Solo4114
Master Member
Scattershot responses to various folks' posts below.
Short answer: No.
Longer answer: No, because he sold the rights to Disney, which means that any attempt by him (unless brought on board by Disney specifically) to do his own Star Wars would be...copyright violation (also trademark, probably).
Yes!! Exactly! It's relying on the meta-narrative experience of the audience to sell moments, without regard to what is organic to the narrative itself. The Khan thing is a perfect example of larger problems in both JJ's Trek films and his Star Wars films.
It's like bad fan-fic. It's about entertaining the fan instinct, rather than telling a good story. Now, you can absolutely do both. But JJ never really seems to want to, I guess because that's either too much work, or he doesn't understand the difference. So he's either lazy or he's really just a crummy storyteller. But he does this throughout both Trek and Wars. Meanwhile, he doesn't develop the narrative to a point that he makes clear things like what the Resistance is vis a vis the Republic in TFA. We're just supposed to...get it. And the Resistance is basically just renamed Rebels. And the Republic is just the Republic (some ineffectual, soon-to-be-overthrown nebulous government that we never really see).
But the point in my original post is that this stuff is simply part of the DNA of his Star Wars. It's there from the biggest, most obvious stuff, to the smaller, less obvious things like naming Ben "Ben" in the first place. It's the failure to take that extra step and say "Wait. Why would these characters do this thing?" Why would Leia and Han name their kid after Obi-Wan Kenobi's nickname? That'd be like naming your son after your brother-in-law's favorite teacher from high school. "We really wanted to honor Mr. Cooper. He was such a big influence on my brother-in-law's life." Uh.....oooook.....
No, obviously it's not that. He's named that because it's a wink to the fans. "We named him after Obi-Wan because it's what you guys would want." And the thought process never went past that point. Or if it did, it was ignored. That is why JJ is a terrible storyteller.
Also, at least according to TROS, "I've met this smokin' hot gal from Chandrilla. Think I'm gonna see if she wants to come back to my place and check out my lightsabre collection. If you get what I'm sayin', heh heh heh."
To which Vader replies "Master, we always get what you're saying." Good thing Palps can't see Vader rolling his eyes under that mask...
Short answer: No.
Longer answer: No, because he sold the rights to Disney, which means that any attempt by him (unless brought on board by Disney specifically) to do his own Star Wars would be...copyright violation (also trademark, probably).
Yes!! Exactly! It's relying on the meta-narrative experience of the audience to sell moments, without regard to what is organic to the narrative itself. The Khan thing is a perfect example of larger problems in both JJ's Trek films and his Star Wars films.
It's like bad fan-fic. It's about entertaining the fan instinct, rather than telling a good story. Now, you can absolutely do both. But JJ never really seems to want to, I guess because that's either too much work, or he doesn't understand the difference. So he's either lazy or he's really just a crummy storyteller. But he does this throughout both Trek and Wars. Meanwhile, he doesn't develop the narrative to a point that he makes clear things like what the Resistance is vis a vis the Republic in TFA. We're just supposed to...get it. And the Resistance is basically just renamed Rebels. And the Republic is just the Republic (some ineffectual, soon-to-be-overthrown nebulous government that we never really see).
But the point in my original post is that this stuff is simply part of the DNA of his Star Wars. It's there from the biggest, most obvious stuff, to the smaller, less obvious things like naming Ben "Ben" in the first place. It's the failure to take that extra step and say "Wait. Why would these characters do this thing?" Why would Leia and Han name their kid after Obi-Wan Kenobi's nickname? That'd be like naming your son after your brother-in-law's favorite teacher from high school. "We really wanted to honor Mr. Cooper. He was such a big influence on my brother-in-law's life." Uh.....oooook.....
No, obviously it's not that. He's named that because it's a wink to the fans. "We named him after Obi-Wan because it's what you guys would want." And the thought process never went past that point. Or if it did, it was ignored. That is why JJ is a terrible storyteller.
Also, at least according to TROS, "I've met this smokin' hot gal from Chandrilla. Think I'm gonna see if she wants to come back to my place and check out my lightsabre collection. If you get what I'm sayin', heh heh heh."
To which Vader replies "Master, we always get what you're saying." Good thing Palps can't see Vader rolling his eyes under that mask...
For real.
