i donât watch resistance but i found out that Donald Faison plays a character called Hype Fazon who is some sort of NASCAR Greedo who says âYou canât handle the hype!â and i respect this immensely
just found out the final ADR session for this movie was recorded in jj abrams closet (the line âthey sold you to protect youâ) with adam drivers head stuffed between coats to muffle sound an hour before he appeared on late night with seth meyers
and also that jj abrams locked all of the star wars eu writing people (expanded universe, not europeans, tho, probably both, AF) out of all discussion and info for RoS so there are people that wrote half books about ben skywalker/solo they had to throw out lmao
More of these
Such painful âwhat could have beensâ
You could fumble these through a rushed script and still end up with something leagues more interesting than TRoS
test footage used to establish the tone of/pitch to networks the live action show that lucas had 50 hour long scripts developed for
I had not considered the implications of having a very shiny main character in a TV show, the technical stuff behind it is pretty cool
iâm sure this is going to be fun for kids or whatever but for me personally, even though i did not love TROS, something that is infinitely more alienating to me than that movie seems to have been for most people is the way a lot of post OT stuff inverts the very interesting and mildly subversive design elements of the original movies, in which âthe good guysâ are a bunch of sloppy bandits and scrappy rebel insurgents, and âthe bad guysâ are all dressed up in spiffy uniforms and bright white sterile environments
like i have always found the buck rogers look of the clone wars to be sort of off putting, but apparently thatâs part of the story⌠this just seems a hundred times worse, like it will be very hard for me to not read âjedi as noble protectors of the galaxyâ as âthis franchise is basically Crusades apologia nowâ, if theyâre going to dress them all up in bright white robes and illustrate them like propaganda posters
I know this may go against the theme of this thread, but itâs hard to imagine a pre-PT Star Wars world story being all that interesting, let alone not horribly problematic, at least with the perigovernmental relationship of the Jedi Order to the monolithic Old Republic established by the PT.
The 1977 film launches us into a chaotic world where the best things are scruffy and messy. Thatâs my Star Wars.
I agree, but only to the extent that itâs (seemingly) really hard for anyone to imagine a pre-prequels story being about anything other than the Jedi. This is also why the KOTOR series never really did anything for me.
This going to be very predictable of me, but my way of imagining the pre-prequels Star Wars galaxy would basically be entirely inspired by wuxia stories, with the Jedi playing the role of the ostensibly good but often distant/disinterested imperial officials and the like, and all the main characters would be âwandering swordsmenâ type characters with their own codes of ethics but neutral/ambivalent relationship to any actual institutional authorities.
It would be fun to overturn the typical star wars thing of having only the most powerful people in the galaxy be able to wield lightsabers, and instead make a world in which lightsabers were used by basically everyone who like⌠fought with people regularly. You could even do the same thing with the force, and have the Jedi recognize themselves as the âorthodoxâ and best trained users of force powers, but in reality show that all kinds of other people were force sensitive and could figure out ways to use it that were perhaps less powerful but still useful, and have all kinds of different âunorthodoxâ ways of relating to it on a spiritual level.
This would be a lot better to me, but what do I knowâŚ
The whole point of the Jedi though is to enforce a monopoly on Force use. Presumably at the height of their political influence there would be proportionately little Force use outside their purview.
Now that tension could be a good idea for a storyâŚ
this would be the key point i guess
I was just going to come back and add this caveat.
Unsurprisingly, I am also fond of the idea of wandering swordsman-type stories. Ronin with laser swords.
Okay, I was gonna lay out more of my ideas but they basically sound like Iâm biting what you wrote. The force is a big question mark that I think would be fascinating to really play with and get messy with. That risks alienating the audience a lot, Iâd imagine, though!
this multimedia project is not multimedia enough for my tastes. i demand a video game and soundtrack!
disney I have a killer idea that involves smushing together Assault on Precinct 13 with The Sword of Doom excellent high concept extremely powerful hmu Kathleen dms are open please I need this my cats deserve a higher standard of living give me all your money Roy Disney
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finally the answers weâve all been longing for
I guess the jars full of clones that were not Palpatine were JJâs way of implying clone⌠that is Palpatine?
expert at leaving the least satisfying narrative gaps possible
Strider is Star Wars canon.
i regret to inform you all that the emperor doesnât fuck
Respect to taking the imbecilic âPalpatine fucksâ into something somehow even more imbecilic
You kind of wish Lucas had just shat out another vague but evocative word instead of the âcloneâ in âClone Warsâ when he was jamming out his Star Wars script.