Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

I feel like I actually liked ~60% of it, but all the bad parts were the connective tissue. There was enough material here for a whole 'nother trilogy.

If I was a disney exec, smart money would have been on giving the last jedi director another movie to explore his ideas, for better or worse, and end that trilogy with Palpatine reviving. Maybe then they could have explained that a bit better then three sentences in the opening text crawl. Rey discovering her parentage would have also been a believable impetus for her to break from kylo, return to training, and actually earn the angst she starts the movie with. And a whole movie together would have made kylo's motivations a bit more believable than 'But we looked at each other that one time'.

I actually laughed out loud when the random resistance guy called cloning 'dark sith arts'. Pretty sure fiftyish years ago in that galaxy you could just go to Clone Bros on the rain world and order yourself up an army.
 
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Oh Shit I'm Sorry said:
Wait, so not only did JJ make Kylo and Rey related he also has them kiss? Everything about this movie is hilarious.
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Related is a real stretch, just because palps did voodoo doesn't mean he used his genes for it, Anakin might genetically just be a clone of Shimi just with the Force Power dialed up to 100%
 
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Zaryiu said:
Anyone ekse dislike TCW? I mean i see as a mix-bag (i watched some of it and liked some of what i saw) but i dislike how it was higher-tiered that better stuff and contracdicted so much of other Clone Wars-era material which opens plots hole that idits like HelloGreedo used to push the idea the EU was riddled with plot-holes, TCW just caused too many headaches
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I liked it at first, but to me it started to get samesy and alittle ridiculous (and that was before Darth Maul came back)
The episodes feel... just almost grueling to go through in any number because of the pacing. Like slow and then rapid fire, and like you'd seen this one before. I didn't loathe it though, it feel squarely in the 'just not for me' camp.

They did touched on some deeper issues than I expected from a children's cartoon for children.
 
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BillionBisonBucks said:
I actually laughed out loud when the random resistance guy called cloning 'dark sith arts'. Pretty sure fiftyish years ago in that galaxy you could just go to Clone Bros on the rain world and order yourself up an army.
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Personally I found suggestion Palpatine cloned empty speculation, considering how he looks in the movie. More likely he used some creepy Sith power to bring himself back since he does confirm he's died before.

On the off chance the franchise continues on in some form after this, it's pretty likely Palpatine has built loads of nasty little contingencies to keep the keep the Sith rolling on. This of coarse assumes the nasty old fuck isnt going to re=spawn.

EDIT-I'm not going to lie, I'd have liked more scenes of palpatine being a massive dick.
 
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BillionBisonBucks said:
I feel like I actually liked ~60% of it, but all the bad parts were the connective tissue. There was enough material here for a whole 'nother trilogy.

If I was a disney exec, smart money would have been on giving the last jedi director another movie to explore his ideas, for better or worse, and end that trilogy with Palpatine reviving. Maybe then they could have explained that a bit better then three sentences in the opening text crawl. Rey discovering her parentage would have also been a believable impetus for her to break from kylo, return to training, and actually earn the angst she starts the movie with. And a whole movie together would have made kylo's motivations a bit more believable than 'But we looked at each other that one time'.

I actually laughed out loud when the random resistance guy called cloning 'dark sith arts'. Pretty sure fiftyish years ago in that galaxy you could just go to Clone Bros on the rain world and order yourself up an army.
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If they bring back Palpatine, it should have been in the way that (say) the Knights of Ren are doing some super evil ritual to tap into some Sith-Broohaha to give Palpatine's soul another vessel. This, of course, should have been set up in earlier movies. Could be an interesting setup. The good guys are in a race against time to find Luke, while the bad guys are in a race against time to resurrect Sheev.
Would be clichée as fuck, but I'd take that over the mess we got.
You could go for the twist that the Knights of Ren think they are in contact with Palpy's Sith ghost, but it turns out they were tricked and it's some other creature pretending to be Palpy that they accidentally set free. Again, clichéed but servicable.

And in hindsight, giving Episode IX to Ruin would have most likely tanked that movie from the get-go, since TLJ lead to such a fallout, but to be fair, chances of that movie succeeding in fixing things was slim at best. But it would have been funny to force that fat roundheaded idiot into concluding his stupid story, just to see where he goes with it.
He wrote a movie with utter disregard for what came before him (both in the sense of the OT as well as TFA) and he had utter disregard for whoever had to pick up the reigns after him. Would have been fun to force him to mop up his own mess.

Emperor Julian said:
Personally I found suggestion Palpatine cloned empty speculation, considering how he looks in the movie. More likely he used some creepy Sith power to bring himself back since he does confirm he's died before.

On the off chance the franchise continues on in some form after this, it's pretty likely Palpatine has built loads of nasty little contingencies to keep the keep the Sith rolling on. This of coarse assumes the nasty old fuck isnt going to re=spawn.
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The biggest issue with "Palpatine had a plan all along, so he's not dead!" is that once you established it, there is literally no logical end-point. So, Rey killed him again. Or did she?
You can literally do the very same thing again. And again. And again. And again. And again. You simply go "but Sheev still has a spare clone somewhere" or "He reformed his body again out of sheer spite towards good story telling". It never ends. Whatever resources he needed to come back once can't be explained to have been randomly exhausted *this time*. Even if you go "The important clone lab/sith phylactery/whatever" was destroyed, you can just as easily go "... but don't worry, he has a spare" or "... but that wasn't the TRUE and HONEST one!".

In terms of story-telling, the only thing worse is "but it was just a dream all along".
 
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All the impeachment shit on Twitter is being eclipsed by all the Star Wars hype. Gremlins woke up and are loving the movie because critics said it was bad.

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Daddy's Little Kitten said:
I like The Clone Wars. The episodes focusing on the droids were rather lame.
Makes RotS a bit depressing after seeing how the clones were, and we get to see the relationship between Anakin and Obi Wan.
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I was surprised I enjoyed seeing how some of the clones were. What I didn't like was the timeline jumping.
 
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Null said:
All the impeachment shit on Twitter is being eclipsed by all the Star Wars hype. Gremlins woke up and are loving the movie because critics said it was bad.

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Hate to put my conspiracy fedora on, but given how many "backchannels" wu brags about having with corporate media and her asspatting relationship with the Scalzi tier sci-fi/fantasy establishment who largely make up the story team for Nu-Lucasfilm, am I a tard for suspecting she probably got in on a mass email sent out begging "important people" to talk about their love for the movie to counter the critical assfucking its getting?

Between this and a bunch of other "influncer" types simultaniously weighing in with near identical positive spins of the movie, and the abrupt mass positive audience review campaigns I smell spookniggery afoot
 
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Null said:
All the impeachment shit on Twitter is being eclipsed by all the Star Wars hype. Gremlins woke up and are loving the movie because critics said it was bad.

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Can't wait till people will throw that in their faces once the box office numbers get reported. And the inevitable decline of audience ratings over time.
 
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RomanesEuntDomus said:
Can't wait till people will throw that in their faces once the box office numbers get reported. And the inevitable decline of audience ratings over time.
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Lets not be hasty, its entirely possible enough people will come out to enjoy a dumb franchise blockbuster to make it a success overall and to perhaps justify the suspicious surge of positivity out of nowhere

If not however, then we can be effectively certain Disney hired a PR company whose work we are seeing now
 
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