“they think it’s important to appeal to a woman’s audience, so now their main character is this female, who’s supposed to have Jedi powers, but we don’t know how she got Jedi powers, or who she is. It sucks. The storylines are terrible. Just terrible. Awful.” -Marcia Lucas
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Original Star Wars editor and ex-wife of George Lucas cried after watching The Phantom Menace because it wasn’t very good and had a weird story
Based Marcia Lucas
shareNow fans of the Disney Shequel Travesty will call Marcia a toxic incel manbaby white supremacist bigot.
shareHer takedown is brutal, and pretty accurate. I've compared her work on the original Star Wars to The Last Jedi to show (a) major flaws in the latter film, and (b) to describe the effect that great editing (or poor editing) can have on a scene. The Death Star trench battle is masterfully cut together, maintaining tension, a sense of place (in time and space), and so we - the viewers - always know the stakes and therefore are more invested. The Dreadnought bomber attack at the beginning of The Last Jedi, on the other hand, varies pacing and keeps us guessing as to how long it takes to blow up a spaceship. Because we can't reliable understand that timing, we know that things will either blow up or be preserved based on when the movie needs them to for plot, not based on what "should" happen.
I know that's silly to the extent that it's all fabricated by a creative team, but Marcia's (team's) brilliant editing makes us forget that. They made it seem like there were real consequences and stakes at play. Whoever edited TLJ didn't have that, and they kill the verisimilitude.
It's hilarious to have credible filmmakers rip on the Sequels. It's a lot harder for the Lucasfilm/Disney team to refute respected masters of the craft when they say the ST sucked. You can't call them basement-dwellers or bitter neckbeards (especially when Marcia Lucas isn't even male).
Has anybody from Lucasfilm or the ST creatives responded to Marcia in any way?