What I Think about Star Wars

I personally love this new approach where everything is interconnected and one needs to go "deeper" into the books and comics to learn additional details. For example, before TLJ I read everything set between RotJ and TFA and I enjoyed learning about the origins of the First Order this way. That's why I can view Star Wars as one big separate (fictional) universe I can dive into and explore. This way, I treat everybody as "historical figures" so I don't have any problems if somebody's fate clashed with my expectations and "head canon" (I decided not to invest my hopes in any) and if somebody's backstory isn't properly explained in the movies (Snoke is the obvious one), I am sure it will be explained elsewhere. Just look how much they wrote about Phasma.

 

Question out of pure curiosity, no judging or arguing here: if you voted "Star Wars and I are quits," what makes you still hang out on the Star Wars forum? and what led to you giving up on Star Wars entirely?

 

Pick and choose for me. I like the sequel trilogy but all the new expanded universe books I do not like at all. Seems more like teases for future movies then real literature. I feel the old expanded universe was not as handcuffed as all this new stuff. Knights of the Old Republic is still my personal favorite Star Wars story. The Star Wars story movies have left me pretty disappointed. So yeah I'm a pretty mixed bag pick and choose is definitely the one for me at this point

 

What do I think about SW? I think since Disney took over SW is done! What will happen after E9?

 

Broomboy just about made me cry at the end of TLJ because that kid used to be me.

 

There will come even more movies. ;D
=> Rian's trilogy, the movie series made by the GOT makers, hopefully a Kenobi movie.

 

Anakin in The Phantom Menace is the best Prequel Anakin. Sure, he's achild, but his actions are rational and easy to empathize with - missing your parents is something all of us felt when we weren't with them. TPM's version is also the best-acted one.

 

There were even better young Anakins than Lloyd (he did fine though).

 

To be honest, when I see those audition clips I'm hard pushed to say any one is better than the other. I'm not sure which I'd pick just from those.

But what we don't see are all the other auditions and read throughs and chats and interviews that I'm sure those three boys had to do. I'm sure the decision was based on more than just the clips they filmed and showed to us. There simply isn't enough in those snippets for us to make an informed judgement. We're just getting to see the 'best' of all of all three them. We're not being shown the 'worst' of any of them.

 

Has this devolved into a general fight yet or do I need to step up? (Kidding!!)

I like most things SW. There are some things that I don't like, and some things that have the potential to become things I wouldn't like, but behind it all, SW is a children's story that manages to resonate with many adults, it has a special kind of "magic". Its flaws are easy for me to ignore (after I get mad about them once or twice lol).

I hate broom boy too, he makes me think that there might be a huge time jump between TLJ and Ep. 9, like Ep. 9 could start with the same kid 5 years later. TFA and TLJ took place over a period of...only about a week I think, and a third movie set a few years later would feel like a different story altogether.

 

I think that's the wrong way of thinking. Star Wars shouldn't be just for kids or just for adults. Great "kids" movies like "The Lion King" and "Toy Story" (and every single other Pixar film) are pleasing for young and old. And why? Because they aren't trying to please a certain target audience. They're just telling a story the way it comes.

 

I see where you're coming from, but I think (I even thought so as a kid, which is kind of funny) that SW has always been best when it was indulging in screwball comedy and at the same time committing to a dark tone. Both things are not necessarily what you will find in movies that are made with children in mind.