At least C-3PX made sense in context, being an assassin that could perfectly disguise himself as a protocol droid, which tended to be near the rich and powerful anyway. 3P0 turning evil from Sith writing is stupid. Also, why would they need to read a fucking KNIFE? Oh yeah, let's read the KNIFE to figure out where Palpatine is or some such bullshit.
Eh I won't lie, I think that Sith-3PO could be sort of interesting as a potentially fun take on the character (It broke new ground!) as our simpering, mincing straight-bot goes full IG-88 (as long as they don't over do it or draw it out too long).
So since it could be interesting, and it does seem like Disney is doing that, they will obviously be doing it in the least fun way possible.
With 3PO being known for his constant worrying and campy puns, portraying him as pure evil would be too OOC. What they did in AotC was good though when they attached his body to a battle droid and he rightfully worried about attacking good guys against his will until Kit Fisto used a Force-push to deactivate him for Artoo to eventually find his collegaue and reconnect 3PO's head back to his original body.
Of course I don't see Disney keeping this in mind. With Sir Anthony Daniels saying he plans to bow out of the franchise after this film, it wouldn't surprise me to see Disney shit on the character of 3PO as a way to show total disrespect for Daniels' legacy with the SW franchise.
Worse, searching for a knife with ancient writing on it seems out of place for SW; it seems more appropriate for an Indiana Jones film. A sith holocron with vital information written in an older text -- thus requiring 3PO's translation skills -- could have worked better and reinforced the idea that defeating an enemy sometimes involves studying, and even accepting/using, their own tools and tactics against them.
I'm guessing this is another attempt at making a copycat 501st. And speaking of the 501st, the fan club has gotten into a lot of drama lately, with some well known members Ray Park and Daniel Logan leaving due to the group becoming too political, Disney-focused, business-focused and no longer fun, and a female member getting pissed off on twitter over the Fandom Menace making a silly Skeletor-knockoff of the 501st logo.
It's a shame that Disney and others shit on the 501st. From the impressions I got before the fallout, it wasn't just a group of dedicated cosplaying SW fans, but a group that actively sought to do good or be philanthropic while in costume. It's a shame that things took the turn they did and that the new improved legion being touted is the palindromic 105th.
Somewhat related, Disney's writing and especially the nu-EU books alway make me shudder when I read about them here.
There are people who can make a pretty decent livelihood with writing like this. Just think about it for a while. Feels revolting, doesn't it?
I don't know, some of you might write as a hobby too. Shit like this reveals what you need and don't need to make it as an author nowadays. Getting into writing for licences like Star Wars has been notoriously hard in the past, nowadays you just need to know the right people in this nepotist SJW industry and boom, you're golden.
Something I once heard what was supposed to be a career networking sessions seems to ring true here: It's not what you know or who you know, it's who knows you. You're right that being able to write for a franchise such as SW used to be selective enough that being invited to write something was truly prestigious. Now, it seems that anyone who is willing to write something that ticks off as many woke checkboxes as possible gets the nod – prior knowledge of the SWU no longer required.
One example of this is the Ahsoka novel. While the author seemed to do a decent job with whatever story line and constraints she was given, she decided to end the story with an ambiguous scene and later post on social media she wanted Ahsoka and Kaeden to share a romantic same-sex kiss in the scene only to decide against it. Fast forward to the present, and Disney seems to want to make up for that in giving Ahsoka a lesbian lover in the coming batch of Clone Wars. Forced diversity rarely works as intended and usually tends to redpill anyone previously on the fence or otherwise indifferent about this appearing in popular media.
In short, it stinks that wokeness trumps quality now when selecting authors for book spinoffs.
He states Lucasfilm wants NEW characters that resonate with NEW audiences like the Classic characters did with the Original fanbase. As they feel thats the only way to keep the brand going till the heat death of the universe
Right, I agree 100 percent. No more Skywalkers, no more over reliance of OT iconography. The long term goal is fine, its just Disney has executed this so poorly....
Luke, Han, Leia, Lando and Chewie on one last run togther was the money shot and they blew it
Agreed. With the actors/actresses that portrayed Chewie, Han, Lando, Leia, Luke, etc. being much older now, it would make sense for GL himself to want the new films to focus less on the original characters and give us new characters to continue to saga. Unfortunately, Disney chose to treat the OT characters poorly, erase their existence and contributions to the overall saga, and replace them with bland characters that have no redeeming traits, "good guys" that behave more as a
deus ex machina than a hero, and villains so incompetent they look more like something out of a camp humor parody or trollfic.
See the huge drop in animation quality from TCW to SW Rebels.
Part of this was because of some unexplained desire to animate Rebels in a manner that mimicked the original animations Ralph McQuarrie did for ANH – if not the OT as a whole. Don't get me wrong, the idea itself seems interesting enough, but the end result as seen on screen seems like a major step down in quality than it does a change in animation style. I'm also not sure if I heard that in conjunction with the emphasis on McQuarrie art there was also a smaller animation budget.
Well, it looks as if Galaxy's Edge will be joining Defunct Land after all... Guess I should start planning to talk about the little things I didn't discuss from the park before they rebrand it.
Now is as good as a time as any, if you don't mind – especially if it involves additional Lego sets.
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