It actually plugged me back into the franchise. That being said it's a far cry from being as good as the Young Han Solo trilogy by A.C. Crispen. which tied in with the old Han Solo Adventures and the Lando Calrissian Adventures. I've always preffered the books from the old EU to the movies, I think because I enjoyed how it made the galaxy feel real. My favorite Star Wars stuff has always been the things like the Tales from series, espeically Tales from Jaba's Palace. I'd figuratively kill for a streaming series that takes place in the SW galaxy but only touches the well known characters from occasional hear say. Probably a side effect of liking Westerns The idea of slices of life across the fronteir. I like a lot of the characters that the trilogy movies seem content to throw away. Like Why couldnt I have a full three seasons of the 7 Samurai from Rogue One? why did they all have to get wiped out in one movie to "whet our appetites" for more trilogy shoehorn stories?
Probably because they were already dead in the continuity -- but yeah, I enjoyed them. I would follow Cassian and Jyn Erso anywhere, along with their ragtag crew. They felt refreshingly honest (even to the degree of being besmirched), and full of candor, and they were the only ones really able to embrace what it meant to be a rebel. It became apparent that most of the rebel forces were just playing at being rebellious.
What makes Star Wars Star wars for me is the aesthetics not the specific plots and characters. It's a big ass galexy with literal magic woven into the fabric of reality. Can we please stop focusing on the same damned handful of characters? I want to see Imperial Officers with conscience. I want to see the Empire for what it is. A functioning government made up of people. I want to see the Rebellion as Terrorists who have to make heartbreaking choices because this is a war of ideology with lots of grey areas.
I think it is because the entire franchise (film) is so stinking "high level" that EVERYTHING is glossed over. I touched on this in another thread, anything on the broad level is so glossy and generalized -- "The First Order rules everything" without any explanations as to how, for example. Or take George's silly political and economics commentary which is both boring and silly. The films don't seem to care about the day to day practicalities of actual life and individual trials and involvement, it sits so high in its concepts that awareness of the details is lost.
Compare that to the first four seasons of game of Thrones which took a very slow pace but really cared about the detail level of interactions among the characters and even cultural forces.
There is by and large no moral ambiguity in SW and it feels so offputting. It feels like a lie. I want Jedi and Sith to be two denominations in the same force based religion. Fuck the rule of two: That's lazy writing. Fuck the jedi purge. So is that.
The Sith and the Jedi should be portrayed as two sides of the same coin and they should both still be around. There should be JEdi and Sith in the Empire, in the rebellion working as bounty hunters etc.
definitely.
And they need to get real with the Droids. They need to explore the fact that someone programmed these sentient machines with the constantly glossed over fact that they can feel pain and fear, and yet everyone has license to wipe their memories and dismember them at a whim.
Yup. But those are not the stories they want to tell. Droids are basically cute side-dressing, not Westworld creations struggling for autonomy and awareness and freedom from their irrational human creators.
In this time of grit and horror. I don't think it should be too much to ask for to get something like this. It's not like there's a need for continuity and a strict cannon anymore.
I am hoping the move away from trilogies will allow room for more one-shot films that can explore deeper concepts (deep dive) set in the Star Wars mythos. I know I keep harping on the game franchises, but I'm serious that the storylines in the videogames are far more thoughtful and real.
I think Holiday Special has some value. It adds some unique elements to the lore like Boba Fett and Wookiee cultural traditions and builds the universe with some excruciatingly campy “slice of life†moments. It also shows us Luke’s pastime of wearing ladies makeup
No wonder he grew up to be such a crankypuss.
