Spoilers Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Grading & Discussion

Did we?

 

Yes.

We did.

 

Yup, just fine.

 

By dwindling in numbers like 10-fold?

 

Content still being produced. People still discussing the franchise. Fandom continuing forward.

Yes, we did just fine. It may not be good enough for everyone, but thus far, there hasn't been a rational explanation as to how we are supposed to make it any different.

 

Nonstop content without any breaks is rarely good for any entertainment.

 

I was thinking about this and it reminded me of the old saying, "Familiarity breeds contempt." I know its not a perfect, 1 to 1, but I think that it is appropriate.

Regardless, Star Wars will continue on, the franchise will endure and fans will continue to complain on the internet.

 

I know that with the novelverse, Star Trek never really went away for me from 2005-17, it just took on a different form.

 

Same here. I don't think more than a couple weeks has gone by that I haven't gotten some kind of Star Trek content going back to at least 2003ish, when I first started reading the books.

We won't have to wait that long between shows, we'll have at least 4 this year alone, and I wouldn't be surprised if we see more after those 4 are done. I have a feeling we'll eventually reach a point with Disney+ where we're going to be getting at least one new episode of something Star Wars for the majority of the year.

I think that was a big part of what brought a stop to Star Trek on TV from the end of Enterprise until Discovery started. We went 18 years straight with one or two Trek shows on every season, and after a while people tend to get tired of that kind of thing. I was a huge lifelong Trekkie, and even I stopped watching Enterprise for a while around the end of Season 1 until the end of Season 3.

 

Quantity was never a factor with Trek; creative stagnation was. The same people in charge of the franchise for so long led it getting stuck in a rut several miles deep and only an inch and a half wide. The last two seasons of Enterprise can only be described as "desperate flailing" as the people up top tried to figure out why people didn't want the exact same thing they'd seen 47,000 times before...

Star Wars is a whole different board game with a substantial stable of writers spread across the novels, comics and now the shows. Most of the more popular projects like 'The Mandaloran', 'Rogue One' and certain of the novels have been the result of some of these people directly pitching the idea and the people at the top okaying it and more or less letting them run with it.

 

Home releases have been announced...
https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-home-entertainment-announce

 

Interesting. No deleted scenes.

 

Guess they are saving them for an uber box set.

 

Harrison Ford doesn't care.

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/02/harrison-shuts-down-question-force-ghost-han-1202211875

 

It's out on digital today, at least in Canada and the US, not sure about other countries

 

Released early because families are stuck indoors. Not a bad idea. I’m waiting on the 4K disc release.

 

Upon rewatching it tonight I have to say I like it more than I did in December and it makes more sense. Not a whole lot more sense, but it's a more pleasant viewing experience and I feel more rewarded by watching it.

 

I might have to watch the whole saga this week.

Not like I have anything better to do.

 

I remember watching the prequels and original trilogy in one sitting. Might be fun to try all 9 in a day. But I won't be doing that anytime soon.

 

Last time I tired that I couldn’t even get through episode 1. I just ended up skipping to ANH