If I'd been in charge of Star Wars. . .
POSTED BY: Cybersnark
UPDATED: Sunday, December 27, 2015 10:23
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So many folks who don't post here anymore. :(
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I resect your opinion but hide site is always 20/20, and FYI, I didn't think episodes 1 2 and 3 were bad. As a matter of fact I thought episode 3 was excellent. "The Empire Strikes Back" will never be topped, it's too though an act to follow. I'm waiting for after the holidays to see episode 7, I hate crowds, when I do I'll tell all of you what "I" think of it.... as if you guys care what "I" think. 
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Quote:Here is a short excerpt from the opinion of someone who has enough distance from Star Wars to be analytical:
Originally posted by whozit:
I respect your opinion but hindsight is always 20/20 . . .
Our Star Wars Holiday Special
http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/zunguzungu/our-star-wars-holiday-specia
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Star Wars shows us entire worlds being destroyed—genocides on a literally unimaginable scale—and then fades the horrors of those holocausts into the background, the better for us to obsess over the Skywalker family soap opera. Will Vader turn good or will Luke turn evil or will Kylo Ren come back home to his parents? Such narcissism is par for the course; the force is with the Skywalkers.
But at the same time, this monstrous ethical myopia is striking because of how a mastery of visual scale has always been one of the franchise’s trademarks; remember Darth Vader’s star destroyer filling the screen as it dwarfed and pursued Princess Leia’s tiny diplomatic ship, or all the great set-pieces of small ships flying inside big ships. At the level of cinematography, the franchise’s mastery of visual perspective is sublime; why, then, is its lack of moral proportion so flagrant? What are we to do with figures like the pacifist Storm Trooper who reclaims his humanity because he refuses to kill, and who then goes on to kill dozens (or hundreds) of nameless Storm Troopers because, as Storm Troopers, they aren’t human? It makes no sense when you stop and think about it.
The real question, then, is whether you should stop and think about it.
Lots of people have done so, laboriously struggling to work out how it all does makes sense, adding stories and details and characters to turn a radically simplistic and mythically shallow set of stories into something that resembles the logic of the real world. For decades, the “expanded universe” was the umbrella term for this enterprise of filling in the gaps, the novelizations and video games and other archives of canon, less canon, and sub-canon material that made a set of flickering films into a universe. That’s all gone now; Disney destroyed it all with as little ceremony as it blew up the Hosnian system, the necessary blank space in which to build its own empire. Millions of voices cried out and were silenced, but now, a new revenue stream flows through the galaxy.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Here is a short excerpt from the opinion of someone who has enough distance from Star Wars to be analytical:
Originally posted by whozit:
I respect your opinion but hindsight is always 20/20 . . .
Our Star Wars Holiday Special
http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/zunguzungu/our-star-wars-holiday-specia
l/
Star Wars shows us entire worlds being destroyed—genocides on a literally unimaginable scale—and then fades the horrors of those holocausts into the background, the better for us to obsess over the Skywalker family soap opera. Will Vader turn good or will Luke turn evil or will Kylo Ren come back home to his parents? Such narcissism is par for the course; the force is with the Skywalkers.
But at the same time, this monstrous ethical myopia is striking because of how a mastery of visual scale has always been one of the franchise’s trademarks; remember Darth Vader’s star destroyer filling the screen as it dwarfed and pursued Princess Leia’s tiny diplomatic ship, or all the great set-pieces of small ships flying inside big ships. At the level of cinematography, the franchise’s mastery of visual perspective is sublime; why, then, is its lack of moral proportion so flagrant? What are we to do with figures like the pacifist Storm Trooper who reclaims his humanity because he refuses to kill, and who then goes on to kill dozens (or hundreds) of nameless Storm Troopers because, as Storm Troopers, they aren’t human? It makes no sense when you stop and think about it.
The real question, then, is whether you should stop and think about it.
Lots of people have done so, laboriously struggling to work out how it all does makes sense, adding stories and details and characters to turn a radically simplistic and mythically shallow set of stories into something that resembles the logic of the real world. For decades, the “expanded universe” was the umbrella term for this enterprise of filling in the gaps, the novelizations and video games and other archives of canon, less canon, and sub-canon material that made a set of flickering films into a universe. That’s all gone now; Disney destroyed it all with as little ceremony as it blew up the Hosnian system, the necessary blank space in which to build its own empire. Millions of voices cried out and were silenced, but now, a new revenue stream flows through the galaxy.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
In episodes 1 2 and 3 we knew Anakin Skywalker would become Darth Vader, but how? Disney has nothing to do with this, the story tellers are in control, I hope they don't fuck this up.
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Quote:I am sorry, but you're too late with that critical insight because in The Force Awakens Luke Skywalker closed his Jedi school when a student went Columbine on everyone else. Luke, like any proper savior of the universe who learned a lot about maturity and responsibility over the years, well...Luke just fucked off after that. You know, Luke told himself, “I saved the universe, but now I'm sad. Blah blah ancient prophecies I'm sure it'll all work out. Sorry nine billion dead people. Later babes.” That could actually be a very compelling character arc for the next episode: Luke the Slacker reopens his Jedi School with only two students: Rey & Finn. Luke teaches them to sing and dance with the teacher learning from his students. Whoops, that's High School Musical.
Originally posted by whozit:
Disney has nothing to do with this, the story tellers are in control, I hope they don't fuck this up.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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