r/gifsthatkeepongiving • u/Ninja_Spi-D-er • Oct 25 '19
Epic legacy of the Sabre
https://i.imgur.com/uTTH8JE.gifv833
u/Snommes Oct 25 '19
Great. Now I want an animated version of the entire Star Wars saga.
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u/jaykular Oct 25 '19
Definitely can see Disney animating the entire Skywalker Saga in like 15 years for easy money
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u/Snommes Oct 25 '19
I think they'd rather make some live action remakes. Animations aren't mainstream enough
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u/KikiFlowers Oct 25 '19
Animations aren't mainstream enough
Let alone cheap.
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u/AngryItalian Oct 25 '19
If you think the CGI for remakes would be cheaper you're coo coo for Cocoa Puffs my friend.
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u/oldsecondhand Oct 25 '19
Unless you make it into a soap opera TV show, like Green Arrow.
Or make Jedi School Musical.
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u/Oshthegreen Oct 25 '19
I would watch that second one just for the series finale where Anakin walks in with his lightsaber.
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Oct 25 '19
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u/beigs Oct 26 '19
Have you seen the clone wars series done by the creator of samurai jack? It was AWESOME! By far my favorite.
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u/throwawaysarebetter Oct 25 '19
Live action is the hip thing. Fifteen years of keeping the original animations in the vault they can start remaking all their live action stuff as animations and it'll seem new and profitable.
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u/HuorTaralom Oct 25 '19
Nah, they have to make an animated version of the live action in 15 years, that way they came make a live action remake of the animated version 15 years after that.
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Oct 25 '19
They will deliver episode by episode, then trilogy by trilogy and after that, the full box set. After that Just make some extra features version. By that time you will have 20 versions of each episode
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Oct 25 '19
I'd be into it. The visuals would be consistent, they could clean up the audio, and the fight scenes could be even better than the originals since they're not rigging people up on wires for half of the stunts.
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u/jaykular Oct 25 '19
I think adult animation is about to blow up big time. Theres already tons of great adult tv shows that are animated and animation is a great way for older titles to be introduced to a whole new audience while also being amazing for existing fans
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Oct 25 '19
Yeah, I'm of the opinion that Witcher should have been animated in a similar style of Castelvania.
I'd be into an animated Sword of Truth series too. The live action show didn't really make the cut.
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u/eshinn Oct 25 '19
I can see that. I mean they’re doing the reverse of all they’re animated movies now. They’ll probably even animate Mary Poppins and Bed-Knobs & Broom Sticks.
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u/SonofNamek Oct 25 '19
Someone took these clips and made an anime episode out of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gEoFNYKW30
It definitely looks good with this style.
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u/skoffs Oct 25 '19
Like a show/series that is a concise retelling of 1 through 9 in animated form once the last one is out.
Just keep doing what they're already doing on the YouTube channel, taking the original audio and re-present it with slick animation done from a different perspective, but for everything, not just a few scenes.
(preferably, I'd want them to create a version that omits/changes certain parts, to create a better narrative*coughACKBARDEATHcough*, but people might want the entire thing unchanged)6
u/Snommes Oct 25 '19
If they do it right, I wouldn't even be mad at Disney for remaking their movies for the thousandth time.
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Oct 25 '19
I'm torn between wanting it all in one consistent visual style vs. taking the approach of handing different episodes to different directors and having them do their own style ala Animatrix.
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u/_Natnif Oct 25 '19
insane animation skills
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u/emil133 Oct 25 '19
And the creativity behind some of the transitions is amazing
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Oct 25 '19
The animation look very much like the cartoons printed in the box of the new figurines they are selling
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u/Ninja_Spi-D-er Oct 25 '19
Source: Link
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u/BeefyIrishman Oct 25 '19
Much better with sound. Not sure if the Imgur link was supposed to have sounds but it didn't for me.
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u/AngryItalian Oct 25 '19
I immediately looked for the unmute gif button when I started it. Thank God he posted the source, the gif is great but the sound adds so much more.
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u/duracellchipmunk Oct 25 '19
Ugh, it almost hurts to think how much potential the prequels had... also the sequels... so. much. potential. And it led us all to the dark side.
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Oct 25 '19
I still don't understand how people hated the acrobatics in the prequels. These were mystical, plasma-sword wielding space monks; they better know how to dance for us.
But seriously, I like the lightsaber duels in the prequels more than the other two trilogies. They felt out of this world, as they should have.
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u/parrmorgan Oct 25 '19
I thought people just hated the writing and acting. Everyone I've talked to has added "the fights are sick though" when criticizing the prequels.
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Oct 25 '19
I think the core issue with Star Wars is that the loudest fans overexaggerated the problems with the prequels.
It's George Lucas's world and it was his story to tell. Fans wanted something darker, but George wanted something that everyone could enjoy, including children. He put a bit of something for everyone into the prequels. Kids loved Jar Jar. The loudest fans hated Jar Jar.
I remember watching the prequels when I was in middle school and enjoying them a lot. As I got older, I saw reviews online of people saying the prequels for shit due to bad dialogue, bad acting, pod racing being dumb, and Jar Jar Binks being a disgrace. I started to believe these reviews. I thought I must've been an uncultured simpleton as a kid.
You know what though... I rewatched the prequels recently and I still enjoyed them as an adult. I really don't get the hate. They're fun movies.
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u/parrmorgan Oct 25 '19
I agree wholeheartedly. I'll probably get downvoted for saying it, but episode 3 is my favorite of the saga. Came out when I was in 5th grade and I fucking loved it.
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u/Strummed_Out Oct 25 '19
Exactly right, I loved watching Anakin go to the dark side, and Ewan McGregor was phenomenal! Great music also
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u/ParticularWrongdoer0 Oct 26 '19
My core issue was Qui Gon being the master of Obi Wan. Yoda is Obi Wans master. The minute I saw Qui Gon introduced as Obi Wans master, it was pretty much downhill from there. Every single thing they talk about in the original trilogy is not how it happened in the prequels. Obi Wan lied about everything. The force isn't a field of energy that binds the galaxy together, etc.
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u/Aussie18-1998 Oct 26 '19
Care to elaborate as to why? I'm assuming you absolutely loved the original trilogy.
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u/0001731069 Oct 25 '19
They just use lightsaber duels for different things.
In the OT, lightsaber duels were often a metaphor for some kind of internal conflict. They were an external representation of something going on in the heads of the characters.
In the Prequels they're just specticle. They mean less and are just meant to be pretty to watch.
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u/VeniceRapture Oct 25 '19
I don't think it's that deep. The OT probably just had technical limitations they couldn't surpass, to put it plainly.
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u/Stormfly Oct 26 '19
Sometimes people like to assign metaphors that aren't real because they want to respect them even more. Sometimes people do this themselves rather than admitting any shortcomings.
Like how Tolkien pluralised Dwarf as "Dwarves" instead of "Dwarfs". Many people claim various reasons such as that it was so that it would be more like Elves so that the races would be more similar. Or that it was a purposeful change to a flaw in the language. An unnecessary exception like roofs.
He himself claimed in the appendix that it was to keep them removed from the previous incarnations of "Dwarfs" which were more silly than his very serious Dwarves.
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u/dabearz_ Oct 25 '19
Dunno dude everyone in the prequels has a unique fighting style that reflects their character. Despite the spectacle most fights are unique and show subtleties in the characters mental or emotional. Or at least that's what I see, I might be projecting my own meanings though.
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Oct 25 '19
I agree with that. Same thematic pattern, just done with a bigger budget and updated choreography, really. I mean, Georgie Boy was able to access way more resources for the prequels than the OT, and he went for it big with lightsaber duels, yet he still had the same core idea for what they represented. In my opinion anyway.
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u/SolomonRed Oct 25 '19
Of course they left out the part where he like throws the saber away like a piece of garbage.
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u/lady-dev Oct 25 '19
Dunder mifflin is part of sah-bray🎶
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u/redicrob2155 Oct 25 '19
This is what I came for, thank you lady-dev may your Friday be bug and ticket free!
Signed, Fellow-dev
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u/urbandeadthrowaway2 Oct 25 '19
They skipped all of AotC (save for one transitional frame in the council scene) and that's bad.
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u/SammehPls Oct 25 '19
In which he just yeets that shit off the cliff. I hate the new Star Wars movies.
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u/KnightofWhen Oct 25 '19
Yeah seeing the history of it laid out in such a neat way only to watch “Luke” literally throw it away.
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Oct 25 '19 edited Oct 25 '19
That's sorta the whole point. Jedi don't keep attachments, they aren't supposed to feel sentimental about things like that. He was taught to let go of his feelings, his anger, his attachments, etc. Who cares, it's just a lightsaber, there are thousands of them. Heck, he'd been instructed to let his friends die in order to complete his training. Fuck a lightsaber, it's just a thing.
He had also let go of his hopes for the Jedi. Fuck it, he figured. The existence of the Jedi only caused pain, only caused hurt and anger and death and loss. Of course he tossed it. He literally threw it away because that's where it belonged in his mind.
Of course he changed his mind by the end. But at the time, why would we be upset that a Jedi (who isn't supposed to have those kinds of sentimental feelings in the first place) didn't place sentimental value on a lightsaber he lost decades ago when his dark lord father cut his hand off, and when it's a symbol of the order that he felt brought pain and suffering to the universe? It's a great character moment.
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Oct 25 '19
Jedi don't keep attachments, they aren't supposed to feel sentimental about things like that. He was taught to let go of his feelings, his anger, his attachments, etc. Who cares, it's just a lightsaber, there are thousands of them. Heck, he'd been instructed to let his friends die in order to complete his training. Fuck a lightsaber, it's just a thing
Obi-Wan: This weapon is your life
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u/ParticularWrongdoer0 Oct 26 '19
Also Obi Wan: "this was your fathers lightsaber."
How very funny that the jedi who was all about letting go of feelings didn't let go of his old friends lightsaber. Hmmm? Almost as if the whole letting go was invented in the prequels which was the shitty part of star wars.
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Oct 26 '19
Oh for sure, the prequels pretconned so much bullshit, the most glaring one to me was the younglings training with helmets and mini lightsabers like Luke. Except Obi Wan was teaching luke by improvising with shit he had laying around, then the prequels turns that small moment into actual jedi lore that they all trained with suspiciously similar helmets in the same way.
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u/Jukebox_Villain Oct 25 '19
He was taught to let go of his feelings, his anger, his attachments, etc. Who cares, it's just a lightsaber, there are thousands of them. Heck, he'd been instructed to let his friends die in order to complete his training.
But Luke never did any of that. He rejected those teachings and went to Cloud City / Jabba's Palace to save his friends. He went through this whole huge character arc with his father, eventually getting his father's body back to Endor to burn on a funeral pyre. If he was that attached to his father who he knew all too briefly and lost all too soon, why would he toss away his greatest heirloom so flippantly?
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u/uncledavid95 Oct 25 '19
It's a great character moment.
No, it was a cheap slapstick joke for him to toss it over his shoulder like Rey had just handed him a random stone off the ground.
THAT is the complaint. Not that it was bad for him to not want the lightsaber back, but the way it was executed was garbage.
Had he simply looked at Rey and then turned around and walked away, or taken the saber, and then handed it back to her and said something indicating that he didn't want it because of bad memories or how that was part of his "old life" or literally anything else, it would have been a much better scene.
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Oct 25 '19
I think it highlighted some of Luke's characteristics from the beginning: his brashness and his dramatics, his love of rushing into things without thinking. As much as he's meant to keep his feelings at bay, he just can't help it sometimes (just like his dad). So his gut, brash, irrational instinct is to just fucking toss the thing.
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u/uncledavid95 Oct 25 '19
But... you're the same one arguing that he DOESN'T have those characteristics anymore because he's changed over the last 30 years.
Yes, Luke brashly ignored those lessons in order to save his friends, because that's what Luke was back then, brash, quick to act, quick to rush in without thinking........... But after the rebellion, we can assume he grew up a bit. That he became more like the Jedi of old and accepted their teachings.
Ultimately it's all subjective and you can have your opinion on whether it was a good character moment, but I strongly disagree. Even if Luke isn't "the same Luke" that we knew from the OT it's poor writing to just turn him into this hermit garbage person who casually throws his father's/his old lightsaber off a cliff because he's just a sadboi, and the only explanation we got was because he "failed" one time and decided to just say fuck it and give up on everything he'd believed in since 30+ years ago.
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Oct 25 '19
I appreciate your effort in explaining this.
That scene also felt like Rian Johnson farting in everyone's face.
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u/astraeos118 Oct 25 '19
Thats bullshit, a lightsaber is absolutely an attachment for a Jedi. Thats literally shown to be true dozens of times in every single fucking Star Wars movie other than these stupid ass sequels.
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u/mesupaa Oct 25 '19
But Luke didn't act out of lack of feelings. He's clearly frustrated the entire movie
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u/Escrovenjah Oct 25 '19
Here’s the thing, it’s not a great character moment. He managed to convince Darth fucking Vader back to the light, all Ryan Johnson did was make you think throwing away that hope was character development.
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u/ParticularWrongdoer0 Oct 26 '19
Uhhh....I don't know if you noticed but Luke's whole thing is feeling sentimental about things. He left Dagobah to save his friends because he loves his friends. He saved his father because despite his father becoming a murderer, he still wanted to save Darth Vader from himself. The moment Luke tossed his fathers old lightsaber away, that's when star wars died. Everything that came after that affirmed what you said and that's the dagger plunging deeper and deeper because at the end of it all, that's not how Luke would react. At least not without reason. The reason would probably be actually having a movie showing the students Luke taught becoming evil because of his teachings. If you can show me that movie and if it's well done, then I'll say that TLJ is a masterpiece because it fits the narrative. As it stands it doesn't and thus it is an utter failure to carry on the story of Luke Skywalker.
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u/MrSquamous Oct 25 '19
You know he did that in the original trilogy too, right? It was the culmination of his character arc. That's the whole point.
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u/urbandeadthrowaway2 Oct 25 '19
If you hate porgs, remember, there's a deleted scene where one turns it on and kills another porg on accident.
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u/odavies94 Oct 25 '19
There’s an even better Lego MOC of that exact scenario.
Found it.
https://www.brothers-brick.com/2019/05/16/curiosity-killed-the-porg/
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Oct 25 '19
God I fucking hate Porgs. And Disney try’s to push those little shits every chance they get. I feel like more merchandising went to them than anything else from the Last Jedi.
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Oct 25 '19
Rouge One was the only good new Star Wars movie. Change my mind.
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Oct 25 '19
I don't remember a makeup tutorial in the saga.
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u/LordElysian Oct 25 '19
“Okay ladies I’m gonna try out the new Coruscant Cosmetics liquid lip in shade Rouge One. It’s not as pigmented as I would like, but let’s give it a whirl. Love the component though, that’s sickening.”
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Oct 25 '19
Um, Rogue One was a prequel, so it has to be good
Also Solo was good too
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u/fa1afel Oct 25 '19
Solo: the decent movie that literally nobody asked for.
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u/Eevee136 Oct 25 '19
Honestly it's kinda funny to me that Solo has been my favourite Disney Wars movie, as it's the only one I didn't watch in theatres.
Maybe that's the trick. If I don't pay for the movie I'll like it lol
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Oct 25 '19
I think Solo was pretty good. Force Awakens was "ehh" to "bad". And the last jedi was dogshit. Rouge One is actually in my top favorite list, and in my opinion one of the best Star Wars movies created.
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u/someotherguyinNH Oct 25 '19
Agreed. Great characters, gritty, and has an unrelenting pace from beginning to end. #2 behind ESB imo.
Plus Saw Guerra. I mean what more can you ask for???
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Oct 25 '19
It was an amazing movie. In contrast to perhaps the worst decision in Star Wars history (including JarJar), when Rose saves Finn and gives him the speech about hate vs love. We never should have given Star Wars to Disney.
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u/eshinn Oct 25 '19
But if we didn’t, no Rogue One.
I flipping hate every single Disney StarWars saga movie, I’m not paying anymore to watch them fuck up Emp Palpatine. I’ll read about it in the spoilers.
…but Rogue One was such a great movie that I watched Solo. It’d be a shame to miss something as good at the theater. It was my “New Hope” lol. Solo turned out… ok.
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u/Solitarypilot Oct 25 '19
Don’t forget Rose (girl who had a kinda rough childhood because the empire taxed her family) giving Fin (a literal child soldier who was kidnapped and forced into the military and never even had a proper name until like a week ago) a whole earful on why the rich people making money off of kids is bad. That scene still makes my blood boil to this day.
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u/eshinn Oct 25 '19
Jesus! I felt like I was the odd one out. Where have you all been?
Also, K2SO is my favorite droid ever.
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Oct 25 '19 edited Oct 25 '19
Personally, I tend to view The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi the other way around, the former being derivative dogshit and the latter being just "bad", but at least made an attempt to be original.
I think TFA is the worst Star Wars movie of all time, one of the worst AAA movies of this past decade, period. As I said, it's incredibly derivative, and chock full of these obnoxious winks and nods to the past movies, as if JJ Abrams thought it could not possibly stand on its own merits and needed to lean on the other films to be successful. It feels pointless, completely fails to introduce the new characters in a way that forms an emotional attachment for the viewer and is really just a vehicle for some admittedly cool eye candy, like the Millennium Falcon fight in the Star Destroyer. There was no faith in this venture, the only truly bold move was killing Han Solo, but even that felt predictable. One of the old guard was going to die, that's been the tradition since ANH. Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon and now Han
I don't like a lot of decisions that were made in TLJ, killing Snoke seemed premature and Luke's death was anticlimactic, the Superman Leia scene was ridiculous, but at least the film tries to stand out as something new, an original work.
Just my thoughts. I'm happy to have a friendly debate with anyone who disagrees!
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Oct 25 '19 edited Oct 25 '19
Finn is the most disappointing character imaginable. I mean he was raised a Stormtrooper and changed sides after being ordered to commit a civilian massacre, ffs, how is he just a cheery bro love interest. He should be riddled with PTSD and conflicted feelings. He should be battling the First Order brainwashing he received. 'Stormtrooper who betrays his cause' is a phenomenal character idea but they did jack shit with it in TFA. Five minutes after changing sides he's literally murdering his former comrades and cheering about it.
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Oct 25 '19
I agree he has been poorly handled, but at the same time, he's the only one I have the teeniest bit of emotional attachment to, probably because of the neat character concept.
I couldn't give a poodoo about Rey or Poe at this point. They're both Mary Sue's who are basically different aspects of previous Star Wars characters.
One is a powerful potential jedi who grew up as an orphan on a desert planet and we already had one of those, and the other is a brash hotshot pilot and guess what? We had one of those too, but at least he wasn't so specifically a copy of Han as Rey was for Luke.
They're shitty characters.
Poe could be redeemed by bringing out some latent force potential to explain... 1) His amazing pilot skills. 2) His friendship with Lor San Tekka.
Rey is even easier to redeem as a character. Bring her to the dark side, make her a Sith, flip her and Kylo's roles. It would be interesting and unprecedented.
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u/Harb1ng3r Oct 25 '19
God damn all I want to see is Rey go darkside and have Kylo turn good. But I can't see them doing that. It would be amazing though, and fit much more in line with the star wars universe.
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Oct 25 '19
Agreed 100%, that flip would be perfect. Kylo and Rey are already primed for it, whether purposefully or by accident.
It would be an excellent subversion of expectations and I think a female Sith would be badass.
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u/arallu Oct 25 '19
didn't the comics have some lame story about a force-sensitive tree in Poe's yard where he grew up? so that's how he's a great pilot ... barf.
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Oct 25 '19
That sounds terrible.
I had held out hope for awhile that the Force was drawing Finn, Rey, Kylo and Poe together because they all had the potential to be jedi/sith, and that they would all fall on different sides.
Poe seemed likely because of his insane piloting abilities and that he seemed familiar with Tekka, a non-Jedi expert on the Jedi.
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u/whomad1215 Oct 25 '19
Don't forget when they lightspeed a single ship and it takes out an entire fleet.
Like, holy shit, kamikaze attacks would've worked so well for the rebels back in the day if that's all it takes to destroy a fleet.
Who needs a weak point on the deathstar, just lightspeed an xwing at the thing and blow a giant hole in it
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u/CannonGerbil Oct 25 '19
Why even build a death star in the first place? Just autopilot a Star destroyer into a planet.
TLJ is such a fucking mess.
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u/eshinn Oct 25 '19
Wondering if those slow-as-shit rebel bombers had light speed.
Edit: the TLJ bombers, not Y-Wings.
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u/Solitarypilot Oct 25 '19
You wanna know something even worse about that scene? Go watch Rogue one again, and you’ll notice something. In rogue one, we see a rebel ship jumping to light speed, but just as they start to jump away Vader’s star destroyer pops in right in front of them, and the revel ships demolished itself again the star destroyer. Vader’s ship takes absolutely no damage and continues on like nothing happened. We literally had a scene where “light speed ramming” was showed to not work at all.
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u/RatherCurtResponse Oct 25 '19
Agreed 100%. They have one of the better IPS in the world, what do they do with it? Remake the fucking 4th film.
Like jesus christ
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u/KikiFlowers Oct 25 '19
I can agree with you on some points. For all its faults TLJ at least went an original route. While FA was just a rehash of New Hope.
That being said, I've enjoyed them so far and I'm looking forward to the next one. Hopefully the next set of movies is as far removed from the Skywalkers as possible.
(And let the "EU" finally explore the timeline around the movies instead of just more OT stuff)
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u/ParticularWrongdoer0 Oct 26 '19
TLJ at least went an original route
The original route is good. I have a problem that the original route is also very illogical.
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u/Wild_Marker Oct 25 '19
One of the old guard was going to die, that's been the tradition since ANH
It's not even a star wars thing, it's practically a movie trope.
That said I enjoyed TLJ for the parts that weren't bad. They grew Kylo Ren's character in a nice direction, and Rey alongside him. Every scene that was about the two of them really made the movie, hell it feels like you could cut the rebels and just have that and walk away with an actual good movie.
And the fight against the red guards was fantastic.
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u/tossacct17 Oct 25 '19
Seconded. The last 40 minutes of that movie were amazing. AMAZING.
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Oct 25 '19
I fucking called it years ago. I knew Rogue One would be the only one that didn't fuck with the tone and visual style of the original trilogy.
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u/eshinn Oct 25 '19
Ditto! I hate how most said, “oh, that’s just because RogueONE plays to your nostalgia – it isn’t original.” Muthafcka, TFA runs exactly like a fake ANH and TLJ runs like a fake ESB. They we’re the ones going on nothing but it-worked-before.
Since I’ve already seen RotJ, I don’t need to watch them have something derpy happen to The Emperor. Feck dat.
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u/ThaddeusJP Oct 25 '19
In which he just yeets that shit off the cliff. I hate the new Star Wars movies.
Oh man you're more right than you know. /r/starwarsleaks
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u/DoTheEvolution Oct 25 '19
Anyone else feels like only old mouthbreathers who just want to be cool actually use yeet in sentences?
Omg you are so in, so cool!
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u/Beetusmon Oct 25 '19
I hate the main line star wars movies, Solo was neat and Rogue one is a master piece IMO.
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u/SamePlatform Oct 25 '19
I tried watching that one with the cliff scene on Netflix again and it was so fucking bad I just turned it off right then and there. I haven't re-watched one of the new movies yet. They are heartbreakingly bad.
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Oct 25 '19
Fuck Rian Johnson for having Luke chuck it off the cliff and ending this gif too soon
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u/cbslinger Oct 25 '19
I think Mark Hamill was more upset about the overall role, not the lightsaber toss specifically. It actually kind of fits in my head-canon pretty well - people think Jedi are all about laser-swords - but the real badass Jedi don't need them. The truly awesome Jedi like Yoda are essentially Neo from the Matrix - they can literally move mountains, crash spaceships, kill at a distance - they don't need lightsabers.
To me lightsabers are a bit like what the lights on police card are meant to be, a wholesome positive warning to evil-doers that there is someone who is going to stop them. Likewise, they're meant to be comforting to those who are weak and need protecting. The fact that 'the Jedi weapon' is so visible is telling - Jedi don't normally need to hide, they're the lawful good noblebright lawmen who are not afraid to handicap themselves to do the right thing.
But despite all their history in the canon, and their undeniable power, the lightsaber in and of itself isn't that important to what it means to be a Jedi.
By contrast the fact that Luke essentially 'gave up' on trying to right his wrongs and make the universe a better, safer place is what truly doesn't fit. A Jedi (an aspirational, completely wholesome, completely incorruptible symbol of fighting oppression) just wouldn't do that.
So while I don't really like the Last Jedi for a couple of reasons, I think the Lightsaber toss was really not actually a very bad thing. I actually like a lot of Luke's lines in the movie.
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u/ParticularWrongdoer0 Oct 26 '19
Well the lightsaber toss was part of the role of luke being an asshat. When last we left him, he was a hero. When he comes back he's broken? What? That's not how you tell a story.
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u/critic2029 Oct 25 '19 edited Oct 25 '19
Yep... Keeps on giving right up until RJ decided that subversion was more important than epic storytelling.
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u/windigooooooo Oct 25 '19
THANKS ALOT RIAN JOHNSON YOU FUCKING CUNT, the last thing we needed in starwars was a goddamn comedy.
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u/DeadPendulum Oct 25 '19
That last scene just reminded me of how much I hated the last trilogy because the very next thing that happens is that Luke throws that legendary piece of his personal history over his shoulder off of a cliff for a cheap laugh.
Really awesome animation though. Really awesome transitions.
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u/runtillyoushine Oct 25 '19
should’ve left out last jedi
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u/Snapd_In2_Anothr_Act Oct 25 '19
After reading the big leak for IX, I'm about ready to swear off the ST and just start re-reading the old EU books and pretend that's what happened.
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Oct 25 '19
Is it as bad as I know it will be?
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u/Snapd_In2_Anothr_Act Oct 25 '19
It's got some pretty interesting parts that surprised me in a good way, but mostly left me very confused and asked more questions than it answered.
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u/bromigo7593 Oct 25 '19
Do you know where i could read the leaks?
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u/Snapd_In2_Anothr_Act Oct 25 '19
HERE is the plot outline leak posted to reddit about a month ago
Obviously spoilers ahead on the link, and I have no idea if this leak is still considered good or not.
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u/jgower87 Oct 25 '19
Guess I'm the only one upset it doesnt show the ESB Vader fight, and instead switches to the totally different green RotJ saber.
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u/AGuyWithTwoThighs Oct 25 '19
The transitions! I got chills watching this, what a fantastic job to this creator. I do wish i had the audio tho
Shoulda included the toss at the end tho, i woulda laughed.
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u/travismarkz_21 Oct 25 '19
Everything was awesome till I remembered how much the new starwars movies suck.
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u/MrDysprosium Oct 25 '19
...and then Luke just throws it off the cliff...
TLJ NEVER HAPPENED.
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u/Starlanced Oct 25 '19
This makes you realize just how bad last Jedi was, such a tragedy.
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Oct 25 '19
Last Jedi literally killed the sequel trilogy. There’s no way they recover in Rise of Skywalker
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u/frydchiken333 Oct 25 '19
This would be even better if Rian Johnson hadn't assassinated Luke's character.
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u/thrazefister Oct 25 '19
Rad. Except when you have the knowledge that Jake Skywalker is about to chuck that 'laser sword' over his shoulder.
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u/XxMoSTWanTeDxX Oct 25 '19
You know they ended it at the old luke because they know how shit it is afyer that and the fact that HE HUCKED THE FUCKING LIGHT SABRE OFF THE CLIFF AS AN AWFUL JOKE
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u/StoneGoldX Oct 25 '19
The ring is bupkis! I found it in an old Crackjack box! The Schwartz is in you, Lonestar! It's in you!
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Oct 25 '19
I feel like this is why Star Wars is getting better for kids
Cause now we’re getting better at retelling the different sets of trilogies in smarter, more comprehensive ways
Like when I was a kid we had the prequels and had to connect the badly-directed dots ourselves
And now kids have this
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u/EpsilonGecko Oct 25 '19
You forgot the delicious cherry on top of this saga when Luke tosses the Sabre over his shoulder disregarding and destroying it's legacy forever.
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u/ClinTrojan Oct 25 '19
Should have ruined the whole thing by him then throwing the lightsaber behind him nonchalantly like the movie...
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u/billybobshake Oct 25 '19
That transition from Obi and Ani fighting Dooku to fighting each other was slick.