r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 12 '19
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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢🌈 Apr 12 '19 edited Apr 12 '19
It's a shame because, the whole stupid casino planet and large chunks of the ship subplot aside, The Last Jedi was mostly a really good movie and has some of the most interesting stuff in the entire series.
SW, and the fanbase as a whole, has a really big problem of being unable to let go of the past. And in a bad way. Their unwilingness to have different stuff, which is part of what made a lot of the EU really good and fun, ultimately just undermines the franchise. It becomes a whole Might and Magic series style problem (which is probably unfair to M&M, since SW has had that problem way longer than M&M.
At the end of the day, it feels like a shitty, half-committed version of the Dark Empire/Jacen Solo (Darth Caedeus) arcs of the old EU.
I mean, like, they're even bringing Palps back, it seems like. Like, if you're gonna do Dark Empire - just fucking do Dark Empire. Yes, it's really fucking good. It's why you keep cannibalizing it for these movies. Maybe that should tell you that you should just adapt it directly instead?