I have such complicated feelings about Star Wars. Cannot sum up.
As Willow goes, so goes my nation.
Oz ,'Selfless'
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-t - Apr 17, 2015 10:08:03 am PDT #28732 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
quester - Apr 17, 2015 5:16:39 pm PDT #28733 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I've never had any great attachment to Star Wars. I enjoyed the original movies well enough, but thought the overall reaction to them to be out of proportion to the quality of them.
The prequels were pretty but the cartoon Clone Wars are better. I'll see the sequels for completest reasons, but I don't have a great investment in the whole thing.
Consuela - Apr 17, 2015 8:46:02 pm PDT #28734 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, man, I loved the original trilogy so much, and hated the first prequel so much, I never saw any of the other movies.
But I'm enjoying SW Rebels, and oh, the MUSIC and the pan across the desert, and Han and Chewie!
I've started to hope again. This is bad. I remember what JJ Abrams did to Star Trek, my other beloved childhood franchise.
Connie Neil - Apr 17, 2015 9:18:49 pm PDT #28735 of 30000
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I remember what JJ Abrams did to Star Trek, my other beloved childhood franchise.
It could be an insidious ploy from the dark side.
Kalshane - Apr 18, 2015 6:19:29 am PDT #28736 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I'm cautiously optimistic. What bothers me more, at the moment, is how little the universe has apparently changed in 30 years. Rebels in X-wings vs Imperial Tie Fighters seems like the Star Wars universe got stuck in a bubble where nothing changed except for the inhabitants getting older.
Gris - Apr 18, 2015 12:30:09 pm PDT #28737 of 30000
Hey. New board.
It has always seemed to me like the Star Wars universe was fairly stagnant technologically. So X wings don't bug me. I kind of like that it doesn't seem like the rebels immediately won and took over everything after RotJ - the Emperor had built enough of a governmental system that clearly others would step in after his death.
Connie Neil - Apr 18, 2015 2:06:19 pm PDT #28738 of 30000
brillig
People out on the borderlands would hack out empires for themselves. Typical behavior after a major change of government.
Jessica - Apr 18, 2015 2:21:46 pm PDT #28739 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm reminded of a far-future sci-fi series I read most of (the plot eventually went too far up its own ass for even me to care how it ended), where technology is deliberately kept stagnant because everyone knows there are thousands of years missing from historical records (i.e. our present) where technology was advancing so fast that the records became obsolete and unreadable before anyone realized it would be a problem.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 20, 2015 5:31:55 am PDT #28740 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I saw Woman in Gold yesterday - excellent film. Helen Mirren was just wonderful in it, as was Tatiana Maslany playing a younger version of her in Nazi-occupied Vienna.
Ryan Reynolds is out of his depth acting alongside the likes of Mirren and Daniel Brühl, but he gives it a good try and might be able to rebuild some credibility as an actor based on this role. As long as he doesn't follow it up with a comic book movie that keeps anyone from taking him seriously. Uh oh.
Gris - Apr 20, 2015 2:41:00 pm PDT #28741 of 30000
Hey. New board.
If that is Ryan Reynolds destroying his chance at being a serious actor, I am totally cool with that. DEADPOOL.