disaster is the complete and total wasted potential of what star wars used to be. We have all had ideas and visions for great star wars stories that could be. But instead of using this massive world full of possibilities they just pissed it all away on remaking the same thing but so much worse. I will never understand why they chose to butcher it all so badly, I would almost say it's on purpose if they weren't so incompetent.

Also the Moldy Crow was my favorite, it felt like a nice middle ground between the sleek fighters and big cargo transports.
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Looks quite cramp. Would be a nightmare to fly around in that thing.
 
Han as a character had already started to slip in Return of the Jedi, when he came off less as unlucky and more as just infuriatingly inept. Granted, there were other problems script-wise, but I noticed Han was definitely having some competence issues (I suppose Harrison Ford really was bored and wanted to get going to the next Indiana Jones flick).

His treatment in TFA irked the shit out of me, for reasons already outlined ad nauseum in this thread. Suffice to say that Kylo killing him was a fucking blessing.
 
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