Originally posted by Seitse
What's your beef, pops? It would be naive to think that a middle aged
human being living in the U.S. and connected to the internet hasn't
heard the Star Wars spoilers after 6 months of its release.
Unless Suzi, of course, is in reality the Unabomber freshly released from
maximum security prison. In which case, well... Ted deserved it.
Naive? Really? Did you even read my post? I
said I had made it a point to studiously avoid seeing spoilers for this movie. Yes, I was
aware that spoilers existed, but I took great steps to avoid them, even to the point of leaving the conversation if it came up among my friends. Most of them knew I hadn't yet seen it and they respected me by not talking about it around me.
Thankfully, someone who had read this thread after my post and after yours, notified me via PM that I should probably stay out of this thread until I'd seen it, because you had gone ahead and blabbed what is perhaps the single biggest spoiler in the entire movie. I would publicly thank him here, for he enabled me to see this movie without knowing about this "spoiler", and so when it happened in the movie, I was suitably shocked, just like everyone else. But I won't so that he doesn't have to defend his action, which I thank him for.
All that said, I enjoyed the movie immensely, despite it being directed by J.J. Abrams, who had ruined the Star Trek franchise for me by "revisiting" the timeline and going ahead and blowing up the planet Vulcan, when he really had no outstanding reason to do so (except maybe he hates Vulcans). I am almost as equally pissed at him by his blowing off all the post-SW:V! novels, which George Lucas himself had said were "canon", in favor of his rather lame "vision" of what HE thought SW should be.
I also enjoyed the I-III trilogy, despite all the "cool wannabes" on the net gathering at their weekly D&D games to bad-mouth the trilogy. Story-wise, it was spot-on, and it made the SW universe "pre-Luke Skywalker" (the Clone wars and the rise of the Empire) known to all, not just the SW geeks who already were aware of it. My favorite part of the "prequel trilogy" was seeing Obi-wan in his prime, as the expert swordsman the lore told us he was.
This movie was not part of George Lucas' "vision", even though he had originally envisioned three trilogies in all. This was not what that third trilogy was supposed to be. Once again, Abrams has shown his disrespect of the already-existing lore and went totally "off-canon", making all the work done by various authors after SW:VI practically moot.
Rogue One
10 Apr '16 18:43
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