• thelastaxolotl [he/him]OPM
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    14 days ago

    honestly calling it the “clone wars” implies it was a war against the clones so it makes sense why him and other legends writers thought the clones were evil, maybe both factions should have been given clone armies

    • Blakey [he/him]
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      1014 days ago

      Maybe the good guys just shouldn’t have been using clones at all;)

      Honestly in a lot of ways I wish we hadn’t gotten the prequels. Maybe the Thrawn Trilogy wouldn’t have worked as movies - haven’t read it in literally decades - but I really wish that instead of prequels we got sequels based on that. It was really fun. All the stuff with an imperial defector finding the Katana fleet and handing it over to the republic was great.

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        414 days ago

        Honestly I liked the Disney sequels better than the prequels. They both have shitty, nonsensical plots, but the sequels had far better acting, cinematography, characters, and overall design. It’s all slop meant for kids, so might as well enjoy the pretty lights.

        And yes, I am aware I’m one of those “Nobody hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans.” 😄

        • someone [comrade/them, they/them]
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          113 days ago

          I would love to read a tell-all book by Rian Johnson after he retires and no longer has to worry about pissing off entertainment industry VIPs. I strongly suspect that The Last Jedi was the victim of huge levels of executive meddling. There’s some really solid ideas in that movie. My two favourites are the open critique of the Jedi in both their philosophy and actions, and calling out the military-industrial complex. But it’s buried in overly-long and often-unnecessary action setpieces that bring the whole plot to a screeching halt and feel shoehorned-in - such as literally everything that happened after Ben offered Rey a partnership after the throne room fight.