Sorry, it's gonna be a long one...
the search for C-3PO's lost right leg (seriously) and how it contains his memories from the prequel-era and which also hold secret data relating to another macguffin that's meant to help out the Resistance.
This is pretty fucking dumb, even considering what franchise we talk about.
If the Star Wars IP is the
Invisible Hand, who is General Grievous?
The fans that embraced shittalking the franchise under Disney instead of clinging to fading nostalgia and desperation, I'd say.
But George Lucas, Mark Hamill or maybe Harrison Ford are good choices either.
IX will have its own "speeder" scene like in ROTJ for max nostalgia except its speeders are said to be "cooler and more dangerous" as the speeders for IX will be called "Treadspeeders" and true to their name they have treads on their front for some reason despite being hover vehicles.
Is this some Mad Max influence? I guess the guy who designed the atrocious flimsy speeders in TLJ is really fond of the "awkwardly rides on a stick" design. Snowspeeders and those speeder-bikes are iconic, this design might not be utter shit, but it pales in comparison and it's just JJ's usual approach to lift a concept from a far superior source and then change it a tiny bit, just to make it look a bit different and claim it as a new invention.
I swear to god, in the non-clown-world timeline, JJ Abrams works for
The Asylum.
Galaxy's Edge may actually close down and be rebranded! The absolute fucking state of Disney Wars. The news has started circulating after Twitter user Kslone, whose son is an employee at the park and has released accurate and verifiable info before (including the wage cuts for employees which is only now reaching the MSM), revealed during an angered (but now deleted) rant in regards to the working conditions for her son, that if the park doesn't see an increase in attendance by February that it will be fully restructured and rebranded which is something I fucking said would happen months ago! Bow down and kiss my thorax ye naysayers!
Oh god, this would be so amazing . . . but I doubt it's going to happenthat quickly.
I could imagine that if the situation doesn't improve by February, that they might start a very vague and general planning phase to see what they could do with a rebranding and set another date to see if visitor numbers stabilize or improve. If that date passes without an increase (or worse still, a decrease), they might plan a little more tangible.
I would assume even in the worst case scenario, it would take them quite some time, possibly years, to officially close down GE and rebuilt it into Agraba or whatever.
I am apreciating the leaks though, it’s like watching a multibillion dollar train wreck in slow motion.
ftfy
If the time travel retcon thing happens: there may be a double dip within the new time frame of 7-9. But, I doubt it will have anything to do with Skywalkers going forward. I think their story is told and would seem (even more)pointless...
I think Disney is just going to go off and do whatever with new characters.
I wouldn't put it past JJ and Disney to not only retcon 7-9, they might actually retcon Anakin's life entirely and thus retcon all the movies.
Would be absolutely stupid, it's much safer to only retcon the ST, but you know... Disney hasn't been smart about any of this, and erasing the Skywalkers entirely might seem like the best way to start with a blank slate on their franchise reboot for the next trilogy.
As usual, I really hope they go for the most fucked up thing, just to enjoy the salt that would result from that.
I fucking hate the way Kennedy and Disney have handled this mess so far. But, the one thing I agree with them on: they need to eventually do their own thing with the franchise...
This "the franchise is too Skywalker-centred" broohaha was made up entirely in the wake of TLJ, to praise it for doing away with a problem the movie itself invented.
They could have gone a million different ways with their characters and make Luke an important character that helped save the galaxy at a crucial time, but still he could be just one important Jedi in a long history of important and powerful Jedi. The whole trilogy could still be about someone else rising to power with the Force.
Luke was an important character in the OT and the ST explains the origins of his father, that makes the Skywalkers the focal point of those narratives, but there was nothing stopping the movie makers from going any other way without making such a fuss about it.
Why is Lucasfilm so desperate to make her the next beloved character by putting her in every new piece of media? She's fucking dead and she was more of a hindrance/antagonist if anything.
I like how the image implies that they all work together to support Rey, when the plots surrounding Poe and Holdo as well as Finn and Rose are entirely pointless within the context of Rey's plot and they barely have any interactions in 2 movies (hell, 2 of these characters only existed in one of the movies).
Other than that I got no more news and spoilers to share other than a bunch of pointless droid names at Galaxy's Edge. But I do have something worth noting that I was recently told about... For those of you who might not remember who Jake Lunt Davies is, he's the new creature, ship and droid designer for Disney Wars and the monster responsible for BB-8, the Porgs, the casino aliens, the giant penis worm lady and so many other generic scifi horrors. Anyway, I recently found out the possible reason why there are no familiar aliens or droids in Star Wars anymore other than donut steals. Apparently Jake designs his creatures with emphasis on "realism" in other words some of the new aliens in the movies are actually his attempts at updating old aliens or simply wanting to do them his own way. For example:
This shitty not-Ithorian knockoff was called an "Ottegan" by Pablo Hidalgo but the original design for it, promotional cards and even the 3D models that Jake offered to EA for Battlefront had it labeled "Ithorian" (and "Ithorian Theologian") because a human mouth made more sense apparently. Its the same with so many other aliens, like the fat slug guys in the casino which are actually his attempt at "updating" hutts and the "bravaisians" are actually his attempt at "fixing" the Kubaz species. Because of this, I also found out why nu-Lucasfilm and Matt Martin are so hesitant to re-introduce Bothans, and its because Jake wanted to make his own version of Bothans. Remember those earless horse-dog guys from TFA and TLJ? Like the one supreme chancellor who got blown up in TFA? Well that's what a Bothan is now or at least Jake wanted them to be.
I think, if you looked up "hubris" in the Merriam Webbster Dictionary, you'll find that info as an example right under the image of Ruin Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy.
The asshat's idea of making them "more realistic" actually just makes them a lot more awkward or sometimes outright disgusting looking. Point in case that mouth on the not-ithorian. That mouth looks like something straight out of Berserk, I halfway expect a closeup of it chewing on a member of the band of the hawk.
