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How is Filoni ruining Star Wars? He’s the only one making any GOOD Star Wars. Everything not involving him has been utter garbage, for the most part.
The image shows Rosario Dawson so I’m assuming it’s specifically meaning the Ahsoka show, which IMO wasn’t good and though I haven’t seen most of Rebels yet, there were parts of Ahsoka that I disliked which didn’t seem dependent on prior Rebels knowledge. Everything else with Filoni I think of as either great or at least decent.
Fair, but I absolutely loved Ahsoka. It and The Mandalorian are my favorite shows to come out recently.
The target age demographic is always at most (PG-) 13. Because this target does not change, if the viewer matures, the nostalgia of youth will never align with the expectations of the matured mind. It is the entire tenured ratings system and standardized ultra simplistic morality culture that prevent capitalization on an evolving demographic. Instead, everyone consuming this media is incentivised to remain adolescent of mind or complain about how elements of their childhood fail to align with their evolved and matured expectations.
This is why Andor is so great. It’s star wars but it’s for grown ups.
I’m not falling for that again. I’ve heard that many different times about different movies and shows, and they’re always very clearly made for kids.
You should make an exception.
Just because something is made for teenagers or younger doesn’t mean they have to be bad though. I would say the original three Star Wars are a good example of that, sure they were fun for kids, but they didn’t need dumbed down or made insincere for children to be able to enjoy them. Look at the golden age of Pixar movies which, sure, are children movies, but are also just movies that hold up for adults too.
There’s nothing wrong with disconnecting and enjoying simple things. I love watching some kids movies too. The observation is more nuanced and refers to the way we tend to fail to see our interpersonal growth over time. We tend to see nostalgia without the influence of how we matured. It is like our memory of the thing has matured in imperceptible ways.
I struggle for the words to really describe it outright now that I try. I’m coming from the mindset of writing my own hard science fiction universe and the perspective it has given me, especially when it comes to underlying storytelling frameworks, social/political structures, and defining what is fantasy magic.
Like is a solar ring structure used to make antimatter safely to one way interstellar generation ships magic? It is for the scale of human economy today. Is it fantasy to imagine self replicating drones? I think it is just a matter of time and scale, where I am willing to say at kilometers scale it is possible. It is basically packaging an industrial complex in space. So that seems reasonable. However I find moving faster than causality and space navies childish nonsense. I see exceptionalism as the doctrine of a neo feudal oligarchy, and a story of inevitable tyranny of an authoritarian monster repulsive.
I had no clue about these themes as a child, but now I can’t unsee them. I dob not think most people have or care about this kind of defined awareness, but I think these undertones exist just outside of their awareness.
Outside of the philosophical, just telling a congruent story is critical, and those failures are egregious in any story.
Yes. Senate hearings and trade disputes are for kids. 👍
It was a paraphrased quote of Lukas himself that said he made the first films for 10 year olds and the second series for 5 year olds. You need to see it from the perspective of someone willing to risk losing tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in a gamble that is never a sure thing. The artistry is a very minor often overlooked aspect when this kind of money is in play. I’ve had a job spending a couple of million dollars a year where my mistakes could cost a chain of businesses closing and around three dozen jobs. Buying high end bicycles at that scale requires me to completely disconnect my opinion and style biases and become an account first and foremost. People do not take risks to tell stories, they tell stories that follow an interpretation of statistical metrics.
The targeted movie rating is key to demographic and without a demographic there are no numbers to make a financial argument for the risk. Films are made TO fit, not made AND fit. The risk is never blind.
Just making up absurd lies about Dave filoni. He is the chosen one and we all know this. Shame on you op.
If only copyright didn’t last forever plus a day this shit would be under public domain and we could all enjoy our cultural heritage
This bullshit about Cowboy Dave will not stand!
He let them add a gang of middle class scooter enthusiasts to a show about the deadliest bounty hunter in the galaxy
Anything else? I’d argue his K/D is the highest in the list.
yea that was some Disney channel movie type shit. reminded of when my kid was hooked on Descendants
It’s 1999, outside a theater there is a hairy middle-aged blob of flesh screaming at the sky.
It’s 1978 and Steve Binder is ruining Star Wars
If I don’t get a Star Wars side project that is actually ‘written’ from the point of view of a lovable but flawed Astro mech/ communication droid duo, I’ll do it myself, by jingo!
: realizes that this has probably happened dozens of times in both mass market paperback and slash fiction, but I’m just too scared of what I’ll unearth if I look it up:
Can I make a request that it follows K2-S0?
That clanker saved rogue one from being complete trash. (That, and everybody dying.)
I’m thinking along the lines of ‘Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern are Dead’ where we see only the action, or lack thereof from the point of view of minor supporting characters.
Picture a film that is two hours of R2 and C3P0 wandering the deserts of tattooine before being captured, then the film ends before any action happens.
Ooh, or a really gnarly exploitation film about the hours of horrible treatment Leia goes through when she is captured and leads up to a final scene where she gets to strangle her abuser.
When Jabba stops breathing, so does the film.
When Jabba around breathing, so does the film.
Was “around” supposed to be a different word? I can’t quite make sense of this sentence.
When Jabba Stops breathing-
Thanks and fixed.
“Again, it’s like poetry, sort of, they rhyme… each stanza kinda rhymes with the last one… [grimaces] …hopefully it’ll work.”
