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I agree that they need guidance from George on the origins of the Jedi film, otherwise it has the same amount of legitimacy as the ST, which is to say none at all. Mangold I think may be more receptive to GL’s ideas though that’s mostly speculation on my part.

The Rey film (which will probably be called Episode 10 for marketing reasons) gives the feeling though that Disney and Lucasfilm are doubling down on all the mistakes of the past, and if they frankly can’t get even the Mangold film right I may as well be done with the franchise, what little interest I still carry

Fuck midichlorians. What about the Whils?

Like in a symbiont circle?

Mangold must understand that the midi-chlorians continually speak to us, telling us the will of the Force. I'm sure when he learns to quiet his mind, he'll hear them speaking to him.

Pretty damn sure I will be degrading myself if I watch that clip, so I am just gonna say no and not click, lol.

I was actually looking forward to the Rey movie until I watched that clip. Fucking hell.

Yeah? To me, their filmography made them seem a promising choice, but their attitude in that clip is pretty obnoxious. Maybe it's a British thing. We hate queue jumpers. 

Exactly. Cancel the culture war please, because I am soooo bored of it. 

I saw a headline about her saying something about George Lucas being an example of the misogyny of the myth of auteur theory. Needless to say, I didn't click on the headline and read the article because I just simply didn't want to know. xD

I mean, just the use of the word "myth" as a synonym for falsehood is one of my personal pet peeves (see my signature).

I originally commented on Headland's remarks last September in the General Grievances thread in the Lucas Era section.

Quoting the first paragraph of my post from there:


Now, I can meet Headland half-way and concede that Hollywood is, no doubt, rife with sexism and misogyny, but that isn't the green light to trash the man who incepted Star Wars, brought it to realisation, and basically gave you (her -- assuming that's "her" pronoun) a job. The sheer ingratitude and staggering entitlement in her remarks blow my mind. Her tone when mentioning the prequels is also incredibly crass: a tone which even the likes of J.J. Abrams and Rian Johnson never quite stooped to. It's utterly amazing. 

So, in all those ways, I agree with Star Wars Theory. Although, in one area, I depart from his words and have a criticism to make:



It's funny you bring that up. Star Wars Theory is either dyslexic or simply too lazy to check the words on the very screen (the captions) of the video recording he is commenting on. The exact same term (auteur theory), correctly spelled, flashes up in that moment of Headland's speech in the video that SWT is commenting on, yet he bizarrely fluffs the spelling into the Google search bar, generates incorrect results, then bypasses the whole thing and blames his editor? Unless he was poking fun at himself or Headland in some obscure way, that's really sloppy and hobbles his own response. I'm not saying I disagree with what he says in the bulk of his video, but he misses a solid opportunity there to delve into that aspect of her "critique", and so, instead of offering a cogent rebuttal, his video response is basically a simplistic piece of rhetoric: a piece of virtue signalling that is a performative act centered around defending George Lucas' honour, instead of opening out into a broader take-down of Headland, as progressive wrecking ball, and showing her up for the proselytising psy-op agent she is. What I'm saying is, her shitting on the concept of the auteur theory of film, and even trying to imply it's an inherently sexist concept, implicitly another tool used to defend "the patriarchy", is the thing that really needed unpacking; but SWT swerves away from it because he's making a stupid joke and pretending not to know the term (which makes him look ignorant), or he can't read or type properly (perhaps speaking is his forte), or worst of all: he really is just too darn lazy to actually do any damn research beforehand and make sure he knows what he's talking about; or at least know what other people are talking about (especially the person he's supposedly in shock about based on the words he's reacting to that they have uttered). Basically, I'm sick of the ideology and the intellectual arrogance and the contempt for learning and minutiae in all directions. Know your shit (or at least have a reasonable handle on the borders of your own ignorance) or keep quiet.