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Star Wars

Started by Headless, April 02, 2018, 02:44:46 PM

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Armchair Gamer

#75
July 19, 2018, 05:20:44 PM
Quote from: Warboss Squee;1046641Holdo is, and I shit you not, a purple haired lesbian socialist who is Force Sensitive. Confirmed by both Laura Dern and Rian Johnson.

I found sources for the Force Sensitive (Dern's interview) and hints of pansexuality apparently in one of the novels. Where's socialist come from?

Warboss Squee

#76
July 20, 2018, 03:31:31 AM
Quote from: Armchair Gamer;1049643I found sources for the Force Sensitive (Dern's interview) and hints of pansexuality apparently in one of the novels. Where's socialist come from?

You say hippie revolutionary, I hear socialist.

Armchair Gamer

#77
July 20, 2018, 09:02:39 AM
Quote from: Warboss Squee;1049730You say hippie revolutionary, I hear socialist.

  Reasonable enough, but I don't think they gave it that deep a level of thought. ;)

ArrozConLeche

#78
July 20, 2018, 09:51:40 AM
Maybe another aspect of the problem with sequels, as opposed to pre-quels, is that Star Wars might be sort of a "solved setting." The empire was defeated in the OT, along with one of the most badass villains in film history. Trying to recreate this epic struggle between light and dark will just be a retread, and trying to top the Empire and Darth Vader is like trying to outdo Sauron in an LOTR sequel.

Ratman_tf

#79
August 13, 2018, 11:02:01 AM
At the risk of beating a dead horse, I found a video that does a pretty good job of summing up why I found TLJ disappointing.

[video=youtube;CyB3BxGrUvU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyB3BxGrUvU[/youtube]
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Omega

#80
August 15, 2018, 09:34:37 PM
Quote from: ArrozConLeche;1049784Maybe another aspect of the problem with sequels, as opposed to pre-quels, is that Star Wars might be sort of a "solved setting." The empire was defeated in the OT, along with one of the most badass villains in film history. Trying to recreate this epic struggle between light and dark will just be a retread, and trying to top the Empire and Darth Vader is like trying to outdo Sauron in an LOTR sequel.

Except that due to the Force the Star Wars setting can never be a solved setting. The Force is like two hydras fighting eachother.

And history and many TV shows say differently on even the need to top a grand finale. You can easily do a reconstruction blues scenario and have the whole thing build up again. Or angle off into areas before unexplored. The comics and cartoons show that time and again.

Kiero

#81
September 12, 2018, 04:56:30 PM
I watched Solo last night, it was...OK. Rogue One was pretty good, not least because they didn't feel beholden to anything else and could just make a good movie.

Solo suffered from all the same slavish devotion to what has gone before that the "main" films have. Nothing new and a weird sideline in trying to be "woke" (through the annoying droid sidekick) which was just tedious.
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Warboss Squee

#82
September 12, 2018, 06:18:15 PM
Quote from: Kiero;1055876I watched Solo last night, it was...OK. Rogue One was pretty good, not least because they didn't feel beholden to anything else and could just make a good movie.

Solo suffered from all the same slavish devotion to what has gone before that the "main" films have. Nothing new and a weird sideline in trying to be "woke" (through the annoying droid sidekick) which was just tedious.

I made it about 5-10 mins. Between the text opening and the thing with Fagin? Sorry, I mean the light sensitive dumbass masquerading as a crime boss, Bleh.

Apparition

#83
September 22, 2018, 12:44:58 AM
Bwahahahaha.


[video=youtube;OFrcwcBVVjU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFrcwcBVVjU[/youtube]

Ratman_tf

#84
November 04, 2018, 09:23:34 PM
Episode 9 will be a "course-correction".

https://screenrant.com/star-wars-9-course-correction-abrams-lucasfilm/

No idea what that means. I'd rather see another movie like Solo, honestly. I have no interest in the sequel trilogy, and I don't care how it ends, except maybe to watch it when it comes out on Netflix to see if they manage to dig themselves out of the dead-end story they've knocked together.
The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
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Omega

#85
November 05, 2018, 02:39:45 AM
Odds are Kennedy and co will instead double down with some sort of big political statement movie.

Ratman_tf

#86
November 06, 2018, 07:09:54 PM
Quote from: Omega;1063239Odds are Kennedy and co will instead double down with some sort of big political statement movie.

The schadenfreude from that would be more entertaining than the story. :D
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-Haffrung

Ratman_tf

#87
August 20, 2019, 03:26:28 PM
I haven't seen Into the Spiderverse, but I really liked this commentary.

[video=youtube_share;5MdfivHmbMU]https://youtu.be/5MdfivHmbMU[/youtube]
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Aglondir

#88
August 22, 2019, 12:52:25 AM
Quote from: Warboss Squee;1046641Holdo is, and I shit you not, a purple haired lesbian socialist who is Force Sensitive. Confirmed by both Laura Dern and Rian Johnson.

I can't believe I missed this when I saw it. Admiral Dangerhair!

Aglondir

#89
August 28, 2019, 12:12:39 AM
Quote from: Apparition;1045674This may be the best article I've read on The Last Jedi.

You will like this.
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