The Mandalorian (Disney+) TV Show • Page 139

Who has proposed changing everything about Star Wars? There are very basic flaws in the plots of the movies, especially the prequels, that people have known and talked about since the movies came out. What a bizarre view to treat Star Wars of all things like some holy grail of storytelling. If all you want to do is see and give unconditional praise then why even go on a forum to discuss something in the first place?

 

Lmao this thread really is hilarious a lot of the time. Imagine being critical of something you otherwise enjoy. What a heinous crime.

 

I think Filoni got his start on youtube if Im not mistaken

 

Filoni is legit just one of us shit posters who gets to live the dream and it makes me so happy lol

 

Filoni understands the masterpiece of the prequel trilogy while others fail to grasp it.

 

people in every entertainment thread on this website

 

There are nuggets of ideas in the prequels that, regardless of how they were executed, are great and could have been made into something very good:
-A dictatorship arising from a trade conflict that escalates into a war, at which point the government feels pressured to increasingly give greater authority to a single position
-The Jedi being incredibly incompetent/arrogant and being just as responsible for the creation of Darth Vader as Sidious is
-scary guy with spikes on his head and a dual-sided lightsaber

 

Still holding out hope that someone will actually engage with my posts in the Small Axe thread

 

Clone wars and rebels did a better job with maul then the prequels could have done

 

The LEGO Star Wars prequel games are also much more than fun than any other trilogy. Checkmate

 

Those Belated Media videos handle Maul pretty well, just sayin’

 

I wonder if my fiancee feels the same way about star wars that I feel about her pride and prejudice fanfics

 

My wife likes star wars so it's been fun going through the shows with her because she had never seen them.

She's into marvel movies which I am not so it's tough for me to sit through them with her.

 

Re: the Rey “nobody” talk from a few pages back...

I feel like I’m the only one who never took Kylo’s declaration as serious. My assumption was he actually had zero clue if her parents were “somebodies” or “nobodies”, and he was just being cruel for the sake of trying to mess with Rey’s head and create conflict in he head so that she would maybe be more vulnerable to being turned to the dark side.

That’s probably why her being a Palpatine never really bothered me the way it bothered others.

 

plotline saved

 

Lol didn’t say it fixed the entire plot line but I just found it weird that so many people assumed Kylo Ren was telling the truth there. The whole 2nd movie he’s trying to convince Rey to join him, i assumed he’d say anything to make it easier for him to manipulate her.

 

The bad takes about Rey’s lineage should not be polluting this thread. This thread is for the good Star War.

 

This thread has mostly consisted of bad takes the last few pages from the same users in every Star Wars thread

 

Filoni has the prequels explained to him by Lucas so he has a better idea of what he was going for. Doesn’t mean the movies are any good

 

i still need to watch them

 

Outside of any discussion of what the best creative choice would’ve been (which I can’t do without sincere-posting about space wizards in a way I’m not in the mood for today, lol)...

The Last Jedi, itself, makes it explicitly clear that Kylo Ren is telling the truth. Or, at the very least, believes himself to be doing so.

Contextually, both characters are acting super vulnerable in that scene. Their emotions, behavior, words, etc., clearly paint a picture of sincerity & desperation. They’re both rejecting versions of what they had previously held true in order to carve their own way forward, & they both see something of themselves in each other, & they’re both tragically wrong about what path the other is walking towards.

Kylo in particular is explicitly shown to be vulnerable & honest to a fault. A lot of his arc up to that point is him wrestling within himself & (except in a moment where it mattered against the arrogant Snoke) being very bad at hiding it. In fact, the one place where his sincerity is called into question, it’s in order to compare him favorably to Luke in that regard.

Rise of Skywalker’s “reveal” was a clear retcon, & a sharper turn than any decision in the “expectation subverting” Last Jedi. One many of us expected from Abrams, but a sharp, story-breaking one nonetheless.

 

Agreed, the ones whose only take is “all criticism should be stifled” really bring the whole thread down

 

I love when people can take me hating a movie, and say it in a far more eloquent way.

 

I really wish TROS had Kylo as the main baddy instead of re-introducing Palpatine. TLJ set him up perfectly to be a machine of absolute chaos and anger that challenged both Rey and Hux. We sorta got that, but it was the Great Value version of it.