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Mike_Droideka

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  1. It was Captain Panaka who mentioned sitting ducks in TPM.

    Incidentally, there is a line in the original 1977 Star Wars novelization where Kenobi mentions that "Even a duck has to be taught to swim" to Luke Skywalker.

  2. It's far from being unrealistic. When Lucas was planning Star Wars UNDERWORLD, one of his objectives with it was to "make it look as good as the features." 

    There's no excuse as we've seen episodic TV like Game of Thrones delivering spectacle and thrilling audiences worldwide. 

    Andor was incredibly bland to look at. Kenobi, Ahsoka and the Boba Fett show were all a waste of everyone's time. I agree that The Mandalorian had its moments, before Season 3 dove off of a cliff.

  3. 1 hour ago, Darth Krawlie said:

    man I just can’t bring myself to get worked up or give a shit about things like knives and zippers. Aliens, sure. But come on. What are we doing to ourselves?

    I get it. Things like that tend to break immersion for some people. I think a knife fight in Star Wars is pretty stupid, but I've seen (and heard) a ton of stupid shit in the last 10 years of Disney Star Wars, so it's right in line with everything else

  4. 1 hour ago, The Choc said:

    As for Disney not spending money, I just don't think thats fair. The budgets for the movies I think have all been more than adequate. For tv shows Id expect the budgets to be smaller. 

    Smaller budgets, smaller results. It's no wonder these streaming shows come off looking like fan films.

  5. It's not so much that Star Wars can't have zippers or that they don't exist in the SWU, it's just that Lucas didn't want them visible on his characters costumes which I can very much understand. 

  6. Lucas was reluctant to show off a lot of aliens in the original trilogy. If you rewatch those films, most of the masked aliens are shown in carefully or dimly lit scenes; the Cantina, Dagobah, the Carbon Freeze Chamber and Jabba's Palace.

    Lucas was concerned that audiences would find the masks hokey, so he cut away from them or just showed them on screen very quickly.

    Prosthetics and animatronic mask techniques have greatly improved since 1979 and we've seen some amazing alien creature work in the prequel trilogy. It's a massive galaxy and seeing human after human is becoming a bit naff. It seems to be a Disney thing. It's far more economical to cast a bunch of human extras than it is to create an array of convincing alien masks.

    That's part of the problem with Disney. They're not interested in spending the big bucks to make Star Wars look grand and feel elaborate, which is what it should be. This is why they keep hiring mostly low tier directors and writers and why these streaming shows end up looking and feeling like fan fiction. 

  7. More of the same. Average visuals, stunt/fight work we've seen a hundred times before in other flicks. No droids and way too many human characters for my liking.

    All of the costumes, particularly the extras look brand spanking new off the rack and seem to be created by the same person who works on all of the other ugly Disney Star Wars streaming shows. The whole thing looks and feels like fan fiction which is in line with everything we've been subjected to since 2015.

  8. I'm conflicted. While I love certain aspects of the show, i feel that it's severely lacking in other areas. I don't like or care for any of the new Rebel characters at all, apart from Luthen Rael (his character and performance are both flawless) but what really annoys me is the deliberate move to avoid any and all classic alien creatures. When we reach Coruscant, we should see species from a thousand different worlds and all I can see, is human after human and when we do see a new alien design—it's a poorly designed one.

  9. I used to frequent this board back then. I am a first generation fan, who saw Star Wars in theatres, back in 1977. I saw all the others on opening day, including the triple bill in 1985, the SE's in 1997 and all three prequel films at midnight screenings! I'm a massive fan and still am—of the Lucas stuff, anyway. 

    I left NN around 2006 but occasionally pop in to read what some of you have to say.

    I was shocked when it was announced that in 2012, Lucas had sold the company to Disney, and that they were to release Episode VII in 2015.  I couldn't believe that I was finally going to get to see Lucas's third and final Star Wars trilogy—the one l had read about in Dale Pollocks "Skywalking" book and in a 1983 issue of TIME Magazine, where Lucas very briefly discusses the outine for these films.

    It's December 2015 and I meet up with some friends (die hards as well) to see The Force Awakens. The film is okay, but something seems off about it all. I have this tremendous sense of deja vu, but can't quite put my finger on it—then it dawns on me; this film is just a remake of A NEW HOPE. Basically the same thing Abrams did for the 2009 Trek film. I left feeling underwhelmed, but hopeful that the next one would get things back on track!

    Then I saw The Last Jedi, which was probably the worst and most underwhelming movie going experience of my life. It became evident right away, that these people had no plan and didn't understand the source material one bit. This was anything but a Star Wars film and felt like watching a train–wreck in slow motion. While watching those deplorable Canto Bite scenes, i actually had to remind myself that I was watching a new Star Wars film. I couldn't believe how bad it was and how it all felt, devoid of creativity and substance.

    It became obvious that this was just someones back to front, inside out version of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and that's where i completely lost interest in the new characters, the story and what they were doing with the sequel trilogy. 

    I didn't bother going to see Rise of Skywalker and still haven't seen it. I have no desire to see the other two ever again and am vehemently against them bringing back Palpatine, to shoehorn him into the story. That completely invalidates Anakin Skywalker's chosen one arc from the first six films and just shows they were in a bind, when Johnson killed off Snoke (what a stupid name) for no reason other than because he could.

    Disney (and new LFL) weren't interested in bringing a new story to audiences—they were more interested in rehashing the same conflict between the Rebellion and the Empire, complete with TIE Fighters, X Wings and another Death Star. A soft reboot and a reprehensible act, by a greedy, corporation, that's interests were financial and to push some bizarre agenda, based on the current socio-political landscape. 

    What they made were three timely films, instead of timeless ones.

    Disney went out of their way to defecate on the prequels and to make sure those haters were sated. Instead, they made three films that were far, far worse and are basically soulless abominations, devoid of creativity, imaginative world building, mythology, lore, magic and that layer of spirituality. 

    I did genuinely like Rogue One and I think The Mandalorian has been mostly fantastic. The Book of Boba Fett can only be described as inconsistent, but as for the Sequels, they are vile trash that deserve nothing but derision. Solo was forgettable rubbish. Those two main actors were horribly miscast. One overracts and the other can barely act at all. It's no wonder that film lost so much money at the box office. 

     

  10. Well, I've been involved in fan/collector circles for decades (I am as old af) and know a lot of Star Wars fans - both casual and hardcore.
    I did read somewhere that the teaser for S2 of The Mandalorian is supposed to drop on the Aug 21

  11. The Force Awakens is the #1 grossing movie in North American history, I'd say that's a hit.

     

     

     

     

     

    Financially, yes. That's not what I was getting at. The Mandalorian is a hit financially, critically, as well as with the fans both old and new and the general public adored The Child. I haven't' stopped seeing normies sharing BY memes on social media. No one talks about The Force Recycled now. Thank goodness for Favreau and Dave Filoni for rescuing Star Wars.

     

  12. The Mortis Arc hands down, is one of the best servings of Star Wars entertainment I've ever seen. The Son should have been the main villain in the sequels, but Disney didn't have the balls to delve that deep into Star Wars lore and gave us a shrived prune instead

  13. Yeah, it's pretty bad.

    Actually, it's very bad.

     

    Here's a comment I heard about it a while ago;

     

    "Watching the SWHS is more painful than masturbating with a cheese grater."

     

    I consider myself to be a pretty hardcore collector of SW related stuff, and I don't want it anywhere near me.

     

    One cool part, is when Chewbacca's Son watches a 'Star Wars Cartoon', which is the actual introduction, of Boba Fett.

     

     

    Honestly, take up Jedi_Jami's offer, I'm sure she'd be glad to be rid of it.

  14. I can't see GL making a post ROTJ TV series.

    He's already said that "After Jedi, there's no more story to tell. The story ends after Anakin and The Emperor both die."

    If he were to do this, he would have to employ younger actors to play the parts of Luke, Leia, Han and Lando.

    Could you imagine the uproar within the fan community?

    These are roles that you simply cannot re-cast.

    The only way you could do it, would be if you were to set the series 20 years after ROTJ, hire Mark, Carrie, Billy Dee to play older versions of their characters.

    Just like Darth Feral said in his above post;

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    there is no way Harrison Ford would do Star Wars television

    Ford woudn't want to participate in yet another SW project, I'm certain he would get flashbacks of a not so special holiday special

     

    In my opinion, it would be more feasable for LFL, to go with a pre Episode III TV series, featuring Darth Vader, Palpatine and the rest of the Empire, taking out the remaining hidden Jedi.

    There's also room for Bail Organa, Mon Mothma and Ackbar in the series, as well as younger Boba Fett and Jabba the Hutt.

    Maybe even include Yoda in some way; have him hidden on Dagobah, meditating and watching Luke, the new hope.

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