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Aftermath of the Star Wars Betrayal
6 years ago
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There's not going to be any video link, or images of tweets. And I know a certain little crinkle shark will most likely pick up on this. But I felt that I needed to vent this out proper before I get some needed sleep. I can't say that I was the most diehard Star Wars fan, but I can definitely say that it shaped a large majority of my life growing up. I was deeply into it, and i'd say that my biggest staples came from the KOTOR/SWTOR games and the Clone Wars cartoon. I felt these mediums best embodied the true intent of the series and the story it was meant to have. Looking back on the original sequels, I honestly find they haven't aged well. The pacing was too fast, they could never dwell on any situation too long and it was just a hot rushed mess. Episode 5 was an attempt to slow down, but it ended up going a bit TOO slow in the wrong way (still better than 4). And by Episode 6, it had finally picked up and it was a generally awesome movie to watch, but the fact that friggin teddy bears helped stop the Empire still pisses me off to this day (it was such a bad decision, one of the big people on the project actually quit because of how moronic he found the concept).
Then we have the prequels. The first movie literally didn't need to exist. It could have basically been a panorama of beautiful scenery throughout the Star Wars universe and that's all it would have needed to be, but anything more it just felt forced. With Episode 2, they essentially established a lot of the characters as being combative towards one another for any or no reason, and the forced romance plot was just utter cringe. It finished on a fairly strong note though. Episode 3 came and this is where the prequels, once again, finally found some footing and had grown more mature and thoughtful as a movie overall. No longer was it pushing toys, environments, wooden acting, or a horrid romance plot (at least it wasn't AS horrid as the 2nd movie). Despite whatever criticism is levied at it, it is still one of my favorites to watch regardless.
We then have the new movies. Episode 7. I liked it a lot when it first came out, but looking back on it now, Rey really is a mary sue, Finn had no personality, Po gets almost no screen time, the Yoda wannabe is just thrown out of left field, Chewbacca is a f**king fur rug, R2-D2 is useless. C3P0 is his usual nancybot self, and BB8 actually ended up being the most interesting of the new characters since the Kylo Ren was a manchild who "wanted to be evil", his master ended up never panning out (because of Episode 8), and Hucks was a cartoonish Hitler wannabe (as intended by Disney). Han Solo was the main reason the movie stayed enjoyable. The scene between him and Kylo was touching. A lot of people argued that was no way for the character to go out, but I felt that it was refreshing to see things not go the heroes way for once. Rey beating Kylo, even WITH a bowcaster wound, I kind of call BS on. Rogue One, I didn't really like it except for the final battle on the planet because it reminded me of how I wanted Battlefront to be, and I found the actual battle cool as f**k. Soylo the Movie was a hot mess I completely avoided, and Episode 8 made me end up loving the little bird things because the actual movie itself was a f**king disaster that made me want to strangle the screen (yes, I know that's impossible).
Disney's constant contempt for its fans is just becoming clear, and their contempt for those who want to go back to the Legends canon only makes it very clear that they don't give a damn what I want. From someone who's been there since the beginning, I am deeply disappointed that my love for this franchise had been killed to the level that it is now because of corporate greed and the shaming of fans for being "white males". It just shows how the culture I grew up in is being forcefully changed to be hostile to me no matter what I want. So with much regret, I try to force the love for the Jedi/Sith mythos, my wonderment of the many environments, the significant events throuhgout its history, my love for some of the best written characters, all down and out, because I can't bear to look at what Disney has done to my franchise.
Oh well... at least there's always Destiny 2 and Star Citizen.
P.S. I wrote this despite being somewhat tired, so if it seems I'm rambling that's why.
Then we have the prequels. The first movie literally didn't need to exist. It could have basically been a panorama of beautiful scenery throughout the Star Wars universe and that's all it would have needed to be, but anything more it just felt forced. With Episode 2, they essentially established a lot of the characters as being combative towards one another for any or no reason, and the forced romance plot was just utter cringe. It finished on a fairly strong note though. Episode 3 came and this is where the prequels, once again, finally found some footing and had grown more mature and thoughtful as a movie overall. No longer was it pushing toys, environments, wooden acting, or a horrid romance plot (at least it wasn't AS horrid as the 2nd movie). Despite whatever criticism is levied at it, it is still one of my favorites to watch regardless.
We then have the new movies. Episode 7. I liked it a lot when it first came out, but looking back on it now, Rey really is a mary sue, Finn had no personality, Po gets almost no screen time, the Yoda wannabe is just thrown out of left field, Chewbacca is a f**king fur rug, R2-D2 is useless. C3P0 is his usual nancybot self, and BB8 actually ended up being the most interesting of the new characters since the Kylo Ren was a manchild who "wanted to be evil", his master ended up never panning out (because of Episode 8), and Hucks was a cartoonish Hitler wannabe (as intended by Disney). Han Solo was the main reason the movie stayed enjoyable. The scene between him and Kylo was touching. A lot of people argued that was no way for the character to go out, but I felt that it was refreshing to see things not go the heroes way for once. Rey beating Kylo, even WITH a bowcaster wound, I kind of call BS on. Rogue One, I didn't really like it except for the final battle on the planet because it reminded me of how I wanted Battlefront to be, and I found the actual battle cool as f**k. Soylo the Movie was a hot mess I completely avoided, and Episode 8 made me end up loving the little bird things because the actual movie itself was a f**king disaster that made me want to strangle the screen (yes, I know that's impossible).
Disney's constant contempt for its fans is just becoming clear, and their contempt for those who want to go back to the Legends canon only makes it very clear that they don't give a damn what I want. From someone who's been there since the beginning, I am deeply disappointed that my love for this franchise had been killed to the level that it is now because of corporate greed and the shaming of fans for being "white males". It just shows how the culture I grew up in is being forcefully changed to be hostile to me no matter what I want. So with much regret, I try to force the love for the Jedi/Sith mythos, my wonderment of the many environments, the significant events throuhgout its history, my love for some of the best written characters, all down and out, because I can't bear to look at what Disney has done to my franchise.
Oh well... at least there's always Destiny 2 and Star Citizen.
P.S. I wrote this despite being somewhat tired, so if it seems I'm rambling that's why.
I'd like to open a rift into the parallel universe in which someone with a brain was in charge of Lucasfilm; and they just decided to make movies out of the ugh... "legends" books from now until the end of time. Where Star Wars DID become a rival to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where the universe continued to have a history and weight to it, where we got to see the battles between the true Sith empire and the Jedi, the battles of Rogue Squadron, the redemption of Revan, and the adventures of Han Solo and Lando Calrisian, and the invasion of the galaxy by the Vong...
But no; instead we got 3 movies of "Rey is teh bestestest evar! Deal with it!' and two spinoffs nobody asked for or wanted.
And I agree that Episode 7 was okay, but it kind of did rehash a lot of Episode 4 for a new generation and introduced a lot of flat characters, meanwhile the interesting ones they introduce like Captain Phasma keep getting shafted. And whatever Episode 7 WAS building up to got ruined by Episode 8, where the direction the writers and director took came off as "I know the audience wants/expects this, but fuck them, we're doing THIS instead".
And I don't recall people complaining about Han's death, but he went out WAY better than Luke did. If I recall, Harrison Ford has always hated the character and wanted them to kill him off anyway.
I did like Rogue One a lot though, and I haven't seen the Han Solo movie. Apparently the latter clears up a lot about the famous "Kessel Run", though, which is neat.