How One Deleted Scene Turns Star Wars into a Struggle against Socialism - "In the era of Disney, many long-time Star Wars fans have bemoaned the supposed infiltration of their favorite franchise by leftist ideology. At first, I rolled my eyes at these objections, many of which remain patently absurd. But after Solo: A Star Wars Story gave us a shrill SJW droid hooking up with a pansexual Lando Calrissian, I had to admit that some critics might have a point... Biggs has no patience for these excuses. “What good’s all your uncle’s work if the Empire takes it over? You know they’ve already started to nationalize commerce in the central systems? It won’t be long before your uncle’s just a tenant slaving for the greater glory of the Empire.”... That one line of dialogue transforms the Empire from a militaristic antagonist with an entirely unknown policy agenda to a totalitarian government with a state-run economy that bears a strong resemblance to both Hitler’s National Socialism and Stalin’s “socialism in one country.” The scene in which Biggs urges Luke to fight to defend the free market may not have made it into the final film, but the implications it makes about Imperial economic policy live on. According to Wookiepedia, an online encyclopedia of the Star Wars expanded universe, Emperor Palpatine’s version of the anti-capitalist policies of his Nazi and Soviet counterparts was known as “imperialization,” a program that included “the state control and centralization of economic procedures… [and] commercial enterprises.” A major subplot in the recent novel Star Wars: Thrawn shows how imperialization ruined the mining planet Lothal, replacing innovation with cronyism and leading to forced labor, environmental destruction, and a massacre of peaceful protestors."
Meme - ""The Expanded Universe was ridiculous! I'm so glad it's gone!"
The new canon: "One saber against four. Admit it Vader, you are outmatched"
*Sith Dagger from The Rise of Skywalker*
*Green Milk*
*Inquisitor spinning lightsabers*
???
*Thrawn, Ezra and Purrgils*
???
*Ezra, Zeb, Kanan and snail (?)*"
John Boyega: 'I’m the only cast member whose experience of Star Wars was based on their race' - "
When you hire a grievance monger...
Apparently he was upset he wasn't made a main character
Weird. I thought the liberal narrative was that Tran was also the subject of racist harassment
Star Wars: Pablo Hidalgo's Tweet Reopens 'The Last Jedi' Wounds - "when a telltale X-Wing Fighter cruised into view, he jumped up in his seat as a childlike grin washed over his face. “Don’t give me hope, bro,” he said to no one in particular. Roughly a minute later, when he saw a cloaked, hooded figure wielding a green lightsaber appear, Toos burst into tears, certain of what the episode later confirmed: It was Luke Skywalker... Hidalgo tweeted: “emotions are not for sharing.” Toos was outraged, interpreting Hidalgo’s remarks as indeed piling on the mockery of his genuine emotions. By that point, Hidalgo had deleted the tweet, but, rather inexplicably, he also put a screenshot of it as the banner over his account; Toos took it as more trolling. “You’re telling people it’s not ok to have emotions about the work your company produces, and you make fun of them for crying?” he tweeted. “Not ok.”... Why on earth would anyone at Lucasfilm mock a fan for crying over a deliberately meaningful scene on a Star Wars show?"
Since a lot of Lucasfilm employees hate Luke Skywalker (e.g. his crossed out face on a poster) it's no surprise they have contempt for his fans too
Disney's Star Wars Sequels Reportedly Being Erased by Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni
A Brief History of Star Wars Jedi Who Totally Had Sex
Bruce - The B Drawings 🌈🔻🎨 💚🤍❤ on Twitter - "In the french version "Baroud d'honneur" Takka was masculinized against the translator's will."
Daniel José Older on Twitter - "Let me say this to international publishers: Taka Jamoreesa was not the first and I can promise you they will not be the last gender nonbinary Star Wars character, so you would do well to figure out how to handle that correctly for translations."
Gingerswappingresponse - Posts | Facebook - "How dare a romantic language gender a character when gender is literally a key aspect of the language!?"
‘Star Wars’ Editor Slams Disney Films: JJ Abrams Doesn’t Get It - "Marcia Lucas is no fan of the Disney-produced “Star Wars” movies. While being interviewed for J.W. Rinzler’s just-published book on “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi” film producer Howard Kazanjian, Lucas slammed current Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and director J.J. Abrams for their storyline decisions. The choice to kill off Han Solo and Luke Skywalker particularly made Lucas upset. Lucas won an Oscar for editing the original “Star Wars” along with Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew. She returned to co-edit “Return of the Jedi” and went uncredited on “The Empire Strikes Back.” Prior to “Star Wars,” Lucas made a name for herself editing Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” and “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” and she was also Oscar nominated for “American Graffiti.” Marcia Lucas was married to George Lucas between 1969 and 1983... “They have Luke disintegrate,” Lucas says. “They killed Han Solo. They killed Luke Skywalker. And they don’t have Princess Leia anymore. And they’re spitting out movies every year. And they think it’s important to appeal to a woman’s audience, so now their main character is this female, who’s supposed to have Jedi powers, but we don’t know how she got Jedi powers, or who she is. It sucks. The storylines are terrible. Just terrible. Awful. You can quote me…JJ Abrams, Kathy Kennedy — talk to me.'”"
According to the toxic sequel trilogy fans, clearly she's a misogynist who doesn't know anything about Star Wars
How Star Wars Keeps Breaking Its Own Canon (& Why) - "There were always going to be minor contradictions in continuity, simply because - as good as the Lucasfilm Story Group may be - they are only human. This is particularly the case where reference books are concerned, such as the popular Visual Dictionaries that accompany the release of every movie; as plans change, the details behind some of the things discussed in the Visual Dictionaries naturally change as well. These kinds of low-level contradictions are both expected and understandable, and nobody really considers it a problem if, say, a throwaway line in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary published back in 2015 is ignored in the latest movie. But, of late, we have begun to see contradictions on a far greater scale. The first group of continuity problems really center upon Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which - while attempting to bring the sequel trilogy to a satisfying conclusion - also served to rewrite the history of the Sith. Disney has been trying to fix Rise of Skywalker's continuity through Star Wars comics with Greg Pak's current Darth Vader run, with Pak telling a tale set shortly after The Empire Strikes Back in which Darth Vader discovers the existence of the Sith redoubt of Exegol. Unfortunately the very concept causes major problems, because if Darth Vader knew all about Exegol then Anakin Skywalker's Force Ghost would surely have mentioned the Sith Eternal to his son Luke. Meanwhile, the finer details contradict tie-ins, novelizations, and fact-books - sometimes explicitly. The Sith cultists on Exegol have become more confusing than ever, because the novelization and the comics seem to interpret them in different ways. The second constellation of continuity problems can be found in Lucasfilm's popular TV shows, which draw upon ideas established in other mediums but then interpret them in a wildly different way. The Siege of Mandalore as described in E.K. Johnston's novel Ahsoka is markedly different from that of Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7, while the history of Cobb Vanth - the Tatooine Marshal who wore Mandalorian armor - changed between Chuck Wendig's Aftermath trilogy and The Mandalorian season 2. Most recently, Star Wars: The Bad Batch included a powerful scene showing how Jedi Padawan Caleb Dume (who would go on to become the Jedi Kanan Jarrus) survived Order 66; although the broad picture similar to the account already shown in a comic book, the details were very different. Lucasfilm's "everything is canon" approach was an appealing one, and in truth was probably the only way to win over fans who were irritated at the old Expanded Universe being summarily dismissed: The studio was offering something new that seemed infinitely better. Unfortunately, the simple truth is that it was always going to be unsustainable in the long run. The idea that everything counts to the same extent works when you only have a handful of tie-ins to factor in, but years later we already have hundreds of books, comics, mobile games (some long-since discontinued), and more. It is already likely impossible for the Lucasfilm Story Group to navigate all this, and the problems will only build as the Star Wars franchise expands into the Unknown Regions and the High Republic Era, some 200 years before the events of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. Meanwhile, creative ideas would increasingly become restricted, sometimes by minor details that nobody other than hardcore fans would even remember. An exhaustive canon would become a creative straitjacket. These problems are coming to a head now for one simple reason: plans change. Lucasfilm course-corrected on the sequel trilogy innumerable times (often unwisely), causing inherent contradictions. These were exacerbated by The Rise of Skywalker, which included ancient Sith cultists, a resurrected Palpatine, a bevy of new Force ideas, and an entire fleet of superweapons, all of which needed to be woven into the lore. None of these ideas were particularly well-developed, meaning Lucasfilm has since been scrambling to weave them into the overarching narrative of the Star Wars saga. Meanwhile, Disney's decision to sign off on Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7 meant Lucasfilm Animation suddenly had an unexpected opportunity to tell stories they had believed they'd never get to tell in that medium, and in fact where they'd already tried to fill in the gaps with books and comics. Naturally, when Dave Filoni and his team returned to the Siege of Mandalore years later, they'd developed as storytellers and wanted to tell the best story they possibly could now, not the one they'd intended to and had E.K. Johnston reveal in the Ahsoka novel. Furthermore, Star Wars has become one of the main draws on Disney+, and there are no less than 11 Star Wars TV shows set to release over the next few years. Given this rate of expansion, the creative straitjacket that canon can become would have been painfully restrictive. Lucasfilm's primary concern at any given moment, quite rightly, is to tell the best story they can; if that means contradicting something in a less well-known medium, then so be it. Let's face it, you never want your creators to feel they're unable to tell what they believe to be an incredible story because of a throwaway comment in a mobile phone game that shut down years ago... On Twitter, members of the Lucasfilm Story Group have essentially fallen back on what can be called the Obi-Wan Kenobi approach to canon."
So much for wiping the old canon to be clean and consistent
Why The Mandalorian Is More Key To Disney's New Star Wars Canon Than The Sequels - "There are, principally, two reasons Star Wars is increasingly focusing on The Mandalorian rather than the sequels. The first, sadly, is that the sequel trilogy can't be considered a success. They divided the fanbase, and Lucasfilm's desperate and hurried attempt to fix things led to an unsatisfying climax introducing ideas that sit uncomfortably with the canon and lore; the Sith cultists on Exegol are becoming more confusing every time a book or comic attempts to explain them. Meanwhile, the actors themselves consider their story to be over and want to move on. That's particularly the case with John Boyega, who has been vocal in his criticism of how the franchise handled his character Finn and has no interest in returning to Star Wars. The sequels have wrapped up, and there's nothing to really draw people in anymore. The Mandalorian has done what the sequel trilogy failed to do; it has introduced new characters and locations, and in doing so it serves as a launchpad for countless new potential stories. What's more, everything seen in The Mandalorian builds so organically on what has been seen before. There's nothing so jarring as the sudden (still barely explained) emergence of the First Order, or the revelation Palpatine has returned from the dead through means that only became clear courtesy of tie-ins. The Mandalorian has led to a resurgence in interest in Lucasfilm's older TV shows, driving increased demand for both Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, proving viewers continue to want to engage with Star Wars after watching the show's first two seasons. Star Wars has moved on to the small screen now, and The Mandalorian has become Lucasfilm's flagship. Until now, the Disney era of Star Wars has largely been defined by the original trilogy, with Lucasfilm understanding these were the stories that were most popular and uncontroversial. They've quietly 'fixed' the prequel trilogy using tie-ins, and no doubt they'll attempt to do the same with the sequel era, which will be largely forgotten by the films and TV shows while books and comics try to rehabilitate those films. In the meantime, though, we should expect to see The Mandalorian become increasingly important on Disney+ in particular"
Meme - Gina Carano: "WRONGFULLY ACCUSED OF BEING AN ANTI-SEMITE AND GETS FIRED. GETS HIRED BY AN ORTHODOK JEW"
Rian Johnson's take on Luke's relationship with Anakin - "I've heard a ton of "certain point of view" arguments claiming that Anakin and Vader are two very separate people, and that Anakin is Luke's father, not Vader. Not a single one of them hold up. But Johnson is the first I've heard of to claim that Luke's relationship was with Vader instead of Anakin, and this already sounds even worse than the other."
No wonder he ruined Star Wars
Disney Renames Boba Fett's Slave I and Star Wars Fans Are Not Having It - "They say if it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's exactly how fans feel about the sudden renaming of a Star Wars icon. Disney and Lucasfilm have decided that it's time to stop calling Boba Fett's ship Slave I and people have hilarious reactions to the change. There were three new LEGO Star Wars sets unveiled at the recent LEGO CON 2021 but one caught the attention of fans. The new LEGO set for Slave I has been given the new name "Boba Fett's Starship (75312)"."'
Boba Fett Actor Berates Disney For Slave I Name Change - "Boba Fett actor Mark Anthony Austin isn't laughing about the revelation and has taken to social media to express his disappointment. Austin, who proudly portrayed the bounty hunter in A New Hope Special Edition, went as far as slamming Disney for buying Star Wars in the first place and making all the unnecessary changes."
The Mandalorian Star Sasha Banks is Getting Canceled over Anti-Vax Controversy - "Mercedes Varnado, best known as WWE superstar Sasha Banks made her mainstream acting debut in the second season of The Mandalorian much to the delight of wrestling diehards the world over. Her brief stint in the hit series as Koska Reeves thanks to creator Jon Favreau was well-received by many and unsurprisingly, it turned a lot of heads within the Star Wars community as well and by the looks of it, we'll be seeing more of her in future projects now that the Mandoverse expansion is in full swing. However, the 29-year-old professional wrestler is suffering the same fate her The Mandalorian co-star Gina Carano went through last year... It's still unconfirmed whether or not Banks is actually against vaccination but people on Twitter have obviously made up their mind and just like that, Sasha is the latest celebrity to feel the wrath of cancel culture"
First, they came for Gina Carano...
Can ‘The Mandalorian’ Save ‘Star Wars’? - The Atlantic - "Had Lucas’s galaxy lost its power, or had its new stewards simply mismanaged it? The recent success of a remarkable Star Wars television series suggests the latter... By the end of Season 2, a critical consensus had emerged: It was the best live-action Star Wars product to arrive since the early 1980s... the sublime feeling of immersion that laced Lucas’s early movies reemerges. To watch the show and then look back at the sweep of Star Wars history is to understand where that feeling comes from—and why most of Hollywood’s hero-driven, special-effects-laden fantasies never attain it... Lucas says this of his work on the first film : “It’s always been what you might call a good man in search of a story.” What Lucas means is that when conceiving Star Wars, he dreamed first of visuals, concepts, and feelings—not of plot. He felt drawn to make “a movie in outer space like Flash Gordon used to be. Ray guns, running around in spaceships, shooting at each other.” He also wanted to mash up tropes from samurai films, Westerns, and spy flicks. Above all, he wanted a look and feel that prized “credibility” rather than the “clean,” sleek sci-fi of 1950s serials and 2001: A Space Odyssey. His own days working in a greasy mechanics’ shop, plus the thought of NASA’s Apollo capsule returning from the moon full of “candy wrappers and old Tang jars,” informed that vision. Without a narrative he was burning to tell, Lucas had trouble turning such notions into a workable screenplay. He wrote multiple, overlong drafts that each radically refigured its characters, arcs, and themes. Eventually, he arrived at a relatively straightforward tale modeled on ancient legends. Lucas had been reading the work of Joseph Campbell, a literary scholar who identified a “monomyth,” with a predictable structure, occurring across cultures throughout the centuries. Star Wars would be a Chosen One story; Luke Skywalker was like King Arthur or Siddhartha Gautama. This blueprint, with its prescribed wise-mentor figures, talismanic weapons, and trusty sidekicks, helped make the mess of a script gel. Lucas’s reverse-engineered fairy tale resonated with audiences, but Star Wars aficionados tend to overrate plot when explaining his success; books have been written about the profundity of Luke’s search for identity. In the new oral history, the critic Roy Morton articulates conventional wisdom when he argues that Lucas’s “most significant creative decision in crafting the script” was to draw from myths... Yet the hero’s journey in the original movies was always sketchy."
Steven Haddock's answer to Why is Rogue One so much better than the other new Star Wars movies? - Quora - "They spent more time developing the characters in the script. In the other films, most of the supporting characters seem to be stereotypes, or at least no real effort was made to create characters you could care about. All the people fighting for the resistance in “Rogue One” are interesting in their own right. Most of the conflict in the film arises from their different views of what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. However, even the villains are interesting. You understand what motivates them. There’s actually very little that separates the two sides in terms of their backgrounds - they’ve just made decisions and chosen different paths.
You have some really good actors in Rogue One and it makes a difference. Let’s start with Felicity Jones who was good enough to work with Eddie Redmayne. K-2SO is voiced by the marvelous and underrated Alan Tudyk. You have Forrest Whittaker as Saw Gerrera and it’s obvious he’s trying to bring something special to the part. Finally, Mads Mikkelsen as Galen Erso, and it’s also obvious he understands what the director is trying to get across."
Joshua Gross's answer to Why is Rogue One so much better than the other new Star Wars movies? - Quora - "Lucas isn’t a fan by definition, and imposes his will when he makes something in this world, even if it conflicts with the past. Rian Johnson did the same thing; The Last Jedi is more distinctly Rian Johnson than Star Wars. Abrams… Abrams has plans and schemes but seems to rarely follow through, and he’s always going to put a fun film on the screen, even if it means sacrificing sanity."
Roger Lim's answer to Why is Rogue One so much better than the other new Star Wars movies? - Quora - "Jyn Erso, the heroine is not a “Mary Sue” character, she doesn't have special powers and has to solve real world problems and succeeds, but also goes through tragedy and loss. Plus they featured Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen, two really great Chinese actors."
Jeff Hall's answer to Why is Rogue One so much better than the other new Star Wars movies? - Quora - "Same reason why the Madalorian is looking good. It told a story that was engaging. It was faithful to the source material. That’s it. Good story, doesn't do any really dumb stuff and fits. The sequel trilogy failed on both counts: with lackluster villains and plots the rambled all over and no hero to have a journey. To top it off, there was no plan for the whole concept. They made it up as they went along and each movie sought to undo some of the established stuff int he previous movie, which was to the detriment of everything. Disney didn’t lose money of the movies, but they could have done so much better and R1 and the Mandalorian shows the way."
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Toy Executive Confirms Lack Of Demand For Disney's Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Products - "Disney’s Star Wars sequel trilogies woes continue, as Diamond Select Toys President Chuck Terceira confirmed there is a lack of demand for products from the three films... “The overall demand for busts and SW products is not what it was 10 or even 5 years ago.” Terceira goes on to state that it’s not just a Gentle Giant problem, but an industry-wide issue, ” It’s not just a GG issue either. The brand is VERY strong with The Mandalorian & The Clone Wars and more new content to come, but you all know what the production runs on collector products were in the past compared to now.”... “We just, as of yet, have not seen enough fans that would want to buy a bust have that personal affection for some of those new characters that makes sense to justify going to production"... Not only do audiences not like Disney’s new films, but the company itself reported their merchandise sales for Star Wars was down in the Q3 report last year... Star Wars merchandise sales have been in decline since 2016. And it’s not just merchandise sales, the entire franchise has been in decline"
Clear proof that the Sequel Trilogy was a resounding success and that George Lucas was wrong in asking for the merchandising rights, since we know the money is in the box office revenues so it doesn't matter that toy sales are bad
Disney Shades Its Own Star Wars Sequel Trilogy In Official Twitter Post - "An official Disney twitter account has poked fun at Star Wars fans whose favorite trilogy is the recent sequels... In the post, the Disney+ account wrote, "The latest Star Wars trilogy is the best" before inserting plenty of red flag emojis."
J.J. Abrams Said Star Wars Didn't Have a Plan When Disney Made the New Skywalker Trilogy
LadyJediScientist #freethejawa 🇺🇸 on Twitter - "Okay, as someone whose been following Her Universe brand since abt 2011, I would like to pt out a couple things. First, the fans complained abt Ahsoka b/c she was bratty, but the complaints stopped as the character improved.
Anakin having a padawan: the surprise from the fans was due to him having a padawan at all. No one cared that the padawan was a girl."
"Exactly! I adore her now, but Ahsoka was initially a brat. Also, Luke was whiny at the beginning of his character arc. Plenty of folks noticed that. But if the character is female we should all pretend she's perfect from beginning to end?"
"Cordy on Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the same way. You can’t stand her in the 1st season, but as her character becomes less self involved she becomes more likable."
Apparently complaining about a whiny female character means that you hate women
Explaining the High Republic Era : saltierthancrait - "When the Project Luminous ideas were released I watched everyones responses and it wasn't pretty. So I decided to explain what everything could possibly mean...
Diversity: Cool but don't put this higher than a good story. Its the reason the sequels were a complete mess. Disney put "Diversity" higher than writing a good story.
Actual Ending: We had an "Actual Ending" already it was Episode 6. The High Republic Era can't have an "Actual Ending" if it is leading to The Phantom Menace."
Everything We've Learned About "The High Republic" Project - "we catch a glimpse of what appears to be the driving forces behind the author's creative concepts. To the chagrin of some fans, Diversity sits near the top of left column - notably, above Actual ending, Relatable characters, Sweeping/epic stories and Humor. And that theme is echoed again, as Representation/Diversity, under the right column. This idea also seems to borne out in the character concept art. Where groups of Human Jedi are portrayed, there appear to be a mix of Hispanic, Asian, White and Black characters."
Meme - "Legends fans watching a cancelled EU book from the out sell nearly every other Star Wars book on Amazon"
Proof that everyone loves the new Star Wars and that anyone who says Disney has mismanaged the franchose is a sexist manchild troll who needs to go back under his bridge
Maybe.💰 on Twitter - "20 years of jokes have diluted this scene to hell, but it’s important to note what he’s really saying here. [I didn’t grow up in a luxury paradise like you, Padme. I don’t have comforting memories of soft beaches. I was a slave, in a desert, and life was miserable.]"
"I don't like sand"
Kukuruyo Comic, Illustration & Monster girls - Posts | Facebook - "Disney and woke journalists: Star war fans hate Rey only because they're sexist and hate to have a woman protagonist! Star wars fanbase: *Proceeds to show unconditional support for the female protagonists in Star wars visions"
Mark Hamill Gave the Family of a Terminally Ill Boy an Emotional, “Beautiful Experience”
Andy Kim on Twitter - "My wife wasn’t thrilled when I put this Lego Millennium Falcon on our wedding registry. To not seem completely self-indulgent, I told her I’d wait until we had kids to build it. Today, after 10 patient years, the adventure begins. #MayThe4th #MayThe4thBeWithYou"
Star Wars: The Knights Of Ren & 9 Other Canceled Concepts From The Sequel Trilogy - "J.J. Abrams recently admitted what most Star Wars fans already knew, which is that the sequel trilogy would’ve been better if its storylines and character arcs had been planned from the start instead of continuing one of the most beloved sagas ever told without a consistent vision."
Why Star Wars Resistance Was Cancelled After Only Two Seasons - "Unlike both The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, Resistance isn't a big hit with adult Star Wars fans. By its very nature, Resistance is aimed at a younger audience and doesn't delve too deeply into moral dilemmas or Star Wars lore as the previous animated series. That's just fine for keeping Star Wars in the public eye between films and selling toys, but not so much for cultivating a devoted fanbase - and the ratings show that."
We are still told that the Sequel Trilogy was a success
Meme - "if you ever have waning confidence in your screenwriting or storytellings abilities, just remember that a professionally paid, multimillionaire screenwriter wrote down the words "somehow palpatine returned" for the final installment of a major hollywood franchise, that has ran for over 40 years, overseen by the largest company in entertainment, and they went with it"
'Star Wars' Almost Caused an Actual War - "The team behind the Star Wars universe eventually settled on a Tunisian desert as their filming location. As it turns out, however, tensions between Tunisia and neighboring Libya were running high in the 1970s — and Jawa Sandcrawlers look an awful lot like real military vehicles"
Dear Diary: Today I fucked up and made a meme so dank Daisy Ridley had her 1.4 million followers chase a retarded girl off the internet. - "So, a while ago I wrote this here satirical review of Star Wars : The Force Awakens, lampooning all the feminist reviews by taking it to tumblr extremes of depravity, the main conceit being that, as my regular readers surely know all too well, feminist types are never satisfied... some girl reposted the ‘comic panel’ I made on instagram and tagged Daisey in it. Daisey got well pissed, leading many or at least yours truly to speculate that this might be her time of the month, and wrote a retort (featured in the BBC story above) which included the girl’s screenname which then led to some portion of Daisey’s 1.4 million fans screaming at the girl who has since deleted her account."
Ewan McGregor Gets Caught Using the Force on Automatic Doors
Star Wars fan builds walking and talking R2-D2 - "its builder, Mr Ng Hak Beng, has for years declined to take public credit for pulling off the impressive feat. "If people knew so much about the guy behind it, it would spoil all the magic of R2-D2. People like to think of him as real and autonomous, right?" the IT consultant says earnestly with a grin... Whenever a girl tries to kiss the droid, it will quote the famous line by Princess Leia in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977): "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope."... He can control his R2-D2 from 3km away and says he plans to install a camera in it so that he can control it without being near it."
Everything Grogu Eats In The Mandalorian
9 Incredible Cross-Sections Reveal the Architecture of Star Wars
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is the best movie in the Skywalker Saga - "The movie subverts audience expectations in so far as it is wholly different from what came before, which is why it received such a backlash from those who had grown up with the originals. It presents the Jedi as fallen, not the great warriors that Obi-Wan spoke of in A New Hope, it focuses on the politics of the galaxy, rather than swashbuckling adventure, and it makes the protagonist a child, not a teenager on the cusp of adulthood. But these decisions are among the best in the Saga because by depicting the galaxy as not what we expected, George Lucas highlights to the audience the corruption which pervades it at this point in galactic history. When seeing the Jedi as fallen and the Senate as corrupt, the audience is meant to be shocked and, through this, realize how broken the galaxy is. This makes the ascendancy of the dark side over the course of the prequels all the more believable and tragic... More than any other movie in the Skywalker Saga, The Phantom Menace is a variety show. And I mean that in the best possible sense. It has lightsaber combat, political intrigue, podracing, space battles, and comedy throughout, providing something of interest for every viewer. We see similar things in all the prequels, but it was The Phantom Menace that introduced them and did them best... From Qui-Gon’s struggles with the rigid rules of the Jedi Council to Anakin’s mix of youthful naivety and great power to Shmi’s wondrous summation of the positivity, which is so inherent to the Star Wars galaxy, the characters in The Phantom Menace are so complex and thus believable. Which is why the movie gets better with each re-watch. The characters have such depth that to do them justice one should engage with their actions and motivations to truly understand them... A final mention must be made for the sheer beauty of the prequels. From the cascading waterfalls of Naboo to the immense grandeur of the galactic senate, The Phantom Menace introduced worlds and settings which are forever ingrained in minds of fans everywhere thanks to the beautiful concept art by Doug Chiang."
Hear me out: why The Phantom Menace isn't a bad movie - "Initial reviews of the film were actually sort of positive... It would be impossible to stage a defence of the film without at least addressing its faults, which are certainly legion. Jar Jar is the main culprit, but on reflection, he’s little more than an occasional annoyance. He’s goofy. Kids like him. He’s hardly the film’s protagonist. So it’s no great challenge to ignore him. Likewise, the odd “yippee!” aside, Anakin isn’t half as irritating when seen at a cool remove of 22 years after the fact. He’s merely one of an entire ensemble of characters without a single definable personality trait between them. Throughout the film, scenes seem to linger for a few awkward seconds after they should, or cease abruptly without any purpose for their existence having been established. There’s also an uncanny weightlessness to much of the CGI. In fact, from editing to dialogue to plotting, some of the nuts-and-bolts film-making on show is, frankly, baffling. But there is – there is! – a great movie lurking beneath all this. The sheer amount of world-building is remarkable: in one film we are introduced to the whole power structure of the galaxy before The Empire: a Republic, a Senate, a Jedi Council, Coruscant, Naboo and the Gungan city, and we are reintroduced to lawless Outer Rim planets like Tatooine. We see how it all works, and witness actual, jobbing Jedi going about their Forcey business in the inexorable run-up to war. It all whips along at a fair old clip. And the action set pieces are peerless. The pod race is an astounding assault of speed and noise. The land and space sorties are as good as anything the original trilogy managed, if a little inert in their lack of overall stakes. And the lightsaber battles remain the best of any Star Wars film to date. Darth Maul is the coolest baddie Star Wars ever gave us, and the athleticism he brings to the previously stiff duels has yet to be bested... Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor are excellent. It tells a satisfying, enclosed story. Its action is handled with zip and flair. And, from the death of Qui-Gon to Anakin’s mother giving him up, it even manages to tug on the old heartstrings occasionally"