And now we have a character from Space China or Space Japan.
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You do realize no two random kids are exactly alike, right?
@Brainspore: The little spores are pretty much the perfect age for Rebels.
You’re never too old for Rebels!
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Wasn’t that the plot of Black Swan?
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(I was just trying to give him an excuse to watch it. His twins are just a little bit younger than my son.)
Like I said, extremely impressed with the finale.
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They gave Dooku the plans for safekeeping, but production was moved to the Genosian weapons yards for construction. But when the Emperor decided to scale up production, they started enslaving Wookiees and other races to help and at some point the Genosians were given the boot. (I think most of that is covered in one of the novels, probably “Tarkin”, which I haven’t read yet, rather than “Rebels”)
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If Lucas was still in charge, I would bet even money there would be a race with large mustache like tentacles wearing space sombreros in the new film saying, “Hey meeester. I hear you need a death star done cheap. Me and my cousins can knock it out over the weekend.”
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The thing with Lucas is that at some point in the 20 yrs between ROTJ and Episode 1, he decided Star Wars was silly. Which, well, it is! Star Wars is super silly: it’s got giant horny space slugs, characters named Mon Mothma and Chewbacca, and an ancient master of magic space wizardry who’s a Muppet. But when you treat all this silly stuff seriously in an epic space opera, it becomes fun and colorful and awesome – kids love it, teens love it, parents love it. Unfortunately, Lucas decided “no, it’s just for kids, and it’s supposed to be silly.” Happily, the folks that took it over know what makes Star Wars awesome again, and are doing a good job so far.
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Shhhh!!! I haven’t seen it yet.
I never saw Star Wars as silly. Campy in some parts? Sure. I mean his inspiration was like the old Buck Rodgers serials. Formulaic, simple tales of right and wrong. Heroes being heroes, and villains being villains with action and daring.
I have no idea how how he managed to write Star Wars so well (even with its faults) and then completely screw up any other scripts he did for Star Wars.
The reason I have faith in Disney is they are not beholden to just one person. They are beholden to Star Wars and everyone involved wants to make it great. I just saw the documentary on Zootopia and how their writing process works with lots of feed back and round tables to get the story to work right. While we can nitpick about several parts of the new film, it was a solid, simple story. No space legalese. No over done exposition. No personal relationships being forced. Etc. I have positive hopes that they will continue improving their writing, and thus the films will be even better. Look at their last several animated features and they have all had solid story telling.
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Sadly seeing it while not sleep deprived/on drugs does not help it get any better.
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I am just saying its good.
Neither did I… until the prequels made it silly. As a kid it was just awesome and full of action and derring-do and heroics and lasers.[quote=“Mister44, post:92, topic:76275”]
I have no idea how how he managed to write Star Wars so well (even with its faults) and then completely screw up any other scripts he did for Star Wars.
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The original script went through tons and tons of rewrites, and he was constantly being told that it was ridiculous and dumb by various studios, so he kept redoing it over and over. I’m sure it didn’t hurt that he had folks like Gary Kurtz, Francis Ford Coppola, and Brian de Palma reviewing it and offering help and ideas. Compare that to the prequels, which by all accounts he just churned out by himself in an office and said “there you go”.
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Yes, obviously. It’s Padmé Amidala’s line just before her fatal pas de deux attack on Jupiter Jones. That was my favorite preprequel movie.
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Aaaahh, good ol’ 70s sci fi beige.
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How dare you say that about George Smiley!
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Oh, I get it. All Space Asians look alike, right?
(Though that is apparently true of Space Māori.)
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