Yeah but he never got around to filming them and looks like for good reason.
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They bill The Rise of Skywalker as the end of the Skywalker saga but...
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Yeah but he never got around to filming them and looks like for good reason.
Real talk, one of the things I care for the least in this new trilogy is how they've basically undone everything that was accomplished in the OT. Fucking hell they even undid Palpatine's defeat. In my head I just have to treat this shit as some kind of elseworlds story.
Agreed. This sequel trilogy is unnecessary. They should have created a whole new story in a far galaxy, separate from the events of the OT. This is just a Disney cash grab, pure and simple.
It doesn't matter, he still basically did treatments or outlines for the films. No doubt he'd had these ideas sitting around for years. So the idea that the ST are fan fiction or completely independent from the creator of SW is false.
When we heard his laugh in the first trailer I must have lughed for a good 5 minutes in my car.
I loved Force Awakens though, looking forward to this conclusion but have literally 0 expectations, especially after reading the spoilers.
Agreed. There's countless people and planets in this galaxy spanning civilization; the story has no end if we're supposed to believe that this is a thriving, wide spanning community. Let the Skywalker story end and move on to new characters.
Luke was involved with the Rebels, had an X-Wing, had a formal rank and everything.
Not everyone can have the Force, but everyone can be a freedom fighter like Luke.
Plenty of writers and directors have general outlines for films. They also trash bin a lot of ideas too. There's no saying what George Lucas would have done because we all know he kind of makes shit up as things are being filmed.
Considering just how large Star Wars has become since 1983, Return of the Jedi is just not big enough send off for the Skywalkers.
I agree. The Last Jedi felt like the end of the saga and if it was then I would have been ok but knowing there was another movie coming, it kinda didn't work. But thinking about it now, if 9 really is the ending to every 8 movies (like Endgame was for 22 movies ) then maybe it will work.
I agree. The Last Jedi felt like the end of the saga and if it was then I would have been ok but knowing there was another movie coming, it kinda didn't work. But thinking about it now, if 9 really is the ending to every 8 movies (like Endgame was for 22 movies ) then maybe it will work.
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Didn't Lucas start making the early drafts for the sequels when he started considering selling Lucasfilm?
OK, but that doesn't take away from how horrible they are. Using Lucas to defend the story isn't going to win anyone over he's been terrible at SW ever since the prequels and that's why he didn't make these and sold to Disney instead, its too bad they actually went ahead and decided to listen to his ideas going forward although I don't think they did with TLJ I don't think even Lucas liked any of what happened with that disaster.
Two things.
I started watching the Star Wars movies for the first time two years ago and can't help but feel that I did it way too late, since the other trilogies are coming up and supposedly the original are ruined now.
And second, Episode IX has leaked spoilers already? I thought it would be a huge deal if that happened. D:
I started watching the Star Wars movies for the first time two years ago and can't help but feel that I did it way too late, since the other trilogies are coming up and supposedly the original are ruined now.
And second, Episode IX has leaked spoilers already? I thought it would be a huge deal if that happened. D:
This isn't really a good idea, though. Rogue One kind of showed that. Being a protagonist in a generally sci-fi action adventure tends to make things a bit weird power wise. Rogue One featured a cast of some really skillful people, so skillful that they kind of are on par with force users. It cheapens what force users can do, which is why I feel like George Lucas ramped them up to absurd levels in the prequels or why Darth Vadar NEEDED to crush at the end of Rogue One just to differentiate. I don't mind seeing freedom fighters, but if they're doing the same feats as story wise more powerful people then I just shrug.
This is the real truth.
The ST is an unnecessary story. The OT already told this story mostly. The ST is just a way to bring Star Wars back to the public conscious.
I have no idea. All I know is the dude probably had pages and pages of "hmmm, this might be interesting" somewhere. He literally made shit up as he went in the prequels. They had sets built for story parts that weren't even written. I would not be surprised if he toyed around with the idea of Luke actually being a Jedi leader in some rebuilt Jedi organization. He is an unreliable source because he's clearly quite all over the place with his own work.
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To be honest, I don't think Disney throwing out the entire EU was the best option... they should've worked around it... but too late now.
yea ive actually never played Kotor, thinking about finally giving it a shot, i think i'd really enjoy it
it's more a "this time really, believe us, we're done milking the name" than "tune in next week to the epic finale of the skywalker saga"
Lol, the only post worst than OP's, which is tough feat to be sure.
I agree Poe's skills are kinda hax but I actually value his and others' soldiering skills than the Jedi. I value the alliance of planets forming past their differences rather than under the singular Jedi moral authority, which itself is kinda muddy.
A lightsaber is iconic but that's all that is.
Ship, weapons, and alien soldier designs are a good source of growth for future Star Wars. Controlling a cockpit for example is arguably more immersive than force pushes are.
Despite my dismissal of a new Force-exclusive club, I kinda want Jedi Starfighters to come back.
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well yeah, General Grevious was created because he needed a stand-in for Dooku because he had to kill him off early into ROTS
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to be fair that sgt. candy lipsyncing is pretty spot on lol, so thats something i guess
when all of the other star wars stuff isn't as popular as the "skywalker" saga stuff, they'll go back to it, rest assured
Nothing will ever be the same...
For the first time...
History ends...
And begins again...
This Christmas...
So buy your tickets, now.
NOW, GODDAMMIT!
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For the first time...
History ends...
And begins again...
This Christmas...
So buy your tickets, now.
NOW, GODDAMMIT!
NOW!!!
You were expecting them to all live happily ever after and not do a single interesting thing in their lives ever again like LOTR and realistically that's a good ending.
But a decision was made to make sequels 30 years past the original cast's prime and that ending is boring as fuck in that scenario. This trilogy had to happen for people to let go and allow the franchise to move on...60+ Mark Hamill pretending to be 10 years older than ROTJ and jumping around like Yoda just wouldn't work.
But a decision was made to make sequels 30 years past the original cast's prime and that ending is boring as fuck in that scenario. This trilogy had to happen for people to let go and allow the franchise to move on...60+ Mark Hamill pretending to be 10 years older than ROTJ and jumping around like Yoda just wouldn't work.
Yep I honestly have no freaking idea what this one is about since Rian Johnson subverted the formula by killing off Snoke in the second act of the second film when everyone expected that wouldn't happen till the third movie.
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The best thing Disney should've done was just rerelease the original trilogy but that wouldn't have made money.
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Ehhh the EU was a convoluted mess that covered so much it would be almost impossible to work around. Hell, it seems like it was difficult for a lot of the writers because there are so many contradictions and retellings of stories in the EU