A little hamster flying the Falcon
Ok, the hamster flying the Falcon is an exaggeration, but it's to the point of stupid characters. I realize the franchise has always had some silly creatures, but it's more to the point where the franchise is going.Aah, it's refreshing to see people are actually willing to give things a chance before they've actually errr, watched the film.
Although it's also reassuring that Star Wars fandom hasn't changed in the past 20 years. We sure love to moan.
I'm pretty sure the Porg won't be piloting the Falcon. I'm guessing it just got in there and is a minor nuisance to Chewie.
Ok, the hamster flying the Falcon is an exaggeration, but it's to the point of stupid characters. I realize the franchise has always had some silly creatures, but it's more to the point where the franchise is going.
I gave TFA a chance, i didn't say anything about it until now. I've seen it a dozen times, but if your honest with yourself you will admit we got ANH 2 with an orphan on a dessert planet and blowing up a death star. Really, that's the best they can come up with?
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But the first order should be more like Isis. They're on the fringe. They aren't able to build a death star. That's ridiculous.
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Call me a prequel fan boy, but that is the kind of world building I want to see. I wanted TFA to start off with han on the bridge of a star destroyer. I wanted to see some order 66 style seige where him and chewie run down to some hangar where the falcon has been sitting, unused for 30 years. I wanted to see them flee as the first order rises up around them.The ancilliary books that have been coming out, filling in the gaps have helped to explain how the first order has come to be and how they've been getting support from certain factions in government etc. All under the radar until they were ready to announce themselves. All has not been explained yet, but we do have glimpses into their existence.
Call me a prequel fan boy, but that is the kind of world building I want to see. I wanted TFA to start off with han on the bridge of a star destroyer. I wanted to see some order 66 style seige where him and chewie run down to some hangar where the falcon has been sitting, unused for 30 years. I wanted to see them flee as the first order rises up around them.
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I have high hopes for TLJ. I want it to rock, but I want it to play a new tune, not just cover the old hits.
I have high hopes for TLJ. I want it to rock, but I want it to play a new tune, not just cover the old hits.
I'm not judging Disney's willingness to take risks in the future based on that. They had just dropped a buttload of money on a franchise that had delivered 3 disappointing movies in a row.
It's even worse than just playing older Beatles music. It's as if this "new" Beatles were just releasing re-recorded unused demos that the original guys made.And THAT is what, to me, makes TFA the most disappointing movie of all. Because it wasn't a movie. As you correctly point out, it was first and foremost a BS statement pandering to upset fans. It takes no balls or creativity whatsoever to just copy the stuff everyone loved from earlier movies. And it's even more BS for one artist to "apologize" for the original artist that 1) had taken all the risks to create the damn franchise in the first place ("Hey, thank you for your life's work, now let me $--- all over you.") and 2) was trying to push it into uncharted waters with every film. To me, the analogy would be if the Beatles made three disappointing albums in a row and the fans all got so upset that eventually John, Paul, George, and Ringo all quit in disgust and then four NEW guys started calling themselves "The Beatles" playing virtually identical songs as the old stuff and all those fans cheered, "Finally, we're getting REAL Beatles music!" To me, that isn't art. It isn't brave. It's the exact opposite.
To me, Teddy Roosevelt's famous "Man in the Arena" quote says it all:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
See? Now here I am making enemies again.