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I'd hazard a guess the only fans left writing reviews are the "true believers" and that's why it's higher. Everyone who hated TLJ and brought its score down, left.
Or this "verified rating" system may be a factor. I hadn't heard of it; I guess RT went full "blue checkmark".
I would say your friend is the rare case of legitimately "transsexual" - e.g. intersex. A person whose chromosomes, genitals, hormones etc make them not male nor female but indeterminate. I'd say someone like that reserves the right to identify as male or female as they see most fit, if only to resolve situations where they must be one or the other. But I'd also say considerations should still be made beyond their own self-identification. Like sports, for example, where she'd have a clear advantage over wholly genetic women.
Ha... oh dear.
"What do you mean I can't have a baby!? That means I'm not really a woman, just a guy with a mutilated penis!!" - Ms (Mr) Garrsion
South Park nailed it years ago. :)
Moving objects with the force was established in the first movie. True that it's a "magic Force" but too many new powers manifesting too quickly makes them seem like deus ex machinas and tougher to accept. I think RoS overstepped in this regard.
Force healing - not without precedent; in the EU there were Jedi healers, but they were trained for it almost exclusively, and it was <i>extremely</i> taxing on the healer. Reviving someone dead or near dead would likely kill the healer; JJ at least got that part right. But to have characters suddenly develop the power is still an ass-pull.
Force telekinesis - Vader choked an underling through the monitor so the physical interaction over a distance gets a pass. Force teleporting objects, though -- also ass-pull.
Force soul transfer - kind of / sort of, in the Old Republic games a Sith could sometimes forcibly bind force ghosts to themselves to increase their own power. Not quite like the "life force sucking" as depicted in RoS though.
Sigh... yeah, I fear the Hollywood narrative will be wielded with all the finesse of a stone club. It's a shame because I want to like this series. Henry Cavill as Geralt, c'mon. I may still give it the benefit of the doubt for a while.
The books and games were so much better nuanced. At worst the humans were equally bad as the monsters and dialog choices often came down to your personal mores.
Same here; I can only guess the audience loved the shock of its sex and violence. Very Shakespearean, hah.
I gave up on it after 3 seasons myself. Got bored of the plot going nowhere and getting invested in characters only for them to keep abruptly and randomly dying off.
I actually hope this turns out <i>better</i> than GoT. IMO it should not be too difficult. But I'm reserving judgement. :)
Assuming bargaining my way into not owning any was not an option... yeah, I guess RoS. To watch in pure schadenfreude as the culmination of KK's failed dumpster fire and the vindication of the fandom.
It's not without precedent; they could in the Old Republic video games, too. However as I recall they were usually bound to some place or object, like their tomb, which limited the scope of their power.
In the movies' "continuity" (lol) where force ghosts can pop up whenever and wherever they want, having them retain all their living powers is indeed pretty world breaking. :P
Not to feed the troll post, but damn. See, this makes her and her character even more tragic. Not that anyone deserves hatred for the looks they're born with, but she's actually pretty cute. Yet TLJ seemed to purposefully make her uglier. Maybe they didn't want her upstaging Princess Wonder Rey. :-/
"How big do you want the space battle to be?" -- "YES"
Hahaha, wow, that looks like an overbudgeted Gundam cartoon or something. Infinite blips and lasers for their own sake, for spectacle.
A fair assessment, though unfortunately I can't bring myself to lower my expectations of <i>Star Wars</i> to that of Transformers.
Better than the narrative now being pushed by some other media, at any rate, that blames RoS's impending doom on JJ "giving the fans what they want". My gosh, how far does Hollywood have its head up its own ass? Making RoS an "apology" was possibly the worst direction for it -- the fandom had already walked away. TLJ ruined the franchise beyond repair. Seems all they accomplished was angering the vocal minority that actually liked TLJ. They may as well have stuck to their guns and pursued that phantom audience to the end.
My take on Disney's Star Wars has been proven out. It's Star Wars for non-fans. They forsook the fandom to attract a casual audience that turned out, surprise, to not really care about the franchise.
They will get what they deserve. That leaked final scene almost feels like a couple of certain force ghosts being thankfully put out of their misery. Well done, Rey, you've buried the franchise's legacy, figuratively and literally. Go live your best strong-woman don't-need-no-one life alone on the world where the story tragically began, having undone everything. :P
Couldn't find "they fly now" but I did find a 10 hour Porg screaming to the tune of 'Duel of the Fates'. Not sure which is worse.
'I bypassed the compressor!' and 'Lifting rocks'. That's all I can recall offhand. That and a lot of angry yelling. If the lore weren't destroyed I'd say she should already be halfway to a Sith by now.
That aside, totally agree about the Luke imagery, ha! That could well be the whole DT's legacy. Our hero creepily titty milking some space giraffe-seal.
It's the only scene I know of offhand that has a 10 hour version on YT so there's a solid case for it, ha. Though I haven't looked for one of "they fly now!?" yet. Think I'll check that now. :)
In the discussion following that post, I found the possibly most optimistic rumor on TRoS -- and I mean crushed-soul-risking optimistic -- that Force Ghost Han is a red herring and we may actually see Force Ghost <i>Anakin</i> finally make his appearance, and be the one to set Ben straight before he goes on to help re-destroy Palps and/or save Rey.
I will still be forever sour that the ST will have only amounted to a hackneyed rehash of the OT that erases-and-replaces Anakin and Luke's legacy with Wonder Rey, but it'd be at least a big gesture of acknowledgement to the fandom.
Curious, isn't it? Still a domestic bomb, but turning profit worldwide. Made more than 3x the money outside the US as inside. China must like the movie.
In fact I think that's the pattern that's emerged now -- Hollywood makes movies crammed with as much wokeness as they can get away with without offending the PRC censor.
I too played that game and recall the frozen Hutt. It was amusing. :) But I doubt the devs took the continuity of it into account. It was fanservice.
Mandalorian being set after RotJ, it actually makes sense it'd be used, since it's already established it works.
In less than 12 parsecs! *ba dum tsssh*
Seriously, though, I doubt he'll die early, but I'd bet he dies offscreen. He probably goes down with the Falcon blowing up, but the latest word is that scene (if it existed) is now cut.
He's definitely toast in any case. Gotta purge the whole OT legacy. Disney SWCU must be the only SWCU. :P
Indeed, Mandalorian is booming. My nephews love it and even I may eventually come around to trying it.
I've no doubt Disney now wants the SW brand to == Mandalorian. Salient point being, though, it's being written and directed by the likes of Filoni and Favreau. Kennedy's hands are off. Hopefully permanently.
Successful in the sense they rode the franchise's past popularity, I'd say.
4.5 billion with 4 movies, true. Also true: each movie made less than the one before, to the point Solo <i>lost</i> money domestically; SW Story movies abandoned; rumored RJ trilogy on ice; GoT writers fled the franchise; and finally, practical radio silence in marketing of the movie only 2 weeks away that's supposed to be the grand finale.
Were Disney's SW some new IP I'd say it had an outstanding if over-too-soon run. But it wasn't. They took an iconic franchise and ruined it.
Disney's Marvel was successful - it kept growing after they bought it. Disney's SW tanked.