Please, let it stop!
As a dedicated Star Wars fan, it pains me to say this.
But enough is enough. Jar Jar Binks tolled the impending death of this franchise, and although I will no doubt see the Revenge of the Nerd...uhh, I mean Sith, it's gotten to be quite enough.
Word of Episodes 7-9 is circling, and I'm wondering what's left after Dance of the Ewoks (also known as Return of the Jedi).
Luke and Leah have buried the hatchet on their awkward love affair as they realize they're actually twins, and Han Solo becomes the apparent patriarch of the new Jedi Order.
Darth Vader has turned good just in time to die and become one of the floating cloud of witnesses.
The Emperor has been vaporized.
No new Death Stars are planned. By the way, how cool was the Death Star? When I first saw that, I couldn't wrap my head around it. It was a whole planet dedicated to destroying other planets. And how disappointing that one well placed torpedo destroyed it. You'd think that the Empire would have learned from the first one, and made it so you had to hit more than one spot to unhinge the whole second one. But, nooooooo... in the second Death Star, you could fly a whole fleet of ships right up to the soft spot, and fly them out before the whole house of cards crumbled. It actually seemed easier the second time, and that's when you knew that the Empire was never a real player. That still bothers me to this day.
But, I digress. Back to the new episodes. What more could happen? The Sith always travel in pairs (one lord and one apprentice), and Vader wanted Luke to be his apprentice to overthrow his boss, the Emperor. (By the way, if Vader was known as "Lord of the Sith", what did that make the Evil Emperor? Chopped liver?). So there can't be anymore bad guys.
Except anyone who had to watch the Ewok party. That turned my heart dark forever. If they really want to make new episodes, they should focus on the systematic elimination of all costumed or CGI characters. Ewoks first. I'll volunteer. I'll be "Darth Pieman" and I will use my extreme cynicism to punish all in my path.
Or, we could just decide that six episodes is enough, and leave the painful 7+ episode franchises to the horror and porn industries...
Just my take.
Catch ya later.
But enough is enough. Jar Jar Binks tolled the impending death of this franchise, and although I will no doubt see the Revenge of the Nerd...uhh, I mean Sith, it's gotten to be quite enough.
Word of Episodes 7-9 is circling, and I'm wondering what's left after Dance of the Ewoks (also known as Return of the Jedi).
Luke and Leah have buried the hatchet on their awkward love affair as they realize they're actually twins, and Han Solo becomes the apparent patriarch of the new Jedi Order.
Darth Vader has turned good just in time to die and become one of the floating cloud of witnesses.
The Emperor has been vaporized.
No new Death Stars are planned. By the way, how cool was the Death Star? When I first saw that, I couldn't wrap my head around it. It was a whole planet dedicated to destroying other planets. And how disappointing that one well placed torpedo destroyed it. You'd think that the Empire would have learned from the first one, and made it so you had to hit more than one spot to unhinge the whole second one. But, nooooooo... in the second Death Star, you could fly a whole fleet of ships right up to the soft spot, and fly them out before the whole house of cards crumbled. It actually seemed easier the second time, and that's when you knew that the Empire was never a real player. That still bothers me to this day.
But, I digress. Back to the new episodes. What more could happen? The Sith always travel in pairs (one lord and one apprentice), and Vader wanted Luke to be his apprentice to overthrow his boss, the Emperor. (By the way, if Vader was known as "Lord of the Sith", what did that make the Evil Emperor? Chopped liver?). So there can't be anymore bad guys.
Except anyone who had to watch the Ewok party. That turned my heart dark forever. If they really want to make new episodes, they should focus on the systematic elimination of all costumed or CGI characters. Ewoks first. I'll volunteer. I'll be "Darth Pieman" and I will use my extreme cynicism to punish all in my path.
Or, we could just decide that six episodes is enough, and leave the painful 7+ episode franchises to the horror and porn industries...
Just my take.
Catch ya later.
posted by Rusty at 7:15 AM
1 Comments:
Interesting opinion.
I disagree entirely.
The whole part of SW that makes it compelling is the good v. evil aspect. The crux of that is that we have to find a good character we care about, a bad character we despise, and a battle between them that's interesting.
The first SW gave us Luke, the everyman knowing he's cut out for something more and finding, strangely, that he's right. He meets the rogue-ish Han Solo and the fatherly Obi Wan and they set out to free the beautiful Princess, only to get sucked into the most important battle ever. The next two movies follow that story to its conclusion.
The difficulty in the next three, er...first three movies, is that we know how things end and we need to find a way to tell the story of how things got to where they were when we met Luke in a compelling way. The obvious angle is exploring Darth Vader, and that's what we're doing. Despite the fact that Yoda and Obi Wan are a big part of episodes 1-3, Darth is the main mission, and they've never found a good vehicle for his story (remember Jake Lloyd? With each "yippee" I was praying he'd crash that pod racer and prematurely end the series).
So, after the first six, Vader is dead. Luke has established he will be no Vader. The arc of the story is finished for everyone we care about.
Sure, Boba Fett is interesting. But can you really do a whole movie about him? Only to watch him die in that pit of Sarlac? Ugh, what a way to go, and how non-captivating the story would be when told by George. And I couldn't really root for Boba. He was a good action figure, he was a good video game, but he's not a good hero.
Like I said, time to let the story die. Others could be told, but they could be told in a new context without the baggage that being an SW sequel brings...
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