I think you could probably put a lot of the blame on Iger and Kennedy as well. They wanted to make Star Wars movies like in the old days, with nothing that reminded audiences of the prequels — i.e., no complex worldbuilding or political discussions — and took that mandate to literally mean remaking the OT as close as…
SpiritedStar
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You are absolutely correct. JJ Abrams aped the original movie, because nostalgia and aping is all he’s good for. We saw it with Star Trek 2, where he copied... (wait for it)... Star Trek II. He’s crap, and now it’s up to Filoni et al to turn yet another sow’s ear of a trilogy into another silk purse.
Thank you.
Well, no, there wasn’t. You’re right there.
This is how I picture all of these horrible shows: just the horrible experience of having a stage mom multiplied exponentially because you essentially never get to leave the set.
This is what I find truly annoying about modern criticism. There’s only ONE reason why the New Republic is as messed up as it is. JJ Abrams. He and his creative team made the incredibly lazy decision to just undo all the progress made from defeating the Empire and descended right back into the good guys being a…
I interviewed for a production position on a reality show following a famous YouTube family who made a zillion clips of their ‘incredibly fun’ lifestyle and ‘unboxing’ and all that crap.
Also, gonna guess she never even taught her SIX YEAR OLD how to make a lunch.
In another, Franke explains the reasoning behind not bringing her hungry 6-year-old lunch at school, because it’s actually the kid’s responsibility to pack her own lunch.
I’ve never heard of this person, but I just assume all parenting influencers are abusing their children.
I agree. I particularly don’t understand the depiction of the New Republic in these post-RotJ series. It’s somehow more corrupt and ineffectual than the old Republic- sometimes even actively antagonistic- and we never really get a clear sense of why. I know we need to work toward the stupid return of rebel v. empire…
Also watching the end of Rebels, how did a map to thrawn get created when he and esra got blasted off into wherever by purgill, who made the map, with what information and why stick it in an old temple instead of broadcasting it out to all the remaining imperials and future first order people.
Haha, yeah. The maps that they are convinced are deep and intriguing, but are just pointless and boring.
Well, yeah, the Empire can be an ineffectual bureaucracy because they’re the bad guys.
well said and I would add stop with the weird maps that may not have been created in the time place or way they end up being in the shows.
Phantom Menace: Sorry, heroes, we’d love to help with your urgent problem, but we’re politicians and bureaucracy just gets in the way. Oops.
Rogue One: Sorry, heroes, we’d love to help with your urgent problem, but we’re politicians and bureaucracy just gets in the way. Oops.
The Force Awakens: Sorry,…
The star wars properties have spent more time trying to explain and retcon their crappy sequels than how long the movies actually were. It is actually a monument to how terrible the sequels are that they have to spend sooo much time explaining basic stuff in those movies now they are over instead of actually doing it…
Yeah, I’m tired of being told that I’m super-wrong for not understanding where this “anyone can be trained in the Force” thing is coming from, when people are pointing out one line (that Ahsoka repeats in this episode) when Kanan is training Sabine to use the Darksaber about the Force existing in all living things. I,…
It needs a better writer too. Those first two episodes were far, far too dependent on knowing the lore of the cartoon series to produce any character stakes at all. I’m fairly familiar with them but I still found it quite flat. I can’t even imagine what it would be like for a viewer coming in cold. It was basically,…