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Disney: there are six Star Wars episodes
- Thread starter EviLore
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The Acolyte had 8 episodes, does that mean it's the superior Star Wars experience?
Jinzo Prime
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March Climber
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Could be a hint. Could not be.
Filoni hinted at
in Star Wars Rebels, so they have a canonical reason they can use to change the sequels if they wanted to.
That is the messier option though. I'd rather they just leave the Skywalker Saga completely alone after Mando&Grogu and let it all be a merch-grab.
Filoni hinted at
Time travel using the "World Between Worlds"
That is the messier option though. I'd rather they just leave the Skywalker Saga completely alone after Mando&Grogu and let it all be a merch-grab.
Red Crayon Aristocrat
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Our long national nightmare is over...
March Climber
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I think he is an okay writer in his own element, but not a good writer for already established franchises with complex lore. It felt like his entire objective when starting his SW movie was to ignore it all (even the movie before it) and subvert expectations over and over.
His best movies that I've seen are Wake Up Dead Man, Knives Out, and Looper.
A Star Wars mainline movie cannot be treated like any of these three movies.
To give a hot take though, I think Rian Johnson would make a pretty unique 007 movie if given the opportunity.
Madflavor
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I've personally been speculating for a while now that they're going this route with separate timelines. A way to distance themselves from the Sequels without de-canonizing them.
They 100% know they fucked up with the Sequels. Now that most of the people responsible for the Sequels have left LucasFilm, I wouldn't be surprised if they start moving in that direction.
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DownLikeBCPowder
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My favorite IP as a child basically.
Dead to me. Crazy considering how much stuff I still love from youth.
Dead to me. Crazy considering how much stuff I still love from youth.
Madflavor
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Yeah I'm in the same boat and it's really weird. I grew up with Star Wars like most folks. Had the Star Wars Trilogy and the Special Editions on VHS. I'd watch the hell out of them with my brothers and cousins during family gatherings. Loved the games and all that happy horse shit. Saw TFA in theaters 4 times despite some issues I had. But I think like many people, TLJ was the turning point for me. Then everything after that was just downhill from there. Andor was a breath of fresh air, but it wasn't enough to reignite my love for Star Wars because it was one good thing in a sea of crap.
I don't really know what they could do to win me back. I think even if they tossed the ST out of Canon, that doesn't mean everything else moving forward is going to be good.
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It'd be a start!
Madflavor
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It'd be a start but I feel like the most likely scenario is that they'd replace something terrible with something mediocre. I mean mediocre is technically better but is it good enough to save Star Wars? Probably not for a lot of people. I don't have much faith in Filoni.
Regardless I would still delight in seeing the ST get flushed down the drain.
IAmRei
Member
after chaos in newer starwars, I choose to stick older star wars and pretend nothing new, ugh...
epicurius-seven
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Canon and 50 year old franchises… good luck!
Sticks
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Never liked really the prequels so SW been dead to me for a long time. Only fuck with the games.
Mistake
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Looks like they ride in the millennial falconLuke, Leia, and Han are at Galaxy's Edge
March Climber
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From my point of view, Star Wars is very successful video game I.P. with a good series of video games, spanning multiple genres and generations. The I.P. might even be remembered more for this years down the line.
I can probably name 3 times as many good SW video games as I can TV and movie series. It has been that way since the prequel trilogy.
We're about to have the following soon: A Star Wars X-com game, a Star Wars Telltale style narrative game with branching storylines (Eclipse), Fate of the Old Republic WRPG (FOTOR), Jedi Survivor Sequel (Part 3), and Star Wars Galactic Racer.
I think once more people come to this realization like I did, the more they'll look forward to the games instead.
Revolutionary
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If you completely ignore the bad SW games then sure... but the bad games have always outnumbered the good ones to an even higher degree than the movies. That well was poisoned decades ago with shit like Masters of Teras Kasi.
Article: Disney spent $1 billion in 2019 building a Star Wars theme park where you were not allowed to meet Luke, Leia, Han, or Darth Vader.
Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland was set on Batuu, a backwater planet in a narrow window between The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker. By that timeline Luke was dead. Han was dead. Vader had died 30 years earlier. Leia was alive but had no canonical reason to show up at an outer rim smuggler outpost.
Imagineer Scott Trowbridge spelled out the design rule in 2022. Characters on Batuu would stay locked to their specific era. No visitors from other Star Wars timelines. The immersion was the entire point.
In practice guests flew to Anaheim for Star Wars and walked through a $1 billion set to meet Vi Moradi and Dok-Ondar. The locals of Black Spire Outpost.
The parallel failure was Galactic Starcruiser. $5,000 for two nights in the same sequel-era window. No Luke, no Vader, no Han, no Leia. Disney wrote down $250 million to close it 18 months after opening.
On April 29, Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland abandons the rule. Darth Vader will roam Batuu hunting Luke. Leia and Han will appear at the Millennium Falcon. Kylo Ren is being pulled from the land and relocated to Tomorrowland. The ambient Batuu music gets replaced with the John Williams score.
Disney spent seven years defending the design principle. Then Galactic Starcruiser closed with a $250 million write-down. Luke Skywalker showed up for one limited event last year and got swarmed by guests. The rule quietly got dropped.
Avengers Campus figured this out on day one. You put Captain America in the Avengers land.
Everything done to bury Lucas's Star Wars is being undone.
uncreativename
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It's weird, I liked all of the actors and their performances in the three main Disney Star Wars films (only other Disney Star Wars thing I watched was Rogue One, which sucks. I was promised Mads Mikkelsen damnit, and he's only in that movie for like 5 seconds 
), so the blame is 100% on the writers and executives.
), so the blame is 100% on the writers and executives.
March Climber
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Unless you stack ports, there aren't that many.
...Please don't make me pull out a list lol, and don't be that guy that says 'well I personally didn't like ____ game so that means it is bad'
Also your take on this sounds outdated by 3 decades lol.
uncreativename
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This's probably not even a hot take but I like Kotor 1 more than all the movies and other games put together I think. It's the best Star Wars thing ever made.
Bert Big Balls
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TLJ was like Citizen Kane compared to the steaming turd that is rise of Skywalker.
Soodanim
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Only a company with money to burn would waste that much money adamantly pushing a failed product only carried only by a brand name recognition and (some) fan service.
In all honesty I don't know if kids see any of the trilogies these days. It's either watch new failures or go back 20-40 years.
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Rockondevil
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Perhaps, but TLJ is the straw that broke the camels back.
TFA had potential (albeit small) to set up more movies, then Rian Johnson came along and destroyed any chance of that happening.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Let's not get crazy.
Both films were dog shit, but RoS was a slightly bigger pile of dog shit.
TFA was also shite. A poor, boring retelling of ANH.
I think most of us can agree that Disney dropped the ball with the whole trilogy.
ahtlas7
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Unknown Soldier
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A very long read. Basically Disney's stock price hasn't moved for over a decade, shareholders are frustrated, and Disney has not performed well in every category of its business except theme parks. If you've ever wondered why a trip to Disneyland now costs thousands of dollars for a family of 4, this is why
edit: Because of how GAF unfolds Twitter posts, there is an unrelated post above the relevant one. Oh well.
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IAmRei
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i'm waiting star wars xcom combo, waiting for so long for SW to be Turnbased game, for now, i develop my own star wars board game with my legos with my own One Page Rules : ))
Trilobit
Absolutely Cozy
I wish they would have had old and divorced Han and Leia and depressed Luke at Galaxy's Edge. And then we'd hear Obi-Wan saying: "Use the SSRI, Luke!"Luke, Leia, and Han are at Galaxy's Edge
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
Not sure if I'm understanding your post correctly but there is a turn based Star Wars games incoming.
VulcanRaven
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They did re-release The Complete Saga Blu-Ray set without changing the name to close to The Force Awakens.
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Saber
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efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Star Wars is old and it's time to move on. Perhaps the same can be said about Disney. They both belong to a different era.
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A vampire survivor type game would be AWESOME in the Star Wars universe. Lots of jedi powers to map to the typical abilities in that genre and droids/space tech can handle the rest.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
I will never forget the window of time when people acted like disney star wars movies were good
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
The Force Awakens was good as a start of a new trilogy. It was pretty much a remake of the first movie but that was acceptable to kick a trilogy off. Then the second movie hit, and while visually stunning, the story was wonky as shit.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
It was only acceptable if your bar was incredibly low to begin with. It was a derivative and boring movie.
