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Star Wars Universe

Just throwing my hat into the ring.....

I must say, and admit, that when I heard that the 'Star Wars' franchise was being bought out by Disney, I did worry. Ok, fine....Disney is great and all; for kids of all ages....but Star Wars was so much more than that. Yep, designed for kids to begin with but there's a whole political aspect to it too.

...and I was afraid that Disney would miss that entirely.

But, must say, that I have loved the whole lot of series that Disney has brought out - from 'The Mandalorian', 'Andor' (my personal fav), 'The Book Of Boba Fett', 'Obi Wan Kenobi' and the just finished 'Ahsoka'. They've knocked it out the park.

Very dark, in places.....very humorous in others!

Well done Disney for keeping those high standards.

🥰

SJD xx
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
Controversial opinion or not, it needed to be taken out of George Lucas' hands.

The shitty CGI of the 00s remakes to the abysmal prequels proves that genius has a shelf-life. Even (literally) a Mikey Mouse company can do a better job with his legacy.
@SammyJo you realize that this whole thing happened because disney HAD no plan for the sequel trilogy, right?

George Lucas wanted 7-9 to be about Luke's jedi Order and Leia rebuilding a new Republic which was leagues better than what Disney did

Let me tell you about Anakin, he lost his hand, lost his mom, grew up a slave, became a literal child soldier and general, lost the love of his life, had the weoght of the jedi order and galaxy on his shoulders because hes the chosen one, he made mistakes and learned from them

Luke lost his hand, lost his adoptive family, had the weight of the galaxy on his shoulders because Yoda and obiwan, he grew up practically a slave, could'nt achieve his dreams, lost his father, made mistakes and learned from them

Rey was perfect with the force, had minimal training, everyone loved her, she practically invented new force abilities, she didn't even know how to hold a lightsaber yet kicked kylos ass who had YEARS of training? Bs
SammyJo · 51-55, F
@Mistakesmakeus Yes, I get it. I really do. I know what you mean about Rey too, but it's done and dusted. I take the movies for what they are; let's face it, our own imaginations make things so much more entertaining and exciting than what is out there.

The SW Universe (Star Wars, not Similar Worlds!) should be a slow burn, and who knows what they have in mind....the New Jedi Order (Let's call it NJO) might just be a thing and started from one of the underlings...another offshoot to the branch to the tree.

I'm enjoying all the series as they are giving up new characters and situations (or same situations on different planets......like we say in the real world, things just go in cycles - look at wars etc) and it's fun and entertainment.

🙂
@SammyJo the new jedi order is going to be kicked off by Rey, the jedi with the best plot armor known to man. I know this because there will either be a show or a movie coming out for it so... little to no hope for disney star wars.

To contend your opinion on the new and similar situations part... the problem we're facing with that is we have 1 dominant species on this planet (earth/ humans) we know each other. And its just the 1 planet nothing else. Star wars on the other hand has an entire GALAXY for which to make stories on. Millions of different species billions of conflicts to come up with yet for whatever reason their best idea is to rehash old content, slap a sticker on it, and call it "the best damn star wars content you will ever see". Their CGI is lacking, story is heavily lacking, characters almost always have busted plot armor ESPECIALLY the females.

When it comes to characters they haven't really made interesting ones with compelling story narratives, or if they did they drop the ball almost immediately. Take Finn for example, hes been raised a storm trooper, brainwashed with all this propoganda, and ends up running into a resistance pilot and jumps ship to be with them. That's interesting because we never followed an ex storm trooper like that especially one that has never visited other planets. And what did they do with him? Pushed him to the side almost an hour into his premier movie to showcase Rey with all her perfections.

Or take Palpatine, he was killed in the original trilogy by darth vaders hands, this was meant to symbolize anakins return to the light and the prophecy of bringing balance to the force finally coming true.... and they took all that away as soon as Poe said "palpatine somehow returned" how? Who the hell knows he's alive and thats it. At least give a decent explanation for how you survive being blown up by the core of the second death star followed by being blown up by the death star explosion followed by surviving planetary re-entry which should've incinerated him if he was not already ash, survive the impact of hitting any surface regardless of matter state which if he miraculously survived ANY of the past 3 circumstances would've flattened him like a pancake. Not to mention that by some damn absolute maddening miracle he survived all of that then explain how after landing he survived the wreckage that would eventually fall planet side due to de orbiting. Now we're looking at wreckage the size of damn sky scrapers judging by how the thing was the size of a PLANET. That's just BS writing for the sake of nostalgia which was unwarranted.

Outside the films though, tell me how people survive lightsaber stabbings. In the original films you can get a limb chopped off and youd be kinda ok, limbless but ok. In the prequel trilogy you can get stabbed, multiple limbs cut off and DIE (darth maul was split in half and came back but there was justification so that gets a pass... kinda). In the new disney content you have a yoingling get stabbed and survive then get stabbed AGAIN and survived as an adult, the grand inquisitor gets stabbed and lives, a character in a new show gets stabbed and for whatever reason... also lives. Its like lightsabers no longer do that much damage comparable to its predecessors, they don't MEAN anything. In which case, why are lightsabers still being used if anyone can survive a damn stab. Now before you say "oh it didnt hit anything vital" keep in mind that you have a lightsaber thats hotter than the surface of a star going straight through you, if it didnt hit anything vital then either the shock or the melting of surrounding tissue and organs would fix that
Okay no, mandalorian was great season 1 and 2 went downhill season 3.

Kenobi wasn't even about obiwan it was to push new characters

Andor... andor was great

Book of boba fett completely destroyed the character and pushed fennec as well as made it the mandalorian season 2.5 because they ran out of material

Ahsoka was mid at best, mainly because there's been too much ahsoka up to now. And Sabine is apparently a jedi now WHY?!
tenente · 100+, M
@Mistakesmakeus agree andor was great

enjoy Ahsoka honest trailers and the sigh fest at 2:33
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I agree, I think the urge to make more product, is not good for the fiction. The originators of that series of movies and passion for the story they were trying to tell. And tho I have enjoyed Mandalorian I felt much of the rest of it to be a little flat. And derivative. And Star Wars was never what you would call deeply philosophical anyway. It came out the year I graduated high school
And I was already deeply immersed in advanced science fiction of the time so it was a little more like a comic book for me still like it though still do. It’s a Christmas tradition, with some of my friends with her around and watch all the old movies and whilst playing XWing or battlefront
DunningKruger · 61-69, M
I've enjoyed the new stuff on Disney+. The sequel movies were (in order) 1. Pretty good 2. Really good and 3. Dried up dog shit in the middle of the road.

That said, as much as I've always loved it (I was 14 when the original came out), Star Wars has never been very "good," in the traditional sense. Disney has carried on that tradition of creating middling entertainment that we love anyway.
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
I love The Mandalorian.
Unquestioned · 70-79, M
Disney has gone WOKE, fuck Disney.
Elessar · 26-30, M
@Unquestioned Star Wars has gone woke much earlier than that, they threw a fascist emperor down a shaft as early as 1983

#Literally1983 #MakeTheEmpireGreatAgain #Palpatine2024 #ImpeachLuke

 
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