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^^ouch. The definitive explanation.
It's common knowledge TFA wasn't a story or had any real foundation or plan (not because it's a glossy but uninspired remake of IV with some basic differences, many of which don't add up much less get reasonably addressed), or that there was no plan for the trilogy (contrary to what Midnight's Edge was ranting about recently, as articles in 2017* were already spelling out what TFA openly hinted at) but that video really spells out some worthwhile details that go beyond a shadow of a doubt in proving TFA had little apart from great visuals and nostalgia, and that there was little - if not nothing - plotted for a continuing saga.
* many are still easily found from Google
IMHO, he's often right - Johnson had few options and all the in-jokes about burning the past and all that were aimed at TFA. And how many characters had a lot of genuine potential. But the video speaks for itself. Rian was backed into a corner. Whatever criticisms of TLJ are, and there is potential in that movie, I'm, not alone in thinking Rian's gotten a raw deal.
But I do disagree with him, Ren via his often unpredictable actions were more palpable without that mask he wore. Or if he got a design that was halfway decent, I do agree that a mask or face painting is the stereotype accorded villains. (Now, the masks do look good for the Knights based on portraits I've seen, but Ren himself needed an outfit that was above and beyond.)
And "deconstruction" - I disagree. I (believe) he was trying to expand the universe while getting around the silly and/or illoglcal limitations imposed by TFA. Or maybe "deconstruction" does fit, TFA was such a shallow movie that there was no other way to try to save the franchise than to take the path Rian took.
And, of course, IV-VI didn't have too much of a set plan (Amongst other issues, Leia being the key since in VI she says she's always known she's a Jedi who's his sibling and, oops, she frenched him in V and increasingly had googley-eyes for him in IV...) I-III had the end result of the plan already there (Anakin becomes Darth but IV-VI gave out enough information that I-III don't fit in perfectly pristinely... so even TFA gets undue criticism when it comes to "But muh written in detail in advance plotting!"...)
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^^ouch. The definitive explanation.
It's common knowledge TFA wasn't a story or had any real foundation or plan (not because it's a glossy but uninspired remake of IV with some basic differences, many of which don't add up much less get reasonably addressed), or that there was no plan for the trilogy (contrary to what Midnight's Edge was ranting about recently, as articles in 2017* were already spelling out what TFA openly hinted at) but that video really spells out some worthwhile details that go beyond a shadow of a doubt in proving TFA had little apart from great visuals and nostalgia, and that there was little - if not nothing - plotted for a continuing saga.
* many are still easily found from Google
IMHO, he's often right - Johnson had few options and all the in-jokes about burning the past and all that were aimed at TFA. And how many characters had a lot of genuine potential. But the video speaks for itself. Rian was backed into a corner. Whatever criticisms of TLJ are, and there is potential in that movie, I'm, not alone in thinking Rian's gotten a raw deal.
But I do disagree with him, Ren via his often unpredictable actions were more palpable without that mask he wore. Or if he got a design that was halfway decent, I do agree that a mask or face painting is the stereotype accorded villains. (Now, the masks do look good for the Knights based on portraits I've seen, but Ren himself needed an outfit that was above and beyond.)
And "deconstruction" - I disagree. I (believe) he was trying to expand the universe while getting around the silly and/or illoglcal limitations imposed by TFA. Or maybe "deconstruction" does fit, TFA was such a shallow movie that there was no other way to try to save the franchise than to take the path Rian took.
And, of course, IV-VI didn't have too much of a set plan (Amongst other issues, Leia being the key since in VI she says she's always known she's a Jedi who's his sibling and, oops, she frenched him in V and increasingly had googley-eyes for him in IV...) I-III had the end result of the plan already there (Anakin becomes Darth but IV-VI gave out enough information that I-III don't fit in perfectly pristinely... so even TFA gets undue criticism when it comes to "But muh written in detail in advance plotting!"...)
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