Subj : Re: What's Everyone Watch
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Moondog
Date : Sun Feb 13 2022 11:23:00

  Re: Re: What's Everyone Watch
  By: Dumas Walker to ANDEDDU on Fri Feb 11 2022 03:30 pm

 > > Rogue One was actually good compared to Episode 7 which, as you said, is a
 > > rehash of ANH. Episodes 8 and 9 retcon a lot of the established physics an
 > > lore of the universe and often falls into the realm of complete
 > > incomprehensible farce. Avoid ever viewing them if you can. You can sense 
 > > hatred for the much loved original trilogy in the Disney movies as they ki
 > > off and ridiculed those characters one by one. Kylo Ren summed it up perfe
 > > when he said "Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."
 > 
 > Makes you wonder why they wanted it if they were just going to ruin the
 > original storyline?  I know the answer... $$$ ... but still.
 > 
 > Something similar happened when Chris Chinball got hold of Dr. Who.  It got
 > a little more "woke" than it had been, which I was ok with, but then they
 > retconned a lot of the established history of the Doctor.  Fans in various
 > forums on the internet have even suggested that the next show runner, who
 > was the original showrunner for the revived series, might want to just have
 > the previous Doctor wake as if from a dream in order to erase the whole
 > Chinball era and reset the canon back to where it was before he mucked it
 > all up.
 > 
 > 
 >  * SLMR 2.1a * Usually a man with flowers has deflowering in mind...
 > 
The opportunity that rose with Rogue One and eps 7-9 was they had an
opportunity to draw in millions of Chinese viewers into the Star Wars universe.
 Take into account the earlier movies didn't get any of much exposure in the
Chinese cinema industry.  The answer was to add a more diverse cast and some
token well known Chinese actors that the audience can identify with to make
the films worth distributing in China. 

---
 þ Synchronet þ The Cave BBS - Since 1992 - cavebbs.homeip.net

.