So, odds on billywayne* ever coming back here to reply? I say 100-1.
Seriously, I hate it when school is out and the kids come out to play. Get off my fucking lawn!
*Isn’t that Bruce’s asshole cousin in the latest DC continuity?
Thread gets bumped after six weeks, I think “Finally! Someone felt compelled to compliment the two really awesome jokes I made in post #89!”
No such luck. Still, brilliance goes unappreciated.
This is what really makes me laugh about the whole situation, the first major televisual Star Wars project mostly not made by Lucas ends up being better than the prequels. The Anakin in TCW show is the kind of guy you can imagine Obiwan calling a good friend, not a teenage shithead.
I am a hardcore OT fan and TCW show was amazing, it showed that you can do stories in this universe as long as you respect the source material.
So your objection is to completely concede the point but say you think it’s still possible to make a great film?
Well, yeah, sure. Just like it’s possible to make a good film blindfolded with your hands tied behind your back. Doesn’t make it a bad excuse to want to remove such constraints.
I just think that when Disney makes a movie it will all be about marketing to worldwide audiences and selling junk on the side.
Plus the whole PC side - a hero will have to be female, the bad guys will have to be white males, at least one character will have to be gay, and all the animals will have to be cute (no more Rancor beasts). I’m sure they will have to fit in global warming somehow.
Oh and to sell more junk, as many different characters and vehicles as possible.
Finally they will toss in some EU stuff just to please the fan base.
You’re pretty much describing The Empire Strikes Back, there.
You’re talking about a company that just made three movies about Captain America.
There are multiple Star Wars universes. Just as there are multiple Batman universes, X-Men universes, Lord of the Rings universes (books and movies, including the cartoon movies), Game of Thrones universes, Star Trek universes, etc.
Just like there are multiple King Arthur universes, William Wallace universes, 300 Spartans at the Hot Gates universes, and Helen of Troy universes.
In my opinion, once you see various fictional canons as parts of different parallel universes, it becomes much easier to enjoy the stories without worrying about whether something is perfectly true to the source material. They all can be ‘true’.
So in one parallel universe, Han and Leia get married and have children and one of the kids turns evil (or whatever happens in the books), and in another, whatever Disney has planned happens.
So they’re both right, and they both can be enjoyed.
It’s the multiverse, baby.
In which the bad guys are white, the scientists who work on him are females, and he has black sidekicks.
Is this supposed to be a bad thing?
If your talking putting in Billy Dee Williams to have a black character - at least he was cool. As were the imperial walkers.
There probably was no reason they could not have had some female rebel pilots.
Can you imagine if Vader had force choked a female admiral for failure?
In the (sob!) EU, there was actually one female Imperial admiral, Daala. But she got the job because she was sleeping with Tarkin.
I’m honestly not getting your problem beyond a generic anti-“PC Brigade” whinge.
(I also meant to say The Return of the Jedi, not Empire Strikes Back - that’s on me.)
First movie: scientist was a white guy, sidekick was a white guy, bad guys were white (not many blacks fighting for Germany in WW2).
Avengers: not scientists worked on him, no black sidekick, all of the good guys were white me except one, bad guys were aliens.
I haven’t seen CA 2.
You should. It’s pretty damn gay. It’s not quite as assy as I would prefer but it’s still good.
I haven’t seen Empire in while who was the the gay one?
He wasn’t gay he was a metrosexual.
This guy wouldn’t look terribly out of place in assless chaps, either.
That would make him look like some like of bad guy.