3rik
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"Are you an angel?"Rewatched Star Wars last night. Will post my thoughts later.
Rewatching Phantom Menace right now and wow, it is even worse than I remember.
I can confirm this. I have a few Starlog magazines from back then. Times haven’t changed much, despite technology.If A New Hope had come out today, it would be ripped to shreds.
Incidentally, quite a few reviews of the original trilogy were harsh at the time, including Empire, which is routinely cited as the greatest, or second greatest, sequel of all-time.
Really, if you just edit out Boss Nas and Jar Jar, the Gungans aren't bad. You'd need a little dialog to explain that they're the original, native inhabitants of Naboo and have no idea how modern wars are fought, even though they've adapted a lot of advanced technology to their traditional drills. Really, when you're talking about things that really screw with the setting, man portable force shields like the Gungans have should be on the list. Sure, one might argue there's a lot more Storm Troopers than Gungan military re-enactors and the Gungans have never once used the shields in actual combat and thus can amortize the cost of a shield over a hundred years or so. Kinda like Mandeloreans and one Storm Trooper officer have rare "besckar steel" armor that actuall works, not just against punches from teenaged street kids but even against blasters...I just wish they could edit out the Gungans.
I came across speculation on this last week. I've completely forgotten the specifics, but there is a whole backstory to Phasma's weapon in one of the visual encyclopedias, and it isn't the same weapon.I watched The Last Jedi yesterday and I noticed the staff that Phasma uses looks very similar to the one that Din just obtained in The Mandalorian. Knowing how small the Star Wars universe is, I wondered if it was the same one. Also, her armor is blaster resistant. Wondered if that is Beskar. My daughter doesn’t think so, but I have my suspicions. Knowing the movie is set about 29 years later also helps.
That was due to the original concept of the lightsaber being something with so much power going through it that the user could barely control it. Which has a remnant in the concept of them being extremely dangerous to handle for a regular Joe.The choreography of the Vader/Obi duel is pretty anemic, probably due to Guiness' age.
I think The Mandalorian panders sometimes. I’ve said before it’s not some work of art.
The choreography of the Vader/Obi duel is pretty anemic, probably due to Guiness' age.
My experience with Star Wars was quite similar. I saw it at 7 years old and it was one of the key formative works of my childhood. However, I had Lego and diverged off into my own worlds not long after, so I drifted out of Star Wars fanboy-dom fairly quickly. Not, however, before TVNZ unironically exposed me to the Holiday Special, which was deeply disappointing to 8yo me.Star Wars - the original - is one of those things that I can't analyze. I saw it too young, it's too inexorably intertwined with my mental and emotional development, some small intractable part of what makes me me as much as the 60's Spider-man cartoon, Masters of the Universe action figures, and Bunnicula (and a thousand other small worlds).
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I've come to the conclusion that just like the original Star Wars was saved in the edit, Phantom Menace was killed in the edit.I just wish they could edit out the Gungans.
Eh... it had its bad parts, but I liked it overall. The fight with Maul was unlike anything I'd seen. For all of the terrible characterizations, I liked what he was going for with the Trade Federation. I liked the relationship between Qui-Gonn and Obi-Wan. And the podrace was cool, if it stretched believability at times. And that final space battle was cool if you take Anakin out of it.
I watched The Last Jedi yesterday and I noticed the staff that Phasma uses looks very similar to the one that Din just obtained in The Mandalorian. Knowing how small the Star Wars universe is, I wondered if it was the same one. Also, her armor is blaster resistant. Wondered if that is Beskar. My daughter doesn’t think so, but I have my suspicions. Knowing the movie is set about 29 years later also helps.
Was Beskar as a super adamantium-type metal established elsewhere in Star Wars cannon prior to The Mandalorian?
You think I'm joking but: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Phasma's_armor
It's a shame about Phasma. Great look, great actress in the armour. Utter lack of anything resembling a character to go with it.You think I'm joking but: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Phasma's_armor
It's kina goofy, but I kinda like it, as it speaks to me that the First Order was kinda obsessed with everything about the old empire, and that having anything from that period was a status symbol among them.
Just like Boba Fett. Maybe she'll show up in a Disney+ series where she'll get the characterization she deserves...It's a shame about Phasma. Great look, great actress in the armour. Utter lack of anything resembling a character to go with it.