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Post by Cryogenic on Apr 7, 2022 17:26:36 GMT
So Kylo is a broken-up inversion of Vader. Yeah. That, I got. OMG, you guys, you gotta check out this wild thing with pew-pew lasers, explosions, robots, glowing swords, crazy landscapes, Wookiees, and a fiendish guy that shoots lightning from his fingertips. Ingram: Star Wars. Yeah. Seen it. SW fans in 2012: A Sequel Trilogy??!! No frickin' way!!! The final piece of the puzzle. We're gonna get the craziest trilogy of all time. I'll truly bring the originals and the prequels together. George is a genius. Never thought we'd live to see this. Ingram in 2022: Not sure I'd call it a Star Wars trilogy. More a piecemeal chain of dramatic conflicts and exchanges that sustains a nominal standard of narrative without ever wildly contradicting itself. *sips brandy* I think they maybe tried to do a weird navel-gazing trilogy in-between all the requisite immature sci-fi war action or something. Tried to Sofia Coppola the shit out of it. Boilerplate Star Wars stuff meets something a little more pouty and existential. That's all our lives. The Millennium Falcon Millennium Falcons. While the fractured psyche slashes mushroom men in acrid forests and makes Skype calls to its fantasy squeeze. There's something pleasant about lollygagging our way to salvation and engaging in recidivist distraction and ritualistic misdirection till we get to where we really want to be. |
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Post by Ingram on Apr 8, 2022 1:49:07 GMT
So Kylo is a broken-up inversion of Vader. Yeah. That, I got. OMG, you guys, you gotta check out this wild thing with pew-pew lasers, explosions, robots, glowing swords, crazy landscapes, Wookiees, and a fiendish guy that shoots lightning from his fingertips. Ingram: Star Wars. Yeah. Seen it. I don't sound like THAT when I say it. I sound more like: "Star Wars. Yeah. Seen it."There's a difference. SW fans in 2012: A Sequel Trilogy??!! No frickin' way!!! The final piece of the puzzle. We're gonna get the craziest trilogy of all time. I'll truly bring the originals and the prequels together. George is a genius. Never thought we'd live to see this. Ingram in 2022: Not sure I'd call it a Star Wars trilogy. More a piecemeal chain of dramatic conflicts and exchanges that sustains a nominal standard of narrative without ever wildly contradicting itself. *sips brandy* Gin. Brandy is only for occasions where I regale my exploits hunting big game in Sub-Saharan Africa. Gin is for Star Wars. I think they maybe tried to do a weird navel-gazing trilogy in-between all the requisite immature sci-fi war action or something. Tried to Sofia Coppola the shit out of it. Boilerplate Star Wars stuff meets something a little more pouty and existential. Then the intent got lost in translation. That's all our lives. The Millennium Falcon Millennium Falcons. While the fractured psyche slashes mushroom men in acrid forests and makes Skype calls to its fantasy squeeze. There's something pleasant about lollygagging our way to salvation and engaging in recidivist distraction and ritualistic misdirection till we get to where we really want to be. I think I'll stick with taxation of trade routes. |
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Post by Subtext Mining on Apr 8, 2022 9:00:34 GMT
I'm just glad Lucas gave the world what it needed instead of what it wanted.
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Post by Cryogenic on Apr 9, 2022 1:24:57 GMT
I'm just glad Lucas gave the world what it needed instead of what it wanted. I still don't think the world is quite ready for any part of Star Wars. |
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Post by smittysgelato on Apr 9, 2022 5:18:13 GMT
If people actually understood Star Wars they'd run for the hills. Same with William Blake. Now, there's a poet that could incite some serious panic if he was understood by the average person.
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Post by Subtext Mining on Apr 9, 2022 16:59:27 GMT
The thing is, Star Wars is happening all around us everyday.
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Post by jppiper on May 4, 2022 15:59:32 GMT
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Post by Ingram on May 4, 2022 19:41:24 GMT
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Post by jppiper on May 4, 2022 20:01:53 GMT
Ingramand they said R2 would have ranked higher if not for the rockets he had in the Prequels and Rose and Holdo two of the most hated characters ahead of Padme?! give me a f**king break!
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Post by smittysgelato on May 4, 2022 20:29:36 GMT
If I ever make a best characters list, Jar Jar Binks is going on top.
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Post by Cryogenic on May 5, 2022 0:54:03 GMT
If I ever make a best characters list, Jar Jar Binks is going on top. Ranking more than three characters is an exercise in futility for me. Not to mention pointless. A top 100 list? That's very hard for me to take seriously. But yeah, Jar Jar is the GOAT. God bless you both! What a sorry excuse for a list. But then, as you said, Lulu, these things are really quite pointless -- just more dumb clickbait. Of course, even stupid things can generate gold. And here we have a killer example in the form of Ingram's random but perfectly on-point GIF images. He's a Jedi Grand Master, is our Ingram, at finding the most perfect pictorial responses imaginable. Rey ahead of Luke? Yeah, that's just incomprehensibly retarded. Actually, no, you know what? I kinda like Rey a bit more than Luke. Kinda. No, really. I like Daisy's spirited performance (well, in the Abrams episodes) and the sort of things (or most of the sort of things) her character represents. See what I mean? These things are just pointless. It's all so subjective. But ranking Padme behind the likes of Admiral Holdo and Rose Tico? Joe's right. That one is weapons-grade plutonium stupid and smacks of an agenda. It's nice that Leia is Number One, but then to put a couple of supporting female heroines (and questionable heroines at that) ahead of the central female prequel character reeks of virtue-signalling, anti-prequel, commie-progressive bullshit. And yeah, no Jar Jar. Just like he becomes excluded from the films as the Empire begins to emerge from the weaknesses of the Republic (exploited by secret Sith ideologue Palpatine). Hmm. There couldn't be any parallel there with the debasing groupthink of our modern net-driven age, could there? This Top 100 characters list: sponsored by the Trade Federation (who respect all lifeforms that can be financially exploited -- except swamp-dwelling primitives). For every morsel of goodness on the Internet, there's a heck of a lot of sludge to wade through, at times. Sludge that can have an intoxicating effect on the weak-minded. |
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Post by jppiper on May 6, 2022 16:18:26 GMT
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Post by eljedicolombiano on May 6, 2022 22:27:46 GMT
That Ron Swanson gif is priceless and the perfect description of that heretical list  |
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Post by jppiper on May 31, 2022 18:58:53 GMT
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Post by jppiper on Jun 10, 2022 21:58:30 GMT
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Post by jppiper on Jun 15, 2022 19:48:17 GMT
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Post by jppiper on Jun 16, 2022 22:43:22 GMT
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Post by Ingram on Jun 17, 2022 1:45:46 GMT
I'd say it's pretty straightforward. Lucas claims Anakin is the Chosen One, then illustrates as much over one trilogy as it was designed to lead into the next. So, yeah. Rey is more like the Frozen One. |
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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on Jun 19, 2022 15:27:18 GMT
What's funny jppiper is that some of the people bitching about the new series turn out to be the same prequel bashers of old. You don't have to look far: A few messages later in the same conversation:
These people haven't enjoyed Star Wars since 1980
Edit: Subtext Mining Why are you moving posts without permission? My message is focused on the PT bashers still being dissatisfied. It is not a "grievance" against Disney. |
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