Posted on 04/14/2017 9:29:36 AM PDT by Monty22002
Looks great to me.
Cool with period advertisements. Nice!
There’s good stuff going on in the SW universe. FA was good for what it was (I see it as a letter from Disney saying “we know the prequel trilogy sucked, and we promise we won’t do that”, sure it didn’t carve out any new territory but it was fun and showed a basic understanding of what makes SW fun). I think Rogue One was really good, not Empire good, but better than pretty much every movie not Empire. The Rebels TV show is really good, and if you’re familiar with the Legends universe you see some planet, or character, or event come back to canon almost every episode. Tim Zahn is writing Thrawn books again.
See the problem with expecting crap is that it’s a self fulfilling prophecy. Since all things are flawed when you expect crap you focus on the flaws and you get crap. I keep in mind that the SW series has ALWAYS been basically B-grade exploitation movies with an A budget. They are primarily a fun ride, they often don’t make that much sense on deep contemplation (face it, it’s a sci-fi story with wizards) but that’s not what kind of movies they are. They shouldn’t be analyzed like The Conversation, they’re basically Roger Corman movies. So I go in expecting fun that doesn’t challenge the brain, and I get fun, and challenge the brain with something arty when I get home.
It really is a great time to be an SW fan, if you’ll let it be. Or you can be Simpson’s Comicbook Guy and hate everything, but really that’s a sad life. Why go to movies just to hate them and complain about them. There’s enough stuff in this world to complain about already without seeking to turn something you like into it.
A lot of it is the time frame. Prior to the Thrawn series media tie-in books were almost universally crap, and weren’t canon. They were basically cash grabs, throwaway junk for folks who wanted more than the movie/TV studio was providing. Then suddenly with Heir series SW changed the game, they hired a really good writer, gave him access to the bible, and let him do (sort of) whatever he wanted, and let it count and be considered part of the story told in the movies. And yeah some of it was rough, though a lot of that came from George (Tim’s got a long list of “stuff I wanted to do but George said ‘no’ that are actually really cool), and some were added later (now that we know they’re Sith “Dark Jedi” scans wrong, and clones weren’t so bad before the prequel trilogy). But for the time period it was head and shoulders above anything being done in the media tie-in world. Those 3 books changed the entire industry for the better. Any time you read a media tie-in book now that’s actually good that’s because of the Heir trilogy.
looks similar to empire strikes back
Was that Luke saying the Jedi must end?
I suspect this ties in to what Rey was saying about balance.
I’ve felt for a while that the Star Wars “big lesson” was going to end up being that extremes are ultimately doomed to fail, whether the Jedi who end up lost in endless debate and paralysis or the Sith with who recklessly pursue power until they are destroyed by their own ambition. My guess is that Luke will end up fulfilling Vader’s legacy by “bringing balance to the Force” and eliminating both the Sith and Jedi orders which he sees as the source of much of history’s conflict.
For what it’s worth I hope I’m wrong, because that means PC wins, and moral equivalence is the cultural phenomenon’s legacy.
still have a Han Solo stand alone origin movie coming as well, they better not ruin that one..
I have not seen any of the SW movies since 1983. Prob will not watch this one either.
Revenge of the Sith, The Force Awakens and Rogue One were very fine movies. It’s hard to tell from this new teaser either way, but I’m optimistic.
As long as they don’t get Shia Lebeouf to play young Han Solo. Save us.
yikes!
“For what it’s worth I hope I’m wrong, because that means PC wins, and moral equivalence is the cultural phenomenon’s legacy.”
Unfortunately, PC and moral equivalence was already Star Wars’ legacy since Obi-Wan told Vader “Only a Sith deals in Absolutes” in Revenge of the Sith. Heck, it was that legacy since Obi-Wan told Luke “Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view” after Luke confronted him about lying to him about Vader killing his father when, in reality, Vader IS his father, or at least was his dad, in Return of the Jedi.
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