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Spoilers All Things STAR WARS - News, Speculation & Spoilers Thread

Kind of an odd thing for someone to say about a movie that had so many aliens and creatures in it, but in a couple places it felt like there were too many humans. I'm thinking of the arena spectators. I saw like one obvious alien, the gangster Iktochi guy. Maybe there were others in the background, I couldn't see. At least they gave us the guy with the weird nose thing in the opening sequence of the film.

(Not that this is anything unusual with SW. There are always tons of humans everywhere. Take the Coronet spaceport for example.)
 
Andor seems to have lumped most of its aliens on Coruscant, in scenes like Mon Mothma's parties and inside the Imperial Senate. Some parts of the franchise lean more heavily on the alien diversity of the galaxy than others.
 
Set Harth said:
Kind of an odd thing for someone to say about a movie that had so many aliens and creatures in it, but in a couple places it felt like there were too many humans. I'm thinking of the arena spectators. I saw like one obvious alien, the gangster Iktochi guy. Maybe there were others in the background, I couldn't see. At least they gave us the guy with the weird nose thing in the opening sequence of the film.

(Not that this is anything unusual with SW. There are always tons of humans everywhere. Take the Coronet spaceport for example.)
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Well, these movies are made on Earth. Where humans live.

Also if that was in response to my woke comment, it was a callback to a previous post of mine from before seeing the movie today.

‘Twas meant in complete and total jest.
 
ichab said:
I can't speak for anyone else, but that was not at all what I wanted from the sequal trilogy. ROTJ was the perfect ending to Luke , Han and Lea. I would have preferred that they left the memories alone and done that sequal trilogy with new characters.
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It would have been more interesting if the sequels were set several hundred years after the OT. With stories of The Skywalkers and Han and the Empire having both truth and myth to them.
THEN we get a character like Rey, not related to anyone but strong in The Force. Ben could have not a Solo, but a Dark Jedi (not Sith) from an obscure cult of Force Users. I don't know.
The ST was entertaining, but it relied to much on Skywalkers and Solo's and memberberries connected to the PT and ST.
 
Mage said:
It would have been more interesting if the sequels were set several hundred years after the OT. With stories of The Skywalkers and Han and the Empire having both truth and myth to them.
THEN we get a character like Rey, not related to anyone but strong in The Force. Ben could have not a Solo, but a Dark Jedi (not Sith) from an obscure cult of Force Users. I don't know.
The ST was entertaining, but it relied to much on Skywalkers and Solo's and memberberries connected to the PT and ST.
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Bingo. If you want a Solo/Chewie or 3po/R2 relationship, do it with new characters. BB8 was a cool droid so have it bickering with Poe or Finn. Have Ray develop a closeness to Finn, but have it conflict with her Jedi training. She has to make a choice. Which way will she go?

Once upon a time, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford were complete unknowns in their first Star Wars movie. They had no "legacy" characters to fall back on, yet they got over with millions of people. It CAN be done, but Hollywood needs to stop being so risk adverse.
 
ichab said:
Once upon a time, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford were complete unknowns in their first Star Wars movie. They had no "legacy" characters to fall back on, yet they got over with millions of people. It CAN be done, but Hollywood needs to stop being so risk adverse.
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That's the problem. When they do something a little bit different (SEE: The Acolyte or Starfleet Academy or the Abrams Trek films), fandom goes apeshit over it and goes on a smear campaign. So, studios are left in the middle between folks who simply want more of the same and folks who want something different.
 
BillJ said:
That's the problem. When they do something a little bit different (SEE: The Acolyte or Starfleet Academy or the Abrams Trek films), fandom goes apeshit over it and goes on a smear campaign. So, studios are left in the middle between folks who simply want more of the same and folks who want something different.
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Actually the first Abrams movie was very well received. So was SNW(which always seems to be left out in these conversations). I havent seen the Acolyte so I cant comment.
 
ichab said:
Actually the first Abrams movie was very well received. So was SNW(which always seems to be left out in these conversations). I havent seen the Acolyte so I cant comment.
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Both have white men at the top of the totem pole and are channeling nostalgia to the nth degree. Never discount those as part of the why certain things are rated the way they are.
 
Set Harth said:
Well, The Acolyte definitely doesn't have that issue!
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I can't speak to the quality of the stories (I haven't watched it yet, though I'm not sure it could be any worse than Ahsoka), but there is a negative effect when people are claiming something is a failure before a frame of film is seen.
 
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