• KptnAutismus@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    still better than the sequels. please put him back in charge, star wars is currently doing an MCU but even worse.

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      10 months ago

      I’ve said this before and I think it needs repeating. Filoni is making better stuff than Disney did, and besides, the originals weren’t as good as nostalgia thinks they are. Filoni’s stuff is on par with the originals and like the originals its a great time for families and kids.

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        10 months ago

        filoni did a great job making the clone wars. i’ll say that. i’m currently watching rebels and mandalorian S03 and am quite disappointed, as usual with newer star wars stuff.

        the main thing is: they may not have a grand roadmap like i imagine george had. none of the newer stuff is really that coherent. it spends more time inventing new stuff that never gets expanded on instead of tying into the previously established lore.

        the originals were never the greatest movies ever made, and that’s fine. at least it all made sense. it was all explainable. it was coherent.

        i feel lost when watching post-2014 stuff, maybe because the lore isn’t established yet, but maybe because it just didn’t get thought through.

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          10 months ago

          My biggest gruff with Disney is them declaring the extended universe non canon just to cherry pick details from it while ignoring the most exciting lore and shit.

          Like the whole palpatine returning thing happened in the EU but was done in a much better way. Different materials like beskar were more fleshed out.

          Disney literally had thousands of stories to draw inspiration from and chose to just come up with bullshit over and over again.

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            10 months ago

            absolutely. never read any of the comics, but most of the really interesting stories seem to happen there. would love a well executed starkiller series. i actually did not know about him until i watched some matpat style videos about star wars.

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        10 months ago

        Hard disagree. Filoni made Ahsoka, which is trash. He’s the executive producer of The Book of Boba Fett, which is trash. He’s the executive producer and wrote some episodes of The Mandalorian, which started promising and then turned to trash. So yeah. He fits right in with anything Disney created.

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      10 months ago

      I Want Old Republic Movie content

      Everything around the Empire and Fall and Fallout of the empire is so overtold.

      If i have to see another low budget star wars series with darth vader i am gonna shit myself

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        10 months ago

        they made 3 movies and just forgot about them didn’t they?

        but get ready for lando calrissian for 20 episodes! are you not entertained?

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      10 months ago

      IMO the prequel and sequels are about equal in badness. The odd thing was they’re bad in almost exactly opposite ways.

      The prequels had a story to tell, but they broke down in the minutia. There was a solid core plot, but once we got to how things played out scene by scene the movies broke down. George knew how he wanted the story go, but he seemed to have no idea how to get from plot point a to plot point b.

      The sequels were nearly directionless in story, but ever scene in their rudderless plot had good dialog, pacing and tone. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle that has a picture of static printed on it. Episode 7 was just a re-hash of 3, 8 had two weak plots glued together pushed forward by contrived urgency and episode 9 was just a mix of one-upsmanship threat level as well as trying to ret-con the previous two movies into a coherent story arc.