I owed it to my childhood to see the new Star Wars in theaters (did not do any lining up for it though) because of memories with my father and brother seeing the originals, then the prequels in theaters.
I actually thought The Force Awakens was okay enough, The Last Jedi had a good scene or two, then the last film went so far off the rails it wasn't even able to be watched.
The characters I expected to like the least (like Finn) I ended up liking the most.
I thought Finn was just going to be there to be a woke token black Jedi, but then they decided to give it to the Mary Sue, imply that she was someone special, then suddenly "Palpatine's granddaughter!" and then despite all the bitching about this being the "end of the Skywalker saga", she takes the Skywalker name. Such bullshit.
The worst thing of all? If they had made Finn the Jedi, it would have been better. John Boyega was a huge fan of the franchise, and corrected the cast and staff on many facts and how to do certain things, but they treated him like shit, allowed China to censor him on their marketing, and cut the references from the films (though not in the novels) to his being Force sensitive.
Whole thing was pretty fucked, even without getting into what they did with the original cast. Adam Driver ended up basically carrying the films as hard as he could, which also unfortunately created the Reylos who demanded more romance between characters that were clearly based off of and stand ins for Jacen and Jaina Solo from the expanded universe.
It STILL pisses me off, and it makes no sense that Kennedy is still in her position after destroying the largest franchise in history.
They are destroying themselves right in front of us. It's an amazing time to be alive. Back in 30 years ago, I would never have thought I could see the deep states even if I suspected that. What an exciting time.
I owed it to my childhood to see the new Star Wars in theaters (did not do any lining up for it though) because of memories with my father and brother seeing the originals, then the prequels in theaters.
I actually thought The Force Awakens was okay enough, The Last Jedi had a good scene or two, then the last film went so far off the rails it wasn't even able to be watched.
The characters I expected to like the least (like Finn) I ended up liking the most.
I thought Finn was just going to be there to be a woke token black Jedi, but then they decided to give it to the Mary Sue, imply that she was someone special, then suddenly "Palpatine's granddaughter!" and then despite all the bitching about this being the "end of the Skywalker saga", she takes the Skywalker name. Such bullshit.
The worst thing of all? If they had made Finn the Jedi, it would have been better. John Boyega was a huge fan of the franchise, and corrected the cast and staff on many facts and how to do certain things, but they treated him like shit, allowed China to censor him on their marketing, and cut the references from the films (though not in the novels) to his being Force sensitive.
Whole thing was pretty fucked, even without getting into what they did with the original cast. Adam Driver ended up basically carrying the films as hard as he could, which also unfortunately created the Reylos who demanded more romance between characters that were clearly based off of and stand ins for Jacen and Jaina Solo from the expanded universe.
It STILL pisses me off, and it makes no sense that Kennedy is still in her position after destroying the largest franchise in history.
They are destroying themselves right in front of us. It's an amazing time to be alive. Back in 30 years ago, I would never have thought I could see the deep states even if I suspected that. What an exciting time.