I remember starting 9 in the theater, excited to see how Star Wars ends!
Then the movie happened, and I just couldn’t shake the feeling of “oh so JJ is pissed that Rian did his own thing with the last movie, and we’re literally just going around retconning the very previous movie?”
ETA: I actually laughed out loud when they tried to invite Rose on their little adventure again and she’s just like “nah, I gotta stay here”
I got as far as them using their hyperspace to launch a small ship and destroy the bigger ship, like why don’t they just make a ton of dummy ships and blow everything up that way, would have taken out the death star so easily.
It was cool to see but right after that’s all I could think about, like why even bother building a death star, just hyper launch things all over the place
You’ve reminded me of a bit of flavor text from Starsector that I particularly like, from the missile specialization skill:
My colleagues don’t appreciate their whimsy. You get all these little spaceships and you break all the rules 'cause they don’t need to survive landing.
Smacking one ship into the other creates a large debris field with unknown vectors. Allowing debris to enter a hyperspace window is dangerous according to the laws of physics that I just made up.
I feel like the problem with 8 was how ham-fisted it was. Like, I get wanting to break the norms, go a different direction, and not rely on nostalgia to direct your story. But maybe taking what everyone loved from the first movies, going “actually all this stuff you loved is SHIT and you were stupid for ever liking it” and then literally burning it all in front of everyone was the wrong way to go about that.
It felt like the writer held some deep seeded hatred for Star Wars and its fans, and went out of their way to make that known.
The person you’re referring to is JJ Abrams. JJ Abrams thinks he knows everything about movies and doesn’t need to know anything about the source material, it’s a fairly well documented fact that he was neither a Star Trek fan nor a Star Wars fan before making either movies. I have so many problems with JJ Abrams going all the way back to Lost and I don’t think I will ever forgive him for ruining two of my favorite franchises and TV storytelling for the time being.
I understand the thematic purpose of Kylo, he’s supposed to be the edgy wannabe Nazi, it’s a commentary and so on and so forth.
Probably shouldn’t have used your female lead as a sexual reward for the redemption arc of the Neonazi incel though. Bro literally negged her and abused her…
Kind of makes you think any female empowerment message spread by Disney is a mere marketing decision or something.
7: Mystery box/A New Hope again
8: Controversial character assassination but honestly the only one with any real value cinematically
9: Cowardly trash with no payoff for the mystery boxes that also discarded every point of value from 8
I wonder why. Fuckers couldn’t even figure out they should have made the Knights of Ren matter as villains.
I remember starting 9 in the theater, excited to see how Star Wars ends!
Then the movie happened, and I just couldn’t shake the feeling of “oh so JJ is pissed that Rian did his own thing with the last movie, and we’re literally just going around retconning the very previous movie?”
ETA: I actually laughed out loud when they tried to invite Rose on their little adventure again and she’s just like “nah, I gotta stay here”
I got as far as them using their hyperspace to launch a small ship and destroy the bigger ship, like why don’t they just make a ton of dummy ships and blow everything up that way, would have taken out the death star so easily.
It was cool to see but right after that’s all I could think about, like why even bother building a death star, just hyper launch things all over the place
We usually call those missiles. :P
You’ve reminded me of a bit of flavor text from Starsector that I particularly like, from the missile specialization skill:
Smacking one ship into the other creates a large debris field with unknown vectors. Allowing debris to enter a hyperspace window is dangerous according to the laws of physics that I just made up.
That’s literally the explanation given for why there’s a chunk of Death Star on that one planet in 9.
I’m not even kidding.
I feel like the problem with 8 was how ham-fisted it was. Like, I get wanting to break the norms, go a different direction, and not rely on nostalgia to direct your story. But maybe taking what everyone loved from the first movies, going “actually all this stuff you loved is SHIT and you were stupid for ever liking it” and then literally burning it all in front of everyone was the wrong way to go about that.
It felt like the writer held some deep seeded hatred for Star Wars and its fans, and went out of their way to make that known.
It’s not saying “you are stupid for ever liking it”, but a lot of old star wars fans are taking it that way. Not everything is a personal attack.
What were the things you liked they shit on?
The person you’re referring to is JJ Abrams. JJ Abrams thinks he knows everything about movies and doesn’t need to know anything about the source material, it’s a fairly well documented fact that he was neither a Star Trek fan nor a Star Wars fan before making either movies. I have so many problems with JJ Abrams going all the way back to Lost and I don’t think I will ever forgive him for ruining two of my favorite franchises and TV storytelling for the time being.
…or any villain besides Temu Darth Vader and (sigh) The Emperor II, zombie boogaloo
😂
I understand the thematic purpose of Kylo, he’s supposed to be the edgy wannabe Nazi, it’s a commentary and so on and so forth.
Probably shouldn’t have used your female lead as a sexual reward for the redemption arc of the Neonazi incel though. Bro literally negged her and abused her…
Kind of makes you think any female empowerment message spread by Disney is a mere marketing decision or something.
9 made me so angry.