Star Wars discussion (SPOILERS INCLUDED)

[tifosi77]

Make up your own mind about it. There are things that are really cool and well done, things that are really confusing, things that are outright bad. If you like it you like it, if you don't you don't.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

The 1st 2 seasons of Mando were really good.

[tifosi77]

This is the knock-on effect of the Fandom Menace.

Is The Acolyte the best thing in SW ever? No. Is it the worst? No, not by a long shot. (By no stretch of the imagination is it even the worst of the D+ shows) There are some immensely silly and frustrating things, but there are also some really cool ideas and a couple really great characters, and some excellent fight choreo. It is, basically, Star Wars as we have always known it.

People clamor for something 'new' from SW, they get it and their response is 'oh sweet jesus, not that" - it's partly why the "not my Star Wars" comment drives me batty. So you have all this noise from review bombs, and people who won't shut up complaining that there's some 'agenda' driving things (clearly unaware that Lucas himself said the Rebels in the first movie were inspired by the Viet Cong communists), people complaining that the 'new' they've been clamoring for is the wrong kind of new, the actual criticism gets drowned out, and the backlash has prevailed and the show was canceled and now you have a guy who watched the first episode and liked it wondering why bother finishing it. And so it will stay at the bottom rung, and the studio takeaway will be to not make any new content that veers outside of the Skywalker-verse - because that's where the numbers are - and we'll enter a doom loop of never straying beyond the safe boundaries of of this one little slice of galactic history and things like the James Mangold movie about the dawn of the Jedi will get canceled before it really gets off the ground.

[Gaucho]

Give me space battles.

[nocera]

I just want good movies.

[Gaucho]

with space battles

[meow]

Is The Acolyte the best thing in SW ever? No. Is it the worst? No, not by a long shot. (By no stretch of the imagination is it even the worst of the D+ shows) There are some immensely silly and frustrating things, but there are also some really cool ideas and a couple really great characters, and some excellent fight choreo. It is, basically, Star Wars as we have always known it.

this is bad and you should feel bad

[nocera]

Cool ideas and neat fight choreography is basically every Star Wars fan fic film. Actually this is spot on for the majority of Disney’s Star Wars.

[NAN]

I’m on episode 6 of the acolyte. The idea is decent. But to me the acting is poo outside of Sol.

[Stoosh]

with space battles

This is one of the reasons I'm still hoping the Rogue Squadron/Patty Jenkins film or something close to it eventually happens. While I've pretty much enjoyed everything that Disney/Lucasfilm has put out (yes, even that, that, that, that, that, and that), the one thing I'd absolutely LOVE to see is a movie that's centered on space battles. I loved just about everything in Star Wars as a kid but the Death Star battles were really what roped me in.

I mean, the Jenkins teaser releasing it pretty much pitched it as "Top Gun in space". 1000% absolutely, yes. There's so much they could do with something like this - new characters, new environments, all sorts of ships, etc. Sadly, I don't know that any of it would see the light of day given that there would be risks they don't seem completely comfortable taking.

[meow]

I used to fast forward the Endor battle and the Death Star scenes at the end of ROTJ and just watch the space battle scenes

[tifosi77]

My ongoing love of aviation was born out of a fascination with the Millennium Falcon and X-Wings. While I think lightsabers remain the single most iconic prop in cinema history, I don't get goose bumps when I see a replica out and about. But every time I go to the park and see the space vehicles it's like I'm a kid again.

[meow]

Into The Trap gives me serious goosebumps and will send shivers down my spine

[nocera]

Yipes. It'd be one thing if you could see that budget onscreen, but...

[Gaucho]

"controversial"

[Stoosh]

My ongoing love of aviation was born out of a fascination with the Millennium Falcon and X-Wings. While I think lightsabers remain the single most iconic prop in cinema history, I don't get goose bumps when I see a replica out and about. But every time I go to the park and see the space vehicles it's like I'm a kid again.

I guess I'll still spoiler this just in case, but two things...

It was almost exactly two years ago that I rode Rise of the Resistance for the first time. Despite having watched videos of it before, when I stepped into THAT PART of the ride -

walking off the transport into the Star Destroyer hanger - I forgot that they had the full-size TIE fighter docked on the hanger wall, a la The Force Awakens. All my initial attention was focused on everything straight ahead, especially looking out into that giant void of "space". When I finally turned to the right and saw the TIE fighter,

I honestly got choked up.

I was on that ride with my sisters and my brothers-in-law. They're all huge SW fans, had already been on it before, and knew I was a huge SW fan, so my brother-in-law Nick was filming me. He got an absolutely awesome video of my reaction. I still go back and watch it. I was a 47-year old, full-grown, allegedly responsible adult human being, just standing there in absolute awe. It was like the Imagineers reached into my head and asked me something I'd love to see as part of this ride -

how about a full-scale version of one of your absolute favorite ships?

- and then they f'ing put it in the ride. For those moments, I was back to being that 9-year old kid who would spend hours playing inside and outside with the different ships I had. And I think about that every time I watch a video of it or go back on the ride again. It's the coolest f'ing thing, man.

Also, if they ever decide to drop in a full-scale replica of a BTL-A4 Y-wing, I'll openly weep the first time I see it. I love the X-wing and A-wing that are already there, but that old, slow, clunky warhorse is my absolute favorite among the Rebellion fighters.

[tifosi77]

Right on dude. Like I keep saying, I'm just super glad they don't charge a separate admission for Galaxy's Edge, cos I'd be broke.

If you go through the Savi's experience, you aren't paying $250 for a lightsaber. You're paying for the feeling you get in the pit of your stomach at the conclusion of the build. The lightsaber itself is a value-add.

[tifosi77]

Mrs Tif got a photo of me the first time I saw the Millennium Falcon and I look like a complete doofus. [joke HERE] For a solid minute I was like

[nocera]

Yeah my first time riding ROTR was an emotional experience for me as well. Even my wife, who has zero attachment to Star Wars, had tears in her eyes afterwards. It really is an incredible ride.

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

Page 351: nocera finally says a nice thing about Star Wars

[nocera]

Page 351: nocera finally says a nice thing about Star Wars

Hey I love my Star Wars.

[eddy]

Sounds like Mando and grogu will now be a trilogy of films coming out in 2026 and that may be the earliest we see any new Star wars projects.

[Gaucho]

ugh

[nocera]

[meow]

but why