Wow well said.
I have a good feeling with Boris’ victory and if Trump wins big this year that hopefully those people will start to wake up and become self-aware.
They need to do a new 7,8,9 before everyone from the original cast is dead and gone. Or at least hamill. Poor guy is the only one who really really cared and he got kind of screwed
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Warcraft needs to find a new way to spin the wheel, to relight the fire of passion that seems to be lacking in the IP these days.
Star Wars needs a new set of hands that doesn’t arrogantly bin years worth of the EU material for the sake of writing their own in a space of a afew months.
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Well see the thing is I agree with you about Star wars and I think that’s also the same solution needed for WoW. I don’t think the wheel needs a new way to spin, I think they just need to start spinning it like they used to. The WoW story was on a great trajectory and they something let it get off so far with the hiring of a few writers.
Doubt it will ever happen they should just not consider it canon and be done with it, those characters are just too much of a mess to bring them back, Rey more than anything
I doubt that, my observation is that people of opposing political views are as radical as ever.
to me, one of the best cinematic arcs is the original trilogy (pre-bluray edit)
There’s just something about the pure evil in Darth Vader in 1 and 2 to the point where he talks with Luke in 3 about trying to save him by turning him and then seeing his son be killed by the emperor only to just break the hold the dark Side has on him and kill the emperor…then the sequels happened and it felt like none of that mattered. </3
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Something that still makes me laugh is how people say Rey isnt a Mary Sue but call Luke and Anakin, Marty Stu (male version of the term)
Sometimes i wonder if they even watched the movies at all
What are you talking about? Clone Wars, Rogue One, Mandalorian, most of the games since like the mid 90s. Star Wars tends to be very warmly received when it goes out of the main series formula. Solo was the only one I can think of that really bombed by any definition. Even the really meh stuff usually ended net positive, like SotE spawning Rogue Squadron.
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I think he was referring to those people that have nothing better to do other than annoy everyone else, in this case people that want to try new stuff
For example when they were crying about how Vader was before he became Vader (Anakin) and were complaining about how Anakin should have a been a cold badass just like Vader
I don’t think so. Favreau is showing respect for the franchise and telling an interesting story. Baby Yoda is an interesting idea to explore. Favreau respects the past lore, the sequels do not.
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Anakin’s problem wasn’t not being a cold badass, it was that he was a world-class whinybox and Lucas can’t write dialogue worth a damn to portray any kind of nuance between badass and whiner.
In any case, WoW’s problem isn’t lack of innovation, it’s that their response to a poorly-received experiment is to double down on it. It’d be like if they looked at the reviews for the Christmas Special and responded by making more of it.
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Why wouldnt he be?
You have to explore more about Anakins life, he was a slave, he was pretty much forced to control his emotions by the Jedi Order, he failed to save his mother mostly because of the Jedi Order not allowing him to do it sooner, he barely receives the respect he deserves from his superiors, etc.
If you think about it he pretty much had to act like some sort of machine and was a bomb waiting to explode.
I really find Anakin believable, sure there was a few moments there and there that looked a bit stupid, but overall i think he was done well, and the actor did an amazing job at portraying his character
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They are actually the best ever. Everything else sucks
Well Luke didn’t become too powerful too quickly, I mean to be fair he did destroy a Death Star in the first movie but he had a ghost helping him from memory, but at least in the second movie he was shown to be a lot more vulnerable, getting his arm cut off and everything, so he was learning some harsh lessons. It was also the fact that to destroy the original death star he didn’t do it alone, it was those rebels from Rogue One movie that came out many years later that made it possible. So I think that Rey just became too powerful too quickly in comparison that’s all. To be fair, given that it’s revealed she’s the grand daughter of Palpatine, that to me is actually a legitimate reason for her powers, so I can be forgiving of it due to that fact.
Nah i call BS, the Palpatine thing wasnt even planned, so nope, they didnt had an explanation (A real one) for Rey’s powers, they just decided to revive Palpatine (off-screen and with no explanation) and decided to make him her grandfather to save their butts because they drove themself on a corner with a character that has no real explanation for her powers after two movies, which was cheap and ruined the ending of the original trilogy
The issue with Rey is that:
1: She ignores stablished rules of the lore (Something this trilogy loves to do btw)
2: She gains powers out of nowhere
3: She barely struggles and wins almost all the time
4: She has practically no real training
5: She becomes more powerful than previous characters such has Luke and Palpatine when she hasnt done anything to deserve it
6: She has no personality or actual character development
7: She is a Mary Sue
Btw if you want more context on the Palpatine thing, the directors said that Palpatine was planned to be the villain all along since the first movie, which is disproved by the very actor when he commented how he got a mail saying that they were thinking again THINKING of bringing back Palpatine, something that happened after the second movie, so no Palpatine was never planned to appear in this trilogy, which also is supported by the fact that theres was absolutely no hints of his return in the previous movies
Anyway, Rey is just an horrendously crafted character which is the reason she is so hated, which is sad cause her introduction was quite good, but after that it just went downhill and make everyone hate her and pretty much made people hate Star Wars
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Doesn’t matter if it wasn’t planned originally from a lore perspective it does explain her incredible powers and where they came from to me.
It doesnt actually, being related to someone powerful doesnt automatically make you powerful.
The best example is Anakin and Luke, Vader was incredibly powerful if not more than Palpatine yet Luke had to train for years to even become actually good, which took 3 movies.
Rey on the other hand, manages to pull mind tricks and ability that HAS to be learn and trained and beats Kylo Ren on a Force grabbing duel, which happens shortly after she finds out that the Force is even a thing and then defeats him on a lightsaber duel when that was the first time she has ever use one.
Then on the second movie, she basically trains herself while knowing absolutely nothing of the Jedi or the Force and manages to beat Luke, a group of trained guards that could rival Lightsaber users and lifts an absurd amount of boulders, something which so far we have seen only characters like Yoda and Palpatine pull off both being highly trained and experienced in the force.
Then on the third movie, she stops a flying ship with the Force, shots Electricity out of nowhere, and defeats Palpatine (in seconds) after he restored himself and she was weakened.
Basically theres no problem with a character being powerful, but theres a problem with said character being incredibly powerful and skillful with little to no training.
Hell Anakin is the freaking chosen one and he too had to train to even become powerful.
And im 100% sure Palpatine was not the exception
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Why do we feel this way?
If you want to make a character powerful then you should at least make it believable why said character its powerful with a backstory or character development
Rey doesnt have either.
Rey becomes powerful just cause, she doesnt train, she doesnt learn, she just knows stuff and does stuff, it feels stupid, it doesnt feel earned, its just doesnt work.
If a character starts from the beginning has powerful, then you should explain how said character is like that.
Or if the character becomes powerful along the way, then you should make its grown believable (this is the issue with Sylvanas btw)
Reys backstory is just that she was abandoned (Aka retconned saved) and that she live most of her live in a dangerous planet were she had to learn for herself to survive, now thats a decent backstory, but heres the problem, that doesnt work with what she does, her backstory cant justify any of her powers in any way nor explains them, she didnt even knew of the Force.
Now someone made an alternative in a video (Cant remember which one…) where he changes Rey’s parents for a Jedi master that had to go on a mission or something and never returned, with Rey being a Padawan, that would have worked considerably better to explain her ability with the Force cause she would have background knowledge
And now the character development, theres none, she just learns abilities out of nowhere, gets strong cause reasons, like i said earlier, she doesnt get any real training and becomes even more powerful and skillful than Luke, which is just stupid.
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