30 Rock S7E3 “Stride of Pride”
Rogue One was fantastic.
I’m not sure whether storm troopers getting bonked by a staff by a blind martial artist or a bunch of ewoks is the epitome of the uselessness of their armor.
That was the only good Star Wars movie in this century.
As much as people shit on Force Awakens for being a retread it perfectly got us back in the Star Wars cinematic universe, it’s not their fault the follow ups fucked everything up. I’d say it’s the second best Star Wars movie in the last 40 years.
The worst thing about Star Wars is the fans.
i saw the midnight opening of phantom menace. no empty seats, the crowd was rabid
someone puked during the podrace scene, and someone else said “that’s what i call podracing”
the rest of the movie experience was permeated by puke stench
ignoring all that, i hate the prequels. and the sequels
Not all of them, there have been at least 3 good Star Wars properties in the last 40 years. Probably.
Man I remember when the phantom menace came out and these guys with kids thought it was so great and a return to star wars greatness after how bad the prequels were and im like. ugh. I actually think the prequels were not that bad if you take out the first one and put in the clone wars cartoons.
That’s because there’s only been 2.5 Star Wars movies, and then a bunch of stuff worse than the fanfic.
I grew up watching the prequels when they came out. I can understand hating parts of them but I fundamentally don’t understand the hate for phantom menace as a whole or revenge of the sith. I think Clone Wars suffers from pacing and some writing and the romance. But as a whole the prequels expanded the universe in a compelling fashion and quite frankly make the universe cool in some aspects that the OG trilogy just couldn’t pull off: lightsaber fights and pace ship combat.
The other thing is they’re consistent with the world and the vision of star wars imo. There’s little to nothing about them that feels wrong, rote, or contradictory with themselves. Comparing them to the sequels for this reason alone is kinda crazy (and ya a bit rage inducing lol). It’s the main reason I point to when people say “kids growing up on the sequels will love them” - maybe in a meme capacity but I really think they’re destructive to the world building not enhancing and I think that’s what powers the love of franchises.
Rogue one was alright, but it still fell short of what it could have been. Solo was terrible for multiple reasons. And then most of the TV shows have been just awful. Mandalorian season 1 felt very fresh and was fantastic, then they had to sell merch and reconnect with all the same characters and move the universal plot along and it suffered heavily.
Andor season 1 (I haven’t gotten around to 2 yet believe it or not) is the best Art piece Star wars has produced by a kilometer. Like even if we allow deeper meaning into 4-6, like the strength of family or everyone is redeemable, or like how 1-3 showed how everyone and every system is corruptable, how democracies fall, etc Andor more effectively conveys it’s core message and the entire story revolves around serving that purpose.
I like wading into these discussions as a prequel Andy but it’s largely to counterweight the original SW fans who seemingly all have strange, of the time opinions on the franchise. From star wars is for kids, to I hate the prequels but love the tv shows, to everyone hates their newest trilogy it’ll all mend over time. I can get the prequel hate if people were enjoying the book lore prior to the canonization of things in the prequels, but most other opinions I struggle to grasp.
