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Joek3rr
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I just love it when LEGO pays attention to the obscure details. ESB AT-ST, complete with the longer legs and closed view ports.
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sztriki
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Is this some deleted footage or fan movie bit with him and the girls...?Lol. Unsee this!
Joek3rr
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Yeah it's the "Special Edition" shot of Boba
Is this some deleted footage or fan movie bit with him and the girls...?
ghostryder
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Patty Jenkins’ ‘Rogue Squadron’ Reportedly Delayed Due to Creative Differences
'Rogue Squadron' was originally scheduled for release on December 22, 2023.
collider.com
Seems like the usual industry PR pattern.Patty Jenkins’ ‘Rogue Squadron’ Reportedly Delayed Due to Creative Differences
'Rogue Squadron' was originally scheduled for release on December 22, 2023.
A few months from now we'll likely see an announcement that she's out, shortly after they'll announce a new director.
I like Jenkins when she gives interviews, but if you want to see what she can do when given creative license; take a look at WW84.
Creative license isn't for everyone.
sztriki
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I know, it was a joke.
So she isn't willing to tow the company line and if she puts up enough of a fight and they'll cut ties with her. Cue the rinse and repeat cycle both in the actual production and then in the fan speculation spaces.
Why is every single Disney Star Wars film production troubled in some way? Gee I wonder....
Regardless it's been 9 years now since
Is any of this truly a surprise? Frankly I'm not really all that interested in any new Star Wars content these days. I think I'm almost to the point I was a few decades ago with the EU and I quit keeping up with it. Book of Boba Fett? Nah, I'm good. His survival has been done to death in the novels and comics from the last 20 years. His success as a character lies in his mystery as a supporting character. The more you explain him the less interesting he becomes.
Obi-Wan Kenobi series? Nah, I don't need ANH retconned further. You watch because Clone Wars, the Prequels, and Rebels will also get retconned in the process. Mark my words. In some way they will get altered and it's not going to sit well with fans of those stories either, so they can have a taste of what it's like to have their favorite stories messed with. I don't say that as a means to be malicious but to illustrate that perhaps my gripes with all the changes over the years haven't been without merit. No one cares until it affects them.
What are the other 30 Star Wars projects announced because I have zero interest in those too? I don't know. Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing.
Why is every single Disney Star Wars film production troubled in some way? Gee I wonder....
Regardless it's been 9 years now since
Is any of this truly a surprise? Frankly I'm not really all that interested in any new Star Wars content these days. I think I'm almost to the point I was a few decades ago with the EU and I quit keeping up with it. Book of Boba Fett? Nah, I'm good. His survival has been done to death in the novels and comics from the last 20 years. His success as a character lies in his mystery as a supporting character. The more you explain him the less interesting he becomes.
Obi-Wan Kenobi series? Nah, I don't need ANH retconned further. You watch because Clone Wars, the Prequels, and Rebels will also get retconned in the process. Mark my words. In some way they will get altered and it's not going to sit well with fans of those stories either, so they can have a taste of what it's like to have their favorite stories messed with. I don't say that as a means to be malicious but to illustrate that perhaps my gripes with all the changes over the years haven't been without merit. No one cares until it affects them.
What are the other 30 Star Wars projects announced because I have zero interest in those too? I don't know. Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing.
Ah, but, my friend, we did not. We had a delightful taste of a good thing and then too much of a "there's something off about this..." thing. For some people -- *raises hand* -- that line was ROTJ, for some TPM, for some AOTC, for some TFA... I think the horribly underrated comedian Tom Parks said it best, when describing people who get divorced and then remairried -- to each other:
There were some good offerings from the EU, but they got fewer and fewer, with more dross filling the gaps between. Everything had potential, to some degree realized, but way too much of it has fallen short to some degree. Don't debate me on this, Joek3rr. I know how much you adore everything and can overlay what was intended with what came through and be happy, but those are two separate things for me and many others that should not be separate, not up to individual viewers to be able to reconcile. In a way, I envy you that gung-ho avidness. I miss it. For as much as I love Star Wars and have since 1977, river-deep, mountain-high, it is nowhere near as much as I used to thirty, twenty, even ten years ago. I keep wanting it to live up to the promise of the first two films and, my respected fellow nerd, it just doesn't, however much we want it to.
I enjoyed TFA. I enjoyed Rogue One. I enjoyed TLJ. I enjoyed Solo. I enjoyed TROS. Heck, dial it back. I enjoyed Resistance, Rebels, Clone Wars, ROTS, AOTC, TPM, the Ewok movies, and ROTJ. But none of them have been quite as good as Star Wars and Empire, for reasons that have been pounded into the mat in this and other threads.
Me, thinking about my 7 year old self swinging my lightsaber stick at trees in the woods from 77 to 80. Then waiting for the first snow to drop so I could go outside, fall flat in the snow, painfully look up and say "Ben?" over and over and over again.
Yup. Grew up in the Seattle area. Not the California Redwoods, but still some darn big trees. Lots of tree-dodging going on out there. And the rootballs of trees that got blown over in windstorms made great Death Star playsets.
How many on here mastered one or another of the prop/vehicle sound effects, due to inadequacies of the toy tech of the time? I can still do a passable TIE Fighter burst, my Falcon powering up is pretty good, and my lightsaber is spot-on. Never could quite get the blaster "CHOOM!", though...
How many on here mastered one or another of the prop/vehicle sound effects, due to inadequacies of the toy tech of the time? I can still do a passable TIE Fighter burst, my Falcon powering up is pretty good, and my lightsaber is spot-on. Never could quite get the blaster "CHOOM!", though...
I don't know how it sounded from the outside, but inside my little head the sounds were identical.
I'll say this -- there's a part of me that wishes there were good Star Wars miniatures and accurate Star Wars model kits when I was going through the OT as they came out. I probably wouldn't have gotten action figures. Wargames? Huge glorious three-foot-long model kit I can sink five years into? I woulda been all over that. Especially as I hit high school.
Wolfsburg
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The sad truth that I've discovered as I've gotten older is that I'm really not much of a Star Wars fan when I really think about it. I was born after the OT came out but I adored those movies growing up and still do*. Among my friends, I'm usually known as the "SW nut". However, I thought the PT generally sucked, don't like the cartoons, thought the ST was meh (although it started with some promise and the ball quickly got mightily dropped), Solo was meh, Rogue One was okay and I do generally enjoy The Mandalorian. It feels like the more SW content that comes out, the smaller the overall percentage is that I like. Yet, I do find myself keeping tabs on what's in the pipeline, in the hopes that it'll be something I'll love. What's the definition of crazy, again?
*Although the ST has frankly put a damper on even these, now knowing the sadness and failure our heroes experience later
*Although the ST has frankly put a damper on even these, now knowing the sadness and failure our heroes experience later
This exactly!
I've realized over the years I'm not really a Star Wars fan, I'm an original trilogy fan. I was born before the OT (first movie I ever saw was Star Wars) I love the OT, I really like The Mandalorian but I hate the prequels, I've never seen the cartoons, hated Solo, didn't like Rogue One, Force Awakens was ok and don't really like anything else...so far.
I've realized over the years I'm not really a Star Wars fan, I'm an original trilogy fan. I was born before the OT (first movie I ever saw was Star Wars) I love the OT, I really like The Mandalorian but I hate the prequels, I've never seen the cartoons, hated Solo, didn't like Rogue One, Force Awakens was ok and don't really like anything else...so far.
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