"I've seen Ep 9 and am ready to die. Whatever waits after death can't worse than the piece of shit I just watched."
Also, just want bring up again:
You shouldn't watch Plan 9, don't give Disney your neurons.
But if you absolutely have to watch Plan 9, don't pay to watch it. That cancer patient figured out a way to see it for free, and so can you.
Jesus they fuck up everything in England don't they..at least the Japenease cancer patient that got in on a secret early..got told what the ending to One Piece was.
“I am a huge Star Wars fan and what I am going through is completely dire. Then to top it all, I thought I wasn’t going to see the film I have been waiting to see since 1977!
So... did he just skip all the movies that came after ANH? Was he expecting IX to always exist? Or the franchise to have some kind of conclusive finale even though ROTJ gave us just that? I mean, ANH was initially supposed to be a standalone film, and by itself its already pretty conclusive.
Disney's films (specifically TLJ) had the exact opposite effect on the SW fans in my family, and it really busted them up to see what became of everything, and well, I don't want to get into personal details, but it saddens me that they have to spend what time they have left seeing what they loved get butchered. They even wanted to go to Galaxy's Edge hoping they could finally go to Tatooine or Endor, yet Disney couldn't grant them that wish... Part me of wishes Disney could just stop being so damn full of itself and convert the park into Tatooine before its too late so the old bastion can have at least one good thing from this crappy Disney era and one last chance at feeling like they actually entered the world of Star Wars.
Something also tells me Disney wouldn't have given a shit if they knew this film was gonna be a success. This kind of shit is the perfect way to boost publicity and public appeal. Either that or having Hamill or Ford conveniently kick the bucket before release. If either of those happens we lose two more stars and Disney gets to swim in a pool of 4 billion shekels.
Regardless, my heart goes out to the family, so I hope their last moments together are blessed before passing on.
"I've seen Ep 9 and am ready to die. Whatever waits after death can't worse than the piece of shit I just watched."
Also, just want bring up again:
You shouldn't watch Plan 9, don't give Disney your neurons.
But if you absolutely have to watch Plan 9, don't pay to watch it. That cancer patient figured out a way to see it for free, and so can you.
Maybe he did diddle kids, hit a pedestrian and/or rape some chick in the past and thinks "I'm going to Hell anyway, may as well watch this since nothing they do to me there can be as bad as this movie".
Jesus they fuck up everything in England don't they..at least the Japenease cancer patient that got in on a secret early..got told what the ending to One Piece was.
On more plot writing sperg on Characters making sense vs the world making sense (But still being consistent)
Look at Lord of the Rings and how they handled the One Ring. The One Ring had the very nebulous affect of "changing" the bearer and imparting power. The mechanisms of how it did this was never explained, but the effects were applied consistently.
You even have things like Sam being unable to carry the one ring directly, but he can hoist the bearer without much difficulty.
You also see the more the ring is used, the more pronounced the effects. Again, exactly number of times the ring is worn doesn't matter, but it is consistent that the more the ring is used, the greater the effect on the wearer.
Tolkien also demonstrates why the journey to Mount Doom is necessary:
We are shown Tom Bombadil and why the ring has to be taken on the journey: because otherwise the story ends really quickly, before we even meet Aragorn if you find a being powerful enough to be immune to the one ring, they will be too powerful to view the ring as anything other than a simple bauble to forget about and lose.
We are shown Galadriel as why you can't simply leave the ring with a powerful ally who WOULD appreciate its power and what it can do - or why you can't have them use the One Ring's power to defeat Sauron.
And any issues with "well why didn't the eagles just take them there" are quickly explained by the eagle being tremendous douches.
Jesus they fuck up everything in England don't they..at least the Japenease cancer patient that got in on a secret early..got told what the ending to One Piece was.
On more plot writing sperg on Characters making sense vs the world making sense (But still being consistent)
Look at Lord of the Rings and how they handled the One Ring. The One Ring had the very nebulous affect of "changing" the bearer and imparting power. The mechanisms of how it did this was never explained, but the effects were applied consistently.
You even have things like Sam being unable to carry the one ring directly, but he can hoist the bearer without much difficulty.
You also see the more the ring is used, the more pronounced the effects. Again, exactly number of times the ring is worn doesn't matter, but it is consistent that the more the ring is used, the greater the effect on the wearer.
Tolkien also demonstrates why the journey to Mount Doom is necessary:
We are shown Tom Bombadil and why the ring has to be taken on the journey: because otherwise the story ends really quickly, before we even meet Aragorn if you find a being powerful enough to be immune to the one ring, they will be too powerful to view the ring as anything other than a simple bauble to forget about and lose.
We are shown Galadriel as why you can't simply leave the ring with a powerful ally who WOULD appreciate its power and what it can do - or why you can't have them use the One Ring's power to defeat Sauron.
And any issues with "well why didn't the eagles just take them there" are quickly explained by the eagle being tremendous douches.
Mount Doom not having an open top (at least in the books). The Crack of Doom was only accessible by entering a door and going deep into the mountain.
Sauron controlling the weather around Mt. Doom, and being able to kill any Eagle that came near it.
Sauron having flying Nazgul patrolling the sky around his fortress.
Sauron being able to see a bunch of giant Eagles coming thanks to natural and supernatural sentries, and sending his Nazgul and a giant fuck-off army to defend the one doorway into Mt. Doom.
The central theme of the LOTR, which is that sometimes the most important people aren't the biggest and most powerful, but the smallest and most subtle. The God of the LOTR universe basically made Hobbits as a crack stealth squad which could be used to sneak the One Ring past Sauron's Nose and into the Cracks of Doom, which themselves were lightly guarded because Sauron figured (a) the door to the Cracks was close enough to him to be secure and (b) no one who had the One Ring would ever want to destroy it. (To be fair to Sauron, Eru/God had to rig one of the Hobbits to self-destruct in order to get the Ring into the Lava Pit, so technically, the Dark Lord was right about that.)
Sorry to get heated, but that whole "Eagles won't help the heroes because they're huge jerks" argument irks me. Mostly because the Eagles were fairly interventionist when it came to other situations. The real reason the Eagles wouldn't help; weren't even suggested by Gandalf as a potential source of help - is that Eagles aren't stupid enough to go on suicide missions.
What were we talking about again? Oh yeah... Star Wars....
Star Wars was a Fantasy movie with Sci-Fi elements. It managed to remain consistent with its universal rules throughout the first trilogy. At no point did the Jedi's powers break the setting. We didn't see anyone teleport from one place to another like in Star Trek, because if we had, we'd be forced to wonder why people bothered traveling in hyperspace. We never saw the Jedi do any crazy Harry Potter transformation shit, because such things belong in a universe that's higher on the "magic just makes things happen" scale, like how Elsa can make an ice castle and a new set of clothing in Frozen despite knowing nothing about architectural design or creating/dying/decorating fabric.
And Planets sharing one geographical feature isn't the problem, the problem is that you have a boundless fantasy/scifi setting where all manner of crazy and amazing planets can exist regardless if they have one biome or not, yet they choose to follow the same repetitive formula and recycle the same things we've seen before or just having them be completely featureless (like the planets in TFA), resulting in the entire galaxy under Disney being nothing but OT retreads all of which are exactly the same and have nothing unique to them because Disney just keeps making them rehashes of pre-existing worlds with nothing unique to set them apart, same with all their aliens just being donut steals of familiar ones, while familiar ones are axed and failing to introduce anything new that's actually interesting or unique. To keep planets from becoming a repetitive copy of one another, give them something unique to make them actually memorable and set them apart from the one they're copying. I wasn't implying that a single biome is silly, but making every planet a single biome while also being a knockoff of a pre-existing planet takes away from what made the originals unique, like having every single desert planet be an exact copy of one another. Like for example, Blablabla-7 is just Tatooine, and it has everything Tatooine has, same aliens, same tech, same landscape, same buildings, same everything, but to set it apart, try and give it something that validates its existence as a separate entity, like make its architecture unique, show some volcanoes or oddly shaped spires in the distance. Anything really. Then there's the Resistance planet and Yellow Yoda's planet in TFA, both are just forest planet with rivers and lakes a la Yavin 4 with no unique features whatsoever except a Yavin 4 rebel base duplicate (except its just a hole in the ground instead of a cool temple) and an old cantina on a barren planet. And while you could argue that both Yavin 4 and Endor are just forest planets, they both have something that make them stand out from one another, one has a giant red planet lording over it, a more tropical theme and is dotted with neat temples (and unique wildlife in old video games), while Endor is tall trees, treetop villages, bear people, many satellites with a giant planet lording over it, and also giants, monsters and whatnot. They feel otherworldly. Meanwhile the planets in TFA don't have that feel, they are just empty or re-use pre-existing visuals that fail to inspire that same sense of wonderment when you saw them for the first time, which even George's prequels managed to achieve since we see a planet of endless rain and water with floating cities, a planet of deep seas full of monsters, dumb frog people and beautiful architecture, a planet of orange wastes, hive pillars and bugmen, a planet of giant mushrooms and flowers, and a planet filled with more holes than swiss cheese. Same with what we see in video games and comics from before Disney, ranging from planets of dark haunted demon jungles with tall skyscrapers rising from the trees or planets of half-day and half-night that can support life and have floating rock gardens (How is this even possible? Who cares. Its neat).
I like what you are saying though. There are many really weird aspects to the planets and moons in our solar system that could be cribbed and played with, and that's without adding in biology, architecture or fantasy elements.
I agree, but if I remember right, I think George had to put Star Wars: Underworld (the tv show) on an indefinite production hiatus in 2010 due to issues with the budget way before Disney. I can't be sure, but I recall a discussion from back around 2013 or 14 somewhere mentioning that part of the reason why George sold to Disney was for the hope that they would continue said ideas like Underworld and help to fund these unfinished projects. So instead of taking this idea, Disney just drops it completely just like 1313 and preferred to focus on their own shitty OT retreads and wait 7 years later to actually do something with the concept of Underworld by making the Mandalorian but only after royally fucking over the franchise and throwing away Boba.
"I've seen Ep 9 and am ready to die. Whatever waits after death can't worse than the piece of shit I just watched."
Also, just want bring up again:
You shouldn't watch Plan 9, don't give Disney your neurons.
But if you absolutely have to watch Plan 9, don't pay to watch it. That cancer patient figured out a way to see it for free, and so can you.
Perhaps it was some bizarre form of euthanasia?
I know that if I was just lingering there in terrible pain, that a viewing of ROS would probably be enough to sap away my will to live and allow my earthly suffering to end... It's a bad way to go, but so is cancer-aids.
Speaking of aids and other wretched and gross diseases, Disney released a new Star Wars-themed cookbook as a tie-in to Galaxy's Edge as part of some bizarre form of publicity and advertisement. Suffice it to say, its not doing so hot and the few that sold are already starting to pop up online to be resold with little success. Many usual shill sites don't even seem to be aware that the cookbook came out and its received little press coverage outside of its original announcement months ago before word about how bad Galaxy's Edge was started to spread around.
It seems to be doing even worse in terms of publicity and attention when compared to the TFA and TLJ cookbooks. And those two aren't remotely as popular or as remembered as the 1998 and 2012 SW cookbooks surprisingly. It probably doesn't help that those two are just telling you to buy "Official Star Wars Sandwich and Pancake cutters" to make Han Swaffles, so they're essentially ads to buy more crap rather than actually teaching you anything. As such the GE cook book is the only one that tries to be in-universe but most of it is just vegan shit or its written as part serious and part mockery, with a slight jab at fans as well.
So, the show continues to suffer from good ideas for action scenes carried out horribly.
Why do those logs stop the AT-ST?
Why is the AT-ST not leveling everything from the tree line?
*big one for all of Mandolorian* Why is everyone's aim so bad?
Why isn't super strong fat soldier woman and Mandy's plan to destroy the AT-ST while inactive?
How are they able to outrun it on foot?
Why does every time a TV/movie do the cliche "Teach the hapless villagers to fight for themselves" include teaching them to fight with pointy sticks? Mandy has a crate of guns, even untrained any git with one is more effective than with a pointy stick, and the pokey-bois are more likely to get shot by the untrained gits you did give guns to.
Speaking of the "Teach the hapless villagers to fight for themselves" cliche, it's a good thing nobody dies like usual in that cliche.
Like two mercs outclassed by a batch of essentially barbarian raiders cause they have a (relative to the mercs) heavily armed and armored scout vehicle is a cool idea. Having them be a serious threat was kinda cool after they mostly got defeated in a slapstick way in RotJ. Having them have to use their wits to tactically overcome their superiority is a good idea. They just handed thinking out the good idea to Paste-Eating Karl.
The biggest hur-dur for me was the fact that Mando didn't return to the village after quietly scouting the camp and say, 'hold on here for about a day and a half. I'll be back with my ship, which also has some big fucking cannons BTW, and since we now know where these chuckle-fucks are, I'll just flatten the forest from above while they're sleeping.'
That dumb fuck deserved to get his ship jacked by the space Puerto Ricans in Episode 2. He keeps forgetting about it and leaving it in stupid places.
A series generally finds it's groove around episode 4. That's the episode that tells you what this series is going to be going forward. So, it's a Saturday morning cartoon for kids. How bloodless was that battle? Did anybody even die? This is VERY Disney+
The short length of the episodes is really showing in this one. They recycle one of the oldest Western tropes in the book for their plot, but don't have enough time to devote to developing any of the relationships, so the episode ends up as a 'pastiche of a trope' and a filler episode in a series that's only 8 fucking, half-hour episodes. Which should mean delivering a tight single storyline with no fat chicks.
Also, would they please stop trying to make Gina Carano a thing. There has got to be some other thicc women out there that look like they could credibly kick the shit out of a man but can actually act and possess at least an ounce of charisma and more then one facial expression.
I bet you any money there'll be some cretin at my local cinema who turns up in costume. They will have a hipster / soy beard and come out in a contented daze like they just got a blowjibber off of Slave Bikini Leia and will bend the ears of all and sundry about how UHMAZING it was and how anyone who doesn't like it is just a pissbaby incel who can't stand STRONG WAMEN or PEE OH CEE.
Everyone else will have either walked out or be suffused with ultimate regret. Seriously, it's almost insulting at this point, that they think that if they blind us with tasty special effects and stormtroopers and John Williams music we'll lap it up regardless of anything else.
I haven't seen the new episode yet but the twitter SJWs are whining about the misogynistic fanbase yet again despite the fact the Mandolorian Blacksmith was a woman and no one complained then.
And people wonder why Star Wars is losing it's popularity when you aren't even allowed to say a character sucks or is OP if she's a woman now. Or you point out the misandrist bias these stories tend to have as of late.
It's tiring as fuck. Can't TROS and the upcoming MCU abominations just come out so we can see the fire start?
I don't have a big issue with Midichlorians. I think George made them just as an easy way to explain how Anakin was the Chosen One besides saying "he was strong in the Force" and maybe to set up for The Whills later. He also justified it by saying that the Prequel era/Coruscant was the height of technological advancement and civilization, so logically they would've been exploring the Force at a microscopic level. Unfortunately this is an instance where sci-fi unravels fantasy, like you're explaining a joke to the point that it's no longer funny. It turns out people didn't want a science lesson about the Force, but I think I get where George was going with them. They don't destroy the Force, they just add an unsightly wrinkle that ended up being otherwise irrelevant to the movies after TPM. So much for the symbiosis theme. If instead he just lightly mentioned "midichlorians" instead of spelling it out, and left some imagination to the audience, then maybe he could've eased them into the "microbiotic world" he hinted at for his Sequel Trilogy.
As for The Mandalorian Ep 4, it was okay filler on its own, but it foreshadows some serious feminist subversion. I liked Gina Carano's performance well enough, but her appearance bears the stench of insufferable grrl power that I expected would taint the show sooner or later. I don't believe she can just fist-fight a fully-armored Mandalorian without fracturing her fingers. She was just wearing gloves. I don't mind Mando not being an expert at CQC, but think of some of the fights he's won already: the bar fight in Episode 1, the not-Trando ambush in Episode 2, and the Stormtroopers in Episode 3. Cara Dune may be a big-girl Rebel vet, but he's a much better fighter than that.
This episode was supposed to be the Endor callback, but coming off of the Tatooine callback, it feels wrong. Why did we need this Magnificent Seven episode now? This episode felt like it should've been a season finale, not a early filler episode. I enjoyed the Tatooine landscape (and the Jawas) way more up to this point. If they really wanted to do a not-Endor episode, then I wonder why they decided against showing off their version of Ewoks?
The AT-ST was pretty cool, but not enough for repeat viewings. It's easily the weakest episode so far. It was directed by Bryce Dallas Howard, so she's not off to a good start compared to Dave Filoni, Rick Famuyiwa, and Deborah Chow. It looks like my prediction was on the right track:
Admittedly I didn't object too much to the mother being an expert shot with a rifle, since by raising her hand when asked "Who knows how to shoot?" the show implies she used to be a fighter of some sort. That's fine, there's even other women firing next to her who've obviously never shot before, but it does still come off as very cliched and on-the-nose. I'm not sure whether that's still supposed to be a subversive gag or played straight. Couple that with Gina Carano and dumb men who don't know how to handle a stick, and you definitely get a sense of that inclusivity / female empowerment being shoehorned into a space fantasy adventure for boys. It feels a forced or unwelcome, sort of like how the episode feels like out-of-place filler, and like Ethan says, I don't think the SJW mob should be given an inch anymore. Fuck them. Star Wars wasn't made for them.
Follow-up video:
I agree. SJW infiltration / going woke is inevitable in 2019, let alone Lucasfilm. Hopefully 2020 and beyond shake things up a bit.
I don't have a big issue with Midichlorians. I think George made them just as an easy way to explain how Anakin was the Chosen One besides saying "he was strong in the Force" and maybe to set up for The Whills later. He also justified it by saying that the Prequel era/Coruscant was the height of technological advancement and civilization, so logically they would've been exploring the Force at a microscopic level. Unfortunately this is an instance where sci-fi unravels fantasy, like you're explaining a joke to the point that it's no longer funny. It turns out people didn't want a science lesson about the Force, but I think I get where George was going with them. They don't destroy the Force, they just add an unsightly wrinkle that ended up being otherwise irrelevant to the movies after TPM. So much for the symbiosis theme. If instead he just lightly mentioned "midichlorians" instead of spelling it out, and left some imagination to the audience, then maybe he could've eased them into the "microbiotic world" he hinted at for his Sequel Trilogy.
As for The Mandalorian Ep 4, it was okay filler on its own, but it foreshadows some serious feminist subversion. I liked Gina Carano's performance well enough, but her appearance bears the stench of insufferable grrl power that I expected would taint the show sooner or later. I don't believe she can just fist-fight a fully-armored Mandalorian without fracturing her fingers. She was just wearing gloves. I don't mind Mando not being an expert at CQC, but think of some of the fights he's won already: the bar fight in Episode 1, the not-Trando ambush in Episode 2, and the Stormtroopers in Episode 3. Cara Dune may be a big-girl Rebel vet, but he's a much better fighter than that.
This episode was supposed to be the Endor callback, but coming off of the Tatooine callback, it feels wrong. Why did we need this Magnificent Seven episode now? This episode felt like it should've been a season finale, not a early filler episode. I enjoyed the Tatooine landscape (and the Jawas) way more up to this point. If they really wanted to do a not-Endor episode, then I wonder why they decided against showing off their version of Ewoks?
The AT-ST was pretty cool, but not enough for repeat viewings. It's easily the weakest episode so far. It was directed by Bryce Dallas Howard, so she's not off to a good start compared to Dave Filoni, Rick Famuyiwa, and Deborah Chow. It looks like my prediction was on the right track:
Admittedly I didn't object too much to the mother being an expert shot with a rifle, since by raising her hand when asked "Who knows how to shoot?" the show implies she used to be a fighter of some sort. That's fine, there's even other women firing next to her who've obviously never shot before, but it does still come off as very cliched and on-the-nose. I'm not sure whether that's still supposed to be a subversive gag or played straight. Couple that with Gina Carano and dumb men who don't know how to handle a stick, and you definitely get a sense of that inclusivity / female empowerment being shoehorned into a space fantasy adventure for boys. It feels a forced or unwelcome, sort of like how the episode feels like out-of-place filler, and like Ethan says, I don't think the SJW mob should be given an inch anymore. Fuck them. Star Wars wasn't made for them.
Follow-up video:
I agree. SJW infiltration / going woke is inevitable in 2019, let alone Lucasfilm. Hopefully 2020 and beyond shake things up a bit.
Good ol' Ethan. Gotta make some outrage bucks rather than work on any comics.
I can get being worried the SJW shit will ruin the show but honestly after all the posts and videos it wasn't really bad. I can suspend my disbelief about her punching the Mando in the Helmet. If Vader can have gloves strong enough to absorb a blaster bolt, maybe a shock trooper can have some sort of shock absorption. Wow, I feel nerdy now.
Anyways, It may have been a cookie cutter episode but at least Rock people didn't use their electrical powers to emp everyone.
I'll take a old tv trope over Vader forgetting what Force powers are everyday.
Saw episode 4 last night through.... somewhat illlegtimate means. Anyways it was a decent enough episode though a step down from the last 3 which were a gradual escalation. I’d give it a 6/10.
In other news I also bought the ps4 version of Jedi Outcast as well as Force Unleashed for my 360.
I actually do own a copy of Jedi Outcast. However, since I don’t have a PC it’s the GameCube version. I don’t know how the PS4 port stacks up to the PC version but it is vastly superior to the GC port. The most immediate improvement is the higher frame rate. Also I swear that the enemy count was much higher. F
As for Force Unleashed I’m only on the Raxus Prime level. It’s not the most in depth beat em up but it’s a fun game it it’s own right. My main complaint is that it suffers from a common pitfall of Star Wars games: that being that their are instances that your lightsaber feels like a nerf bat.
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