Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

[Jaimas]

What's so fucking bizarre to me is that they didn't just abandon the EU, they abandoned everything in the spirit of the EU. Put aside whether or not you think the EU itself was a good thing or not - for every Thrawn there was a fucking Bakura arc, after all - the better parts of it created ready-made plot arcs you could have effortlessly adapted without sacrificing fucking anything. Even if you chose to not use any of the story arcs or new characters per se, there's so many amazing ideas that you've never seen in Star Wars, but which fit so well that you could adapt a "your own home grown" version of them easily.

It's such a no-brainer, but hubris seems to be the main reason they didn't do it.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

What's so fucking bizarre to me is that they didn't just abandon the EU, they abandoned everything in the spirit of the EU. Put aside whether or not you think the EU itself was a good thing or not - for every Thrawn there was a fucking Bakura arc, after all - the better parts of it created ready-made plot arcs you could have effortlessly adapted without sacrificing fucking anything. Even if you chose to not use any of the story arcs or new characters per se, there's so many amazing ideas that you've never seen in Star Wars, but which fit so well that you could adapt a "your own home grown" version of them easily.

It's such a no-brainer, but hubris seems to be the main reason they didn't do it.

Soulless corporate bureaucrats don't get the "spirit" of anything, much less the wonders of imagination and escapism. Sci-fi writers and romance novelists are the same thing, right? They both put words on paper for people to buy, and the latter are a lot cheaper and have friends on the creative team, so let's just hire them instead. Star Wars fans will buy anything with the label on it.

 

[Creep3r]

There's going to be 3. They're also building a Star Wars land at the Walt Disney Studios park in Paris (maybe it'll be something different, but I doubt it based on how they treated the California and Florida lands).

I talked about this one before too and its basically going to be a cheaper and shittier version of the USA parks in that it will only have the Kylo Ren ride and a few gift shops.

 

[Catgirls are Love]

Didn't JJ kill Star Trek too?

IIRC, JJ went to Disney and Star Wars because he couldn't do what he wanted to do with Star Trek, which was kick off a huge multimedia empire based off his Kelvin timelime spinoff. There was a comic, a videogame with some interesting glitches, the film, and then merch that was competing with the existing Star Trek merch that was much more recognizable/desirable. So JJ went to CBS (Remember, nobody solely owns the rights to Star Trek; they're split between CBS and Paramount in a weird way) and asked them to stop selling/producing Star Trek merch not based on the Kelvin timeline, and CBS told him to fuck off since they saw no reason to shut off tens of millions of essentially free income. So anything JJ did was essentially competing with the other well known, well established, well liked other Star Trek so he gave up and went on to Disney where he could do whatever he wanted without worrying about rights. Guess he got distracted by something shiny, 'cause look how well that's gone thus far. Midnight's Edge has a lot of videos covering everything and is definitely a lot more accurate than what little I remember.

 

[Jaimas]

Soulless corporate bureaucrats don't get the "spirit" of anything, much less the wonders of imagination and escapism. Sci-fi writers and romance novelists are the same thing, right? They both put words on paper for people to buy, and the latter are a lot cheaper and have friends on the creative team, so let's just hire them instead. Star Wars fans will buy anything with the label on it.

It's almost like they don't understand that good writing is one of those things you can't replace and can make or break a movie.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

If you’re a studio that wants to revitalize a beloved sci-fi property, don’t have JJ Abrams involved.

IIRC, JJ went to Disney and Star Wars because he couldn't do what he wanted to do with Star Trek, which was kick off a huge multimedia empire based off his Kelvin timelime spinoff. There was a comic, a videogame with some interesting glitches, the film, and then merch that was competing with the existing Star Trek merch that was much more recognizable/desirable. So JJ went to CBS (Remember, nobody solely owns the rights to Star Trek; they're split between CBS and Paramount in a weird way) and asked them to stop selling/producing Star Trek merch not based on the Kelvin timeline, and CBS told him to fuck off since they saw no reason to shut off tens of millions of essentially free income. So anything JJ did was essentially competing with the other well known, well established, well liked other Star Trek so he gave up and went on to Disney where he could do whatever he wanted without worrying about rights. Guess he got distracted by something shiny, 'cause look how well that's gone thus far. Midnight's Edge has a lot of videos covering everything and is definitely a lot more accurate than what little I remember.

Speaking of JJ, I imagined what was his reaction when CBS and Viacom announce their re-merger since he wouldn’t have a problem with CBS in the first place.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Remember when they said JJ Abrams was the next Spielberg?

Super 8 is both the best and worst of his talents, I was really enjoying Super 8 up until the end when the whole thing deflated like a bad souffle, because he's good at capturing some surface elements of classic things, but only that, the surface, he epitomizes the saying "knowing the words but not the music"

 

[Creep3r]

I just found out something odd.

Apparently Disney's re-release of the trilogies have the same design and font for both the PT and the OT, but the Disney Trilogy (or duology for now) has a different hollow-looking design and a different font altogether. What's the deal with that? Are they trying to imply something here?

On a somewhat more humorous note, I like how Disney and their shills are trying to make a big deal out of this "horrifying" fleet of thousands of Death Star Destroyers, when really all it would take to fuck them is another crazy dangerhair to do a hyperspace ram at them.

Funnily enough, the TLJ novelization tries to fix this bullshit by claiming that only Holdo could do this because her ship had "experimental shields" that caused a unique energy flux or something that allowed for the massive destruction to happen like it did... Totally doesn't sound like bullshit at all.

Remember when they said JJ Abrams was the next Spielberg?

Is it just me or is it weird how much Spielberg shills for JJ and the fact that they look alike? I mean would JJ even have the attention and influence he has now if not for Spielberg and his own family ties?

 

[Nobunaga]

Im still mad they killed my nigga starkiller and threw both his games into the garbage while also replacing him with YES QWEEN SLAYYY

 

[Catgirls are Love]

On a somewhat more humorous note, I like how Disney and their shills are trying to make a big deal out of this "horrifying" fleet of thousands of Death Star Destroyers, when really all it would take to fuck them is another crazy dangerhair to do a hyperspace ram at them.

Funnily enough, the TLJ novelization tries to fix this bullshit by claiming that only Holdo could do this because her ship had "experimental shields" that caused a unique energy flux or something that allowed for the massive destruction to happen like it did... Totally doesn't sound like bullshit at all.

There is just no way to simply fix that part of TLJ in any form. Disney needs to be reading their own manual.

One of my chief advisors will be an average, every-day eight-year-old child. Any flaws in my Master Plan that he is able to spot will be corrected long before I put that plan into action.

They're tracking the Rebel Resistance fleet through hyperspace with their unique supership? Split up the Resistance fleet, go to major traffic lanes and watch the First Order chase some poor random shmuck to the end of the galaxy. Roll credits.

 

[Optimus Prime]

What's so fucking bizarre to me is that they didn't just abandon the EU, they abandoned everything in the spirit of the EU. Put aside whether or not you think the EU itself was a good thing or not - for every Thrawn there was a fucking Bakura arc, after all - the better parts of it created ready-made plot arcs you could have effortlessly adapted without sacrificing fucking anything. Even if you chose to not use any of the story arcs or new characters per se, there's so many amazing ideas that you've never seen in Star Wars, but which fit so well that you could adapt a "your own home grown" version of them easily.

It's such a no-brainer, but hubris seems to be the main reason they didn't do it.

Yeah, there really wasn't any reason NOT to just straight up adapt the Thrawn trilogy (unless they killed him in the cartoon which I've seen none of them). I've only gone through the first book but Thrawn is such a uniquely awesome villain (reminds me of the Nazi bad guy from Burt Lancaster's The Train with his fixation on fine art), and while I'll admit I find Hondo Onaka amusing enough, a Talon Kaard would be even better because that is a smooth operator. And of course, Mara Jade, though I would really tone down her bitching about how much she hates Luke because that was the only thing I didn't like about the book. Particularly given where she ends up in relationship to Luke.

 

[Jaimas]

Im still mad they killed my nigga starkiller and threw both his games into the garbage while also replacing him with YES QWEEN SLAYYY

At least he wasn't Shroedinger'd like fucking Dash Rendar was.

 

[Catgirls are Love]

Yeah, there really wasn't any reason NOT to just straight up adapt the Thrawn trilogy (unless they killed him in the cartoon which I've seen none of them).

In Rebels I think Thrawn got molested by the tentacles of a spacewhale and then his ship was supposedly teleported to the ass end of nowhere, uncertain if anything happened after that. Not even remotely close to his poetic end at the hands of the Noghri in the novels.

 

[Optimus Prime]

In Rebels I think Thrawn got molested by the tentacles of a spacewhale and then his ship was supposedly teleported to the ass end of nowhere, uncertain if anything happened after that. Not even remotely close to his poetic end at the hands of the Noghri in the novels.

Bah, given how much 'been there, done that' Thrawn throws down in like, the first five chapters of the first book (like how he knows the crazy Jedi guy is a badly made clone - because Thrawn killed the original), he totally could come up with a way to get out of galactic hentai and get back in control of the remaining Empire.

 

[Creep3r]

In Rebels I think Thrawn got molested by the tentacles of a spacewhale and then his ship was supposedly teleported to the ass end of nowhere, uncertain if anything happened after that. Not even remotely close to his poetic end at the hands of the Noghri in the novels.

Funny that people initially thought Thrawn's appearance in Rebels meant that the Thrawn trilogy was still canon which was a major factor in the ratings boost and interest for the show when Thrawn showed up, yet they went and undid that by killing off said Noghri (Ruhk) first, the one who originally kills Thrawn then they have Thrawn get raped and whisked away by tentacled space whales who can shoot hyperdrives out their ass, and some people actually called this ending beautiful... Might've been less humiliating to just have space Aladdin stab him with his lightsaber, but we can't have space Aladdin do anything too violent. I mean ffs they gave the kid a slingshot to fight with initially (then a lightsaber gun that shoots harmless stun blasts) while kid Boba was allowed to shoot people with guns back when Filoni Wars was on CN.

 

[JohnDoe]

What's so fucking bizarre to me is that they didn't just abandon the EU, they abandoned everything in the spirit of the EU. Put aside whether or not you think the EU itself was a good thing or not - for every Thrawn there was a fucking Bakura arc, after all - the better parts of it created ready-made plot arcs you could have effortlessly adapted without sacrificing fucking anything. Even if you chose to not use any of the story arcs or new characters per se, there's so many amazing ideas that you've never seen in Star Wars, but which fit so well that you could adapt a "your own home grown" version of them easily.

It's such a no-brainer, but hubris seems to be the main reason they didn't do it.

As I've said time and time again, the EU represented literally decades of market research. There is enough tested IP in the EU to support just about anything you want. Ditch all the Baraka stuff, Sun Crusher, and Crystal Star-level cringe. Do a Mara Jade spinoff in the Galactic Empire Era, adapt the Thrawn trilogy, do some Rouge Squadron, fuck it, some of the Jedi Academy series is worth re-tooling! They would have printed money from the loyal fanbase and even normies would have enjoyed such solid stories.

Instead we get Rey 'Troutmouth' Sue and Kylo 'Hot Topic is my LIFE' Ren in the kind of mishmash I experience coming down off a ketamine high in a gay bathhouse designed by Salvador Dali.

 

[Oaat]

I just found out something odd.
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Apparently Disney's re-release of the trilogies have same design and font for both the PT and the OT, but the Disney Trilogy (or duology for now) has a different hollow-looking design and a different font altogether. What's the deal with that? Are they trying to imply something here?

lmao I thought the point of buying the DVDs again was to have a unified boxart style.

 

[Ihavetinyweewee]

As I've said time and time again, the EU represented literally decades of market research. There is enough tested IP in the EU to support just about anything you want. Ditch all the Baraka stuff, Sun Crusher, and Crystal Star-level cringe. Do a Mara Jade spinoff in the Galactic Empire Era, adapt the Thrawn trilogy, do some Rouge Squadron, fuck it, some of the Jedi Academy series is worth re-tooling! They would have printed money from the loyal fanbase and even normies would have enjoyed such solid stories.

Instead we get Rey 'Troutmouth' Sue and Kylo 'Hot Topic is my LIFE' Ren in the kind of mishmash I experience coming down off a ketamine high in a gay bathhouse designed by Salvador Dali.

Ok, 'Troutmouth' is pretty good. I will never understand Ridley's looks.

She is not an ugly girl, she's an odd looking girl...

 

[JohnDoe]

Ok, 'Troutmouth' is pretty good. I will never understand Ridley's looks.

She is not an ugly girl, she's an odd looking girl...

She can't act for shit, either. I don't know where she came from or how she got the role.

 

[Creep3r]

Ok, 'Troutmouth' is pretty good. I will never understand Ridley's looks.

She is not an ugly girl, she's an odd looking girl...

She can't act for shit, either. I don't know where she came from or how she got the role.

I don't like her as an actress, she's really bad at it and I loathe her character, but I don't have anything against Daisy Ridley personally and she's had her interesting moments, but seriously though, her grin weirds me the fuck out.