As someone who has been enjoying watching more horror movies lately partly *BECAUSE* of what's going on, I don't get this attitude. If anything it can be cathartic to explore the horrors of our world through a fictional lens instead of doomscrolling.
If you see people having fun discussing horror movies, don't do this. It's not witty. It's not helpful, and it's certainly not original. At best, it's INCREDIBLY annoying, and at worst, it sounds like you're shaming someone for daring to not think about politics 24/7. Either way, you're an asshole.
Ah, thanks for the heads-up! Yeah the way replies on bluesky can be hard to track if you're talking to multiple people, good to have a system for that.
Oh YEP - like as an EU fan it makes me annoyed when I know you can do bold, exciting things in the world outside of OT aesthetics (these are all from the same comic series!), but Disney just wanted the same era over and over.
YEP, that's the one. In his view Rey is the "good" fan that appreciates the universe "correctly", while Kylo is the "bad, toxic" fanboy who wears a cosplay of their dumb Sith OC.
It's a good metaphor for TROS as a whole that for Kylo they did everything people wanted to see with his character and just pleased no one. Reylo shippers were mad that he died, while the anti-Kylo crowd were mad he even had a (half-assed) redemption arc and an (unearned) kiss with Rey.
Thanks! Him pointing out those documentary elements really spoke to me as someone who's been fascinated with the expanded universe, and how at its best it feels like a real, living history.
I kinda hate that people treat it as this martyr for creativity in blockbusters, as if it's the most creative high budget film ever. Like has the backlash led to Disney playing things more safe? Yes, but TFA was already playing it safe anyway so it's not as if it's the sole factor
I remember Bob Chipman defending TFA and TLJ as like this metatextual examination of Star Wars fans, and all I can think is "that's a terrible way to make a Star Wars movie, by making it just about Star Wars and its fandom." www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf_r...
I appreciate how this video frames that difference, that it's leaning more on Star Wars' fairy tale "this is all just a story" elements and not the flipside of Lucas' documentary perspective, which is sorely lacking in the ST. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIq3...
The twist itself only came about because Lucas wanted to streamline the story of TESB, and it just went from there. He already had ideas for the prequels, like mentioning Vader and Obi-Wan fighting at a volcano in a 1977(!) interview, but that completely reshaped them into the story of Anakin.
Wow I had no idea this was a thing! Yeah it's absolutely in the vein of something like Once Upon a Time (and I guess by extension it's following on from something like that George RR Martin Beauty and the Beast series from the '80s with Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton?)
Btw for '90s dinosaur media, MY whole thing as a kid was Walking with Dinosaurs. Still, IMO, the gold standard for dinosaur documentaries on an artistic level, even if the actual science is technically way out of date.
Apparently sets from the Dinotopia miniseries appeared on the Disney Studios Paris """""""backlot tour""""""" (in EXTREME quotation marks because it was not an actual backlot tour lol)
