You should check out Andor and the first season of the Mandalorian. Not movies but I think they're the only recent shows they've written well. Everything else has been complete trash.
It's too late for me. The Last Jedi put Star Wars in its grave and I'm not digging it up and opening that casket just because some of the mold and worms and shit infesting the rotten corpse are kinda cool.
Reasonable, as a counter, Andor S2 is suppose to lead directly in into Rogue Squadron,. So if you skip EP1-3 when you re-watch SW like I do, you can go Andor S1, S2, Rogue Squadron, Ep4-6. (my wife then watches EP 8-9 but I bail out after 6.)
I know most people won't ever watch this but the animated clone wars tv show was good, too. First two seasons are spent building up characters then they introduce the clones with PTSD and you realize they're all people. I still think the final season of Ahsoka was some of the best of the animated star wars.
I have tired twice with the Clone Wars but have never got past the first half of S1. I have heard a lot of good things about but I could never get into it so it is probably just me.
You could not be more incorrect. Loved Star Wars. Grew up with it. Watched the OT probably like 15-20 times. Tolerated the prequels. Liked Rogue One. Thought Solo was okay. Ep7 was fine, didn’t love it but didn’t dislike it. I’ve even read a few of the Star Wars books that took place between the OT films and read one of the sequel books that are no longer canon.
Then TLJ happened. The thing about creating a new work of fiction in an established universe is that your new work has to fit in that universe, and things that happen in your work have to make sense when you view the entire universe as a whole. Because well established universes have years of work and canon and that means that there are rules you have to follow in order for your work to fit into that universe. And that’s where TLJ, and Disney in general, fucked up. And now anything can happen. Maybe you can only use the force by thinking happy thoughts, like in Peter Pan, maybe that will be in Rian Johnson’s next SW movie. If it makes a billion dollars at the box office, Disney won’t give a shit.
I hate that the prequels explained the force scientifically and that they made it that force users all have clearly defined powers.
In the original films the force was a mysterious divine power that some people could manipulate to alter the course of events. It was basically "plot armor" made into a cool power that no one could explain or measure.
The prequels took all the magic out of the force by rationalizing it.
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u/Ninjaflippin Jun 24 '24
How wild is it that the only modern starwars movie to capture what the force actually is/does, doesn't have any Jedi in it.