I dunno...I'm beginning to think the George Lucas is trying to milk Star Wars...
A venture he began eleven years ago.
Post ROTJ Animated Series Announced:Lindley's Gonna Be Pissed!!!
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A venture he began eleven years ago.
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You're only now beginning to think that?
What's the problem? That's all Star Wars was suppose to be - a cashcow that allowed Lucas to make other more worthy films while other directors and writers churned out endless Star Wars adventures.
What other worthy films? Howard The Duck? What I am beginning to realise is that Lucas is a hack who had to rely heavily on other more talented people to help turn his ideas into good movies. Indy would be nothing without Spielberg. Empire nothing without Kasdan and Kerschner. Just look at the prequels.
Howard the Duck wasn't Lucas' creation. It started as a comic book around the same time the Star Wars films were released.
As with all the other series: I'm in. It's gotten very hard to keep up with all the comics and novels, but a series I can watch with the wife (and maybe the kid?), I'm all in favor of.
Now, how do we get Paramount to get going on an animated Trek series? If they want something with lots of battles to compete with The Clone Wars, I've got a little suggestion for them: the first word rhymes with glomulan and the second word rhymes with shwar.
Now, how do we get Paramount to get going on an animated Trek series? If they want something with lots of battles to compete with The Clone Wars, I've got a little suggestion for them: the first word rhymes with glomulan and the second word rhymes with shwar.
Lucas didn't write a screenplay for any of these movies. He just thought of the story and other, I daresay, more talented writers made the finished script. Combine that with Spielberg directorial genius and you have a masterpiece.
I can't be too broken up about this. I loved the post-ROTJ books, but it's been run into the ground, particularly from Legacy of the Force onwards (at which point I just outright gave up). I'd be happy to consider the entire period from The Truce at Bakura to The Unifying Force as a finished, complete story--which it easily can be, from a thematic and generational viewpoint--and now we'd start a new version of what happens after the films. Timeline B, or whatever.
The problem, of course, is the comment that it would be done in the style of the ugly, silly Clone Wars cartoon. Get some artists who know how to render characters without making them look like they were carved from a block of jailhouse soap and writers who know how to tell a story without every second scene being robots doing slapstick. Then maybe it'll be something worth watching.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
The problem, of course, is the comment that it would be done in the style of the ugly, silly Clone Wars cartoon. Get some artists who know how to render characters without making them look like they were carved from a block of jailhouse soap and writers who know how to tell a story without every second scene being robots doing slapstick. Then maybe it'll be something worth watching.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Did I say Lucas wrote any of the screenplays?
I'm tired of people giving Lawrence Kasdan full credit for the ESB. Leigh Brackett wrote the first draft which Lucas didn't like so he rewrote it. The draft he wrote was exactly like the draft they shot except for the dialogue which was clunky. Lawrence Kasdan did a dialogue polish and that's the draft they shot. As for the directing in ESB.... GL storyboarded the movie shot-by-shot. Kirschner shot the movie the way he was told. The only thing Kirsch brought to the movie was the way he directed the actors which admittedly was fantastic. I'm tired of hearing how po' George Lucas had to have his bacon saved by others. Most of the people who say that don't know what the fuck they're talking about. I for one am getting sick and tired of being told I'm wrong for admiring Lucas and enjoying his movies and then I get reamed for hating some piece of shit movie like Serenity. It's fucking insane!
Or they could do an alternate TOS universe where the only difference is that the Klingons never set up their beach head at Organia. Mostly because I always wondered how things would have turned out had the Organians never interfered.
GI Joe fans have been whining about IDW, the current comics license holder, are launching a new ongoing title following on from the old Marvel comic as it negates the follow-on comic that Devil's Due Publishing did a few years back. as though someone's going to come round their hoouse and burn their DDP comics come may when IDW's 'GI Joe A Real American Hero' #156 comes out.
I'm confused. Why would a new Star Wars cartoon destroy the European Union?
Four masterpieces as far as I am concerned.
(That's right...I went there...)
Luke and a new Legacy Era bad guy go back in time and accidentally cause Han Solo to be killed right after RotJ, thereby causing a new timeline to emerge where everyone's fates are no longer what they were.
Four masterpieces as far as I am concerned.
(That's right...I went there...)
Luke and a new Legacy Era bad guy go back in time and accidentally cause Han Solo to be killed right after RotJ, thereby causing a new timeline to emerge where everyone's fates are no longer what they were.
I'm confused. Why would a new Star Wars cartoon destroy the European Union?
That's no cartoon......
I would love to see a post-ROTJ series and have no problems with it contradicting the established EU, which went off the tracks some time ago.
They've done a great job with the Clone Wars cartoon so I like the idea of doing a Post-ROTJ cartoon. I'm surprised they haven't done more animation wise with that era.
I agree. I'd be happy to see most of the Expanded Universe overwritten, but I hope the Thrawn Trilogy will be left alone (Outbound Flight, too).
To be honest, I've always felt that the Thrawn trilogy was a little on the over-rated side. YMMV.
