Anything would’ve been better than what we got, really.
I just want to see Abram’s coke-fueled, batshit crazy first draft of The Rise of Skywalker realized.
Driver is ugly as f and the girl can’t act
He’s by no means the most attractive bloke but he’s definitely not ugly as fuck.
I do think he is attractive but it’s the charisma, not his looks. In the same way Depp is attractive.
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Fantastic YouTube channel! I love his explanation of why the Golden Age of Disney produced so many classic hits (spoiler: they hired a musical theater expert).
They did have it. Michael Arndt, who I know from personal experience is a Star Wars savant at like a scientific level, had his script and outlines scrapped. JJ and Kennedy redid the whole thing after Disney got cold feet. So TFA script itself was a rush rewrite after Arndt had been writing for 1-2 years.
EDIT: best I could find for any public document of this which is a summary of the art book - https://www.scribd.com/document/312786415/Star-Wars-Episode-VII-The-Force-Awakens-Early-Script-Details
Could the music have been intentionally vague to give hope to the audience?
Maybe he would have had a chance as the bad guy if he wasn’t defeated in the first movie by someone who picked up a lightsaber for the first time.
Eh, Star Wars has always played it pretty heavy with “the will of the Force.” Luke one-in-a-million shot at the Death Star towards the end of ANH, for example. It’s not like Rey had an easy life growing up as an orphan on a poor desert planet as a scavenger.
It was clearly demonstrated in the beginning of The Force Awakens that Rey is proficient with a quarterstaff so I had no trouble accepting she could pick up a lightsaber and grok it immediately. Quarterstaff to lightsaber should translate more easily than quarterstaff to longsword—eg no worries about edge alignment. Especially considering force sensitivity and all that pizazz.
Star Wars tells a story at the pace of a children’s tv show. Which is why we love it so much, it fits so much in.
Luke blasted womp rats, Anakin was a pod racer and Rey did crazy acrobatic shit while scavenging.
We got a small explanation which works if you know it’s Star Wars and you stop looking for a volume of exposition.
What was wrong with Darth Edgelord von Worf Effect vs Jedi Master Mary Sue?
I like to imagine Jaina Solo endlessly ribbing her brother over the absolute dumpster fire they replaced him with.
I’m not actually against this decision at all, I kind of liked the idea that he wasn’t ready to live up to his potential. A hero in a trilogy needs their journey from farm boy to knight, and I was really ready for focus on the villain actually growing in ability. It would be hard not to like an antagonist with well written drive that we needed to see on screen, and we nearly got this too.
I didn’t particularly like the force awakens in cinema but that’s mostly because it didn’t do anything new, except have a villain who both started as a villain and had a lot of potential to grow without redemption, which would have actually been kinda new for starwars where basically every character arc with growth is a good character corrupted or a bad one redeemed.
They explained that in context. He told Rey she needed a teacher, and she used the Force Knowledge Extract trick he unwittingly taught her when she was a prisoner.
Watch the fight again… She’s getting her ass kicked, doesn’t even know how to hold a lightsaber.
“You need a teacher…”
“You’re right.” Closes her eyes, force downloads the techniques Matrix style, THEN kicks his ass.
Also Ren had just killed his own dad and survived being shot by a gun that launches everyone else it hits clean off their feet. He wasn’t exactly on his A game for that fight and the film made that clear
Killing his dad threw him into emotional turmoil, the light was gripping at him.
That’s why he kept punching his wound, to try to be angry instead of sad.
Even wounded he could have force choked her walked over and stabbed her through the guts with his lightsaber.
This would be a much better ending, because we all know getting stabbed by a lightsaber in Disney Star Wars is barely a flesh wound and she could be back for the next movie.
But he didn’t want to kill her, he wanted to turn her to the dark side.
After the emotional turmoil of killing his father, and the massive gut wound caused by the bowcaster. He wasn’t exactly fighting at 100%.
Also he didn’t want to kill Rey, he wanted to convert her to the darkside, so he wasn’t fighting to kill.
I still think Finn should have turned on the lightsaber, given it a dramatic twirl, and immediately cut off his own leg just to demonstrate how dangerous lightsabers are.
I mean… he picked up the lightsaber, dramatically went one on one with Kylo Ren and immediately got the shit kicked out of him. I thought that was fairly sensible.
The Sequel Trilogy was so poorly executed. I loved the homage to the original Star Wars that the Force Awakens was. I thoroughly enjoyed the rebellion against toxic Star Wars fans that The Last Jedi was. I absolutely hated the utter bullshit the Rise Of Skywalker became. Which in turn soured my feelings about the first two movies. Why they never had an overarching story in the first place is just ridiculous.
absolute worst shit in the world.
And to think they put Timothy Zahn’s sequel work aside for this garbage.
They flushed the whole EU. They didn’t even pick it’s bones for the best bits (until recently), they just messed with the dynamics that worked.
In my opinion, Rey is supposed to be Jaina and Kylo is supposed to be Jacen. Force Awakens has weird moments between the characters that can only make sense if Rey is Han and Leia’s daughter. JJ tried to add ‘mystery’ by hiding this fact, and then Johnson throws it all away to do his own thing.
Here’s the thing that doesn’t make sense… Driver says this was Abrams plan from the first flick.
Well, Abrams also did the 3rd flick, so what happened to the plan?
Disney wanted to please the more toxic parts of the fandom that were just interested in wanting to see the same exact things over and over again.
No one necessarily wanted the same shit again. Fans just wanted something good that wasn’t a cobbled together mess
Get overruled by superiors after people didn’t like the last jedi
The Force Awakens was ok, but pretty much the same underlying story as A New Hope
The second movie was a woeful middle finger to The Force Awakens which added nothing at all to the story, in fact 1/3 of the movie was pointless. The code breaker / casino arc didn’t impact what happened after the casino
The third movie felt like it was created around cutting room floor footage of Leia, and they turned Kylo into a pussy.
If I am doing a Star Wars marathon, it is Rogue One, 4, 5, 6 and 7
I think that may have been better.
