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[Louella Dougans]

http://i.imgur.com/Xc6mozE.gifv
http://i.imgur.com/tIoIThY.gifv

lol'd

[Silas Vitalia]

I guess I've just had so many years of hating on Star Wars (since prequels) that I'm ready to have a good time again.

One thing I appreciate about these new films is the commitment to real, physical sets, and props.  So that's a full size Falcon, actual constructed bases and hangars, all that jazz, real location shoots, etc.  Obviously there will be much CGI but the leaked stuff I've been seeing is refreshing in a worn out, beat up Episode IV kind of way.

[Morwen Lagann]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v93Jh6JNBng

[Esna Pitoojee]

Let's not kid ourselves 90% of EU was utter garbage. 

Dark horse comics were one of the few bright spots, but the novels were all downhill.

I guess it's a glass half-full/half-empty. I prefer to focus on the gems, others prefer to focus on the shit that surrounds them.

[Silas Vitalia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v93Jh6JNBng

So accurate it's sad


Esna:

When the EU was firing on all cylinders it was because it was staying away from the original trilogy timeline straightjacket.  Let's go back and tell a story 1,000 years before Star Wars with the Old Republic and come up with a ton of new stuff, etc.   

The early EU work that took place loosely around the movies time period wasn't too bad, but then they ran into a problem of making a ton of money and trying to squeeze 45 new cash-in books into an increasingly tight and crowded timeline, with horribly overused characters, and the added sin of making tiny background characters full on protagonists.  QUICK let's do a new trilogy of books with all of the original trilogy characters, and uh, what time do we have open? can we squeeze these three novels in between the last three and the ones we published last year? Is there five minutes open between that time han solo took a dump and then walked out of the falcon?  Or maybe they had a few months off after the last book we did and we can fill with another adventure covering the same ground?

I remember they did one horrible book where they did like short stories about every single background character in the mos eisly cantina scene, like that's desparate. no one cares what the one guy who didn't even have a line in the movie's backstory and motivation was, he was an alien in the background of a bar.  Give me more money, buy this book.

I checked out like 15 years ago, I didn't know it had gotten to 40k levels of absurdity:

http://www.jeditemplearchives.com/specialreports/novels/

[Halcyon]

It was basically "Here's some star wars looking stuff. It could be a new film, it could be stuff we made because we were bored, who knows!"

[Morwen Lagann]

http://gifsound.com/?gif=https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/B3y2JGhCcAAfAKQ.mp4&v=yad_clT4T2Y&s=60

I blame Twitter.

[Louella Dougans]

no one cares what the one guy who didn't even have a line in the movie's backstory and motivation was, he was an alien in the background of a bar.

i heard someone say that there were like, novels, explaining the motivation of that guy that's the three-eyed goat ? and Squid Head, and maybe even Greedo too.

[Silas Vitalia]

Exactly right, Louella.

I think this was around when I stopped reading the books:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tales_from_the_Mos_Eisley_Cantina

SPACE OPERA? Screw that, you get a whole story from.... the pipe smoker?

[Louella Dougans]

I clicked that link, Silas, and various other ones, and the only bit of information I found interesting, was that the reason the Mos Eisley bartender said the droids had to get out "We don't serve their kind here", was that he considered that droids simply took up space that could otherwise be filled by paying customers, cos droids don't drink.

Lol.

[Lyn Farel]

The Flare Awakens

[Lyn Farel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngElkyQ6Rhs&feature=youtu.be

[Silas Vitalia]

Not gonna lie I felt like a goddamn kid again seeing Han and Chewie.

"We're Home"

Damn Straight.

 

[Esna Pitoojee]

This helped answer one of the things a lot of people (myself included) had been worried about, which was that the new movies would be packed into the trend of overly-shaky, incredibly rapid 'action' shots that keep you from seeing anything.

So far, it seems like that while a little shake is present the shots are definitely trending towards the longer, slower shots the original trilogy favored.

...goddamn it, Disney. Why did you have to screw it up so badly first if you were going to produce something this good-looking?

[Silas Vitalia]

These films are going to make a stupid, stupid amount of money.

Like small country GDP money