Star Wars: Episode IX - THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

[screamingmetal]

A series is always doomed when a lot of people start fantasizing about their own stories and their own endings.

That's not true for me, the only ending of the story I envisioned is the one that actually happened to Daenerys, and I still was very unsatisfied with the whole of season 8. You can sometimes just sense bad writing when you experience it. Plots are not developed and eventually dropped, characters are written out of character or don't have any development or part to play in a story, significant events elude to a certain outcome and characters appear to have a destiny, but they are never fulfilled. This describes my feelings on both GOT season 8 and the Star Wars ST.

 

[Wor-Gar]

One does not exclude the other.

 

[The Autistic Asexual]

Nah. Kids still play with toys it’s toys r us that made a bad decision. And I see lots of kids with JP figures and avenger figures. Star Wars just doesn’t sell to children as well anymore.

But streaming is taking over and we probably won’t see toys in the future. GameStop of course will suffer cause of streaming. It’s better to stream I suppose

Yeah if you like buffering then streaming is better. In all seriousness it's infinitely better to have a physical copy of something.

 

[The Autistic Asexual]

The return of RO Vader.

Rogue One Vader IS Vader damnit! And at no time in Rogue One did Vader walk like a girl! It was more of a pimp glide.

 

[abake]

Yea, personally BSG always worked best for me when it was a survival story about the remnants of humanity trying to make it to a new planet. It also was a surprisingly accurate take on military life (I say that as someone that is active duty). Where it really lost me was when it increasingly started relying on religious prophesies, strange visions of opera houses, and past lives.

BSG is still one of my all-time favorite series.
I agree that the more esoteric religious and spiritual themes got a bit heavy-handed, but, on the other hand, they did expand on the whole idea of the series. The entire exploration of religion from the Cylons' point of view was truly great IMHO. Just keeping it on the "humanity on the run" theme would've become repetitive and uninteresting after a while.

 

[spindrift]

That's what makes BSG so great- it didn't end on an "easy" note...

 

[ShadowX81]

BSG is still one of my all-time favorite series.
I agree that the more esoteric religious and spiritual themes got a bit heavy-handed, but, on the other hand, they did expand on the whole idea of the series. The entire exploration of religion from the Cylons' point of view was truly great IMHO. Just keeping it on the "humanity on the run" theme would've become repetitive and uninteresting after a while.

It also made the show's plotline and character motivations almost indecipherable to the point of characters literally talking gibberish at times. There were more than a few times in the final season where I genuinely had no clue who was on whose side or why. Also the religious themes got a bit too much for me when they became explicitly overt. Its one thing to use religion to explore the Cyclons view of themselves and how it relates to humanity. Its another to basically confirm that this religion is a genuine observable tangible phenomenon, especially when none of the rules about it were clear.

 

[ZE_501]

Nah. Kids still play with toys it’s toys r us that made a bad decision. And I see lots of kids with JP figures and avenger figures. Star Wars just doesn’t sell to children as well anymore.
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Friend of mine has a young son ... I guess he's probably what....5 or 6? Every time I see him he has a superhero action figure in his hands, usually Batman, Avengers or TMNT. When we see each other we talk superheroes. His parents limit his screen time and keep him active with sports.

I see lots of little kids with Star Wars Lego, too.

 

[TaliBane]

Rogue One Vader IS Vader damnit! And at no time in Rogue One did Vader walk like a girl! It was more of a pimp glide.

Rogue One Vader is VAAAADDDDDEEERR X1000 squared, to the power of ten. With James Bond quip lines.

 

[Prime Clone]

So now that it's established in canon that the Battle of Jakku was the Empire's last stand, will we find out the connection with Rey being there?

And why Han wouldn't know the Falcon was there?

 

[ironwez20]

So now that it's established in canon that the Battle of Jakku was the Empire's last stand, will we find out the connection with Rey being there?

And why Han wouldn't know the Falcon was there?

Hahaha..... nooo. Good question tho

 

[Ropen]

What ever happened to the rumors about ian not being in the movie but using the body of a sith lord? Also about all the trilogies will come full circle with this one?


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[Prime Clone]

As ajp4 mentioned in another thread, it's possible Palps could possess Vader's helmet, or was that him in Snoke's body? Or was that Plagueis after all?

As for full circle, yes that's always been the intention, hence the re-emergence of Palps and DS2. Be interesting to see what else they come up with.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Simple rule to remember: JJ lies

Believe nothing until it happens.

 

[TaliBane]

Simple rule to remember: JJ lies

Believe nothing until it happens.

Knowing JJ, TROS will open with Rey and the gang rescuing a comatosed Rose from the palace of a vile gangster colleague of DJ's on Jakku, will then have Rey return to Ah-choo to find out that she's a Skywalker from ghost Yoda, have a long boring chat with force-ghost Luke about "certain points of view" (ie why he never told her - her family link to the dark villain) which will lead her to surrender to Kylo, who will take her before new-Palps aboard the arisen-from-the-ocean DS. Fortunately Poe will lead an uprising of indigenous creatures on the nature planet below (aided by Chewy, 3PO and R2) that will defeat an entire legion of Palps' best troops as Rey and Kylo battle with Palps saying good... good... as the FO fleet prepares to destroy the last vestiges of the Resistance fleet just outside.

And it will all feel young (Palps will look like Chris Pine on a bad day) and Star Treky and have lots of lens flares.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Damn... Talibane clearly got his hands on the script. Spoilers, dude!


Even those ships that Poe and Finn are riding look suspiciously like Jabba skiffs.

 

[Prime Clone]

That should wrap things up nicely!

 

[ZE_501]

Damn... Talibane clearly got his hands on the script. Spoilers, dude!


Even those ships that Poe and Finn are riding look suspiciously like Jabba skiffs.

Yep. Sounds legit.


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[jye4ever]

Well I went and read that leaked story outline and I hope what I read is fake because my expectations were subverted very poorly.

 

[guyver1]

I wonder if this film could match EG phenomenal box office numbers

If it is the final chapter in the Rey saga

Hmmm...IDK

Did the idea of SJWs ruin it